The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-23 00:00:00

ANOTHER PRUSSIAN NOTE.

The Augsburg Ga.-xtle publishes the following
note from Baron do Mauteuffel, Minister of
Foreign Affairs in Prussia, dated the 7th inst., to
the Prussian Ministers at Paris and London :
"Tour excellency had communicated to you some
time ago the despatch which on the 21st of October I
addressed to the envoy of the King at St. Petersburg,
to recommend once more the Imperial Cabinet of Russia
t i accept without reserve, as a basis of negotiation, the
four points proposed to it for that purpose by ourselves
and by Austria, and to declare itself ready to do so not
only to us, but directly at Vienna. You know also
that the result of this proceeding was that Count de
Nesselrode addressed to Baron de Budherg a despatch
authorising him to declare to us that the Emperor
Nicholas was disposed to take part in negotiations of
which the four points should serve as a starting point.
In this declaration the four points were not set forth in
their primitive form. The Russian despatch contained,
besides, such erroneous appreciations on the situation
of Germany and its relations with Russia, that we
did not think it right to act on it. We, on the
contrary, expressed to the Cabinet of St. Petersburg our
regret that it had not followed our counsels, by de-
claring to that of Vienna its adhesion to the four points,
and we renewed our recommendations that it should do
so and should modify in that respect the overtures
it and
made to us. Our efforts on this subject were
not unsuccessful, snd the envoy of the King at St. Peters-
burg informed us by telegraph that Prince Gortschakoff
had been authorised by telegraph to declare to Count
Buol the adhesie* of Russia to the four points re•
acquitted himself of this order
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Viennaher by Austria. The Russian repre-
by the note of the 28th of November, of which a
copy is annexed ; and Count Buol replied on the 30th,
as your excellency will see by the despatch also an-
nexed hereto. By the King's orders I hasten to invite
you to make known these pacific overtures of Russia
to the Cabinet of Paris (London). Your colleague of
Austria will be charged with a similar communication.
You will therefore employ the same language as he
does, in recommending earnestly the Russian declara-
tion to a favourable reception on the part of the
French (British) Government. Let that Government
reflect well on the ensemble of -the general situation,
and convince itself that there is no reason to give
way to distrust, nor to suppose underhand designs,
where the desire of arriving at a good understandingi s
general and sincere. We perfectly understand the
exigencies which the state of war in which the West-
ern Powers are with Russia imposes on them ; but
we have difficulty in believing that since Russia
admits, without reserve or evasion, a basis for nego-
tiations which the Cabinets of Paris and London (Lon-
don and Paris) drew up themselves not long ago, they
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can now refuse to enter into a path which, without pre-
judging the chances of military success, is of a nature to
offer the possibility of abridging a murderous war, by
opposing the barrier of a moderate but serious and united
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RETURN OF THE MALACCA.--PLYMOUTH, Saturday,
10 a.m.—The steam-sloop Malacca, 17, Captain Hill-
yan' which sailed on Wednesday with a heavy mail for
the Black Sea, put back under canvass to Plymouth
Sound this morning, at f, her machinery damaged.
THE NBW BEER ACT ON CHRISTMAS-DAY.—The New
Beer Act will take effect on Christmas for the first time.
Falling as Christmas-day does on a Monday, publid-
houses will be closed for two days at ten o'clock at night
—they will not be open on either day between half-past
two and six o'clock.