The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-06 00:00:00

Crimea.

"4. England and France pledge themselves
that the territorial possessions of the Emperor of

Austria shall, under all circumstances, remain un.
diminished." •

There is a secret article.
After the triple alliance has beeu ratified
Prussia will be invited to accede to it.

The Ost Deutsche Post has the following

" Report says that Russia will now be sum-
moned, unconditionally, to accede to certain con-
ditions within one month. If she refuses, Aus-

tria declares war."

We have also received the following despatch,

dated last night, from Paris :
"It is confidently stated that the-time accorded

to Russia to declare her intentions by the three
Powers who have signed the treaty of the 2d of

December is only a ,month."

A despatch from Warsaw announces that the
Ist Corps of Russian infantry is being concentrated
on the left bank of the Vistula, and that the corps
of Paniutin is marching towards Volhynia and
Podolia.

A telegraphic despatch from Madrid, dated
yesterday evening, announces that 146 deputies,
against 40, had declared that the Ministry of the
Duke of Victoria deserves the confidence of the
Cortes.

THE BALTIC FLEET.

KIEL, DEC. 4

Her Majesty's steam line-of-battle ships Duke
of Wellington, _Royal George, Nile, Hogue, and
Blenheim, and five smaller war steamers, are at

this port.
Yesterday the Majestic and Cressy sailed for

England.

RUSSIA.
We (Independance Belge) received to-day (the
Ist instant) a letter from Odessa of the 22d
ult. The inhabitants of that city were afraid that
if the Allies were obliged to abandon the Crimea,
they would disembark with all their land and sea
forces on the opposite shore. The Anglo-French
army might certainly, without any very serious
difficulty, find at Odessa a shelter against the rigours
of the season, and excellent winter quarters. The
Russian military commissariat still devised means
to forward from different points of the coast, in
light vessels, some provisions for the army in the
Crimea. It was known, however, that the
troops in the field suffered from a want of sup-
plies. The most pressing orders had reached
Odessa from St. Petersburg, enjoining the authori-
ties to organise a double permanent communi-
cation with the Crimea so as to insure a regular
supply of provisions for the army. The Neva was
entirely frozen over at St. Petersburg on the 25th
ult. All the works in the forts situate at its
mouth, on the sea-side, and those constructing on
the islands in front of that capital, had been sus-
pended on account of the winter. The Emperor,
by a recent rescript addressed to the superior offi-
cers of the engineering department, had expressed
to them his satisfaction with the zeal and intelli-
gence they had displayed in the execution of those
works.
A letter from Kalisch of the 30th ult., in the
Lloyd of Vienna, states that the Russian Govern-
ment is daily throwing fresh troops into Poland to
replace those who had been ordered to the Crimea.

A Vienna letter states that the Russian Baron
do MosUtz, who had lne4 f9r 69122 e tilAo at

Vienna, endeavouring to induce capitalists to sub-
scribe to the Russian loan, has taken his departure
after having failed in all his efforts.
A Vienna letter of the Ist, in Tross's Gazette of
Berlin, says:—" The French Ambassador Baron de
Bourqueney had, on the 27th ult., an audience of
the Emperor, in which he congratulated his Ma-
jesty on the understanding with Prussia,- which,
he said, was perfectly satisfactory to France."

A letter from Frankfort of the 30th ult., in
the Monitcur, says :—" The additional article
to the Austro-Prussian treaty has been pre-
sented to-day to the Diet. The committee on East-
ern affairs has been charged to examiLe it. It
is not doubted that the Federal adhesion will be
given to the provisions, so eminently German,
which this supplement to the treaty
.of the 20th
April defines and consecrates." The same journal
quotes the following from the Wescr Gazette :
"From the protecting language with which Russia
shows herself disposed to accept the four guaran-
tees, it would be really believed that she acts with
compassion for Germany, and with the sole inten-
tion of putting an end to the discussions of the
Diet cf Frankfort."

It is stated in a letter from Jassy of the 21st
ult. that the Hetman (Minister of the War) Th.
Baltch has been replaced by M. G. Ladesco, who
is more favourable to the cause of the Ottoman
Porte.

As a proof, says the Suabian, Mercury, that
Saxony is making preparations for war it may be
mentioned that the contingent has been called out
for the 30th Deo. For many years past it has not
been called for before April.
It has been stated by telegraph that the Aus-
trian Government had put an end to the state of
siege in Transylvania. We learn from Vienna
that from the 15th inst. the decree is to be put in
force. It orders that all cases not military now
under the jurisdiction of military tribunals shall be
tried by the regular civil-tribunals.
The Augsburg Gazette states from Vienna that
the Austrian troops arriving from the south are to
be encamped near Tulu, on the Danube, not afar
from Vienna. These troops will be augmented by
other corps, and will form an army of 50,000 men
with 200 pieces of cannon.

It was stated by the Agram Gazette that the
Prince of Montenegro had been summoned to
Vienna. This it seems was erroneous. The Prince
has been at Trieste on a visit to a Greek merchant,
whose daughter he is to marry. He left on the
30th ult. to return home.

A. letter from Stockholm, of the 24th ult., says:
—" The majority of the Orders voted an increase
on the importation of foreign spirits ; but in con-
formity with the wishes of the Government, the
committee of subsidies has rejected it by a large
majority."

PRUSSIA.
-MERLIN, Dee. 3.—The Spenersehe Zeitung of to-
day says
"The arrangement arrived at between. Prussia and
Austria with regard to the treatment of the Eastern ques-
tion at the Bund, together with the position which Russia
has taken up vis-a-vis the guarantees required, thrusts the
question prominently into the foreground, whether the
preservation of peace in Central Europe will be pos-
sible. That the Government of Prussia has made the
paciftic solution of the Eastern question the end and aim
of its exertions, is notorious ; the Cabinet of Vienna
has also, as is now understood in well-informed circles,
declared itself satisfied as soon as Russia seriously binds
herself to the adoption and realisation of the guarantees.
To judge by the language of the English and French
journals we may look forward to a rejection of all nego-
tiations on this basis."
The Correspondenz Bureau states

" The Austrian Government has within the last few
days given to understand that a resumption of the con-
ference of Representatives at Vienna would be very
agreeable to-it. It is beyond doubt that Prussia would
gladly enough see a renewal of the deliberations of the
Representatives of the Four Powers in Vienna. The
Representatives of France and Eigland in the Austria;n
capital are understood, in consequence of an apphcatio n
made to them by Graf Buol, to have applied to their
respective Governments for instructions."
The first of these is an officieux inspiration of the
Prussian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the second
a direct instruction from an Austrian authority.
The was severe contests in the Second Cham-
ber yesterdap. The liberal Count Schwerin has'
been elected President of the Chamber by a majorit
of 58, in a house of 256 members. M. Bethmann-
Hollweg, loader of the constitutional conservative
opposition and anti-Russian party, has obtained
the second vice presidency, defeating the feudalist
candidate, M. Geyr, by 12 votes. The first vice-
presidency was obtained by M. Arnim, a member
of the Right. His opponent was a member of the
catholic Left.