The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-16 00:00:00

TERMS OF MEDIATION

BERLIN, January 15.
Austria is taking preparatory steps with a view to
mediation between Germany and France.
As yet no propositions have been submitted by
her to the belligerents.—Times.

BERLIN, January 14.

The New Prussian (Cross) Gazette of this even-
ing, alluding to a rumour that several neutral Go-
vernments purpose introducing proposals of media-
tion between Germany and France at the London
Conference, remarks that as these Governments
cannot but know that Germany will on no account
deviate from her conditions of peace, the object can
only be to influence the French Government in
order to induce it to cede territories which formerly
belonged to Germany. The Cross Gazette there-
fore considers toe statements ' made by several
journals on the subject of mediation premature.—
Reuter's Telegram.

NARROW ESCAPE OF MOLTKE.

A Telegraph telegram from Versailles, dated the
12th, says :

General Count von Moltke, while returning yes-
terday afternoon to Versailles from the German
batteries on the south-west, had a very narrow escape
for his life. A shell burst close to his carriage, and
its explosion covered with mud and ice and hard
fragments of frozen earth the General himself, his
aides-de-camp, horses, drivers, &c.--without, how-
ever, doing any harm to anybody.

TURKEY.

OONBTANTINOPLE, January 14.

The rumours of differences having arisen between
the Porte and the Khedive are emphatically de-
nied.

It is said that the Porte awaits without anxiety
the decision that Prussia may come to with regard
to the questions recently raised by the Cabinet of
St. Petersburg.—Peuter's Telegram.

PEACE AND THE CONFERENCE.
BRUSSELS, January -15.

According to Ministerial despatches received here from
Berlin, the Prussian Government has firmly madel up its
mind to accept no intervention in the interests of peace
on the part of the neutral Powers before the surrender
of Paris. Prussia would not be loth, however, to con-
sider a request for peace made to her directly by
the Government of France. All the news that may have
reached you with respect to the peace negotiations is,
therefore, erroneous.

Prince Achille Murat has arrived at Brussels, on his
journey from London. Itis journey is associated, in well-
informed quarters, with a renewal of Bonapartist in-
trigues. The Prince has had protracted conferences with
M. Gander de Cassagnac, and will probably set out for
Wilhelmshohe.

BERLIN, January 14 (Night.)
M. Jules Favre, as French Minister for Foreign Affairs,
has given a final and definitive refusal to take part in
the Conference about to be held in London on the Black
Sea question.

The Conference, notwithstanding this refusal, will of
course proceed. The right to sign the protocol is reserved
to France.—Tdegraph.

GENERAL SHERIDAN'S MISSION,
FLORENCE, January 14.

The American General Sheridan arrived here some
days ago. He will be present to-morrow at the military
banquet which the King gives in his honour at the
Pitti Palace.

The rumour circulates in official circles that the object
of General Sheridan's visit to the various Courts of
Europe, including that of Florence, is to-pave the
way for the intervention of the Neutral Powers in
favour of peace between Ftanoe and Germany.—
Telegraph.

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
THE REPRESENTATION OF DURHAM.

Mr. Davison, the Judge-Advocate-General, was re-
elected on Saturday for Durham, without opposition. He
met with a very cordial reception. In the course of his
speech he defended the foreign policy of the Government,
and denounced armed intervention ; but insisted ou the
observance of a dignified neutrality. The honourable gen-
tleman said he believed the feeling of the country was in
favour of peace, and thcbt the confidence of the country
in her Majesty's Ministers was as ffrm as it was in 1868.
Sir H. Williamson, M.P. and Mr. Dodds, M.P., also ad-
dressed the assembly.