The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-19 00:00:00

treason.

ARREST IN RUSSIA.
A telegram received via Berlin, December 17,
states that the St. Petersburg correspondent who
sent to a foreign paper a summary of President
Grant's letter to the Czar, concerning a possible co-
operation of Prussia and America, has been banished
to Olonetz. The letter being private, its publication
is regarded as constituting an offence against the
person of the Emperor.
The Moscow Town Council, having in their con-
gratulatory address on the ,Blaelt Sea question, peti-
tionOd the Czar to add liberty of the. Press, tolerance
of all religions, and other reforms to the blessings he
has conferred upon his subjects, their address has
been returned with a reprimand.

December 18.

The offer of the Imperial Oro n of Germany to
King William has awakened fierce animosity at the
Vienna Hofburg.
The delay in the convention of the Black Sea
Conference is occasioned by France wishiLg to lay
her own case before the meeting, a design objected
to by Prussia.

THE LUXEMBURG QUESTION.

LUXEMBURG, December 18,

The answer to the Prussian Note was despatched
on the 17th for Berlin. All the charges made by the
Prussian Government are denied.

BERLIN, December 18.

The Prussian Circular on the Luxemburg affair
reserves to this Government the right of exacting an

indemnity for injury suffered. It is probable that
negotiations will be opened with a view to define and
vindicate this claim.

In official circles here, the demand that Prussia
should submit her Luxemburg grievance to the
Powers is met by the reply that Lord Stanley, in
the sitting of the HOLM of Commons on June 14,
1867, denied the obligation of the signatory States
to interfere in the event of an infraction of the

Treaty.
According to the Prussian Gazette, Count Bis
marck's circular concluded as follows :

"Hip Majesty's Government, therefore, no longer
considers itself bound in its military operations by
considerations connected with the neutrality of
Luxemburg, and reserves to itself the right of pro-
secuting its claims against the Grand Duchy for the
damage inflicted upon it by the non-observance of
neutrality."

PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

We believe that negotiations are again on foot
to bring about an armistice, with a view to the
summoning of a Congress, and the termination
of the war. These pourparlers are countenanced by
the neutral Powers, and their issue will mainly
depend upon the decisions to be taken at Versailles.
—Morning Post.

THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN LONDON.
ST. PETERSBURG, December 17.
The appointment of Count Orloff as Ambassador
to the Court of St. James's, which was made some
time ago is cancelled.
Baron Brunnow, who had been appointed to Paris,
is now appointed to London.

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
DEPARTURE OF HER MAJESTY FOR
OSBORNE.

Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by their Royal
Highnesses the Princesses Louise and Beatrice, and
Prince Leopold, and attended by the ladies and gentlemen
of the Royal suite, left Windsor this morning at a quarter
before 11 o'clock, and proceeded by special train, via
Slough and Reading, to Basingstoke. From thence they
will travel over the South-Western Railway to Gosport,
where the Royal party will embark on the yacht Alberta,
to cross over to the Isle of Wight. They are expected to
arrive at Osborne shortly before two o'clock.