The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-11 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Jan. 7.—Yesterday evening the Cabi-
net Messenger, who on the 30th December was
sent by Count Valentine Esterhazy from St.
Petersburg, had not reached this city. It would
be mere waste of time to indulge in conjectures
concerning the reply which the Austrian Minister
will receive from Count Nesselrode, but it may be
observed that the Russian embassy, from Prince
Gortschakoff down to his youngest attaché, is of
opinion that hostilities will recommence as soon as
the weather permits.
There is a report in circulation which must be
mentioned, although no guarantee can be given
for its correctness. It is, that if Russia should
reject the new propositions, Austria will co-ope-
rate with the Western Powers in wresting from
the enemy that part of Bessarabia of which men-
tion has been made in more than one of my recent
letters—" if the Bund will promise to give its
support to Austria in case she should be attacked
in Gallicia." A second on dit is, that in the spring
France will concentrate au army of 150,000 men
somewhere in the neighbourhood of the Rhine, and
England blockade the Prussian ports of Stettin,
Stralsund, and Dantzic.
The Boersenhalle contains the following in a let-
ter from Vienna of the sth :--" A conference took
place yesterday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
which lasted several hours, and at which Count
Buol, Count Arnim, and Colonel de Manteuffel
were present. Later in the day, Count Buol had
a long conversation with Baron de Bourqueneym
A letter from Vienna of the 6th, in the Constita-
tionnel, says :—"The ostensible object of the jour-
ney of Colonel de Manteuffel to Vienna was, as I
have already said, to bring to the Emperor an au-
tograph letter from the King of Prussia. But for
that purpose a simple Cabinet courier would have
been sufficient, as Count Arnim, the Prussian re-
presentative at this Court, could have delivered
the letter as well as Colonel de Manteuffel. It is,
however, important to know that it has been agreed
on between Austria and the Western Powers, that
if ttie reply of Russia be such as to preclude all
hopes of the prompt re-establishment of peace, the
Court of Vienna will not confine itself to the recal
of its Ambassador from St. Petersburg, but will,
without delay, deliberate in common with the
Allies on the most efficacious means for obtaining
the object of their alliance, as set forth in Art. 5
of the treaty of 2d December. This is the answer
which may be made to those who ask what the
recall of Count d'Esterhazy will lead to. Prus-
sia wishes at any price to prevent an open
rupture between Austria and Russia. She feels
convinced that on the day when Germany
shall learn that Prince Gortschakoff has demanded
his passports, there will be, from the banks
of the Vistula to those of the Rhine, and from the
shores of the Baltic to those of the Adriatic, such
an outbust of public opinion that no government
will be able to confine itself within the bounds of
neutrality. In order to impede the progress of the
Cabinet of Vienna, the same game is now resorted
to which was attempted in the months of November
and December, 1854. As soon as the Court of
Russia was sure that Austria was about to sign a
treaty of alliance with France and England, Count
de Nesselrode sent to Baron de Budberg the famous
despatch of the 6th November, which bears a strik-
ing analogy to the recent circular note of 22d ult.
Then, as now, Russia accepted in principle the pro
positions for peace of the Western Powers, taking
care at the same time to surround them with re-
strictions which essentially weakened their charac-
ter and bearing, Austria not having considered
such an acceptance as serious, took no notice of it,
and, in spite of all the efforts used by Russia to
prevent it, signed the treaty of the 2d December,
and thus ratified her alliance with France and
and England. A few days after Prince Gorts-
chakoff received orders from St. Petersburg
to accept purely and simply the four bases
which were to serve as the starting point for nego-
tiations for peace. Prussia, by the organ of Col.
de Manteuffel, wishes at the present moment to
persuade the Austrian Cabinet that it should not
regard the circular note of the 22d December as
the final word of Russia, leaving it, on the con-
trary, to be supposed that the Court of St. Peters-
burg would be disposed to larger concessions, if
Germany would also exercise an equitable pressure
on the Western Powers, in order to bring about a
reconciliation between the belligerent parties
without wounding the susceptibility of Russia. In
other words, the Court of Berlin returns to the
singular idea of imposing the mediation of Germany
both cm the Western Powers and on Russia, in
order to give peace to Europe. It is needless for
me to say that the Court of Vienna does not reject
such a proposition less peremptorily now than she
did a few months ago, when the Cabinet of Berlin
made it the object of a first overture, as I men
tioned at the time.

There is every reason to believe that the mission
of Col. de Manteuffel is connected with a serious
plan of acting by surprise, in order to divide Ger-
many at the moment when the secondary states
were disposed to join Austria in order to form a
compact faisceau destined to overpower Muscovite
obstinacy.

RUMOURED DEATH OF MR. SERGEANT ADAHS.—A
rumour was prevalent this morning amongst the mem-
bers of the legal profession at Westminster Hall that
Mr. Sergeant Adams, Assistant Judge at the Middlesex
&ssiens, died last night.
HILIARY TERM. —This Day.—This being the first day
of Term, the Lord Chancellor, according to custom, re-
ceived the Judges, Queen's Council, and Sergeants-at-
law, at breakfast this morning, at his lordship's private
residence. Nothing of any consequence occurred in any
of the law courts up to the time of our going to press.
Lord Eglieton was on Tuesday afternoon robbed of
twenty 5/. notes as he was leaving the National Bank
in Edinburgh.
THAMES ESPLANADE AND RAILWAY.—The plans and
model of this scheme, which includes the embankment
of the Thames, the elearage of the sewage of London, a
direct road for carriages and pedestrians on the north,
side of the river between London-bridge and Westmine
ster, a railway throughout the same route, and a °on..
nection on the Surrey side between the South-Western
and South-Eastern railweys were submitted to Prince
Albert, in presence of the dount of Flanders and Col.
Seymour, at Windsor Castle, on Tuesday, by the projec- •
tor, Mr. Wieland, who had the honour of explaining the
details to his Royal Highness. On the following day
they were inspected by Sir Benjamin Hall, at his offices
in Whitehall-place.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following meme
hers of the college were admitted to the Fellowship at a
meeting of the Council, on the 10th just. --Messrs. ,
Richard Robert Midden, Rathmines, Dublin ; William
Slyrnan, Newton, Montgomeryshire ; Charles Holding,
Ne v Bridle-street ; John Otley, Maidstone ; John
Parsons, Bridgewater ; John Robinson Wells, Russell.
pace, Fiizruy-square ; Charles Maynard Frost, Lad-
le, ok square ; William Della Husband, York ; Arthur
Martin it Beckett, Sydney ; Richard Forester Wells,
Artilierv.place ; John Henry Rogers, East Grinstead ;
Alfred Snore, Finsbury-circus ; Henry Halkyard, Old•
ham ; Valentine Walshman Blake, Birmingham ; Henry
J din Brown, Wilmington-square ; Edward Halford,
Hammersmith ; William Henry Ashley, Nottinghill
John Crouch Coristophers, York-street, Portman-
square ; and William Henry Scales, Madras Army. At
the same meeting of the Council, Mr. John Atoherley,
of Liverpool, a Licentiate of the Faculty of Physicians
and Surgeons of Glasgow, was admitted ad eundem
member of the c• liege.
THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY IN IRELAND.—We
observe in the last list of patrons and general committee
of this successful socie y the following names of noble-
men and gentlemen connected with Ireland :—The Earl
of Bective, M.P., the Hon. Robert Bourke (brother of
Lord Naas), R. Burrowes, Esq., M.P., H. Bruen, Esq.,
M.P., R. S. Guinness, Esq., M.P., G. A. Hamilton,
Esq., M.P., Hon. J. Pierce Maxwell, M.P., Hugh
Lyons Montgomery, E-q., M.P., J. Montgomery, E q.,
county Down ; the Count de Sails, Colonel Taylor,
M.P., and Thomas Verner, Esq., Belfast. It appears
from a recent report of Mr. Gruneisen, the secretary,
that investors from Ireland are increasing rapidly ; and
that the executive committee, although unsuccessful as
yet in obtaining an eligible building site near a town or
railroad station, are on the anxious look out, and are
actually negotiating to make their first purchase in
Ireland.
THE MATFEN MURDER.—MORPETH, Thursday.--John
Simm, one of the men now in custody at the county gaol
here, charged with the murder of the old woman, Mrs.
Dorothy Bewicke, at Waterloo, near Matfen, in October
last, has made a lengthened statement to the governor
of the prison, implicating the other two men. Nothing
is as yet officially known further than this as to the con-
tents of the statement. It has been taken down in
writing, but has not yet been submitted to the commit-
ting magistrates. Simm, it appears, is a native of Ala-
wick, and had been assisting in harvest operations about
Matfen at the time of the murder. It is not known that
he bad had any previous connection with the other pri-
soners. A detective officer, from London, has been in
the neighbourhood during the past month, bet, we un-
derstand, has not succeeded in obtaining any material
evidence in addition to what has already been made
public ; it is, however, confidently expected that the
statement of Simm will lead to the unravelling of the
entire plot of this barbarous murder.
GENERAL FEELING IN RUSSIA.—A correspondent
writing from Hull, on Monday night, says :—A gentle.
man of long residence in Russia arrived here en Saturday
last from St. Petersburg, which place he left on the 12th
Dec. From his own observation and constant intercourse -
with the Russians, it is certain that (with exception •f
naval and military officers and Government officials) the
masses of the people are heartily Fick of the war, and cry
out, as loudly as they dare, " for peace at any price."
The same gentleman on being asked if the natives of the
interior volunteered into the army, as has been repre-
sented, replied that nothing could exceed the dejected
and forlorn appearance of the poor creatures who are
brought into the city by carts from the interior. The
militia of the empire is also stated to be a miserable
apology for soldiers, being composed of men who evi-
dently dislike the task imposed on thee/.
THE CLERGY AND THE PEERAGE, asc.—The following
clergymen have seats in the House of Lords as lay
peers :—The Rev. Augustus Edward Hobart, Earl of
Buckinghamshire ; Rev. Francis North, Earl of Guild-
ford ' • Rev. Win. Nevill, Earl of Abergavenny_; Rev. F.
T. Wykeham Fiennes, Lord Sap) anti Sele ; Rey. Jas,
Douglas, Lord Douglas ; Right Rev. Robt. John Eden,
Lord Auckland ; Rev. Henry Wm. Powlett, Lord Bay-
ping ; Right Rev. Thos. Plunkett, Lord Plunkett, and
the Rev. James Saurnarez, Lord de Saurnarez. Among
the baronets of England there are 29 clergymen :—The
Rev. Sir Brooke W. R. Boothby, the Rev. Sir George
Burrard, the Rev. Sir Edward H. V. Colt, the Rev. Sir
Wm. H. Hope, the Rev. Sir Geo. Wm. Crauford. the
Rev. Sir Wm. Lionel Darrell, the Rev. Sir gy. Robt.
Dukinfiel4, the Rev. Sir Chas. Farnaby, the Rev. Sir
Richard Fleming, the Rev. Sir Henry Faulis, the Rev. H
Sir Geo. Lewen Glyn, the Rev. Sir Charles arding°,
the Rev. Sir John Warren Hayes, the Bev. Sir Wm.
Robt. Kemp, the Rev. Sir Jas. Walker King, the Rev.
Sir Charles Macgregor, the Rev. Sir William Vesey
Ross Mahon, the Rev. Sir John Barker Mill, the Rev.
Sir Thomas Miller, the Rev. Sir Frederick Arthur Gore •
Ouseley, the Rev. Sir Philip Perryng, the Rev. Sir
George Prevost, the Rev. Sir George Stamp Robinson,
the Rev. Sir Charles John Salusbury, the Rev. Sir J.
Flobhouse Culme Seymour, the Hon. and Rev. Sir F.
Jarvis Stapleton, the Rev. Sir Aenry Thompson, the
Rev. Sir Erasmus H. Williams, and the Rev. Sir John
Page Wood. In the Scottish Peerage there are no
clergymen, but the names of three appear in the list of
Scottish baronets : the Very Rev. Sir W. Cockburn, the
Rev. Sir William Dunbar, and the Rev. Sir H. Mon-
crieff. In the Irish
peerage there are three, besides Lord
Auckland, who is an Irish as well as an English baron :
the Very Rev. henry De Montmorency, Viscount
Mountnorres ; the Right Rev. Ludlow Tonson, Lord
Riversdale ; and the Very Rev. Henry Vesey Fitz-
gerald, Lord Fitzgerald and Vesey. Among the Irish
baronets there are six clergymen : the Rev. Sir Edward
Borrowes, the Rev. Sir N. Chinnery, the Rev. Sir
Hercules R. Langriehe, the Rev. Sir William Macart-
ney, the Rev. Sir Richard .Musgrave, and the Rev. Sir
H. J. Walsh.