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

AUSTRIA.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, JAN. 9.
There are reports in town to-day that the King
will not confine himself to a mere general advocacy
of peace in St. Petersburg, but will rather seek to
find a middle path between the so-called Austrian
proposals and the scheme proposed in Count Nes-
kielrode's circular of the 22d ult. Count Nessel-
rode is understood to have already declared that
the views therein expressed are by no means in-
tended to be unbendingly positive, but that, on the
contrary, Russia would be willing to agree to mo-
difications' provided they did not depart too far
from that basis.

A private letter from Altona mentions that the
Danish Government has now lost all hopes of bring-
ing anything like a conference together on the sub-
ject of the Sound Dues.
The mission of Colonel von Manteuffel to Vienna
is assumed by various parties to have various diffe-
rent objects in addition to the mere formal delivery
of the King's letter. According to some he is to
agree with Austria as to terms of a joint motion
to be made shortly at the Diet on the subject of
an altered position to be assumed by Germany on
the Russian question ; according to others Prussia
being alarmed at the prospect of widely-extended
operations in the Baltic this summer, is apply-
ing to Austria through him for an assurance
of the same support, in case she should be attacked
there, as Prussia had guaranteed to Austria in
case she should be attacked in the Principalities.

The Duke of Cambridge during his stay in Paris
will reside at the Palace of the Tuileries, and Ad-
miral Lyons at the British Embassy.
The triumphal entry into Paris of the two bat-
talions of the 50th and of the three battalions of
the 39th lately returned from the Crimea took
place on Wednesday. Geneial Niel, aide-de-camp
to the Emperor, and who had directed the works
of attack at the siege of Sebastopol, proceeded to
the Place de la Bastille to meet these bravo troops,
as did a battalion of the voltigeurs of the guards,
who had formed part of the same division as the
39th and 50th in the Crimea. At half-past eleven
o'clock, on General Niel having, with several
officers of the Imperial household, placed him-
self at the head of the troops, the column
moved from the Place do la Bastille, and, pro-
ceeding along the boulevards received just as cor-
dial a welcome from the inhabitantsof Paris as
their companions in arms had done on the 29th of
Decembhr. The houses were everywhere dressed
out, and cheering, crowns of laurel, and waving of
handkerchiefs greeted the new-comers along the
whole line of march. The column proceeded down
the Rue de la Paix, across the PlaceVendome, and
thence, without stopping, to the Place du Carrou-
sel, and through the triumphal arch into the court
of the Tuileries, where, after being received by
Marshal Magnan and his staff, they ranged them-
selves in a single line. At one o'clock the drums
beat a salute, and the Emperor entered the court ........—___
on horseback, accompanied by Marshals Vaillant SCANDINAVIA..
and Magnan, Generals Caurobert, Bosquet, Foray, The following is a translation of the circular ad-
and Espinasse, Col. Fleury, the aides-de-camp and dressed by Baron Stierneld, the Swedish Minister
orderly officers of his Majesty, and a detachment of of Foreign Affairs, on the 18th ult , to all Swedish
the Cent Gardes. envoys, respecting the recent treaty. with the
The Emperor was received with loud shouts of Western,_ Powers
" Vire l'Empereur !" and on the Empress appear- ~s rmy last letter bears date of
ing on the balcony, repeated cries of " Vive l'ltn- "The disastrous struggle which still continues between
peratrice
!" arose. His Majesty rode along the Russia and the Western 'Powers has been in its origin as
line, addressing the officers and men in most eulo- in its development the source of the most serious reflec
gistic language, amidst tremendous cheering from
stiternuggt,l)e the Government of the King. The more the
the soldiers, and then, on his placing himself in 2ained in extent the nearer the inconveniences
:front of the Pavillon de l'Horloge, the troops filed of war approach our shores, the more had we to con-
,off before him, his Majesty saluting frequently, eider the dangers it might bring upon ourselves. From
the Empress waving her hankerchief, and the men the commencouiert of hostilities the King openly de-
ei'leering loudly as they passed. The whole pro-
ciared the line of action ho intended to follow, and
caedino.s terminated at half-past one. A vast during Majesty
never the course of now nearly two years his
crowffilled the streets and the Place du Carrousel thenever deviated therefrom, for he had carefully weighed
political circun2s.tances,. and recognised. that in-
to witness the passage of the troops, and every- terests and tranquillity of his kingdoms indicated the line
thing passed off in the greatest order. of conduct which, in concert with his august neighbour
BOURSE, JAN. 10, Two o'clock.—Tho market the King of Denmark, he had adopted, and hitherto

THE PRINCIPALITIES.
" We have spoken," says the Presse d'Orient,
t, of the construction of a road between Rassova
and Kustendje, to facilitate the communications
of the Danube with the Black Sea without passing
by the mouths of the river. The works have been
completed and the road is now practicable. The
engineers who had como to superintend the opera-
tions are about to return to Franco. This under-
taking has given rise to interesting medical obser-
vations as to climate. The soil of the Dobrudscha,
which has been represented as impregnated with
deleterious miasma, has not been fatal to one of
the 300 workmen who have been employed by the
engineers. This is a fact worthy of remark, parti-
cularly when we bear in mind the effects frequently
produced by works of this kind, in the most fa-
voured countries, when opened for the first time.
It must be mentioned, however, that the men em-
ployed were Moldavians and Wallachians, all
vigorous, sober, and well inured to fatigue."

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 attache, 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 Bend 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 an army of 150,000 men
somewhere in the neighbourhood of the Rhine, and
England blockade the Prussian ports of Stettin,
Stralsund, and Dautzic.
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 Bourqueney"'
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 do Manteuffel. It is,
however, important to know that it has been agreed
on between Austria and the Western Powers, that
if the 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 governeient
will be able to confine itself within the bounds of
neutrality. In order to impede the progress of the
Cabinet of Vienna, the same gathe is now resorted
to which was attempted in the months of November
and December, 1834. 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 221 ult.
Then, as now, Russia accepted iu 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 fur 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 th© 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 B USsia. In
other words, the Court of Berlin returns to the
singular idea of imposing the mediation of Germany
both on 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.

maintained. But, while observing the regulations of a
strict neutrality, the King could not do otherwise
than consult the lessons of the past, and apply them
with wise foresight to the future interests of his king-
doms, the safety of which is his first duty and the object
of his most arileot wisbes

" STIERNELD."

THE BRAZILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING.
The Royal ntil Company's steamship Tay, Cap-
tain Revett, with the Brazilian and River Plate
wails, has arrived.

The Tay's dates are, Buenos Ayres, Dec. 2d ;
Rio de Janeiro, 15th ; Pernambuco, 21st ; Ma-
deira, 3d ; Lisbon, 7th.
She brings 46 passengers, 28,7421. in specie,
some jewellery, and the usual cargo.
At Buenos Ayres and Montevideo matters were
very unsettled.

Cholera had disappeared at Rio. The coffee
market was active ; prices in sugar had advanced.
Exchange, 28.
At Pernambuco a few cases of cholera had ap-
peared. Exchange, 27i to 28.

RUMOURED DEATH OF MR SERGEANT ADAMS.—A.
ruomur was prevalent this morning amongst the mem-
bers of the legal profession at Westminster Hall that
Mr Sergeant Adams, Assistant Judge at the Middlesex
S seine, 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
re.idence. Nothing of any consequence occurred in any
of the law courts up to the time of our going to press.
Lord Eglinton was on Tuesday afternoon robbed of
twenty 51. notes as ho was leaving the National Bank
in Edinburgh.
Taamgs 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 Westmic-
ster, a railway throughout the same route, and a con.
nection on the Surrey Aida between the South-Weste
rtt
and South-Easti4n railw•iys, were submitted to Prince
Albert, in presence of the Count 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 MGM*
biers of the college were admitted to the Fellowship at a
meeting of the Council, on the 10th lest. --Messrs.
Richard Robert Madden, Rathmines, Dublin ; William
Slyman, Newton, Montgomeryshire ; Charles Holding,
New Bridge-street ; John Otley, Maidstone ; John
Parsons, Bridgewater ; John Robinson Wells, Russell-
place, Fitzroy-square ; Charles Maynard Frost, Lad-
brookequa.re ; William Dalla Husband, York ; Arthur
Martin h Beckett, Sydney ; Richard Forester Wells,
Artilierteplace ; John Henry Rogers, East Grinstead
Alfred Smee, Finsbury-circus ; Henry Halkyard, Old•
ham ; Valentine Welshman Blake, Birmingham ; Henry
John Brown, Wilmington-square ; Edward 'Telford,
Hammersmith ; Henry Ashley, Nottinghill ;
John Crouch Christophers' York-street, Portman-
square ; and William Henry Scales, Madras Army. At
the same meeting of the Council, Mr. John Atcherley,
of Liverpool, a Licentiate of the Faculty of Physicians
and Surgeons of Glasgow, was admitted ad curacy;
member of the allege,
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, Esq., M.P., J. Montgomery, E q.,
county Down ; the Count de Salis, Colonel Taylor,
M.P., and Thomas Verner Esq., Belfast. It appears
from a recent report of Mr.i 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 incustody at the county gaol
here, charged with the murder of the old woman, Mrs.
Dorothy B,iwicke. 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 bad been assisting in harvest operations about
Matfen at the time of the murder. It is not known that
he had had any previous connection with the other pri-
soners. A detective officer, from London, has been in
the neighbourhood during the past month, but, 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 of
naval and military officers and Government officials) the
masses of the people are heartily sick 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 thew.
THE CLERGY AND THE PEERAGE, &C.—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 Saye and Selo ; Rev. Jas.
Douglas, Lord Douglas ; Right Rev. Robt. John Eden,
Lord Auckland ; Rev. Henry Win. Powlett, Lord Bay-
ning ; Right Rev. Thos. Plunkett, Lord Plunkett, and
the Rev. James Saumarez, Lord de Saumarsz. 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
Win. H. Hope, the Rev. Sir Geo. Wm. Crauford, the
Rev. Sir Win. Lionel Darrell, the Rev. Sir Hy. Robt.
Dukinfield, the Rev. Sir Chas. Farnaby, the Rev. Sir
Richard Fleming, the Rev. Sir Henry Faulis, the Rev.
Sir Geo. Lewen Glyn, the Rev. Sir Charles Hardinge,
the Rev, Sir John Warren Hayes, the Rev. Sir Wm.
Robt. Kemp, the Rev. Sir Jas. Walker /Lee 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 Salushury, the Rev. Sir J.
Hobbouse Celine Seymour, the Hon. and Rev. Sir F.
Jarvis Stapleton, the Rev, Sir Henry 'Thompson, the
tiihethneariSucso Peerage there are no
Rev. Sir Erasmus H. Williams, and the Rev. Sir John
appear in the list of
clergymen,
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but rho ottfisthhre
Scottish baronets : the Very Rev. Sir W. Cockburn', the
Rev. Sir William Dunbar, and the Rev, Sir EL Mon-
crieff. In the Irish peerage there are three, b.sides Lord
Auckland, who is an Irish as well as an English baron :
the Very Rev. /Leary De Montmorency, Viscount
Mountnorres ; the Right Rev. Ludlow nelson, Lord
Riversdaie ; and the Very Rev. Henry Vesey Fitz-
gerald, L ird Fitzgerald and Vesey. Among the Irish
harontts there are six clergymen : the Rev. Sir Edward
B,,rrowes, the Rev. Sir N. Chiunery, the Rev. Sir
Hercules R. Langrishe, the Rev. Sir William Macart-
ney, the Rev. Sir Richard Musgrave, and the Rev. Sir
H. J. Walsh.

" Apprehensions for the future, founded upon remem-
brances too well known to need repetition, and entertained
by the obstacles made by Russia to a satisfactory regu-
lation of the border relations in the northern provinces,
were increased still more by the manifestation of ideas
of encroachment of that Empire in the East. Under
other more favourable circumstances those ideas might
obtain a development in the north which would be of a na-
ture to cause us serious embarrassment. France and 1
England having proposed to his Majesty a defensive
treaty of alliance, destined to assure the integrity of the
United Kingdoms, the King felt that it was his duty
eagerly to accept a guarantee, the utility of which is as
patent as it is incontestible. No one can say what
eventual contingencies are not hidden in the womb of '
the future, and in such difficult circumstances as
the present it is the duty of every Sovereign to
look after the maintenance of the independence and to
assure the welfare of the nations entrusted to hie care
by Providence. It was in this idea that the treaty was
concluded on the 20th of last month at Stockholm be-
tween the united kingdoms on the one hand and France
and England on the other, the text of which you will
find annexed to the present, and which was ratified at
Stockholm on the 30th, at London on the 29th, and at
Paris on the 28th of the same month.
"Desirous that this act should be brought to the
knowledge of the friendly and allied Governments, the
King has ordered a copy of it to be sent to you to be
communicated by you to the Government to which you
have the honour of being accredited.
" You will observe, sir, that the terms of the treaty
are too precise to admit of any misinterpretation. The
alliance which has just been concluded is a defensive one;
it will depend upon Russia to prevent its application,
as this would not occur unless caused by an aggression
on her part. Let Russia respect our rights—let her
cease to inspire just cause of alarm for the maintenance
of the balance of power in Europe —and this Treaty will
not be of any prejudice to her. You will also observe,
Sir, that this Treaty does not imply any change in our
actual position—our declaration of neutrality still sub-
slats, and will continue to be adhered to as has hitherto
been the case.
" I flatter myself with the hope that the Government
will render justice to the intentions which have eel-
Lated the Government of the King, and that it will be
convinced that, far from wishing to add to the actual
complications, the King only thoeght of anticipating
eventualities which might be the source of future ones.
" This treaty of affiance has also been communicated
to the Cabinet of St. Petersburg.