The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-20 00:00:00

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NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STARES
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15 to 1 agst Pa,tterer (offered)
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EARL SPENCER'S PLATE.
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CITY AND SUBURBAN.

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100 to 8 asst St. Hubert (taker)) •
100 to 7 agst Ariosto (taken)

CHESTER. CUP.
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TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
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5 to 2 agst Yellow Jack (taken)

DERBY.
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Business very dull.

THE ADMISSION OF PRUSSIA TO THE

CONGRESS.

The Constitutionnd of yesterday publishes a let-
ter from its correspondent at Vienna, dated the
15th, on the subject of the admission of Prussia
to the Congress. It says :

" The invitation ,which Count Walewski, as
organ of the Congress assembled at Paris, has ad-
dressed to Prussia to take part in the deliberations
of the Congress, appears at first glance so unfore-
seen that we must not be surprised if it gives rise
to the most erroneous commentaries and the most
hazardous suppositions. But a succinct account of
the facts which induced the Congress of Paris to
address that invitation to the Court of Berlin will
suffice to reduce the signification and bearing of it
to its just value. The idea of associating Prussia
in the deliberations of the Congress, in order to
place the definitive treaty of peace under th•
general guarantee of Europe, was brought forward
by Austria as soon as the Court of St. Petersburg
had accepted purely and simply the Austrian ulti-
matum."

In proof that Austria did this, the letter quotes an
extract from a despatch addressed by Count Buol
to Count Esterhazy at Berlin, announcing his in-
tention of directing the Austrian Ministers at
Paris and London to recommend strongly to the
Western Powers the admission of Prussia. The
letter then continues :

" Count Baol at the same time pressed the Ca-
binet of Berlin to fortify the efforts of Austria by
declaring immediately its own resolution to engage
itself to accept on the same conditions as the other
poWers the programme approved of by them. In
fact, in a despatch, dated Berlin, the 26th January,
Baron de Manteuffel authorised Count Arnim to
reply to Count Buol that the Prussian Govern-
' ment will not hesitate to declare itself ready to sign
the preliminaries accepted by Russia, if the other
power invite her to take Fart in determining in
common the basis destined to serve as the conclu-
sion of peace.' Prussia, therefore, it will be seen,
whilst demanding that the Western Powers should
address to her the invitation to join them, reserved
the right of discussing in common the basis destined
to serve as the conclusion of peace; that is to say,
that she did not take the absolute engagement to
support in presence of Russia the interpretation
which the allies of the 2d December intended to
attach to the fifth point of the preliminaries. The
consequence was that the Congress of Paris assem-
bled
on the 25th of February without the Prussian
plenipotentiaries being invited to take part in its
deliberations. Austria did not the less persist in
representing to the Cabinets of Paris and London
that Prussia, by supporting the Austrian proposi-
tions at St. Petersburg, and -by flyouring the last
vote of the Diet of Frankfort (2rst Februarylhad
efficaciously contributed to the conclusion of peace.
After numerous discussions, a sort of middle term
was arrived at, by which the entrance to the Euro- •
pean concert was opened to Prussia without the
overthrow of the principle firmly proclaimed by
the Cabinets of Paris and London, that to sit in the
Congress it was necessary to possess the title of a
contracting power."
The letter then calls• to mind that in the Confe-
rences of Vienn t in 1855 it was decided that
though Prussia could not be admitted to them
"thoe was nothing to prevent her from according
in some form or other to the result of the negotia-
tions." It then states that when in the Congress
at Paris the matters that could give rise to a easus
141 i were settled without the participation of
Prussia—lyezatise she was not a contracting power
—there was nothing to prevent her from taking
part in the deliberations on the modifications of
the treaty of the 13th July, 1841, in which she
was a contracting power. The same course was
accordingly pursued towards her as was followed
towards Franco in 1841, after she had been ex-
cluded from the treaty of 1840 :

" As in 1841 Lard Palmerston, as organ of the
conference of Landon, addressed to the Court of the
Tuileries the invitation to co-operate in the conclu-
sion of the convention of the 13th July, 1841, so
Count Walewski, as organ of the congress of Paris,
has addressed to the Prussiaagovernment asimilar
invitation with the object of modifying that same
convention, in-conformity with the system of the
neutralisation of the Black StA which is to serve
as the basis of the realisation of the third gua-
rantee. By the fact that Prussia will co-operate ia
modifying the convention of the 13th July, 1841,
she acquires the right of affixing her signat-ure to
the general treaty of peace, inasmuch as the special
protocol setting forth the adhesion of the Court of
Berlin to the modifications of the precited con-
vention will be annexed to the general treaty
of peace, and will be held to form part of it.
In this manner Prussia will cover by her formal
guarantee all the other stipulations of the- treaty
of peace, although she has not participated. in their
discussion, confining herself to acceding subse-
quently to the result of the negotiations of the
other powers. Thanks to this happy arrangement
between Prussia and the allies of the 2d Dec., the
European union will be again established, and
will become the fundamental basis of the length
and solidity of this much-desired peace, which,
after the most authentic accounts received from
Paris, is really on the point of being signed."