The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-29 00:00:00

RUSSIAN ACCEPTANCE OF THE
AUSTRIAN PROPOSALS.

The following is a translation of the circular
issued by the Russian Government to its diploma-
tic agents, in which it announces the acceptance of
the Austrian proposals. This document is dated
St. Petersburg, Jan. 19 :

" Public opinion in Europe has been strongly ex-
cited by the intelligence that propositions of peace
concerted between the. Allied Powers and Austria
had been transmitted to St. Petersburg through
the intervention of the Cabinet of Vienna.
" Already the Imperial Cabinet, upon its side,
had made a step in the path of conciliation, by
pointing out, in a despatch bearing date the 11th
(23,1) of December, published in all the foreign
journals, the sacrifices which it was prepared to
make, with a view to the restoration of peace.
" This twofold proceeding proved. the existence
on either side of a desire to profit by the compul-
sory cessation imposed by the rigour of the season
on the military operations, in order to respond to
the unanimous wishes which were everywhere
manifested in favour of a speedy peace.
"In the despatch cited above the Imperial Go-
vernment had taken for basis the four points of
guarantee admitted by the Conferences at Vienna,
and had prop, sed, with regard to the third point,
—which had alone led to the rupture of the Con-
ferences,—a solution which differed rather in form
than in substance from the one put forward at that
epoch by the Allied Powers.
"The propositions transmitted to-day by the
Austrian Government speak of the same fundamen-
tal proposition—that is to say, the neutralisation
of the Black Sea by a direct treaty between Russia
and the' Porte, to regulate by common agreement
the number of ships of war which each of the ad-
jacent Powers reserves the right of maintaining for
the security of its coasts. They only differ appre-
ciably from those contained in the despatch of the
11th (23d) of December by the proposal for recti-
fying the frontier between Moldavia and Bessara-
his., iu exchange for the places on the Russian ter-
ritory in the actual occupation of the enemy.
"Tail is not the place to inquire if these propo-
sitions unite the conditions necessary for insuring
the repose of the East an i the security of Europe,
rather than those of the Russian Government. It
is sufficient here to establish the point, that at last
an agreement has been actually arrived at on many
of the fundamental bases for peace.
"Due regard being had to this agreement, to the
wishes manifested by the whole of Europe, and to
the existence of a coalition the tendency f which
was every day to assume larger proportions, and
considering the sacrifices which a protraction of
the war imposes upon Russia, the Imperial Govern-
ment has deemed it its duty not to delay by acces-
sory discussions a work the success of which would
respond to its heart-felt wishes. _

It has, in consequence, just given its adhesion
to the propositions transmitted by the Austrian.
Government as a project of preliminaries for nego-
tiations for peace.
"By the energy of its attitude in the face of a
formidable coalition, Russia has given a measure
of the sacrifices which she is prepared to make to
defend her honour and dignity ; by this act of mo-
deration the Imperial Government gives at the
same time new proof of its sincere desire to arrest
the effusion of blood, to conclude a struggle so
grievous to civilisation and humanity, and to re-
store to Russia and to Europe the blessings of

peace.
" It has a right to expect that the opinion of all
civilised nations will appreciate the aot."

ANOTHER DEFUNCT NEWSPAPER. The /Vergers
Examiner, a newspaper published in Newcastle-on-Tyne,
which tried a twice-a-week cheap issue and did not sue.
seed, expired on Friday. The editor, in taking farewell
of his readers, rays :—" We beg to inform our sub-
scribers and frieuds that the present number closes the
publication of the Northern Examiner. Since the issue
of its first number, in May, 1854, the repeal of the stamp
duty has caused an immense number of publications to
spring up on all sides of us, to the great pecuniary in.
jury and detiiment of themselves and the previonely-
existing journals. We confess that we have no desire
to ruin ourselves in the present race of competition ; and,
accordingly, we retire from the contest. We have been
also induced to take this step in a great measure owing
to the above cause, and also the present impossibility of
any local paper of less than 10 years' standing paying
Pits way in N.,,wea,stle, where there are'now no less than
eight new,papers published during the week. Adver-
tisers cannot he expected to give their announcements
to every paper; and the result is, that those adver-
tisements which would support four will not support
eight newspapers ; consequently, many of them must be
carried on at a great pecuniary loss to their proprietors.
We are neither able nor willing to do so in our own
ease ; nod the more especially as we have too much rea-
son to complain of the miserable pretexts made use of
by many penman who have done business with us to
postpone, and ultimately to avoid pumerat altogether
of our put deruauclo.'