The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-20 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

PARIS, SATURDAY MORNING.

Letters from Vienna of the 14th state that the
question of holding the Conferences has now
entered on a new phase.
Count Buol has received a despatch, informing
him that the Cabinet of the Tuileries, after
mature reflection, cannot accept the interpretation
of the Bolgrad question and that of the Isle of
Serpents in the absolute terms propounded by
England, Austria, and Turkey.
Count Buol has sent this unexpected declaration
to the Emperor of Austria in Italy.
No one can now predict when the new Confer-
ences will be opened.

The second Plenipotentiaries of Great Britain,
Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, and Russia have ap-
prised Count Walewski that they have received
their instructions, and that they are ready to take
part in the Conferences. The instructions for the
second Turkish Plenipotentiary are all that are
now waited for, and they are expected to arrive
about the 23d or 24th of December. The Con-
ferences may consequently commence on the 26th
or 27th.

The mission of Admiral. Virgin to Copenhagen
has-been considered one of great importance. It
is rumoured to be only one of preparation for a
further mission to London with regard to a revi-
sion of the treaty of London of 1852, by which
the fear of Russian political supremacy in the Baltic
states generally will be at once set at rest.

Accounts from Constantinople to the 10th state
that some French vessels were expected in the
Bosphorus. The Russians have landed arms and
ammunition at Zella. The works in the arsenals
of Persia are going on with great activity, accord-
ing to instructions received from Teheran.

A letter from St. Petersburg of the 10th, in
the Bourse Gazette of Berlin, says :—" Count Y.
Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador, has had
within the last few days an interview with Prince
Gortschakoff, in which some conversation took
place on the subject of the reply of the Cabinet
of Tienna to the Russian memorandum. The
Prince remarked that the pretension of Austria to
occupy the Principalities until the question of the
frontiers should be settled was inadmissible for
two motives—first, from the declaration of Count
Buol at Paris that the evacuation of the Turkish
territory by Austria presented less difficulty than
that by France and England, and that it should
take place before ; and secondly, because the
projected instructions drawn up at Paris for the
members of the Commission for the organisation
of the Principalities declared expressly that the
Divans could not meet until the foreign troops
should have evacuated the Principalities. The
Austrian Ambassador confined himself to replying
that Russia could not invoke the Treaty of Paris
so long as she occupied any point of the Bessara-
bian ,territory, which she was bound to cede to
Turkey. This conference was consequently with-
out result ; and it is probable that the Russian
Cabinet will reply in writing to that of Vienna,
which may perhaps cause a new delay in the
meeting of the Conference of Paris."

A letter from Berlin of the 16th says :—" No
reply has yet been received to the note of the Bth,
addressed by Prussia to the great powers, on the
affair of Neuchatel. The cabinet here expects that
the English Government will advise it to abstain
from military measures. Austria also does not
appear favourable to a Prussian expedition, if we
may judge from the language of her semi-official
organs, but it is confidently believed that France
and Russia will approve of the last resolutions of
Prussia. It is said, besides, that the Prussian
cabinet does not intend to cause its acts to depend
on the replies of the great powers ; as, after having
communicated to them its decision, it will pursue
the recognition of its right without allowing itself
to be influenced by objections."

Accounts have been received from Naples to the
15th. All the English in that capital, residents
and visitors, had signed an address of congratula-
tion to the King, and had gone to the palace to
present it ! His Majesty showed great emotion at
receiving the address, and expressed his gratitude
for the proceeding. All foreigners of distinction,
as well as the population, have visited the King to
offer their congratulations !

The Paris correspondent of the Independance
Belge says it is rumoured that the Emperor Napo-
leon has written an autograph letter to the King
of Naples, there being at present no official repre•
senta.tive of France at Naples, to congratulate him
on his escape from assassination.

A letter from Vienna in the Boersenhalle, of
Hamburg, says :—" It is announced as positive
that the Porte is preparing fresh difficulties by
obstinately opposing the incorporation of the Delta
of the Danube with the territory of Moldavia, and
that Gholib Pacha, a son of Reschid Pacha, has
loft for Paris on a private mission relative to this
affair."