The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-17 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

The following is the text of a despatch addressed
on,the Gth inst. by Count de Buol to Count Traut-
mansdorf, the Austrian representative at Berlin :--
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January. However short this postponement may be,
I am nevertheless convinced that the Emperor, my
august master, will learn with great satisfaction the
motives which have determined his illustrious ally
to delay the execution of the military measures against
Switzerland, notwithstanding the advanced state of the
preparations made for that purpose. His Majesty will
see in it a fresh proof of the friendly disposition of the
King, and will appreciate the intention of that sovereign
to give to the friendly powers the possibility of strength.
ing and concentrating their diplomatic action with regard
to Switzerland, and to thus avoid an armed conflict in the
heart of Europe. The Imperial court, immediately after
the reception of the communication of the Bth December,
expressed to the powers who signed the protocol of Lon-
don the conviction that it was urgent to unite in a con-
ference, for, in our eyes, the obligations contracted by the
powers on the one hand, and Prussia on the other, and
set forth in the protocols 1 and 2 of the 24th May, 1852,
have lost nothing of their force. When the Cabinet of
Berlin remarked that the long inaction of the powers
mist strengthen the erroneous idea entertained by
Switzerland, that it might with impunity persist in the
public violation of a solemn declaration of the European
powers, we do not dispute that this observation is very
striking. But we trust that the Royal Cabinet will, in
its turn, take into consideration the important circum-
stance that Prussia has never addresseil to the powers
who signed the protocol of London the formal invita-
tion to follow up the': declaration, and the non-success
of which. step could alone, in our opinion, have
permitted it to act with perfect freedom. In these
circumstances the communication of the regal court
relative to its intention of employing force in a period
near at hand has exercised a strong influence on our
decision in favour of insisting on the convocation of a
conference, in order not to expose the Powers to the re-
proach of not having accomplished a duty which they had
accepted unanimously, and to prove to Prussia that she
had been premature in supposing that Europe had ex-
hausted all means of conciliation. We strongly desire that
the equitable condition on which Prusla has consented
to ;.:articipate in negotiations a,l to flirt future destroy
of Neuchatel should be fulfilled ”1:11(m, delay, eii,l/(r by
means of a collective step ou the part of ti- e posers
united in a conference, or rather by the pressing inter-
vention of one or other of them. But we also ask that

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in the event of this object not being attained before the
expiration of the period named by Prussia, a circum-
:tance which would not involve the renunciation of al
hopes of a successful issue of the pacific efforts of ae
powers, his Majesty the King wi!l not refuse to once
mare grant delay, an order whicb has naturally gained
in importance in the eyes of friendly powers, since
Prussia herself Lag declared that her army, once in
movement, would fight for another object than that of
the liberation of the prisoners.-- accept, Ac.,

" BuoL."

APLES.
Letters from Naples of the 12th state that the
King, on hearing of the assassination of the Arch
bishop of Paris, countermanded the ball which was
to have been given at the palace, ordered the
theatres to be closed fur three days, and prescribed
that expiatory prayers should be offered up. The
fetes which were to commence on the 12th, on the
occasion of the birthday of the King, were put a
stop to. Two cafes at Naples had been surrounded
two days before by the police authorities, and 60
persons arrested. It was thought that a Mazzinian
plot had been discovered. A degree of uneasiness
prevailed among the population.