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London, England, 1857-01-09 00:00:00

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RUSSIA.
A letter from St. Petersburg, of the 30th Dec.
(Correspondance Bu. llier), says that Persia has
applied to the Russian Government tp mediate be-
tween the former and England ; and that Russia
has declined to do so, referring the Shah to the
friendly offices of the Emperor of the French. The
same correspondence says that an autograph letter
has been addressed by the King of Prussia to the
Czar, expressing his regret at being obliged, he
who has always done his best to preserve peace, at
least since the war with Denmark on the subject
of Schleswig-holstein, now to assume an attitude
which is likely to cause trouble in Europe.
A letter from Odessa of the 22d, in the Vienna
Gazette, states that the fortifications there have been
completely disarmed, and the earthworks thrown
up during the war have crumbled away in the wet
weather ; also, that the rumours of theigreat move-
ments of troops in Podolia and Bessarabia are un-
founded. Several Russian officers have obtained
leave to go to Algeria and join the French expedi-

tion against the Kabyles, and some of the Russian
naval officers are going to study the maritime
establishments of France. The Russians deny
that there is any truth in the story of an English
gunboat having been fired at, some time ago, in
passing Yenikale ; they assert that there is no
battery mounted at that place.

NEUCHATEL.
The following is the reply made by the Austrian
cabinet to the Prussian document of the Bth 'Dec.,
relative to the affairs of Neuchatel :

" VIENNA, Dec. 19.
" Monsieur le Comte—The Count d'Arairn has com-
municated to me the despatch, of !which a copy is sub
jlined, relative to the refusal of the Swiss Federal Coun-
cil to consent to the immediate liberation of the Neucha-
tel prisoners. This refusal perseveringly given to the
demand of the legitimate sovereign of Neuchatel, to the
repeated and pressing representations of the powers that
signed the protocol of London, and, lastly, to a similar
proceeding of the Germanic Confederation, unanimously
agreed to, is looked on by the court of Prussia as an
evident proof that Switzerland is not at all disposed to
take into account the international stipulations in virtue
of which the principality of Neuchatel has been admitted
under the guarantee of Europe, to become one of the
cantons of the Confederation. Before this situation the
King is penetrated with the conviction that he cannot

longer dispense with having recourse• to means more
efficacious than an intervention purely diplomatic,
with the object of reasserting his rights to the prin-
cipality of Neuchatel ; and the Royal cabinet ac-
quaints us with the resolution his Majesty has
taken to prepare measures of this nature, and
to put them in execution in case of need. Baron Man-
teuffel add., moreover, that these military preparations
Flo not prevent the King from listening to the voice of
that moderation of which he has already given so many
proofs, and that his Majesty will doubtless be ready still
to yield to the same inspirations, if the European Powers,
who will continue to devote their care to seeking a con-
ciliation, agree on propositions tending to this object, or
if Switzerland herself determines of her own accord to
return to wiser resolutions. The Emperor entirely appre-
ciates the reasons that induce the King not to deliver
over the adherents to his just cause to the authori-
ties de facto of Neuchatel. We deplore and disapprove
the persistence with which the Swiss Federal Council re•
fused a demand it should have the less declined as it
might be certain that in doing right in that respect it
would find the King, in his moderation, disposed to
seek, in peaceful measures and honourable conditions, a
definitive solution of the difficulties inherent in the pre-
sent situation of Neuchatel. Convinced as we are that,
in guaranteeing the perpetual neutrality of Switzer-
land, the European Powers have not intended to ac-
cord it the privilege of refusing with impunity all re-
paration for violated rights, we cannot but deem it just
and suitable that Prussia should occupy herself with
the preparatory measures she may think necessary to
ensure, eventually, for her demands the satisfaction
which is their due. But we have been happy to receive
at the same time the assurance that the King does not
even now consider himself obliged to renounce his senti-
ments of conciliation. The Powers, in their character of
guarantees of the neutrality assured to Switzerland, in the
general interest, and as co-sitnataries of the protocol of
London, desiring the maintenance of the European peace,
and it their duty to remind Switzerland of the conditions
of its inviolability, and to impose on her the fulfilment
of them, if necessary. The opportunity of deliberating
in common on the means of discharging this mission
not having been offered them since the deplorable events
of last September, the Imperial Cabinet is anxious to

assemble for this object the plenipotentiaries of the
Powers that signed the protocol of London, and cherishes
the hope that his Majesty the King of Prussia will not
regard himself as driven to the necessity of asserting hie
incontestable right otherwise than by relying on the autho-
rity of a decision of the European Powers. In invit-
ing you, M. le Comte, to communicate this despach to
M. le Baron de Manteuffel, I beg of you to inform hica
that we are making at the same time overtures in &
similar sense to the Cabinets of Paris, London, and St.
Petersburg.—Receive, &c., "Boor..
" To M. le Comte de Traffmansdorff, Berlin."
To the above the Prussian Cabinet replied by the
following note, bearing the same date as the circular of
Prussia on the same affair :

" Berlin, Dec. 28..
" Monsieur le Comte—The Charge d'Affaires of
Austria has been kind enough to communicate to me
the subjoined despatch of M. le Comte de Eno], in rept/
to that which I bad the honour of addressing to your
Excellency under the date of the Bth inst. We have er

perienced a lively satisfaction in finding the rights of the
King to the principality of Neuchatel once more clear'y
recognised, as well as the importance of the reasons that
must lead his Majesty not to give up the adherents to hie
just cause to the authorities de facto of that State. ape
deplore as much as the Cabinet of Vienna that the
Swiss Confederation, despite the agreement of all
the powers, has been deaf to the voice of concilis•
tion, and has thus imposed on the King the necessity of
having recourse to proper measures for making his in'
contestable rights felt. But in seeking the causes that
have determined the Federal authorities to this resistance,
so little in conformity with their true interests, we may
not conceal from ourselves that the inanition which the
powers that signed the protocol of Londoa
have maintained during more than four year,'
has powerfully contributed to this false secu'
rity, which has misled the public mind in Switzerland,
and has spread the unhappy error that rights universal!,
and solemnly recognised could be violated with impunity
The King does not dispute with the cabinets that signed
the protocol of London their mission of recalling the
attention of Switzerland to the condition of its

ability,but after all that has passed he cannot subordinat°
his own action to the accomplishment of this mission. After
all the proofs of moderation and endurance which hi;
Majesty has given, he believes that he has arrived at ge
limit beyond which he cannot pass without being wanting
to his honour and dignity. The last neci-ions of our 50
gust master on this subject are contained in my other
despatch of this day, which I address equally to 00
royal Minister at Paris, London, and St. Peters'
burg. The Cabinet of Vienna will thence deiive tll°
conviction that, not to exclude the diplomatic action
more or less united and collective of the Cabinets °f
Europe, the King has put off, despite the innoo;
veniences inseparable from this delay, the day °'
the mobilisation of the army, and by so doing, ths
term also up to which, upon the liberation of ths
Neuchatel prisoners, his Majesty will be ready t°,
take part in any negotiations that may be bell
with the object of pacifically, and on conditions
mutually honourable, putting a definite close to the
difficulties inherent in the present situation of Neu'
chatel. Be so good as to bring the present despatch to
the knowledge of M. le Comte de Buol, and to express
to his Excellency our sincere conviction that a Cabinet,
so friendly to Prussia as is that of his Imperial Molest,'
Franois Joseph, will not occasion it new difficulties, not
even counsel new delays in the accomplishment of a task
the prompt success of which must be called for by all
partisans of right and order. Receive, &c ,
cc MANTEUFFEL."