New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-12
THE NEW VIENNA CONFERENCE.

THE NEW VIENNA CONFERENCE.
The Conference to have been held at Vienna
On the 2sth Of December by the ambassadors Of
France, England Austria, Prussia, and Russia,
opens anew the question of peace. The id "a Of
a speedy cessation Of hOstllties seems to have
almost passed out of the public contemplation,
and little or no hope of this result is anywhere
expressed. Yet we look for the conclusion of the
new Vienna Conference with deep interest, AMI
not without hope that it may prove favorable to
the csu,e Of peace civilization and humanity. II
the parties 70 it could approach the subject OF
their deliberations in the spirit Of wise states
manshp and freed from the prcjudices and
passions which the contest has evoked in th3 ma
tons engaged in this sanguinsry struggle. we
should strongly anticipate benef'ent termna-
ton OF their sessions.
The danger that result of such character
will be achieved arises from the fact that the
fountains Of national hostility have been opened,
ard pour their TancOrous waters through the
breasts of rulers and people alike. There are
certainly the most sogent and commanding rea-
sons prevailing at this crisis that that Conference
should not end as all others have ended since the
commencen ent Of the difficulties between Russia
ard Turkey.
This is the last chsnce for peace for a long and
indefinite period OF tine The present junc.ure
of affairs marks q great crisis in the war. Aus
tria bss held aoof from the struggle to the lates.
I moment She has fOrbOrne, as long as she could
forbear, to throw the weight of her armies and
her position into either scale But she can no
longer be non-combaiapt. la the spring, Austria
must take the field unless peace intavenes meau-
while. Prussia cannot long control her present
neutral position, and then Europe is in flames 10
its remotest extremites. Now is the propitious
! time, and the Only time, 90 avert such a result
/ VIII not the Nienna Conference avert it Why
should they not What impossible condition of
peace between the Allies and their great
antagonist prevents We believe there Is
but one. On the four long contested points
We believe there is or could readily be
substantial agreement. The surrender OF
the ex lusive Russisn proteetorate over the
Danubian principalities the establishment Of the
free navigation Of the Danube the exclusive pro-
lection Of the Greek Christians in Turkey by
Russia, and the revision Of the Turkish and Rus
sian treaties we believe would be conceded by
Russia The minor difficulties in all these Ques-
tions the merely technical terms snd verbal sub
tletios with which they have been long sur
rounded, we believe would row easily yield to the
gigantic pressure Of the existing crisis. What,
then, stands in the way OF peace Nothing else,
we believe, but the exsctions of the Allies rela-
tive to the abridgment of Russian power in the
sist upon stipulatiens such ss are and hsve been
long current in the English journals as the sias
qna non of the termination of the war These
are that Russia must consent 20 the destruction
Of her Notifications 81 Seyas.opol and the perma-
nent reduction Of her feet in the Black Sea to
mere nominal force; in a word, to a surrender Of
q most important arm of her national power, aal
the depression of her national dignity by q hu-
initiating peace Viii the Allies insist upon
his If they 90, peace is out of the question
Russia cannot consent TO make such sacrifices.
To do it would be 10 abase herself in the eyes Of
all mankind. Cannot every member OF the VI
enna Conference see this with perfect painness
Ii il ia TO be demanded, the Conference is farce
for il is to settle foregone conclusion.
But will the Allies insist. What is the alter.
native if they do not A war of such length
and yigor as viii compel Russia to sue for peace
on such terms as it may please the Allie. TO
grant. And how long must such war continue
Can Russia be reduced to such e1tremitie, in
one or two, or six campaigns Who believes
it No one. The minimum cost, then. OF in
sistiDg upon the humiliation Of Rassia to the de-
eree intimated iss seven-years' war. 1t may be
ten, and il may be more. Are the Allies resdy
for this alternative We cannot believe they
are. Our hopes of peace, therefore, are By no
means desperate. The news by the steamer Of
yesterday may impress many minds with the
idea that it 10 Russia. aad not the AIiss which