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THE WAR. BERLIN, Dec. 22. The despatch that has been spoken of as having been forwarded from here to St. Petersburg on the 15th of X 0- vember, and described as urgifig the Russian Government to accept the four points, is doubtles no other than a despatch, dotted November 19, that Daron NVertlier took with him when he returned to his post at St. Petersburg, after many months' absence. The official intercourse between Russia and Prussia has bten all but suspended for a long time. Duron Werther has been here on leave of absence, and "Baron Budberg, though he has not left here once, except for his trip to Hanover, has probably not seen the King for at least six months, nor has his intercourse at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs been much more frequent. The despatch in question was a confidential one, and doubtless admonished the Russian Government to come to terms with the Western Powers; but I cannot believe that the acceptance of the four points would be the solution advised by Prussia, seeing that this Government al ways looked on them as too vague for a definitive arrangement previous to the last campaign in the Crimea, and since the failure of the late Vienna, Con- ferences and the capture of Sebastopol as perfectly super- seded as regards the very material third point On at least half a dozen occasions the King had already previously 'admonished his nephew in some such strain as the follow- iiii,, :-I' Agi-(,e with thy adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him," &c. so that it is hardly to be ex- pected that this last document will have produced any more effect than its predecessors. Everything that I can hear in this place expresses a conviction that Russia will not accept the conditions indicated by the press as those agreed to be- tween the Western Powers and Austria. Russia has not only given no overt official evidence of her willingness to come to terms, nor even any covert ofjicieux indication of similar inclinations that lean hear ot. M y last informa- tion from Vienna tells me most positively that Count Esterhazy did not take with him, when he left there for t. Petersburg,- on the 16th inst any communication of proposals put forward or suggested by Austria as agreeable to the Western Powers but that his mission is confined to preparing the Russian Cabinet for the reception of them when they shall be made. The negotiations arc still going on, but the final result of an understanding between the Western Powers, Austria, and Tuikey is not yet attained. The following extract from a letter from Berlin, under date the 28th, published in the Emancipation Bdge, confirms previous intelligence:— I can, moreover, inform you that the Ministers of the King, as well as His Majesty himself, have just renewed their effoi-ti at the Court of Russia, and their langunge i this time characterized by much firmness, and I haveevciy reason to believe that the Czar will be touched by it. Our statesmen declare loudly that the war has been provoked by Russia without legitimate motives, and, the chanccs of war having been against him, there is a double reason for him to withdraw from it honourably. They add that Prussia -will not abandon the system of neutrality she has adopted irrevocablv, even though she saw the number of the enemies of Russia increase. "No one here now doubts that Sweden will enter actively into the Western alliance It is even admitted as certain that Austria has promised efficacious assistance to the allies, in the event of the Czar rejeeting the overtures of Count Esterhazy. Public opinion hourly increases against Russia, and this reac tion is all the more painful to her as her in- fluence over the German press is a mystery to no one. The papers that enjoy her patronage have for some months past felt its inconvenience. The middle class shows a decided preference for the independent press. Although peace be ardentlv desired yet few believe in it, and many conjectures are formed as to the next campaign. We can foresee an in- vasion by the allies cf the territory of the Baltic, and which will be combined with a diversion on the Danube. The troops of the Crimen will be conducted to the mouths of that liver, and combine their operations with the 1.50,000 men that Austria can put in line. The probable results of that double attack, which they say will be executed in the month of May, are discussed with much interest. The general opinion js, that it will be decisive, and that the issue will be as fatal to Russia as it will be favourable to the plans re- specting the restoration of Poland. I cannot, of course, say how far these conjectures are well founded; perhaps the public guesses beforehand, as it usually does, the acts and even the thoughts of the Government, but I only repeat the jumours that circulate, and which are not mere gossip, as they obtain credit in certain well-informed saloons. Be this as it may, they serve, at all events, to show how public opinion points, and for this reason I think it worth while to mention them." We read in the Indenendanec Beige, under date Hamburg, December 21 Letters of the 19th received to-day from Copenhagen mention the probability of the conclusion be. tween Denmark and the two Western Powers of a treaty based in a great measure on the principles of territorial gua- rantee, and containing the same reciprocal stipulations in the treaty signed with Sweden. It is impossible to deny that the policy of the Scandinavian Governments which had maintained during those two years of maritime war a strict neutrality, has been deeply modified, as respects Russia, by the signature of a treaty of this dmription, in which it is generally believed at Stockholm that some secret clauses are inserted with regard to certain contingencies likely to arise out of the war. For the present it appears positive that Sweden—and Denmark will necessarily follow the same line of conduct-has not bound herself to participate actively in hostile operations against Russia; but, should the war recommence in 18-56, circumstances may occur which will render all further hesitations impossible on the part of Sweden. There is one fact, however, very clear-namely, that this last Power has evinced, by signing that act, a marked preference for the Western policy, and that the old alliance between the three northern rowers, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, is virtually at an end. The French corvette D' Assas, which returned with the English squadron to Elsinore, where she underwent some repairs, has sailed for France. During the last fortnight agents of the Swedish Government purchased here a large quantity of dry tanned leather, which is said to be destined for her military arma- ments."

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