30 DECEMBER 1854, Page 8

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SATURDAY IttentrrING.

The diplomatic- proceedings at Vienna, on Thursday, have naturally' attracted attention, and some of our journals proffer explanations. The Times asserts that no negotiation whateber. has taken place 'With the enemy, and that no information as to the interpretation placed upon the four points by the Western Powers hatflegii afforded to him. But as Austria occupies &less hostile position the e Western Powers, she has held some communication with Russia, through her envoy at Bt. Peters- burg,—namely, she hasmade known the treaty of December 2 to the Russian, Government, but she has made no separate overtures. Count Bud placed no reliance on the intimation of Prince Gortachakoff, that his master was willing to accept the four conditions as the starting-point of a future nego- tiation; and the month of December has been spent by the Allied Courts in waiting to see what measures Russia would take in consequence of the treaty. The Morning Post takes a somewhat differeni iiew. The meeting. of the Ambassadors of the Four Powers at Vienna, the Prussian Minister being excluded, was g "interview" and not "a conference," held for: the purpose of letting the Russian Minister, at his own request, know the interpretation of the four, points. "This done," continues the Post, "we presume that Prince Gortschakoff will have transmitted the result to St. Petersburg, and that a few days will place us in possession of the Emperor of Russia's acceptance or rejection of the terms on which alone we can consent to open negotiations. He has. evidently, on receipt of the intelligence of the signature of the treaty of Vienna, asked for an explanation, and obtained it—for interpretation of the bases, and it has been given him—for our terms, in short,-. and they are in. his possession." The Daily News purports to have intelligence to this effect- " At the conference held on the 28th, notes were exchanged between the representatives of the three Allied Powers, defining the cense in which their Cabinets understood the four pointa'proposed as conditions of peace. Prince Gortsehakoff, it is understood, demands time to obtain the instructions of his Government."