FOUR DAY'S LATER NEWS FROM ENGLAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 380, 25 June 1856, Page 4

FOUR DAY'S LATER NEWS FROM ENGLAND.

(From the " Melbourne Argus. ") The Spray of the Ocean arrived on Saturday bringing- the mails of the 22nd of February. Lord ■ Clarendon bad arrived'at Paris to attend the appioaching conference. A. Orloff, the Russian plenopotentary, was at Berlin on the 14th, and left for the scene of his new duties. Ali Pacha, the Turkish plenipoteniary, arrived at Marseilles on the 21st, and would reach Paris on the following day. If we may judge from the tone of the St. Petersburg papers, the Czar is sincerely desirous of peace; and his organ in Brussels breathes the most pacific intentions; anew difficulty, however, has arisen in a quarter where it was least expected. The American DiFFicui/rr.—The Advertiser regrets to learn that Mr. Buchanan as American minister in London conies over to this country with- very rigorous requirements from the administration of General Pierce. The Conferences were to commence on Monday, Feb. 26, at the Hotel of the Minister of Foreign ' Affairs. Count Walewski wmld afterwards assemble at a. grand banquet the plenipotentiaries, the Presidents of the Senate ofthe Legislative Corps, and the chief officers ofthe Crown. War Pukparatioxs..—The Times Paris correspondent is assured that the warlike preparations in France are continued just as if no conferences were about to be opened. The Post correspondent states that despatches from Asia Minor speak of the concentration of a large force at Erzeroura. The Hussians were ajso receiving reinforcements, and they appeared to anticipate a campaign. It was supposed that the Russians had decided on holding Kars. The preparations for defence are continued with the greatest energy in all puns of the Baltic and Gulf of. Finland, and particularly in the neighbourhood of Riga. A lady of the very highest rank, the Countess de Caummit La Force, was niurdeied this morning, in her residence in the. Champs Elysees. Other accounts say, that only an attempt was made to murder her. The police have not yet made known the details. A servant has been "arrested on suspicion of having done the crime. (Correspondent of the " Northern Times.") •

Pa Ms, 20th February.—l am informed, on rery creditable authority, that a perfect imderstandinir Ims been cmne to between the Emperor and Lord Clarendon, with regard to the interpretation lo lie given to the fifth point, of the Austrian conditions, and that the English and French Plenipotentiaries will consequently act in perfect accord in the conference. The French Government has taken a step which indicates to a certain extent what its i<ml views are with regaidto peace. TheSiec'e ye: t-relay published an article, in which it insisted, in contradiction to the Debats, that the destruction of ihe arsenals and dockyards of Nicholaieff was necessarily comprised in. the conditions accepted Uy Russia fur the neutralization of the Black Sea, in which also it said—what was far ni.ne impoHnnU-lhat as the war was undertaken tr> establish a new equilibrium of power in Europe, something' must be done for the suffririiiir liiitinnalities. This article, is reproduced without the alteration of a word in the oifidal Mnwieur. The sensation produced by this reproduction has been immense, and no wonder, for it. shows that ihe sentiments of the Siecle are those of the French Government. The peace faction are overwhelmed with confusion at what the Monileur has done. As another '• sign <if the limes," I may mention that the semi-official Patrie of this ' evening protests that the London Times did the French Government great injustice the other, day in representing that it leaned more to Austria than to England* The Patrie lieals with the same subject by rxtractissir an article from the Journal cleFrankfort, which it introduces by the following, remarks, having a smack of the same spirit thai influenced the observations just quoted from the Constitutiannel —namely a desire to prove that the present Conference is destined to eradicate all recollections of the once famous " Alliance " ajraiiisl /'Vance: — *' The (evolutionary propapiiidism/'sajs ihe 2 }atrie, " lias lon«y"made an iiistniinent of the revision of the treaties of 1815 abusing, as in many other instances, a patriotic and national idea to Kirn it into an clement of disonk-r.. Hsit.' iJf.-w, thanks to ttie imperial }w}'wy. ;ljauks u> the bniiiant successes of our

arms, thanks to the confidence that France inspires throughout the Continent, from the wisdom as well as strength of its Government, it is in the name of* conservative ideas that people are-asking- in Germany for. a revision of the treaties of 1515."