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1 / 4 ,_______ METROPOLITAN POLICE MAGI STR ITE4, price Is : A Letter to Lord ralllllllM, Vlatil/Z the Tenure of Office the Mitrates of the Metropolitan Police tuts. By THOMASb J y agi AMES ARNOLD, Esq., one of the Jilagi.S. ales. James Ridgway, Piccadilly, and all booksellers. TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, ta APRIL, price le., contains : Organisation. Rome Passages in the Life of a German Mercen? .ry. The Scottish Fishery Board. Grace Dorrien. Tangled Talk. 2,0. IV. The Tenure of Land in Ireland. M'Neill and Tulloch's Crim et to Report : Second Notice. Typical Forms and Special Ends in CI 'ea - Om. Prisons and Poverty. political Narrative. Li' erary Be - sister. Edinburgh : Sutherland and Knox. London: Partridge and Cot: LA FRANCE FIRE INSURANCE COM PANY (Established 1837). 6, Rue 3fenars, Paris.—Capital 10,080.000 f. (400,00010 —Amount of property insured in 1854 , 114,861,5901. sterling. Premiums received. 114,9971. Pterling.—Til s Company grants Policies on most advantageous terms. Comma n risks at 2s. per cent. per annum, without further charge, instead c f 4s. 6d., usual cost of the same insurance with British Offices. Pr 4 posals to be transmitted through the C( mpany's Correspondent b London, at his Offices, 35, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars. TO JOINT-STOCK BANKS.—An opportunity will shortly be afford-.d fer entering on the bniineas of a Provincial Wink. Turnover, Ten Millions. From 153,000/. to 200,0001. will be required at the time of transfer, which will be again released. Everything is in a condition to be immediately taken over. Authenticated commusications, which will be regarded as strictly confidential, may be addressed "J. S. 8.," care of Messrs. Groombridge and Sons, 5, Paterno,ter-row, London.—April 1, 1856. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURT•LANE. Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS ET ENI. CI. THE BOEIEMIA.si GIRL. Follewei by THE NATIONAL AIRS. 1 o lade with THE ZI ACC RANALIAN REVEL. THEATRE ROYAL. 114.Y31A.REST. ITztier the Management of Mr. Backstop*. THIS EVENING, THE EVIL GENIUS. Followed by EL GAM Fltri r..vo ; or, The Mexican Goldseeker. In which PtE F. A. NENA. wad the Acianish Dancers will appear. After which, • LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS To conclude with A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. ROTAS, PRINCESS'S raeATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. exam.= Kies. TRIM FvENINO, The comedy of EVERT ONE HAS HIS FAULT. ,filer which, THE VICTOR VANQUISHED. To conclude with A PRINCE FOR A noun. f %lit A rat. torm. AD ELPHT. Pr3priator, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIA EVP:NING. =TILER AND CHILD ARE DOINO WELL. To be follovrel by lIRGENP PRIVATE AFFAIRS. To conclude with _ JACK AND TUE BEVY STALK or, — Harlequin and Mother Goose at Home Again. In which Messr. J. 131.tnd, P. Redford, Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham, and Mist K. Arden will ap)ear. Rayar, OLY',TPLCI TIIEATRE. Lessee and Mana;er, Mr. Alfrel Wigan. T TIC EVENING STILL WATERS RUN DEEP. After which will be prolucei a New an l denbly-moral, thongs zeeselvely 01 .1,•lieloira-nAtic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE DISCREET PRINJESS; o - , the Three Glass Distaffs. I 1 which Niessrs. Emery. F. Robson, H. Cooper, Miss Marston 413 , 1 Miss ilaskell will appear. ROYAL StrtREY TILE A.TRE. Lessees, Messrs. ENepher.l and Creswick. TIII-1 EVENING, Will be performed a new Drama, entitled ROW WE LIVE IN THE WOThD OF LONDON. Followed by TaFFLEFIALTSEN; or, The Lawyer's Legend. To conclude with THE COBBLER AN]) TAILOR AATLEY'S ROYAL, AMPIIITHEATRZ. Lessee and Manazer, Mr. Wm. Cooke. ,• Glorious Impress of public approbation! THIS EVENING, The most extraordinar and exclting exhibition that ever wt , renresented—an English SteeplechaSe, with all its incidents, fr,,m the starting to the winning post. The performances commence w th THE ARAB OF THE DESER'r I.NI) EiIS Fkl T/IFUL STEED. The acting horse, trained by Mr William Cooke. Double Tight Rope, the Misses Dacey. SCENES in the CIRCLE,, and the Postman's Knock. 'Brame Equestre- with ENGL IND'S FIARTEfIT HOME an, NATIONAL ENGLISH SITEPLECHASE. Box-olice coo , . :ma Pleven tin Your. Stage Manager. Mr. '9‘ West tilou.strian lirardor. if ', C00k , .. Inn. ROYAL MARYLEBOYE TrIEATRE. Ender the Management of Mr. Edward Stirling. tlreat SUCZCS3 Of the new management and piece, scenery, &c. THIS EVE 'ITN... (Tuesday, April Ist, 1856) the new dram LOST, £30,000, ..ueported uy Messrs. Stuart, Stirling, Belford, An •erton, Morell, &e. Aft'r which, BOOTS AT THE SWAN. Mr. Lewis Bali, of ti, Th• atre Royal, Sadler's Were. To conclude with the new la'ry Spectacle entitled, FAIRY FEW' FLOWER Tne inimitab e Civvies Mathews hat been engaged for 5 night Only, and will appe tr,on donday, April ith, 1856. E UM 1. ST.t.NIXY'S "SF.VF AGES OF WoMIN." Second Season. This Lyric E ttertatnmc•it has been cr )caned by the unanimou spprobation of AL'• T(1 1:071)1N7 JOURNALI As the qre itest artlittoal trio nph of the d iv. It cqnstitutei an Open Comely. and V3ndeville. With a h,st of ch it xet Ts in Correct Co, tames ; aad Sono in SIX DIFFETIENT LA.NGITAGES ! sever attempted by any other artiste. Evening performances on :Aonitys, Tuesdays, Thursdays, an' F - Idays, at R. Viornin4 erforrnances on Wednetdays and Saturdays at half•pa, , two, precisely. .A.dmtssion--Chatrs, 3s. ; Centre ' 4 eat9, 2s. ; Back Seats, Is. SITS C MAR rIN'S ILA LL, Long-acre. rintH WAPEU• AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DkY—Sforn. 12 min. aft. 10 —Evening 2 min. aft. 1 1 (N- Mbaßow—Mor n . 41 min. aft.ll—emeniag 0 min. aft. ( WEXTITER—SIIN OFFICE, APRIL 1. TH&R3IOIIETEB, IN THE SHADE. 55 -highest since noon yesterday. `i• 3 -lowest this morning and dur . ...n.4 the night. 61 -tt.ls day at noon. BettoIIETER,, 23 . 96-falling. WIND, S. to S. W,- Rather fresh, with very fine, sun shiny weather. This 'lay is the highest which the thcr• monaeter has registered this year. Frie A 4. I ; titto Aun LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1856. Yesterday, when the Plenipotentiaries visiteu the Tuileries, after signing the treaty of peace, the Emperor observed, " Gentlemen , you have accom P lished a peace which is honourable to a ll par ties concerned without being humiliating to an 3 POwer." Surely—rather presumptuous, this, on the part even of our august Ally ! Let NAPOLEON speak, of course, as authoritatively as he please and as he has an incontes'ible right to do—fol France. But, in GOD'S name, let England be allowed to judge entirely for herself as to whatever, in her regard, may, or may not, be fraught with humiliation !" It is a word, we cannot but think, of evil omen at this awful juncture. that Peace must he whi c h Fancy WHAI we are expected welcome, forsooth, because--of this one merely "negative" merit ! Imagine for a mo a ,„ is which how glorious the Treaty th ( EMPEROR prepares the , world for (as the noblest words of praise he could possibly contrive to apply to it) by telling us that it is not " humiliating to any Power r' Conceive, for an instant, how welcome such a Treaty of Peace as the one thus deplorably foreshadowed would have been in the grand old heroic times which seen, now by contrast, so very far removed from our own generation. Conceive, we say, for one in stant, how very welcome such a Treaty of Peace would have been (in England's regard) to our NELSON and our WELLINGTON, and (as a dip lomatic boon for France, won by the edge of the sword) to—the Great NAPOLEON ! Alas there were giants in those days " 0 most lame and impotent conclusion !" And for this—for this cg thing " of a Peace, we have been squandering for two years millions upon millions of pounds sterling I We have been sacri ficing the very flower of our army ! We have been sending regiment after regiinent to perish in the horrible pest-houses of Scutari ! We have been leaving battalion after battalion to rot in the cold, ald damp, and mud, and 'all the attend an t priva tions of \ a cemetery-like Crimean encampment ! For THIS, It msy -l i k e d by the' politica fribbles wbo are the toad-eaters of Government—" For what t'' We will answer—For a Despicable Treaty of Peace, the principal fruits of which may be thus briefly enumerated : HANGO unavenged—that incident of unparal leled atrocity in the annals of modern warfare when a boat's crew, carrying a flag of truce and advancing under the shel ter of that hitherto sacred symbol upon a mission of benevolence and magnanimity, were made the victims of an infamous ambuscade, and, as such, were for the most part, by the soldiers of the CzArt, in cold blood and most deliberately, assassinated ! the apr)arent paradox, that in fiscal addition, two and two do not always make four, so that addi tiona 1 burdens are imposed on the tax-payers with( tut any corresponding benefit to the Ex cheqt ter. Nire find that the total sum collected, which, be it renlembered, represents the gross receipts, not the net profits, has been 65,704,489/., being an 'increase of 4,497,671/., or more than two mithoris less than the estimate of Sir G. C. atm ; while the produce of the quarter has been 17,361,1611., or 1,477,6451. Coming to the particular items, we find that the i> 'crease under the head of Customs has been for the year 789,996/., and for the quarter 497,0581., a very poor return for the additional dutiels on Tea, Sugar, and Coffee. In the Excise the addition for the year has been 295,5421., and for the quarter 37,0821., showing how com pletely our predictions as to the anticipated pro duce of the increased Spirit Duties have been verified ; the chief result being the extraordi nary stimulus thereby afforded to the demoralis ing practice of illicit distillation in Scotland and Ireland. SINoPE unexpiated—even to this day unexpi ated—save only by the voluntary destruction of their own ships-of-war by the Russians themselves within the harbour of Sebastopol ! The atrocious stabbing and pistolling of our wretched WOUNDED upon the " foughten fields" of Balaklava and Inkennan—while the gallant fel lows thus inhumanly butchered (to be afterwards rifled, and insulted even. in death, by their mur derers), lay writhing upon the ground in agonised helplessness ! Those are some among the chief triumphs won during the course of this disastrous war by that savage and brutalised. enemy, our diplomatists are, nowadays, beslavering w ith their courtesies Those are among the oonspionous results of the deplor able struggle which has "but just now terminated in France and in Eigland. with a craven ringing of hells, firing of cann on, throwing up of caps, cheers, banners, and illuminations ! In the Stamps there is a decrease of 238,6421. on the year, and of 55,766/. on the quarter, chiefly arising from the removal of the stamp on newspapers, while that there was no equivalent obtained by the postage of unstamped journals, may be gathered from the fact that in the Post• office there is a falling off of 162,4621. on the year, and of 2,5241. on the quarter. In the Assessed Taxes there is a deficiency of 177,517/. on the year, but a slight rally has re cently taken plane, and we find an improvement of 7,708/. on the quarter. The Property Tax shows an increase, both on the year and quarter, on the former of 3,560,0001., on the latter of 937,9461. It-is still, however, slightly below the estimate. On the Crown Lands there is an increase of 8,944/. on the year, and of 1,0001. on the quarter, while on the Miscellaneous, the least important of all, inasmuch as it - cannot be in cluded in the ordinary sources of revenue, the improvement is, for the year, 421,6901., and for the quarter 55,141/. It further appears tbat the amount received within the past quarter, on account of the loan of 5,000,0001., has been 3,501,0001., while the de ficiency upon the charge of the Consolidated Fund, to meet the dividends and other charges payable in the quarter to June • 30, is no less than 2,569,6851., so that so far from the loan leaving a very considerable balance, as was anticipated, up to the termination of the regular financial year, we find that there is still a deficiency of 1,070,685/. to be provided for. But other memories than these of coursecwill have to be recorded by -the future historian of the present epoch in the annals of Christendom. He will have to celebrate other circumstances, very conspicuously, besides -.those we have already par ticularised, as among the more notable consequences :f this two years' conillict between the legions of Russia and those of the, Western Allies. He will have to inscribe upon those blackened and blood stained pages how it came to pass that England especially, first of all by her war policy, and after wards by her peace policy, tampered with the glory at once of her military and of her maritime reputation. As thus. ; The British Navy adventuring upon not one heroic enterprise, either in the Euxine or in the Baltic, in any way commensurate with the renown secured to it in the more daring and chivalric times of NELSON, and EXMOUTH, and COLLING WOOD. Insomuch that we may now define as about the result of all our grand naval prepara tions—the recriminative contest in the House of Commons between Sir CHARLES NAPIER and Sir JAMES GRAHAM—or as Punch has it, the mud 'lespattering, each of the other, by CHARLEY POT And JEMMY KETTLE. This is a very unsatisfactory state of affairs, and we earnestly hope that Sir G. C. LEWIS will profit by his dearly-bought experience, and have the courage to avow the errors into which he has been betrayed, and his unflinching resolution to enter on a sounder and more judicious system, that will afford relief to the over-burdened tax payers, and at the same time produce the maxi mum of income with the minimum of inconve nience to the people. The British - army, upon the other hand, not merely adventuring upon, but actually achieving, many glorious, and some of them even wholly un paralleled, enterprises of valour—with this lament able result, however, in almost every instance : namely, that of proving simultaneously in the pre sence of foes and of allies that its ranks were ;omposed of—what ?--(oar Gallic friends have nit upon the aptest and wittiest phrase in the way of definition) of—Lions led by Asses ! Such is the novel prestige accruing, on this hand fo the British army, and on that to the British wavy, as the consequences of this lamentably mis managed War, and of this disgracefully because precipitately and insecurely patched-up Peace I Besides—the turning point of the whole struggle remains even now but the scene of a par qal victory. Sebastopol to this day remains un taken 1 So long as the North Forts have re mained in the hands of the resolute defenders of that great robber-stronghold, so long the place -emains, up to this present moment inclusively, but half cenquered. ! And yet—with Sebastopol 'tot yet taken—England and France, together with the lesser Allies, and in shameless complicity oven with the despicable German Neutrals, have agreed to patch up a Treaty of Peace, and to do this, forsooth, with duo regard to the " honour" of Russia! GOD knows it would . be far better, and a vast deal more to the purpose, if they looked rather to the conservation of their own ionour intact, rather than to the restoration avel ,atisfaction, awl consolidation of the honour r" save the mark !"] of their grim Muscovite antagonist ! The Encumbered Estates Cuurt is confessed to have delivered a large portion of Ireland from the hands of incompetent proprietors, and its work is by no means finished. The great task still re mains of reforming its_ tenantry also. To some extent this has been accomplished by introducing a better class of landlords ; many of them have sufficient capital to do a landlord's part in erect ing buildings and making the requisite improve ments, and are disposed to do it ; others clear their property and farm it themselves. The thousands of Ireland are still, however, by nature small farmers, and must long continue so. The question is, What can be done to raise them in their own calling—to convert their hovels into decent cottages—their wretched appendages into farm buildings, and the land itself into a drained, fenced, and tilled farm. The first answer will of necessity be, Security for the man who does all this:- Now, it appears that 'at present this is the rare exception, not the rule. The landlord will not do it, and he refuses to give the tenant a lease. In England, wherever leases are refused, we know the effect on the land. 'Compare the Eastern Counties and the Lothians ' with a vast portion of England—North, Midland, and West the difference may be seen even from a railway carriage. Tenancies at will cannot be improving tenancies ; they may be admirably suited for creating subservient voters, but no man is his senses will make his farm worth more if his landlord can step in and take the entire advantage in the shape of increased rent. Apart from all this, however, the English navy has been aggregating its power, meanwhile, to an extent hitherto unattempted, almost in a manner we had said altogether unthsught of—to the end that nothing at all should be done, or for that matter even attempted, by its newly-organised and most formidable array of gun-boats, or by its two stupendous fleets of screw men-of-war ! Apart, moreover, from all we have here previ ously remarked in reference to the English army —that has gained for itself by its blunders, by its disasters, by its general disorganisation, that, we say has gained for itself—the Chelsea Hospital Commission ! As for its victories—they have been to all intents and purposes substantially just TWO. England has the glory of the Alma— France the glory of the Malakhoff. The other three of conspicuous note have been epigrammati cally described thus —Balaklava as a blander, le kerman as a surprise, and the Redan as a defeat 1 So much for the principal incidents of the struggle— the battle of the • Tchernaya, or, as the French call it, of the Bridge of Traktir, being bat a bril liant episode. Our maritime armaments in the Black Sea having to content themselves with the "safe" capture of Kinburn—and tho3e a the Baltic with the "safe" capture of Bomarsund. Added to all which,. At this disgraceful close of this most disastrous war--Odessa remains un harmed, Nicholaieff unissailed, and Kars very infamously abandoned. Consequent upon all which—comes—The Precious Peace ! The Peace for which we are to illuminate our windows jangle our church bells—fire off salvoes of artillery —set all our gay streamers fluttering in the sun shine—and PAY TSB PreEn ! Very satisfactory, no do ubt, with a doubled Income Tax, and all sorts of 11 ' 113°144 upon articles of daily consumption, and our fair fame damaged, and millions upon millions already scatter ed heaven, and mro virtually to the winds of hundreds and tr1:0 to follow in due season, and the dauntless children usa n4B of our brave soldiers, of soil, our fathers, our brothers, our sons, crutali dust on the shores o f that ng, crumbling into terribl e region where so much heroic blood has been 1 ,1 4 , d i n va i n ! Peace ? Call this a Peace ?It is only pro test it—but the most hollow of all guess Peace ? Why, anything in the shape of a -peac e should never have been dreamt of, until ( a t the very least) we had not only taken Sebastopol en. tirely and in real earnest, but until after we h a d actually swept every man Jack of the Russians out of the Crimea ! But now—Alas ! the. result I we can any of us recognise on the instant—there will come yet a little later on, the dread and inevitable Day of Reckpning. For the sake, therefore, of all who are in terested in increasing the agricultural produce of the British Isles—and who amongst us is not?— it were desirable, if possible, to do something to call out the energies_of Irish tenant farmers. We can never believe that they are incapable of enterprise in their own line ; PADDY is quite as shrewd as JOHN BULL, and if he cau get money for his work, quite as willing to do it. But on his native soil he has had no chance of self-im provement. His land belonged, generally, to some needy and absent owner, and generally one who wanted to have the poor fellow completely in 11:14 power at the next election. The latter was indeed the case, as in England, under wealthier lane- , lords, but the fear seemed greater in Ireland than here of allowing a political serf a longer tenamy than an annual one. The worst is that in Ireland the tenant has no feeling of security that he shall receive the advantage of any outlay he may make for the benefit of the- farm, in case of being re quired for political, or other reasons, to leave it. We have seen, even in England, most disgraceful ignoring of the moral rights of improving tenant-, when, from any cause, the aid of law could not be successfully invoked. But in Ireland the case hitherto has been infinitely worse, and for the good of the whole community it seems de sirable to improve if possible the relation between landlord and tenant. Mr. J. H. StmrsoN, of Westport, has given us iu a small pamphlet, "An Englishman's Testi mony to the Urgent Necessity of a Tenant-Right Bill for Ireland." Mr. Srafrsox has resided six years in the country, farmed three thousand acres, and employed three hundred labourers, and may fairly be considered as a witness of good sense and competentknowledge. His witness is that it is a first necessity towards advancing the tenant cultivatian of Ireland that the tenant be enabled to claim for improvements if in any way required to leave his farm, and that the tenants would be satisfied Tith a moderato and reasonable bill. Ile also kinks that it is for England to pass such a bill in her own interest as firmly as she passed the -r-,neumbered Estates Act, and to pay no regard the needy and factious Tenant-League men, Who keep up the agitation for the most selfish purposes, and would be heartily sorry to see a • good bill become an aot of Parliament, since it would deprive them of the power to agitate. lie always found the tenants quite ready to be satin. fed with fair proposals, and to accept prospeetive rights as sufficient. Hithert o , as our readers The Revenue Returns for the financial year and quarter, which has just been brought to a conclusion, will be found in another part of this day's impression. They are chiefly remarkable as affording additional evidence of the accuracy of * W. and F. G. Cash, 6, Bah' oprgato•atraet:witbont, TH.E SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 1, 1856. will remember, one of the greatest difficulties has been retrospective claims. - -- One difficulty in the way has often been to find a fair valuer of the tenant's claims. We think this difficulty is exaggerated, and that in practice, arbi tration would be found easy enough. After a little time at least a valuer on each side would soon come to an agreement. The reasonable advantage to the property of what had been erected upon it or done to it, could not be a very profound matter to calculate. If some difficult eases did occur, what would this be in comparison with the diffi culty, or rather impossibility, of tenant improve 7 went under the existing system—if system it can be called ? Mr. SIMPSON proposes that the " Board of Public Works" should maintain a staff of valuators or inspectors sufficient for the work. We think the more natural course of arbitration or ordinary valuing might be . tried first. This, however, is matter of detail. The benefit would probably be cheaply purchased even at the pro posed cost. As Mr. SIMPSON observes, no colony could compete with Ireland in providing us with food. -It has 5,000,000 acres of waste land—and three times that number of acres only half cul tivated. He contends, therefore, that a Tenant- Right Bill for. Ireland is as important to us here as the repeal of the Corn Laws, and means, in truth, cheaper bread for Eugland ; we may add, and a rapidly increasing consumption of English manufactures. The economical system is one which, under the circumstances, needs little discu.sien. It is quite true that ordinarily landlord and tenant should make their own contracts and the law enforce them. This simple principle is, however, unduly departed from in England by the im mense advantages given to a landlord over any other creditor, and in several respects the law modifies the simple contract. But in Ireland the relation is vitiated by the peculiar position of the tenant. He is generally too needy or dependent to bo a free agent, and his landlord too needy a politician perhaps to allow him to be so. We regret to add, in conclusion, that poverty and politics are not the only causes of landlord oppression. Mr. S. cites the " Law Life As surance Company," which owns a vast property in Connemara; we have not room for the details of its conduct as landlord—how it evicted great numbers, crowded the por-house, employed no labour in improving the property, raised the rents voluntarily, and drove thirty-four poor people to live in the dry arches of a bridge, and others below high-water mark on the shore ! If such a company could do such things in Ireland, we may be sure that ordinary laws are not sufficient there for the tenant's protection. ARRIVAL OF THE GOYERNMEIVT MESSIt7NOER. LATEST NEWS. (Front a Sapplement to the London Gazette Extraordinary of yesterday.) FOREIGN OFFICE, MARCH 31. The Honourable Spencer Ponsonby arrived at the Foreign -office this morning from Paris, with the definitive treaty for the restoration of peace, and for the maintenance of the integrity and independence of the Ottoman Empire, which was yesterday signed at Paris by the Plenipoten tiaries of her Majesty, of the Emperor of the French, of the King of Sardinia, and of the Sultan, and also of the Emperor of Austria and of the King of Prussia, on the one part, and of the Emperor of all the Russias on the other. DEATH OF SIR CHARLES • HOTHAM. —TRIESTE, March 30.—Accounts have been receive f of the death of Sir Charles Hotham, Governor of Vic toria. BERLIN, MARCH 31. On the occasion of the signature of the treaty of peace, the King has conferred on M. de Ma,nteuffel the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Btu& Eagle. The Czas, the Austrian journal of Cracow, says : ." In the night of the 26th the recruit- merit of 30,000 men from the age of 19 to 35 ,took place in Poland." TURIN, MARCH 30, EVENING. Salutes of,,artillery have announced at Turin, Alexandria, and Genoa, the news of the conclusion of peace. MARSEILLES, MONDAY. The Euxine arrive' at this port to-day at one o'clock p.m., with the mails from India and China. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The Illoniteur of to-day•publishes the official an nouncOluent of the signature of peace precisely in the same terms as. Lord Clarendon's despatch an nouncing the fact to the English Government. The Afonitetir. adds "The Plenipotentiaries 'of the Congress met at noon OSterday, in - iiniforM, at the Ministry of Foreign Af fairs, to sign the treaty. Immediately after the sitting alt the PleniPotentiaries proceeded in a handy to the ruileries, where they had the honour of being r e ceived by the iiiperor. " At 2 o'clock a salvo of 101 guns announced the con c!usion of peace to the population of Paris. "In the evening the whole city was spontaneously illuminated in the most brilliant manner." The Plenipotentiaries will hold their first sitting on Wednesday upon certain affairs. The following are some particulars relative to the important act of signing the treaty of peace : "The draft of the general treaty of peace drawn up by the ConoittS de Midaetion having, in the sitting of Saturday, obtained the sancton of the congress, •the _plenipotentiaries of the contracting powers met the next day, as already stated, to proceed to the formal act of affixing their signatures to the document. M; Feuilkt le Conches, chief of the protocol department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, had caused seven copies of the treaty, written on parchment, to be prepared and placed on the table of the conferences, iii such a manner that each copy was put before the plenipo tentiaries of the Government by which it is to be ratified. After the text , cf the seven copies had been carefully compared, the plenipotentiaries proceeded to affix their signatures to the end of the treaty. Count Walewski, as president of the congress, signed first, and the other plenipotentiaries in the alphabetical ord4r of their' respective cc.iintries. It was at this tnornet.t that the Emperor was informed by electric telEgraph that the treaty of peace was signed, and his Majesty sent back word to the members of the congress that he would be ready to receive nein after they had con cluded their tak. But although the mere act of affix ing their signatures occupied the plenipotentiaries but a very brief portion of time, yet the whole of the for mality of signing lasted nearly two hours, as the pleni potentiaries, in addition to their signature at the bottom of each protocol, had to affix their initials to the different paragraphs, the whole number of such minor signatures being, it is said, thirty-eight. The plenipotentiaries of each contracting Power signed first the ,copy reserved for their Government, and then the other plenipotentiaries signed in a pliabe twat order. In this manner, each contractile. Power figuring at the head of the si gna t ures o f the copy which it is to'ratify, all difficulties as to etiquette or pre cedency were set aside. To ea:h signature was imme diately attached the private seal of each plenipotentiary. Lurnediately after the close of the sitting, all the pleni potentiaries went together to the Tuileries, where they had the honour of being received by the Emperor. Cabi net couriers were sent off in the evening to London, Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Turin, and Coastal. tinople, in order to subtni: the treaty to the ratifica tion of their respective Courts." _ His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has con - Vented to preside at the 67t.h anniver,ary dinner of the Royal Literary Fund, which is fixed to take place at Freemasons' Hall or the 7th of May. The Due d'o3una and suite have left the Clarend7n fir Paris. The Marquis and Marchione,4s of Westminster and the Ladies Grosvenor are gone to Eaton, for a short sejour, previously to taking up their residence in London for the season. The pleuipotentiaries at the Congress of Paris, in signing the treaty of peace, made use of a silver gilt inkstand specially ordered for the occasion. This inkstand is decorated in the style of the first empire, and cost not less than 11,000 f. Count Orloff and his military suite have been invited by the Emperor to accompany his Ma jesty, en horseback, in the grand review which is to take place to-morrow in the Champ de Mars. The same invitation has been addressed to some superior officers of Austria who have just arrived in Paris on a special mission from their GAWP went. The Moniteur continues to publish long lists of addresses of congratulation to the Rnperor oa the birth of the Prince Imperial. One of the Paris journals has erroneously stated that Lord Clarendon lefr, Paris last night for Lou don, in order to be present this evening in his place in the House of Lords. It was not his lord ship who left Paris, but. Mr. Ponsouby, his secre tary ; Lord , Clarendon is still in Paris, and will Le present this evening at the grand dinner to be given by Count Walewski, Minister of Foreign .Affairs, to the Members of the Peace Congress. All the diplomatic corps are' invited, as also a number of other distingu shed persons. The following despatch has been received here to-day : The Countess de Salis and Miss de Sails have arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from their seat, Dawley Court, near Uxbridge. The Hon. Mr. and Mr& Francis Stnnor arrived in town yesterday, from St 'nor, Henley-on-Thames. A London Goldsmiths', Silversmiths', and Jewellers' Company bas been registered under the new Limited Liability Act. The telegraph between Constantinople and Vienna wili shortly be open to the public. Thirteen florins is named as the price of an ordinary message between the two capitals. An attempt to dramatise the " Paradise Lost" of Mil. ton has been made at the Ambigu Comique, but o n tiruing the history of the Creation until the Deluge. As a drama of course (says Galignani) the thing is ab surd, but the variety and beauty of the scenery and getting up will probably secure it a certain run. The Frankfort Journal announces that the Empress of Russia, widow of the late Czar Nicholas, is about to visit her daughter, the Grand Duchess Olga, at Stutt gar!. t. SPAIN.—In the sitting of the Cortes on Saturday (March 29), the bill on the receipts of the State, pre sented by the Finance Minister, was taken into coosi leration by a majority of 184 against 27. Thus the dif ficult question wbich threatened to produce a collision between the Government and the Cortes is happily solved. " BERLIN, 30.—A double protocol is to be drawn up by the peace congress ; one relative to the c.mclusion of peace, which will be signed by the belligerent powers; and the other forming a European treaty, in the execu tion of which all the powcrs will concur.—Lieut.-Gen.' Bonin, ex-Minister of War, is named vice governor of Mentz. The news of peace, published this evening, has" or..duced an extraordinary sensation. From Russia we Icarn that the Grand Dukes Constantine and Nichilas awl General To:babel, accompany the Emperor Alexan der on his journey to Finland." BOURSE, March 31, Two o'clock..—The market has been rather agitated. Route at first obtained a slight improvement to 73f. 70c., but afterwards receded to 73F. 45c. The option of the premiums was done at this price. The proclamation of peace has had no great effect on the Bourse. A notice of the Bank of France that the rate of discount was re duced from 6 to 5 could not prevent the Recite from declining. The Mobilier were done at from 1,660 f. to 1,665 f. Railway Shares obtained a rise of sf. and 10f. on the quotations of Saturday. Half-past Three—The market continued to de cline until the close, when the following were the quotations : Mahmoud Khan, who was lately sent to St. Peters burg on a special mission by the Shah of Persia, arrived at Tiflis on the 231, on his wa►y back to Teheran. ITALIAN RAILWAYS. —The question of connecting to gether the Lombard railway lines with those of Sardinia is on the point of being decided. Tne junction will take place, in all probability, on two points, one near Pavia, 4nd the other at the bridge of Buffakra, near the Ticino. The health of the Empress improves every day. No day is, however, yet fixed for the chuff ching of her Ma jolty, but the ceremony cannot be long delayed. Tne baptism of the imperial prince being, according to the published programme, to take place after the churching, it is calculated that it will be celebrated in the course of the first fortnight in April. The ratifications of the treaty cannot be exchanged so a ion, but the adbeSion of al! the high contracting parties will be then known by telegraph, so that the rejoicings for the baptism will he also rejoicings for peace ; and as the members of the Congress will be sill in Paris, waiting to effect the ex change, their presence will give to the fetes the character of a European solemnity.—ConstituConnel. Major-General Sir H. D. Jones, of the Royal Engi neers, -whose services at the Efege of Sebastopol and at Bomarsund will be remembered, has been appointed by Lord Panmure governor of the It ,yul Military College, Sandhurst. End of Month. —f. —c. 72 90 Cash. : fr. 0 . 1 per Cents . 93 80 3 per Cents .. • 72 70 New Loan .73 20 Bank Shares 3,r)00 ' Roman Credit Alobilier 1,665 Austrian Belgian Five 5.......; Spanish Threas Piedmontese 94 5 Home Debt • RAU/WS TS--SOR CASH. By the death of Sir Efvde Parker, Bart., Capt. Parker, aide-de-camp to Major-G enera l Ed en , c omman d ing t h e Western District, succeeds t o the baronetcy. C apta i n Parker is the youngest br o th e r of the gallant C a pt a i n ilyde Parker, who fell in the service of his country shortly after the commencement of naval operations against Russia. . TUE LATE EXTENSIVE EDBEZZLEVENTAT LIVERPOOL.— LIVERPooL, Monday.—At the Liverpool Assizes, this morning, before Mr. Baron Martin, Robert Wilson, ca shier to Messrs. Brocklebank, merchants and shipowners , f this town, pleaded-guilty to the minor indictment of larceny. Whereupon Mr. Sergeant Wilkins rose to address the jury . 'in mitigation of sentence, but was stopped by his lordship, whe observed that the offence was one of the greatest enormity of its class, and must be visited with the severest punishment the law autho rised him to infl'ct. The prisoner must, therefore, be transported for 14 years. THE REPORTED LOSS OF VIE CLIPPER SHIP SCHOU RERO.—In. The Sun of the 24th March we gave currency to the report of the loss of the above ship while on her voyage from Liverpool to Melbourne. The report in question, which was brought to Liverpool by the Light ning, stated that the Schomberg had gone ashore thirty miles north of Cape Otway, and that the whole of the passengers, 300 in number, were raved, besides 3,000 tons of merchandise. A despatch received at Lloyd's yesterday from Melbourne, via Trieste, confirms the loss of this fine ship. No details are given in the despatch, which is dated Melbourne, Dec. 28, and worded as fo'. lows Schomberg, Forbes, ashore west of the Otway. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAIL WAY.—Tbe working expenses and other outgoings of this company's:railways (exclusive of the Manchester, South Junction, and Altrincbatn, stated below) have amounted in the fortnight ending March 23 to 8,3921. 15 , . ld., making, with the 45,5321. Bs. sd. already stated, a total of 53,9251. 3s. O. for the first 6 fortnights of the half year, or at the rate of 58.26 per cent. ou the railway traffic for the same period. The proportion of the South Junction, &0., receipts accruing to this company for the fortnight ending March 23, amounts to 7711. 4s. ld., making, with the 3,449/. lls. 21. previously stated, a total for the first G fee tnights of the half-year of 4,2201. 15s. 3d.; while the expenses being 3831. is. 10d. for this, and 1,9171. .15 6d.forthe to 2,300/. 178. 4d., orthe at rate of 54.51 per cent. of tha receipts. Or!eans ............x..1,330 Western BO5 Northern l,OlO S . tras b ung Lyons- Mediterranean 1,577 50 Grand Central Lyons Geneva BOl Teste Cette TURKEY. The latest news from Constantinople, by the Sinai, is to the 26th M arch. At that date the fears which had been-excited by the outbreak of sickness in our !ariny- had begun to wear away. For some dayi past the number of the sick had sensibly dlniint.hed. The construction upon the plateau, hitherto unoccupied by the troops, of thoroughly ventilated huts, placed a good distance apart, had enabled the soldiers whose state required especial care to be placed under the most f«vour abl© hygienic conditions. The distribution of fx ves, , etablea and preserv-ed meats, with which the army is always well provided, was regularly made, and everything inspired the hope that the return of the fine weather would completely dissipate the unfavourable :influences to - which our army had latterly been subjected. THE BALTIC. KIEL, MarCh 28.'---The : Firefly arrived here last night, with despatches from Csptain Watson, and is now waiting for orders, which are expected to be received from England, to regulate the pro ceedings of the, advanced - Squadron in the Gulf of Finland. Slie left Faro Sound on Tuesday, and had a good run here. When she left the frost was severe, and she had to cut her way into the har bour for colts at Faro. On her arrival here she was a perfect sheet 'of ice. Here the weather is cold, but nothing like ice is at all to be seen in any part of the bay. The Majestic and Caesar are still in the harbour, and the Sampson is daily looked for, so that we have quite a squadron here waiting the result of the conferences at Paris. A letter from Odessa, of the 14th March, in the Austrian Correspondence, says :—" The typhus fever continues its ravages, and has lately carried off several medical men, among others Dr. Arpa, physician to the Quarantine. General Engelhardt has also fall.n a victim to the malady. It is affirmed that the . (lisease is still more violent at Nicolaieff, and it -is even Said that the army of the South is losing 1,000 men a clay, but•this is MCI; likely au exaggeration. Tile military authorities do everything in their peer to rtop the contagion by affording more room iu the hospitals, but no very great results have been obt .ined. Out of 300 sick militiamen who were sent off to this place horn Orchakoff, 20 died on the road, and 30 soon after their.arrival." A letter from S. Petersburg of the 21st March says— " Business transactions have been very unimportant during the last fortnight, owing to the passes hiving again become fr, zen up. The goods sent from Sweden to Finland and vice ve , •sct have to be conveyed on slerigei=. The Grand Duchess C Ltlyrine and her hus band, Duke George of 111.-icklenhurg, are shortly expected i this city, and when they arrive the Imperial family will be complete." TRIESTE, March 29 —A despatch from Alexan dria, dated March 23, states that the Viceroy has received orders to restore the Turxish ni,iform in the army, and to demolish the forts of Alexandria. TRIESTE, March 30.—Many of the Japanese no hlek perished in the late earthquake at Jeddo. The Emperor was saved. WEST INDIA MAILS. SOTITHAMPTON, MONDAY NIGHT. By the, Royal 111 , til C w Riny's steamer LA Plata, . : Captain Weller, with the West Indian, Mexican, 'arid Pacific mails, we have dates—Vera Crnz, March 9 ; Havannah, 9 ; Jamaica, 12 ; Demerara and Trinidad, 10 ; Virbadoes, 13 ; and St. Thomas's, 18. • The Plata brings about 70 pasSengers, and on freight 2,839,000 dollars in specie, 45,000 dollars on account of the Mexican dividends, and the usual cargo. The AtTrato arrived at St. Thomas's on the 16th inst. La Plata reports that on the 30th of January the Chilian war steamer Cazador left Talcahuana, having on board 358 persons, 86 of whom were soldiers, four officers, and the remainder women, children, and the crew. Shortly after leaving she ran upon a rock and, sank. Only 43 persons were saved, one of thili number being a woman, the only survivor mil f"t 148 women. The captain was placed under arrest. There is little intelligence of interest from Ja maica. The Legislature was prorogued on the 27th of February. Her Majesty's steamers Termagant and Malacca had sailed for Port-au-Prince Hayti having been represented to be in a convulsed state, owing to the repeated defects sustained by •the Emperor Soulouque. It, was rumoured that Sir Henry Barkly would shortly leave Jamaica for England. There is little change in the markets. Exchange was quoted for 60 days at 11 per cent. premium. The: disturbances at Demerara had ceased. A Militia had been formed, the number of persons already enrolled being upwards of 1,000. At'Grenada sugar-making was progressing ra pidly, and was materially assisted by the fine weather ; the growing crop, however, were not in so fine a condition, iu consequence of the previous heavy rains. There was no improvement in mer cantile transactiens, and high prices continued to be demanded. In Mexico it was rumoured that if Antonio Haro y Tamaris, who• was occupying Puebla, and who is chief of the Conservative party, and sup p trted by the clergy, should become President, instead of Comonfort, the States of Jalisco, Michoacan, and Sivaloa would probably form a separate republic. Colenel Kinney; who visited Grenada for the purpoSe of paying his respects to General Walker, was by the General's orders immediately arrested and imprisoned; but the people, thinking such an order unjust, refused to obey it, and the Colonel afterwards returned to Greytown ; since then a proclamation has been issued declaring all Colonel Kinney's estates to be confiscated. The general health of the West India Islands is good, with the exception of Porto Rico, where the cholera still prevailed. At BarbadoeS the weather was favourable to sugar-making, and the crop promised to be a large one. The crop season was likewise favourable at St. Vincent's. Iu Per•u General Casilla was about to dissolve the S4s4ibrii in order to proclaim himself Dictator. The National Convention was still sitting, but everything remained in a most unsettled state ; trade was paralysed, and business of all kinds very dull. At Costa Rica fears were entertained that Walker would invade the territory, and seize upon Puntas Arenas for the purpose of sacking and destroying it. Puebla was besieged I , y 7,000 troops, and was el„ pected soon to surrender. The road to Mexico iff' unsafe for travelling. From Vera Cruz we learn, via New 01.10! that General Comonfort left the capital on the 2 9 1" ult., to put himself at the head of the troops", besiege Puebla ; he wouH have 12,000 troops Pl. 48 pieces of artillery. The officers who led• revolt at the Castle of San Juan de Ulloa had be° sentenced to be shot. The departure of Nicaragua Filibusters New Orleans was openly proclaimed in the papa_,, ll ' Havannah advices are to the 13th inst. Sur was slightly declining, and freights improvitit, There had been a grand reception at Mr. Crag; ford's, of Havaunah, to which all the British ol;, cers in port were invited. Some of them got iv toxica'ed and insulted two Philadelphia ladies: apology was tendered next day, and the affair VI amicably arranged. Under date of the 10th inst. it is stated that.o British ship of war Powerful bad arrived one l ! t i Ist with orders to unite there all the English 8 7 , 4 French forces station e d i n th e M ex i can Gulf, $ll4 to start immediately for Nicaragua. Australian markets were dull, and provisio o heavy. At Sydney flour had fallen in price, beil town to 25/. p er t on , w i t h very h eavy stecigiQf hand. In Melbourne no less than 8,000 toney flour and wheat bad been stored for want of saA and several cargoes were on the way, so that the ° was no prospect of famine. FrGui Bermuda advices are to the 3d of Marcti The Governor had issued a proclamation dissolii o the Parliament which had been in existence for tbt, usual period of six year.). Writs for the eleotO of new members bad been issued. Her Britaq i ;l Majesty's ships Pembr o ke an d C ornwa lli s were fits at the island. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. The supply of floating capital in the money market was abundant, at 7 to 9. Orders 9 „ cent, for first-class m ercan til e accep t ances, and Ifeir, 7 per cent, on call. Th e s t a t emen t f or l as t ice' was unfavourable, the loans and disoouat i amounted to upwards of 104,500,000 dols. and it creased since the Ist of December last 12,000,0 dols. The specie reserves were about 14,000,0 (lois., showing a fall of only 2,750,000 dols. 8 10c° the Ist of December. This expansion was con' sidered dangerous to the commercial communitf; Exchange was flat at 9i to 92 on London ; bf 18/c. to sf. 17ic., 60 days, and sf. 12io. shar e ' sight, on Pa t i s ; 361 to 36g on B remen ; and 6-'' 17ic. on Antwerp. The cotton-market was buoyant, and a larg e : business had been transacted at latter prices be' tween Gulf Port and Europe. The receipts sin ° 6 the Ist of Sept em b er l ast at a ll t h e ports 101 2,618,837 bales a g ai ns t 1,764 , 701 to same t i me la st . year ; 1,973,155 in 1854, and 2,605,065 in 1853. Flour was in limited demand, at a decline 61c. for lower grades. For London kinds the de' cline was 124 c. to 25c. The market for pork had improved 25c., with light demand. In beef there was only a limite d business. Prime mess was inactive. Bacon a l. tinned scarce, and was in good demand. Butte and cheese in limited demand. (LATER BY TELEGRAPH.) NEW ORLEANS, MARCH 1.7. The cotton-market is quiet. -Sales, 3,500 bald , MARCH 18. Cotton quiet. Sales to-day, 13,500 bales, at 91° 4 to 91c. for middling. Mess pork, 16 dols. Cotton freights to Liverpool, id. CHARLESTON, MARCH 17. Cotton active. Sales, 4,500 bales. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MOUNING. The Royal Mail steam-ship Africa, Shannon, com mander has arrived with ativices from New York to the 19th ult., and 5790,971 in specie. On the 30th, at 7 p.m., she passed the Cambria, hence for Boston. The Urlited States' mail steamer Hermann, from Southampton, had arrived out. In the Senate, Mr. Douglas reported a bill, au thorising the people of Kansas to form a State Government, preparatory to her admission into the Union, When she shall have a requisite popu lation: Mr. Clayton made a speech on the Clayton- Bul wer Treaty. He alluded to the course followed by Great Britain in regard to it ; to the proposed Pacific Railroad ; to the importance of an inter oceanic canal across the Isthmus of Panama; to the Transit Company's difficulty, to the Filibus tering, and General Walker. He expressed his gratification at the extraordinary unanimity shown during the discussion in the Senate with regard to the construction of that treaty, and saw that all gentlemen lied agreed in repudiating as utterly unworthy their regard the new construction put upon . it: by the British Government. He entirely approved the conduct of the Administration rela tive to the difficulties with England, and highly eulogised the State papers of Messrs. Marcy and Buchanan'. He was also gratified at the energy with which the Administration had put down the Filibustering schemes and he denounced General Walker as a , ruffian, birecanier, and pirate. He was no partisin of the President, but when their foreign relations were conducted with signal ability he was milling to give the Administration due credit. In the House of Representatives the discussion _of the Kansas election had been continued. The A etV :York 'Herald says :—" Our Washing ton correspendent states, upen good authority, that Mr. Crampton will be recalled. It is intimated that he has incurred the censure of his Government .by the course lie followed in the enlistment affair." A Baltimore schooner had been seized at New York, under orders of the United States' district attorney, charged with being fitted out as a slaver. A destructive fire had occurred at Bostou and destroyed $56,000 worth of property. A fearful accident had occurred on the Delaware River. One of the Camden and Philadelphia ferryboats took fire when in the middle of the stream. The flames spread with great rapidity. The boat became unmanageable. The passengers, about 100 in number, panic-stricken, leapt into the water, to escape a terrible death by burning. Many of the m worn picked up, hut some 30 were drowned. The sacrifice of life is attributable to the ferryboat being destitute of small boats and life•preservers. Governer Reeder was elected United States' Senator of the first ballot for six years, and Gene ral Lane on the second, three years, by the Legis lature of Kansas, which remained in session. The George Law had arrived from Aspinwall with the California mails and late news from the West Coast and' Sidney, Australia ; she had $1,219,053 it treasure. An omnibus line in con junction with the railway was about to be started at Panama. The project was well supported by the people. The railroad depot was completely filled by the European and Americ to merchandise wait ing for transport to South America and California. The State debt, amounting to $lO,OOO, due to Senor Calvo, had been paid. Congress had assembled and was organised at Bogota. The Death__ Penalty Bill had been abolisheit -- The Vice-President's Message gave a gratifying_report of the state of the country. We learn- from Guatemala that General Carrera had returned to the capital after a tour in the in terior provinces. Tho Legislative Assembly had disiolved, and the Carnival was being observed. A general uneasiness existed in the public mind with regard to the prospect of a Walker-Rivas in vasion. The cochineal crop was damaged by a sudden full of volcanic feugo ashes, which entered the ground for 40 leagues. The Panama papers state that Honduras was marching a force of 5,000 men against Walker. Trade at San Juan was very dull. The French frigate L'Ambuscade had reached Punta Arenas with strict oiders to put down any Filibustering expedition she might fall in with on the high seas. Two valuable coal mines-had been discovered at Talcahuano. Flour had fallen in Valparaiso from 10 dols. to 8 dols. 25c. In San Salvador, Don R. Campos had been inaugurated as ; President. He affixed his first official seal to a contract with the Panama Railway Company's agent for the authorising of the steam communication ,spoken-of before. Coffee was being largely cultivated. The Costa Ricans were deter tuitit d- to resist the . threats'of the rejected Nicara gua - envoys. From Meaico, via Ravannah, Re learn that RUSSIAN MANCEUVRING. The future policy of Russia has been evident for 500 time past. Every effort will be made to weaken tbe, bonds of amity between France and England. The fel' lowing extract from the last number of the Nord, the, Russian organ at Brussels, will show the reckless w 4 in which the object is to be effected : "Lord Clarendon has plainly told the Emperor th o all the responsibility of the treaty will be thrown 01 . him, Napoleon 111. L or d Cl aren d on d ec l ares t h a t England has not obtained conditions more unfavourabl e to Russia it is because the Emperor of the FrenOb wished f,o. nothing but peace: it was necessary either to sign the treaty or to break off the alliance with Loo's Napoleon ; and Lord Clarendon and his colleagues hare thought that the possible advantages of a continuation of U e war would not store for this. As a sign of re' coneiliati ,, r, the plenipotentiaries have agreed to erase from the proces-verbal all record of the painful dieser sions and the hard words exchanged in the stormy sittiog of the 22d. But this will be the secret of the plsig One of these fine days you will see this same proce s ; v, nal, non-revised and uncorrected, in some journal i 0 London or Turin." THE MISSING PACIFIC. 001 as I 0 8, (Prom the New York Tribune.) accou n t The Arabia has arrived, bringing no tidings of the chequ er steatoer Pacific. The Arabia left Liverpool 37 days after the the missing steamer. Upon the supposition that the lir e 9 8 , Pacific nas di,ab'ed when she was half-way overiehe 1 , 0 „ 8 ; bad then 30 days to get back to port. Yet, of course, ' neither this nor any other supposition can be made with for ]mate certainty. It is still less likely that she has been trying 1 110] t , i make a poi tin the United States. It is now fift/ "I• I days since she put to sea ; and if she had met with ea )Z 4 4 l accident, and still kept on her course, she could hardy mg 41 have fafled to 'reach our coast before this. Possiblif P assiv e however, she has sailed in a crippled condition for the are 95 t , d ealt i n five-and-twenty days would be a fair allowance of tile! 1 , 40 1, an for her to reach Fayal. Supposing h er t o h ave arrive" Dutch 4 safely there in that time, we could scarce l y b ear f rom h e t The f in less than thirty days more, and might not under fort/ ko o k or fifty. The communication wit h th e W estern Island. sn' is wholly by sailing vessels, a n d th e i ntercourse nnfred . , 40 quent. We ought not, th ere f ore , t o cons id er t h e sa f e ty 5 "i ; of the Pacific wholly out of the question before the first Per week in April. S paniAb But notwithstanding the cherished hope of her safetft dit to C based upon a highly probable mode of proceeding in.oae. Sh are of the breaking of a s h a ft- or other ser i ous damage to her rates machinery, her conti nue d a b sence f i lls the mind withap'burgh, prehension. She had been out, at the sailing of the I ogate Arabia, five days longer than was the Atlantic at the tinge. f Prj e , B l.l of her memor a bl e di saster—the latter having reached calc h te • v on the 32d day a ft er l eav i ng port. It seems hard to ad' /..:Y1 mit the los s o f thi s no bl e ship ; but while we consider the p ro ~.1 1c 1 chances of her saf e ty, we must not forget the ciremir red, stances under whi c h s h e was ma ki ng h er voyage. She 'lnge had a new master and a new engineer. Both were un• • doubtediy competent, but both, of course, ambitious. The new ship Persia was behind her but three days distant, and with the highest reputation for speed and great expeota• tions of her performance on her first trip. It is natural to suppose that master and engineer would strain every nerve to make the Pacific do her best, and to lose as little time as possible from any precautionary policy on the voyage. The ocean was filled with vast fields of floating and berg ice. The concurrent testimony of numerous arrivals goes to establish that scarcely ever was the usual path between this coast and England before so ob• structed. is it not to be feared that, ignorant perbape of the extent, or it may be of the existence, of this un usual impediment at this season of the year, the eager commander of this ill-fated ship, his eyes straining bee hind him as well as before, may, in the darkness of night, have driven his craft straight upon the desolate and turbulent masses of Arctic ice, and ere he was aware found himself and all on board suddenly being engulphed in the angry and sullen and darkened sea! If this sad possibility be the fact, who shall ever rise to tell the tale of the Pacific ? Ettr il IRELAND. DUBLIN, MONDAY. On Saturday night number of persons !were assem bled at a wake in the top room o f a housnin Coleman street. The floor gave way, and the house fell, and 18 persons were killed on the spot. In the course of yes terday (Sunday), three other bodies were discovered, making a total of 21 killed. It is feared that many more will have been injured. The f , rgycl deed for 2,0001., on which the money ha# been paid, has been discovered in this city, and the forger, who is not arrested, is a man who held a high position in society. Although the deed came over here from L.)ndon the forgery was committed in Dublin, and the instrument bears an Irish stamp. Inquiries are in Progress, as it is feared other forgeries to a large amount have been committed. However, these frauds had no connection with the late Mr. Sadleir. The only information to be obtained about the Tippe. rary Bank i 8 of a negative kind, nothing about its affairs being likely to transpire until some public proceeding on the subject take place in open court. We are assured that it was only an attack of bronchitis that •induced Master Murphy to Lave the examination of Mr. James Sadleir conducted at his (the Master's) private house, but That much valuable information was obtained from Mr Sadleir on the occasion. In the meantime there is nothing to induce a hope of more favourable results in the winding up of this unfortunate concern, TREATIES OP PEACE.-It may be interesting at this moment to notice the dates of various important treaties of peace to which this country has been one of " the great contracting parties." The peace of Ryswick (general) was signed on Friday, Sept. 20, 1697 ; that of Utrecht (succession), Monday, March 13, 1713 ; that of Aix-la Chapelle (Spain and France), Tuesday, April 30, 1748 ; that (.f Paris (general), Thursday, February 10, 1763 ; that of Paris (America), Sat urday, November 30, 1782 ; that of Paris (France and Spain), Monday, Janu ary 20, 1783 ' • that of Holl an d, Tuesday, S e pt em b er , 2, 1783; that of Amiens (Revolution), Saturday, March 27, 1802 ; that of Ghent (America) Saturday, December 24, 1814 ; and that of Paris (general), Monday, May 30, 1814. So far 33 we are aware, the treaty of peace signed on Sunday —the fifth peace concluded in that capital within the last 93 years—is the only one which has re ceived the formal signatures of the Plenipotentiaries on a Sunday. Here is a fact for the Sabbatarians, who . will, doubtless, if consistent, Contend that to secure ea world's peace is neither a work of neceUity nor of moray I—Manaltater Iva • • eq t