The Sun. — London, England, 1856-04-01 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN POLICE MAGI.- STA kTE.II, price Is : A Letter to Lord Panmure, relating o the Tenure of Office by the Magistrates of the Metropolitan Police aria. By THOMAS J AMES ARNOLD, Esq., one of the Magn ates. James Ridgway, Piccadilly, and all booksellers. T A IT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, for APRIL, price Is., contains : Organisation. Some Passages in the Life of a German Mercenary. The Scottish Fishery Board. Grace Dorrien. Tangled Talk. Is o. IV. The Tenure of Land in Ireland. 31'Neill and Tulloch's Crimean Report : Second Notice. Typical Forms and Special Ends in Crea tion. Prisons and Poverty. Political Narrative. Literary Re gister. Edinburgh : Sutherland and Knox. London : Partridge and Co. LA FRANCE FIRE INSURANCE COM PANY (Established 1837), 6, Rue Menars, Paris. —Capital, 10,000,00 f. (400,'091.)—Amount of property insured is 1854, 114,861,5901. sterling. Premiums received, 114,9971. sterling.—This Company grants Policies on most advantageous .ernv. Common risks at 2s. per cent. per annum, without turtber charge, instead of 4s. 6d.. usual cost of th. same insurance with British Offices. Pro posals, to be transmitted through the Cumpanys Correspondent in London, at his Offices, 35, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars. TO JOINT-STOCK BANKS.—Aa opportunity will shortly be afforded for entering on the blviness of a Prov'ncial Rank. Turnover. Ten Millions. From 153,000/. to 200,000/. wilt be required at the time of transfer, which will be again released Everything is in a condition to be immediately taken over Authenticated communications, wriich will be regarded at strictly confidential, may be addressed "J. S 8.," care of Messrs. Groombridge and t-ons, 5, Paterno ;ter-row, London.—April 1, 1856. YLIZATRE: ROYAL, DRURY-LASE. Lemee. Mr. R. T. Smith. THIS ErE?TI•:O, THE BOLIESIIANT GIRL. Followel by THE NATIONAL AIRS. vtrlude with THE BACCHANALIAN BEVEL. 1116 A rEtE )YA.L, 11%.VMARKET. Under the Ranagement or bin Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE EVIL GENIUS. Followed by EL GA.MBTTATNO ; or, The Mexican Goldseeker. In which PEItEA NENd. and the Spanish Dancers will appear. After which, LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS To conclude with A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THE ATRE, 0/CFORD-STRZET. Under the Management of gr. Camas Ksaß. THIS FVENIIIO, The comedy of EVERT ONE HAS HIS FAULT. After which, THE VICTOR VANQUISHED. To conclude with A PRINCF. FOR AN /LOUR. rTIFIATIte.: (VAAL 401±IIIKII. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Dtreetree!, Madame Celeste. TllfA moraEr. AND CRILD ARE DOM. WELL. To b,lf.)l l oweet by MiGEN V PRIVATE AFFAIRS. To conclude with Jir," . .X AND THE BE 1N Vr.kt_.K ; or, Harlequin and Mother GOO3O at flo•'ne Again. ri which Messrq. Bland. P. Bedford, Madame Celeste, Miss W.telham, an i 'ties I'l Arden will ap)ear. R'lY•tL ouy..tNe Lessee anti liana4er, Mr. Alfrel Wigan. T 313 EVENING STILL WATERS RUN DEEP. After which will be produced a New and doubly-moral, though xcessively old, Melodrametic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled Tap: DI3CREEr PRINCE 34; e - , the Three Glees Distaffs. II which Messrs. Euiefy, F. nob3oll, H. Cooper, Miss Marston and Miss Haskell will appear. ROY ti, SEr.tREY TIIS,VCRE. Lessees, Mews. Shepherd and Cresvriek. TIIE4 EVENING, Will be performed a new Drama, entitled 110 W WE LIVE IN olloweTHE WORLD OF LONDON. Frl by T. E NUS N ; or, The Lawyer's Legend. To conclude with THM cor.BLER AND TAILOR ‘ArLgra KOYAt. AMPHITHeATIZE., Lessee sod Mans-er. Mr. Wm. Cooke. Glorious Intore , s of public approbation! TEIN EVENING, The most extraordinar and exciting exhibition that ever was represented—an English Stel - decitase, with all its incidents, from the starting to the winning post. The performances commence w:th I'HE ARAB OF THE DESERT A N (' Hfe F AITIIFUL SF EEO. flie acting horse, trained by Mr Willie - A Cooke. Double 'Ft.tht Rope, the Misses Daccy. SCENES in the CIRCLE, and he Postman's Knock. Dreme Equestre with E UND'it HARTE3T HOME and NATIONAL ENGLISH S rEEPLECHASE. Box.otlice sue', :",levee till Your. Stage Manager. Mr. tk . Wit. rAtierlffirLll !Irokr. ton. ROYAL MARYLEBOgE TriF:A.TRE. Under the Monument of Mr. Edward Stirling. Great sue :es; of the new management and piece., scenery, &c. T ,IS EVE IN , ; (Tnesday, April Ist, 1856) the new drain: L OST. £30,000, sunported by Messrs. Stuart, Stirling, Belford, Miss An .erion. Morell, &c. Afton which, BOOTS AT THE SWAN. Mr. Lewis Ball, of the Sadler's Wells. ThPatre Royal , To conclude with the new Fairy Spectacle entitled, FAIRY FERN FLOWER The inimitable Charles Mathews has been engaged for 5 nights will appear on Monday, April 7th, 1856. only, and EgMl ST.I.NLZY'S "SEVEN .A.GE3 OF WOMAN." Second Season. This Lyric nitertaininent, has been crowned by the unanimous approbation of ALT. TIIE LONDON' JOURNALS A, the greatest artistica' triurnnti of the day. It constitutes an Opera Coale ly, ant Vaudeville. With a host of charact ers i n C orrec t C os turtles; old Son in SIX DIFFERENT LANGUAGES! Never attempted by any other artiste. Evening performances on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and F-idays, at S. 3 1,, rn im nerforinances On Wednesdays and Saturdays at half-pasi two, precisely. Admiss i on —Chairs, 3s. ; Centre Seats, ?s. ; Each Seats, Is. SIINT mut flys TULL, Long-acre. Meal WATER• AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tius D.cr—Morn• 13 min. aft. 10—Evening 2 rain. aft. 11 Tn-h4ongoW—Morn. 41 nun. aft.ll.—Evening 0 m i n . aft. 0 THE WE A. 11N OFFICE, APRIL 1. T3.4:7I:IY.IETER, IN TLII fii- .in' yostertay. 43 —l3;fust this ml:raing and d.arin4 the night. 61 —thik day at noon. BAROMETER, 23 . 96 —falling. WIND, S. to S.W.—Rather fresh, with very fine, ens. shiny weather. This day is the highest which the thtr monster has registered this year. es !. • tl v t ‘ t) '1) ,§11 . 31 LOSIJON, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1856. --- Yesterday, when the Plenipotentiaries visited the Tuileries, after signing the treaty of peace, tht , Emperor observ e d, "G e n t l emen, you h a ve accom plished a peace which is honourable to all par ties concerned without being humiliating to and 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 incontestible right to do—fol France. But, in Gon's name, let England be allowed to judge entirely for herself as to Whatever, ta her regard, may, or may not, be fraught With " humiliation !" It is a word, we cannot b ut think, of evil omen at this awful juncture. Fancy WHAT that Peace must be which We are expected to welcome, forsooth, because —of this one merely "negative" merit ! I mag i ne for a - how glorious the Tre a ty is —w • h moment EMPEROR prepares the wo r ld f or as the the noblest words of praise he could possibly contrive to apply to it) by telling us that it is not " humiliating to any Power 1" 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 seem now by contrast, so very far removed from our ow n generation. Conceive, we say, for one in stant, bow 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 t---for this " thing" of a Peace, we have heen squandering for t►vo years millions upon •-• millions of pounds sterlinu 1 We have been sacri- ficing the very flower of our a rmy ! We have been sending regiment after regiment to perish in the horrible pest-houses of Scutari ! We have been leaving battalion after battalion to rot in the cold, and damp, and mud, and all the attendant priva tions of a cemetery-like Crimean encamp Olga ! For rats ! It may be asked by the political fribbles wbo .:.u,.: _ ~~ are the toad-eaters of Gov/ rnment—" For what ?'' We will answer—For m Despicable Treaty of Peace, the principal fruit; s of which may be thus briefly enumerated : HANGO unavenged—t ?tat incident of unparal leled atrocity in th© annals of modern warfare when a boae's crew, carrying a flag of truce and advant :ing under the shel ter of that hitherto Isacred symbol upon a mission of benevolence 4 I,nd magnanimity, were made the victims of an inE ',mous ambuscade, and, as such, were for the most ,part, by the soldiers of the CZAR, in cold blood and most deliberately, I assassinated ! &Nom unexpiated—oven 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 Se►ibasstopol ! The atrocious stabbimg, and pistolling of our wretched WOUNDED upon. the " foughten fields" of Balaklava and Inkermaln—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 somo among the chief triumphs won during the course •f this disastrous war by that savage and brutalised em.emy, our diplomatists are, nowadays, beslavering with their courtesies ! Those are among the conspicuous results of the deplor able struggle which has but just now terminated in France and in Eugland with a craven ringing of bells, firing of cannon s throwing up of caps, cheers, banners, and illutuinations ! But other memories tlan these of course will have to be recorded by Otte future historian of the present epoch in the annals of Christendom. He will have to celebrate other circumstances, very conspicuously, besides th ose we have already par- tic ularised, as among the zaore notable consequences of this two years' conflict between the legions of Russia and those of the Western Allies. Ho 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 Enxine or in the Baltic, in any way commensurate with the renown secured to it in the more daring and chivalric times of NELSON, and ErWOUTH, 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 NAPrER and Sir JAMES GRAHAM— or as Punch has it, the mud bespattering, each of the other, by CHARLEY POT and JEMMY KETTLE. 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 composed of—what ?—(oar Gallic friers have hit 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 to the British army, and on that to the British navy, as the consequences of this lamentably mis managed War, and of this disgracefully because precipitately and insecurely patched-up Peace ! Besides—the turning point of the whole struggle remains even now but the scene of a par tial 1, victory. Sebastopol to this day remains un taken ! 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 remains, up to this present moment inclusively, but half conquered ! And yet—with Sebastopol not yet taken—England and France, together with the lesser Allies, and in shameless complicity even with the deSpica.ble German Neutrals, have agreed to patch up a Treaty of Peace, and to do this, forsooth, with due 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 honour intact, rather than to the restoration awl satisfaction, and consolidation of the honour ["save the mark !"] of their grim Muscovite antagonist ! 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 unthou;ht of—to the end that nothing at all should be done, or for that matter even attempted, byits 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 1 As for its victories—they have been to all intents and purpase4 aul)stanfially 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 blunder, In kerman as a surprise, and the Redan as a defeat ! Se much for the principal incidents of the stt uggle— 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 thole of 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 unassailed, 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 Tim Pima ! Very satisfactory, no doubt, with a doubled Income Tax, and all sorts of linpott a upon articles of daily consumption, and ourfair lame damaged, and m illi o ns upon millions alrea dy scattered virtually to the winds of heaven, an d more to follow i n d ue se ason, and o hundreds an d thousands our brave soldiers, the dauntl ess c hi ldren brothers, o ur sons the soil, our fathers, our crun a ka i crumbling into. dust on th e s h ores of that terrible region where the so much her o i c blood has b ee t Peace ? Call thi s a P eace ? shed in vain ! It is test it—but the mos t hollow of 'all Truces ! until (at —o Pea,9e ? Why, anythi ng i n the shap e o f a - p should never have b een d reamt of, peace very least) we had not only taken S b e as.opn, en tirely and in real earnest, but until f a ter we had actually swept every man Jack of the ussi it • ana out of the Crimea! But now—Alas 1 the result we can any of us ,recognise on the instant—_theme e , will come yet a lisle later on, the dread and inevitable Day of Reckoning. The Revenue Returns for the financial year and quarter, which has just been brought to a conclusion, will due found in another part of this day's impression. They are chiefly remarkable as affording siditional evidence of the accuracy of the apparent paradox, that In fiscal addition, two and two do not always make four, so that addi tional burdens are imposed on the tax-payers without any corresponding benefit to the Ex chequer. We find that the total sum collected, which, be it remembered, represents the gross receipts, not the net profits, has been 65,704,4891., being an increase of 4,497,6711., or more than two millions less than the estimate of Sir G. C. LEWIS ; wkile the produce of the quarter has been 17,361,1611., or 1,477,6451. Coming to the particular items, we find that the increase under the head of Customs has been for the year 789,9961., and for the quarter 497,0581., a very poor return for the additional duties ou 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. In the Stamps there is a decrease of 238,642/. on the year, and of 55,766/. on lie quarter, chiefly arising from the removal of stamp on newspapers, while that there was no equivalent obtainer 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 place, and we find an improvement of 7,7081. 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 1,000/. 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 55,1411. It further appears that 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. 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 agd 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- Inienee to the people. The Encumbered Estates Court 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 hill, 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 tare refused, we know the effect on the land. Compare the Eastern Counties and the Lothians with a vast portion of Englaud—.North, and West the difference may be seen even from a railway carriage. Tenancies at will cannot be improving tenancies ; they may be admiralily suited for creating subservient voters, but no man iu his senses will make his farm worth snore if his landlord can step in and tate the entire advantage in the shape of increased rent. 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 farmer•. We can never believe that they are incapable 01 enterprise in their own line ; PADDY is quite as shrewd as JOHN BULL, and if be can 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, io some needy and absent owner, and generally one who wanted to have the poor fellow completely in h s 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 tenan:y than an annuli one." The worst is that in Irelaild 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 pplitical, or other reasons, to leave it. We have seen, even in England, mlst 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. SIMPSON, of Westport, has given us in a small pamphlet, "An Englishman's Testi mony to the Urgent Necessity of a Tenant-Right Bill for Ireland." - x - Mr. SIMPSON 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. Hiswitness is that it is a first necessity towards advancing the tenant cultivation 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 with a moderate and reasonable bill. He also thinks that it is for England to pass such a bill iu her own interest as firmly as she passed the Encumbered E4tates Act, and to pay no regard to 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 set.good bill b ecome an act o f P ar li amen t, s i nce it would d e p r i ve then of the power to agitate. He always found the tenants quite ready to be satis rfliegdh rights wi t h as fair ufti proposals, ein and to accept prospective Hitherto, as our readers * W. and F. G.:Cash, 5, Bishopsgatelstreet7v4thout! THE 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 cases did occur, what would this be in comparison with the diffi culty, or rather impossibility, of tenant improve ment 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 England ; we may add, and a rapidly increasing consumption of English manufactures. The economical system is one which, under the circumstances, needs little discussion. 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 be 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 poor-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 GoVERIME2VT MESSENGER. (From a Svplement to the London Gazette Extraordinary of yesterday.) FOREIGN OFFICE, MARCH 31. The Honourable Spencer Ponsouby 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 Iv 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 othor. DEATH OF SIR CHARLES HOTHAM. —TRIESTE, March 30.—Accounts have beet received of the death of Sir Charles Hotham, Governor of Vic toria. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has con - i\ , nted to preside at the 67,h anniversary dinner of the Royal Ettrary Fund, which i 4 fixed to take place at Freemasons' Hall o❑ the 7th of May. The Due d'Osuria and suite have left the Clarendon f it Paris. The Marquis and Marchioness 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 Countess de Salis and Miss de Salis have arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from their seat, Dawley Court, near Uxbridge. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Stonor arrived in town yesterday, from St 'nor, Henley-on-Thames. A London Goldsmiths', Silversmiths', and Jewellers' Company has been registered under the new Limited Liability Act. The telegraph• between Constantinople and Vienna will 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 c ,n -tiruing the history of the Creation until the Deluge. As a drama of course (says Galignan,i) the thing is ah mrd, but the variety a.ud beauty of the scenery and getting up will prcbably secure it a certain run. • The Frankfort Journal announces that the Empress - if Russia, widow of the late Czar Nicholas, is about to omit her daughter, the Grand Duchess Oiga, a,t SLutt- SPAIN. —ln the sitting of the Cortex on Saturday ( \larch 29), the bill on the receipts of the State, pre dented by the Finance Minigter, was taken into coisi ,leration by a majority of 184 against 27. TiMIS the dif icult question which threatened to produce a collkion letweeu the Government and this Cortes is happily 31.thinoud K'aan, who was lately sent to St. Peters- July; on a special miss:on by the Shah of Persia, arrived , t Tiflis on the 231, on his way back to Teheran. ITALIAN RAILWAYS. —The question of connecting to :;ether the Lotribar.l ra.iway lines with those of Strdinia on the point of being d-Bided. The junction will take )lace, in ali probability, oa two point:c one near Pa via , , nd the ether at the bridge of Buffill , ra, near the Ticino. The health of the Empress improves every day. No lay is, however, yet fixed for the churching of her Ma j e , 4 4, but the ceremony cannot be long delayed. The 'aptisin of the imperial prince being, accorling to the : mblished 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 s , ,on, but the adhesion of al! the high contracting parties will be then known by telegraph, so that the rejoicings for the baptism will be also rejoicings for peace ; and as the members of the C-ngress will be still in Paris, waiting to effect the ex• change, their presence will give to the fetes the character of a European holetnuity.—Constitutionnel. illaj:4.-Generai Sir H. D. Jones, of the Royal Engi :keers, whose services at the siege of Sebastopol arid at, 13tirianund will be reiiiembered, has been app iinted by Lord Panmure governor of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. By the death of Sir Hyde Parker, Bart., Capt. Parker, aide-de-camp to Major-General Eden, commanding the Western District, succeeds to the baronetcy. Captain Parker is the youngest brother of the gallant Captain Flyde Parker, who fell in the service of his country shortly after the commencement of naval operations against Russia. TEirt LATE EXTENSIVEEMBEZZLEMENTAT LIVERPOOL.— LIVERPOOL, Monday.—At the Liverpool Assizes, this , noraing, 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, who 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 inflict. The prisoner must, therefore, be transported 'for 14 years. THE REPORTED Loss OF THE CLIPPER SHIP SCHOISI BERQ.7-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 Llgl t ning, stated that the Schoenberg bad gone ashore thirty miles north of Cape Otway, and that the whole ef-the passengers, 300 in number, were saved, besides 3,000 tons of merchandise. A despatch received at Lloyd's yesterday from Mel:wurne, 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 lnws :—" Schomberg, Forbes, ashore west of the Otway. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAIL, WAY.—The working expenses and other outgoings of this company's railways (exclusive of the Manchester, South Junction, and Altrincharn, stated below) have amount,d in the fortnight ending March 23 to 8,392:. 15s. td., making, with the 45,5321. 8-i. sd. already stated, a total of 53,9251. 3s. 6d. for the first 6 fortnights of the half. year, or at the rate of 58.26 per cent. on the railway traffic for the same period. The proportion of the South Junction, ite., receipts accruing to this company for the fortnight ending March 23, amounts to 7711. 4s. lii., making, with the 3.4491. lls. 2:1. previously ta teo , a total for the fit G sortuigLts of the half-year of - 4,2201. 15s. 3d.; while the expenses being 3831. is. 10d. for this, and 1,9171.15 6d. for the 5 previous fortnights, amount to 2,300/. 17s. 4d., or at the rate of 54.51 per cent. of the oceipts. LATEST NEWS. BERLIN, MARCH 31. On the occasion of the signature of the treaty of peace, the King has conferred on M. 1e Manteuffel the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Blaek Eagle. The Czas, the Austrian journal of Cracow, says :—" lu the night of the 26th the recruit- meut 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 Emcine arrived at this port to-day at one o'clock p.m., with tho mails from India and China. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The ilioniteur of to-day publishes the official an nouncement of the signature of peace precisely in the same terms as Lord Clarendon's despatch an nouncing the fact to the English Government. The Moniteur adds : "The Plenipotentiaries of the Congress met at noon yesterday, 'in uniform, at the Ministry of Foreign Af fairs, to sign the treaty. Immediately after the sitting all the Plenipotentiaries proceeded in a body to the 'Pantries where they had the honour of being received by the Emperor. " At 2 o'clock a salvo of 101 guns announced the con clusion 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-Cornitei de Rgdaetion having, in the sitting of Saturday, : ; obtained the sanction 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. Feuillt t de 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, in such a manner that each copy was put before the plenipo• tertiaries of the Government by which it is to be ratified. After the text cf the seven c pies had been carefully compared,ahe plenipotentiaries proceeded to affix their signatures to the end of the treaty. Caunt Walewski, as president of the congress, signed first, and 'the other plenipotentiaries in the alphabetical order of their respective c,uutria; It was at this mom-et 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 them after they had con cluded their task. But although the mere act of affix ing their signatures occupied the plenipotentiaries hut a very brief portion of time, yet the whole of the for mality of signing lasted nearly two hours, as the pleni potentiario;, 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 Poser signed first the copy reserved for their Government, and then the other plenipotentiaries signed in a phabe tieal Ureter. In this manner, each contracting Power figuring at the head of the signatures of the copy which it is to ratify, all difficulties as to etiquette or pre cedency were set aside. To each signature was imme diately attached the private seal of each pleeipotentiary. Immediately after the close of the sitting, all th'e pleui potentiaries went together to the Tuileries, where they had the honour of being received by the Emperor. net couriers were sent off in the evening to London, Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg - , Turin, and Coustae tinople, in order to submit, the treaty to the ratifica tion of their respective Courts." The plenipotentiaries 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, on horseback, in the grand review which is to take place to-morrow in the Champ de Mars. The same invitation has been addreseed to some superior officers of Austria who have just arrived in Paris on a special ini‘i.sion from their Govern ment. The Moniteur continues to publish long lists of addresses of congratulation to the Emperor oa the birth of the Prince Imperial. One of the Paris journals has erroneously stated that Lord Clarendon left Paris last night for Lon 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 be 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 : " BERLIN, 30.—A double protocol is to be drawn up by the peace congress ; one relative to the conclusion 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 powers will concur.—Lieut.-Gen. Bonin, ex-Minister of War, is named vice governor (I Mentz. The news of peace, published this evening, has pr duced an extraordinary sensation. FrAri Russia we learn that the Grand Dukes Constantine and Nich.das and General Tu.leben accompany the Emperor Alexan de- on his journey to Finland." BOURSE, March 31, Two o'clock..—The market has been rather agitated. Rente 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 tle Bank of France that the rate of discount was re duced from 6 to 5 could not prevent the Rente from declining. The Mobiliet 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- I cline until the close, when the following werathe quotations : End of Month. —f. —O. 72 90 _ Cash. fr. a. t! per Cents 93 80 ; per Cents 72 70 Now Loan 73 20 Bank Shares 3,500 Roman . ;Jr&lit Alobilier 1,665 Austrian Ftelgian Fives '' ..... .. Spanish Threus - ?iethriontesc(s)...... 94 5 Home Debt ~....... 40 RAILW A YS—WOB CASH , i fr. c. fr. 0, Or!eans ......... 1,320 Western BO5 = Northern l,OlO Strasburg .. 991 0 Lyons... - 1,277 550 New Ditto... .. 835 Alediterranoan 1,577 50 Grand Central ...... 651 Lyons Geneva BOl Toste Cette 765 Austrian C0rn....... 927 5U TURKEY. The latest news from Constantinople, by the Sinai, is to the 20th March. At that date the fears which had been excited by the outbreak of sickneSs iu our army had begun to wear away. For some days past the number of the sick had sensibly dirnitri4ied. The construction upon the plateau, hitherto unoccupied by the troops, of thoroughly ventilated huts, placed a good distance aparrt,-had enabled the soldiers whose state rc'quired especial care . to be placed under the most f=vour able hygienic' conditions. The distribution of fi e4h vegetabres and preserved meats, with whioli the army is alwiiYs well provided, was regularly made, and everything inspired the hope that the return of ;the fine. weather would completely dissipate the unfa4ourable influences to which our army had latterly been . subjected. THE BALTIC. KIEL, March 28.—The Firefly arrived here last night, with despatches from C tptaia 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., She left Faro Sound on Tuesday, and had a gOod.run here. When she left the frost was severe, and she had to cut her wa y into the har bour for coals at Faro.. On her arrival here she was a pet feet sheet of ice. Here the weather is cold, but nothing like ice is at all to be seen in any part of the hay. The Majfstic and: Cesar are still in the harbour, ! and the Sanipson. is daily looked, for, so that w e 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, fallen a victim to the malady. It is affirmed that the disease is still more violent at Nicolaieff, and it is even said that the army of the South is losing 1,000 men a day, but this is m( s; likely an exaggeration. The military authorities do everything is their power to stop the contagion by affording more room in the hospitals, but no very great results have bees obtained. Out of 300 sick militiamen who were sent off to this place from ftchakoff, 20 died on the road, and 30 soon after their arrival." A letter from St. Petersburg of the 21st March says— " Business transactions have been very unimportant during the last fortnight, owing to the pauses h; vi g again become fr, Zen up. The goods sent from Sweden to Finland and vice versa have to be conveyed on sledges. The Grand Duchess C Lthi-rine and her hus band, Duke George of Mecklentiur , , are shortly expected id this city, and . whe❑ they arrive the Imperial family will be complete." TRIESTE, March 29.—A despatch from. Alexan dria, dated March 23, states that the Viceroy bas received orders to restore the Turkish ii t iform in the army, and to demolish the forts of Alexandria. TRIESTE, March 30.—Many of the Japanese no bles perished in the late earthquake at Jeddo. The Emperor was saved. WEST INDIA MAILS. SUN:HAMPTON, MONDAY NIGHT. By the Royal Mail Coinpny's steamer La Plata, Oaptain Weller, with the West Indian, Mexican, and Pacific mails, we have dates—Vera Cruz, March 9 ; Havannah, 9 ; Jamaica, 12 ; Demerara and Trinidad, 10 ; Barbadoes, 13 ; and St. Thomas's, 18. The 'Plata brin g s about 70 passengers, and on freight 2,839,000 dollars in specie, 45,000 dollars of account of the Mexican dividends, and the usual cargo. The Atrato arrived at St. Thomas's on the 16th inst. La Plata reports that on the 30th of January the Chilian war steamer Cazador left Talcahuano., having on board 358 persons, 86 of whom were soldiers, four officers, and the remainder women, children, and tie crew. Shortly after leaving she ran upon a rock and sank. Only 43 persons were saved, one of that number being a woman, the only survivor out of 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 z convulsed state, owing to the repeated defects sustained by the Emperor Soulouque. It was rumoured that Sir Henry Barkly would shortly leave Jamaica fpr 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 crops, however, were not in so fine a condition, in consequence of the previous heavy rains. There was no improvement in mer cantile transacticns, and high prices continued to be demanded. In Mexico it was rumoured that if Antonio Hai° y Tamaris, who was occupying Puebla, and who . is chief of the Conservative party, and sup ported by the clergy, should become President, instead of Conionfort, the States of Jalisco, Michoacan, and Sinaloa would probably form a separate republic. Colonel 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. In Peru :General Casilla was. about to dissolve the session, in order to proclaim himself Dictator. The National Convention was still' Ei ttitig, 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 upnn Punta Arenas for the purpose of sacking and destroying it. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING. The Royal Mail steam-ship Africa, Shannon, com mander, has arrived with a dvices from New York to the 19th ult., and $700,971 in specie. On the 30th, at 7 p.m., she passed the Cambria, hence for Boston. The United States' mail steamer Hermann, from SolithamptDn, 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 Claytms- Bulwer Treaty. He alluded to the ceurse 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 regarl to the construction of that treaty, and saw that. all gentlemen had agreed in repudiating as utterly unworthy their regard the new construction put Government. He entirely upon it by the British approVed the conduct of the Administration rela tive to the difficulties with England, and highly eulogised the State p3Pers 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, buccanier, and pirate. He was no partisan of the president, but when their foreign relations were conducted with signal ability he was willing to give the Administration due In the House of Rep resen t a tives the discussion of the Kansas electi°o had been continued. The •`ew York Iletald says :—" Our Washing ton correSpr,ndent st a t es , upnn good authority, that Mr. Cea.mpton will bo recalled. It is intimated that he has incurred the censure of his Government by the course he followed in the enlistment affair." A Baltimore schoo rter 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 h a d occurred at Boston and destroyed $56,000 Worth of property. • A fearful accident had occurred on the Delaware River. One of th e C a mden and Philad e lphi a ferryboats took fire w h e n in the middle of the stream. The flame spread with great rapidity. The boat became un man ageable. The passengers, about 100 in number, panic-stricken, leapt into the water, to escape a ter r ible death by burning. Many of them were picked h p, but some 30 were drowned. Tke sacrifice of life i 5 a ttributable to the ferryboat being destitute of sni a u boats and life-preservers. Goverwir • Reeder w as elected United States' Senator of the first b a llot for six years, and Gene ral Lane on the seco n d, three years, by the Legis lattiie'of Kansas, whi c h remained in session. _____ The George Law h a d arrived from Aspinwall with the California ma ils and late news from the West Coast and SidueY, Australia ; she had $1,2t9,053 in treasure. An omnibus line in con junction with the railway was about to be started at Panama. The pr o j e ct was well supported by the people. The railro a d depot was completely filled by.the Edropean and American merchandise wait ing for transport to South America and California. Tile State 'debt,._ amounting to $lO,OOO, due to Senor Calvo, had.b ten paid. Congress had ala er obled and was organised at Bogota. The Death Penalty Bill had been abolished. The - Vice-President's M essage gave , a gratifying report of the state of th e country. We learn from quatetnala th a t General rrera had returned to th e ci was v a being tour ebsed. pital after in the in a terior provinces. Th e L., is ltie Assembly had dissolved, and the Carnival A general utieasi rve tless exist e d in the public mind with regard to th e prospect of a Walker-Rivas in vasion. Th° cochineal crop was damaged by a sudden full of v o l can i c feug o ashes, which entered the ground for 4 0 leagues. The Panama papers state that Honduras was marching a for ce of 5,000 men against 'Walker. Trade. at San Jima was very dull. The French fri g at6 TiAnOliscade bad reached Punta Arenas with strict Urg ers to put down any Filibustering expedition shei n ight fall in with on the high seas. Twe valuabl e coal mines had been discovered at Talcahuano. Flour had WA in Valparaiso from 10 dols. to 8 dots. 25c. In San Sal va dor, Don R. Campos had been inaugurated as President. He affixed his first official seal to a contract with the Pan Lim Railway Company's agent for the authorising of the steam communicatibuispok ,,, of before. Coffee was being largely cultivated. The Costa Ricans were deter mint d to resist the threats of the rejected Nicara giia envoys. From Ilexicoi via Savannah, In learn that _ . _ Puell t was besieged ly 7,000 troops, and was e% petted soon to surrender. The road to Mexico vies unsafe for travelling. From Vera Cruz we learn, via New Orleans, that General Comonfort left the capital on the 29th ult., to put himself at the head of the troops to besiege Puebla ; he would have 12,000 troops and 48 pieces of artillery. The officers who l e d the revolt at the Castle of San Juan de Ulloa had been sentenced to be shot. The departure of Nicaragua Filibusters from New Orleans was openly proclaimed in the papers. Havannah advices are to the 13th inst. Sugar was slightly declining, and freights improving. Thera had been a grand reception at Mr. Craw . ' ford's, of Havannah, to which all the British ofa* cers in port were invited. Some of them got ire toxica.ed and insulted two Philadelphia ladies. An apology was tendered next day, and the affair was amicably arranged. Under date of the 10th inst. it is stated that the British ship of war Powerful had arrived on the Ist with orders to unite there all the English and French forces stationed in the Mexican Gulf, and to start immediately for Nicaragua. Australian markets were dull, and provisions heavy. At Sydney flour had fallen in price, being down to 251. per ton, with very heavy stocks on hand. In Melbourne no less than 8,000 tons of flour and wheat had been stored for want of del, awl several cargoes were on the way, so that there was no prospect of famine. From Bermuda advices are to the 3d of Mara* The Governor had issued a proclamation dissolving the Parliament which bad been in existence for the usual period of six years. Writs for the election of new members had been issued. Her Britannic Majesty's ships Pembroke and Cornwallis were still at the island. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. The supply of floating capital in the money market was abundant, at 7 to 9. Orders 9 per cent, for first-class mercantile acceptances, and 6 to 7 per cent. on call. The statement for last week was unfavourable, the loans and discount' amounted to upwards of 104,500,000 dole. and _ 4 ,o' creased since the Ist of Decemb e r l as t 12,000,0_T,' dols. The specie reserv e s wer e about 14,000,0vu dols., showing a fall of only 2,750,000 dols. since the Ist of Dcember. This expansion was con' sidered dangerous to the commercial community. Exchange was flat at 9i to 91 on London ; sf' 18/c. to sf. 17ic., 60 days, and sf. 12ic. short sight, on Paris ; 361 to 36g on Bremen ; and 5 1 ' 17--e. on Antwerp. The cotton-market was buoyant, and a large business bad been transacted at latter prices be' tween Gulf Port and Europe. The receipts sine° the Ist of September last at all the ports wel l , 2,618,837 bales against 1,764,701 to same time 10 year ; 1,973,155 in 1854, and 2,605,065 in .1853. , Flour was in limited demand, at a decline 6c. for lower grades. For London kinds the de' cline was 121 c. to 25c. The market for pork had improved 25c., with °, light demand. In beef there was only a limited business. Prime mess was inactive. Bacon now tinned scarce, and was in good demand. Butte and cheese in limited demand. MITER BY TELEGRAPH.) NEW ORLEANS, MARCH 17. The cotton-market is quiet. Sales, 3,500 bale& MARCH 18. Cotton quiet. Sales to-day, 13,500 bales, at 91 0 ' to 9/c. for middling. Mess pork, 16 dols. Cotton freights to Liverpool, id. CHARLESTON, MARCH 17. Cotton active. Sales, 4,500 bales. RUSSIAN MANCEEI V.RING. The future policy of Russia has been evident for sour. tame past. Every effort will be made to weaken the bonds of amity between France and England. The fol• lowing extract from the last number of the Nord, the Russian organ at Brussels, will show the reckless svief in which the object is to be effected : "Lord Clarendon has plainly told the Emperor tbst all the respor2sibility of the treaty will be thrown upq i him, Napoleon 111. Lord Clarendon declares that England has not obtained conditions more unfavourable to Russia it is because the Emperor of the French wished fi , r nothing but peace : it was necessary either I° sign the treaty or to break off the alliance with Loui e Napoleon ; and Lord Clarendon and his colleagues hare/ thought that the possible advantages of a continuation of the war would not atone for this. As a sign of lo coneiliati ,, r, the plenipotentiaries have agreed to erase from the proces-verbal all record of the painful.disser sions and the bard words exchanged in the stormy sittisi of the 22d. But this will be the secret of the plal. One of these fine days you will see this same proce, verbal, non-revised and uncorrected, in some journal London or Turin." THE MISSING P ,FIC. (Prom five New York Tribune.) The Arabia has arrived, bringing no tidings of the steamier Pacific. The Arabia left Liverpool 37 days after the missing steamer. Upon the supposition that the Pacific was di,aned when she was half-way over, she had then 30 days to get back to port. Yet, of course► neither this nor any other supposition can be made with certainty. It is still less likely that she has been trying to make a port in the United States. It is now fifty days since she put to seal and if she bad met with so accident, and still kept on her ccurse, she could hardll have failed to reach our coast before this. Possiblit however, she has sailed in a crippled condition for the Azores or Western Island•. If she bad attempted this, five-and-twenty days would be a fair allowance of tin3 o for her to reach Fayal. Supposing her to bare arrived safely there in that time, we could scarcely hear from bet in less than thirty days more, and might not under forty or fifty. The communication with the Western Islands is wholly by sailing vessels, and the intercourse unfre' quent. We ought ❑ot, therefore, to consider the Fafetf of the Pacific wholly out of the question before the first week in April. But notwithstanding the cherished hope of her safety, based upon a highly probable mode of proceeding in mei Of the breaking of a shaft or other serious damage to her machinery, her continued absence fills the mind with air prehension. She had been out, at the sailing of the Arabia, five days longer than was the Atlantic at the tins° of her memorable disaster—the latter having reached Colic on the 32d day after leaving port. It seems hard to ad' init the loss of this noble ship ; bat while we consider the chances of her safety, we must not forget the circnor stances under which she was making her voyage. She 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, a nd with the highest reputation for speed and great expecte.. 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 ecean 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 perhaps 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 be• hind him cs well as before, may, in the darkness or night, have driven his craft straight upon the desolate and turbulent masses of Arctic ice, and ere he was aware f.,und 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 ? IRELAND. DUBLIN, MONDAY. On Saturday night a number of persons were assent• bled at a wake in the top room of a house in 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 , rged deed for 2,0001., on which the money has been paid, ha 4 been discovered in this city, and the f irger, who ii sot arrested, is a man who held a high position in society. Although the deed came over here from London 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 is 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 have the examination of Mr. James Sadleir conducted at his (the Master's) private house, but that much valuable infoimation 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 of 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, 1733 ; that of Aix-la Chapelle (Spain and Fra-ce), Tuesday, April SO, 1748 ; that cf 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 Holland, Tuesday, September, 2, 1783; that of A m i ens (R e volution), S a t ur d a y, March 27, 1802 ; that of Ghent (America) Saturday, December 24, 1814 ; and that of Paris (general), Monday, May 3 0 , 1814. So far as 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 ono 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 the peace is neither a work of necessity nor of Manchater Guardian. :04 0 11_ • TL gate forei and St,;, ca n 65 i