The Sun. — London, England, 1856-04-10 00:00:00

HHE R MAjE S T Y'S THE AT R E- 7 the rail wa y s , now i n con t emp l a ti on, ex i sted It is respectfully announced th it h er MAJESTY'S THEATRE _ will RE-OPEN early in May. Engagements of great interest have before the commencement of the War, the result been effected both in Opera and Ballet, and the best exertions used to make the arrangements worthy of the occasion. might have been very different. Men and su p- The prospectus will shortly be issued. plies could hay, been poured into the Crimea from the interior of Rilssia, and the difficulties which proved insuperable would have been com pletely got rid of. In tot there is but too much reason to suppose that Russia has merely post poned, not abandoned, her cherished policy. It is now perceived that NIOIIOLAS had made a wrong calculation, and that his attempt was decidedly premature. His successor can, however, afford to bide his time. He clearly perceives the difficul ties by which he was defeated, and can direct all, his energies to their removal. The alliance between France and England was his most formidable obstacle, and that he will endeavour to destroy or weaken. Very decided manifestations have already been made, all tend ing in that same direction. The Philo-Russian journals all flatter the EMPEROR, and lavish praises on his subjects, while England and the English are unsparingly abused. They strive to establish an entente cordiale with France, while ; they are really hostile to England, and pretend to be so towards Austria. The construction of the military lines of railway in the interior of the empire is another point to which they are directing attention ; and, as wo have seen, it is with English capital that they hope to achieve the desideratum. Thus doubly injuring this coun try, by increasing the strength of a nation whick, has very recently, and may again speedily, be arrayed in arms against her, and withdrawing the bullion• on which the national industry is de- SHEATHE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE, Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS ETE GI, IL TROVATORE. go e'n lade with THE ENCHANTED GARDEN. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. 'Mier the Management of Mr. Backstone. THIS EVENING, THE EVIL GENIUS. Followed by EL GAMBU3tXO ; or, The Mexican Goldsteker. In which PER El :MENA and the Spanish Dancers wit appear. After which, THE POSTMAN'S KNOCK. To conclude with ONLY A HALFPENNY. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-SrREST. Under the Management of Nfr. CUMIN HEAL THIS EVENING ;- HENRY VIII. Queen Katharine, Mrs. C. Kean; Cardinal Worsen Mr. C. Kean. To be followed by THE VICTOR VANQUISHED. To conclude with , A PRINCE FOR AN HOUR. taIiCATIM 11,01TAL ADKL,Pai. Proprietor, Mr. B. Web3tor.—Directress, Madame Ce TILTS EVENING, LIKE AND UNLIKE. To conclude with I WIC AND THE BE 4.,N - Harlequin and Mother Goose at Home Agala. Ia whie4 Veqsrs. J. 131,ind, P. Bedford, Madarne Ce!elite, Miss Wyndham. and Miss E. Arden will apaear. ROYAL OLYMPIC TITEATRE. Lessee and Manner, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EyENING STILL WATERS RUN DEEP. After which will be produced a New and deubly-moral, though excessively old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE DISCREET PRINCESS; or. the Three Glass Distaffs. I, wii.en tiieacry. Erne-y, F. Robson, U. Cooper, Miss Marston, and 4ias Maskell will appear. pendent. Were the Louis NAPOLEON of 1854 on the Imperial Throne, we should entertain but trivial apprehensions respecting the possibility of a Russo- French Alliance. But circumstances have changed New dynastic considerations are in operation that may possibly, and at no very remote period, lead to a truly Imperial fraternisation very injurious to the cause of liberty and cis ilisation throughout the entire world. We earnestly pray that the alliance between France and England may be perpetuated, that every day may strengthen • the bonds by which the two greatest monarchies of the earth are connected ; but we cannot remain blind or indifferent to the insidious attempts that may, and we fear have already been made to separate and disunite them. While matters are in this state, and while we are still ignorant of the terms of peace, the nation is . to be amused with a naval review to show the power that we really possessed when too late to direct it to any useful purpose. They may talk of "shutting the stable-door after the steed . has ' been stolen," but the English Government has been guilty of equal absurdity. So long as gun-boats were urgently required,. when their services would have enabled us to maintain the maritime supremacy of which we were accus• tomed to boast, and to inflict heavy, and Possibly fatal, blows against the enemy, we could not ob tain them ; but the moment that we were really in a position to adopt decisive measure's—that we were in possession of all the necessary means and applianees—then a humiliating truce is patched app. which .gives neither compensation for the past nor security for the future. We shall have the exhibition of the costly - farce as the sole compensation for the many serious sacrifices so cheerfully and unhesitatingly Aubinitted to by the tax- paying column - And then we snprse that they will Ix, :laid up in ordinary as enduring 'monuments.yf British folly in the latter part of the nineteenth century.. `Veil may .we be made the laughing stock of Europe, when the ridiculous subservience of the . once formidable British Lion to its Ger Manic keepers is noticed, and when it ii also shown that for two years we are accustomed -to defer the preparations es-ential to success, and when we have obtained them are ready to close with the first advance towards a reconciliation, although all the objects of the War may remaia unacco.n. plislied!. Wo are sold ! we are sold ! An I by whom ? and for whom ? LA the insidious but ungrateful German answer ! ROY it SC /REY TUSATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. THIS EVENING, Will be e erformel a new Drama, entttled ROW WE LIVE IN THE WO MD OF LONDON. Followed by THE POSTMAN'S KNOCK. To conclude with TUFFLEFIAUSEIN"; or, Th 3 Lawyer's Legend. ftJYAL WritASl) TkiltATß&. Er Icier the direction of Mr: Pk ne THIS EVE lING, 31Y WIFE'S COE-31N. After which, THE LOS C DIAMONDS. Fo'lowel by A Ba'kt Divertissement. After which, COOT) QUEEN B M. To conclude with XO! NO!! NO!!! ROYAL MARYLEBONE THEATRE. THURSDAY, Apr.l 10 h, last night tut one of 3fr.CII.4.RLY.S MATHEWS' Engagement. This Evening will be per'ormsd," THE GAME OF SPECULA TION. Mr. Affable Hawk, Mr. Charles Mathews. After which, TIIE GREAT GUN TRICK. The Wizard of the S S.W., Mr. Chas. Mathews. To cone:ucle with KATHERINE AND PETRUCHIG. Boxes, 2s. ; pit, Is.; gallery, Gd. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. E. Stirling. ANTI/Erg ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. • Lessea and Manager, Mr. win. Cooke. Tlll3 EVENING, That unique and umi, aralle'ed Ben xintre Equestrienne, a GENU INE ENGLISH STEEPLECIIASE! ' Also, the Oriental Spectacle, TIIE AT1.113 OF THE 13E$Ellt •AND 1118 FAITUFUL sIfEED. " • • , After which, the WONDER.g or 'VIE ARENA,_ by riders of •first-rate talent. • • . • • - To c , intinde with a •Dramt of 'Peril, Exclement. Laughter, 111s haps, tiroisings, Jostlings, and Adventuies, with Terrific -F.,exas from -tha Atage to the 1.414 in ENOr.A.NIY6 lid.RVE3t 1.1031 K ant NATIONAL rEET.LE'I3.IA.SE. Box-Wine open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager. iir West. Equestrian Director, AU Vi Cooke, Inn. EMMA STANLEY'S "SEVEN AGKS Or ,WOMAN." Tho Mana;er respectfully announces the THREE EAST molpf- ISO PERFORMANCES of this mist popular an lant!tug Enter tainment, Saturday, the 12th, Wednesday, tha . l6th, and Satur&iy, the 19th, at half-past two. , Evening perfoemancee as ttsusl, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Tharsdayi and F-idays, at g Admission—Back Seats, Is.; Centre Seats, 2s. ; 82.0,115, as. SAINT MAR rIN'S UALL, Long-acre. . HIGH' WATER AT LONDON THIS Det —Morn. 8 win. aft. s—Evening 31 min. aft. 5 PI-Honnow—Morn. 53 min. aft. 5 —Evoning 17 win. aft. 6 THE WEATHER—Strx OFPICE, APRIL 10. THIERMONItTER, IN TIM &lAD& 55 highest since noon yesterday. 43—lowest this mu; 4nd Itirrn t ch., night. 6) -Ws day at BAR()IfETER, 2 )•22—now np to 29'33. WIND, variable from S.W. to W.N.W.—Fresh and squally, with dull, rainy weather in the morning ; now lino. f 4 , ( : 1) i Z / 34c A popular author says somewhere that there is a passion in human nature to hunt something, and really the tenacity with which the Oath of Abjuration is maintained lends some sort of coun tenance to the remark, so far as the members of the Legislature are concerned. Here is an o tth, which, however well or ill calculated originally to operate as a safeguard against a positive danger, has become practically useless for its avowed ob ject, through the utter extinction of that danger, still enforced and defended, not because the non existence of an heir to the PEETENDERis doubted, but because the oath is so worded as to exclude an industrious and inoffensive body of religionists whom it was never designed to exclude, and whose only fault, so far as we can discern, is— they believe in the Old and not in the New Testament. All sorts of restrictive and pertecuting laws the present century has seen repealed— Dis - ienters and Ronan Ca tholics have alike been relieved of their civil and-. religious disabilities yet the luckless Jew' remains to this hour excluded from a seat in Paillanient. And this notwithstanding the citi zens of the metropolis have elected and re-eleced Jew as one of their representatives, and he for nine long years' has sought admission, during Which,period successive efforts have been made in. the House to have such admission granted ; not withstanding, too, the execution of the .last dreial penalty of the law has been entrusted to a Jew in the Capacity of High Sheriff ; and, since iVovem ber last, a member of the same long -persecuted race has occupied the chair of Chief Magistrate of the metropolis of the kingdom, and has had the insignia of the highest civic dignity borne before him. The remark of the author referred to may be an exaggeration; - but to a large proportion of he members of the Legislature the hunting of a Jew would seem to aff)rd a singular gratification. Sir FREDERICK DIESIGER,.it is true, discovers in the wording of the Abjuration Oath a formal reengnition of, the Protestant succession to the Crown ; but, with all deference to his lawyer-like ingerOity, that, if,_ as he asserts, not to be .found elsewhere, might • maintaining intaC readily b e prov id e d f or w ith ou t t an oath unintentionally -produc tive of so gross an injustice.. That the terms of tl e . oath, 4 . 4 on the trite' faith 'of -a Chtiatian " were not ) originally directed, agalnst the Jews he himself admits, but would have it- inferred they were designedly included,in its meshes afterwards, of which there is not the shadow o f . a proof...= This, we suppose, was thrown out to get rid of the grave imputation of countenancing the perpetva tion Hof . an . a - dmitted wrong to obViate . the re motest Possible:danger: Still more apparent -was the real animus of the opposition to the bill in his introduction of the hackneyed and utterly-absurd argument, that the admission of Jews would un- Christianise the house. Is there any special con tamination, it may well be asked, in a Jew tLat he should eireet what infidels, givers of bribes, and forgers -and robbers (SA DLErn, fur instance) ba,va been unable to do ? A Jew at least believes the Old Testament, and professes to be bound by LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1856. Peace has bean officially recognised -both at home and abroad. The naval blockade haa been raised. Russia has authorised the admission of the vessels of the . Western Power's to her portS, .• and has removed the prohibition on the expor tation of corn—while orders in Council have keen published, Permitting the clearing and departure of vessels for . Russian ports, and allowing the expor tationOf.the various articles comprehended within the designation of materiel of war. And all this time the Parliament and People of, the United, Kingdom - are kept profoundly ignorant of the terms and conditions of the Treaty. They mu: t, forsooth, await its formal ratification before the. slightest information can be doled forth. This is inanifestly a.-deliberate and wanton insult. I. is intended as an intimation tint neither of the • hereditary branches of the Legislature have any thing to dOwith the 'questions of PeaCepr War, beyond Vain with cheerful and, unhesitating readiness the sums demanded by or . on behalf of . , the Eiecntive. They are required to acknowledge : the Royal Prerogative to an extent fully equal 't- what was demanded in•the days of . the l'uncon.s : and tO:An4 that, it; these matters' at leait, thereaiN,po- limitation to the -power of the British Monarchy, but'that it is to al/ intents and pur poses as -absolute aS the de,:potie sovereignties of the Continent. And yet no - representative has pro tested against this anomalous state of affairs — has demanded even, the recognition of his order, or an official intimation of the, cessatio n of_ hof tilities. If peace' is placed beyoud,the possibility of doubt, a message to that effent;stating th e term; should have been forthwith communicated to both Houses ! If not, the prohibitions against the exportation of the contraband of war should not be removed. Ministers are thus placed in a di lemma,on one born or the other of which they must be tossed, but still the members of both branches of the Legislature' are contented to hug their ' collars, and to consent to the abdication of their constitutional functions, i n pursuance of the highly-prized Gefman models ! We confess that we had anticipated a greater :display_ of in dependence on the part of our: rcpresen tativei--had hoped that the coltjectilriaAle precedent' cou ld not have been =establish d some appearance of - opposition. We fancy that the several cOnstituer cies will participate' in these opinions, and -- feel that those whom they have elevated.L.tolionourabt!e positions have not adequately defended the privileges that should be attached thereto. Nor i 3 it 1 0 7 'cia l lif only, that the symptoms of peace are already manifested. Not only are we to send our sterling gold: —on the possession whereof so much depends, under the existing monetary code--in exchange for Russian pro duce, but we aro to raise capital for the Con s truo of Rosiart Rail yrais, Had .`41..,44;-,1,1 ‘,..a@t• TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH CONSTANTINOPLE. —The following information respecting the Ottoman Electric Telegraph between Shumla and Constantinop'e has been forwarded to us for publication :—" The Otto man electric telegraph between Shumla and Constanti nople is now open for the transmission of private despatches. Every despatch must be superscribed ' Vole d'Adrianople.' By reason of the breaking of the line across the Danube, which cannot be remedied until the return of fine weather, such despatches must all bear the indication, Gouverneur de Roustchouk.' The zonal distance from Giurgevo to Shumla is three zones ; that from Shumla to Adrianople two zones ; and that from Shumla to Constantinople three zones. The tele graphic offices in England will, on sending such despatches, receive the total charge not only as far as Giurgevo, but tiraugh to their final destination, not withstanding the indication ' Gouverneur de Roust chouk,' which is merely intended to insure their trans mission across the Danube.—Ottoman Embassy, Lon don, April S." CHIPPENHAM ELECTION. —The election of a represen tative for this borough, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Mr. Joseph Neeld, took place yesterday. There was only one candidate, and the matter created very little interest. After the usual preliminaries, the Mayor (Mr. T. A. Fellowes) briefly opened the proceedings. Mr. .W. Colborne, the late Mayor of the borough, then came forward, and, after paying a touching tribute to the me mory of the late Mr. Neeld, proposed Mr. Robert Parry Nisbet, of Southbrouni-honse, in the county of Wilts, as a fit and proper person to represent the borough in_ Pate liament. The nomination was briefly seconded by Mr. _Wilson, and, no other candidate appearing, the Mayor dec'ared Mr. Nisbet duly elected. Mr. Nisbet then ad dressed the electors, and, after thanking them for the high honour conferred upon him, and making a few re marks upon local topics, he stated that, although . a Con servative, he was willing to support all measures of sound reform that.might be brought into Parliament, and was prepared to support any plan that would place the vexed question of. churchrrrates on a more satisfactory footing. A. vote of thanks was then given to the Mayor, and three cheers for the Qieen and the new member, and the pr ceedings, which did not occupy half an hoer, ter minated. NEW ROCHESTER BRIDGE.—On the conclusion of the meeting of the bridgewardens at R"cheater Castle. on Friday last, the wardens held a private meeting at their usual place, when the subject of the approaching com oletion of the new , iron bridge was taken into considera tion. Sir. W. Cubitt, the engineer of the works, was directed to prepare plans and statements for taking down the old bridge, with the view of their being laid before the wardens at the next Meeting, on the 15th of May, for their approval, the wardens being desirous of com mencing the taking down of the present bridge on the same day that the new one will be opened. An opinion waa„.also, expressed, that the old bridge should be re moved as speedily as possible, and it was stated that there appeared to be little doubt that every part of that structure would be removed and cleared away by Christ was next: The bridgewardens have also acceded to the request made by the inhabitants of Strood and others, and have given directions for stairs to be erected on the ..s'trood side of the river, which will be of great conveni ence to persons having occasion to use the liver. We understand that the precise day for opening the bridge has not yet been named ; but there is every reason to believe that it will take place some time in the last week in June. There appears to be a pretty general belief current that his Royal Highness Prince Albert wilt be present at the ceremony, but the bridgewardens have not been assured that such will positively be the case.-- -SeittheE'rstern Gazette. CIVIL SERVICES, No. V.—The estimates for Clii Services, under the branch " Colonial, Consular, and Other 1 1 ( reign Services," have been printed. . The amount required for •the year 1856 is stated by the Treasury to be 320,265/., against 328,3441., last year, thus showing a decrease of 8,0791. The items include 12,0001. for the support of captured negroes, • 11,050/. for. the "Suppression of Slave Trade Commissione," 167,493/. for consuls abroad, and 25,0001. for " extra ordinery', expenses Ministers at foreign Courts. The eccleeia Wel establishment of the British North Ameri• can provinces figures for 7,3971., including 1,9901., the salary of the Bi-h rp of Qiebec, and 2,7621. for 'foreign missionaries of the Society for Propagating • the Gospel. The civil establishment on the Western Coast of Africa figures for 10,2301., of w hich 2,000/. is for Sierra Leone, 4,2301 for Gambia, an't 4,0001. for the Gold Coast. ,The isle of St. Helena cost= tie country a sum of 10,8461 , principally fo r p ens i ons an d ret i re d allowances), and•t hat et Heligoland 9601. The Falkland Islands fieure for 2,901/. For expenses of emigration from this country 14,582/. is required. 3,329/. is deman led for the es tablishment of a new consulate at Bangkok, in Siam. under the new treaty, the consul to receive a salary of 1,2001. RUSSIAN RarmArs.--The prospectus of the first of the anticipated' Russian railway companies has been put forth, the line being nue that was about to be introduced justsbefiree the commencement of the war. It is to he called the Cemtnercial Railway of Russia, Riga, and Dunahurg, . and the capital re qu i re d is 1,600 0001. in 20;00 shares of 100/: each, to be issued at 80. On these sharee the Russien Government guarantee a mimmu ititersit of 4 per cent., which to eub-cribers at the price of 80. will yield - 5 per cent: Tho dividends are to he payable half-yearly in London, St. Petersburg, and Riga, and the sum proposed to be raised covers a pro eision for the payment of interest during construction, 'An additional half per cent is also guaranteed to form a sinking fund to redeem the shares at par within 56 years. The concession was granted to the committee of the Riga Exchange, comprising the foreign Ire remits at that place, by whom all the requisite surveyseind esti mates have been procured, and the company are to have des-lute control both as regards construction and ma nagement; • The length of the line w ill b e a b out 1 40 inilealrom Riga to Dunabure, where it will j On about midway thegreat line from St. Petersburg to Warsaw, now in progress. The chief advantages c mtemplated are those to be dt rived from its power of tren , p nrting the produce of the interior and central province to the port of Rigs during the long period in which the river navigation is closed by ice ; and a belief is stated in the prospectus that it roust become the main commercial trunk line from the north and west of Russia. The lin don Board of Directors consists at present of a few mer chants lir„o'y connected with Riga, and. Mr. John Hawkshaw is to be the engineer. The terms granted furnish an illustration of the determina tion of Russia to obtain whatever amount of aritish capital she may require to promote the growth of her ports and develope the power and resources of her territory ; and, as Austria intends to follow a similar course, and both are likely to he imitated by all the German and other •continental States, no forebodings can be too great with regard to the drain to which, with the progress of specu lation, we are likely in a year or two to be exposed. THE RECENT COLLISION AT GIBRALTAR —ln 7he Sun. of Tuesday we gave an account from the Gibraltar Chronicle of March 29, of thecollision between the steam: ship Mew and the British sailing transport Miedere The Chronicle of the 31st of March contains the state ment made by the master of the Minden relative to the accident. He describes the weather as being very hazy, at the t:me. Those on beard did not apprehend any dan ger of collision, and he therefore did not think it neces- • sary to alter the eotirse of the ship, as the vessels woilldt have passed quite c'ear of each other if they had both. continued their respective courses ; but within a minute or t ea) after the master caught sight of the steamer the latter suddenly altered her course by porting her he'ni,_ which ca.usei herto shoot under the bows of the Minden. - The,jibboom of the latter, coming in contact with one of the mests of the steamer Mino, was carried away, and the bowsprit knocked down the steamer's funnel.. The stem of the Minden then struck with a severe shock, azainst the broadiide of the steamer. The master of the Minden rendered all the assistance be could, and his first boat had just succeeded in reaching the steam er•when she -ank, stern foremost, Capt. Marshall proceeds to say: , that the boat saved 21 persons, viz., 2 ladies and 2 gen tlemen- (passengers) arid 17 of the crew, including the second engineer, the boats Wain, arid h r second steward. The time that elapsed from the collision to the sinking of the steamer did not exceed ten minutes. The b remained for three-suarterg of an hour near the spot in the hope of saving to re lives, the ship being hove to all the time ' with her mai n an d w i zen topsa il s a b ac k an d her head to the northward ; the hearings of Tarifa light it the time of the collision being W. and by N., Europa light hearing Isl.E..and by . E. half E. The ship inintedi ately began to fire.guns, anal continued to do so at in terval; for an hour, firing 27 reunds in all, and burning blue lights and rockets in the hope of getting assistance. At 4-axe. the boats returned with the persirron saved, and they had every assistance rendered them on board the Minden. They informed Captain Marshall that the steamer had altogether 109 souls on board, the engineer at the same time remarking that he hart received no or dere to-stop the engines, but that he stopped them him self after the collision Obis own accord. THE NIGHTINGALE FUND. —The total sum subscribed up to the present : time. to this fund, intended as a re cord of national. gratitude to Miss Nightingale for the invaluable services rendered by her to the sick and wounded of the British forces ‘ during the recent war, and raised to enable her to establish an institution fir ' the moral law. The fact is, the Opposition well know that a wrong was accidentally done to the Jew by the wording of the oath, and the spirit of religious persecution is so strong in them, that they must persist in perpetuating that wrong at whatever expense to their moral and legislatorial character. The majority obtained in favour of the bill, it is to be hoped, will teach them that the period is gone by, in this kingdom at least, for religious persecution, if recent events have failed to convince them this is not a time for the perpetuation of causes of immorality, which need less oaths undoubtedly are. Our readers will have seen in The Sun of yeti• terday that the Liverpool Financial Reform Assc ciation has taken up vigorously the report, on which we commented the other day, of a dowry of 70,000/. per annum for the Princess Royal, on her marriage with the Prince of Prussia. Iu an address whidi every constituency in the king dom ought to read, they exhibit the, extravagance of the proposal in its right light. We are glad they have done so. If public opinion display itself as may be expected, a question asked by some successor to Mr. Hum; "in his place in Parliament," will receive the reply that the report is a report merely, having no foundation whatever. If no stir be made A e shall assuredly have a repetition pretty nearly of the 100,0001. a-year to Queen Anntarns. It is really very unwise in our Ministers to teach and cherish avarice in the Royal Family. Why should they_ compel the nation to regard the young creatures as so many burdens, and prompt the remark, on the death of each, "So much saved to the country 1" Mode rato incomes for each no one grudges. The Royal Dukes of GEORGE 111. bad, if we remember right, about 20,0001. each—a comfortable living, in all conscience, for those who neither toil nor spin. But as to the Princesses, we trust the nation will refuse to maintain them abroad. Prussia has surely pocketed enough at the cost of this country by her transit trade with the enemy, in addition to her millions saved, like Austria, by her cowar dice or despotism, refusing to fight in the interest of Europe. If our young Princes want German wives, as very likely they will, we wonder how much the Duke, or Margrave, or Landgrave, or Count, or nobody knows what, will allow his daughter ? We take it, England will have to maintain both, and perhaps give the husband a sinecure Colonelcy, intended for the reward of special services, or a Marshal's baton, for service in the field of deer-stalking. Let Prussia do WO must do, if against the wish of England she will have our. Princess Royal. The Chancellor of the Ekchequer's Bill to pre vent our insuring in French offices is now pub lished, as our readers will have already seen. Sir COR'NEWALL LEWIS, no doubt, thinks he has ex tinguished French insurance here as completely as he thinks he has the regal history of Rome. Looking at his bill we will not deny that it is well 'calculated to prevent open agency on behalf of a foreign company. All that the surplusage of legal phraseology and heavy penalties can do Sir CORNEWALL LEWIS has done. Any person in any manner negotiating, &c., Vic., the insurance is to be considered an agent for a foreign company, and must be licensed, under a penalty of 1001. per day ! Every insurance also, wherever the policy or note be issued and signed, or if there bt uo, policy at all, must pay the policy stamp and the duty of cent. per cent., or of one hundred and fifty Per cent.! Surely the net has not a single hole in it—much less, to use Lord ELDON'S phrase, can a coach-and-ix be. driven through the Act. Yet we are confident that very little ingenuity will suffice to evade it extensively. Nothing for bids, or can well forbid, adVertising a French office in the English papers, and direct correspon dence on the part of the insurer with the French There is no person appointed to receive the duty from insurers, nor could each insurer be required to bring the duty to Somerset-house or the Stamp.office. No person need act as an agent in obtaining the proposal for insurance. It could be made so full in its particulars that wrong de scription would be impossible; and as wilful mis description renders a policy void, the insurer would not venture on fraud of that kind ; the cheapness of the insurance, and the penalty in case of fire would secure correct proposals. In cases of fire, it would be no difficulty whatever to have reliable valuers of losses in every locality, and the bill does not, and cannot, make a valuer an agent for insuring. Direct communication with France is now as easy as between English towns, and will frustrate all attempts to maintain exorbitant duties. His Royal Hig,hne:s Prince Albert honoured the Cri mean Exhibition, 121, Pall-Mall, with a visit yesterday.' Sir James Duke was on duty at the Old. Bailey Ses shins till 5 o'clock, and reached tho houSe just too late to vote in favour of Mr. Gibson's bill. The Attorney-General for Ireland was re elected for Ennis on Tuesday without opposition. Mr. William Evans, late M.P. for Deibyibire, died, at hi 3 residence, Allestree-hall, Derbyshire, after a short illness, at about four o'clock last Tuesday mornin g . A new college i s t o be erected, at a cost of 30,000/. Ltandaff, for female orphans of the clergy, in connec tion pith Hord's Charity. The Hon. Leslie Melville, one of the directors of the East India C , mpany; died on the evening of the 8,,h, after a sudden attack of paralysis. ThiS ()Vent places another seat in the direction of the disposal of Crown. —Smith arid - Davis - 0, erland" Mail. THE BAND IN KENSINGTON GARDENS::—Orders have been is-ued by the aurnor;ties at the ET-rse Guards that Vie band of the Royal florse Guards Blue shall play on Sunday next in Ken,ington Gardens from 4 till 6, wea ther permitting. A Land will play on each succeeding Sunday, and the time of the performance will probably vary as the ,3 , -asM allvandes.. THE EMBASSY AT CONSTANTINOPLE.—We have the nest grounds for stating that there is no truth in rumours whieti have lately been current, to the eft ct that Sir Edmund Lions is aoeit to replace Lord Stratford de Redeliff! ,, as Br;ti-h Amliasstelor at Constantinople. Sir Edmund has gone to the Mediterranean for the purine of . r ,, suming his command. Lord Stratford, there is no reason to doubt, will retain his post.- - Morning Post. The g.:;11 brought by the Red Jacket on Tuesday is understeed to amount to 443,0001., instead ~f 402,7001., as stated. There was .aliktrtetween 20,0001 aid 40,0001. in the hands of passengers. The whole will be taken to the Bank of England, and the arrival is opportune, the sums wilhdrawn for transmission to the East during the last week or two having been very heavy. EAST INDIA-NOUSE. —Ye terday a Court of Directors was 'held at the .East India-house, when the. thanks .cf he COurt were voted unanimously to Mr. Elliot Mac naghten, c !airman, and colonel William Henry Sakes, depot : , -c iairruan, for their great. application and atten tion to the affairs of the East India Company during the past y, ar. KING 803f13A AND HIS INSULTS TO ENGLAND.--We read in a letter from Naples :—" The French Minister's ball will take place on the .14th inst., and the , King has signified his intention to. be present, having de clined so to honour the ball of the British Minister, Sir William Temple. • The contrast in the. mode of treating the several legations is but too significant of the Royal feeling—he fears and respects the one country, whilst the other he has been permitted too long to insult by a .series of little grievances and annoyances. The French Minister, M..Brenier, regards this as rather a diplomatic triumph,. and not a little plumes himself upcn it." TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 31.—The commercial world-of Galata is just now thrown into a state of considerable excitement by a rather curious lawsuit -between an _English merchant and an Austrian banking &in.. 13Oth parties are reckoned among the most respectable houses of this place, and they have been for years connected in• business. Only lately they transacted together some very exten sive business as contractors for the French army, and it is from this latter business that the lawsuit has arisen. Ttiey! undertook last year to supply cattle and lost a great many by epidemic. This year the English house alone concluded under very favourable terms a contract with the French lutendance to ,furnish several thousand ,heads of - Cattle: : per-1.. month, and has in consequence •of it at this present moment .a claim for 24,0001. upon the - French Con missariat. Now the Austrian firm comes forward with a bill for 1,000,000 piasters, and asks on the Strength of it the sequestration of the 24,0001. The English heuse raises the objection that the bill was only one .:for aecommothtion, which can .be easily seen from the accounts current between the training, sustenance, and protection of nurses and hospital att,ndarit,A, is very little, if at all, short. of 30,0001. The more recent contributions include 1,8721. from M. and Madame Goldschmidt-Lind ; 8001. from the citiz'ns of Mancheater ; 6501. from Oxford ; 4001.. from E linburgh.; 300/. from Bath ; 2551. odd from'Bol: ton ; 111/. from 'Winchester ; - 3361., a further remittance front the British army in the Crimea ; and 1741. from the officers, chaplains, and soldiers statimed at Scutari.. The - commiltee for managing the fund acknowledge with much gratification tho contributions of a large number, of the clergy of various denominations, the aid they have received, and are receiving, from British 'ambassadors and consuls in various parts of the world ; and refer with pleasure to the large sums contributed by the army at home and abroad. A letter from Lord William Paulet, ,J which conveyed the subscriptocs from the Crimea, bears testimony to the ready and hearty manner with which the whole army there had responded to . the''appear made to it on behalf of.the objects of the fund ; andhe adds that, jud g i ng f rom. the amount subs cr ib e d by the several divisions and departments, the committee of which he is the chairman have reason to believe that every officer and !soldier had contributed a . day's pay towards it ; and they feel that the unanimity and wit• lingness with which these contributions had been made afford the strongest testimony. both to the value . of the. services which Missi gightingaNs has rendered to the army, and to the appreciation in which those services are held by those iti . whose behalf they were undertaken. The committee are also .in communication with the au thorities.in the colonies, from many of whom they have received offers of co-operation, and they especially direct attection to de;restilts already obtained from the ag gregate of sm=all subseriftions collected throughout the kingdom, THE LATE BOILER EXPLOSION IN PORTSMOUTH DOCK YARD.--The coroner's inquest upon the bodies has been thrice tuijournEd, and again postponed till this evening. An inquest was held yesterday, at Hadar, by the county Coroner, Lonf , croft, Esq., and a respectable body of jurymen. The ?acts were clearly stated. It was proved to evidence that the safety-valves were in proper order ; that the gauge cocks had previously to the accident been tested. The driver (Edwards) stated that he was at a loss to account for the deplorable result, at which time he was within, a few ,feet of the boiler. This man has been in the service nearly eight years, bears a most excellent character, and has always been accustomed to high-pressure engines. The coroner, in summing up, delivered an intpresOve address to the jury,. after which they e w v e a s a h v e e l r d d i o c u t p ot " arre A t, ce w id ho ent h a a l a de s a u t u b s .' e ciru e T a h t e iy a s b u o nk % e under the shook; • :the twoThousel.. As the cas(CP.l likween an English and Austrian subject, the usual custom of the place, which fol lows French law in this respect, admits the seques tration, and the English Consul-General has, at The request of the plaintiff, locked up the 24,0001. until the question has been decided. This morning the sound of 101 guns announced to us that peace had been signed. As the end of irmistice approached rumours of t'ao racst dif fereut nature began to' circulate—n)w that the armistice hail been,prOlonged---then that the news of the actual conclusion of peace had arrived —and again that unforeieen but not insurmountable dif ficUlties having arisen the war would be continued, as well as the negotiations, The ealuto this Dm- TIIE SUN, LONDON, TIICPSDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 18 LATEST' NEWS. OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. - • (Front the Times Correspondent.) • ' CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, MARCH 28. The occupations of au army during a cessation of hostilities differ but little from those of our mili tary training-schools at Aldershott or the Curragh, and, but for the vicinity of our enemy, the traces of the late protracted conflict, and the severity of the Crimean spring, there would be little to dis tinguish this vast camp of English, French, and Sardinians from the ordinary standing camps which are more comnionly seen upon the continent thau among ourselves. All the open spaces on the pla teau arc covered every morning with our battalions at drill or exercise. The day that is not fora di visionallitspection is sure to. be devoted either to brigade or regimental drill, and there is no-doubt but that the British army is now fast assuming that rigidity and regularity which our . military men so ..much :admire, but which in this war at least hai on no occasion been of service to us. The Light Division, broken in two almost by tied' abstraction' of the ' 77th and 88th at the Alma, charged . the. Russian batteriee under the very nose of SireGearge Brown in such formation arid - order as would have insured every officer and man weeks of extra drill from that eallantollieer in peace time. - The 30th, 55 li; and 95th of EVans's Divisiore.wete also speedily deprived of their orderly formation: At Inkerman.the regiments were broken up and fought man by man or in little groups, meet ing the;Surge of -the Russians by so - many shifting points of-steel and fire ;- and in the attacks on the Redan there was no formation at all, from th e time the men left the. treliChes till they returned, and the place was attacked by a brave and devoted armed mob. -S unte considerations connected with these matters Might tempt our chiefs to consider whethet weer 'drill might not be submitted- to some modificationS No military man dares to propose the revision of our - mead books, hut there is- not one of them who could not point ou t kaults and ab surdities in them. • TUESDAY.—As yet I have trimly seen two Russian • officers across - the Tchernaya, and that was yesterday at the races ; but it is affirmed that one or two have ridden into Balaklava, and that some others have been taken to liarniesh and entertained by French officers, greatly to the anger of the Marshal. The Russians do not disguise their joy. at the pro spects of peace, and, indeed, they must have suf fered enormously iu the siege. They say that the shot of the allies sometimes struck their boats full of men, crossing from the north side, and sunk them, and they take pride in relating the horrors of the siege. Some of them will never be known-. Mr. Deane, the diver, has, however, larOught others to light. Close by the ruins 'of Fort Paul, whence the bridge started to the north side, he dis covered, at the bottom of the harbour, a battery of field-artillery, horses, men, and all entangled in the harness, and with their skeletons just hang: ing together in the network of leather. He has fished up five field-pieces and two howitzers. They are filled with mud, but they can soon be made fit for Woolwich. The wood of the carriages has been utterly destroyed by. the teredo navalis, or what ever it is which lives on such hard fare or in such hard quarters . as the best old oak affords. On the skeleton of one of the horses there were the bones of a driver held together by the rags of his uniform, and with his foot still in the stirrup. The Candia'.has arrived with Captain Gardiner's troop of Royal- Horse Artillery • but they have been ordered not t o l an d f or the present. The mail has arrived, and it is rumoured that the ar- : mistice has been extended to the 10th of April. WEDNESDAY.--" Returns" are the order of the day. One which has been ordered, of the names of all officers who have been present with their regi ments without leaving_the Crimea since the 14th.. of September, :1854 (Old Fort), to March 20, 1856, has excited an immense amount of hope and con jeeture among the very few lucky men whose names will appear in it. There was a review of about 40 French batta lions and of two regiments of Cuirassiers to-day behind the Feduikhine heights on the plains .of. Balaklava. The whole of the army of the Tcher naya was under arms, and presented a very meg nificent spectacle. The Marshal and a large staff . of Generals and many of the English and Sardinian sniff were on the" ground, and, notwithstanding the coldness of the day, many spectators watched the evolutions of the troops and the charges of the cavalry for several hours. THURSDAY.-Last eight the performances at the Fusilier Theatre, Light Division, were attended by Sir W.: Cedrington, and went off with great success. There was the usual drill of several. bri gades of the English army to-day, in spite of the extreme cold. The French surgeons are visiting our hospitals, and are said to be loud in praises of our arrangements. I regret to. state that Miss Nightingale has received a slight injury from the upsetting of a vehicle, in which, with other sisters, she was coming up to the front from Balaklava. Her back is hurt, and she is at present at the - Castle Hospital. We all hope for her speedy and complete recovery. Col. M'Murdo, of the Land Transport Corps, has arrived, and is busied with the arrangement of his' department, which the news of peace has in some degree pa ralysed. The soldiers are going back to their regi ments in some cases. What is to become of the non-commissioned officers who have received com missions from the line which have not yet been confirmed at home ? But, above all, how will those deserving officers who have received the brevent rank of Major in the Army for their ser vice in the corps be treated ? FRIDAY.—The north wind continued to blew throughout the night up till eight o'clock this morning, and at six a.m. the thermometer was down to 12 deg. Fahrenheit. Soon afterwards a change took plaee, and the thermometer rose to 24 deg. The conduct of the north wind is the more provoking ; that we have a bright sun daily, and between them both one must be very tough or very clever to escape some species of catarrh. The un fortunate erocuses, snowdrops, and other bulbs which have shot up their buds to greet the warm sun have received rude welcome and scant en• oouragemcnt from the cold aid nipping air. •. About 11 o'clock a.m. a st rong di v i s i on o f t h e Russian army appeared on the p ara d e groun d a b ove the heights of Inkerman, on the north side, and were engaged for a couple of hours in performing the ordinary manoeuvres' of a field-day; within sight of them the 2d Brigade of the Light Division. was occupied in a similar manner ; and all that flash and show of glittering arms were the more pleasing to the spectator that they heralded n& bloodshed and augured no coming battle. tell, Rumours of peace fly swiftly through the camp, and the extension of the armistice to the 10th of April is regarded as its certain preliminary. All thoughts are turned towards *ma, but it cannot be denied that the sudden prospect of peace -has .given a rude shook to those eager soldiers who ree „garded the armistice but as a breathing-time given to the enemy; and to those newly-c: ea el departe ments which, forced to an exuberant development `in the hotbed of•our necessities, will now possibly 'be deprived of theme isure f evour and encourage ment which the Civility, devotion, sincerity, and :zeal of those who organised and adopted them have. Aniquestionably entitled them to expect. SA TURD.A.IS'.—TIie -weather has again changed. The thermometer s which fell 18 degrees last night, has risen this morning to 30 degrees, with a light Southerly breeze and`cloticly sky.. The Brigadiers have taken advantage of the weather, and the various brigades are now drilling on the plateau overlooking the Tchernaya. i rig put an end to all these conjec , .ures. Although the whole commercial world here was interested in the continuation of war, the belief especially during th 3 latter part of the negotiations was more in favour of peace, —Although only fragmentary and .oftca, .very. apocryphal news reached the public about; the progress of the conferences, yet the tele graphic orders s en t ou t t o cease warlike prepara tions and the settling of contracts somehow or other transpired, and helped to confirm people's belief in peace. The grand review of the English troops at Sc;u tari, which had been fixed for Saturday last, has been postponed on account of the bad weather. As that day wax not fine the Sultan named to-day (Monday), The rain yesterday and tc-day, how ever, caused, it again to be postponed to an inde finite period. A very suspicious epidemic has broken out Amovg, tlae.,Artillery horses belonging to the bat tery stationed iu Galata-serai. On Wednesday last thif•horses were as usual taken to be watered at the troughs erected within the enclosure of the building ; soon after they returned, the horses, which had been quite well before and in excellent condition,i began to show symptoms of uneasi ness ; they refused to eat anti becaine rest less. This restlessness goon turned ' into a spasmod:p nervousness '; the horses began to tremble in, all their limbs, and the palpi t ttions of the heatt were ..so violent that they could be distinctly heard. In spite of the efforts of the veterinary surgeons attached to the battery, these symptoms in some of the horses soon changed into a state of the must acute agony. They stood up erect on their hind legS; or threw themselves in violeut convulsions , on the ground. The males seemed to become rigid iu some, while others swelled to in enormous size. By next morning 1.3 of them were dead, while all the horses which had gone out first to water were more or less ill. Seve ral of:fthe ,horses Were opened, but nothing was found except a congestion of the intestines, scarcely sufficient to :cause death. Since th en thel inteS tine have been sent over to Sjutati to be chemi cally el'arnined by an analytic commission formed for the purpose. Of course, until this inquiry is concluded, it is impossible to say what the cause of this stidden illness and death was, but all the cir ctunstanees which have hitherto come to light seem to point out a cage of poisoning on a large scale. The first idea suggested was that some poison ous plant might have impregnated the hay, but on examination not only no trace was found of this —but likewise, although all horses received the hay indiscriminately from the same bales, there were many which were - not attacked. All the horses that died and that were seriously attacked belonged to the first batch that was taken out to water. When they had drunk, the water in the troughs was removed, and the second batch, the troop of Captain Oakes, of the 12th Lancers, which drank from this water, showed indeed symptoms of ill ness, but none died.. A detachment of Artillery horses and the other troop of the 12th, that had been out., drilling, came in late, and which were only watered . in the afternoon, when the water had again been removed, were not attacked at all. Besides this, all the horses which died were those which drank from the troughs in the middle, where the water runs out from the fountain, while those more towards the end escaped altogether, or were only slightly attacked. One driver deposes that, of t he two horses .iu his charge, one which seemed very thirsty and drank a great deal, was one of the first dead, while the other, having tasted the water, refused to drink, although repeatedly brought to the trough, and this horse never was ill. What ever the cause was, the effects showed themselves on the muscular and nervous system especially, although the symptoms were of the most different character. Up to this morning 2) horses have died, and several More are expected to die. All these horses were attacked at the same time, and not one case showed itself since the first day, which puts epidemic. ut of the question. The syniptou.s remind one very much of those lately so much dis cussed, of - strychnine. The aaseuce of any visible cause of death in the dissected horses suggests the same idea. Every measure has been in - the mean time taken to . .clear up thiS case, although the absence of the necessary means for a chemical analysis may render this rather difficult. RUSSIA. THE IMPERIAL MANIFESTO. - - - - The following is a translation of the Imperial Manifesto, ptiblished at St. Petersburg on the Ist of April, to announce the signing of the treaty of peace : "The obstinate and sanguinary struggle which, for nearly three years, has subverted Europe, has at last ceased. It was not Russia that commenced it. Even before it broke out my late august father, of imperish able memory, solemnly declared to his faithful subjects, and to al the foreivi Powers, that the sole object of his desires and of his efforts had been to protect the rights of our co-religionists in the East, and to put an end to the persecutions to which they were subjected. "A stranger Lc) all interested views, he never expected that his just complaints (reclamations) would have re sulted in the scourge of war; and considering its calami ties with a deep feeling of sorrow as a Christian, and as the fattier of the people entrusted by Providence to his care, he did not cease manifesting his inclination in favour of peace. But the negotiations which were opened shortly before his death, on the sulject of the conditiers of that peace, which was a necessity for us all, remained without success. " The Governments which have formed a hostile coali tion against us had not discontinued their armaments ; pondieg the negotiations they had oven increased them ; the war had to follow its course, and we continued it with firm hope in the protection of the Most 11i.411 and firm confide:)ce in the unshaken devotion of our well beloved subjects. Our expectations were justified. Dur;ng that period of hard trials our faithful and brave soldiers, as well as all our people, without distinction 'of class, proved themselves, s always, worthy of their high calling. Along the whole extent of our empire, from the shores of the Pacific Ocean to the shores of the Balt i • and Black Sea, one single idea, one single impulse, animat -d all, and made them spare neither life nor for tune in the defence of their connity. Labourers, leaving the plough and their fields, eagerly took up arms far our holy caui- , , rivalling in courage and sel-denial our veteran soldiers. , New and striking deeds of renown have marked this last struggle with pow, rful adversaries. "The enemy has been driven back from the coasts of Siberia and from those of the White Sea, as well as from the ramparts of Sweaborg ; the heroic defence for 11 Months of thelmtifications of the -midi side of Sebasto pol, erected in the facs of and under the fire of the as sailants, wilt be handed down as a record to the remotest posterity. " In Ahia; after the glorious victories of the two pre ceding campaigns, Kars was compelled to surrender with its numerous garrison, forming the whole army of Anato lia, and the elite of the Turkish troops sent to relieve the pace were compered to retreat. Nevertheless, by the impenetrable and wise decrees of Providence, a fact was preparing conformable to the wishes of our well-beloved augukt, father,: to our own, and to those of ad Russia, and which realised the objects of the war. The future condition and the privileges of 'all the Christians in the East are henceforth guaranteed. The Sultan solemnly recognises them, and, consequent upon this act of jus tice, the Ottoman Empire enters into the family of European states. " Russiane.l Yeitir efforts and your sacrifices have not been in vain: A great work has been accomplished, although by other,aud unfOreseen means, and we may now with a quiet conscience put an end to those efforts and to these sacrifices by restoring to our dear country the inestimable blessings.-of peace. To hasten the con elusion of the .treaty of'peace and to dispel, even for the future, the Very= 'idea of ambitious views or projects which might be attributed to us, we have consented to the adoption of certain precautionary measures destined to prevent a collision of our ships of war with those cif Turkey in the Black Sea, and to the estab ishrnent of a new frontier line in the southern part of Bessarabia, nearest to the Danube. "These concessions are not great when put in com parison with the charges of a prolonged war, and the advantages promised to us by the tranquillity of the Empire, the : destinies of which it has pleased God to entrust fn US. May all those advantages be obtained by our efforts, united to those of all our faithful subjects. May, with the aid of the Almighty, who has always protected Russia, its internal organisation : be consolidated and perfected ! May justice and clemency preside over its ju lginents—may toe advance . ment of civilisation and of all useful activity spread with renewed force—and may every one enjoy in pea ce .the fruits of his labour ender the protection of laws equally just and watchful for all 1 Finally —and this is the most important and most ardtnt of our hope —may the salutary light of faith, by enlightening th e w i nd and strengthening the heart . , maintain and improve more and more that social 'morality which is the surest pledge of orderand -happiness.- "Given at §t. Petersburg' the 19th March (31st) 856, and in the second year of our reign, • • "AfAXINDER." A letter from St. Petersburg, of the 31st ult., in the Constitutionnel, says:—" A telegraphic de spatch, received last night, brought us the happy news of the conclusion of peace. The Journal de St.' Petersboarg, about midnight, published au ex :traordinary supplement, in which it said A 'telegraphi c d espatch from General Count Orloff has announced to the Emperor that the treaty of peace was signed at. Paris au the' 30th at one o'clock.' The crubs, the coffee-houses, and the public places vere thronged ddring this day by persons corn nienting en the news. The sensation produced was profound and immense. All the journals which have appeared .this morning have printed the news in large types at the head of their Columns. I was present this morning at one of the finest military spectacles that could be given the public.. ,A grand review was held of all the corps of the risserve - and of the guard, of the crews vf the fleet; and of the active divisions of St. Pe tersburg, and the .corps of cadets and the militia, in presence of the. Emperor, who returned two days before from his journey to Finland. His Msjt sty aziyed o n the lrQ a Acconipariiod by _the grand.,. dukes his brothers, and passed along the ranks of the troops, which were not less in number than 75,000. The imperial .party was hailed with the most enthusiastic cheers. In the afternoon there was a reception at the winter place, and to-morrow a Te Dean-6 will be sung in the chapel." A letter from St. Petersburg says that in his visit to Finland, the Emperor of Russia, after leaving Flelsingfors, went to the little town of Burgo, where he laid the first stone of a monument to the fisherman Beukels, of Biervliet, in Flanders, who in the fourteenth century discovered the art of salting and packing herrings, and who, after intro ducing it into his own country, went into Finland, and established it there, from whence it spread to all the Baltic provinces. • AUSTRIA. VIENNA, April 6.—The following authentic in formation relative to the re-organisation of the Danubian Principalities has been obtained. The Moldavo-Wallachian question is not definitively settled by the Treaty of Peace signed on the 30th of March, but the " parties that have made peace" have agreed to send a commission into the two Principalities. On its arrival the commission will proceed, to form two general Divans ; the one for Wallachia, and the other for Moldavia, whose members are to be elected by the people. As soon as the Divans are duly formed they will proceed to draw up new organic statutes, and propose such reforms as may appear requisite and desirable. When the project of the national Divans is completed it will be sent to Constanti nople, and after having been revised by the repre sentatives of the Powers, the new constitution will be granted to the Principalities by their Suzerain, the Sultaii. It is not probable that Moldavia and Wallachia will be united, but one of the duties of the Commission will be to learn the wishes of the people on the subject. After the internal affairs of the Principalities have- been definitively settled, and the new institutions established, Rospodari, natives of the Danubian Principalities, will be elected. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The grand dinner to be given by the Emperot to the Plenipotentiaries will take place on the 12th inst. It has been decided that the proces verbaux of the Congress shall be published. The Minister of War has received the following despAtch from Marshal Pelissier : " Head-quarters, Sebastopol, March 25. " Monsieur le Marechal—The army of the Eat wel comed with enthusiasm the news of the happy delivery of the Empress, and the birth of the Prince Imperial was hailed with numerous cheers. It received both from our faithful allies and from ourselves the most gracious, the most brilliant, and the most enthusiastic welcome. The Russians themselves joined in it, for, on the evening of the 23d, seeing our bon fires burning in the camps of the three armies, they responded to it by immediately lighting fires along the whole of their lines._ 0n the followi ng d a y, i n or d e r to follow up the rek)icings, some splendid horse races took place on the banks of the Tchernaya. Nothing could exceed the coup-d'ea'l prebented by this magic scene. English, French, and Sardinians were every moment seen exchanging congratulations on the event which the thundering voice of the cannon of Sebas topol and of our camps had announced the previous day. For my part, Monsieur le Marechal, in connecting this great event with that of which your electric despatch of the 14th March uo longer leaves any doubt, I am happy to say that never did a star shine with more brilliancy than that of the Emperor. Tbis peace, signed over the cradle of a child, -will be the most happy augury for all. If the Emperor and Empress will accept them, I beg you, Monsieur le Marecbal, to offer to them the re spectful congratulations of the army with my own, and to tell their Majesties that we have all offered up to Heaven our most ardent prayers for the prosperity- .ef the child now given to us, and which has just fixed the destinies of France.—Accept, &c, " PELISSIER." - ------- We also read in the Moniteur:—" The winter continues to exercise its rigours in the Crimea. In the night of the 29th March the thermometer fell to 12 degrees below z ro centigrade (9.50 of Fahrenheit), and stood at 10 degrees on each of the following nights. On the sth there was rather heavy-1411 . a snow. Notwithstanding this influence, the sanitary state of our troops has im proved so sensibly that the number of sick who• entered the ambulances diminished one half dur ing the last month,, and there is reason to hope that the end of the winter will also bring about the close of the maladies under which the . army in the East has been suff e rin g . Th e telegra phic despatches from Marshal Pelissier are every day more and more satisfactory, and thelast letters from General Larchey point out the good effects pro, duced by the measures lately taken at Constanti nople for the improvement of the hospitals there." The Naval Commander of the French forces .in the Black Spa has'also communicated the rejoicings. ; on board the fleet. The ratifications of the telegraphic treaty con cluded at Paris on the 28th December last by France, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, and Sardinia were exchanged yesterday between the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the representatives of the above mentioned countries. This treaty, which will come into operation immediately after its promulgation, will make important reductions in the charge for telegraphic communications. The s ilioniteur publishes the retux ns of the pro duce and consumption of beetroot sugar, since the beginning of the season, from which it appears that, on the Ist April, there were 274 manufacto ries in full operation, or 66 more than at the cor responding date of 1855. The sugar manufactured, including 2,359,141 kilo. lying over since last year, am )unted to 81,205,585 kilo., showing a diff e r e nce in favour of 1856 o f 40,1b3,105 kilo. The quantity sold for consumption, or deposited in the Govern ment bonded stores, was 64,425,901 kilo., or 29.285,788 more than last year. BOURSE, April 9.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. a. End of Month. 4i per Cents 94 —f. —a. 3 per Cents 73 45 74 5 New Loan 73 75 Bank Shares 4,000 Roman Credit Mobilier l ,715 Austrian Belgian Five 5......., Spanish Threes Piedmontese(s). 93 50 biome Debt „. RAILWA 111---7011 CASH. fr. c. fr. 'e. Orleans ..... (xd) 1,360 We5tern......... (xd) 890 Northern Lyons Mediterranean 1,670 Grand Central Lyons Geneva Bl7 50. Teste Cette INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. 40 UTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Euxine, Capt. Joy, reached Southampton this day, at 5 o'clock p.m., with mails and dates from the above places. On her pasdage home, the Euxine experienced mostly strong winds and heavy seas. Her dates of sailing were :---Alexandria, March 24 ; Malta, 28 ; Marseilles, April .1; and Gibral tar, 4. 6he brought 23 first class and 21 other passen- gers--total, 44. The freiiht of the Euxine consists of 153 bales of silk, eight bales of wool, 41 bags of gum, 84 cases and two bales of shawls, a box of ostrich fea ther is, a box of tea, 26 bales f flax, eight casks and two cases of wine, 50 boxes of oranges, and 151 packages of general Cargo. The Vienna Gazette states thit the Emperor has conferred. on Count de Buol Scliauensteia the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Stephen as an acknowledgment of his long and faithful services. At an adjourned meeting of the Australian Royal Mail Steam Company yesterday the result of the ballot:: was declared to be in favour of the proposal of the directors to apply for a supplemental charter, the re- ' spective numbers being 65 votes, representing 8,437 sharee, and 35 votes, representing 6.000 shares. " MY LORDs" IN AUSTRALIAN TRANSIT.—.But the Lords are going to do something now that there is peace. They have issued a minute, in which they are good enough to tell us commercial men that there are three ways of getting to Australia--via the Cape, via Suez ; via Panama ; and with great mod,-sty to pronounce any opinion of their own as to which is best. They ask the six Austrlaian colonies to consider, and agree which route shall be adopted. They invite steam-ship companies to tender-for all the routes. This is no doubt believed to be very energetic ; but, all the while that the six colonies are wrangling—as they are pure to do—l shall still have to go by the clippers; for it will be at least a year before anything can be settled. Our firm says, "Put on the Point de Galle boats again." But the Loris of the Treasury are not going to prejudge the question in that way. Other firms say that if the official.hydrographer (a person who would rasher puzzle - you in an argument, I should think) be set to calculate, - he would very soon find out which is the shortest. route . --commercial men generally regarding the shortest route as the best route. They say that if you draw a line from London to Melbourne it will go by Dover, Paris, Marseilles, Suez, the Chagos Islands, across the Indian Ocean, right into Broad -street, Melbourne; that there are railways, steamers, and caravans into Suez; and that all that has to be done is to put ten-knot steamers on between Suez and Melbourne. This would land letters between London and Melbourne in 44 days. But my Lords say that, although this is very true, the form • must be gone through of waiting a year or so until the colonies have fought out the battle of routes. 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