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SATURDAY,

Further remarks upon the personal and historical
points raised during the discussion were urg by
Admiral WALCOTT.

The motion was then agreed to, and the house went
into Committee of Supply on the Civil Service Esu.
mates.

MODEL FARMS.

On the vole of 227,0411. fcr public education in
Ireland, considerable discussion took place. An
amendment was proposed by Mr. WILLIAMS for dis-
allowing the sum of 14,0051. charged on account of
model farms. This amendment was carried to a
division, but negatived by a majority of 144 to 38-
100. The vote ultimately passed without retrench-
ment.

JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES.

On resuming, the Joint-stock Companies' Bill was
committed pro formil, and ordered to be reprinted
with amendments.

THE ENCUMBERED ESTATES COURT.
Mr. DEASY moved for certain returns relating to
the Irish Encumbered Estates Court, with the view
of testing the truth, or otherwise, of reports which
had attained much currency, that undue facilities
had been afforded to the late Mr. Sadleir in effecting
numerous purchases of land from the court.
The motion was seconded by Colonel DUNNE.
Mr. HORSHAM expressed his readiness to afford
every information in his power, but appealed for time
to communicate with the Irish authorities on the
subject.

Jitter some conversation, however,the returns were
ordered.

The house adjourned at half past twelve o'clock.

THE CONFERENCES.

ALTHOUGH the signature of the Treaty of Peace con-
cludes the primary duties of the Plenipotentiaries, it
does not terminate their supplementary services.
Further sittings will continue to be held in order to
arrive at a satisfactory arrangement of certain sub-
sidiary matters essential to the settlement of the
Eastern question, inasmuch as concerns the future
government of the principalities, the evacuation of
Turkish territory by the allied armies, and, accord-
ing to the Debate of Thursday, the ratification of the
treaty of Vienna of 1815, connected with the present
government and position of Italy, and the necessity
of reforms in that country.
The first subsidiary sitting was held by the Pleni.
potentiaries on Wednesday, and it is expected that
they will continue their labours at short intervals
until the exchange of ratifications takes place.
The semi-official article of the Dibats on Thurs-
day stated the question of the future government of
the principalities was yet undecided, that the late
Hatti-Scheriff of the Sultan granting concessions to
the Christians would not be embodied in the treaty
of peace, but that an article of the treaty would
simply allude to those concessions, guaranteeing
them to the Christians in the name of the contracting
powers. Finally, that the navigation of the Danube
would be open to the mercantile navies of the whole
world.

IN the parliamentary intelligence of Tuesday we
notice a statement that " Mr. HUTCHINS, Member
" for Lymington, took the oaths appointed to be
" taken by Roman Catholic Members of Parliament."
The question raised by this novel announcement is
of some importance. Ought a gentleman who has
been elected by a constituency as a Protestant, and
has so qualified himself on taking his seat in the
House, to qualify himself subsequently as a Roman
Catholic, without again presenting himself to his
constituents ? That he can legally do so is plain
from the instance of Mr. HUTCHINS; but we cannot
help thinking that such conduct is an abuse of the
representative principle. In his opinions Mr.
HUTCHINS is no longer the same man that he was
when the constituency of Lymington elected him to
represent them. Surely if his sentiments with re-
spect to the Crown and his duties are so much
changed as to necessitate his Leing resworn at the
table of the House, he is bound to resign into the
hands of the Protestant electors of Lymington the
trust which they reposed in him as a Protestant. It
is said that Mr. HUTCHINS was himself inclined to
resign, but that he was prevented by an influence
usually found in all cases of tender conscience to be
all potent on the Liberal side of the House. In
justice to themselves, the electors of Lymingtoa
should take up the matter and require Mr. livreanis
to be re-elected—if he wishes to retain his seat—as
well as be resworn.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon
at the Foreign-office, Downing.street. Alt the
Ministers were present. The Council sat three
hours and a half.

..VA
Court of Privy Council was held on Friday.
Mr. Prendergast was elected on Wednesday to the
office of Common Sergeant,

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APRIL 5, 1856•

CONCLUSION OF PEACE.

Tin great question of Peace or War was solved on
Sunday last, at one p.m., in Paris.
A council of Ministers, presided over by the
Emperor, was held at the Tuileries at half-past
eleven, and sat till a quarter past twelve. Count
Walewski then returned to his official residence, and
at half-past twelve the Plenipotentiaries, in full
uniform, assembled in the Salle des Conferences at
his hotel. The draft of the General Treaty drawn up
with the sanction of the Plenipotentiaries by the
Comite de Redaction on the Saturday was then read
over. Seven copies placed upon the table were each
carefully compared, and the Plenipotentiaries then
proceeded formally to affix their signatures to the
general treaty, Count Walewski as President signing
first, the rest following in alphabetical order. This
important fact was immediately telegraphed to the
Emperor at the Tuileries. The Plenipotentiaries of
each contracting power next signed first the copy
reserved for their Government ; the other pleni-
potentiaries signed in alphabetical order, and affixed
to each signature their own private seal. In this
manner each copy for the respective Governments
was signed first by the Plenipotentiary of the con-
tracting power, so that all difficulties of precedency
were set aside. Cabinet couriers were then speedily
sent off to London, vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg,
Turin, and Constantinople, in order to submit the
treaty to the ratification of the respective Courts.
Shortly before two p.m. the signatures were corn-
pleted, and the Plenipotentiaries proceeded to the
Palace of the Tuileries to communicate the intelli-
gence to the Emperor in person. His Majesty
received them in the Salon des Ambassadeurs,
attended by the officers of his household, and is
reported to have expressed his thanks to the Pleni-
potentiaries for having come with such agreeable
tidings. He is further said to have observed that the
peace the allies were determined on concluding was
such as a great nation might propose or accept
without degradation, and therefore possessed every
element sr solidity and durability.
At twb p.m. the guns of the Invalides in a hun-
dred rounds thundered forth the announcement to
the city of Paris. The whole of the forts responded.
The great bell of Notre Dame and those of all the
churches chimed forth their peals. At half-past two
p.m. an official notification from the Prefect of
Police, announcing the conclusion of peace, was
posted over Paris

Congress of Paris, March 30, 1850.
Peace has been signed this day, at one o'clock, at the
Ministry of Foreign Affuirs.
The plenipotentiaries of France, Austria, Great Britain,
Prussia, Russia, Sardinia, and Turkey, have affixed their
signatures to the treaty which puts an end to the present
war, and which, by settling the question of the East,
establishes the repose of Europe on solid and durable
bases.

A supplement of the Moniteur appeared soon after
containing the official announcement. The people
were enthusiastic, and the anniversary of the 30th
March, 1814, when the Russians entered Paris, was
remembered, and felt to have been well kept.
During the afternoon the news was received in
London and Windsor, and rapidly spread. From a
desire not to interfere with the church services, the
Government postponed the firing of the Park and
Tower guns till ten o'clock, when double royal
salutes were fired. On Monday morning the official
notification of the conclusion of peace was published
in an Extraordinary Gazette :

Foreign-Office, March 31, 1856.
A despatch has been this morning received from the
Earl of Clarendon, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, dated Paris, March SO, an•
nonncing the signature of peace at two o'clock on that
day, at the Foreign-office in Paris.
The plenipotentiaries of Great Britain, of Austria, of
France, of Prussia, of Russia, of Sardinia, and of Turkey,
have affixed their signatures to the treaty which puts an
end to the war; and which, while definitively settling the
Eastern question, establishes the tranquillity of Europe ou
solid and durable bases.

The cschange of the ratifications will take place at Paris
in four weeks, or sooner, if possible: until that time the
stipulations of the treaty cannot be made public.

Foreign•office, March 31.
The lion. Spencer Ponsonby arrived at the Foreign-
office this morning from Paris, with the definitive treaty
for the restoration of peace, and for the maintenance of the
integrity and independence of the Ottoman empire, which
was yestenlay signed at Paris by the plenipotentiaries of
her Majesty, of the Emperor of the French, of the King of
Sardinia, anti 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 ittississ on the other.

At twelve o'clock the Lord Mayor, although peace
was not yet ratified, quitted the Mansion house,
accompanied by the City Marshal, and took his station
in the centre of the open area, west of the Royal
lachange, where he was received with enthusiastic
cheers from a vast crowd.