The Press.
London, England, 1856-04-12 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1856.

POSTSCRIPT.

RATIFICATION OF THE TREATY BY THE
EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA.
A. letter from Vienna, of the tith, in the German
Journal of Frankfort, says :
The Emperor of Austria has this day ratified the treaty
of peace.

Despatches from Berlin, April 10, state :
The smaller German States are eagerly following the
example of Austria in reducing the active strength of their
armies.
A proposition has been laid before the Frankfort Diet
formally to authorise this step.
The Russian Government has already :taken steps to
turn to account their late acquisitions on the Chinese
frontier.
Petropaulovski will probably not be re-established.
The River Amour is now being surveyed, and it is in-
tended to be made the channel 9f vast commerce with Eng-
land and America.

An official despatch from Madrid, which has
reached Paris, announces that only an apparent
tranquillity reigned in Valencia. Orders had been
received from Madrid to repress energetically all
hostile manifestations. According to another de-
spatch M. Zabala retains his portfolio.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday last, at
which all the Ministers in town were present. The
Council sat twu hours and a halt'.

A Court of Privy Council was held on Wednesday,
at which the then existing prohibitions against
trade with Russia, were considered and revoked.

At a Court of East India Directors held on Thurs-
day., the recently-elected Directors, Messrs. Astell,
M'Naghten, Mangles, M.P., Mills, and Tucker
Smith, M.P., took the oaths and their seats. Colonel
Sykes and Donelly Mangles, Esq., M.P., were chosen
chairman and vice-chairman for the ensuing year.
Thomas M. Weguelin, Esq., and Sheffield Neave,
Esq., have been chosen governor and deputy-governor
of the Bank of England this year.

An annex to the Hatti Scheriff of the Sultan has
been published, from which we learn that any
Ottoman subject who may renounce the religion of
Islamism for another creed, is to be henceforth ex-
empted from all punishment. This wise determina-
tion on the part of the Sultan is owing to the repre-
sentations of the English and French Ambassadors.
The Ottoman electric telegraph between Shumla
and Constantinople is now open. Every despatch
must be superscribed, "Vole d'Athianople."
The naval review is fixed for the 23rd, and orders
have been issued at Portsmouth by the Port
Admiral containing the usual regulations for the
day's proceedings. Four men-of-war steamers are to
be placed at the disposal of the membeis of Par-
liament.

Mr. Hancock has definitively taken the field for
Athlone; the nomination took place yesterday; the
contest promises to be warm. The candidates are:
Mr. Ennis, Mr. Reynolds, and Mr. Hancock.
The rumour of the appointment of Sir Edmund
Lyons to the Embassy at Constantinople was autho•
ritatively denied by the Post of Thursday.
Mr. William Evans, who formerly represented
North Derbyshire ou Liberal principles, died at Lie
etit! Allostreo liaill on Tuesday morning.

THE PRESS.

THE PEACE.
The following Orders in Council and other official
documents have appeared this week :

ORDERS IN COUNCIL.
(From a Supplement to the Loudon Gazelle.)
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 9th day of
April, 1858,
Present,—The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council.

Whereas a Treaty of Peace and Friendship has been
signed between her Majesty and her Allies and the Empe-
ror of all the Russias, it is this day ordered by her Majesty,
by and with the advice of her Privy Council, that the
Order made by her Majesty in Council, bearing date the
29th day of March, 1M54, by which it is directed " that no
ships or vessels belonging to any of her Majesty's subjects
be permitted to enter and clear out for any of the ports
of Russia until further order ; and that a general embargo
or stop he made of all Russian ships or vessels whatsoever,
now within or which shall hereafter come into any of the
ports, harbours, or roads within any of her Majesty's
dominions, together with all persona and effects on board
the said ships or vessels ; " and such parts of any other
Orders in Council as prohibit trade with Russia, be hence-
forth revoked and discharged.
And the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of her
Majesty's Treasury, the Commissioners for executing the
office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain and the Lord
Warden of the Cinque Ports are to give the necessary di-
rections herein as to them may respectively appertain.
C. C. GREVILLE.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 9th day of
April, 1856,
Present,—The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in

Council.

Itis this day ordered by her Majesty in Council that the
prohibitions now subsisting under her Majesty's Royal
Proclamation of the 18th day of February, 18.54, and under
divers subsequent Orders in Council, on the exportation out
of the United Kingdom, or carrying coastwise, of arms,
ammunition, gunpowder, saltpetre and brimstone, marine
engines and boilers, and the component parts thereof, lead,
nitrate of sods, sulphate and muriate of potash, certain
descriptions of iron, and other articles mentioned in such
proclamation and orders, be, and the said several prohibi-
tions are hereby, taken off.
And the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of her
Majesty's Treasnry, the Commissioners for executing the
office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain, and the
Right Hon. Lord Panroure, one of her Majesty's principal
Secretaries of State, are to give the necessary directions
herein as to them may respectively appertain.
C. C. GREWILLE.
RAISING THE BLOCKADE.

(From the London Casette of Tuesday.)
Foreign-office.
Notice is hereby given that, pending the ratification of
the treaty of peace, an armistice by sea as well as by land
has been agreed upon between Great Britain and her allies
on the one part and Russia on the other, and that conse-
quently orders have been given for immediately raising the
blockade of Russian ports.

The Moniteur of Sunday contained the following
notification :

For the time during which they must await the ratifica-
tion of the treaty of peace, France, Great Britain, Sar-
dinia, and Turkey, on the one part, and Russia, on the
other part, have concluded an armistice. It has been
consequently agreed that the prizes made subsequently to
the signature of peace shall be restored, that orders should
be given for the immediate raising of the existing block-
ades, and that the prohibitive measures taken in Russia
against the exportation, during the war, of Russian pro-
duce, especially of breadstuffs, should also be revoked with-
out delay. Consular acts and the formalities required of
navigators and merchants will be provisionally carried out
by the agents of those powers that consented to take
charge officiously. during the war, of the interests affect-
ing the subjects of the belligerent States.

The number of armed vessels which Russia and
Turkey are each to have in the Black Sea, the
Morning Post of Tuesday stated would amount to
ten for each power.
A despatch from Berlin, April 8, states :
The Russian Minister of Finance notified on the sth
inst., at St. Petersburg, that a treaty of peace haring been
signed the merchant vessels of the Western powers will be
admitted into Russian ports.
The blockade of the Russian ports has been raised.