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London, England, 1856-03-21 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 21.

At expectation prevails in certain quarters that the
Treaty of Pesos will he signed on Saturday (boosarrow).
Mae art of signature will be a mere smatter of fora
for everything slaws that peace is already Timbered.
Aa order was weed by the Cabinet at the mods(
we Walearday last, todisoontinee enlistawat and the
embarkation of troops.

England has no need to shrink Oran a comparative
review of the soodition in which each of the UM-
genet Powers finds itself at the teraination of Kati-
Utica Noose who remembers what France has aeon-
pinhed on former orossions, can fora named eater-
tin the idea that her neuron have beau
es-
hewrd by the two years' war is the East. Bat, it
nand be denied that an impatient* of the war sad
its hardess—a loogiag desire to see peace restored—
lee for some time book pervaded the French ratio..
The accounts from the Gimes of the sanitary state
of the French army are the mass of eatidesterl.
And to all appearance France im at this ..mono
threatened with a financial crisis. As for Ramis,
her audition is deplorable. Five hundred thousand
and ard trained troops have melted sway, like now
WON the breath of spring. Whole villages Sr.
sopeopled of their adult maim. Men are want-
ing to till the soil. The Imperial Treasury is
drained, and there ars no mesas to replenish
it; entire districts are beggared and their tames an
owe years in weer. The peasantry and the trading
Ones are impending; the nobility areas rattiness as
&yokes sailors oar bird a wreck. Ent in England
all industrial pursuits are in a perfectly healthy audi-
tion The paean of war taxation has scarcely
hero to be Mt. The errors and mismanageneat
whisk marked the besieging of the war have led to
easter efforts, which leave es in possession do army
admirably disciplined, in high health and excellent
dispositions. To the "Leviathans of the deep"—the
wester screw shin of the line in which we prided
ouralves what the first Baltic fleet rendezvoused
at flpithead—have beet added each an array of
mortar- boats and gun-boats as the world has never
before seen. England has always been proud of her
navy, but never with more just sane than new,
so satinet* is it in every arm, whether for ahem
er for attack. While the attachment of our population
to commercial pursuits bee in no degree abated, the
events of the teat few years have re-awakened that
military spirit which appeared to be slumbering.
Is short, England is every way noes powerful at
this moment than when the war began ; more war-
like is its seadineets, and yet us well die. ,
pond as ever to find fall *employment for its
steeplas georgics is pacific enterpeise. Where are
the symptoms of the &ea, of England, about which
seas atrabilioes specs:sten have kept onakias f
Rag at home we have all along known the true
nine of such by pochoaddmal or envious diatribes.
For the hat hundred years the &olio and fall of
Reiland have been prophesied with malignant glee.
but Englishmen have persisted in laughing nob ,
vatisinatices to soon ; and now the moat sceptical
of foreigners mast cooties that England emerges
from a war which has severely triad the powers
of endorsee, of the other parties engaged is it, more
fresh and vigorous than when she entered the field. ,
Of Sardinia we soy seeing. Ohs embarked in
the struggle at toe late a period to have an opporta-
nity of patting birth all her strength, and showing ,
how mach she coil do or endure. Except daring •
tits glorious campaign co the Danube, Turkey has
new been kept in the background. Others have
thrust themeless bolero her, and insisted upon
lilting her betties. Bat Citate, Bilistria, and Bus
have shown what her soldiers can do ; and ens the
melancholy correspondeine respecting the war is
Aga& Turkey abounds is proofs that a new gesa
ratios of Turkish dicials is growing up,
;sassed of greater stens of liberal knowledge, sad
iminated by a more risme sad elevated ambition
than the old. I. the aurae et the war an immense
amount of capital has been thrown into Turkey by
the purchases of the Western Power; the slumberous
apathy slits population bee received a rude shook by
the humiliate antest of Western civilisation; and
the Government bee still the far greater portion of
its Mat lout at its gamma Let es add that centuries
have elapsed singe Truk', has had so lit& to dread
fee• foreign foss. The Ottani Empire has indeed
but sae taiga enemy, and that savoy is effectually
tamed for the meniest. Russia has been compalled to
rail from the banks of the Dumb., and the" stand-
lug messes " to Qiestantinople exists no longer. The
dine of Russia's Bieck &afloat lie rotting beneath the
waters of the Panne. and her naval arsenals on that
sea—incladieg the faainland Nieolaieff sad JiberSMl
—will soon have ceased to exist. An opportunity is
alorded to Twiny of renewing her youth by her
own internal efforts, undisturbed by even the fear of
foreign aggression. This is all that foreign triads
tan aseonsplish km any nation; the net mad he its
own work.

astresemers tell as, with a confidence which
estessemers, of all men, have • right to entertain,
that we ere is near neighbourhood (astronanicelly
eimakisg) of sa old comet, which our forefathers of
emote and still remoter ',aerations looked at with
emotion stringer, so doubt, thaa oars will be whim
the wanderer comes awe mere into human claw. We
shall feel lea weeder, Ism awe, and intsamearably
less terror that the men of old; but, to ash up for
this, we see the former paths of this comet strewn
with interests to whelk our forefathers were Wad.
We shall have intelectual pleasures of comparisou,
eel social oees of program, which are worth ell the
emotions that barbarous or halfarilised mat clan
babe( to their fetish worship of ran natural objects.
Of the momenta of this comet before the period
of asthmatic history salting seems to be known.
Hew loog it had fled flaring through epees, sad how
ease it bad prompted itself to human gaze before its
appearance was recorded, there is no saying at pre-
ssed; though it is Doeceivable that a future peers-
ties may know more then we. The laws of misses
have an in. xbanaribhe sad infallible memory far the
peal arid the tutelars; that they hear puts to shame
amessertain sad oaten records of history. Farther
espierations of the hearses and the earth may this
jay open to human imagination the picture of this i
asset and a more ascent earth than we reed ef—
face to face. While waiting for that disclosure, the
reselset notice that we bare of this comet is hi A.D.
sin; and there may be some doubt whether that
story is tree. Tater the word of the learned for it,
however, we mesa bet be touched and impressed by
the thought of who the men were that saw what we
ere shoat to use. We cannot but think