The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-31 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, MA CH 31.

YESTERDAY, about an hour after mid-day, the
cannon of the !nyelides announced to the Parisians
that the Treaty of Peace had been signed. A sup-
plement to the Motutear soon after, and an Ex-
traordinary Gazette to-day, in language very little
more explicit than the inarticulate voice of the artil-
lery, have assured their readers that at eta p.m.
the Plenipotentiaries of France, Austria, Great
33ritsin, Prussia, Russia, Sardinia, and Turkey,
in the Hotel des Affaires Etraneree, affixed their
signatures to a treaty which puts an end to the war,
end which, by settling the Oriental question, estab-
lishes the peace of Europe upon a secure and
permanent basis. Placards to the name effect were
profusely exhibited throughout the city of Paris. The
quasi-official Pattie stated that the four guaranties
have been applied in an extended sense, and that the
fifth paragraph has been realised in a satisfactory
manner. All this le sufficiently vague, and though
there is reason to believe that Paris was last night
blazing with illuminations, and though guns were
firing and belle clattering emulatively in London,
the more phlegmatic Englishmen, as individuals,
will probably wait for more precise details be-
fore they give vent to any expression of exult-
ation. In this country, though there has been no
aversion to a peace upon honourable and adequate
terms, there hsa been no impatience for a cessation of
hostilities. Except through the bereavement of
private individuals and families, we have as
yet scarcely been made to feel the pressure
of war. No class has been compelled to stint itself
of its wonted indulgences to meet the calls of the
tax-gatherer; our productive industry has been pro-
secuted with unabated vigour; and by land and sea
we have just got ourselves into good fighting order.
Russia has given in before we have bad an oppor-
tunity of putting forth our full force—of showing'
" what is in us." We feel something like Orlarde,
in "As you Like it," when the Duke interfered to
stop the wrestling match :—" Nay, I homiest year
Grace, lam scarce yet breathed." For theme lsaeeau
Englishmen take the return of peace very quietly ;
and besides, they have been so long satisfied that
pesos was defactocoocladed,that any littleenthusiann
theannouncement might otherwise have excited has
been—to use a favourite figure of speech of the
age—" discounted." The Ministerial declarations in
the House of Commons this evening are waited for
with the most placid patience.
In truth, Europe is now about to enter upon the
most perplexing phase of the Oriental question.
Fighting is comparatively a simple way of settling
controversies. Men, it not interrupted, pummel each
other till one side gives in, and then the victor has it
all his own way. But negotiation is a more difficult
and complicated way of going to work ; and the
Powers who have just concluded a Treaty of Peace,
have arrogated to themselves a right et intervention
in certain delicate questions repeat' the internal
administration of Turkey that may open the door to
eery embarrassing diplomatic discussions. The navi-
plias of the Danube, too, will, is a small way, cut
out a good deal of work for the gentlemen of the
corps diplomat:4es. But above all it must be kept
in remembrance that the Peon now concluded is
simply a peace between governments; that the con-
troversies between governments and the governed,
which were in progress before the Rosso-Turkish
episode began, will now be resumed with fresh
*am
Bat we are sot disposed to-day for a promenade
ever eupposPos Spas*. The affairs of seatite•tsl
Europe will follow their natural course, and will oh.
trade themselves upon our nodes in due time. Our
interest is mainly centered in the immediate future of
England. A redsvion of our military forces mut
speedily follow the re-establishment of pow, It h
sot desirable that England should aim at big •
great military power; but it will he seamy to
keep on foot such an army during peens ea staimiel
for the nucleus of a greater force in the event of a
renewal of hostilities. We have received a rude less*•
from the events of the Crimean campaign. We have
teen taught that exclusive attention to regimental
training is inadequate. When, therefore, the
question of reducing our War Establishment
cases to be discussed, it will be necessary at
the same time to diorites the footing upon
which our Defensive Establishments are to be placed
during peace. This opens the whole question of
Military Reform. The financial arrangements by
which the period of transition from war to pease is
to be bridged over is a topic of equal importance to
that we have now been adverting to, and will doubt-
less give rise to discussions no leas animated. But
independently of these themes—which will be forced

upon u by our late belligerent operationa—theve are
many vital problems, political and social, upon the
practical solution of which the public mind is now
earnestly bent. To these it will he possible tedium
• comparatively nadistracted attention, after the din

of war shall have owed; and with these it will,
therefore, now behove the Government and the Legis-
lature to prepare to grapple in earnest.

The old story of an approaching union between
the Greek mid Bowan Catliege churches it revived. As
sodesiartie has published a wort cm the sabjest at the sup toss
of the Pope, sod, with the plummet of his Holism', has
hit Rine as a eal.sios to t►e authorities timelier*. He
declares the union to be the easiest thing is the world.
In the upper chamber at Berlin on Friday, the
president real a litter from the tommeader.geaeral of the
third curve of tie army, deauudier; astlacr.ty to menet'
M. di licchocr-Pleosow, by w►om M. de libicksidey was
killed, and Y. de Horwitz, ►is mooed. The request was
Warred to a clatialtune, wbo were charged to Mara ea
early report

The 11-ankfurt loterialionototoes that the Maims,
a Rugs, widow of the Ms Cur Nicholas. is &oat to
visit ber ?aught. r, eke Grand Dashes. Olga, at fitutsgsrdt.
Millwood Khan, who was lately sett to Bt. Pe-
tee.bwe on a special missies by the Sisals of Persia, sr-
rivet at T.fv., on the 23rd, ea ids way bask to Toberao.