The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-30 00:00:00

REDUCTION OF THE RUSSIAN FORCES

Despatches, dated Konigsberg the 28th instant,
announce the receipt of information from St.
Petersburg, that an Imperial decree had dissolved
337 Bruschines and six regiments of Tartar Cos-
sacks, pressed this year into the service of the
Jusin government, forming altogether 350,000
militians of the empire.

SYRIA

We learn from Marseilles, under yesterday's
date, that the disturbances which had broken out
at Ripousi has been suppressed.

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, MONDAY EVENINCI,

In the Legislative body to-day, M. Fould, Minister
of State, presented the text of the treaty of peace.
Count de Morny, the President, delivered a speech,
in which he spoke of the advantages which France
had gained from imperial policy, and from con-
chiding so glorious a peace, after so brief a war.
The chamber, he added, would permit him, in its
name, to thank the Emperor for having associated
it, in some measure, in one of the most glorious
acts of his foreign policy, by communicating to it the
treaty of peace. Tho speech was received with
loud cries of " Vive l'Empereur !" and the
deputies really seemed highly flattered at the
deference shown them by the presentation of the
treaty to them. M. Fould said that he would
communicate the President's observations to his
Majesty, and retired. The treaty was also com-
municated to the Senate, and no doubt a similar
speech was delivered by its President—though, as
that august body sits with closed doors, there is
no knowing.
The treaty it annexes, and the protocols of the
Congress have been printed, at the Imperial
Printing Offices. They form, together, a large
volume, comprising upwards of 200 pages. Between
2,000 and 3,000 copies of the volume have
been struck off, and a copy is to be given to,
amongst other persons, each member of the Senate
or Legislative Body. The publication of the
documents is officially announced for to-morrow
in the Moniteur, but it is not easy to see how one
journal can contain all.
I learn from a good source that the government
has definitively abandoned the intention it at one
time entertained of dissolving the Legislative Body
in the course of the year.
A sad affair occurred in this city this morning.
A speculator on the Bourse, named Pelot, having
become embarrassed, called on his brother-in-law,
a M. Niquet, living in the Rue Laffette, just
opposite Rothschild's bank, to advance him funds ;
M. Niquet thought fit to refuse in very decided
terms. Pelot having a pistol in his pocket, said
that he would shoot him if he would not comply.
Niquet again refused, and Pelot, true to his word,
discharged his pistol at Niquet's head, causing
instant death. The wretched murderer then dis-
charged a pistol at his own head, and injured
himself dreadfully, if not mortally. The terrible
event was the general topic of conversation at
the Bourse, and naturally caused a most painful
impression.

There has been a rather heavy decline in all
securities in the Bourse to-day. It was caused
principally by the oppressed state of the Money
Market, and by the fear that the approaching
liquidation will be a difficult one ; also, by the
decline of the English Funds in London, and the
expectation of a loan in that capital. Some
foolish r.,,Torts were besides spread, and credited, to
the effectthat war between England and the United
States was imminent ; Lord Palmerston meant
to resign if he were not allowed to fight; that the
grand review at Spithead was meant as a menace
to the States, and that on that account the French
Emperor would not go to it.
The subscription of from one to five sous per
head, for presenting an " homage" to the Empress,
is attaining, I am told, vast success in the
provinces.

The letter which the Emperor Alexander has
addressed to Count Orloff, in sending the
ratifications of peace, and which, as you will
have seen, is published in the Moniteur,
is considered a proof that Russia has made peace
with perfect good faith, and that the Czar really
means as he says, to employ all his efforts to
develope and strengthen the prosperity of his
empire.
The Nord of Brussels confirms the news I sent
you some days back, of the retirement of Count de
Nesselrode from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in
Russia, and of Prince Gortschalieff (the diploma-
tist, not the General,) being appointed his suc-
cessor.

A telegraphic despatch from Milan says, that
the Gazette of that city (the Austrian official organ)
pretends that the Sardinian government means to
present a bill to parliament, for exacting caution
money from the newspapers, and giving it the
right of suppressing a newspaper that may have
been condemned five times ; also, that the Arch-
bishop Franzoni, of Turin, is to be created a
Cardinal, and is to return to his See. But these
statements, considering the source from which they
come, must be received with caution.

THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER TO COUNT

ORLOFF.

The following is the letter addressed by the
Emperor of Russia to Count Orloff, referred to in
the communication of our Paris correspondent :
Count Alexis Federowitch,---The exchange of the rati-
fications of the treaty, which you signed on the 18th
(30th) of March, and which have been sent to you to-day,
has just put the seal to the work of pacification entrusted
to your care. This peace had been sincerely desired by
my father, of imperishable :Memory. Animated by the
same sentiments, I accepted the propositions respecting
it as soon as the object was attained, which the Emperor
Nicholas had proposed to himself for securing the des-
tiny and rights of Christianity in the East. Relying on
your oft-tried devotion to the throne and country, I named
you my first plenipotentiary for the conclusion of a peace,
the conditions of which were to afford a solid basis for
firmly securing the repose of Europe. The attitude full
of loyalty and uprightness which you assumed from the
very commencement of the nugociations, did not fail to
open a path towards a solution of the difficulties besetting
you, and towardi a re-union with the powers that were
at war with us.
The accomplishment of this great and laborious mission
has fully satisfied my expectation, and the fresh deserts
you have acquired while engaged on it give :you an addi-
tional claim upon my heartfelt gratitude.
Under the auspices of this peace now re-established, my
first care will be devoted to developing and securing the
prosperity of the empire which God has confided to my
solicitude. lam firmly convinced that I shall always find
in you a zealous co-operator, and a wise councillor, amid
the toils of power that await me while striving to attain
this sacred object.
In testimony of the high confidence. which I repose
in you, I have just raised you to the dignity of President
of the Council of the Empire, as likewise of the Com-
mittee of Ministers, also of those of the Caucasus and
Siberia.
At the same time I reiterate to you the assurance of my
unchangeable good wishes. ALEXANDER.
Saint Petersburg, April 5 (17), 1856. :