The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-26 00:00:00

RUSSIA

An Imperial ukase, just issued, permits the
importation of salt by the Austrian-Moldavian,
frontiers. and by Odessa, on payment of a duty 01
nineteen kopecks per pita.

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THE EAST.

• The Thabor arrived on the 23rd at Marseilles,
from Constantinople. Her dates are—from the
Crimea, the 12th ; Constantinople, the 14th inst.
The Firman, conceding their rights to the Chris,"
tian subjects of the Porte, has been sinned,
will be speedily published.
On the .11th of February. Fort Alexander (id
Sebastopol) was blown up and entirely destroyed-
In the Crimea the weather was mild, and the
health of the troops excellent.

TIIE PEACE CONFERENCES

BY TELEGRAPH.

PARIS, MONDAY EVENINO

The members of the Peace Conferences met to-
day for the first time at half-past one o'clock,
The Plenipotentiaries arrived at the place °fl
meeting without any formality, and wore their
ordinary costume.

The Sardinian Envoy was the firsts and tl'
Russian Representatives were the last to arrive•
Comparatively few persons were assembled td
witness the entree of the respective diplomatists•
The Conference broke up at half-past four
o'clock.

A despatch, dated Berlin the 25th instant,
announces that a Cabinet Courier had arrived i 3

that City from St. Petersburg, with despatches for
Count Orloff, the Russian Plenipotentiary, which
were received and forwarded by another Russia°
Courier.

In corroboration of our own Paris corresponl
dent's information, we learn from another source
that every moral and material precaution will be
taken to prevent what passes in the congress being;
prematurely disclosed to the world... Doors and
windows are to be closed, people sent out of-earshot
the very air itself, which might bear to the profane
the slightest whisper of a secret, will be almost
excluded, and thick blinds will shut out froli
that varied conclave any chance sunbeam that
would obtrude its light on their deliberations;
During this anxious period the inventive powers °f
newstoongers will be taxed to the utmost, and it
would not be difficult to indicate -even
particular channel through which iinaginary de;
bates will be given to the world. Of course sb.
these will be received with caution, when it 15
known that the strongest obliggion has 1)0°3
imposed and accepted reciprocally to say nothing
which would be likely to endanger the tranqui„,
course of the Conferences, or to reveal before tile'
proper time the result that may be arrived at. 6
The sitting of the first day will probably
occupied for the greater part, if not entirely, wit'.
the verification of the powers of the Plenipoteni
tiaries ; after which, it is said, that the President
of the Congress, that is, the French Minister "
Foreign Affairs, will present a communication
in the name and on behalf of the Allies, con-
taining in precise . terms the conditions (1,
which they will agree to make peace IV t;
Russia. These conditions will be-discussed, o,l`
any objections offered to them answered. In the
communication thus presented the stipulations
the preliminary convention of peace will be *5"
clearly put as to admit of no doubt' or of, no 133'i
apprehension as to the definitive conditions e„
peace. The Russian Plenipotentiaries will ho;
to make their communications in writing. Tile
process would perhaps be tedious in negotiation
of a complicated character—no such character, 110°-
ever, belongs to those under consideration ; nothing
can be plainer than what we demand, and nothing
ought to be plainer or more brief than the rePili
whether negative or affirmative. By this mode 0_
acting the Plenipotentiaries of Russia, if it be trite
that they have come furnished with full powers ire
deliberate and decide, will not be under ti`ci
necessity of having recourse to the hackneYe
trick of diplomacy, the referring home for furthe',
instructions.

The sittings of the Congress will not take Ole:
consecutively day after day. In some few ease? I
may be so, but such is not the present intention'
The number of times in the week that the Pienzs
„r
potentiaries will meet for the despatch of business
is not fixed; it may be three or four times, ",
oftener, and three days or more may elapse bed
tween two sittings; but this will depend a fl,°'
deal on circumstances.

LECTURE ON SYRIA.—Last evening Mr.,-7,- E. G. --belf
ne•
a native of Mount Zehanon, delivered a lecture at the
Dt4,4
hall, Hope-street, on the religious condition, manners, to
customs, of the inhabitants of Syria. The lecturer wail
dressed in his native costume. There was but a very sr°
attendance.
THE WEATHER, for the last two or three days, 01
been mild and bright, indeed wearing all the appearalleei,b
Spring. Agricultural operations are
progressing
rapidity in our locality, as the weather is most favouraeri
for such operations. Should this continue, there is el
prospect of an early Spring and harvest.
deg°
ExPLossoN Gns.—During Friday night, a chall eld
in one of the head offices of the Manchester and Shea—
on
Railway, at Manchester, fell from the ceiling, 3°,fires
Saturday morning, when the woman employed to light
entered for that purpose, so much gas had escaped tha 001
immediate explosion occurred. The woman was
al,ors
deal burnt, several windows were blown out, and
-'we, detached from their hinges, some fittings also caught
dilf
but the porters and servants of the company being sPeeiterf in attendance, the flames were extinguished with be •
slight damage being done. The loss will therefore
inconsiderable.
of
THEATRE ROYAL.—The enactment of the trag,euove?l
" Macbeth," with all the agencies of scenery and -
effects, has taken complete possession of the tovval;coe
evidenced by the crowded aJdiences which fill the frail
every evening. Mr. Barry Sullivan has cogo;
"warmed" into the impettaolation of the Scottish Tutistaneio
and the lovers of sterling acting, seconded by the aro Of
adjuncts brought to bear in the realization of this ge is
the
witnessing a per`ormance, the tout ensemble of w st•
cannot he surpassed in any thea're in the
_real' . has
Copeland is a practised caterer, and in this instance he
surpassed himself.
at
A WARNING} h
FROM THE ALTAR.--We are inrorm- t3O,
at the morning mass of the Catholic Chapel in Birke:reiag
on Sunday last, the Rev. Canon Brown addressed a wetrect
to some portion of his congregation to the tollowiag_th„iti,
He said that he had understood upon undoubted tiu„ibal
than an illegal society (something approaching 3" ova
Society) had been fjrmed at the house of a shoemakerotie.
beerseller in that township, and that unless the Yncietf
so assembling together gave up the rules of that
gL" the)!
by the following day, and ceased to meet, not one %bola
should ever again enter his place of worship, Dm-0044
they, if sick, be attended by a priest, or be buried in ale
ing to the faith to which they belonged. ne _ed 111°
strongest terms denounced such societies, and expreab
determination to have them broken up.