The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-09 00:00:00

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
The Congress met again to-day. It is announced
that Count Orloff has received orders to return
forthwith to St. Petersburgh, his presence being
required in certain important conferences which
the Czar is about to hold. His place at Paris is,
it is said, to be taken by M. de Titoff.
The Jouarial des Debats gives new details about
the deliberations of the Congress, and as they are
no doubt derived from a semi-official source, they,
though not altogether new, merit attention. They
are to this effect—An understsnding was come to
on the fifth point much more easily than had been
expected, Russia having readily yielded all that
was reasonable. She has besides consented to
Nicolaieff being transformed into a commercial
port, to the destruction of the navel arsenals in
the Black Sea and on the shores thereof, and the
complete neutralization of these seas. She, how-
) ever, refused to destroy the fortresses on the
southern side of the Caucasus, from the
Black Sea to the Caspian, on the ground
that they are necessary for the defence of
her frontier, and she has carried her point. She
has also consented not again to fortify the Aland
Isles. Turkey demanded an indemnity for the
expenses of the war, and for previous wrongs. but
Russia refused, and the matter has been left open
for future consideration. Finally, the rectification
of the Bessarabian frontier has been left to a
special commission, and nothing yet has been
decided as to the future constitution of the Danu-
bian Principalities.
To what the Debats says, I can add from
my private sources of information, that
the demand of Turkey for an indemnity
will most certainly be rejected. Russia, having
obtained peace, will naturally refuse one; and the
allies will not be able to constrain her to grant
ono unless thoy p:n to war again -a thing which
they me not at all likely to do. I can also inform
you that such is the antipathy between Austria
and Russia that the latter, in spite of the stout
resistance of the former, is strivimg to exclude her
from all share in the commission for fixing the new
Bessarabian frontier. Russia also—and in this she
is supported by England—is making great efforts
to compel Anstria to withdraw her troops
from the Principalities—though Austria urges
all manner of reasons for being allowed to
remain—the principal of them being that if she
goes there will be a revolution, which will lead to
the establishment of a Republic—an unholy thing,
which, in her eyes, is not to be tolerated for a
moment.

There has been a very marked advance on rail-
way shares on the Bourse to-clay-15 francs on the
Northern, 32f. on the Orleans, 20f. on the Lyons,
272 E on the Western, and so on. This rise is
owing to the large dividends which several of the
companies declared at their recent annual meet-
ings. A further rise on this class of securities is
expected.

Accounts from Constantinople to the 27th state
that in several towns of Asia.hostile manifestations
had been made against the recent reforms in favour
of the Christians ; that at Ardin the Christians
had been ill-treated ; and that at Ismael the
English cavalry had had to repress a revolt of the
Turks.

It may be remembered that it was announced a
short time back that the Russian government had
abandoned its design in its prohibitive system.
But the German papers inform us that as peace is
now secure, it has again been determined to make
large reforms in the commercial system.