The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-28 00:00:00

THE BLOCKADE IN THE BALTIC

In the Russian organ Le Nord, we read the
following news, dated Stetten, March 21 :
Letters from Dantzic announce the arrival in
those roads of the frigate Imperieuse. The frigate
left the Euryalus, the Falcon, the Py-lades, and the
Harrier at Farosund, in order to cruise before the
Russsian port of Libau, upon the coasts of Cour-
land, where it made known the resumption of the
blockade to the authorities; and immediately,
to give force to the menace, the English
cruiser drove from the Russian ports some mer-
chant vessels bound there under a neutral flag.
These singular vexations at a moment when a pro_
clamation of peace. is regarded as certain by the
English themselves, arid the presence of the Impe-
rieuse in the Dantzic roads, have caused great
perturbation in this commercial town. Our ship-,
owners who have learnt to their own cost how little
the neutral flag is respected in this war, are de-
termined to undertake no expedition while hostili-
ties continue.

THE EAST

Advices from Marseilles, dated the 20th inst.,
announce that the Gangs has arrived with
advices from Constantinople of the 18th, and from
the Crimea of the 15ih. General Vivian and thirty-
eight French military men have arrived. General
Smith has arrived at Constantinople from London
on his way to Shumla. Count Zamoyski has
arrived from Paris.

The Porte has made an application to the French
Government for 10,000 carbines and as many
sabres. Accounts from the Crimea to the 13th
state that the weather continued stormy. The
healtii of the French troops had considerably
improved. The cold is severe at Kertch ; the canal
of Yenikale is frozen over.

The rest of the news brought by the Gange has
been anticipated by the telegraph.

HIE PEACE CONGRESS.

:The letter of our own Paris correspondent
is particularly interesting at this period, as
showing the singular position of affairs before
the Congress of plenipotentiaries now assembled
in the Parisian capital. It is manifest from the
tenor of the communication that difficulties have
unexpectedly presented themselves, -and without
pretending to approach their solution, we content
ourselves with presenting our readers with the
version, other pens have supplied to the present
state of affairs.

The. Paris correspondent of the Morning Post,
writing on Wednesday evening, Says :—The Con-
gress will meet every day at one o'clock, until the
treaty of peace is: signed, which act, 1 have no
doubt, will be accomplished before the 31st. All
the questions of the Principalities, as regards the
internal government, will probably be left to a
commission. The Turkish government finds no
difficulty about an Anglo-French force being sta-
tioned for a certain time in, different parts of the
Turkih Empire.

On the same topic, the correspondent of our
leviathian cotemporary, the Times, on Wednesday
evening, also says : —" Either on Monday or yester-.
day an arrangement was proposed, by which the
Allies should sign one protocol, and that a second
should be drawn up, to which Prussia and the
Allies should affix their signatures. This,if.l am
correctly informed, has been adopted, and the
Congress is now occupied in the reduction of both
protocols. In the meantime, the last day allowed
for the armistice is rapidly approaching. It is, no
doubt, expected that the treaty will be signed on
or before the 3 lst, but so serious a matter as the
resumption of hostilities cannot be left to chance,
or exposed to accident:. In order to avoid this, and
With a humane desire to avoid the unnecessary
effusion of blood, a message has been, or will be,
sent by telegraph to the head quarters in the
Crimea, not to recommence hostilities without
further orders."

The National Asseniblee speaks of the important
subject in these • terms .—" The labours of the
COngress are evidently drawing to a close. All
the essential conditions of the treaty which is to
bestow peace on Europe have been settled, it is
said, some days ago ; and some arrangements con-
cerning the Danubian provinces and their internal
rule have alone retarded its definite conclusion
It is added that the signatures will be affixed pro.
bably this week—Thursday or Friday. What. we
can assume is this, that Lord Clarendon has made
several visits of leave, and. has announced that
he will quit Paris on Sunday morning, in order
to be .• present at the Tuesday's sitting
of the House of Lords. We believe that in
the course of the negotiations the best harmony
has not appeared to reign between the plenipoten-
tiaries of Austria and Russia, and that there has
been in their relations something of that bitterness
which is usually to be remarked in old friends who
have been separated by circumstances, and mutually
believe. themselves ill treated. In a word, if ap-
pearances were to he believed, as also the 'commen-
taries to which they have given rise, the intimate
alliance which existed before the war between the
three great Northern Courts is, more or less, seri,
ously compromised. We close this extract, re-
marking that it will be well to be taken quantum
va/eat. •

The Assemblee concludes by stating that Count
Orloff will remain in Paris in the quality of ambas-
sador extraordinary, and on the reestablishment
of peace will notify to the Court of the Tuileries
the, accession of the Emperor Alexander IL, whose
coronation will take place in the month of August.
According to the • same journal, France will be
represented •at Mcscow on the occasion by an
ambassador extraordinaii, and England by the
Duke of Cambridge.