The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-29 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

REJOICINGS AT SEBASTOPOL

FOR TH E
BIRTH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL.

PARIS, SATURDAY.

The Moniteur contains the following despatch
'rom Marechal Pelissier, dated Sebastopol, March

23 :-

" This morning the French, English, and Sar-
dinian armies and the fleets fired salutes of 1.01
guns each, in honour of the birth of the Prince
Imperial.
" During the day the Commanders-in-Chief of
the English and Sardinian armies came officially
to offer me their congratulations.
"There have been illuminations in the camps,
and the Russians illuminated their line on the,
Inkerman."

APPROACHING CONCLUSION OF
PEACE.
PARIS, FRIDAY.
To-day there has been another sitting of the
Congress.
It is confidently stated that the Peace will be
officially announced on Suaday.
The Armistice will probably be prolonged by
six weeks, to -give time for the ratifications,
which will be exchanged in the first fortnight of

next Miy.

The treaty will not be known textually until
after ratification.

The Empress desiring to possess the pen with
which the Peace will have been signed, the Crown
Jeweller has been employed in the ornamentation
of the quill of an eagle, and with it the plenipo-
tentiaries will affix their signatures.
The review, which is announced for Tuesday
next, is considered as a proof that Peace will be
proclaimed before the 31st of March.

MARSEILLES, SATURDAY, 8.25 A.M.

The Sinai has arrived, with alvices from Con-
stantinople of the 20th, and from the Crimea of
the 18th instant. She has brought 80 soldiers.
Despatches leave at 9 a.m.
The steamer Alma has arrived from Kamiesch
with 2,500 shells and 66 Russian cannon.
The steamers European, Persian, Francois
Arago, and France leave with troops for Algeria.

THE PEACE CONGRESS.
(Fem. Second Edition of the Times of-this day. )

The following- is the letter of our Paris corre
spondent, dated yesterday, 6 p.m.:—

The Conferences are sail to have made consiL
derable progress on Wednesday and yesterday ;
and as there is no relaxation in their labours,
for the Plenipotentiaries meet today, to-morrow,
and Sunday if necessary, we may consider that
the moment for signing the Treaty of Peace
is close at hand. No one, perhaps, not even
the members of the Congress themselves, can
fix the precise date, unless the accelerated
motion of this day brings them to the cer-
tainty. The difficulty about Prussia, which in-
terrupted the course of the previous proceedings,
has been arranged, and, it appears, as satisfacto-
rily as possible under the circumstances ; and
Sardinia, from whom some slight murmurs may
have been heard, has been contented, a very satis-
factory clause to her, with the nature of which I
am unacquainted, having, it is said, been intro-
duced in the protocols. The Congress will not
be too severely censured if it be found "neces-
sary to do busidess on the Sunday. A work
of peace is not unsuited to the Sabbath.
The opinion to-day among political persons is,
that the treaty will be signed to-morrow ; others
speak of Sunday, and even of Monday, but
beyond that it is not now believed the delay
will extend. On Monday the armistice ex-
pires, and the order that has been transmitted
not to re-commence hostilities till further notice
does not by any means imply that every effort
will not be exerted to make the conclusion of
peace coincide with, if not precede, that date.
Moreover, a review; on a grand scale, of the gar-
rison of Paris by the Emperor is announced for
Tuesday. It is a fitting conclusion, and the im-
posing spectacle may show Russia that if peace
be made it is not from want of means to carry on
the war. Most people, I repeat, incline to the
belief that all will be brought to a close to-morrow
night—that is, all that is indispensable for the
treaty, as several matters, neither slight nor of
small importance, must stand over for future settle-
ment. Many expect that the Afoniteur of Sun-
day will contain the glad tidings. Whether this
will be the case I cannot affirm ; but I rather
suspect that the announcement to Paris will take
place in another fashion. I am told that at the
moment the last signature is affixed to the treaty,
a signal will be made from the Foreign-office, and
100 guns will proclaim the tidings before a single
Plenipotentiary quits the hall of the Conferences..
Such a mode of proceeding would produce much
effect. On Sunday the streets are thronged
with people going to or coining from church,
or engaged in occupation or amusement, and
newsmongers are all abroad d, la chasse des
canards. On that day also the Bourse is closed,
and a check given to all except the pettiest job-
bing. I have no doubt that if the guns of the
Invalides announce peace under these circum-
stances the joy would be great. An English Ca-
binet Messenger was to have left London the day
before yesterday for Copenhgagen ; perhaps he is
'the bearer of instructions to the fleet relative to
the armistice ; and another leaves London this
evening en route for Constantinople. Lord Clar-
endon it appears is expected at Downing-street on
Monday, but he will probably return here again.
Some surprise has been manifested in certain
political circles at an incident to which, perhaps,
too much importance is attached, and the fact
that it has not passed unnoticed in high quar-
ters is the principal if not the only reason
for my alluding to it. It is thought rather
odd that while the Emperor of the French
expresses
_great confidence in Austria, whose
interests, apart from other motives, are or
ought to be sufficient guarantee for the sin-
cerity of her sympathies to the allies, the Ambas-
sador of the Emperor Francis Joseph should
have invited persons who, however eminent or
honourable, are, at all events, regarded as the
chiefs of parties hostile to the French Government
and its policy, to meet the members of the Con-
gress at a late official banquet. Side by side with
the Plenipotentiaries were, it seems, M. de Fla-
vigny, the Due de Noailles, M. Guizot, and
others whose sympathies are well known. The fact
was mentioned in the Patrie an evening or two
ago, and I only allude to it because I have reason
to believe that in certain quarters an unpleasant
effect has been produced.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.

The Debuts speaks of the rumoured difficulties
which have delayel the signature of the treaty of
Peace as having arisen from " pretensions raised
by Prussia—pretensions to which England op-
posed insuperable, objections to which she finally
converted the other powers. This incident, how-
ever, i.s not of a nature to cause any uneasiness ;
peace is more certain than ever."
The Palnie says,—" Without departing from
the reserve
_which is imposed on us, we think we
may announce that the trfling difficulties of which
some foreign journals have spoken will not be of
any consequence. The Congress and the sub-
committee are actively pursuing their labours. It