The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-29 00:00:00

LETTER FROM THE EMPEROR ALEX-
ANDER TO COUNT ORLOFF.

(From yesterday's Moniteur. )
The Emperor of Russia has just addressed to
Count Orloff, First Russian Plenipotentiary at the
Congress of Paris, the following letter :
Count Alexis Fedorowitch,—The exchange of the ratifi-
cations 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 has been sincerely desired by my
father, of imperishable memory. Anitna.ted 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 destiny and rights of
Christianity in the East. Relying on your oft-tried devo-
tion 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 up-
rightness, which you assumed from the very commence-
ment of the negotiation did not fail to open a path towards
a reunion with the Powers that were at Ivar 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 a•ldi-
tional claim upon my heartfelt gratitude.
Under tho 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 Committee
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), 1556.

The Grand Duke of Tuscany, who is now at Naples,
purposes visiting the Pope, to consult with his Holiness
on the present prospects of Italian rulers.
Thera was a report at Berlin on the 231 inst. that the
Council of War had condemned M. de Rochow to thrte
years' imprisonment in a fortress.
It is said that Count Morny will reside at the Woron-
zoff Palace at St. Petersburg. The count is beset with
solicitations for appointments as attaches.
Le Nord, and other journals in the Russian interest,
publish full details, from "special correspondents," of
the late eava,l review at Spithead.
The " churching" of the Empress Eugenie takes
pl tee to-morrow. Her Imperial Majesty will, it is said,
make her first appearance in public, since her confine-
ment, on Saturday next, at the Odeon.
There is a rumour at Rome that in the, month of June
next the Emperor and Empress of Austria will visit the
H)ly City, to take part in a grand fete is honour of the
dogma of the Immaculate Conception.
The Court of Rome is sedulously endeavouring to
obtain from the government of TusCany a concordat
similar to that lately granted by Austria.
Count Cavour's presence in the Sardinian Chambers
is awaited at Turin with lively impatience.
The Duke of Leeds has left the Clarendon, for
Hornley Castle, n •ar Cttterick, Yorkshire.
The Countess Dowager of Westmoreland and Lady
Georgiana Fane have arrived in Upper Brook-street,
from Btympton House, in Somersetshire.
Sir John and Lady Matilda Maxwell have arrived at
the Clarendon.
The Rev. A. Peyton bas arrived at the Clarendon,
from Doddington Rectory, near Chattcrie, Cambridge-
shire.

Archdeacon Hale will deliver his arohidiaconal eiarge
to the London clergy, on Mcnday, at 11 o'clock, at the
Church of St. Sepulchre, City.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY, Monday,
April 28.—Admissions on payment, 2,269 ; ditto by
season tickets, 560 ; total visitors, 2 , 829 .
SUPPOSED DISCOVERY OF THE BODY OF FOSCHINI.—
On Sunday information was received at the chief police-
office, Scotland-yard, that the body of Foschini, the
Italian, had been discovered in the River Thames. It
was, however, ascertained yesterday that the body is not
the body of Foschini, as was at first supposed, though it
bears a very strong resemblance.
LORD DALHOUSIE,—The steam-frigate Tribune, having
on board Lord DalLousie, left Malta for England on the
20th, in tow of the Furious; paddle-wheel frigate.
It was stated at Southampton yesterday that the
Queen would shortly review the fleet at Spithead again,
to enable the members of the Houses of Lords and Com-
mons to witness the review to advantage !
MONEY ORDER OFFICES.—The Agents of this Depart-
ment at Malta and Gibraltar having been authorised to
issue Money Orders on several Money Order Offices in
the United Kingdom, Postmasters are instructed to pay
Money Orders issued at Malta and Gibraltar, provided
they are :in conformity with the regulations. The ad-
vices of all Orders issued at Malta will be made out at
the Money Order Office in London ; but the advices of
Orders issued at Gibraltar will be made out, on the
usual form, by the Agent there, and no order must be
paid unless the necessary advice shall have been received.
This regulation is confined to the issue of Money Orders,
and, consequently, no Orders must be drawn upon the
above-mentioned pIaces.—ROWLAND HILL, Secretary.
THE MAILS —SOUTHAMPTON, April 28.—lhe Pen-
insular and Oriental Company's screw-steamer Sultan,
Captain N. Cook, sailed this afternoon, with the mails
for Vigo, Oprto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, 20 pas-
sengers ; 3,700/. in specie for Lisbon; for Cadiz, 9,1261.;
total, 12,826/. ; and a fine cargo of general merchandise.
The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Magdalena, Cap-
tain G. Abbott, is expected with the homeward portion
of the West India and Pacific mails about the 21
proximo. The Plata, Captain Weller, will sail on the
2d of May, with the mails for the West Indies, Mexico,
and the Pacific. The United States mail steamship
Washington, Captain Cavendy, is expected to arrive off
Cowes, en route from New York for Bremen, on Satur-
day next.

According to the Militar Zeitung, all the Aus-
trian companies, with the exception of those in
Italy, are to be reduced to 60 men, which is just
half the usual strength of a company when on a
pettoe footing.

to see how the amount of crime can be increased
by the number of police, unless on the supposition
that the police supply the increase in their own
persons. The difficulty is easy enough of solu-
tion. The police, under the new system, are
more anxious to win a character for activity than
to repress crime. This opinion prevalent through-
out the country, is fortified by Mr. HENLEY'S
statistics, which show that the number of convic•
tions obtained under the police system, bears no
sort of proportion to the number of apprehen-
sions, from which it may fairly be inferred the
police expend their energies without judgment,
and either neglect to secure sufficient evidence to
convict the guilty, thus offering a premium to
crime, or apprehend the innocent instead of
the guilty, which comes to pretty much the same
thing in the end, only in a more aggravated de.
gree, for the apprehension of innocent individuals
cannot but have a demoralising effect, and tend
to the increase of crime, independently of the
encouragement simultaneously held out to the
guilty. Convictions, and not apprehensions, are
the true test of efficiency in a force, and, in this
respect, the constabulary' suffer nothing by a
comparison with the police, but rather gain. Po-
lice majors, and captains, with their military
predilections, may vaunt as they please of the
superiority of their trained forces over the con-
stabulary of our boroughs and townships, but the
farmer and the citizen, who have had the oppor-
tunity to compare the past with the present, will
not be so ready to endorse their allegations. The
latter may be gravelled by statistics, but it will
take a new, and hitherto unheard-of, system of
notation to convince them they lose less by depre-
dation to make up for the increased amount of
police rate exacted from them.

All the pretensions of Government to anxiety
for the better protection of life and property we
do not hesitate to say are—fudge. If the War
has done nothing else it has shown that. Our
soldiers have been sacrificed by thousands to the
most criminal neglect. Millions on millions of
the public money have been buried, without a
possibility of resurrection, in the Crimea, and
lavished in the dockyards and on the seas to no
earthly purpose, unless it were to show how the
taxpayer might be bamboozled. What the Go-
vernment wants, and what every Government,
until we get an English one, will want, is an in-
crease of governmental power—the ability yet
further and with greater safety to ignore the
wishes and set at nought the interests of the
people—to establish, in short, that Germanic
regime which " the power behind the Throne, and
greater than the Throne," would have established.
Gradually the network of centralisation is em-
bracing the country in its meshes ; and, unless
the public address themselves to resistance, the
particulars of some astounding arrest in contra-
vention of all English precedent will be the first
thing to convince -them how dangerous was their
apathy—how madly they suffered their birth-
right to be filched from them ! It is the age of
little statesmen—the age, of all others, when cen-
tralisation should be especially guarded against.