The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-30 00:00:00

PEACE ON THE CARDS.

"Many a true word spoke in jest." Our fa-
cetious contemporary Punch shows that it may be
conveyed in another manner—by means of picto-
rial illustration. Its cartoon for the present week,
" Peace on the Cards," represents a danger of no
ordinary magnitude' against which the most stringent
precautions should be taken. The Emperors of
Russia and Austria are engaged, as partners at
cards, Against the .Emperor of France and Queen
Victoria, while the Angel of Peace—the good
" Clicquor —.is a looker-on, advising his nephew
in the father intricate game in which he
has become involved. The Czar looks for
advice- to his sympathising relative. He is
manifestly doubtful as to the next move ;
but there is no difficulty with the bystander, who,
in answer to the interrogating look, emphatically
replies, " What shall you do ? Play the knave of
course !" A suggestion which the party concerned
seems fully prepared to act on.

The returns of circulation of the Irish and Scotch
banks for the four weeks ending the 224 of Dec., 1855,
when added together, give the following as the average
weekly circulation of these banks during the past month,

part of France, Austria, and Russia.

turn to his post.

HAMBURG, JAN. 28.

probable.

ATHENS, JAN. 23.

Cash. fr. c. End of Month.
4i per Cents 95 —f. —o.
3 per Cents 69 60 69 95
New Loan 7O 70
Bank Shares 3275 Roman
Credit Mobilier 1450 Austrian
Belgian Fives. .... .. 95i Spanish Threes —
Piedmontese (5). B7 50 Homo Debt
RAILWAYS—BOB CASH.
fr. c. o,
Orleans
Northern
Lyons —.. 1195 Now Ditto 790
Hediterranean 1335 Grand Central 6OO
Lyons Geneva
Cette

The participation of Prussia in the negotiations
and in the conferences for peace is considered as
nearly certain. France is said to have renounced
her opposition to it, and England alone raises
.IRISH AND SCOTCH BANKS. I difficulties.

The belligerent Powers have agreed on noi

concluding an armistice at present, but only a
suspension of hostilities. Prussia has been in-
vited to be present at the Conferences, on the

M. de Rauch, Military Plenipotentiary at St
Petersburg, arrived here to-day, and will not re.

Count Reventlow having proposed an address
to the King of Denmark claiming a guarantee
of the sacred rights of the Duchy, a strong ma-
jority of the Holstein Diet' adopted it.

The royal commissioner, having vigorously
opposed this address, immediately quitted the
hall.

The dissolution of the Diet is oonsidered as

The brigands condemned are summarily exe.
cuted. An excellent impression has been produced
by the decorations sent by the Emperor Napoleon.

FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.
The Emperor and the Empress yesterday re-
ceived the hereditary Prince of Reuss-Schleiz. The
Prince was accompanied by the Count de Hatzfeldt,
the Prussian Minister, and by M. de Rauch, the
aide-camp to his Serene Highness. Their Majes-
ties also received the Turkish General of Division,
Dervish Pacha, who was presented by the Ottoman
ambassador.

The Moniteur contains a notice to the families
of soldiers and sailors who have died in the East,
to send in their claims to the special commission
without delay, the sailors' to the prefects or the
maritime authorities by the 20th of February, or
to the Minister of War by the Ist of March.
The ( onstitutionmel considers peace as a fait
accompli, and M. Granier de Cassagnac is inditing
a sort of millennial ode in halting prose, in honour
of that glorious epoch.
BOURSE, Jan. 29.—The following were the quo-
tations :

the 23d Dec., except in th proposed rectification of the
frontier between Moldavia and Bessarabia, in exchange
for points occupied by the euemy on the Russian territory.
This is not the place to examine whether those proposi-
tione contain, better than those of the Imperial govern•
meet, the conditions necessary to secure the repose of the
East and, the security of Europe. It suffices to state
that an accord ie etc facto established on several of the
fundamental bases of peace. In presence of this accord,
in presence of the wishes manifested by the whole of
Europe, and in face of a coalition which tended to
assume larger proportions and looking at the sacrifices
which the prolongation of the war imposes on Russia,
the imperial government has not thought it its duty
to postpone by accessory discussions a work of
conciliation, the success ~f which would satisfy its deer-
est wishes. It consequently gives its adhesion to the
propositions transmitted Ly the Au‘trian Government
as a project of preliminaries for negotiations for peace.
By her energetic attitude in presence of a formidable
coalition Russia has shown the sacrifices which she is
ready to make in the defence of her honour and of her
dignity; by this act of moderation the Imperial Govern-
ment gives at the same time a fresh proof of its sincere
desire of terminating. the effusion of blood, of putting an
end to a struggle afflicting for civilisation and humanity,
and of restoring to Russia and to Europe the blessings
of peace. It has right to expect that the opinion of all
civilised countries will give it due credit for this mode-
ration."

The German Journal of Frankfort states that
M. de Titoff, Russian Envoy at Stuttgardt, has
received orders from St. Petersburg to hold him-
self in readiness to leave in order to attend the
Peace Conferences. Re was, it may be remembered,
one of the Russian Plenipotentiaries in the Con-
ferences of Vienna last year.

PRUSSIA.
A. letter from Berlin, of the 24th, in the
Hamburg Correspondent, says :—" The English
Government has followed up the note which it
had addressed to the French Cabinet, on the in-
terpretation to be given on the fifth point, by a
second document on the same subject. It is in
the form of a circular despatch, addressed to the
English legations, in which it makes the neces-
sary communications on the position of England
as regards the ,question of peace. England ex-
presses much satisfaction at the unreserved accep-
tance of the programme of peace by Russia ; but
she will not confider the object of the war as at-
tained unless Russia consents to a series of other
conditions which England had previously made
known to the Allied Powers, and with a view to
which the fifth point was reserved. These points
have been already mentioned, and every ona asks
whether Nicolaieff will be comprised in the for-
tresPes to be suppressed in the Black Sea."
The "Military Society of Prussia' celebrated
on the 24th at Berlin the anniversary of the birth
of Frederick the Great. The King and princes of
the Royal family were present, as were also M. de
Humboldt, Generals de Wrangel and de Groben,
the Minister of War, and other superior officers.
The King's historiographer, M. Preuss,_delivered
a suitable speech on the occasion.