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

APPROACHING CONCLUSION OF
PEACE.

PARIS, FRIDAY.
!,-
To-day there has been another sitting of the
Congres?.
It is confidently stated that the Peace will be
officially announced on Sunday.
The.Atmistioe will probably be prolonged by
six weeks, to give time for the ratifications,
which will be, exchanged in the first fortnight of
next May.'

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 advices from Con-
-
stantinWe 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 Kamieseh
with 600 shells and 66 Russian cannon.
The steamers European, Persian, Francois
Arago, and France leave with troops for Algeria.

THE PEACE CONGRIESS.
(From S:econd Edition of the Times of this dad. )

•
The following is 4 the letter of our Paris corre-
spondent, dated yesteriay, 6 p.m.:--
The Conferences are said to have made consi-
derable progress on Wednesday and yesterday ;
and as there is no relaxation in their labours,
for the Plenipotentiaries meet to-day, 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 ths ;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 beenrarranged, and, it appears, as satisfacto-
rily as itossible under the circumstances; and
Sardinia, froni 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 business on the Sunday. A work
of peace is not unsuited to the Sabbath.
IThe 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 extVild. 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 Rusiia 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 Moniteur 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 it° last signature is affixed to the treaty,
a signal la' bo made 'from the Foreign-office, and
100 guns will proclaim the tidings before a single
Plenip,etentiary quits the hall of the Conferences.
Such a mode of proceeding would prodtice much
effect. On Sunday the streets are thronged
with people going to or coming from church,
or engaged in occupation or amusement, and
newsmongers are all abroad et. la chasse des
canards. On that day also the Bourse is closed,
and a check, giVen to all except the pettiest job-
bing. I havelio 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 eipeeted at Downing-street on
Monday, but he will probably return here again.
Some surprise has been manifested in certain
political &roles 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 sympathieato the allies, the Ambas-
sador of the Emperor Francis Joseph should
have 'iniiited persons who, however eminent or
honourable, are, at ail 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 buc de_ :Noailles, 111. Guizot, and
others whose sympathies are well known. The fact
was mentioned in the Patric 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 Mats speaks of the rumoured difficulties
which have delayed 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, is not of a nature to cause any uneasiness ;
peace is more certain than ever."
The 'Patric says,—" Without departing from
the reserve which is imposed on us, we think we
may announce that the tilting difficulties c f which
some fcreign journals have spoken will rot be of
any oonsequenCe. The Congress and the sub-
committee are`actiwely pursuing their labours. It

is positively stated that all the es6endal conditions
of the treaty of peace have been decided on fur
some days past, but that there still remain some
points to settle relative to the internal regime of

ihe Danubian Principalities. It is, nevertheless,
hoped that the signature will take place in the
course of this week."

From 6,000 to 7,000 troops are to be imme-
diately embarked for Algeria. The Jacques Arago
is to carry out 1,300 ; the Europe, 1,300 ; the
France, 1,200; and the Empress, 400. The rest
are to be embaiked in smaller vessels.
The Moniteur announces that addresses of con-
gratulation to the Emperor, which continue to
pour in from every part of the country, are so
numerous that it is impossible fur it to publish
the text of them, an,d that it will confine itself to
giving the names of the places from which they
are sent.

" The orders sent to Marseilles," says the
Itioniteur, " for the embarkation of a division
of infantry for Algeria are for the purpose of
its replacing the troops which are to return to
France."

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