The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-22 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, Jan. 21.—Wind this day at noon, N.E.•
moderate breeze and cloudy.
POOLE, Jan. 21.—Wind S.—The Wyke Regis has
been towed in from the Isle of Wight, with loss of bow-
sprit and much damage to larboard bow and side, from
contact off Hunteliffe, on the 16th inst., with the brig
Suirrel, of Whitby.
JERSEY, Jan. 20.—Wind S.—Arrived—Ship Amelia,
from . Sailed—Ariel, for Pernambuco.

PILL, —N I Jan. 21.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Venus, for V'
De-
merara ; Sarah Charlotte, Jamaica ; .Agamemnon, New
Orleans.
HULL, Jan. 20.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived—Dauntless,
from Bombay.
GRIMSBY, Jan. 21.—Wind N.E., strong—Arrived—
Coronation from Sunderland, for Ipswich, leaky.
GUERNSEY, Jan. 21.—The St. George, from Sunderland
to Morlaix, in entering the roadstead on the 18th inst.,
struck on the White Rock and remains on her beam ends.
Her masts have been taken out and it is hoped she would
float today.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived—Despatch, (s.), from Jersey.
Sailed—Wonder, (s.), for Jersey; Edward and Mary,
Jersey ; Alliance, (s.), Havre.
Tho steam-transport Severn is leaving the docks for
Cork.

LIVERPOOL, Tuesday llonsing.

,
Wiud E.
Arrived—Lavinia, from Cassabianca.
Off—Sappho, from Paraiba.
QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 20.

Wind E.S.E.
Arrived—Bideford, from Syra ; Robert Whiteway, Val-
paraiso ; star, Callao; Duke of Eronte, 111 ulmeia
HOLYHEAD, Jan. 21.

Wind N.E.
Put in—Europa, from Alicante; Mary Louisa, Palermo;
Flora Denial, Perna►nbuco.

DUBLIN, Jan. 21.

Wind E.N.E.
Arrived—Admiral G. V. Marden, from Amsterdam ;
Avon, St. John's, New Brunswick; Invoice, Marseilles.

BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)

GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 10.40 a.m.
Wind N.N.; tide, 1s hour's flood ; cloudy.
Arrived, Jan. 21. Union, from Buenos Ayres; Free-
dom, Messina ; Britannia, Tavira • Clin, Lisbon.
Sailed.—Oscur, for Constantinople- Boyne, Bombay.
DEAL, Tuesday, 10.16 a.m.
Wind N.E. by N., moderate.
Passed—Sir John Easthope (s.s. tpt. 152), from London,
for tile Crimea; Reliance, London, for Boston; Lyra, Lon-
don, for Barbadoes ; Kurrajong, London, for Algoa Bay ;
iitangerton (s.s.), London, for Limerick; Talmo Fal-
mouth, for Hamburg.
Sailed.—H.M.'s gun-boats Adele, Cleopatra, British
Empire, and Walousta.

A LADY, A GENTLEMAN, AND A

GOOSE !

A RAILWAY ROMANCE.

A singular affair occurred on the Wear Valley Rail-
way (Durham), the other day. A gentleman from Bir-
mingham found himself seated in a first-class carriage,
his vis-a-vis, and the only other passenger in that com-
partment of the carriage being a blooming lady, answer-
ing to the alliterative description of "fat, fair, and
forty." The train had scarcely moved 100 yards from
the station before) the lady suddenly leaped from her
seat, and exclaimed to the other passenger, " How dare
you, sir? What do you mean ?" The gentleman,
astonished, replied that "he did not understand ; he had
done nothing to harm her." Again and again she sprang
from her seat in apparent terror and rage, and declared
with vehemence that her neighbour was a " villain, and
she would have him taken into custody at the next sta-

tion." The gentleman protested his innocence, and asked
what he had done ; but the eccentric lady still kept leap-
ing from her seat, raving against his treatment, till the
gentleman decided that she was mad, and resolved on the
arrival of the train at the next station to give her into
custody. As her eccentricity did not atate, nor her rage
either, he, on the arrival of the train at one of the sta-
tions, was about to carry his resolution into action,
when she suddenly sprang to the door and screamed out
"Guard I" at the top of her voice, and presently collected
not only the guard, but a crowd of people around her.
She then commenced her accusation in words, both
loud and deep, protesting that the gentleman had im.
properly pinched her legs, and the gentleman, horrified
at the charge, protesting, with equal vehemence, his
perfect innocence. At this juncture, when matters
looked serious for the gentleman, the guard happened
to recollect that he had placed a basket under the seat
of the carriage containing a live goose ; and, pulling it
out, the mystery was explained, the bird being the
criminal, and having caused the lady's fears and the
gentleman'- apprehensions. This explanation wag re-
ceived with perfect good humour and satisfaction by the
parties concerned, and the train renewed its journey
amid the convulsive laughter and applause of the as•
sembled multitude.

IRELAND.

Tin ACCEPTANCE OF THE PEACE
PROPOSAL, .

A letter from Vienna of the 17th, in the Consti-
tutionnel, after giving an account of the acceptance
of the Austrian propositions by Russia, proceeds
as follows :

" The ilea that the Russian Cabinet, in acquiescing
so promptly in the conditions of loeitce laid down by the
Allies of the 2il Dec., cars be animated by an arrie.re
pence, cannot be a single instant adMitted by any one
that has the slightest acquaintance with diplomatic af-
fairs. It was theßusaian Government itself which directly
notified to Count Esterhazy that it accepted purely and
simply the propositions of Austria to serve as prelimi-
naries of peace. From that moment the acceptance of
Russia was irrevocably accomplished. It now only re-
mains for the Allies to give to their representatives the
full powers necessary to proceed to the signature of the
preliminaries of peace coejointly with, the representa-
tive of the Czar. The signature of the preliminaries is,
at bottom, ouly a simple formality, inasmuch as it may
take place without the slightest discussion, and without
eugaging in any way a negotiation on such or such a
basis of peace. But the Austrian propositions will be
transcribed and recorded word for word in a special
protocol, which will be signed by all the plenipoten-
tiaries. You perceive, therefore, that the preliminaries
which are about to be signed do not resemble the
memorandum of the .98th of December. Whilst thee
latter only served as a basis for negotiations, the preli-
minaries are the result of a negotiation terminated. Nor
must the preliminaries of peace be confounded with the
instrument of peace—that is, the public treaty which is
to consecrate the mutual obligations arising from the
propositions contained in the signed act of the prelimi-
naries. As the general arid definitive treaty of peace is
only the development and solemn sanction of the pre-
liminaries, it is not necessary to say that it neither can
nor ought to contain anything which will change the
sense or bearing of them. In a word, the preliminaries,
as they have been accepted by Russia, must justly be con-
sidered as the keystone of the new edifice of peace. The
signature of preliminaries of peace is always followed
by an arrnstice and the suspension of hostilities. This
truce may be either general or special. In the former
case it applies to ail hostilities in all, places, and has in
its effects the importance of a temporary peace. By the
fact of Russia having accepted the Austrian ultimatum
purely and simply, the truce which is about to be
established between her and the Western Powers can-
not be anything else than a general armistice. During
the armistice, negotiations destined to settle the stipu-
lations, which in accordance with the signed prelimi-
naries must be comprised in the general treaty or in-
strument of peace, will take place. When Lucre than
two Powers are principal parties in a war, they, by
stipulating the cessation of hostilities, agree at the same
time to convoke a congress charged to conclude defini-
tive peace. The congress is almost always held in a
place different from that in which the preliminaries of
peace have been signed. Now, as the preliminaries
between Russia and the allies are probably about to be
signed, and the armistice settled by the conferences of
Vienna, the choice of a place which will be best for
the future congress will have to be proceeded to. The
rule heretofore followed has been to select for the con-
gress either a town situated in a neutral State, or the
capital or other town of the Power which, by its efforts
and sacrifices, most contributed to the accomplishment
of the common undertaking. The choice of a neutral
town is certainly preferable when there is an intervention
of mediating Po Piers, as in the Congresses of Munster,
Niineguen, Ryswick, and Teschen. But in the present
ease, from which all mediation is virtually excluded, it
seems to me that mothing would be more natural than to
choose the c ipitat of France, according to the same
system which caused to be chosen the capital of Austria
for the Congress of 1815, and to be convoked at subse-
quent periods in the Austrian territory the Congresses
of Troppau, Laybac hi, and Verona.'

THE PBOSPECT OF PEACE.

( Frani the Examiner.)

What an inexhaus 'Able theme is the vanity of human
wishes. Juvenal tells how hard it is to distinguish what is
to Le de,ired, and tha t compliant gods ruin man by grant-
ing his prayers. With. the telsgraphic tidings of Russia's
unconditional accepta nes of the Austrian proposals the
funds went up 3 percent. Are the gentlemen of the Stock
Exchange the rare, tl,te gifted exceptions to the fallibi-
lity of judgment which the Roman satirist illustrated ?
Have they alone of mortal men the art of distinguishing
what is, and what is not, for our good ! Does dealing
in money confer this profound pcnetration ? Are we
to look upon the rise and fall of that market as indi-
cations as unerring as those of the barometer? Or
should we rather regard it as the foolometer which Syd-
ney Smith proposed for the regulation of our judgment
xceohnatin•agrei efso.lk‘sVuhpo w conaunlyd
cituaekse.
ttbihyoento,hpeeixnrciueolpnet oopifetarlihvi)'e itads:S"ltsocecelklionErg out or buying in, and yet
they are supposed to be oracular on the fortunes of
nations

Should the prospect of peace at the present juncture be
a matter of hope or fear? Would it be a name, or a rea-
lity, a true state, or a mask ? There are things which
cannot be refused, and which
_can as little be trusted.
The Trojan question of the Greek horse has many
♦arieties.

It id very possible that Russia is sincerely desirous of
an end of the war, ilawhich she finds herself overmatched.
But if so' we may bs sure that she proposes to herself a
revenge for her pre.sent mortification. Her pear was
not ripe. Her wa 7 .policy was a mistake. Her strength
was the exaggerate repute of her strength, whi.:th has
been dissipated by She has been beaten in every
encounter but one, 1 ter fleets have been shut up to rot,
or destroyed, and her territory has been occupied by the
invading Allies. It was not by force of arms that she
made horse f what s b e is, and by relying on force of arms
ske would soon unit aloe herself. Her success has been
thri.n;la other instal meats than the sword. In the arts
of intrigue and coil option she is matchless. Germany
even now under he r influences shows with what consum-
mate craft she can •II hid herself into the places of influ-
ence in foreign eta ti 3s. If she throws down her arms,
it is to resume this • winning game. Much prestige she
has lost, but much istill remains to her, which a prolon-
gation of the cone; st would dissipate. It is her best
policy to save what she can, and to resume the net of
her intrigues all ov, Jr the world. Peace is the cover for
this work. In pea( te it has made its advances, and in
peace again it will', pursue its serpent-like way. Tne
time may then col Ito when recourse to arms to consum•
mate wrong mays Lot be so premature as it has been on
this occasion. _

The first aim widl of course be to break up the alliance
which defeated the' r scheme of Nicholas. Russia will use
all the arts and dew ces in which she is so skilled to die-
unite France and 17 agland. Her business will be to sow
jealousies and culti .ate distrust. She will bid any price
for French favour. he would offer France a partition of
Prussia, servile as .it has been to her, as she offered Eng-
land a share of the l'urkieh spoii. Her clearly-:raced part
is mischief-maker (d Europe. She has four scores of re-
venge to settle, ant 1 eathroihnent must be the means to
the malignant end.
It must be the f'cult of the Western Powers if she
we may be told, for they have their own safety
..aind have only to hold together to
Bdiefteithidesoewmnatindasi- ms. This is true, bet not assuring ;
for nations, like and ividuals, have their moments of evil
teraiptation and wea. knees. But be the result what it my
it will be the undo' lune of Europe for many a day to
have to keep watch and ward against this insidious foe.
We know her purp; mes, they.are all as distinctly mapped
out as be. c stolen tet Titories, and we know how inflexibly
she holds ; to her ends, however she may change her
means, a id thereforespeace with her is but war in disguise.
But vi e may be nuked what is our drift. Are we for
war wit.] lout end r? No, but for war with an end—war with
an end i'.itrnishing the securities forpeace. If Russia makes
all the tto ,ncessions required peace cannot be refused; but
let titers be no mistake about the treacherous character of
the peat e that we have to lay our account with. For of this
we ma I be assured, that Russia does not make sudden
and la I go concessions without along-sighted calculation,
to req rite herself, and compass her objects by other
means a ban open war.
Her c anduct in yielding what she so lately refused-
cannot 1 to recognised. with any frank and honest purpose.
Her pc), Hers are strained, but not broken. She has not
suffered enough to be cured of her ambition, and con-
tent to be permitted to live within her ill-gotten bounds.
She hat ; been baffled in her designs, but not crippled in
her fore :es ; and her mortifications are enough to inflame
the sof nit of revenge, not sufficient to produce contrition
and i e z'orrnation. In a word, the snake is only scotched.
Han. is the type of the Muscovite policy. The flag
of p: lice marshals the way into an ambuscade.
D. Iceit we shall find somewhere : it may be in the
negotiations as before ; if not it is reserved for the rela-
tions 'that will follow. Do not let us be dupes ; let not
our c sedulity rise with the stocks in the fool's paradise
of th b int,ney market. If we cannot help the turn of
event; e if we must accept one form of hostilities instead
of an', titer more frank and less dangerous, let us at least
under t 'lnd what we have to do with, and be on our
guard ,ccordmgly. The play of Who's the Dupe will
not , soon played out ; and if there be peace, it will
only t rn d the first act of the drama, and many intricate
paswa, re s will precede the denouement giving the triumph
Badly-conducted cause. Yet nothing is more
tcoerit'a° b
certain in the event of peace, than that the lesson
' preacl to d throughout the country will be confidence in
Russia. Wo shall be told to forget. Russia will re-
inern'eer,

TUN SUM LONDONO TITENDA.Y EVENINett Ja,NUAlty gs, 144§.