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L9NDON, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1856.

This miserably premature Treaty of Peace
arranged and ratified, the question will then be—
Beno ? And the answer (as a matter of
course)—Russia ! For if she has lost somewhat
in one or two particulars, Russia has, at the same
time, in several others, gained very considerably.
She has gained this at least—the "prestige" of
having withstood thus far single-handed the com-
bined efforts of the two most formidable powers
of Christendom, the reputed chiefs of the earth
by sea and by land, aided as their fleets and
armies have been by all the wondrous appliances
of modern warfare, the railway and the screw
warship, the steam-engine and the electric tele-
graph ! Russia emerges from the struggle in
which she has had to contend alone with the
united forces of France and England, swelled as
those forces have been by those of the Turk, the
Sardinian and the Egyptian—Russia emerges
from the struggle with the legions of Vic-
TORIA and NAPOLEON with only "these" ina-
dequate conditions extorted from her ! With the
northern forts of Sebastopol still in her possession !
With Odessa unharmed.! With Nieholaieff never
attacked ! With her frontiers no where crossed,
except along the coasts of the Crimea and of
Armenia ! With not one solitary hostile gun yet
discharged either at her inland capital of Moscow
or at her seaport metropolis of St. Petersburg !
Russia comes forth from the contest, we say, with
the credit, .at any rate, of having suffered so little,
of having preserved so much, of having contended
so long and so effectually with the mighty powers
brought to bear against her by her combined
assailants—that
.she may reasonably, and with
some degree of confidence, anticipate the continu-
ance of her gigantic influence intact among the
Oriental, but especially among the Asiatic, popula-
tions. In the unreasoning estimation of the latter,
Kars will have compensated in a great measure for
Sebastopol. Nay, more—it will be very geeerally
remembered that, notwithstanding the glories of
Alma and of Inkorman, notwithstanding the
heroic charge at Balaklava, and the triumphant
storming of the Malakhoff, notwithstanding the
complete but comparatively bloodless victories
1c on at one extremity of the Muscovite empire at
Kinburn and at another at Bomarsund—England
and. Franco must appear to the world at large to

have " come off," in many respects, but second
best after all ! The struggle ends leaving them
saddled with an enormous increase of debt oonse-
quent upon the vast expenses incurred not only in
the bygone prosecution of the war by sea and by
land, but also through their gigantic preparations
for its future continuance. Their contest with
Russia closes—with a virtual acknowledgment on
their part that a mere casual apology, so to speak,
from the lips of his Imperial Majesty the CZAR, is
sufficient expiation, extorted from the enemy, for
the guilt of the very frightful consequences of
that lawless act of aggression upon Turkey, by
which this dreadful and deplorable War was noto-
riously originated. Coupled with which reflection
comes to us the memory of those heroic sons of the
Allied nations,frhose bones are mouldering now in
their honoured graves upon the shores of the fatal
and inhospitable Chersonese—the flower of the two
armies sent to perish without avail in that deadly
contest which appears after all doomed to terminate
to the virtual advantage of the Russian Govern-
ment.

The unwelcome thought occurs to us moreover,
that when everything has been said and done—
Austria and Prussia must prove in the end to has e
played their cards to perfection ! Have they
not ? Look at the position of each at this mo-
ment—when we are on the eve of having this
despicable and disgraceful compromise arranged
between Russia and the Allies at the Pari-
sian Conferences—look at the position of each
at this moment, and answer ! There is Austria
after having wasted not one single kreutzer in the
stnigglewhich has absorbed for France and England
so manymillions sterling—there is Austria—craven,
neutral, cautious, shuffling—actually in possession
all this time of the very provinces about the in-
tegrity of which there has been all this sangui-
nary fighting—actually with her troops com-
fertably quartered, from first to last, from the
outbreak of the War to the present moment
inclusively, upon the fleeced and in every
way victimised population of those same wretched
Danubian Principalities ! And then again,
there is Prussia Prussia whose Ceurt has
been throughout the meanest, the weakest, the
most paltry, sordid, and despicable—there
is Prussia whose Sovereign has remained all
along uninterruptedly the gibe and jest of
Europe, the laughing-stock, and (in one
sense at least) the by-no-means " empty" butt of
Christendom there is Prussia, positively,
with her diplomatic representative, the En-
voy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo-
tentiary of his Majesty King CLIQUOT —there
is Prussia positively, we sty, with her re-
presentative (after all) invited to take his
seat at the table of the Conferences !
And the heir to the Crown of Prussia about to
espouse H.R. EL the PRINCESS ROYAL of England !
Have we not, let us ask, some show at least of
reason in asserting that the wily neutrals retain
proofs positive within their grasp of having
played their cards to absolute perfection—in
the great game of war just now coming to an end
between the Western Allies and the Russian
Government?

Examining the terms of this most miserable
Treaty of Peace, in fine, we discover in it
only au uncertain truce, dynastically arranged,
for the postponement, yet a little further on, of the
last dread and inevitable rising of the European
Democracies ! Yet_ more we detect in it the
sign manual of all the Chief Powers
of Christendom, proclaiming some in derision,
some in scorn, some with a sullen consciousness
of shame, that England and France—partially
by Russian guile, partially by Austrian duplicity,
but principally by a strange kind of horrible Ger-
man hocuspocus—have from first to last been
(there is no other phrase for it) thoroughly bam-
boozled.

Facts have confirmed our suppositions respect-
ing
opening the Crystal Palace on Good Friday.
Although no trains left till one o'clock, yet, in
the brief time allowed by the light of early spring,
between seventeen and eighteen thousand persons
availed themselves of the privilege. The railway
authorities managed admirably, notwithstanding
the trains had to start as fast as they were filled ;
—and though this large number, anxious to stay
the short time allowed them by ecclesiastical
power, pressed heavily on the means of convey-
ance home, yet, out and home, all went without a
single accident! Pushing and squeezing there will
be when eighteen thousand persons are eager for
the same object ; but nothing could be more
considerate than the arrangements made to do the
most that could be done in the time allowed.
The multitude also did their duty, or at least
did not violate it. No injury whatever was
done to plants, flowers, 'or statuary by
the vast and miscellaneous concourse. Indeed it
is found at Kew, our informant being Sir JAMES
HOOKER himself, that it is the aristocratic not the
plebeian visitors who take liberties with the plants
and flowers. This half holiday gave to the Palace
a gross sum of nearly 9001.,—but what is far
more, it gave to nearly eighteen thousand cribbed,
cabined, and besmoked Londoners a few hours
emancipation from their weary ceaseless round.
And what an emancipation ! Like a dream rather
than reality. From the eternal brick rows of
four and five storey houses, allowing, in their
most favoured arrangements, only a long vista in
but one direction, ending in an impenetrable fog
of smoke, to the charming panorama of a
commanding country bill ; and not only
that, but a transposition from the midst
of creations of art in subservience to ideas
of shelter, shopkeeping, and warehousing—
to a scene where art and nature embrace
each other as graces, and both smile upon the en-
chanted spectator, delighting only in ministering
to his pleasure. It really stirs one's indignation
that with such a winter garden, and such a sum-
mer park and palace so near, our moped thou-
sands have but one general holiday to pour them-
selves forth upon it, and that of that holiday
one-half is taken from them.

It is impossible to read without pain that
" many hundreds "—so great were the numbers
—were unable to avail themselves of the
trains until it was too late to be worth
while to go. Not too late because they
were too late at the station, but too
late because some malign influence prevented
their starting at all before one p.m. The disap-
pointed ones went and waited, and waited, but
waited in vain. All could not go. The best
arrangements could not take more than wore taken
in the limited time. It is to be feared that too
many would seek indemnification in public-house
revelry. At some disappointments we can' only
laugh, but who can laugh at hundreds eager to
enjoy their single holiday in the most rational and
beneficial mode conceivable, yet obstructed by
some ascetic powers, who grudge to others the
best of pleasures, because they must need " fast
time in the week"—or, at least, on this day.
" They have their reward," why not let others
have their pleasure. It is really time that Go-
vernment intervened to give a few bona fide hen-
' days to the London populace. It is very well to
talk of seouring Hampstead Heath and other

parks for the people, but let holidays be secured
also on which amusing and benefitting the many
shall incur no penalty.

In foreign, especially in Eastern politics, Mr.
LAYARD is unquestionably an authority. Had
he occupied the place of the humble-
witted red-tapist who now does second duty
at the War-office, all England would have
said it was the right man in the right place.
And, however Whig and Tory colonels may bark,
there can be no question that a little of the nuns
divinior—of the fire of genius—sharpens the
vision of a politician as well as of a poet. Very
many of us will put more faith in the honest
genius of Mr. LAYARD than in the Germanised
talents of our Cabinet Leaders. Now, Mr.
LAYARD, while like all of us desirous enough of
peace, is unable to regard the present one as
satisfactory. He foresees probable causes of
early disturbance ; to be prepared for these
we shall have to keep up a costly
army and navy, and to us peace will, therefore,
bring not only taxes to pay for what Russia should
have paid for, but taxes because we left her un-
taxed. We have declined to take bail of her, and
to indemnify ourselves at the same time ; the re-
sult is, we pay our own costs, and the cost of an
armed establishment that she may fear to commit
burglary again. We pay both ways that Russia
may not pay at all. Not very satisfactory that
—but—it " consults the honour and dignity of
Russia," and therefore pleases the Germans and
all to whom German dynasties and dukedoms have
given wives or husbands. Russia for the most
dishonourable conduct must have an honourable
peace—sic volvere Gernvmos.

Mr. LAYARD is one of the few Members of Par-
liament who can burst the trammels of routine—
he has done it before, and again he does not hesi-
tate to call a spade a spade. He thinks the
Peace "premature," he believes no Englishman is
satisfied, however much he may desire peace in
the abstract. He feels with the nation, that our
present efficient preparations ought to have been
made use of either directly or indirectly ; they
ought either to have secured vastly different terms
of peace, or to have conquered them. Mr.
LAYARD considers that we have done nothing, or
next to nothing, for the great matters of civil and
religious liberty, and that on that ground also,
more especially, the peace is premature. It is
gratifying to find our own views honestly uttered
before a British audience by cne of the most
distinguished Members of our Senate—and we
unst think they represent every man's heart.
Almost every Englishman feels ashamed of the
peace. It is useless to deny it. We like a cheap
loaf—if indeed peace would cheapen it ; we like
a light income-tax, and none at all better still ;
but each of us looks at the other with the awk-
ward feeling of partners in a career ending not
very creditably to our pluck. The very praisers
of peace appear to us like men trying to hide an
inward feeling of something shabby by loudness
of commendation. It is premature, talk as
grandly as they may ; it leaves despotism ram-
pant all over the continent, and religious liberty
curtailed rather than extended. Even Turkish
Christians have gained but little which the SULTAN
was not before rapidly bestowing on them. In-
deed it was his religious liberality which most
urged him to it.

The more we learn of the capitulation of Kars
the more thoroughly satisfied we become of the
utter unworthiness of Lord STRATFORD DE RED-
CLIFFE to represent British interests at Constanti-
nople, and of the culpable forbearance of our Go-
vernment in not long ago dismissing him from a
post which, throughout the War, he seems to have
occupied chiefly for the gratification of his own
caprice.

Say that the Turkish Government was muddled
by the influence of a blot of intriguers—that
corruption and peculation, with a sublime indif-
ference to th e objects of the War, were 'to be met
with in high places—that the military Pashas in
Asia had no regard for anything but their own
safety and aggrandisement—were, in fact, the
vilest cowards and the most rascally plunderers
that ever disgraced even Turkish annals ;
and when all this is said and few will
be found bold enough to deny its truth—still the
crowning iniquity remains with the British Am-
bassador. Had he but dcne his duty the miser-
able horde of traitors and robbers would not have
been permitted to pursue their infamous career ;
and instead of a disastrous, though in some re-
spects glorious, capitulation, we should have had
to record the liberation of Kars from all cause of
apprehension by the final retreat of the Russian
forces.

Let the position of Turkey be remembered.
To all intents and purposes the fate of that un-
happy country was in the bands of the Allies,
and their representations had, if they chose, the
force of commands. Who would have been found
bold enough to resist their clearly-expressed will,
or, having that audacity, strong enough to do so
with impunity 7 Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE
had but to make himself acquainted with
the gathering elements of disaster in Asia, report
them promptly to his Government, and lend to
its decisions a cordial co-operation, to have dis-
versed them into " thin air." The heartless
vanity of the man, however, stood in the way.
His will must be supreme, or everything might
go—where it liked. Desirable it might be to
stay the advance of General IVlounavrEFF, and
save Kars—to his thinking it was infinitely more
so that the Presumptuous intruder WILLIAMS,
owing only allegiance and support to the Govern-
ment at home, should be made to repent of his
temerity in the mortification of defeat. The
great English bashaw, of course, knew nothing,
at all events had told nothing to the
Allied Commanders in the Crimea, of the
perilous position of affairs in Asia at that
period when the enemy was marching on Kars
—as will be seen in the despatch from Colonel
SIMMONS to Lord CLARENDON, dated July 15,
1855. There it will be found that, at a confer-
ence of the Allied Generals, held at the solicita-
tion of OmErt PASHA, to take into consideration the
menacing aspect of affairs in Asia, and the necessity
of his liberation from the Crimea, in order to:make
a movement to the rescue—his representations
failed of their effect because " the Generals and
Admirals bad received no information from their
respective ambassadors at Constantinople which
should lead them to believe that the affairs of
Asia were in that precarious state in which OMER
PASHA, from the information, hs hal received from
his Government, believed them to be." Is not
this a palpable proof, irrespective of any other,
throwing entirely out of mind the half-hundred
and odd unanswered despatches, and the singular
act of forgetfulness which left General WILLIAMs
without the recognition and authorisation of the
Ttukisla Government, that his lordship most de-
plorably failed in the discharge of his duty ?
That any attempt to relieve Kars was made by
OMER PASHA at all was no fault of Lord
STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE, much less that
the attempt at relief proved so inefficient.
It was on the information ,of his own Government

and not of the British Ambassador that OMER
PASHA. acted ; had he waited for the latter the
expedition would never have been attempted, and
the capitulation of Kars would have been the
first news he had of the siege. How revolt-
ing it is to think that this fine enterprising
soldier was kept with an army of 60,000 brave
Turks, of whom the greatest part were Asiatics,
whose families and property were exposed to the
ravages of the advancing enemy, should have
been kept idle and useless, fretting his •proud
soul with impatience in the Crimea, when, if
transported to Asia, he could have driven the
forces under General MOURAVIRTF before him in
irrecoverable rout. That if we had had an able
and upright ambassador at Ccnstantinople, the
war would have terminated without one triumph
for Russia, and without the introduction of Kars
into the conditions of peace to our discredit and

LATEST NEWS.

MARSEILLES, MARCH 22.

Accounts by the Thabor state that the Allies
have commenced the demolition of the enclosure-
wall round Sebastopol.

The steamer European, which left Constan-

tinople on the 11th inst., with 400 soldiers on
board, and the clipper Edgar Stringer, with 170,
have arrived, and are in quarantine.

Ismael Pacha was increasing the army of Ana-
.olia.

General Mouravicff had received reinforcements
by the way of the Caspian Sea and Tiflis.

Letters from Persia say that Dost Mohammed,
the Khan-Serdah of Caboul, has taken possession
of the province of Kandahar.
Persian troops were marching against him.

THE PEACE CONGRESS.
(From Second Edition, of the Times of this day.)

The following is the letter of olar Paris corre-
spondent, dated yesterday, 6 p.m.:—
It was confidently reported yesterday, and with
every appearance of truth, that the labours of the
Congrog3 wore last night to be brought to a conclu-
sion. It was even affirmed that the Treaty of Peace
would be signed at the same time, so that the ltioni-
tour might be able to announce it this morning, a
few hours only before the celebration of the To Drum
in thanksgiving of the Empress's safe delivery of a
Prince. The effect would have been fine—while the
solemn strain was pealing beneath the roofs of every
cathedral in Franco, that the thunder of cannon
should announce the consummation of the work of
peace. On such occasions people hardly content
themselves with the bare truth, and we are now
assured that so certain was the Emperor of the sign-
ing of the treaty that orders had been given for
illuminations in the Ministerial offices. It may be
so ; the fact is not important ; but of the confidence
with which the conclusion of peace was looked for-
ward to I have no doubt.

When the Plenipotentiaries separated on Thurs-
day last it was understood that the next meeting
should take place on Saturday ; and up to Friday
night the hour remained the same at which they
usually assembled. Notice, however, was sent
round that it was necessary the Congress should meet
earlier than usual. There was a good deal of busi-
ness to get through, and it was desirable to meet as
soon, and separate as late as possible. A Ministe-
rial journal had prepared the public for the expected
solution by stating that, after three days' work by
the Plenipotentiaries in committee, " the sitting of
yesterday would not fail to be important." In
one or two quarters it was mysteriously whispered
that the discussion would be an animated, and, at
its close, not a satisfactory one. On the authority
of other and more sanguine parties it was affirmed,
on the contrary, that the business of yesterday
would be of the lightest, and would hardly be more
than affixing signatures and shaking hands.
I regret to say that the more agreeable prediction
has not been realised. Unanimity did not prevail at
the sitting of yesterday, or, if unanimity nearly pre-
vailed, the dissentients, whoever they may be, were
sufficiently powerful to disappoint the expectations
of the public. The discussion was not so amicable
as had been anticipated, and so far from a treaty of
peace being signed at the close of the meeting, there
is reason to fear that no one can positively say when
that treaty will be signed, or whether the difficulties
that are now in the way will be removed during the
ensuing week. I do not mean to affirm they will not,
but I doubt if any ono can fix the period when they
will; and although Tam far from stating or believing
that the solution of the Conferences will be other-
wise than pacific, I fear we are at this moment more
distant from that solution than we were supposed
to be 10 days ago. Difficulties have arisen which I
hope are not insurmountable, but which may take
time to remove. That time is felt to be very pre-
cious in every respect, and not least in a financial
point of view. Indeed, the loss incurred is con-
siderable in men as well as money. Typhus is
raging in the army, and the expense incurred by
14 or 15 days' unnecessary delay in the Crimea is
calculated for the English at about 20,000,000 f. ;
for the French about 15,000,000 f. Our armistice

expires on the 31st, and it is denied, though I can
hardly credit the denial, that it will be renewed ;
but even if it be renewed, an act of indiscretion on
the part of a general officer, of a diplomatic agent,
or even of inferior persons, may add new compli-
cations, as if there were not enough already.
You will agree with me that the cause must
be a serious one indeed which would justify
so much loss. That a cause, great or small, im-
portant or trifling, exists, there is no doubt. But

What can it be ?everybody asks. Were we not
told from the beginning of the present week that
nothing could be more satisfactory than the pro-

gross of the negotiations ? Indeed, the Russians
were so conciliating that they seemed to regret
that no more was asked of them ; the Austrians
appeared resolved not to be offended by any
scowls or sarcasm from Count Orloff; and the
Prussians were said to be as meek as mice. In

fact, everything went on, or was said to go on,
" merrily as a marriage bell," when all of a sudden
the scene changes. I think I can guess the
cause of that change. I believe it to be owing to
tie demand put forth yesterday by the Prus-
sian Plenipotentiaries to be admitted to sign
the Treaty of Peace on the same footing and in the
same character as if Prussia had been a party to the
alliance throughout, as if she had accepted all the
obligations involved in it, had joined in the ulti-
matum, and had declared that she would abide by
all its consequences. Such it seems are the preten-
sions of Prussia at this moment, and I believe that
in these pretensions she has the support of Russia,
if not of others. That these pretensions are op-
posed iu the Congress is evident from their pre-
venting the Conferences being brought to a con-
clusion yesterday; bat by what Powers in parti-
cular I am utia.ble to say. Of the main fact of
their being put forward, and of their being the
principal, if not the sole, cause of this unforeseen
delay, I think I can safely assure you. By some
persons such a cause is considered, if not trifling,
at least not sufficient to justify the serious conse-
quences that may follow. By others, I suspct,
real importance is attached to it. Ido not take
upon myself to decide as to who is right, or who is
wrong ;- I content myself with repeating that the
delay in signing the treaty of peace, expected yes-
terday, is attributable to the opposition offered to
the demand of Prussia to be admitted on terms of
equality with the great Powers, and that I cannot
say when that demand or that opposition will be
withdrawn.

It is a remarkable as well as an unpleasant circum-
stance, that Prince Jerome, the uncle, and Prince
Louis Lucien, cousin of the Emperor, should
both, in consequence of circumstances beyond their
control, have been unable to sign the'Acte de Nais-
sauce of the infant Prince. It is owing to these
circumstances that only two witnesses, instead of
four, appear in the programme of the ceremonial
observed on the occasion.
A Te Deum, was chanted to-day at Notre Dame,
as in all the cathedrals of France, in thanksgiving
for the Empress's delivery. The Ministers and
other public functionaries were present in uniform.
The Emperor was not present, nor the Diplomatic
Corps. The Emperor and Empress will both attend
the Te Deum in June, on the occasion of the solemn
baptism of the Prince.
Prince Jerome's improvement is going on with-
out interruption. It was announced to-day at the
Palais Royal that no more bulletins would be
issued.
The Minister of Finance, M. Magna, gives a
grand dinner on Tuesday to the Plenipotentiaries,
and a ball in the course of the evening.

(Prom• Second Edition of Morning Post.)
SUNDAY, 6 r.m.

The Siecle conveys intelligence from St. Peters-
burg which shadows forth, according to this autho-
rity, some of the leading articles of the expected
treaty. I. Russia consents to the neutralisation of
the Black Sea. 2. Sebastopol is not again to be-
come a war depot, and the reconstruction of the for-
tresses are prohibited. 3. Nicolaieff is to be reduced
to a commercial prt. 4. Russia is to abandon her
protectorate of the Principalities. 5. Russia re-
nounces certain territoriesin Bassarabia,which leaves
the navigation of the Danube perfectly free. 6. A
commission is to be appointed to trace the new
frontiers in this district. 7. The fact of a Russian
soldier passing the Pruth is to be looked upon as a
casus belli by the contracting Powers. I believe
this information is correct, and to which might be
added a revision of the Asiatic frontiers of Turkey,
to accomplish which a commission will be • also ap-
pointed. The domestic organisation of the Prin.-
cipalities will, I believe, be a subject of future dis-
cussion. Turkey has no desire to interfere with
the municipal privileges of the Principalities, but
she has every right to insist on possessing those
military defences which are the outposts
of her em-
pire. It may be that Austria has peculiar views on
this subject, but I question if they will prevail.

The concession which the Porte has made to his
Christian subjects entitles Turkey to demand from
France and England a continuance of that support,
already accorded to secure the union and indepen-
dence of the Ottoman empire. Tile Sultan has
been inspired with a policy which will entirely
change the character of the oriental world. To put
the reforms in practice it is necessary that England
and France should stand by the Porte during their
operation. This will be done ; and although it
may be that the armies of the belligerent allies
shall leave the Turkish capital, for some time to
come a considerable force will be maintained not
far off.

1 believe Austria is decidedly in the minority at
the Parisian Congress. If she has no open enemies,
she has no sincere friends. She may not get out of
peace conferences all gains and no losses. Ido not
now think that the Plenipotentiaries will separate
without mooting questions which Austria may not
care to discuss. The great declared aim of the En-
voys is to give Europe a lasting peace, and that can
only be done by removing the elements of disturb-
ance. In 1848 Europe was convulsed with revolution.
The happy turn of affairs in France restored general
tranquillity. But when the Emperor of the French
conquered mad republicanism and stifled socialism—
when Germany got rid of the Government of barri-
cades, and when Italy was the victim of reaction
which the Peninsula never merited—anarchy was,
indeed, put down, but with the exception of France,
no permanent system of rule has been established.
In France, Napoleon 111. became the universally
elected head of the nation, to which he has given
prosperity and solidity. Germany and Italy (ex-
cepting Piedmont) remain just as they were before
1848, or something worse as regards political re-
pose. Whilst France has progressed in intelligent
rule, Germany and Italy have retrograded. As
matters now stand, both these important countries
may convulse Europe any day. These facts are no
doubt obvious to the statesmen now met in Paris.
They may dismiss, propose, suggest, nay, I believe
they will do so ; and yet I fear little will be accom-
plished. There is as little intelligence as sincerity
in the old despotic Governments of Europe.

FRANCE.
THE PRINCE IMPERIAL.

The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the follow-
ing official documents relative to the birth of the
" Prince Imperial :"
" In the year 1856, on the 16th day of the
month of March, we, Achille Fould, Minister of
State and of the Emperor's Household, in virtue
of the office we hold under the Bth article of the
Senatus-Consultum of the 25th of December, 1852,
and under the 13th article of the Imperial Statute
of the 21st of June, 1853, aided in the execution of
the same stature by his Excellency M. Pierre Jules
Biroche, Presideut of the Council of Stays, pro-
ceeded to the Palace of the Tuileries, in obedience
to the orders of his Majesty the mperor, con-
tained in the sealed letter, dated the 12th inst., as
follows :

" 'M. Achille Fould, Minister of State, as the
Empress, our much beloved spouse, is approaching
her confinement, we have ordained that as soon as
she feels the first pains you shall be apprised thereof
to proceed to the Palace of the Tuileries to tbe
room appointed for you, that you may be intro.
duced into the chamber of the Empress at the mo-
ment of her delivery. Oar wish is that, with the
aid of the President of our Council of Srare, you
may draw up the act of birth conformably to the
Bth article of the Senatus-Consultuin of the 25th of
December, 1852, and the 13,..11 article of the
Statute of tlfe 21st of June, 1853.
" ' We have selected as witnesses his Imperial
Highness Prince Napoleon and his Highness Prince
Lucien Murat.
" Whereupon, M. le Ministre, I pray God to
have you in health and His good keeping.
" Done at the Palace of the Tuileries, March
12.

" NAPOLEON.'

" And being at the Palace at the hour of two
o'clock in the morning in company with his Impe-
rial Highness Prince Napoleon and his Highness
Prince Lucien Murat, the witnesses selected and
sent for by the Emperor by letters couched as fol-
lows :
"My dear Cousin,—As the Empress, ourmuch-
beloved spouse, approaches her confinement, we
have ordained that as soon as she feels the first
pains you shall be requested to proceed to the Pa-
laoe of the Tuileries, to the chamber reserved to
the princes of the imperial family, that you may
be admitted into the Empress's chamber at the time
of her delivery. Our wish is that you shall sign
the act of birth as witness.
" ' Wherein I pray God, my dear cousin, to
have you in good health and his good keeping.
" Done at the Palace of the Tuileries, the 12th
of March, 1856.
" Yours affectionately,
"'NAPOLEON.'

" To his Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon.'
[Here follow two letters precisely of the same
tonour, one to Prince Lucien Murat, the other to
M. Abbatucci, Keeper of the Seals.]
We, Minister of State, were admitted by order of
his Majesty the Emperor, with his Imperial High-
ness Prince Napoleon, and his Highness Prince
Lucien Murat, and his Excellency the Keeper of
the Seals, into the bedroom of her Majesty the
Empress at the moment she suffered the pains
which announced her proximate delivery ; which
having happily taken place at a quarter past 3
o'clock, Madame Bruat, Governess of the ' Infant
of France,' presented to us, as also to his Imperial
Highness Prince Napoleon, and to his Highness
Prince Lucien Murat, and to his Excellency the
Keeper of the Seals, by order of his Majesty the
Emperor, the child of which her Majesty had j ust
been delivered, and which we recognised to be of
the male sex. And we then immediately entered
the Empress's saloon, in which was his Majesty
the Emperor, and his Majesty informed us that it
was his intention that the Prince Imperial should
receive the names of Napoleon Eugene Louis-Jean
Joseph.
"Of all which we have drawn up the present
official statement upon the register of the Imperial
family, in presence of his Imperial Highness Mon-
seigneur the Prince Napoleon, and of his Highness
Monseigneur the Prince Lucien Murat, witnesses
selected by his Majesty the Emperor.
" And said statement has been si2ned by his Ma-
jesty the Emperor, the abovenained witnesses, and
by the Princes and Princesses of the family present,
and also by his Excellency the Keeper of the Seals,
Minister of Justice.

" Which act bas been signed by us, Nlinister of
State, and countersigned by his Eseellertoy the
President of the Council of z,tate.

(Here follow the signatures)
" NAPOLEON.
" PRINCE NAPOLEON.
" PRINCE MURAT.
" PRINCESS MATHILDE.
" PRINCESS BACIOCCHI.
" PRINCESS CAROLINE MURAT.
" PRINCE JOACHIM MURAT.
" COUNTESS DE MONTIJO,
Duchess of Penaranda.

" ACHILLE FOULD.
" J. BAROCHE.

" ABBATUCCI."
Tho following was the bulletin issued yesterday
at the Tuileries :
" 22d, Half past Eleven, a.m.—The health of the
Empress continues excellent."
(Signed as usual.)
There was a meeting of the Plenipotentiaries at
half-past one o'clock on Saturday.
BOURSE, March 22.—The following were the last
quotations :
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3 per Cents 72 40
New Loan 72 75
Bank Shares 3,500 Roman
Credit Mobilier 1,570 Austrian
Belgian Fives — Spanish Threos
Piedmontese (5) 9l 25 Home Debt ......

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