The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-01 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

BERLIN, MARCH 31.

On the occasion of the signature of the treaty
of peace, the King has conferred on M. 1e
Manteuffel the Grand Cordon of the Order of the

Blaek Eagle.
The Czas, the Austrian journal of Cracow,

says :—" lu the night of the 26th the recruit-

meut of 30,000 men from the age of 19 to 35

took place in Poland."

TURIN, MARCH 30, 'EVENING.

Salutes of artillery have announced at Turin,
Alexandria, and Genoa, the news of the conclusion

of peace.

MARSEILLES, MONDAY.

The Emcine arrived at this port to-day at one
o'clock p.m., with tho mails from India and
China.

FRANCE.
PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
The ilioniteur of to-day publishes the official an-
nouncement of the signature of peace precisely in
the same terms as Lord Clarendon's despatch an-
nouncing the fact to the English Government.
The Moniteur adds :

"The Plenipotentiaries of the Congress met at noon
yesterday, 'in uniform, at the Ministry of Foreign Af-
fairs, to sign the treaty. Immediately after the sitting
all the Plenipotentiaries proceeded in a body to the
'Pantries where they had the honour of being received
by the Emperor.
" At 2 o'clock a salvo of 101 guns announced the con-
clusion of peace to the population of Paris.
"In the evening the whole city was spontaneously
illuminated in the most brilliant manner."

The Plenipotentiaries will hold their first sitting
on Wednesday upon certain affairs.
The following are some particulars relative to
the important act of signing the treaty of peace :
" The draft of the general treaty of peace drawn up
by the-Cornitei de Rgdaetion having, in the sitting of
Saturday, :;obtained the sanction of the congress, the
plenipotentiaries of the contracting powers met the next
day, as already stated, to proceed to the formal act of
affixing their signatures to the document. M. Feuillt t
de Conches, chief of the protocol department in the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, had caused seven copies of
the treaty, written on parchment, to be prepared and
placed on the table of the conferences, in such a
manner that each copy was put before the plenipo•
tertiaries of the Government by which it is to be
ratified. After the text cf the seven c pies had been
carefully compared,ahe plenipotentiaries proceeded to
affix their signatures to the end of the treaty. Caunt
Walewski, as president of the congress, signed first,
and 'the other plenipotentiaries in the alphabetical order
of their respective c,uutria; It was at this mom-et
that the Emperor was informed by electric telegraph
that the treaty of peace was signed, and his Majesty
sent back word to the members of the congress that he
would be ready to receive them after they had con-
cluded their task. But although the mere act of affix-
ing their signatures occupied the plenipotentiaries hut
a very brief portion of time, yet the whole of the for-
mality of signing lasted nearly two hours, as the pleni-
potentiario;, in addition to their signature at the bottom
of each protocol, had to affix their initials to the
different paragraphs, the whole number of such
minor signatures being, it is said, thirty-eight. The
plenipotentiaries .of each contracting Poser signed
first the copy reserved for their Government, and
then the other plenipotentiaries signed in a phabe-
tieal Ureter. In this manner, each contracting Power
figuring at the head of the signatures of the copy
which it is to ratify, all difficulties as to etiquette or pre-
cedency were set aside. To each signature was imme-
diately attached the private seal of each pleeipotentiary.
Immediately after the close of the sitting, all th'e pleui-
potentiaries went together to the Tuileries, where they
had the honour of being received by the Emperor.
net couriers were sent off in the evening to London,
Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg-, Turin, and Coustae-
tinople, in order to submit, the treaty to the ratifica-
tion of their respective Courts."
The plenipotentiaries at the Congress of Paris,
in signing the treaty of peace, made use of a silver
gilt inkstand specially ordered for the occasion.
This inkstand is decorated in the style of the first
empire, and cost not less than 11,000 f.
Count Orloff and his military suite have. been
invited by the Emperor to accompany his Ma-
jesty, on horseback, in the grand review which is
to take place to-morrow in the Champ de Mars.
The same invitation has been addreseed to some
superior officers of Austria who have just arrived
in Paris on a special ini‘i.sion from their Govern-
ment.

The Moniteur continues to publish long lists of
addresses of congratulation to the Emperor oa the
birth of the Prince Imperial.
One of the Paris journals has erroneously stated
that Lord Clarendon left Paris last night for Lon-
don, in order to be present this evening in his
place in the House of Lords. It was not his lord-
ship who left Paris, but Mr. Ponsouby, his secre-
tary ; Lord Clarendon is still in Paris, and will be
present this evening at the grand dinner to be
given by Count Walewski, Minister of Foreign
Affairs, to the Members of the Peace Congress.
All the diplomatic corps are invited, as also a
number of other distingu shed persons.
The following despatch has been received here
to-day :

" BERLIN, 30.—A double protocol is to be drawn up
by the peace congress ; one relative to the conclusion
of peace, which will be signed by the belligerent powers;
and the other forming a European treaty, in the execu-
tion of which all the powers will concur.—Lieut.-Gen.
Bonin, ex-Minister of War, is named vice governor (I
Mentz. The news of peace, published this evening, has
pr duced an extraordinary sensation. FrAri Russia we
learn that the Grand Dukes Constantine and Nich.das
and General Tu.leben accompany the Emperor Alexan-
de- on his journey to Finland."
BOURSE, March 31, Two o'clock..—The market
has been rather agitated. Rente at first obtained
a slight improvement to 73f. 70c., but afterwards
receded to 73f. 45c. The option of the premiums was
done at this price. The proclamation of peace has
had no great effect on the Bourse. A notice of tle
Bank of France that the rate of discount was re-
duced from 6 to 5 could not prevent the Rente
from declining. The Mobiliet were done at from
, 1,660 f. to 1,665 f. Railway Shares obtained a rise
of sf. and 10f. on the quotations of Saturday.
Half-past Three—The market continued to de-
I cline until the close, when the following werathe
quotations :

End of Month.
—f. —O.
72 90

_
Cash. fr. a.
t! per Cents 93 80
; per Cents 72 70
Now Loan 73 20
Bank Shares 3,500 Roman

.
;Jr&lit Alobilier 1,665 Austrian
Ftelgian Fives '' ..... .. Spanish Threus -
?iethriontesc(s)...... 94 5 Home Debt ~....... 40
RAILW A YS—WOB CASH,
i
fr. c. fr. 0,
Or!eans ......... 1,320 Western BO5 =
Northern l,OlO Strasburg .. 991 0
Lyons... - 1,277 550 New Ditto... .. 835
Alediterranoan 1,577 50 Grand Central ...... 651
Lyons Geneva BOl Toste
Cette 765 Austrian C0rn....... 927 5U