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

RUSSIAN MANCEUVRING.

The future policy of Russia has been evident for 500
time past. Every effort will be made to weaken tbe,
bonds of amity between France and England. The fel'
lowing extract from the last number of the Nord, the,
Russian organ at Brussels, will show the reckless w 4
in which the object is to be effected :
"Lord Clarendon has plainly told the Emperor tho
all the responsibility of the treaty will be thrown 01.
him, Napoleon 111. Lord Clarendon declares that
England has not obtained conditions more unfavourable
to Russia it is because the Emperor of the FrenOb
wished f,o. nothing but peace: it was necessary either to
sign the treaty or to break off the alliance with Loo's
Napoleon ; and Lord Clarendon and his colleagues hare
thought that the possible advantages of a continuation
of U e war would not store for this. As a sign of re'
coneiliati,,r, the plenipotentiaries have agreed to erase
from the proces-verbal all record of the painful dieser
sions and the hard words exchanged in the stormy sittiog
of the 22d. But this will be the secret of the plsig
One of these fine days you will see this same proces;
v, nal, non-revised and uncorrected, in some journal i 0
London or Turin."

THE MISSING PACIFIC.

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(Prom the New York Tribune.) account
The Arabia has arrived, bringing no tidings of the chequer
steatoer Pacific. The Arabia left Liverpool 37 days after the
the missing steamer. Upon the supposition that the lire 98,
Pacific nas di,ab'ed when she was half-way overiehe 1,0„8;
bad then 30 days to get back to port. Yet, of course, '
neither this nor any other supposition can be made with for ]mate
certainty. It is still less likely that she has been trying 1110]
t,i make a poi tin the United States. It is now fift/ "I• I
days since she put to sea ; and if she had met with ea )Z44 l
accident, and still kept on her course, she could hardy mg 41
have fafled to 'reach our coast before this. Possiblif Passive
however, she has sailed in a crippled condition for the are 95 t
, dealt
in
five-and-twenty days would be a fair allowance of tile! 1,401, an
for her to reach Fayal. Supposing her to have arrive" Dutch
4
safely there in that time, we could scarcely bear from het The f
in less than thirty days more, and might not under fort/ kook
or fifty. The communication with the Western Island. sn'
is wholly by sailing vessels, and the intercourse nnfred . ,40
quent. We ought not, therefore, to consider the safety 5 "i ;
of the Pacific wholly out of the question before the first Per
week in April. SpaniAb
But notwithstanding the cherished hope of her safetft ditto C
based upon a highly probable mode of proceeding in.oae. Share
of the breaking of a shaft-or other serious damage to her rates
machinery, her continued absence fills the mind withap'burgh,
prehension. She had been out, at the sailing of the I ogate
Arabia, five days longer than was the Atlantic at the tinge. f Prje,Bl.l
of her memorable disaster—the latter having reached calc hte •
v
on the 32d day after leaving port. It seems hard to ad'
/..:Y1
mit the loss of this noble ship ; but while we consider the
pro ~.11c1
chances of her safety, we must not forget the ciremir red,
stances under which she was making her voyage. She 'lnge
had a new master and a new engineer. Both were un• •
doubtediy competent, but both, of course, ambitious. The
new ship Persia was behind her but three days distant, and
with the highest reputation for speed and great expeota•
tions of her performance on her first trip. It is natural to
suppose that master and engineer would strain every nerve
to make the Pacific do her best, and to lose as little
time as possible from any precautionary policy on the
voyage. The ocean was filled with vast fields of floating
and berg ice. The concurrent testimony of numerous
arrivals goes to establish that scarcely ever was the
usual path between this coast and England before so ob•
structed. is it not to be feared that, ignorant perbape
of the extent, or it may be of the existence, of this un-
usual impediment at this season of the year, the eager
commander of this ill-fated ship, his eyes straining bee
hind him as well as before, may, in the darkness of night,
have driven his craft straight upon the desolate and
turbulent masses of Arctic ice, and ere he was aware
found himself and all on board suddenly being engulphed
in the angry and sullen and darkened sea! If this sad
possibility be the fact, who shall ever rise to tell the tale
of the Pacific ?

Ettril

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MONDAY.
On Saturday night number of persons !were assem-
bled at a wake in the top room of a housnin Coleman-
street. The floor gave way, and the house fell, and 18
persons were killed on the spot. In the course of yes-
terday (Sunday), three other bodies were discovered,
making a total of 21 killed. It is feared that many
more will have been injured.
The f,rgycl deed for 2,0001., on which the money ha#
been paid, has been discovered in this city, and the
forger, who is not arrested, is a man who held a high
position in society. Although the deed came over here
from L.)ndon the forgery was committed in Dublin, and
the instrument bears an Irish stamp. Inquiries are in
Progress, as it is feared other forgeries to a large amount
have been committed. However, these frauds had no
connection with the late Mr. Sadleir.

The only information to be obtained about the Tippe.
rary Bank i 8 of a negative kind, nothing about its affairs
being likely to transpire until some public proceeding on
the subject take place in open court. We are assured
that it was only an attack of bronchitis that •induced
Master Murphy to Lave the examination of Mr. James
Sadleir conducted at his (the Master's) private house,
but That much valuable information was obtained from
Mr Sadleir on the occasion. In the meantime there is
nothing to induce a hope of more favourable results in
the winding up of this unfortunate concern,

TREATIES OP PEACE.-It may be interesting at this
moment to notice the dates of various important treaties
of peace to which this country has been one of " the
great contracting parties." The peace of Ryswick
(general) was signed on Friday, Sept. 20, 1697 ; that of
Utrecht (succession), Monday, March 13, 1713 ; that of
Aix-la Chapelle (Spain and France), Tuesday, April 30,
1748 ; that (.f Paris (general), Thursday, February 10,
1763 ; that of Paris (America), Sat urday, November 30,
1782 ; that of Paris (France and Spain), Monday, Janu-
ary 20, 1783 ' • that of Holland, Tuesday, September, 2,
1783; that of Amiens (Revolution), Saturday, March 27,
1802 ; that of Ghent (America) Saturday, December 24,
1814 ; and that of Paris (general), Monday, May 30,
1814. So far 33 we are aware, the treaty of peace signed
on Sunday—the fifth peace concluded in that capital
within the last 93 years—is the only one which has re-
ceived the formal signatures of the Plenipotentiaries on
a Sunday. Here is a fact for the Sabbatarians, who.
will, doubtless, if consistent, Contend that to secure ea
world's peace is neither a work of neceUity nor of
moray I—Manaltater