The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-13 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

A letter date,' St. Petersburg, March 4, says :
" Yesterday, the 3d of March, the day originally
fixed for the emancipation of the serfs, has passed
over quietly. There were no assemblages in the
streets nor disturbances of any description. The
official announcement that no publication could be
made concerning the emancipation until the 19th of
March doubtless contributed to this. The reports
that have appeared in some of the French papers of
cannon being drawn up before the principal edifices,
&c., are great exaggerations. To say that the
Government does not take any measures of precau-
tion in view of the great reform which is about to
be proclaimed would be false and puerile ; it would
be wanting in its duties, as the guardian of public
tranquillity; but certainly it is not in the propor-
tions announced by the self-styled correspondents
of the foreign papers, whose object, moreover, is
easily discernible.

"The news from Warsaw has caused a very pain•
ful impression here ; but it is hoped these laments.
ble events will not tend to a further postponement
of the projected reforms."

AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, WEDNESDAY.

The Philadelphia Company's screw steamer Kan-
garoo, Captain Moorehouse, from New York on the
2d inst., has arrived here. She brings 14 cabin and
98 steerage passengers. She passed the Arabia.
The Edinburgh had arrived out.
The New York 'Jerald of the 2d inst. says:—
It is reported from Washington that the des-
patch of a reinforcement to Fort Sumter and the
sending of war vessels to attempt to collect the
revenues in the Gulf ports will be among the first
acts of President Lincoln's Administration."

Major Anderson had written that he expected
that Fort Sumter would be attacked immediately
after the 4th.

According to the New York Herald, President
Davis was making every preparation for a bloody
contest.

Referring to the Peace Conference, this same
journal says :—" All hope of adjustment has
passed." -

A collision between the Federal Government and
the Texas State troops was imminent.
The Texas election was unanimously in favour of
secession.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, MARCH 1.

Stocks lower. New York Central, 79 ; Erie, 331; ;
Illinois, 82/. Exchange—bankers' bills, 105/ to
106. Cotton dull and unsettled. Freight engage-
ments are made at lower rates. Breadstuffs easier.
NEW ORLEANS, FEB. 28.
Cotton sales, 8,000 bales. Middling, 10 to 111.

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.

The Cunard screw steamship Jura, Captain
Little, from New York on the 28th ultimo, has
arrived at this port.
Her advices are one day later than those re-
ceived by the Africa.
The Peace Congress at Washington, on the 27th
ultimo, adopted the following plan of adjust-
ment :

SEC. 1. In all the present territory of the United
States north of the parallel of 36 degs. 30 min. of
north latitude, involuntary servitude, except in
punishment of crime, is prohibited. In all the
present territory south of that line the status of
persons held to service or labour, as it now exists,
shall not be changed. Nor shall any law be passed
by Congress or the territorial legislature to hinder
or prevent the taking of persons from any of the
States of this Union to said territory, nor to impair
the rights arising from such relation. But the
same shall be subject to judicial cognisance in the
Federal Courts according to the course of the com-
mon law. When any territory north or south of
said line, with such boundary as Congress may
prescribe, shall contain a po,plation equal to that
required for a member of Congress, it shall, if its
form of government be republican, be admitted
into the Union on an equal footing with the origi-
nal States, with or without involuntary servitude,
as the constitution of such State may provide.
SEC. 2. No territory shall be acquired by the
United States, except by discovery and for naval
and commercial stations, depots and transit routes,
without the concurrence of a majority of all the
senators of the States which allow involuntary ser-
vitude, and a majority of all the senators from
States which prohibit that relation ; nor shall ter-
ritory be acquired by treaty, unless the votes of a
majority of the senators from each class of States
hereinbefore mentioned be cast as a part of the
two-thirds majority necessary to the ratification of
such treaty.
SEC. 3. Neither the constitution, nor any amend-
ment thereto, shall be construed to give Congress
power to regulate, abolish, or control within any
state or territory of the United States the relation
established or recognised by the laws thereof touch-
ing persons bound to labour or involuntary service,
in the district of Columbia, without the consent of
Maryland, and without the consent of the owners,
or making the owners who do not consent just
compensation ; nor the power to interfere with or
prohibit representatives and others from bringing
with them to the city of Washington, retaining,
and taking away persons so bound to labour or
service, nor the power to interfere with or abolish
involuntary servitude in places under the exclusive
jurisdiction of the United States within those states
and territories where the same is established or re-
cognised, nor the power to prohibit the removal or
transportation of persons held to labour or involun-
tary servitude in any state or territory of the United
States to any other state or territory thereof where
it is established or recognised by law or usage, and
the right during transportation by sea or river of
touching at ports, shores, and landings, and of land-
ing in case of distress, but not for sale or traffic,
shall exist ; nor shall Congress have power to
authorise any higher rate of taxation on persons
held to labour or service than on land. The bring-
ing into the district of Columbia of persons held to
labour or service for sale, or placing them in depots
to be afterwards transferred to other places for sale
as merchandise, is prohibited, and the right of
transit through any state or territory against its
dissent is prohibited.

SEC. 4. The third paragraph of the second section
of the fourth article of the constitution shall not be
construed to prevent any of the states, by appro-
priate legislation, and through the sanction of their
judicial and ministerial officers, from enforcing the
delivery of fugitives from labour to the person to
whom such service or labour is due.
SEC 5. The foreign slave trade is hereby for ever
prohibited, and it shall be the duty of Congress to
prevent the importation of slaves, coolies, or persons
held to service or labour into the United States and
the territories from places beyond the limits thereof.
SFC. G. The first, third, and fifth sections, together
with this section, six of these amendments, and the
third paragraph of the second section of the first
article of the constitution, and third paragraph of

the second section of the fourth article thereof, shall
not be amended or abolished without the consent
of all the States.

SEC. 7. Congress shall provide by law that the
United States shall pay to the owner the full value
of his fugitives from labour in all cases where the
marshal or other officer whose duty it was to arrest
such fugitive was prevented by volence or in-
timidation from mobs or riotous assemblages, or
when, after arrest, such fugitive was rescued by
like violence or intimidation, and the owner thereby
prevented and obstructed in the pursuit of his
remedy for the recovery of such fugitive, Congress
shall provide by law for securing to the citizens
of each State the privileges and immunities of the
several States.

The vote on the first section stood. 9 to 8, New
York, Kansas, Indiana, and Missouri not voting.
All the other articles were agreed to by a vote of
16 to 8.

The Conference ordered that engrossed copies
of the plan of adjustment be sent to both Houses of
Congress, and then adjourned sine die.
The proceedings in Congress on the 27th were of
considerable importance.

In the Senate the Tariff Bill was finally passed,
and awaited only the President's signature to be-
come law.

The ArEly Appropriation Bill was discussed and
passed.

The adjustment adopted by the Peace Confer-
ence was read, and on the motion of Mr. Critten-
den, it was referred to a committee, consisting of
Messrs. Bigler, Seward, Thomson, Trumbull, and
Crittenden, with instructions to report upon it at
1 o'clock on the following day. The Senate then
went into executive session, and ordered the cor-
respondence between the Governments of Great
Britain and the United States, relative to the
fugitive slave Anderson, to be printed.