Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-03-28
Arrival OF THE PERSIA.
seven DAYS Later from Europe.

New YORK, March 20. Cnnard steamer
Persia arrived off Sandy Hook at an early nonr ms
morning with Liverpool dates to the 9th instant.
The Persia brings no tidings OF the Paclnc
The Quaker City left Liverpool on the 9th inst for
New York and took out the reported signing OF the
prelimnaries of peace, but it appears that 1t was
merely the appending of the signatures to the pre-
lminary formalities She also took out Napoleon's
sneech, saying hat he hoped for peace, but the
country must be ready for either peace or war.
The Persia brings nothing additional to the above,
except general rumor that the negotiations proceed
steadily. .
The fifth meeting of the conference was held on
Thursday, 9th inst. The proceedings were kept Sc
cret, as usual.
LONDON, Friday evening.-Funds were heavy to-
day, wing to a continued pressure for money 4d'
yances on government securities were in active de-
mand throughout the day at per cent. the settle
ment day and transactions in scrip of the new loan
having increased the wants Of dealers. Continental
advices denote favorable appearances OF exchanges
at all points.
LONDON, Saturday morning-The Paris Moniteur
of Yesterday contains an imperial decree calling out
for active service 40 900 young soldiers of the class
of 1855.
BERLIN Sunday-Two couriers passed through
this city en- route for Paris, bearing fresh Instruc-
tions to the Russian peace rlenipoentlaries.
HAMBURG, March 6.-Admiral Watson has sailed
from Kiel. He has ordered the fleet to assemble OF
Moar island to announce renewal OF the blockade
of the Russian Baltic ports.
MISCELLANEOUS NEws.--From the Crimea we
learn that delegates Of the two belligerent armies
met on the 29th Of February to concert measures for
carrying out the armistice.
Orders have been received at Marseilles for con-
Veying 600 infantry and battalion OF artillery to
the Crmea, to replace troops returned to France.
The Russians sending troops in considerable
numbers to Finland, concentrating large force
round ST. Petersburg and Strengthening the batteries
near Constradt
The ship James Baines had arrived at Liverpool
from Melbourne, with upwards of 10000 ounces OF
gold.
Insurance has been effected on the Pacific in Liv-
erpoo at 80 per cent.
Covent Garden Theatre was burnt on the morning
of the 5th instant, at early hour just at the close
Of ball-masque under the management OF Prot An
derson, the magician Nearly all the party had lett,
and but few persons slightly injured The de-
struction of the building and property was complete
SEC ND DESPATCH.
The conference now in session in Paris is reported
progressing tavoraby towards peace although the
strictest secresy is observed in all lis movements
is understood in quarters that all the prellmna
ries to peace have been already agreed upon, while
other accounts assert that the penpotentIares have
simply signed the preliminary convention formahtes
The Independence Beige and Emancipation, two
leading newspapers, pretend to give the discussions
in the conference, but they regarded In Well-ln
formed circles as totally destitute of foundation
! The speech of the Emperor Napoleon to the Ma
tonal Assembly had been received most cordially
He alluded 10 the alliance with Great Britain and said
that while he INDUCED hope that peace was
at hand it nevertheless necessary to be pre-
pared for either peace
The latest accounts from the Crimea state that hos
tiIites there had entirely ceased Two Russian ships
of-war and three gun boats had appeared in the Bal
tic
The Turkish government had issued hundred pi-
asters of new paper money.
There was rumor that Persia actively engaged
in ODfV n he
of attacking the English feet now operating against
the coasts of that country.
Lord Palmerston had stated in the British Para-
ment that the Austrian propositions had been signed
and accepted by the conference, as preliminary to
peace.
Some new difficulties have arisen between England
and Persia the precise of which is unknown.
The latter, however, has requested the Bombay gov
ernment to send some vessels to the Persian gull
for the purpose OF protecting Brltlsh interests.
F! Nothing had been said in the British Parliament
during the week concerning American affairs.
The most painful apprehenslons were felt in Eu
rope regarding the safety of the steamship Pacific.
The loss sustained by the burning of Convent Gar.
den Theatre is estimated at one million of dollars
1t was owned in shares. No insurance
Age and RespcctabnIty|.
| The News, Know Nothing contemporary of Mo-
! bile, says somewhat sarcastically:
" SOMETHING NEW The late Den ocratic State
Convention in Virginia adopted, as its platform,
also have added the Declaration Of independence
1t does not clearly appear whether cur neighbor
intends to sheer at the Virginia resolutions of '95-
'99 or not We cannot think he would include the
Declaration of Independence in his But the
News is quite right-the resolutions of '98 and $50
and the Declaration of Independence might very APP
propriately be included in the Democratic platform,
and had the News only added the Constitution of
The United States, the platform would have been
complete. State Rights, the Declaration of Indepen-
dence the Constitution, all go to make up the great
creed of Democracy. There is not an item of our
platform, but what accords with the Constitution,
tends to maintain the Declaration of Independence in
all its wide meaning, and is closely woven in with
the dignity, the rights and the sovereignty of the
several States. Every thing patriotic, every thing
American every thing which the hopes of futuIe
freedom are built, every thing that speaks words of
good cheer to those whom tyrants hold in chains,
may be found in the platform of Democracy. Should
the nation be swept from the face of the earth-our
history perish-the words of our Constitution be
lost, and nothing be reserved from the wreck but the
Democratic patform-from that alone the wise men
of future age would be able to reproduce Con-
stitution, and TO portray the character of NOBLE
independent, tolerant and Democratic nation
AS from a column here, and there arch, here a
pedestal, and there crumbing wall, here the head
of a broken statue and there fragment of in
scription. the thoughtful traveller may draw the pic
ture of the ruined temple--may learn the character
and genius of the people who built it--so might the
whole spirit, scope and history of people and our
government be inferred two thousand years hence
from our Democratic platform, if that all that
should then be known of 1t is the very essence
the constitutional is the image which the mirror oil
, truth gives back when Libety stands before it, 1t
, is Amercansm, and Americans will rule America
as long they are actuated by its spirit II is the