Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-04-21
HREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE
ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA.

The steamer Africa arrived at New York on
Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock, bringing
dates from Liverpool to the 5th of April, but
her news is Of very little importance.
Peace had been proclaimed at St. Petersburg,
and created very general feeling of satisfac
| ton amongst all classes but the old Court
party. The news had also been announced in
the Prusian Chambers, but was resolved with
| apparent indifference.
The Baltic feet has been ordered back to
England, to be incorporated in the ordinary
squadrons of the peace establishment.
The blockade Of the northern ports of Rus.
STA had been raised and the armi stlce has been
prolonged for another brief term, to cover the
| time which will elapse before the ratification
Of the treaty.
There had been another meeting of the
Paris Congress on the I'd of April, for the dis
| cussion of minor points arising out of the con-
| ditions of the treaty. It is thought that it
will not break up for another month.
The review in the Champ de Mars on the
celebration Of the conclusion of peace, was one
Of the most magnificent spectacles Of the kind
that has ever been witnessed.
The appearance of Mr.. Dallas, the American
Minister, in the House of Commons, attracted
| some attention. The London correspondent
of the Glasgow Daily News describes him as
ga remarkably mild looking old gentleman,
of fair, fresh complexion, with white locks,
looking very like country clergyman in the
dissenting line.''
The following from Lloyd's List may or may
not have reference to the Pacific
FIGUBIRA, Oath March.-The Skipwith,
Ryan, arrived here; in coming off the New
foundland coast, fell in with ice to the distance
of 200 miles from the land, and saw the lights
of a steamer in the ice.
Johns, New Foundland, 18th of February ~
THE CRIMEA.
On the night of March 18th shocking &C.
cident occurred on the slope of KadikOl, in
the burning of some wooden huts occupied by
men of the Commissariat work corps. Not.
outstanding prompt assistance, sixteen men
persisted in the flames. They were doubtless
sufocated by the smoke. Their bodies were
charred past all chance of recognition.
GREAT BRITAIN.
The business in Parliament has been most.
ly of home interest. Papers were laid before
the House of Lords on the subject of torture
exercised 10 Madras to compel the payment of
taxes. Mr.. Scott moved for select commit
tee of enquiry into the ticket-of.leave convict
system.
Among the notices of motion is one by Lord
Goderick-"t to ask whether document, which
has recently appeared, purporting to be a des-
patch written by the British Minister at Wash
ington to the Secretary of State of the United
States, on the 9th of February last, with ref
erence to the disputes between Great Britain
and the United States on the subject of Central
America is authentic -
The Military Board of Enquiry into the al
legations contained in the report of the Crimea
Commissioners-Sir John McNeill and Col.
Tulloch-against the Earls of Lucan and Car
digan, Gen. Airey, and Col Gordon, have held
tn cir first meeting in the hall of Chelsea Hos
pital Preliminary matters were gone through.
The public were admitted. Next meeting was
to be held on the 7th inst, when Lord Lucan
would be put under examination
An English church is to be built in Con-
stantinople, by subscription, as a memorial of
the British who persisted in the war.
letter from Mr. Dallas to the Earl of
Clarendon is published in the English papers,
requesting Lord Clarendon to pay over ESQ
sterling, on behalf of the President of the
United States, to Captain Ferguson, British
seaman, who rescued the crew of an American
bark at sea. The money was paid, through
the Liverpool Sailors Home, to Capt. F.