The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-04-19
THE BALTICs MAILS. 5
SIGNING OF THE TREATY OF PEACE.

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sIoNING OF THE TREATY OF PEACE
The foreign mails BY the Baltic arrived In this
city yesterday afternoon. All the important ID
vices BY her have been anticipated BY the wires.
| We make brief summary:
~ signing the Treaty.
The following are some particulars relative To
the Important act Of signing the treaty of peace
The dram Of the general treaty Of peace, drawn
~ oy ,ne Comte de Hedsction having, In the sit
tns Of Saturday, obtained the sanction Of the Con
gress, the Plenipotentiaries Of the contrsctine
powers met the next day, ~ already stated 10
proceed TO the formal act Of afixing their siena
| lures to the document. n. Eeuilet de Concbes
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, Ia such
manner that each copy was put before the pleni.
potentiaries of the government by which il s to be
ratified, After the text Of the seven copies had
been carefully prepared the plenipotentiaries pro
coed to afhx their signatures to the end of the
treaty. .H sfs
Count Walewski. as president Of the congress-.
signed first, and the other penipotentiaries In the
alphabetical order of their respective countries II
WIS ut this moment that the Emperor was informed
BY electric telegraph that the treaty of peace WAS
signed and his Majesty sent back word to the mem.
| bers of the congress that he would be ready to
receive them after they had concluded their task
But although the mere act of af king their sigma
/ lures occupied the plenlpOt6uuaflcs out q
brief portion of time yet the whole of the formal
ty of signing lasted nearly two hours, the pleni
pOtentiares in addition to their signature at the
bottom of each protocol had to afix their initials
to the different paragraphs, the whole number Of
| such minor signatures being, 1t is said 38.
Immediately after the close of tho sitting, all the
plenipotentiaries went together to the Tuileries,
where they had the honor of being received by
| the Emperor Cabinet couriers were sent off in
| the evening to London, Vienna, Berlin St Pc
| tersburg, Turin and Coustantinople, In order to
| submit the treaty to the ratification of their re-
| spective courts.
| The plenipotentiaries at the Congress of Paris,
in signing the treaty of peace made use of . sill.
The inkstand is decorated in the style of the first
| empire, and cost not less than II, ,000f ~
| Nou-official accounts state that the important
event caused general satisfaction but that It had
been fully anticipated IS to leave little for
| any outburst of enthusiastic joy
| In England the government seems to have been
somewhat perplexed how to combine prompt
and authoritative announcement Of the intelligence
with English respect for the day; but, after pro-
| tracted interview between Marshal Viscount Har
dnge, the Commander-in Chief, and Lord Pan
mure the minister of war, it was decided that the
news should be proclaimed both at st. James
| Park and at the Tower by the firing of lOl guns.
In order, however, that Divine service might not
be interrupted in the metropolitan churches, the
firing did not take place until ten o'clock at night
| large number Of persons assembled in the
park, and as the boom of the guns burst upon the
stiffness Of the Sabbath night the crowd gave vent
to its joy in repeated cheers. The bells of seve
| raj metropolitan churches rang merry peals until
after midnight On Monday morning peace was
I proclaimed by the Lord Mayor Of London, both at
the Mansion House and At the Royal Exchange
| The ceremony attracted an immense coneoursa of
| persons, who testified their joy by cheering and
the waving of hats and haudkerchiefs.
Speech of Lord Palmefston.
| The British House of Commons re-assembled
| March 3lst Soon after the opening of the House
| Lord Palmerston said
1 The house is perfectly aware from the Gazette
4 that Yesterday at o'clock treaty of peaee was
| signed at Paris <Cheers) The House win have
seen by the announcement In the Gazette thai n
was deter mined by the Congress that the partcu.
lar conditions of the treaty should not be made pub
lie until the rstifications had been exchanged -
And that indeed, is the usual course. for Il is a
| mark OF obvious Difference to the Powers who are
parties 70 the treaty
| Al the same time without going into anv de.
tails of the conditons-them main subsance of which
| is already known to all the world because IL has
| been embodied in protocols and published In eyerv
| country in Europe-I may say At least that INV
| conviction is that that treaty. of peace will he
deemed satisfactory by this country and by Eu
/ rope (Cheers) Sir it will be found that the oh.
| jects for which the war was undertaken have been
| fully accomplished 1t will be found that by the
stpulations Of that treaty. the integrity and indie
pendence of the Turkish empire win be secured,
as far rs human arrangements can effect that pu r
| pose (Cheers)
1t will be found that that treaty is honorable to
| all the Powers who are contracting parties to il,
and trust that while on the one hand 1t has put
! mnst naturally have wished to see concluded. on
the other hand il will Law the foundation of peace
| which, trust SO far at least as regards the cir
| cumstances out of which the war began, will be
| lasting and enduring Hear hesr1 Sir during
the negotiations which have led to this peace am
| happy 70 saw that the same cordiality which has
prevailed among the allies In carrying on the war