The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-11
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
Tuesday Morning, March II, 1855.
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THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
THE PRACR CONFERENCES.
Movements Of the Plenipotentfaries.
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AFFAIRS IN PARLIAMENT.

The steamship Africa arrived at New York on
Saturday evenin g, bringing Liverpool dates to
23rd ult., three days later than those previously
received
The intelligence is Of very little interest-
The excitement in regard to American affairs
appears to have entirely subsidized, and the only
matter attracting public attention was tho proba.
BILE doinss Of the Peace Conferences which was to
meet at Paris on the Monday succeeding the sail.
ing of the Africa
The Conference.
Count Orlof arrived at Paris on Thursday and
tho Conferences were to open on the Goth.
An article Of the Seicle which has been repub.
lshed in the Moniteur insists on the destruction
of the arsenals of Ncholaef and contends that Il
Is not the shores of the Black Sea that are TO be
liberated but the Black Sea itself is to be emanci
pated. and above all, the Ottoman Empire ia to be
placed beyond attack To close the Exuine to
closed. No closing of this river no article three
Ncholaief extant; no security. Other argy-
msnts are adduced in favor of Nicholaieff being
included under the third point
The Paris correspondent of the Times saws that
the republication of the article from the Seicle In
the Moniteur had produced certain sensation
The reply to the Russian pleadings of the Des
Debats in favor of Nicholaieff considered con-
elusive, and it was reported that its insertion in
the Moniteur was made at the express desire of
the Emperor.
The Paris correspondent of the Times reports,
on good authority, that Russia has given up the
question relative to Eicholaieff He reports also.
from q Russian authority, that nothing Is more
certain than peace. and that the Conferences
themselves were little more than matters of mere
form. This satisfactory aspect is attributed by the
Times correspondent to the union and identity of
views between the French and English Govern
mentS.
The Emperor, on his interview with Lord Cla.
rendou, is said to have told the English plenipo.
tentiary that the position assumed with respect to
Russia would be as firmly maintained by him as
by England. The audience at which this opinion
was expressed lasted an hour and q half
Ali Pacha embarked at stantinople on the
18th, and on Friday a steamer at Marseilles with
advices from Constantinople to tls llth.
The Paris correspondent of the Times (second
edition) confirms this view
Il was informed this afternoon, by q person
whose authority have little reai on to question,
and who could hardly be deceived on so important
subject, that the point which was expected to
present the greatest difficulty during the Confer
ences, namely that of Nicholaieff has been given
up by Russia. If this be confirmed, 1 see no Sc
rious obstacle in the way of peace. Indeed a di-
plOmatst who is Russian, if not by BIRTH at least
by feeling, said last night that nothing was more
certain than that peace would be the issue of the
Conferences; and that the Conferences them selves
were little more than matter of form. That such
result is owing to the union and identify of views
between France and England there can be little
doubt"
A despatch from Berlin of the Goth says
Baron de Manteuffel has declared. TO the COM
mttee on the budget that the prospect of peace
was exceedingly favorable; but the continuation
81 their arm.ments by the beliserent parties, and
tho tone of Queen Victorias speech from the
throne, obliged Prussia to direct her attention to
the shores of the Baltic, to keep up her army on
War footing, and even to extend it if necessary.
From the Crimea.
Later correspondence had been received frem
A. H-s.- L.. -
terest. At Sebastopol both parties were fortifying
apparently more to keep the men employed than
for any practical object.
The health OF the troops is still remarkably
good. Scurvy is prevailing to a great extent in
some parts of the French army, and many French
soldiers have been lately quitting, for change of
air and beneficial treatment, to Constantinope and
France.
The collection of the subscriptions from the
army in the Crimea for the Nightingale fund is
very nearly concluded The sum collected amounts
to little short of 94, 500 and the money has been
paid over to the commissariat chest.
Since the destruction of Fort Nicholas con-
tinual dropping fire, day and night has been main
tanned from the forts and batteries on the North
side. 1t does not seem to be carried on at any
regular intervals, but wherever few soldiers are
seen or suspected TO be by day, and wherever a
light shows itself at night, there a shot or shell is
sent.
When the night is dark, or there is a thick fog,
this dispersed tire is still continued either from the
attention of the Russian men watch being at
tracted by sounds supposed to indicate movement
IN the town, or on the mere chance of causing eau
sualtles among the guards and troops on duty
there. The Russian riHemen also try their aim
across the water to Karabelnaia, and az the width
OF the roadstead varies at this part from four to
SIX hundred yards only, no one can approach the
shore from the Fort Paul guard to CareepinQ. .bay
ithout risk. On the 7th instant the Russians kept
up an unusually strong fire from the Inkermann
heights and lower Mackenzie heights over the
Tchernaya valley. They attempted to reach the
position Of the French camps along the Fediukine
ridge, but. Is usual, without success Some shells
sent burst at an immense elevation. They also
fred grape in addition to round shot and she'll at
parties going to the reservoir and at the advanced
posts of the French plain
Measures were being taken at Sebastopol to
blow up the Russian vessels in the port The Ice
having ceased in the sea of Azoff, the vessels of
the allies were about to reenter it.
Russia.
Letters from st. Petersburg in the Warsaw and
German papers give details of arrangements for
the continuance of the war, and state that on no
point has the former energy Of the military depart
ment been abated
A Berlin despatch says that the Russian govern
ment in drawing up the budget of the Maritime
Courts, has omitted the usual grants for those of
the Black Sea and the Sea of Azof. The omission
is not without importance.
England.
1t is said that tho amount of frauds of which Mr..
Sadlier, M. p, who recently committed suicide,
has been found guilty of abstractng or misappro-
priating is not much short of one million ofpounds,
consisting of railways shares, mortgages, &c. He
has also committed crimes of the most diabolical
description.
A portion OF the advance squadron of the Baltic
fleet had steamed up ready for leaving Spit head,
on the evening of the 22d,
The money article Of the Daily News of Satur-
day says that the funding of tho new loan by the
Rothschilds at about 9s produced fall of half
per cent. in consols, although part of this was
subsequently recovered. The aggregate subscrip-
tions for the loan reached e30,000,00O
The parliamentary proceedings are dull and un-
important
The total value of the exports Of England for
1855 was 997 1865, ,655, for an actual increase of
about 2ls0000 ON the previous year, and de-
crease of only million and half on the year Of
1853.
France.
Preparations are already making at the Tuile-
ies for the opening Of the legislative session on
March 3. The tribune for the corps diplomatique
win be more sumptuously decorated than on any
former occasion.
The Dnehess Caumont Laforce was murdered
on the Goth ultimo, at hor house in the Grand
avenue, In Paris. She was tho wife of the Duke
Caumont Laforce the representative of two duke
doms, and member of one of the best families in