The Northern Daily Times. — 1856-04-30 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FRANCE.  (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, MONDAY EVENINCI,  In the Legislative body to-day, M. Fould, Minister of State, presented the text of the treaty of peace. Count de Morny, the President, delivered a speech, in which he spoke of the advantages which France had gained from imperial policy, and from conchiding so glorious a peace, after so brief a war. The chamber, he added, would permit him, in its name, to thank the Emperor for having associated it, in some measure, in one of the most glorious acts of his foreign policy, by communicating to it the treaty of peace. Tho speech was received with loud cries of " Vive l'Empereur !" and the deputies really seemed highly flattered at the deference shown them by the presentation of the treaty to them. M. Fould said that he would communicate the President's observations to his Majesty, and retired. The treaty was also communicated to the Senate, and no doubt a similar speech was delivered by its President—though, as that august body sits with closed doors, there is no knowing. The treaty it annexes, and the protocols of the Congress have been printed, at the Imperial Printing Offices. They form, together, a large volume, comprising upwards of 200 pages. Between 2,000 and 3,000 copies of the volume have been struck off, and a copy is to be given to, amongst other persons, each member of the Senate or Legislative Body. The publication of the documents is officially announced for to-morrow in the Moniteur, but it is not easy to see how one journal can contain all. I learn from a good source that the government has definitively abandoned the intention it at one time entertained of dissolving the Legislative Body in the course of the year. A sad affair occurred in this city this morning. A speculator on the Bourse, named Pelot, having become embarrassed, called on his brother-in-law, a M. Niquet, living in the Rue Laffette, just opposite Rothschild's bank, to advance him funds ; M. Niquet thought fit to refuse in very decided terms. Pelot having a pistol in his pocket, said that he would shoot him if he would not comply. Niquet again refused, and Pelot, true to his word, discharged his pistol at Niquet's head, causing instant death. The wretched murderer then discharged a pistol at his own head, and injured himself dreadfully, if not mortally. The terrible event was the general topic of conversation at the Bourse, and naturally caused a most painful impression.  There has been a rather heavy decline in all securities in the Bourse to-day. It was caused principally by the oppressed state of the Money Market, and by the fear that the approaching liquidation will be a difficult one ; also, by the decline of the English Funds in London, and the expectation of a loan in that capital. Some foolish r.,,Torts were besides spread, and credited, to the effectthat war between England and the United States was imminent ; Lord Palmerston meant to resign if he were not allowed to fight; that the grand review at Spithead was meant as a menace to the States, and that on that account the French Emperor would not go to it. The subscription of from one to five sous per head, for presenting an " homage" to the Empress, is attaining, I am told, vast success in the provinces.  The letter which the Emperor Alexander has addressed to Count Orloff, in sending the ratifications of peace, and which, as you will have seen, is published in the Moniteur, is considered a proof that Russia has made peace with perfect good faith, and that the Czar really means as he says, to employ all his efforts to develope and strengthen the prosperity of his empire. The Nord of Brussels confirms the news I sent you some days back, of the retirement of Count de Nesselrode from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Russia, and of Prince Gortschalieff (the diplomatist, not the General,) being appointed his successor.  A telegraphic despatch from Milan says, that the Gazette of that city (the Austrian official organ) pretends that the Sardinian government means to present a bill to parliament, for exacting caution money from the newspapers, and giving it the right of suppressing a newspaper that may have been condemned five times ; also, that the Archbishop Franzoni, of Turin, is to be created a Cardinal, and is to return to his See. But these statements, considering the source from which they come, must be received with caution.