The Press. — 1857-01-10 (London, England)

PARIS, JANUARY R. AT last the Moniteur has announced the settlement. of the questions which for ten months have kept Europe in perplexity. Russia (as I told you last week would be the case) gives up Bolgrad, and gets a tract of Moldavian territory on the Yalpuck river, comprising the town of Komrat or Conrad. Englami and Austria (as I told you would be the case) have, been required to leave the Black Sea and the Principalities, and the 30th of March is fixed as the latest date at which they are to stay there. So now peace, which was concluded on the 30th of March last, has been concluded over again. What view will be taken of this peace in England, people here are very curious to know. There was, it appears, at one moment, every chance that the settlement would not be attained. Our ambassador, Lord Cowley, created all manner of difficulties, as to whether the terms agreed on should be set forth in a proces verbal or a protocol, or whether they should, be worded in this or that way. Still greater difficulties did he create with respect to fixing the date• of withdrawing the fleet from the Black Sea. He demanded that no period should be named; that England should leave or not when she pleased. But the Russian and French Plenipotentiaries, and especially the former, were so firm on the point that he had to give way. His Excellency was, it appears, reproached for his unconciliatory " attitude." The murder of the Archbishop, of which Ow papers will give you an account, has created great consternation, though without just cause, as it is supposed that the murderer must have been a maniac.  BRUSSELS, Jean. TIIE jour de Van and the festivities of the season tend to vary and enliven a dry attention to local politics, and the relaxation is to all an agreeable relief. On the Ist there was a crowded attendance at the palace, each notable being anxious to reiterate the loyal asseveration of the August fetes. The King looked remarkably well and in high spirits. He was surrounded by the members of his family, and his future son-in-law, the Archduke Maximilian Joseph of Austria, seemed well content at his approaching connection with a dynasty so deservedly popular. It is affirmed that his Imperial Highness has proved his qualification for the important posi, tion he is about to assume in Italy by a careful digest upon the state of that country. Amongst the. glittering decorations, the Crimean medals of the• English officers were conspicuous, and, with the Cross of the Legion of Honour in brave proximity,. afforded testimony of the national confraternity in the deeds of an heroic past, and of the " entente cordiale" between the allied nations. It is not surprising that the display occasioned many a curious reflection amongst certain of the Belgians who might have remembered another version of affairs more palatable to their jealous prejudices—albeit, less• redounding to their interest. Hitherto the attempts to impede the progress of the Prussian and Swiss quarrel have been unavailing, and the hopes of the last few days have been destroyed by a succession of diplomatic failures. M. 1 Fay, the American Minister, could make no impression on the Court of Berlin, as it insisted strongly on the acceptance of its ultimatum without equivocal contingency—the unconditional release of the royalist prisoners. M. Ferrer was not more fortunate in his interview with the Duko of Saxe Cobourg