EUROPEAN NEWS TO THE 27th MARCH.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 388, 23 July 1856, Page 4

EUROPEAN NEWS TO THE 27th MARCH.

(From the ': Sydney M. Herald, " June 19 ) By the '• Oi-ty of Sydney " we have receive.t, through Captain Tuoodic-, tlie M Ibourne papers of Mm,day. They contain .seventeen days' latei new.-, than hail previously armed. The subjoined extracts are /mm English papers of the I cub, ]9ih,:iud 27th of March:— '■HIE PI3ACI3 CO:\FK£tJ-:.\CES. H is announced that the definite treaty of ■leticc wtii be a!.i t immediately.' A comuiiss,:,,, of the.conference was named to Uiaw up ihetivaty— Lord Cowley, for Eugiaj.d ; -v. rie Bonnpieuev, f-r France ; 'l3.in.ii Brnnow, lor Uns-n, ;M. «|« Hnbuer. {,„• Austria: and AH iucu.l torTutkey. T li4s L^hpeudsiicj Beige

j sinic.s that when peace shall hove been signal it is intended that the conference shall he J dissolved, but that a coiiimittm! shall !„. j^v sitting to carry out detail-, which there is now no time to arrange. The questions of the Principalities and of the Turkish Christians w i]l probably receive the attention of this hotly. M. Maiueuifel, the Prussian envoy of t|, e Conferences, has arrived in Paris, 'j lil( | interview with the Emperor, ami taken his SO af at the Council Board. We may conlidenLlvstate that the closing of hostilities is »<» |„ n „. (1 _. * matter of doubt. - Before the expiration of th> armistice on the 31st .March, si,[ji<-ie:u iiiti, M) ,. tionof'ihe end" will lie given to prevent il )f , resnmption of arms by the bellio-ynmt parties At the same time, although the blockade in Uie Baltic stili coiiimues, a steamer has been despatched to forbid any proceedings of -, m offensive character until further instruction.; These _ things —together with the confident bede/j in the best, informed circles in Paris that no important difficulty has arisen in thj determination'of the live ,r<.ints of the Vienna, protocol—and that all thai now rem,-iins to b e settled by the envoys relates to matters of detail not involving the alternative of peace or war'— are sufficient to justify the world in the confident anticipation that we stand upon the very verge of peace. " There is a suspicious article iv tlm Patrie,) U which the propriety of extending the armistice to April 30th is pleaded. Jf all was o<>;„<r <„T smoothly, why the necessity for this'"ominous prolongation ? Le Nurd believes that the question of the Asiatic frontier is resolved, as l.<r as concerns the restitution of the districts occuuied by t| )e Russians.^ The hitter will restore' Kar.s" the 'Turks will evacuate Mingrelhi, and so' tha status quo ante will be restored.

A letter from Paris, in.a Bel-inn print, says : —" It has been stated in several journals, as an instance of the extraordinary frankness wit), which Russia entered into the present negotiations, that Count Orioff alone,of «J1 the pienipoteutaries sent his despatches to his Government in French, instead of cypher. 1 happen to know that this is not the fact. All Count Odoff's despatches to St. Petersburg have been in cypher. '*

The Times correspondent, writing on Tuesday evening from Paris, says :— "

" From all that can be learned in respectable quarters, there appears little doubt that peace is all bur decided. There may, we are told be certain points still to settle', certain fonnalilies to luifJl, but they are not. of a diameter t„ affect the certainly of the resuit, or hardly to retard it. The Russians are described as "now presenting no seiious diilie.uhv, whether as regards the netUialis ilion of the' Black Si-a or the transformation of Nieolaieff i, U o a purVlv commercial ].ort, the neutrduv of the \hind isles, the lectificatiou of Moldavia.i frontiers bised on the report of a commission, & c ' There will he several matters io regulate' after the signing of the tteaty, i n( t. as j have said, an easy solution is aut.icnated. Such at all' e-.euts, is the general feeling. Some are of opinion, thai the treaty will very s .hui be mane public, others that it will vet be delayed Wnether the peace we arc now promised will' be (l.irat)le or not is another onestiou Itmiv bedoub;edif all the pleuiputentiaries are as well salistied with the ie-ult.sas people ate here or preteud to he.. If one could guess what passes in the mind of M. Cay -.for i tip , illl( ! ( , I hardiy think that his delight is excessive J '}« Count Buol were to speak' Ids tluichts I iU ,^* pretty sure that he is ..either over pleased ,"„',* over flattered at the result. JJ Ht jr j in , ri , im! and France are n->ited ami oouicnt, I suppose n is indifferent what auv body eKe iikus „,- ---( i-:ikes. That the object which' Jtussia af this moment scorns and li.-des the most ,m earth i« Ausuia ; ll.tne no doubt whoever in ,„-, m.nd. V he.. I ouut Lsterl.azv Lst saw ,liv Oza, at St. emrsburg, h,s Majesty said. ' h is Austria that has forced me to accept such hard conditions lie assured, and tell your mast,.-.- what I s-,y \ shall never forget tho obligations] ort - e him ' I his is a pretty state of feeling for peacemakers ' in themeantim- so confident are people hereof peace being virtually concluded, thai at the W hi- Ofhce measures are discussed for the best and most convenient, way of bringing back the troops (r-m the Crimea. It is said that M. do MantenffeJ, ,l, e Prussian plenipoientit.ry, attended the Conference to-day with M tie iialzfeidt. " .