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,f THUM—The Moniteur of Thursday announced the termination of the sittings of the Conference.

"The closing meeting took place on Wednesday, at the hotel of the Mi- nister of Foreign Affairs. After the signature of the treaty, the Plenipo- tentiaries had to occupy themselves with different questions, calculated to consolidate and complete the work of peace. The ratifications will be ex- changed at the end of the month. Immediately after the publication of the treaty, the protocols will be published, and will show in detail the labours of the Congress."

The Morning Post states that the Congress did not separate without appointing three Commissions-

" 1. A Commission, named by all the Powers represented at the Congress, on the subject of the Danube ; 2. A Commission named by all the Powers except Piedmont, on the frontier question ; 3. A Commission, named by all the Powers, with the addition of delegates from the Divan to consider the position of the Christians."

The Emperor gave a grand banquet at the Tuileries, on Saturday, to the members of the Conference. Besides the Plenipotentiaries, there were present the French Ministers, the Cardinals, the Foreign Ministers, and the great officers of state. The Emperor took his seat in the centre of the table, Which was laid in the form of a home-shoe: on his right sat Lord Clarendon, on his left Count Buol ; Prince Napoleon sat opposite the Emperor, with Count Orloff on tine side and Aali Pasha on the other. "Towards the end of the dinner, his Imperial Majesty spoke the fol- kwing words in a firm emphatic voice—' I propose a toast in honour of the union so happily re6stablished between the Sovereigns. May it be a lasting one and it will be so if it rests always on right, on justice, on the real and legitimate interest of aations.' These words were received with unanimous shouts of'Vise l'Empereur !' " There has also been a banquet at the H6tel de Ville, attended by the Plenipotentiaries; and another at the".Ottoman Embassy, at which the Emperor was present. The Duke de Broglie was presented to the Emperor on Monday, in his character of Academician.

• "The audience lasted but a short time, but the Duke de Broglie was re- ceived with the courtesy to which so eminent a person is entitled. 'M. le Due,' said the Emperor, addressing him after the first compliments were over, I have read with much interest and pleasure your address to the A.eademy on your reception. Permit me to thank you for the very flattering manner in which you have alluded to the Emperor Napoleon the First, my uncle. Allow me also to express the hope that your grandma will find reason to speak as favourably of the 2d of December as you M. le Due, have spoken of the 18th Brumaire' The Duke and his friend; bowed, and soon after took their leave."

5118/4.—The Austrians have taken or are about to take a new step in Parma. General Crennville has received an order to occupy the fortified places. of Bardi, Compiano, and the open town of Pontremoli—points on the Piedmontese frontier, where there has been no crime or disturbance at all. The Austrian authorities are completely masters. Military law is applied with the greatest severity. "The guilty.will be shot, the

innocent set at say the Austrians. But some reports state that prisoners are sent to Mantua, and even Gratz. One paper reports. that sixty-eight persons had been sent. The Count de Chambord has been there on a visit to his sister the Duchess Regent ; and the rumour at Panne was that he had come to prepare her for departure, as "the annexation of Parma tO Piedmont had been resolved on."

At Milan there have been several, assassinations ; and many arrests have been Made. At Naples, the war against beards, moustaches, hats, and coats, is not only continued with unabated vigour, but there are fresh political prisoners on trial for conspiracy against the King.

1111l11.—An insurrection broke out in Valencia on the 6th instant. AS the authorities were about to draw for the conscription, a body of railway labourers, firemen, and national guards, broke into the room, shouting "Down with the authorities ! no conscription !" Having ex- pelled the officials, and hearing that the troops had turned out, the in- surgents threw up a barricade, and occupied the houses in the streets. The Captain-General brought against them 200 infantry:, fifty cavalry, and four guns ; and, after a fight of three hours, the insurgents were overpowered. The aggregate loss on both sides is put down at forty killed and wounded ; the prisoners at 130. Troops were instantly directed to march on Valencia to reinforce the garrison ; the Cortes re- solved to support the Government; and General Zabak was sent down to Valencia to supersede the Captain-General. The latest accounts state that tranquillity has been restored, and that the lots for the conscription Will be drawn without delay.

1815 i .—The Emperor of Russia and his brothers have left St. Peters- burg, for Moscow. It is stated that the Emperor is about to initiate an extremely liberal educational policy. He has revoked the law pre- venting Russian nobles from having their children educated abroad. Men of letters are to be assisted by the Government in visiting the va- rious seats of learning in Europe. But, says the report we quote, "the greatest change of all on this field of social development, is the approach- ing formation of public schools for girls, by which means the daughters of the middle classes will have as good an opportunity of obtaining an education as those of the noble classes in the conventual schools, with- out the disadvantage of being separated from home and parents."

t 4f Ca ate 1L—The weather in the Crimea continued very severe up to the 1st of this month ; and even the Tartars admitted that. the season was extraordinary. This state of things has no doubt contributed to 610 low sanitary condition of the French army. Marshal Pelieaier, or rather the French Government, has again broken silence on the subject of the health of the French army. On Saturday the Monitessr contained the fallowing telegraphic message from the Marshal, which appeared in a pert of our last impression.

" Sebastopol, April 7.—The very marked improvement in the general state of health continues. The typhus becomes daily less violent. It is visibly abating. I trust that we have spring coming at last.

4, Peussixe-" The English camp seeing to have been given up to drilling, theatrieal amusements, and discussions on the purchase system of the British Army, provoked by the recent debate in the House of Commons. The Times correspondent, himself opposed to the system, reports that the majority of the officers are in its favour.

But " some of the young and intelligent officers on the Staff, who have seen the working of the system, do not hesitate to express a hearty wish for its abolition. To the French it is utterly incomprehensible ; and it is a fixed idea in the mind of Private Jean Francois Maria, that General Codrington has paid enormous sums for the honour of commanding the army—otherwise he cannot understand it. General Della Marmora, who has had the adjs. faction of seeing the splendid army he organized tested in the field, and coming out of the ordeal triumphantly, can only comprehend the system as the emanation of a national worship of gold; and it certainly must be a disagreeable reflection to its advocates that it sprang up in a most disgrace- ful period of our national history, when the King was a paid vassal of France, and luxury and licentiousness had made our Court and aristocracy corrupt, venal, and un-English."

%tuft-tn.—A telegraphic despatch to Paris announces that an insur- rection has broken out at Belgradchick, in Bulgaria, near the Servian frontier. "A Bulgarian, formerly an officer in the Russian service, pro- fesses an intention to expel the Turks in the name of Russia. He is at the head of two or three hundred men." -

On receiving the intelligence that an armistice had been concluded by the belligerents, the Turkish commander entered at once into commuM- cation with the enemy. The position of the Turks had become some- what precarious, as hordes of irregulars infested their flanks ; so that the armistice was most opportune. It was arranged on the 16th March; and the Turks immediately began to retire upon the coast ; and on Easter Sunday the whole army had arrived at Redout Kaleh, where it awaited transports for Trebizoncl.

Zubia.--The overland snail arrived on Thursday-, with adviees from Calcutta to the 9th, and from Bombay to the 19th March. Lord Dalhousie quitted India on the 6th. The scene of his leave-taking is at once the most important and the most affecting incident recorded M. the journals. The inhabitants of Calcutta had presented an address, 5th. Though "faint and weak with work and suffering," Dalhousie stood up to receive the deputation, and read to them the fol- lowing reply—highly interesting both for those passages that touch on. the larger questions of policy and for those that are personal. "Mr. Sheriff and Gentlemen—I receive the sentiments which you have addressed to me on the part of the inhabitants of the city of Calcutta with

the deepest feelings of gratification and pride; of pride, that an administra- tion which has been prolonged through more than eight years should com- mand at its close so general a tribute of approbation and applause of grati-

fication that the inhabitants of the capital of the Indian empire should have framed their judgment of use in terms so honourable to my name, sad. should have pronounced it in tones of such manifest cordiality.

"Rest assured that the approving voice of his countrymen—the delibe- rate, concurrent, and hearty commendation of those among whom he has long lived and acted—is the reward which sustains the heart of a publics man, which affords him compensation for long years of exile, and makes him amends for the toils and cares, the injustice and ill-will, which form the burden that must be borne by every man who serves the state.

"it is not for me, gentlemen, to speak of the events and the measures of past years, on which you have dwelt with such favourable regard. But it may be permitted to me to look forward with you and to express a hope that, as I leave you, the prospect is fair and full a promise. "No prudent man having any knowledge of Eastern affairs would ever venture to predict a prolonged continuation of peace in India. We have learned by hard experience how a difference with a native power, whiali seems at first to be but the little cloud no bigger than a man's hand, may rapidly darken and swell into a storm of war, involving the whole empire

in its gloom. We have lately seen how, in the very midst of us, insurrec- tion may rise like an exhalation from the earth, and how cruel violence, worse than all the excesses of war, may be suddenly committed by men who, to the very day on which they broke out in their frenzy of blood, have been regarded as a simple, harmless, timid race, not by the Government alone, but even by those who knew them best, who were dwelling among them, and were their earliest victims. Remembering these things, no prudent man will venture to give you assurance of continued peace.

"But we seem to have every reasonable ground for believing that have euillity within and without is likely now to prevail in India, and that thus fair scope will be given for the prosecution of those projects of internal iMr- provement on which the Government has largely entered. "While we have a right to congratulate ourselves on what has already been done—while we may regard with complacency the introduction into

the East of those great instruments of public benefit which science has long since created in the West—while we may rejoice that measures have been already taken for opening new sources of public wealth, for ministering to the convenience, for increasing the happiness, and for reeling the mental and social condition of the endless millions whom Providence for its own wise ends has committed to our charge—I trust we still shah feel that all we have yet done must be regarded as no more than the first beginnings of greater things that are to come.

"In regions so vast as these, and among interests so various, all progrews must needs be gradual and slow. But I leave you with a firm belief, and in

the confident hope, that public improvement among you will now advance with steady pace, sustained by the wise and liberal spirit which is yearly animating more and more the minds of all who exercise an influence on In- dianaffairs.

"You have made kindly allusion to the future that may await me. I do not seek to fathom that future. My only ambition long has been to accent-

plink the task which lay before me here, and to bring it to a close with honour and success. It has been permitted to me to do so. I have played out my part; and while I feel that, in my case, the principal act in the drama of my life is ended, I shall be well content if the curtain should drop now upon my public course.

" Nearly thirteen years have passed away since find I entered the service of the Crown. Through all those years, with but one short interval, public employment of the heaviest responsibility and labour hie been .aseditipon

me. I am wearied and worn, and have no other thought or wish than to seek the retirement of which I stand in need, and which is all I now am fit tor.

"But, whatever the future may unfold, you have not erred in believing that I shall never cease to regard with deep and unfailing interest the land for which I have toiled so long, and those with whom and for whom I have laboured.

"Before I quit its shores, I earnestly desire to acknowledge, in the pre- sence of you all, the deep debt of gratitude which I owe to those among

-whom I have lived and ruled so long ; gratitude to successive colleagues in

the Council, for their constant aid through eight long years, without one hour of discord or distrust ; gratitude to the many able and zealous and

earnest men by whom the civil administration in all its various branches

has been invigorated and assisted ; gratitude to the gallant army, by which the honour of the country has been upheld, its power extended, and its

general tranquillity secured ; gratitude to all, for the confidence they have reposed in me, for the support they have given, for the fairness and for- bearance with which they have judged.

"Above all, now in this parting hour, when the memory of each among us is thoughtfully resting for a time on the eventful years through which we have passed together, I desire humbly and reverently to acknowledge the gratitude which is due for the ever present protection of Him from whose hand alone are the issues of war.

"Mr. Sheriff and gentlemen, I have now but one more word to add—it is a word which I find it hard to utter—Farewell.

"Government House, March 5, 1856." Lord Dalhousie also took an affectionate farewell of the Legislative Council ; and on the 6th he quitted Calcutta. He was attended to the landing-place by a large concourse of ladies and gentlemen, who showed the liveliest sympathy. "Some were literally unable to do more than bow a farewell ; an attempt to give him a parting cheer as his boat pushed off broke down. Men's

throats were too full, and several ladies lay -back in their carriages sobbing audibly. This exhibition of feeling is the more striking because Lord ])al- housie is in no degree a ' popular ' man. He has lived latterly a most se- cluded life ; and, though many acts of kindness are recorded of him, he has found severity very frequently essential : still he is bitterly regretted."

The intelligence from Oude is satisfactory. The settlement of the country under its new rulers was proceeding with perfect tranquillity. The King's soldiers have readily enlisted in the Company's service ; and the rush of recruits for the Contingent was so great that two-thirds were refused. The military police was in process of organization, and large numbers of Rajpoots had taken service in that corps.

"The news from the districts," says the Delhi Gazette, "is most cheer- ing. From East and West, from Ichyrabad and Bairaitch, we hear that the cultivators are delighted, the soldiery contented, the landholders and great farmers astonished at the moderation of their new masters, and at the very trifling assessment that has been made. Nowhere have any set of men given any trouble or shown the slightest disposition to dispute the wishes and acts of the British Government."