POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY.
Good Friday is seldom prolific of news, and yesterday was no exception to the rule. Some items of intelligence are, however, furnished by the foreign letters and the electric telegraph. By those agencies we learn that the state of the Empress Eugenic is " most satisfactory' ; that the " Prince Imperial " is in the like " satisfactory " condition ; that " the state of Prince Jerome continues to be satisfactory" ; and that the Emperor visited him on Thursday. The Paris correspondent of the Post states that the last sitting of the Conference "was not concluded without satis- factory results " ; that the treaty of peace will be signed within a week from the present time ; that Lord Clarendon "has manfully fulfilled his mis- sion" • and that he will be home before the 31st. The same letter-writer also states that " Count Orloff has declared that the Emperor Alexander is willing to grant large privileges to Russian Poland,"—a report that may be another version of an oracular remark said to have been recently made lzPrince Gortsehakofe that " the Poles can have no idea of what the Emperor intends doing for them." The Military Gazette of Vienna tells us that the Austrian army is undergoing another large reduction, and that many officers have been put on half-pay ; while orders have been sent from London to suspend all further enlistments for the Anglo-Italian. Legion. The last fact we have to notice reminds us that the war is not quite over. A telegraphic message from Hamburg, dated March 20, says —" Commodore Watson has declared Libau, and all the Russian ports in the Baltic, in a state of blockade."
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