POSTSCRIPT.
SAT1TR1iAY.
All the testimony that reaches the public points to a speedy announce- ment of peace. One correspondent states that orders were issued on Thursday to the inhabitants of Paris to hold themselves in readiness to illuminate their houses this evening. The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post says, "It is confidently stated that peace will be officially" announced on Sunday." The correspondent of the Daily News looks farther ahead, and appends to his telegraphic communication of last night an anecdote which will provoke a smile— Paris, Friday, Midnight.—Peace being considered both certain and im- minent, the armistice will-probably beer:Sled by six weeks,- to give time for the ratifications, which will be ex in the first fortnight of next May. The treaty will not be known text y until after ratification. The Empress desiring to possess the pen with which the peace will have been signed, the Crown jeweller has been employed in the ornamentation of the quill of an eagle, and with it the Plenipotentiaries will affix their signa- tures."
The Morning Herald prints the following telegraphic message in con-
spicuous type. Paris, Friday Night.—The sittings of the Conference terminated this afternoon, with reference to the dismisaron of the terms of peace. All has now been agreed to, and there onlyremains the formal act of signing the documents. This, it is said, will take place on Sunday."
Although the conclusion of peace is looked upon as certain in the Cri- mea, the mail received yesterday informs us that large reinforcements- have greatly augmented the strength of the British Divisions,—the Fourth, for instance, being now, according to this report, 8000 strong. The conditions of the armistice were not signed until the 14th Mardi ; when. Sir William Codrington, General Durando, and General De Mar- timprey, received the Russian officers for that purpose at Traktir Bridge.
The ifoniteur of today contains the following despatch from Mardchal Pelissier, dated Sebastopol, March 28.
" This morning, the French,. English, and Sardinian armies and the &eta fired salutes of 101 guns each, in honour of the birth of the Prince Im During the day, the Commanders-in-chief of the English and Sardinian armies came officially to offer me their congratulations. There have been illuminations in the camps, and the Russians illuminated their line on the Inkerman."
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