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      THE PEACE . Tina public , it raeems , wovo ft little too sanguine last week iu boUoving that -tho treaty of peaoo would bo ulgnod o » Haturday . Ifc has not yofc boon , nignod , owing to a difficulty wliioh aroso alwiosfc ut tho liwt moment . This difficulty arono from Priianiix domnmling that sho should Bigpi the treaty on yireoisoly tho raamo tormo as tho . other Powers . Tlio PriJB » iftu plenipotentiaries wore ilrst admitted on Batimltiy ftt about four o ' clock ; anul it is said that they immediately manifested their dieploaHuro « t not lmvlng beou summoned before that lute hour , an tho Uougross had beou Bitting ainoo tho morning . Ouo J >| plenipotentiaries , aooording to tho Btory , then hukJ that tho PrusBinii miuautei'a wero of ooiu'ho to bo iv « - mittod on equ . nl terais with the othern—u pottHioai

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      and afetpiesced ; despised the small palliatives that Mr . Wat ^ Is suggests , but had no others to suggest of their ttwn , ancLwere content ' to drift into destruetionr ^ -a splendid example on Cornhill of the mauder in which we " practical people" manage our affairs .

      keep alive for a day . The administrative reformers attempted a demonstration in St . MartinV hall , but so feeble were they , that they only hoped to carry their affirmation of the necessity for administrative reform by adopting an amendment of Sir John Shelley for'l * ai ; liatii 6 ntary r ^ lbTtn ; and even theo it was a drawn game between themselves and the proposal of the People ' s Charter .

      The Potteries , rallying roundthe flag of Ohvieea and cheap wines , have been more successful in a holiday demonstration on behalf of reciprocal trade with France . " Cheap china for France , cheap wine for England , " was the Staffordshire cry ; and Mr . Oliviera has gained the support of an important manufacturing province . The Church welcomes the Princess Hoy ax , amongst its * ' confirmed' * members , but that

      accession of strength is compensated by a jar or two nere and there . While cheap editions of Cairo ' s sermon—on " Religion in Common Life , " printed byiher Majesty ' s command , andVepreachedin the pulpits of so many " ^ persuasions , "—are circulated among the million , the attempts of sectarians to re-unite are tliwarted by the stronger impulses of sectarianindividualisia ; and the Bishop of Bancsor is seen , positively suppressing an attempt to extend the service of the Established Church in Wales—so

      Jealous is he of any clergyman or layman who ball go before him in his duty . Chief Justice Jervis is quarrelling with , the country gentlemen who try to evade the duty of providing his lordship with javelin men , state pageantry on his arrival in the streets , and other little attentions . The judges themselvesr indeed , had rather set the example of waiving some of these antiquated customs ; they had , for instance , entered towns by rail , and not in state coaches , and

      in Liverpool they have permitted the juniors of the bartoprovidethemselves with private lodgings , much to the relief of the same juniors ; but they will not tolerate the absence of "the javelin men . And why should they 1 If the country gentlemen who have conspired in an association desire to get rid of some of the charges of their local state and dignity , they ought at least to make compensation

      to the public . They profess the desire to accommodate the arrangement of their duties to the spirit of the age : let them carry out the principle . Let them , for example , accompany the proposal to relieve them of the chargo of javelin men , and to place it upon the ratepayers , with a proposal to extend the Parliamentary representation to all ratepayers who shall pay for javelin men . The object of their association would then he carried at once

      by popular acclaim But we have not yet arrived at that recognition of equitable exchange in public affairs . The quid pro quo is tho last thing that your politician is willing to surrender . That principle is only carried out in nefarious trades , like that Hamburg " _ merce of which we have some further evidence this week . It is not carried out at the great Palace of trade upon Cornhill . One of the uttdenvriters hi \ s come before , the public this weclt , with a statement that these acute gentlemen are entirely

      overreached by tho shippers , by their own agents , and by each other , The frauds of shippers and merchants , are systematically aided by the agents of Lloyd's , and facilitated by tho reckless negligence of the underwriters themselves , who take all kinds of risks at tho lowest charges , and gamble in insurittce as earnestly as they would in cards . Tho ^ ijado , sjiya Mr . Watts , is actually decaying un < le r ?|* Sf P rtlcti < Iea - N <> t only arc individuals retiring , '^ UtrwholG . bodies are leaying the business ; and , ^ fetyf ***** awprising ,. these assertions are positiv ' ely tftte . ' TKo'i ^ eeting ' o ' f underwriters listened

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      Sbezzia . — -The creation of a permanent Board of Admiralty in Piedmont is the forerunner of t"he removal of the naval administration , the arsenal and the dockyards to Spezzia—an important station , which . Napoleon I , intended to make the Toulon of Italy .

      The Rdssian Uniform is undergoing certain changes . The lulinet will be abolished in favour of the French kepi ; and ihe coats -vnll be supplanted by the polou-kaftan , a sort of frock imitated from the French . The long grey great-coat will be retained . Burglary and Capture , of the Burglars . Shortly before three o ' clock on Friday morning , a daring burglary was committed at tile EffLnghain Saloon , Whitechapelroad , and three of the burglars were captured on the premises by the police .. The proprietor ( Mr . Morris Abrahams ) retired io rest shortly after twelve o ' clock , when the premises were securely fastened back and front . On the following morning , a police constable saw a light in the bar and heard a noise which excited his suspicion . He

      obtained , the assistance of two other constables , and , upon forcing the front door , which was easily opened , they discovered three men behind the "bar . They made an effort to esescape ; -but , " 'by the determination of tee constables , the three burglars were secured , though not without a desperate struggle . One man . had a quantity of silver and copper money in his pockets ; and the other two had a considerable portion of -tobacco- in their possession . They Were well-known expert thieves , and belonged to the WentworthTstreet gang of burglars who infest the metropolitan and suburban districts . They had packed up a quantity of wearing apparel for removal . Several attempts have been made on the premises during the last fortnight .

      Chief Justice Jervis and the Javelin Men . — The "javelin men" having been dispensed with at the Norfolk Assizes by the High Sheriff , DCr . Chief Justice Jervis , in charging the jury , called attention to the circumstance . He said : — " * I am told the High Sheriff" has bean persuaded "by an association which he has joined to take the course which has been followed on this occasion , and I hope and trust the association will support him as men of honour and gentlemen in that course . I find there are no javelin-men or . , attendants of the Sheriff to keep order in the court and neighbourhood . In answer to nay inquiries , I am furnished with a

      paper , which purports to be the rules of an association to diminish the expenses of gentlemen who are to serve the office of sheriff ; and amongst others I find this rule , which calla for serious observation : — " The keeping of order in the courts of sessions and assizes being essential to the clue administration of justice and the proper conduct of county business , an arrangement may be made by which the county police may be employed in lieu of javeliu-men , and be paid by the county for such extra duty . '' In othei words , the ratepayers of ihe county of Suffolk tire to relieve the gentry of the county from the "burden of au office which it is their duty to serve ; the property and lives of the public are to be

      deprived of the natural protectors which the law affords ; and . those who are so inclined—knowing that the police are engaged at the Assizes , as ib may be upon this occasion for a whole week—may make an inroad into the county , and commit then- dopredations without check or control . The tiling cannot bear inquiry or investigation for a single moment ; it is wholly illegal , Tho object of tho association—I entirely absolve tho sheriff from imy participation in it—is to save tho pockets of its members from , tho oxponso of javolin-meu . It ia my duty-to tako care tlmt ifc is not done ; and I therefore fino tho HlierifF £ 100 , which I trust the committee of tho aasooiution who persuaded him not to havo "tho ordinary attendants will pay for him . "

      THE WIND-UP OF THE WAR . The Blockade in theBaltio . — Commodore Watson has declared Libau and all the Russian ports in the Baltic ui a state of blockade . By the latest accounts from the Gulf of Finland , which extend to the middle of the present month , that part of the norther n sea was completely blocked with ice , and the ships were obliged to postpone penetrating much , beyond the island of Dago . Sufferings of ^ he , French ARiir . —The French admit the present mortality in . their army to be one hundred and twenty a-day , and on some days considerably more . The right of the army , in the Baidai Valley , ' suffers the most . I am assured that the deaths there have reached one hundred per diem . Last winter was far severer and more trying than thiB ; so that the natural deduction is , either that the French Buffered far more than was known during the trying

      five months from the beginning of November , 1854 to the end of March , 1855 , ot that the preparatio ns for this winter and the sanitary precautions taken have been very inadequate . I do not hesitate to say that the French army- is "being expended at least as rapidly as it was by shell and shot during the severest part of the siege . A sanitary commission ' s investigation of the French camp would reveal a startling amount of suffering . Insufficient shelter and covering , and a . deficiency of vegetable food , readily account for the sickness that prevails . Of course , everything we can spare is freely placed at their disposal . They have availed themselves to a considerable extent of our offers of service , but I was surprised to learn that they declined a quantity of warm clothing offered to them ... the other day , saying they did not want it . — Times Corespondent . [ The Moniteur denies the existence of distress among the troops . ]

      An Action on the'Coa&i of Siberia . —The Journal de St . Petersburgh of the 16 th iust . publishes an account , taken from a maritime magazine , of au attack made on the Srd of Octofcerj 1855 , by an English squadron on . the east coast of Siberia . The English squadron consisted of the Sybil , Encounter , and Hornet . A Russian Military Scandal . —^ The Invalide Husse announces that the Emperor , having been informed that tlie battalions which were sent from , the division of the depot of the 6 th co ? ' ps d ' emwee in 1855 to complete the troops in the Crimea \ vere not properly armed , and were unfit to continue their , march , published an order of the clay on the subject on . the 12 fhiust . In that document , the Emperor severely censures Generals Marin and Vou Brine , and they will be punished .

      The Wa , r in Asia . —Omar Pacha is , it is said , to move with his army on Erzerouna . Ismail Pacha is increasing the army of Anatolia . General Mouravieff has received reinforcements by way of the Caspian Sea and Tiflis . The Anglo -Italian Legion . —The second Regiment of the Anglo-Italian Legion embarked at Genoa on the 20 th on "board an English ship bound for Malta . The Wall of Sebastopol . —The'Allies have commenced the demolition of the enclosure wall of Sebastopol .

      Nicholaieff . — A letter from Nichoalieff , in the Moniteur dc la Flotte , gives some details of what is going on at present at that place : — - " Two days back , a commission , composed of five persons , and presided over by one of the heads of the Board of Admiralty arrived here from St . Petersburgh , charged with tho task of taking an inventory of all that the dockyards and arsenals contained . The Grand Duke Constantino is , it is said , to arrive here in a few days to inspect the pi'oceedings of the connniasion . The matdriel lying in this establishment , considered capable of being

      turned to account , is to l > e transported to the Baltio , after having been classified and duly markod down in tho books of the commission , article by article . Already all the utensils for manufacturing gunpowdor mid tho materials from the artillery depot haves beou loaded on carts belonging to tho military bivggftgo train , and are to set out without delay . Tho nwy school for tho oon « of the nobility , tho school of maritime engineers , and that of the nuvnl artillery , are already ovacuatod . Similar nacasuros lu-o to be applied 'to Kherson . "

      Real Estate in TuuK ) 2 Y .- ~ Somo Australian capitalists , eays the Mercure da Souabe , proposes to avail themselves of tho rights recently graivted to Europoiuis to acquire real estate in Turkey . A sooioty is being formed to oftbot vast rcquifutioiiH of land in tho European provinces , especially in Roumolin . M . » ia SaHHBiva—A letfceHrom Copenhagen fvtatos that M . do Sohoele intends defending himself hoforo the Supremo Court of Kiel , ngiiinst tho oliargo brought agaiinst him . by tho StatoB of Hol » toin . A Sinoui . au SwiotaoM ) now presents HboIP , which hua not bean seen for tho last hn-lf century ; fcho 55 uy doiv . oo , in oonBeqnenoo of tho long continuance ) of northerly arid easterly winds , is almost dry . Bobwoon Gonomindou , BlooWl , Lommoi-, Kumpdon , and Harderwyk the bed of tho set * may bo crossed dry-footed .

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      \ . 290 TjH E LEADER . [ No . 314 , Saturday .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 29, 1856, page 290, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2134/page/2/