EUROPE.—The Cunard steamer Europa, which left Liverpool on Saturday, March 25th, at 4 P. M., arrived at New York at 3½ o'clock on Saturday afternoon, April 8th.
Advises from Constantinople state that the tripartite treaty between the Porte and England and France was signed on the 12th ult. According to advises from St. Petersburg, the Russian Government proposes publishing various documents on the Eastern question. Among the documents destined for publication are some letters written by Prince Albert.
The Duke of Cambridge, and a numerous staff of officers, left London on the 24th ult. for the East. On his way through France, the Duke will be entertained by the Emperor Napoleon, at the Tuileries. Gen. Brown had left London on the previous day, en route for the East.
THE WAR.—There were skirmishes at Kalafat from the 11th to the 16th, but with slight loss of life. The news from the seat of war is extremely scanty. English and French officers are now employed by Omer Pasha in arranging the details of the various projected operations.
It is generally known that the Turkish troops now in the Bulgarian ports and fortresses on the Black Sea will march to Shumla in the month of April, in order to make room for the Anglo-French auxiliaries, who, on their arrival, will assemble somewhere near Constantinople, and repose for a time from the fatigues of their voyage. None of the auxiliary troops will be sent to the Danube, but the reserve division of the French under General Forez, will, perhaps, be posted in Roumelia to the south of the Balkan.
A strongly intrenched camp is being formed at Fokshany. Marshal St. Arnaud's quartermaster and eight other English and French officers are at Shumla. Omer Pasha removed his headquarters from Shumla to Rustchuk on the 19th of March. There are several Americans in camp. An English letter-writer says:
"The Turkish camp is a perfect Babel of tongues. To almost all the different races of Europe, Asia and Africa, must now be added Americans. Like all the auxiliaries of the Porte the men from the Far West say that they have come with rifle, revolver and bowie knife, to defend the cause of civilization and humanity against Russia."
Recent Russian bulletins announced that the Russian batteries had destroyed the Turkish flotillas before Nicopolis and Rustchuk letters from the spot declare that the ships had received little or no damage from the Russian fire.
Lord Raglan was expected to arrive at Constantinople about the first of April, so as to coincide as nearly as possible with the arrival of Marshal St. Arnaud. A council extraordinary whose duty it is to provide for the wants of the Turkish army and their auxiliaries, has been appointed. It is composed of the Pashas Reschid, Mehemed Ali, Mehemed Roushdi, Rifaat, Riza and Achmet Fethi.
In Constantinople a new corps of 20,000 men is to be formed under the name of the new Imperial Guard. The latest news from Egypt is, that in a short time another corps of 20,000 infantry, and 3,000 horse will be placed at the disposal of the Sultan. Omer Pasha, in order to teach more humanity to his irregular troops, has offered a reward for every Russian prisoner brought in alive.
Dispatches from Constantinople state that the object of Gen. Bourgoyne's recent visit to Gallipoli was to plan its fortification as an English naval station. For the present, however, Gallipoli is chiefly mentioned as the rendezvous of the French troops.
Letters from Constantinople, 12th, state that the English steam frigate Retribution and the French steam frigate Caton had been sent to force the stockade which the Russians have established at the mouth of the Danube, and which completely prevents the merchant ships from descending the river, which, for commercial purposes only, they had ascended.
If the Russians oppose the destruction of the Stockade, the frigates have orders to open fire and pass it by force. This will probably be the first act of hostilities. The information that the Russians were obstructing the River mouth was communicated in a circular from the British Consul at Galatz, who, on the 11th March, announced to ship-owners that the Russians were throwing rocks, sandbags, anchors and rubbish into the St. George's channel, and had stretched a chain across the Sulina mouth. By latest accounts from Odessa, the Russian naval force at Sevastopol is ten line of battle and forty-two other ships.
GREAT BRITAIN.—In Parliament the proceedings had not been of much interest. The principal subjects under consideration were the Simony Law Amendment bill; bill regulating the payment of wages in Hosiery manufacture; bill for government of Vestries; a bill to put down Gaming-houses; and the Income Tax bill, which was read a second time. Both Houses had before them the case of Thomas Sturgeon & Son of Grays, Essex, who undertook to supply forage for the cavalry now on the way to Turkey. The bales of hay supplied by these Sturgeons were found to contain shavings, stones, wood, and other rubbish. There was some doubt if the law could take cognizance of their offence, and the House expressed satisfaction when lord Campbell gave his opinion that they were liable to prosecution.
Government has chartered the West India mail steamers Trent and Medway for conveyance of troops. Several ship captains have been engaged at Sunderland to act as pilots to Napier's fleet.
FRANCE.—The publication of the "Secret Correspondence" between England and Russia, has awakened a feeling very favorable to England. The Moniteur has an article on the subject, in which, after stating that England has the best of the correspondence, there occurs this passage:
"As to the Government of the Emperor Napoleon, there is but one observation to make upon the studied endeavor of Russia to leave it out of the question in her plans of territorial remodification, which is, that Russia came back to the French Government after having failed in London, and that France in her turn had to decline advances more or less direct, which are not without resemblance to those which were first made in England."
Notwithstanding the exertions making at the Navy Yards the equipment of the French fleet does not go on so fast as the English. The squadron for the Baltic is collecting at Brest, but seaman are scarce. Half the fishing-boats at Toulon are lying idle for want of crews.