The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-05 00:00:00

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.

Rumour says that the Royal Italian Opera will re-
open on the 10th of April ; that Madlle. Fanny Ney,
prima donna of the Royal Opera of Berlin, will appear
early in the season, pribbably, in Verdi's " Il Trovatore,"
and in conjunction with Madame Viardot Garcia, whose
performance of the contralto part in that opera has re-
cently made a great sensation in Paris.
We also hear that Madll3. Sophie Cruvelli is re-en-
gaged for one month ; that there are to be no less than
three tenors, the most celebrated on the Italian stage,
namely Mario, Tamberlik, and Gardoni ; Fanny Cerito,
Angiolina Bosio, Carl Formes, Borghi Mamo, a contralto,
of great celebrity in Italy and France, and Meyerbeer's
"L'Etoile du Nord," most powerfully cast, and put upon
the stage with extraordinary splendour, are likewise pro-
mised by the above-mentioned authority.

LIND TRANSPORT CORPS. •

LATEST NEWS.

PARIS, MONDAY, MARCH 5, 8 A.M.
The Emperor returned to Paris at 7 o'clock

yesterday evening.
The ratifications of the treaty of alliance be-
tween France, England, and Sardinia were ex-
changed yesterday at 1 o'clock.

VIENNA, SUNDAY EVENING.
Lord John Russell and suite arrived here this

evening at 8 o'clock.
The Archduke William has set out for St.
Petersburg with the condolence of the Emperor of
Austria with the Empress of Russia.
M. de Bruck has arrived here.
Prince Gortschakoff, it is said, has received to-
day, by telegraph, the extract of a new Russian
manifesto of a pacific nature.
This requires confirmation.

MARSEILLES, SUNDAY EVENING, MAncrt 4.
The Byzantine merchant steamer, , which left
Constantinople on the 22d ult., has arrived.
She brings the report that the allied Generals
had decided to attack the Russians under General
Liprandi, and then to invest Sebastopol.
The mail steamer Lougsor, which left Constan-
tinople on the 23d ult., and is due, has not
arrived.

• TURIN, MARCH 4.
The treaty of alliance between Sardinia, France,
and England was ratified to-day.
The Official Gazette publishes a manifesto of the
Government relative to the accession.

The Senate has voted the convention respecting
the loan by 63 votes against 27.

VIENNA, SATURDAY EVENING.

The news of the death of the Emperor Nicholas,
which was known here at 9 o'clock last night, has
produced an immense sensation.
The confinement of the Empress of Austria is
daily expected.
There is a vague rumour that the Russians
have attacked Balaklava, but nothing is known of
such an occurrence in official circles.

The whole garrison of Constantinople, the re-
serves, and the convalescents have left for the

Crimea.

It is said that the Flagstaff Battery has been
nearly destroyed by the French mines.

SUNDAY MORNING.

The Archduke William, the personal friend of
the new Emperor of Russia, goes to-day with an
autograph letter from the Emperor of Austria to

the Emperor Alexander.
The Oesterreichische Correspondenz contains an
article praising the high qualities of the late
Emperor Nicholas, and expressing a confident hope
that the Emperor Alexander will complete the
work of peace begun by his father.

WARSAW, MARCH 1.

The divisions of grenadiers have received orders
to leave Warsaw for Agustowo and the province
of Samogitie. They will be replaced by irregular

troops.

MADRID, MARCH 2.
The Government los decided that no oath sha:

be taken to the Constitution. A loan is cons:-
sidcred as indispensable. The crops appear in
very good condition.

We have received from Berlin, Vienna, and the
Hague, a number of telegraphic despatches re-
peating, with some additional circumstances, the
important intelligence published on Saturday.
The most important fact to be recorded is, how-
ever, the undisputed succession of the Grand
Duke Alexander to the throne of his father.
The oath was to be administered to the garrison
of St. Petersburg on Saturday.

FRANCE.
PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING.
The first diplomatic person who received the
intelligence of the death of the Emperor Nicholas
was M. de Hatzfeldt, the Prussian Ambassador, to
whom it was sent by M. de Manteuffel. It reached
him about six o'clock last evening. After some
deliberation, M. de Hatzfeldt transmitted a copy of
the despatch to the Empress, who lost no time in
sending it to the Emperor at loulogne. At a later
hour M. Drouyu de I'Huysassembled his colleagues
and communicated the important news he had
received.

The Minister of Marine has addressed the fol-
lowing circular to all the commanders-in-chief of
the French naval forces and to the captains of ships
of war at sea

"Sardinia, by a treaty signed on the 26th ult., having
acceded to the treaty of alliance concluded on the 10th
of April, 1854, between Franca and Great Britain fer the
protection of the Ottoman empire, now finds herself at
war with Russia. You will consequently have to extend in
future to the Sardinian navy the support and kind
offices you are bound to render the French and English
navies, and when you chance to meet sbips of war of his
Majesty the King of Sardinia you will concert measures
and establish with their commanders the same relations
of intimacy as with the commanders of the ships of war
of her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain. Please to acknowledge the receipt of
this circular.

"THEODORE Ducos."

Since the news of the Emperor's death, ordershave been despatched to General Canrobert to press
on the siege, of Sebastopol with the utmost vigour.
I Of the departure of the Emperor Napoleon for the
Crimean nothing whatever can be said more than
has been already. Everything continues in the
same state of preparation.
Since the coup d'etat of 1851 nothing has pro-
duced such a marked effect upon the public mind
as th© death of the Emperor Nicholas. The streets
ring with his name, and people openly express their
rejoicing as they walk along. Whether rightly or
otherwise, a very few clays will probably show—
but at all events in fact—the present war was gene-
rally attributed to the turbulent ambition. of the
late Czar personally. It is the general impression
that his son Alexander (the new Emperor) was dia-
metrically opposed to his father's policy, and is sin-
cerely desirous of peace. Anxious fears were enter-
tamed this morning lest the regular order of succes-
sion should be set aside in favour of the Grand Duke
Constantine, who is at the head of the ultra war
party. But when it became known that a telegra-
phic despatch dated Berlin this day, announced
from St. Petersburg that Prince Alexander had
been proclaimed Emperor, and had been waited
upon by all the official authorities the public confi-
dence knew no bounds. Prussia, it was said at
once by politicians, must now necessarily join the
Western alliance, and the way for a speedy and
happy termination of the Vienna conferences is
completely smoothed. The tradesmen one and all
look upon the event as a providential occurrence
just iu time for the Great Exhibition.

It is noticed that some of the accounts speak of
apoplexy, and others as a paralysis of the lungs as
the cause of death, and many people openly insin-
uate that -the Czar Nicholas has died the natural
death of the Emperors of all the Russias—that is to
say, that he has been murdered. It is known for
certain that he had a severe attack of bronchitis at
the beginning of February, and that he made
himself much worse bygoing out on horseback when
the weather was intensely cold.
The intelligence created an immense sensation
this morning at the Petite Bourse, and Threes went
up to 73, At the opening of the Bourse they were

done at 72fr., 71fr. 50e. ; after many variations
they closed at 71fr. 85e.

A letter from Boulogne, dated yesterday, says :
—" When the Emperor visited on his way here the
regiments in the camp of Helfaut, near St. Omer,
the weather was frightful, the rain falling in tor-
rents. His Majesty was received with loud accla-
mations by the men. He would not, however,
allow the soldiers to take arms. After breakfast,
the Emperor, in a private carriage, followed by
another carriage, left without escort for Boulogne,
where he Arrived at half-past five."
The greatest activity at this moment prevails in
the offices of the Ministry. Orders have been given
in all parts of France to form battalions of war ;
and they are already being executed in all the
divisions.

General Ochsenbein, who is charged with the
organisation and conunand of the second foreign
legion, has arrived at Besancon.
The liessqger of Tahiti contains a lung recital of
disturbances which had broken out at Raiatea, one
of the islands adjacent to the seat of the French
Protectorate.

M. Dupont de l'Eure died this morning at Rougo
Perrere. He will be buried to-morrow. M. La-
martine, M. Goudcbaux, and M. Cremieux, pro-
ceed by this night's tr.in to Rouge Perrere, to fol-
low their old friend and colleague to his last horse.

BOURSE, MA, ox 3.—CLOSING PRICES.
Cash. fr. c. End of Month.
4.2'i por Cents 99 40 99f. 50i.
3 per Cents 7 L 30 71f. 50c.
Credit Mobilier 792 50 Roman -
Credit Foncier — Austrian
Belgian Fives ...... .. Spanish Threes —
Piedmontese — Home Debt —
RAILWAYS—FOR CASH.
fr. c. fr. c.
Orleans 1,212 50 Lyons . . 1065
Western 6BO Rouen
Cette
Mediterranean 945 Havre —
Northern