The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-25 00:00:00

PRANCE.

A Toulon letter of the 23d says :
" The journey of the Emperor Napoleon to the
south of France is no longer a matter of doubt. He
is even said to have the intention of staying three
days at Toulon, to visit the iron-cased steam ram,
Le Taurean, the novel construction of which is des-
tined iu case of success to effect a new revolution in
the principles of naval architecture and in the com-
position of the fleet."

Baron Baude has been named first secretary to
the French Embassy at Rome, in the room of the
Marquis de Cadoro, w ho has been appointed Minis•
ter Plenipotentiary at the Court of Carlsruhe.
BOURSE, Out. 24.—The market has been heavy,
and prices are rather lower. Threes are now at
64f. 90c., and Mobilier at 885 f. Railway Market
without animation. The market continued heavy
o the close, and left off as follows :
Italian Loan 65 25
Do. end month 65 35
Ditto Threes ..
New Mexican .... 49 75
Russian
Austrian .. 79

4t per Cents .. 91 50
Do. end month....
3 per Cents
Do. end month 6l 75
Credit Mobilier BB3 75
Do. :end month BBl 25
Bank Shares 3380
Credit Fonder ll5O
Roman

Spanish Threes :-
Home Debt
Deferred

RAIL

Orleans... ....
Northern ....
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern • •
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lon'bard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

'AT'S.

Cash. Account.
825 .. 830 --
970 970
887 53 ~ 886 25
687 50 .. 593
495

• • , -.-.

492 50 . 495 -
335 - 33.5 -
435 - 440 -
513 75 .. 515 -
375 - 378 75
471 25 .. 468 75

SPAIN.

The Epoca of Madrid gives the following not
very favourable picture of the state of affairs in
Spain :—" The Cabinet of the Duke of Valencia on
ascending to power finds the questions of Santo
Domingo and Peru still open ; the former, the clause
of tremendous outlays and innumerable sacrifices
which have perturbed very materially the finances
of the country, and the latter ready at any moment
to bring on the conengencies of a war; the question
of the recognition of Italy still pending, and the affair
of the Neapolitan archives not yet closed. The
aspect of affairs caused by the late Franco-Italian
Convention adds, not a little, to its embarrassments.
The state of the interior is not more cheering;
the policy of the country is swayed by factions ;
the Progressista party is determined to adhere to
its non-voting programme, and is daily entering
more and more blindly into the dangerous path
in which—after its lamentable circular of the 20th
of August—it will find itself; the Democratic
party, arrogant and threatening, is enveloped in a
revolutionary atmosphere, drawing towards it the
ill-advised Progressietas ; Parliament rendered
powerless to continue its high functions after it
voted the law of Parliamentary incompatibilities ;'
the Treasury calling for energetic, urgent, and
salutary measures to free it from the pressure it is
labouring under, and which the Credit Laws, passed
by Senor Salaverria, were unable to remove; the
financial crisis, aggravated by the continuation of
the American war and the agitations in Catalonia
caused by want of work reducing hundreds of the
labouring class to misery ; the monetary crisis em
barrassing commerce and sowing disquietude among
all classes, and public opinion deeply agitated."

CARDINAL ATEZZOFANTI, the wonderful speaker
of two.and-seventy different languages, when asked
(says a critic in tho-Examiner) how he came to acquire so
unprecedented a range of knowledge, attributed the fact to
his employment as foreigners' confessor at Bologna in 1798
and the following years. " I constantly met there," ho
said, "Hungarians, Slavonians, Germans, and Bohemians,
who had been wounded in battle, or invalided during the

campaign; and it pained me to the heart that from the wan

of means of communicating with them, I was unable to
confess those among them who were Catholics or to bring
back to tho Church those who wero separated from her
communion. In such cases, accordingly, I used to apply
myself with all my energy to the study of the languages of
the patients, until I knew enough to make myself under-
stood." Whenever a stranger, whose speech was not
know to him, came for confession, he made him first repeat,
once or twice, the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, the Com •
mandments, and other portion of the Itomish ritual. In

that way, by the aid of his wonderful memory, which
retained everything once committed to it, he ob-
tained a ground - work of words from which to
build. He analysed them and measured them by
the corresponding words in other languages. A few
conversations, in which he guessed at the meaning of new
words as they arose, and then verified it by himself using
them, gave him knowledge enough to be able to perform his
religious duties. "At length, through the grace of God,
assisted by my private studies and by a retentive memory,
I came to understand, not merely the generic languages of
the nations to which the several invalids belonged, but
even the peculiar dialects of their various provinces."
Once, at a later date, the Crown Prince, now King of Swe-
den, paid him a visit. They at first talked in the Swedish

tongue, which Mezzofanti spoke fluently; but when the
Prince continued the conversation in one of the provincial
dialectP, the priest had to declare himself ignorant of it.
On the following day they met again, and then Mezzo-
fanti commenced speaking in the dialect in question.
"From whom, in the name of all that is wonderful,
have you learnt it ? " asked the astonished Prince. "From
your Royal Highness," was the answer. " Your sen-
tences yesterday supplied me with a key to all that is
peculiar in its forms ; and I am only translating the
common words into those forms."

NEWSPAPERS FOR RUSSIA.—The Postmaster•
General has issued an order, in which he states that, seve-
ral instances having lately occurred in which newspapers
sent from this country to Russia have been returned in
consequence of the regulations of the Russian Post Office
with regard to the transmission of newspapers not having
been complied with, the public are again informed that it is
forbidden to introduce into Russia, through the post, poli-
tical newspapers, and that the only means by which persons
residing in Russia can obtain such newspapers from the
United Kingdom is by subscribing for them at one of the

Russian post offices. The admission into Russia of news-
papers not of u political character is only permitted in those
cases where they are addressed to the house of some estab-
lished bookseller.

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PARIS, Oct. 22.

The Princess Clotilda, accompanied by the two
young princes her sons, paid a visit three days eicce
to the Asile-Ecole Feaelon at Vaujours (Seine-ct•
Oise). Her imperial highness, who is president of
the lady-patronesses of this establishment, arrived
without being expected. She was received by the
director, M. Legnay, who conducted her over the
asylum, and submitted plans for improving and
extending it, to which her imperial highness gave
her complete approbation, and retired well pleased
with her visit.

The Marquis Pepcii, who lately arrived in Paris,
breakfasted the day before yesterday with the
Emperor at St. Cloud.
A telegraphic despatch from Nice announces the
arrival of the Emperor and Empress of Russia at
that place at 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Count
Skariatine, Grand Chamberlain, received their
Majesties at the railway station, and presented to
them the prefect, the general commanding the
division, the mayor, and the commandant of the
Chasseurs of the Guard. The- Russian residents,
who were admitted into the station, formed
line on either side through which their Majes..
ties passed. The Czar addressed a few words
of thanks to the authorities. The Emperor and
Empress got into a carriage and proceeded to their
residence—the Villa Peillou. Notwithstanding the
rain an immense crowd had assembled; all the
houses of the streets through which the imperial
visitors passed were dressed out with Russian and
French colours. The Russian corvette Vitias, which
has arrived at Villefranche, will, it is said, proceed
to Civita Vecchia to bring the hereditary Grand
Duke to Nice.

Alexander 11. is the third Emperor of Russia
that has placed his foot on French territory, the
first being Peter the Great, who came to Paris in
1717 ; and the second, Alexander 1., who in 1815
remained in the French capital for some time.

The Queen of Holland, after remaining two
days at Arona, in Italy, has left for Lucerne, pass 4
ing through Baveno, where her Majesty paid a
visit to the Duchess of Genoa.

The Grand Duke Michael of Russia, according to
the latest advices from Odessa, had left that city
with his family for the Crimea.
Prince Gortschakoff, who was to have left Swit-
zerland yesterday, will, it is said, prolong his stay
for some time at Lausanne.

RUMOURED VISIT OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS
OF WALES TO KNOWSLEY.— We are informed, upon
the best authority, that the visit of the Prince and Princess
of Wales to the Earl and Countess of Derby at Knowsley
is not at present by any means a certainty. It is believed
that the visit will be made in November, but nothing is
decided, and the probability is that no definite arrangements
will bo made until their royal highnesses return from the
continent.

His Royal Highness Prince Albzrt Victor, the
infant son of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prin-
cess of Wales, is expected to arrive shortly at Windsor
Castle, where preparations are being made for his reception.
PRINCE ALFRED.—His Royal Highness Prince
Alfred, attended by Lieutenant Haig, left Windsor
Castle yesterday morning, shortly after 10 o'clock, for the
Great Western Railway Station, Windsor, whence his
royal highness proceeded by the 10.15 ordinary up passen-
ger train to Paddington, where the prince arrived about 11 ,
o'clock. His royal highness and suite occupied a saloon
carriage, which was attached to the usual train. Prince
Alfred was expected to return to the Castle in the evening.
It has already been mentioned that his royal highness will
take up his residence in Bonn, on the Rhine, during the
coming winter, with a view to pursuing his studies in the
university of that town. His suite will consist of five gen-
tlemen, and one of Herr Erurekeil's newly.built houses in
the beautiful and healthy Poppelsdorfer-Allie has been taken
for him, and is now being arranged (both within and with-
out) in a most elegant and tasty manner.

The latest accounts from Ickworth-park last
evening represent the Marquis of Bristol as a little better.

Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury arrived in town
yesterday from Ham House, Richmond.

Frances Countess of Waldegrave and the Right
Iron. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., are expected to arrive in
town on Wednesday or Thursday from Ireland.

General and Lady Alice Peel will leave town
to-day on a continental tour,

Mr and Lady Susan Milbank have returned to
Eaton-place from Scotland and the North.

Mrs Charles Cavendish was safely delivered of a
son yesterday at the residence of the L9rd Chief Justice of
England, in ilertfort-street, Mayfair, Both mother and
infant are progressing favourably.
THE LATE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.—The funeral
of the Duke of Newcastle will take place on Thursday next
at the church of Markham Clinton, near Clumber. The
Grand Secretary of the Masonic body in Nottingham (of
which his Grace was Provincial Grand Master) received a
letter from Clumber on Monday morning stating that it was
the wish of the departed nobleman that the funeral should
be as unostentatious as possible, and that it should be con•
fined to his Grace's relatives and tenants only.