The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-24 00:00:00

niE SUN, Lor\DoN, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 24, .1864.

GoßpoN should have remembered that he had not
to act for himself alone, but as the representative of
English truth and honour---

"Ambassador of Britain's Crown

And type of all her race. '
The opportunity has bEen lost and may never re-
turn, but whatever the conduct of Imperialists or
rebels to us or to each other, we are not called upon
to surrender the rights acquired with so much dif-
ficulty, nor to abandon a source of trade which is
of so much value to both countries, simply because
an internecine war is raging, with whose rise or
progress, excepting as affecting Chinese commerce,
we have no concern.

On Saturday last, there was an annual meeting of
members of the National Conservative Associaticn.
It was well attended, and the report showed that
the success of the past year had been considerable.

Alexandria.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS,

The following telegrams have Inca received at
Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company, May 24

MALTA, MAY 23.
•
The Ripon leaves at 4 p.m. for Southampton,
where she may be expected about June 1.

The Syria will leave at 10 p.m. for Marseilles.

OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL.

The Baroda, from Southampton on May 12,
arrived at Malta on the 20th at 9 a.m., and sailed
at 4 p.m. for Alexandria.

The Massilia, from Marseilles on May 20, reached
Malta on the 23i at J. a.m., and left at 8 aan, for

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, MAY 24.
The Spenersche Zeitung of to-day publishes a
;elegram from Vienna asserting that the rcpresen-
Atives of England and France have made decla-

rations to Count Rechberg, abandoning the treaty

of 1852, and agreeing to the union of South
Schleswig with Holstein as a separate State, in-
dependent of Denmark, and absolutely rejecting a
personal union with that Slate.
BERLIN, May 23.
A deputation of seventeen members presented to
the King to-day the address proposed by Count
tures, requesting that Schleswig-Holstein might be
Arnina.Boystzenburg, and bearing 30,000 signa-
made an independent State. The address was read
by Count Arnim.
The King replied as follows :
" I receive this address with pleasure. In con.
juction with my illustrious ally I shad take
measures for preventing the return of Danish
oppression, and any farther disturbances of peace
on the northern frontier of Germany.

" The allies have fought for this object, and are
striving for it at the Conference, reserving the
entire freedom of action to which they are entitled
by the conduct of the Danes, and by events.
" During the pending negotiations I can give no
further explanations relative to the nature of the
solution of the question ; but I may express my
confidence that the sacrifice made for the German
cause will also conduce to the interes's of our more
immediate fatherland."

The Crown Prince of Prussia has left for Stettin,
to assume the command of the 2l Army Corps.
His Royal Highness is expected to return this
evening.
A banquet is to be given at the new palace in
Potsdam to-morrow in celebration of the birthday
of her Majesty Queen Victoria.
The Augsburg Gazette confirms an account
already given by s)me of the German journals of
the declarations made in the name of the King of
Prussia, both to the German and the other foreign
Courts, for the purpose of putting an end to all
comments on the projects of annexing the Duchies
to Prussia, which, that journal declares, are formally
rejected by the Prussian Government. The Kreutz
Zeitung of Berlin also oppcses, in a long lead.
ing article, the projects of annexation. The
feudal journal argues that Austria and Prussia
ought to employ the force and the prestige which
they have acquired by their recent victories
in comb.sting and overthrowing democracy in
Prussia and the rest of Germany :—" Desires of
increase of territory," says that journal, " would
turn Prussia far aside from that object. Any vio-
lation of public law or any act of injustice weakens
Prussia for the struggle imposed on her at home and
in Germany. Desires of annexation are an ana-
chronism and a reminiscence of a less advanced pe-
riod. We have now to solve much more serious
questions. The position of Austria and PI ussia
since DiTember, 1863 has been exalted, for a little
increase of territory and population to enter the ba
lance as the result of their action. All Conservatives
have constantly expressed the greatest indignation
against the annexation of Victor Emmanuel. Wig
this anger end by conducting us in the same course?
We shall not vanquish the revolution in Prussia it
we follow the revolutionary path."
The Kreutz Zeitung ranks the Prince of Angus-
tenburg among the democrats, and is, therefore, as
little favourable to that pretender as to an annexa-
tion of the duchies to Prussia, and its sympathies
appear to be in favour of maintaining the duchies
in the Danish monarchy on condition that Schles-
democracy.
wig-Holstein should be protected against Danish

THE POPE. HIS HOLINESS
The Monde publishes the following intelligence
from Rome under date of the 18th ;
" The Pope has perfectly recovered; indeed. his
health was never so bad as represented by the
journals. His Holiness is to go out for at, airing
to-morrow, and on the 26th will be present at the
procession of the Corpus Domini. For the next
day, the 27th, the fete of St. Phillip Neri, one of
the patrons of Rome, when the Holy Father will go
in grand procession to the Church of Santa Maria,
in Vallicella, the Romans are preparing one of those
ovations which proclaim so loudly in the face of the
world how far Catholic love and affection achieves a
victory over the hatred of sectaries. On this occasion
the Pope will receive the numerous cfferings af
jewels, bracelets, and rings, contributed by Italian
women, and collected, as well as a considerable sum
in money, by the Unita Cattolica. The measures
which the Government of Turin seems disposed to
take against Peter's
Pence frightens no one at
Rome, where the general feeling is that this e
nw
kind of persecution will only redouble the zeal of
the faithful. The Pontifical Government responds
to the accusations of the revolutionary journals on
the subject of its complicity with brigands by
energetically pursuing all such miscreants who etiter
the papal terri!ory, whether to escape from the
Piedmontese or to commit crimes. In addition
to six brigands recently arrested in the environs of
Nettuno, we learn that the Pontifical gendarmes
have captured, in the province of Frosinone, four
Neapolitan brigands guilty of robberies and mur-
ders; that they have pursued others to the frontier,
and that several have been token at Falvaterra,
near Ceprano, in whose possession were found
papers which had been stolen from Tristany. I
stated some time since that there would be no con-
sistory of cardinals before September ; but I now
learn that a consistory for the proclamation of
several bishops will probably be held about the
middle of June,"

AUSTRIA'
(From the Corresyondeitt of the Times.)
Von Bismark forwarded
M. VIENNA, May 21.
In a despatch which
to Count Bernstorff on the 15th inst., it was said
that the Berlin Government had'ceased to be bound
by the London Tasty of 1852, and I to-day learn
that the Prussian Nlinister-President no longer
upholds the principle of the maintenance of the in.
tegrity of the Danish Monarchy. Count Reclaberg
would fain prevent the dismcmberment of Denmark,
but he fears to lose ground in Germany, and will,
therefore, allow himseif to be taken in tow by M. von
Bismark. Daring the last few days there have been
frequent meetings between the chief of the Prussian
Foreign-office and the French Ambassador, and it
is here suspctcd that a plan is being lot med for the
separation of Holstein and a part of Sehleswiv,
from Denmark. Count Carelyi, the representative
of Austria in Prussia, came here a few days ago,
but he has suddenly returned to Berlin, where he
will remain until sundry matters of moment have ,
been disposed of. Some of the Vienna papers say
the Imperial Government has tacitly given its con-
sent to the dismemberment of the Danish Mo-
narchy, but I have to-day received the assurance
that Count Rechberg still maintains that a kind of
personal union between Denmark and the Duchies
Iwould be the most satisfactory settlement of the
question at issue. It may be observed that the
Austrian Government avoids the use of the words

" personal union" because Viey are currently em• Mr, Selous'
ployed by the Hungarians, Uroatiante and Sclavo-
niane, the nationalities which in Austria lay claim
to special rights and privileges.
In one of my former letters it was stated that
Prince Metternich had eomplained to the Emperor
of the French of the reply given by rrinee Napoleon
to the " Venetian Coremittee," and that his Ma-
jesty, after having expressed regret that his cousin
had spoken so openly, had said, "he was also of
opinion that sooner or later Italy would be free
from the Alps to the Adriatic." The whole story
was forgotten, but the General Correspondence
has recalled it to the memory of the lieges by
declaring that Prince Metternich never compleined
to the Emperor of the French of the conduct of
Prince Napolean. "M. Drouyn de Lhuys," says
the Ministerial paper, " voluntarily expressed his
regret at what had happened, and at the same
time observed, that the independent ideas enter-
tained by the prince made any remonstrances on
the part of the Government useless. The General
Correspondence accuses me of having put into the
mouth of the Emperor Napoleon the words above
quoted, and I therefore deem it necessary to state
that they first appeared in the Deutsche Allgemeine
Zeetung of the 6th inst., and were immediately re-
produced i❑ the Austrian:papers. The Vienna press
Bureau did not express a doubt of the correctness of
the news contained in the Leipic newspaper. I,
therefore, on the 10th inst., forwarded it to you.
The Imperial Government is making strenuous
efforts in order to keep the secondary German
States from acceding to the GalloePrussian treaty
of commerce, but is doubtful whether it will be
able to attain its aim. There is now in Germany
a very strong bias in favour of free trade, and I
remark that the Austrian Protectionists are be-
ginning to feel that the present system, by means
of which the few thrive at the expense of the many,
cannot long be upheld. The secondary German
States have profited much by their Customs-union
ith Prussia, and it cannot reasonably be expected
that they should turn their backs on an ally of 30
years' standing in order to please a Power which
❑ot only takes delight in monopolies, but is out at
elbows in financial matters. The New Frankfort
Gazette, which is good authority in financial mat-
ters, gives the Austrians to understand that M.
von Plener has managed matters so very badly that
they will have to pay about 11 per cent. for the
last loan. The Ost-Deutsche Post, which rarely
censures the measures of the members of the Cabi
net, expresses its conviction that the Minister of
Finances will not be able to get rid of the remain-
ing two-thirds of the loan at 77.10, the price
which was paid for the 20,500,000 of silver florins
which wt re taken on the 11th inst.
At noon on Thursday, the 12th inst., the work of
destruction ceased at Fredericia, but there is good
reason for believing that the more important parts
of the works had been destroyed before the news of
the suspensio❑ of hostilities reached the commander
of the allied forces. The bomb proof cesemates are
in ruins, but the walls of the fortress are still stand-
ing. The contributions due are still levied in
Jutland by Field-Marshal Count• Wrangel, and that
in spite of the urgent remonstrances of the neutral
Powers represented in the Conference. A letter re-
ceived by the Trieste Zeitung from a person on
board the Elizabeth (the ship in which is Rear Ad.
mirai Baron Wullerstorff,—explains, though by no
means satisfactorily,how it happened that the Kaiser
and her consorts were so long on their way to the
North Sea. When in the Adriatic the whole crew of
the Kaiser, with the exception of about 100 men,
were sea-sick. " The engineers and stokers,"
says the correspondent, " were also sick and
unable to perform their duty." The vessels
soon lost sight of each other, and when
the ship of the line was off Algiers the
frtgate Elizabeth was at Gibraltar. The armour-
plated frigate Do❑ Juan and the Kaiser suf-
fered much, and the former was left at Lisbon
to be repaired. Up to the 2d of May, on which day
the letter in question was posted at Vigo, the crews
of the Kaiser, Don Juan, and Elizabeth had had no
practice with their guns. " Does the Austrian Go-
vernment," says the indignant correspondent," sup-
pose that in one short month raw recruits can be
transformed inhe sailors ?"
Oa the 11th instant all the soldiers who were
recruited in Russian-Poland in the year 1859, and
had obtained temporary leave of absence, received
orders to joia their respective regiments without
the least delay. The reason why the order was
issued is neither known to the inhabitants of War-
saw nor to the Viennese.
There is no truth in the current report that
Prince Couza is going to Constantinople to make
his peace with the Sultan.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MAY 24.
The Emperor received Baron von Beust in pri-
vate audience on Saturday.

Official despatches from Algeria announce that
General Daligny obtained a fresh success over the
insurgents on the 16:h inst.
The Emperor, the Empress, and the Prince Im-
perial, on Friday evening, visited the Cirque in
the Champs Elysees to witness the performance of
Leotard. The Prince arrived at the commencement
of the representation, and their Majesties about
half an hour after. The young Prince appeared
much pleased.
The last mass in music but one prior to the
departure of their Majesties was performed yester.
day at the Chapel of the Tuileries, in the presence
of the Emperor, the Empress, and the Prince Im-
periel. A new Svlutaris by Auber was delightfully
sung by 1111 las. Marie Roza and Mauduit, and pro-
duced a deep impression upon the congregation.
The Masonic Body of Paris was informed at its
last meeting that the Emperor restored to it the

traditional right of electing its Grand Master.
This announcement was received with enthusiastic
applause, and Marshal Magan, who held his
nomination by Imperial decree, was unanimously
re-elected by the delegates of all the lodges present.
The Japanese Ambassadors went the day before
yesterday to visit the Imperial manufactory at
Sevres, where they were received by M. Regnault,
the director. They admired the beauty of form as
well as the fineness of execution of various articles,
and made several purchases of value. The painting
on the large porcelain slabs which decorate the ex-
hibition room particularly attracted their attention.
M. Regnault conducted the visitors through the
workshops, and had several pieces made before
them by new processes, which excited their interest
the more that the ceramic art has icing been an
object of study among the Japanese. The first
Ambassador expressed his admiration at the p(r-
fection which the French manufacture had attained.

BOURSE, May 23.—The market has been without

animation, but up to the present time prices have
undergone but slight variation. Threes, for the
Account, are now at 66f. 60c. Mobilier have also
receded, to 1,146 f. 25c. Riilway shares offered,
and prices on many of the lines are rather lower.
The market closed as follows

- •- -
41 per Cents. 93 40 Italian Loan 69 85
Do. end month.... Do. end month 6B 95
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 70 Do. end month....
Credit Mobilier 1150 Russian
Do, end month .... 1147 60 Sustrian
Bank Shares 3355 Spanieh Threes....
Credit koneier 1240 Home Debt .. 49 25
Roman
RA IL WATI.
Cash. Account.
Orleans ..... E,75 .. 375
Northern
Lyons and kleditcaranean 875 .. 880
Vey: ditto 872 50 ..
S mthern 647 50 .. 646 25
Western
Eastern .. ..
Sardinian ,• 363 75 .. 362 50
Austrian
Loirhord
North of Spain .. ,„ 475 .. 480
Soragossq, .. 660 ..
560
Ditto to Barcelona .... •° 270

The Saint Petersbourg Journal pubishcs an
article it, which it comments, in a sense favourab!e
to the maintenance of peace, on the speech of M.
Rouher, Minister of State, in the Legislative Body,
on the subject of Foreign Affairs. The confidence
expressed by the Russian journal is founded on the
fact that no Government can have nny intention of
attacking either the honour or the frontiers of
France.

One of the most magnificent painting,