The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-26 00:00:00

ITIE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1863.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

PRUSSIA.

RESIGNATION OF COUNT BISMARK.

BERLIN, Feb. 25, 9 58 p.m.

In a Cabinet Council MM. Eulenberg and
Muhler declared against the Russian Convention
and the attitude of Prussia in Polish affairs.

Count Bismark consequently resigned. His re-
signation is as yet neither accepted nor withdrawn.
BERLIN, THURSDAY, FEB. 26.
Since Friday last rumours of a Ministerial crisis
have been circulating on the Bourse.

Up to the present, however, they have not
received any confirmation.

GREECE.

ATHENS, Feb. 25.

The Assembly elected the Ministry yesterday. It
is a compromise. Valbi is President; Smolensk,
Minister of War ; and Dimitri Viavrocordato,
Minister for Foreign Affairs.

ITALY.

'TURIN, FEB. 25.

In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies to-day
the debate upon the bill authorising the new loan
took place.

Signor Mordini combated the policy of the Mi-
nistry, which he declared, by its opposition to all
members of the party of action, was spreading in-
difference and general scepticism throughout the
country, and continued,—
" I consider the policy of Italy too subservient to
foreign interests. If we were to display more inde-
p3ndence towards France we should obtain the more
efficacious friendship of England."
Signor Crispi also spoke against the loan. He did
not approve the financial and admini4trative system
of the Ministry.
The debate still continues.

NEWFOUNDLAND.

ST. JOHN'S, N, F., FEB. 14.

The ship Rothsay, which went ashore near here,
has been sold, and will probably be got off. The
wreckers cut away her masts and plundered the
cabin and cargo.
The ringleader in the affair has been arrested.

The weather is very severe, and the inhabitants
of the island are suffering very much in consequence.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FEB. 25.

The Constitutionnel of this evening publishes an
article signed by M. Buniface, the secretary of the
paper, saying

" The exaggerated fears as to the result of the
Polish question, to which we alluded on Monday
last, have now disappeared. The Bourse, which
gave way yesterday to a species of panic in no way
justified by circumstances, surveys the position of
affairs to-day with greater coolness and reason.
At the commencement of the insurrection the
unanimous sympathy of liberal Europe, and the re-
presentations of the great Powers, might have suf-
ficed to arrest this painful conflict; but the conven-
tion between Prussia and Russia has transformed
the question into one of Earopean interest. That
the convention would evoke universal reprobation
and cause an understanding between France, Eng-
land, and Austria was certain, even before the
treaty was concluded. This understanding is a sure
guarantee for the maintenance of peace. It became
evident that the way was open to conciliation, and
that right and justice were to triumph by peaceful
means. Public opinion now seems to understand
this, and we are happy to note the change."
The Siecle and the Opinione Nationale have
opened subscriptions for the benefit of the Poles.
The Opinione Nationale states that the struggle
between the Russians and Poles is continued with
the same intensity, and that whatever the official
despatches and the Russian correspondence may
say to the contrary, the insurrection is augmenting
its forces, and now comprises in its ranks the whole
nation. In France, in England, in Italy, in Prus-
sia, in Germany, in Austria, and, in a word, in all
Europe, the sympathy of the people for the Polish
cause, and their indignation against the Cabinets of
Berlin and of St. Petersburg increases every day.
Public opinion is unanimous, and the Governments
which desire to sustain in the world the grand
principles of justice and humaiity will find it diffi-
cult to resist this influence.

The Pays observes that the policy which the
Cabinet of Berlin has now adopted in external
affairs has succeeded even less that which it followed
in internal matters. In signing the convention of
February it has ended in exciting against it all
liberal Europe, and in calling down upon it a uni-
versal reprobation. The Szecle announces that a
subscription is opened at their cffice for the cause of
Poland, and calls upon all to Lid to the utmost of
their power this attempt to put down an odious
tyranny.
BOURSE, Feb. 25.—The mcrket has recovered
from its panic of yesterday, and almost regained
what was lost, Threes, for the account, being now
at 69f. 50c. Railway Share Market also firmer.
The market continued firm to the close, and left off
as follows :

It per Cents .. 98 50
Do. end month....
3 per Cents ...... 69 7.5
Do. end month.... 69 55

Bank shares 3370 - -
Credit Foncier 145
Piedninitese Fives
Italian Loan 69 70
Russian
Austrim
Spania Threes 52 50
Home Debt -
rAYS.
Cash, Account.
Orleans 1092 50 .. 1095
Northern
Now ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1177 50 .. 1183 75
Geneva..
Southern 782 60 .. 787 50
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian
Austrian
Lorbard
535 . .. 535
North of Spain
Saragos gft - .. 685
Ditto to Barcelona .... ..

New 3 per Cents .. --
Do. end month....
Credit Mobilier....ll6o --
Do. end m0nth....1172 50

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UNITED STATES MAIL.—The Inman steamship
City of Baltimore sailed yesterday from Liverpool
for New York, with the United States mails. Besides the
mails and a large cargo she also took out 35 cabin passengers.
CHINA AND THE SEWAGE QUESTION.—When we
have to announce any new discovery, or refer to any
ancient one which has greatly affected mankind, we have to
acknowledgethe Chinese as the earliest originators, Print-
ing, gunpowder, the mariner's compass, and half a dozen
other great inventions were well known in the flowery land
long before this:island had emerged from barbarism, But
it seems stranger still to add that the simple expedient by
which one of the largest empires, counting upwards of
400,000,000 inhabitants, possesses, and has possessed for
hundreds of generations, the most productive soil in the
world, should only be known among our sharp-witted
farmers, If, according to a new theory, a slow exhaustion
of the vegetable mould were really going on, we ought
certainly to look to China for the strongest evidence of the
fact ; but mother earth is as strong there, possibly
stronger, than she has been for a couple of thousand years,
and the secret of the eternal vigour lies in this, that the in-
habitants never fail to return to the soil those materials that
they have taken out of it. Every morning the market gar-
dener, who brings the day's supply of vegetables, takes away
the sewaga.of the house. It may not seem very savoury to
our ideas to find the produce and the producer thus nakedly
and perpetually brought into contact before our eyes, but it
is in this rapid circulation of the fertilising agent that the
whole secret of the wonderful productions of this vast em-
pire is based.—Once a Week.
LAW OF PARTNERSIIIP.—Mr. Scholefield has re-
produced his bill for allowing a person to lend money
to a trader on the terms of receiving for interest a share of
profits without becoming a partner, the loan being regis-
tered in a public office; allowing;also, clerks to be paid
ina
portion of profits without becoming partners. A clause
the bill requires that, where the style of a firm does not
contain the full names of every partner, their names must
be registered at the Joint-stock Companies Registration-
office. There are also clauses providing that partnership
disputes shall be referred to arbitration in the manner set
forth in the bill, except where a partnership deed contains
provisions as to the mode of deciding such disputes.