The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-29 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

TEE FEDERAL EXECUTION IN
HOLSTEIN.
ALTONA, DEC. 25.

A general and brilliant illumination took place
in this town yesterday evening. The maintenance
of public order is entrusted for the present to a
volunteer force of citizens. Up to yesterday the
Federal troops have occupied about one-fourth of
the Duchy of Holstein. The Civil Commissioners
have issued the following additional proclama •
tions

" We, the undersigned Federal commissioners,
having undertaken the government of the Duchies
of Holstein and Lauenburg in accordance with our
proclamation of yesterday in the name and by order
of the high German Confederation, herewith make
known as follows for the general information and
observance.

"1, Our seat of business will in the town of
Altona until further notice. All communications
to ns are to be sent to Altona, addressed To the
Federal Commissioners for the Duchies of Holstein
and Lauenburg.'
" 2. All tribunals and officials in the duchies of
Plolstein and Lauenburg are herewith directed to
report henceforth only to us in all cases in which
reports have hitherto been addressed to the Ministry
for the Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg, or to
one of the general Ministers in Copenhagen.
" 3. The police authorities of the duchies of Hol-
stein and Lauenburg are in consideration at present
circumstances, always to report immediately upon
all-important occurrences within their district
bearing upon public security and order, and in
addition to send in an account every fortnight of
ail public matters in their district, until further
orders to us direct. We further earnestly recom-
mend the police authorities of the Duchies of Hol-
stein and Lauenburg to exercise precaution, and,
if requisite, force for the maintenance of law and
order in their respective districts during the pre-
sent agitated time."
The signatures follow.

"The suspension of sovereign rights occasioned
by the assumption of the Government of the
Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg by the under-
signed Federal Commissioners requires, without
further explanation, during the existence of
this state of affairs omission of mention of
his Majesty King Christian IX. of Den-
mark i❑ the prayers of the Church. In
reference hereto, and to bring about uniform
procedure in the same, as also for the avoidance of
possible interruptions to divine service, the Federal
Commissioners feel themselves therefore called upon
to order that from henceforth and till further
orders, no mention of the Sovereign of the country
is to be made by name when the prayer for the
Government with its councillors and servants is put
up—all clergymen are to govern themselves
accordingly."

POLAND.

KONIGSBERG, DEC. 28.

The Courier de Wilna confirms the news of the
arrest of the Abbe Mackeritcb, and announces that
a gunner of the fortress of Wilna, named Casimir
Sytcboucb, who had passed over to the insurgents,
was shot on the 22d inst, in the marketplace of
Wilna.

The same journal also announces the execution of
a Podolian noble, M. Maurice Dnybacki, accused
of havingitaken part in the revolutionary organisa-
tion. M. Doybacki was executed on the 11th Dec,
in the moat of the Citadel of Kieff.

SPAIN.
MADRID, DEC. 28 (Evening).
The papers deny that there is any truth in the
rumours of a Ministerial crisis.

PORTUGAL.
LISBON, DEC. 28 (Evening).

The Channel fleet is at Madeira. A few cases of
scarlatina have occurred on board the Black Prince.

The Oporto Railway is completed, and opens
next month.
Great cold prevails in Pot tugal.

FRANCE.
REPORT OF MARSHAL RANDON.
PARIS, DEC. 29.
A report of Marshal Randon, approved by the
Emperor, has been published to-day.

It decides that general officers on service, no
matter how employed, shall be legally relieved of
their functions as soon as they have reached the age
of 70.

The illonzteur of this morning publishes the reply
of the Sultan to the Emperor's invitation to the

Congress.

BOURSE, Dec. 28.—The market has been firmer,
and the business, though rather limited, shows a
slight improvement in prices. Threes, for the Ac-
count, are now at 66fr. 55c. Mobilier have ad-
vanced to 1,047 f. 500. Railway Market quiet, but
firm. The market receded before the close, and
left off as follows :

41 per Cents ..
Do. end month....
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 45
Credit Mobilier 1042 50
Do. end month 1037 50
Bank Shares 3275
Credit F wader 1235
Roman

Italian Loan 7l 75
Do, end month 7l GO
New ditto —
Do, end month —
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes 52
Rome Debt .• •• 511
Deferred

RAIL'

'AYS.
Cash. Account.
977 50 .. 972 50
971 25 .. 972 50

Orleans
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean
New ditto
Geneva
Smthern 682 50 .. 680
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian......
Austrian ......
Low bard ........ 525 .. 523 75
North of Spain
Saragossa .. 615 617 50
Ditto to Barcelona .... 300 .. 302 50

932 50 .. 931 25
300 - .. - -

ANOTHER DEFAULTING RATE-COLLECTOR IN
LAMBETH.—A week has not elapsed since the con-
viction at the last Surrey Sessions of Richard Turner, late
one of the rate-collectors for the parish of Lambeth, for the
embezzlement of no less a sum than £l,BOO, on which con-
viction he was sentenced to penal servitude for the term of
four years. The parochial authorities have continued their
rigid examination of the books and accounts of the other
rate collectors, when, with respect to one of them, Mr.
W. IL Manners, defalcations to the amount, it is said, of
upwards of £l,OOO were discovered. ,In consequence in-
structions were given to the police to apprehend the offender,
and he was taken into custody on Saturday night by police-
constable Swington, 155 L, the same officer, singular to
say, who captured the delinquent already convicted. The
prisoner Manners was at once conveyed to the police-
station at Kennington-lane. He was brought up at the
police-court yesterday, and was remanded.

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with descriptions and prices, enables those who live in any
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AMERICA.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAM.]
GALWAY, DEC. 29.

The Atlantic Royal Mail Company's steamship
Columbia, from Boston and St. John's, arrived here
last night with 9 cabin and 40 steerage passengers,
and 25 mail bags.

(By Telegraph to St. John'B.)
NEW YORK, DEC. 17 (Afternoon).

Upon the afternoon of the 14th inst. General
Longstreet, who had been reinforced, turned and
attacked the pursuing force of the Federals near
Pear Station, on Cumberland Gap and Moreston
Railroad, throwing the Federals back a distance of
half a mile. General Longstreet simultaneously
executed a movement to cross the river and to get
into the Federal rear, but failed to effect a passage
across the river. More fighting is expected.
Southern journals state that by a Confederate
reconnoissance it has been ascertained that the
Federals have deserted Look-out Mountain, Mis-
sionary Ridge, and all the country between these
places and Ringold.
The Federal force at Chattanooga was supposed
to be intended for the pursuit of General Long-
street's force.

Advices from Charleston to the 15th inst. state
that the shelling of the city continues with trifling
damage. An accidental fire had occurred iu Fort
Sumter, killing 10 and injuring 30 men.
The Federal brig Perry has been captured near
Charleston.

The steamer Ceres was destroyed off Beaufort.

The .New York. Herald has nominated General
Grant as candidate for the next Presidency, and has
put forward as an electioneering cry that he would
demand from England an indemnity for the depre-
dations of privateers, and would expel the French
from Mexico.