The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-08 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

PARIS, FEB. 8.

The Moniteur of this morning says :
" The English journals announce that the French
Government is negotiating at London for a loon of
£4,000,000 sterling.
" This assertion is erroneous."

Yesterday evening, in the Corps Legislatif,
M. Vintry defended, and M. Picard opposed, the
Bill for the Conversion of the Rentes. The dis-
cussion will be resumed to-day.

MAD RID, FEB. 7 ( Evening).
Senor Martinez de la Rosa is dead.

TURIN, FEB. 8.

The official Gazette, replying to the rumours that
the Government encouraged manifestations against
ti:e temporal power at Rome, that it had decreed
the recall of Mazzini, and, by means of secret en-
couragements was preparing a clandestine expe-
dition, declares that the Government will not
depart from the laws of an upright and loyal policy,
and will endeavour to seize every opportunity
which may present itself of assuring, in an ample
and fruitful manner, the destinies of the nation.

ST. PETERSBURG, FEB. 8.

The Northern Post of to-day states that 5,000,000
silver roubles have been destined to cover advances
made to the owners of a less number than
20,000,000 serfs.

The Journal de art. Petersbourg of to-day an•
nounces that 6,000 marines have received their
furlough.

MADRID, FEB. 7.
The Fontenoy, with troops for Mexico, has put
in at Cadiz to repair damages.
In the Cortes the treaty with Morocco is still
under discussion.

Senor Martinez de la Rosa is in such a dangerous
state that his life is despaired of.
M. Mon has been summoned, by telegraph,
from Paris, and will be appointed President of the
Chamber of Deputies.
The Government is examining the question of
effecting the redemption of the public debt.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
PORTSMOUTH, SATURDAY MORNING.
Her Majesty's steamer Sidon, 22 guns, Captain
Crawford, has arrived at Spithead from the Cape
of Good Hope.

FRANCE.
PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.

The discussion of the bill for the conversion of
the Four-and •a-Half per Cent. Rentes commenced
to-day in the Chamber of Deputies.
M. Darimon spoke against the conversion, which,
he said, was immoral, on account of the abnormal
conditions under which it was effected, and because
an association of bankers would, to favour this
scheme of the Government, create an artificial rise
in ti ,e public securities. M. Darimon maintained
that the conversion was impossible on account of
the considerable deficits, the large floating debt, and
the probability that a loan would have to be re-
sorted to.

M. Barthelemy defended the bill. M. Konigs-
water opposed it.
The Constitutionnel of this evening says :
" Some English journals speak of a loan of
£4,000,000 sterling having been contracted by the
French Government with some English bankers.
"This news is incorrect."

BOURSE, Feb. 7.—The market has been rather
more buoyant, but the amount of business continues
limited. Threes opened at 71f. 25c., and are now
at 71f. 35c. The Railway Share Market has been
pretty firm. The following are the last quota-
tions :

4t per per Cents ... 100 40 Credit Foncier l4lO
Do end month.... 100 55'' Belgian 41 lOl
3 per Cents
Do. end month 7l 40 ' Roman
Bank Shares 3050 Austrian
;,:redit Mobilier.... 766 25 ; Spanish Threes 49
Do. Account 768 75; Home Debt

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans 1345 .. 1343 75
Northern
New ditto . 930
Lyons and Mediterranean 1077 50 .. 1080

Geneva.. — • •
Southern .. 715 .. 720
Western
Eastern .
Sardinian
Austrian
Lorrbard - 548 75 .. 551 25

POLAND.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
WARSAW, FEB. 1.

It will be in your recollection that after the
closing of the Roman Catholic churches in October
last, the Protestant church and the synagogue were
also shut by order of their respective ministers, in
order that they might not be exposed to the same
profanation by the Russian soldiery as the Catholic
ones had been ; the consequence of this measure
was that the Rev. Mr. Otto, the Protestant minister,
and the Rev. Mr. Meisoles, Jewish Rabbi, had to
share the fate of the Canon Bialobrzeski, in the
citadel of Warsaw. It was an extraordinary occur-
rence, but one redounding much to the honour of
all, that the heads of the three different religious
denominations should suffer together for the same
national cause. The Protestant clergyman has
been set at large some time ago, owing to the inter.
ference of the Prussian Consul ; the Canon Bia-
lobszeski is undergoing his sentence in a Russian
fortress, and Mr. Meisoles, the rabbi, is still an
inmate of the citadel. He has been subjected to a
strict examination ; his chief crime consists i❑
having signed the address prese,:ted in February
list to the Emperor, and thereby induced many of
his co-religionists to follow his example; alil as
his prolonged imprisonment is tantamount, accord-
ing to Russian laws, to a civil death, the Govern-
ment has appointed his successor. But the ques-
tion is, whether he will be accepted by the Jews.
The authorities not being satisfied with the
publication of the charges brought against
Canon Bialobrzeski, had the impudence to state,
in the official journal, that when examined before a
court martial the worthy prelate declared that he
ordered the churches to be shut because he could
not any longer tolerate the singing of the national
hymns. If that were the case, why should he be
imprisoned and transported into the depth of Rus-
sia ? The falsehood of such a statement is palpable,
and requires no comment.
The Council of Administration has had several
times under their consideration the peasant ques-
tion and the project of the Marquis Wielopolski,
which is almost the one framed by Count Andrew
Zamoyski, while President of the Agricultural
Society. With a few modifications it was adopted in
spite of the vehement opposition of Mr. Platonow,
who, with two other Russian officials, insisted that
the land which the peasants now cultivate should
be given to them as a gift from the Emperor and
not from the proprietors. He argued that the Go-
vernment in Poland can only place confidence in
the p aaants, and it was, therefore, essential that it
should secure to itself their devotion and gratitude.

It was further proposed by the Russian members
to compel every public functionary who receives a
salary of £9O per annum to take two annual tickets
for the theatre, which is only half filled with the
Itussii.ns, but this also fell to the ground.
The schools have at last been opened, but the
regulations are so vexatious, and the number in
each class being limited to 50, it will be difficult, if
to induce the youth tore-enter them.
not
Tihme oasrsbriesltes,
never cease, and we have daily to
chronicle fresh expotts of the victims, no matter
what their age or station, to the confines of Siberia.
Sixteen Jews have thus been despatched in com-
pany with two young boys named Kowalski and
Hirbicki, the former 12 and the latter 14 years of