The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-15 00:00:00

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The Noniteur of to-day says :--
" The Emperor yesterday received the Turkish
Ambassador in a private audience, and received
from him the tristgnia, set in brilliants, of the Order
of the Osmanli, together with an autograph letter
from the Sultan."

VIENNA, DEC. 14.
The Austrian Gazette of to-day publishes the fol-

lowing telegram :

ATENS, DEC. 13.
The Hon. Mr. Elliot has arrived here on a special

mission.

It is asserted that England recommends King
Ferdinand of Portugal as King of Greece, and she
will cede the lonian Islands to Greece.

TURIN, DEC. 14.
It is asserted that England has ceded the lonian
Islands to Greece.

The report that M. de Sartiges had expressed at
Turin apprehensions that the new Ministry would
incline towards England is without any founda-

tion.

From a statement of Signor Sella, published to-
day, on the financial condition of the Italian Go-
vernment, it appears, that, while in 1862 the deficit
was 418,217,706 lire, the ordinary deficit in 1863
will be 226,266,127 lire, and the extraordinary
Ilic. Accoitliug tu 3ig uur S.llo,'s
statement the ordinary deficit for 1862 will be
covered without having recourse to public credit,
but in order to cover the extraordinary deficit he
recommends that the Government be authorised to
issue 300,000,000 lire of Treasury bonds. These
means, however, being insufficient, the Govern-
ment must have recourse to a public loan, although
Signor Sella thinks that the funds which are now
in the public Treasury will allow of the postpone-
ment of this measure for a considerable period.

MADRID, DEC. 12, EVENING.

The Epoca of this evening states that General
Concha has suspended his resignation, but has de-
cided not to return to Paris for the present.

To-day in the Senate the Marquis of Miraflores
replied to Gen, Prim's speech on the Mexican ques-
tion. He regretted that Gen. Prim had not gone
to Mexico with the French, and said that he ought
not to have drawn up the preliminaries of Soledad.
The Marquis considered the Treaty of London to
have been broken, and that the English representa-
tive and Gen. Prim shoul I have proposed a new
treaty, Juarez not having yet signed any treaty.
He said, in conclusion, that Mexico must do its
duty, and that if it will not Spain must compel it
to do so by force.
Senor Calderon Collantes regretted that party
spirit had distorted the Mexican question, and that
it should be made an occasion for seeking to render
the relations of Spain with. foreign. Courts less
friendly. He rejected certain apprehensions enter-
tained by Gen. Prim, who, he said, ought not to
have accused the French Plenipotentiary of having
broken the Treaty of London, as he, on the contrary
recognised that treaty, and agreed with the other
Plenipotentiaries upon two points of it—vis., that
the Mexican expedition was intended to support
certain claims, and that no negotiation should be
entered into with Juarez.

The Minister will continue his speech to,morrow,

THE AMERICAN MAIL,
ROCHES POINT, DEC. 15, 11. 30 A.M.
The Persia is not yet in sight.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, DEC. 13.—Business continues limited
in amount, but the prices of yesterday have under-
gone a very slight variation, Threes, for the, Ac-
count, being novvat 70f. 55c. Tie Railway Share.
Market has been also without animation, and with
but little change in quotations. The market slightly
improved at the end, and closed as follows:-
4i per Cents. 97 50
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 7O 65
New 3 per Cents
Do. end month —
Credit Mobilier 1102 50
Do. end month 1106 25
BAIL

Orleans
Northern

Bank Shares 3395
Credit Fonder 1335 --
Piedmontese Fives 7l 50
Italian Loan 7l 70
Russian
Austrian - —
Spanish Threes 54
Home Debt
STAYS.

Cash. Account.
1067 50 1068 75
1042 50 .. 1045

New ditto . 1010 ..
Lyons and Mediterranean 1152 50 .. 1163 75
Geneva 376 23 . ,
Southern 7BB 75 .. 790
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa 660 .. 661 25
Ditto to Barcelona

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, DEC. 11.

The Lower Chamber of the Reichsrath yesterday
rejected the proposed amendment to the Bill for
the protection of epistolary correspondence. Oa the
Ist inst. the Upper House resolved to propose to
the representatives of the people to empower the
Government to open all letters which may be
passing through the Austrian post-offices when war
or internal disturbanbes "are about to break out."
The original reading was " have broken out," and
no objection would have been made to it had not
the President of the Council of State managed to
persuade the members of the Upper Chamber that
it was necessary to the well-being of the Empire
that "in such a matter" the hands of the
Executive should not be bound. Both M.
von Schmerling and Count Rechberg were well
satisfied with the bill as passed by the Lower
House, and you will hardly be in error if you sup-
pose that men high in office advised the deputies
not to agree to the above-mentioned amendment.
Dr. von Muhlfeld, who is one of the members for
this city, spoke in favour of the amendment, but
the house paid little or no attention to what he
said, as it was resolved not to give a character of
legality to the odious custom of clandestine letter-
opening. M. Schindler, another of the members
for Vienna, said that, if the deputies should agree
to the amendment proposed by the nominees of the
Crown, the new bill must be called "An Act
authorising the violation of the secrecy of
letters" (zur kerletzung des Briefgeheimnises).
After a short discussion, in which the members
of the Cabinet took no part, the amendment was
rejected by a large majority. It is to be regretted
that no bill for the protection of epistolary corre-
spondence can be passed this session, but the
Viennese consoie themselves by saying that it is
better to have no law at all than a bad one. Before
the house rose the President stated that at 10
o'clock on the 11th inst. (to day), a mixed commit-
tee of 12 persons would take into consideration the
amendment which the Upper Chamber proposes to
make in the Bank Act. The six persons who repre-
sent the Austrian Peers in the committee are Barons
Baumgartner, Rothschild, Reyer, and Rueskefer,
Marshal von Hess, and Prince Schwarzenberg.
In the Upper House the debate on the Bank Act
has been brought to a close. During
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