The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-06 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

PARIS, MARCH 6.

The llloniteur of this morning says :

" The Council of State has commenced its delibe-
rations on the bill which was announced yester-
day to the Corps Legislatif in the letter to the
Emperor.

"According to this bill an annual rente, the
amount of which is not yet fixed,would be inscribed
in the great book of the State to reward, by pensions
or dotations, distinguished acts on the part of gene-
rals, officers, and soldiers, as well as to recompense
exceptional services rendered by them in times in
war. Imperial decrees would constitute these pen-
sions or dotations, and would fix the conditions of
their enjoyment or reversibility, should the latter
take place."

CADIZ, MARCH 5.
Advices have been received here from Vera Cruz
to Feb. 8, stating that the preparations for occupy-
ing Orozabo, Cordova, and Jalapa are progressing.
The Mexicans were disposed to offer resistance.
Senor Rubalcaba had returned to Havannah.
The candidacy of the Archduke Maximilian to the
throne of Mexico was ill received.
The Monzteur contains a letter from Vera Cruz,
dated Jan. 31 :
" The Mexican Commissioner had ascertained
that the Powers would not allow themselves to be
diverted from their purpose by offering to Mexico
the means to emerge from the anarchy which has
prevailed for the last 50 years. The Commanders
of the Allied forces had agreed not to modify in any
shape their former resolutions.
"As soon as the troops are ready they will com-
mence to advance.
"News from the city of Mexico demonstrates
the impossibility of the maintenance for any length
of time of the actual state of things.
" The wishes for the success of the intervention
and the desire to see the troops of the Allies arrive
are almost universal.
" The people hope for the establishment of a
power which, from its nature and form, would
respond to the ancient traditions and the nationality
of the Mexicans."

THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS.
MARSEILLES, MARCH 5.

The Vectis, with the above mails, arrived here at
8 a.m. to-day. The mails were to leave for London
at 10 a.m.

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 6.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Indus, with the heavy portion of the above mails,
arrived off the Needles at 10.25 a.m. to-day.

FRANCE.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY.

At the opening of the sitting of the Legislative
Body to-day the President read the following letter
received from the Emperor :
" Palace of the Tuileries, 4th.

Mon Cher President-1 sincerely deplore the
misunderstanding which appears to prevail between
the Legislative Body and myself. The spirit of
our institutions and my well-known sentiments for
the Chamber ought to have preserved us from it.
In fact, conflicts are now almost impossible ; the
laws are discussed for themselves, and not as to the
maintenance or the overthrow of a Ministry. (Hear
hear, that is true.) When the Government has
clearly expressed its intention, the resolutions of
the Legislative Body are the more free, as in ordi-
nary cases disaccords cannot in any way dis-
turb the progress of affairs. (Approbation.)
According to this incontestable system, the
refusal of the Chamber to pass the dotation
bill would doubtless have been painful to me,
but it would not have had any influence on
my sentiments and on my conduct. I nevertheless
comprehend, according to your explanations, that
an incident, slight at first, should have become,
from the circumstances connected with it, serious
enough to place the majority in a sad alternative—
(movement)—which caused a great number of De-
puties, as you have told me, to prefer a law com-
prising in its ensemble exceptional military services.
Adopting this idea, I have resolved to present a
new bill, which, submitting to the Chamber the
appreciation of a general principle, will allow to be
secured within just limits to all striking services,
from the Marshal to the soldier, recompenses
worthy of the grandeur of the country. (Marked
movement of adhesion.) The Legislative Body,
which has always given me such loyal co-operation,
which has aided me in founding the Empire, and
the institutions which must survive us, will, I am
willing to think, see with pleasure that I eagerly
adopt the means of re-establishing mutual confidence
and of effacing the traces of a disaccord always to
be regretted between powers, the issue of the same
origin, and coacientiously labouring for the same
object.
"Accept, mon cher President, the assurance of
my siocore friendship.
" NAPOLEON."

BOURSE, March s.—The market has been firm,
with a fair amount of business doing, at an im-
provement on the rates of the previous day. Threes
for the Account, are now at 70f. 20c. The Railway
Share market has been also well maintained, and
several of the lines even show a slight advance.
The following are the closing quotations :-
4t per per Cents 99 70, Credit Foneier 1430
Do, end month 100 —1 Belgian ft.....
3 per Cents
63 60
s
Do. end month 69 90! Roman
Bank Shares
Credit Mobilier..., 370553 50— Austrianpa
n 1 s hThrees.... 51
Do. Account
, Home Debt .. 4B

ItAILWA.II3.
Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1080 .. 1083 75
Geneva
Southern .. . ... 738 75 .. 745
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lowbard 542 50 .. 645

THE DUBLIN COURT-MARTIAL,—The press gene-
rally has refrained from expressing an opinion on the pro.
ceedings of the court-martial at Dublin, on the principle
which usually actuates it in such cases. We shall maintain
the same reserve, although any remarks we might make on
the subject must come too late to influence their course
sway the decision. But, though deferring a review of the
proceedings, we must call attention to p ints of the caasa
which fequire some elucidation. The charge against eiP:
Robertson rests on a quarrel about his family affarii
arising out of his marriage settlement. Colonel
i s one of tie
ilicksol,
who applied to him the insulting language,
trustees of his wife, and, according to military notions,
a civilian. What we wish to see cleared up is whether
eery officer who is addressed in insulting language,
or threatened with violence, under such circumstances,
is bound either to call out the offender or submit his
family affairs to the investigation of his brother officers.
Certainly this law of honour is not a military tradiion,
nor does it accord with our military code, but, on the con-
trary, is directly at variance with it. We cannot f'rget
that it was a family quarrel which led to the duel between
Colonel Fawcett and Captain Munro. The former was
killed, and the latter dismissed the service, and tied at
the Old Bailey for murder, while the colonel's widiw was
refused her pension because he had fallen in a did. If
Captain Robertson bad called out Colonel Dickson hie would
have infringed both the regulations of the service and the
laws of the land ; if he had submitted his family affairs to
the investigation of his brother officers he must bave retired
from the regiment. Beyond doubt, it is of the highest im-
portance that not a breath should rest upon an officer's
honour, and this cannot remain unsullied if ho sit down
under insult. But his way to do himself right should be
so clear as to admit of no doubt, and not so beset with diffi•
u
course he might take will equally lead to
rcuilnty,
thatA a
At present,
ny
any officer may be destroyed by a per-
sonal enemy any moment by a mere threat of horsewhip-
rtig him at some indefinite time. We say nothing now of
Captain Robertson's relations with his regiment—though
it is plain that tha colonel would have been better plpased
with his room than his company; but it 41 really to
publish a key to our regulatlons, when such II 0"„se as his
row with Colon' Dickson is made the 'ground of a court-
Vtlief Sorvio Aragnino.