The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 1855,

IMPERIAL PAR L lAAI EN T.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at 2 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Lords amendments to the South-Eastern Railway
(North Kent Ralway to the Thames, &c.), and the
ildmore Fen and East and West Fens Highways Bills
were considered and agreed to.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
—Chard Railway, and Poulnasherry Inclosure.
The reports upon the following bills were considered
and agreed to, and the bills were ordered to be read a
third time :—Eastern Union Railway, Warrington and
Altrincham Junction Railway (Warrington, &c.), West-
minster Improvements (Dwellings of the Working
Classes).

The Hall Dare's Estate; Sneed Park Estate Bills,
were read a second time.
NEW MEMBERS.
Mr HORSFALL and Mr. LIDDELL, the two new mem-
bers for Liverpool, in the room of Mr. F. Mackenzie
and Mr. Turner, unseated on petition, took the oaths
and their seats. The two hon. members were received
with cheers from the Opposition benches.
Mr. S. PARKER presented a petition from Preston,
against the Registration of Assurances Bill.
Mr. DUNCAN presented a petition from Perth, in
favour of the inspection of nunneries.
Mr. ALEX. HASTIE presented several pet:
the same effect, from different places in Scotland.
Mr. COWAN presented a similar petition from Edin
burgh.
Sir J. WALMSLEY presented a petition from Leices•
ter, against the Education Bill.

(LEFT SITTING.)

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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.-(THIS DAY,

STEALING A BOTTLE OP WINE.
George Fright, a wine merchant's porter, was brought
before Mr. long, charged with having stolen a bottle of
wine, the property of his employer, Mr. Alfred R.
Belam, wine merchant, New Bond-street.
The prosemtor stated that on Saturday night, just as
he was leaving home, he heard a great noise in his cellar,
and on going down to see what was the cause of that
noise, he sawthe defendant, who was lying at the bottom
on the straw close by a cask, which he apparently had
fallen over, and seemed to be hurt. Witness at once
told him to up stairs and wash himself, and then go
home. Whib defendant was away, prosecutor went
round his cellar, and up one corner he observed the de-
fendant's coat hanging, and the neck of a wine bottle
projecting from the pocket thereof. He took it out,
and smelt it, and found it to be a bottle of one of h-s
%voles. He questioned the prisoner as to where
he got it from, when he replied, that he had
found it, and being "a d•.-y," had drank it, and
that he (the prisoner) had found another under the
stairs. Witness then sent for a constable and gave
Win in charge. Prosecutor added that prisoner's
tale might be true, and that some of his former servants
had put it there. The prisoner's friends were highly
respectable people in the country, and he had received
an excellent character with him. He therefore did not
wish to press the charge any further, believing it to be
his first offence.
Mr. Long said he trusted this would be a warning
to him for the future, and at once discharged him.

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS

FRANCE.

The Minister of Maxine arrived on the night of
the Bth at Brest, having been prevented by the fog
from entering the harbour of St. Malo. Yesterday
morning he reviewed the troops, and inspected the
docks and arsenal.
The Minister of War has returned to Paris from
Nantes and Angers.
The news of the harvest which arrives from va-
rious parts of France is most favourable.
To provide for all contingencies, the Government
has purchased large quantities of corn in England
and elsewhere. The first transports of this corn
have reached Havre.
The following is'from the Times' Paris correspon-
dent's letter, dated yesterday :
"A pacific solution of the Turkish question is once,
more not only the wish and the hope in every man's
heart, but is still raore generally anticipated than pre-
viously. Indeed, the more people examine the ques-
tion, and the nearer they approach to the termina-
tion, the more the improbability of war is made
evident to them. The plan now uppermost in the
public mind is by no means of an exchange of notes
between the Porte and Russia, the former granting
the demands made on it, the latter declaring that its
intention is not, and never was, to attack the integrity
of the Ottoman Empire, or interfere with its domestic
concerns. The form in which these notes will be drawn
up will be the principal but not an insurmountable diffi-
culty, and to remove which it is expected the Powers
will lend their assistance. It is confidently believed
that, owing to the exertions of England and France in
particular, some mode will be found which will leave all
parties more or less contented. The occupation of the
Danubian provinces will have satisfied the national
pride of Russia, or of the Emperor of Russia, which
I suppose is all the same. The pride of Turkey will
be so far served that to her resistance to the first
demands of Russia the modification, in form if not in
substance, will be owing. England and France will be
pleased, as they will say that to the attitude they as-
sumed that modification is to be in a great measure at-
tributed, and Austria and Prussia will flatter themselves
that if Russia does not advance to the Danube we
owe it to their sagacious, and above all, disinterested
conduct. A French Cabinet messenger arrived the
night before last from St. Petersburg, with de-
spatches from the Government. The contents of these
dispatches have not transpired; but I understand that
the courier declares St. Petersburg to be as quite
as peacefully inclined as Paris or London, and that in
society there no serious apprehensions of war are enter-
tained. If a Turkish Ambassador Extraordinary be
sent to Petersburg the Russian people will pro-
bably have it impressed on their minds that his mission
is but an act of submission made to the Czar. Such is
the favourable colour which the Turkish question has
assumed here to-day, whether to be replaced by any
sombre hue a short time will tell."
"It was stated the day after the attempt of the
Opera Comique was discovered and defeated, that the
existence of the plot was not known to the police.
The secret may not have been disclosed to many of the
body, but I am given to understand that the chiefs were
not in ignorance of it as was supposed. I have heard
of some additional facts connected with it which I
mention, as they have been reported to me from a
good source. Soon after the affair of the Hippodrome,
one of the parties arrested in consequence of it fell
ill while in prison, and was removed to the hospital
of course under surveillance. His malady assuming
a grave character, and the man himself believing
that he was near his end, begged to have a priest brought
to him. His wish was complied with. He declared to
his confessor that his mind was burdened with a secret
which he was unwilling to carry with him to the other
world, and which he disclosed. This was a full avowal
of his guilt—that ho had formed one of a band of assas-
sins who had sworn to take the life of the Emperor.
They had fa;led at the Hippodrome, but they were
determined to take the first opportunity of the
Emperor's appearance in public, at the theatre or
elsewhere. The priest told him that the disclo-
sure of such a secret merely in the confessional
was not a sufficient satisfaction for the sin ; it
might be indicative of his repentance, but it
would not, if still kept a secret between them both,
prevent the perpetration of the crime meditated by his
accomplices, as the confessor could make no use of what
had been revealed to him for the purposes of justice. He
considered, therefore, that he could not give him absolu-
tion unless he made the same avowal in the presence of
a magistrate ; and It was the only useful amends he could
make for his crime. The dying man consented, and the
Prefect of Police was communicated with, who immedi-
ately attended at the hospital, and received the details
which enabled him to take the precautions which baffled
the conspirators in their second attempt at the Opera
Comique on Tuesday night. The leader of the band
is, I am told, a Belgian, some are Germans, and some
rench students are said to be of the number. It seems
also that they bad calculated on encountering, resistance,
but they believed they should succeed in killing the
Emperor notwithstanding, and they hoped that it would
be followed by a rising of the populace. Their minds
weee so made up, that it is said they even etfgaged a
surgeon to attend to such as were wounded in the
conflict. A domiciliary visit was made at the house of
the Belgian, who, it appears, is a man of great ferocity
and determination, and papers have been found which
have led to further disclosures and further arrests.
It !s probable there is some exaggeration as to the num-
bers arrested. Yesterday 49 were spoken of, and to-day
nearlyloo. I am told the report is incorrect which spoke
of the arrest of a son of Victor Hugo, though it is said
his lodgings were searched, but nothing found of impel-,
ance. It is certain that the persons arrested on Tuelday
night have made a fell confession of their gait, and of
their accomplices. They had been taken with arms upon
them, and were afraid they would be treated with all the
i:gour of military law, and aftera brief tiial by court-
martial shot, It is hoped that their disclosures will lead to
the discover/ of the pal ties who employed them, or who are
at the bottom of the aff Li r. The proceedings are carried
on with a good deal of secrecy. It is said, however,
that the authorities have, from what has been avowed,
come to the knowledge of the existence of a secret so-
ciety with considerable ramifications, having fo object
to assassinate the Emperor, and that the ~oc.:ety has
been in existence for some time. The organisation of
it is much the same as in previous on: The mem-
bers are known among themselves by the title of
the invisibtn. They are affiliated by groups who
bear the name of Fontes. Very few among them
know each other; they all swear obedience to anony-
mous chiefs, with whom they have no pe - onal
or direct intercourse—hence the nanie
The police has already been on the traces of the
society, but it was not acquainted with the secret of its
organization. Four days after the arrests at the 0 )eia
Comique, it is said that men were posted on the road to
St. Cloud for the same object, and that they were take;
into custody after some resistance. In consequence of
these disclosures an augmentation will be made in cer-
tain arms of the garrison. The Municipal Guard will
be increased by two squadrons. Arrests took place
yesterday at the Bantignolles, and some wine-house-
keepers have been ordered to shut up their establish-
ments. The persons last arrested are lodged in the
prison of Mazas. A priest is also mentioned as having
been taken into custody."

A moderate amount of business was transacted
at the Bourse on Saturday, and the closing prices
of the Government Securities indicate a general
advance on the preceding day's report. The closing
prices were :—For cash, Three per Cents., 77f. ;
Four-and-a-Half per Cents, 102 f. 10c. ; Bank Stock,
2,669 E In Mortgage Bank Shares there is no va-
riation to report, the final quotations still being
6652. ; those of the Soci6te Mobiliere rose 2f. 50c.
A general improvement took place on Saturday
in prices in the railway share mai ad, although,
excepting in Paris and Strasbourg;:,hares, which
rose 15f., the advance was unimportant, being from
lf. to 3f., with a decline to a similar extent in Paris
and Orleans and Lyons to the Mediterranean
shares :—The final quotations were :—Norther;,
857 f. 50c.'; Orleans, 1071 f. 25c. ; Paris and Stro s-
bourg, 900 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 895 f. ; Paris and
Rouen, 1037 f. 50c.; Lyons to Mediterranean, 722 f.
50c.; Western of France, 725 f. ; Rouen and Havre
487 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 615 f. ; Caen an d
Cherbourg, 605 E