The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-09 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

ITALY.

TURIN, JAN. 8.
The Official Gazette contradicts the rumour that
Prince Napoleon had arrived at Turin.
Meetings were held to-day at Bologna and Bris-
cia, at which it was resolved to petition Parliament
for the suppression of religious corporations, the
abolition of capital punishment, and the conversion
of mortmain property.

TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 28.
According to the Levant Herald an important
scheme is now before the Grand Vizier, which pro

poses nothing less than the uniform consolidation of
the whole home debt of the empire on a basis and
on terms which will, the authors of the project
affirm, effect an economy to the Government of
more than 600,0001. a year. At least the serious-
ness of the plan is guaranteed by the source whence
it emanates—the London General Credit and Fi-
nance Company and the Paris Societe Generale.
Mr. Laing, the Chairman of the former company,
is the author of the scheme, and, whilst promising
the Porte the economy mentioned, offers it a very
large casb advance as a premium for leave to carry
out the operation. It would be premature at this
stage of the negotiation to say more as to the details
of the affair, but next week we shall probably lay
the scheme fully before our readers.
A letter from Tiflis states that General Erdoki-
moff, one of the ablest of the Russian commanders,
and the real conqueror of the Caucasus, has been
appointed Governor-General of the Khanat of
Kokan. This officer is the Commander-in-Chief of
the Russian expedition into Central Asia, which has
been victorious at Tackhend and Kokan. The for-
tress of Ak Mejid, on the sea of Aral, has been
constituted a fortress of the first class. This place
is at the mouth of the Djihoun, which empties itself
into the Aral, and was seized some years since by
the Russians, who foresaw the advantages of its
position, and that it would one day become the key
to Central Asia. It receives troops and provisions
from. a steam flotilla which the Russians have estab-

fished on the lake. The Commander-in-Chief has

managed to secure the neutrality of the Khan of
Bokhara, and is pushing forward his operations with
great vigour, all the more that the winter season is
not unfavourable for a campaign in this much-
coveted territory. Russian intrigues have for a
long time past been busy sowing dissensions
amongst the population, and have excited a Civil
war between the Ouzbegs and the Kipatches, which
has ruined the force of both tribes and paralysed
the action of the country. And now General
Erdokimoff has issued a proclamation declaring
himself the friend and liberator of the Tachends
and Khonanians, and asserting that his sole object
is to protect so excellent a people. He expects by
next spring to be in possession of the entire country.

FRANCE,
As a goods train on the railway round Paris was,
the night before last, approaching the station of
Menilmontant, the driver saw a man lying across
the rails only a few steps in advance of the loco-
motive. He immediately shut off the steam, but in
spite of all his efforts the train passed over the man,
cutting his body in two and dragging along the
upper part of it for about two hundred yards. The
unfortunate man appeared to be a peasant between
30 and 40 years of age. The only paper found on
his person was a letter addressed to a M. Roux, a
Athis-Mons.

A slight improvement has taken place in the state
of Count Bacciochi. The Emperor has called seve-
ral times to see him.

The Bulletin des Lois publishes an Imperial de-
cree granting a pension of 12,000 fr. to the widow 01
Admiral Romain-Desfosses.

4i per Cents 95
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 66 90
Do. end month 67
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 346()
Credit Foncier 1270
Roman —

RAIL'

WAYS.
Cash. Acct.
890 ... 877 50

Orleans .

Northern 985 ... 990
Lyons and Mediterranean 912 50 ... 915
Southern 5BO ... 581 25
Western 530 ... 530
Eastern
Sardinian 303 75 ... 305
. ..
Austrian
Lombard 521 25 ... 525
North of Spain 365 ... 362 50
Saragossa 420 ... 430
Ditto to Barcelona — --

A Paris letter, in the Inde'pendance of Brussels
says :—" A general reorganisation, which would
render public instruction gratuitous and obligatory,
begins to be seriously talked of. The ideas of M.
Duruy and M. C. Robert, Secretary-General of the
Ministry, are very decided in that sense."
"We think," says the Patrie, "we can affirm
that some days ago the Bank of France addressed
through the Minister of Finance a petition to the
Emperor, praying for a general inquiry into the
numerous causes of commercial, industrial, and
monetary crises. The petition solicits that the in-
quiry may be widely and impartially directed, in
order to remove the doubts and prejudices which
disturb the progress of business, and that by being
extended to all institutions of credit and of specu-
lation it may disclose the true state of things."
The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the
following as the atmospheric state of Europe yester-
day :—" From Thursday until to-day the tempest
which prevailed on the coasts of Norway and on the
Baltic has rapidly descended towards the North of
France. On the Channel, the wind, after having
lulled during Thursday, has this morning again
freshened ; at Dunkirk, Boulogne, and Havre it is
strong from the N.W. The barometer has fallen
11 millimetres on the mouth of the Elbe, and 4 at
Vienna, whilst it remains nearly stationary on the
West of France. The probability therefore is, that
the rough weather is about to cross Central Europe,
and that it will reach the Black Sea and the
Adriatic." In Paris the weather continues to be
exceedingly mild, with light showers occasionally.
Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clotilda yester-
day received M. Mon, the Spanish Ambassador, and
M. Frederic de Meyer, the Minister Plenipotentiary
of the Elector of Hesse.
" As the delay," says the Patrie, " for the rami-
fication of the Treaty concluded by M. Aubaret in
Cochin China expires on the 15th inst., that Con-
vention will, from the very fact, become null and
void, without any notice being necessary to the
Court of Hue. The French establishment in Lower
Cochin China not having been yet classified in the
number of the colonies, like Guadaloupe, Martinique,
Senegal, and Reunion, does not stand in the Al-
manack of the Marine. This state of things is, it is
said, about to cease, and the arrival of Rear-Admiral
de La Grandiere, who is shortly expected in Paris
on leave of absence, is waited for to decide on the
plan of organising the colony of Cochin China, and
prepare the Senatus Consultum, to classify it in a
definitive manner among the number of French

possessions.
BOURSE, Jan. 7.—The market has been firm, and
a fair amount of business done at an advance.
Threes, for the Account, are now at 66f. 95c. Mo-
biller have improved to 961 f. 25c. Railway Shares
in good demand, with a rise on some of the lines.
The following other Securities are quoted ex. div.—
Credit Foncier, 12f. 50c. ; Sardinian Railway, 15f. ;
Orleans (New), 6f. 25c. The market closed as
follows :

Italian Loan 64 85
Do. end month 64 90
Ditto Threes —
New Mexidan

Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred