The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-30 00:00:00

MONTEVIDEO, Nov. 29.

Exchange, 411 d.
Wet salted ox hides, 61/ rls.
Dry hides, American, 481 rls.
Wool, nothing doing.
Tallow, 191 rls.

The West India and Pacific Mails.

SOU I'HAMPTON, DEC. 30.
The Royal Mail Company's steamship Shannon,
Captain Abbott, with the above mails, has arrived
here. She brings 147 passengers, £685,360 in
specie, and a cargo consisting of 3,731 packages of
merchandise.

The Shannon left St. Thomas's on the 15th most ,
and had a fine passage throughout.
A public meeting was held on the 9th inst. at
Valparaiso, the object being to renew to the Presi-
dent and the Ministry votes of their sympathy and
confidence. This act had been occasioned by the
conduct of the House of Representatives, who had
proved themselves hostile to the Government and
public opinion.

The railway from Santiago to the South was
completed as far as San Fernando, a distance of 120
miles.

The new President of Peru was continuing to
introduce reforms into every department of the
Government, and a circular which had been issued
to the Peruvian Diplomatic and Consular Corps
enjoins them to abstain from all extraordinary
expenses.

On the 11th the Minister of Finance sent a
message to Congress, laying before the House the
embarrassed condition of the Exchequer, and soli
cited its sanction to accept the proposal of Witt and
Schute to lend the Government 700,000 dole., on
condition of making over to them the consignment
of guano in Germany for eight years, allowing thy

same terms granted to other consignees. The Cham,
bers approved the contract.

The proposal of Thompson, Bonnard, and Co., of
London, for laying down a railway between Lim 3.
and Lauja, under conditions of which the principal
are the exclusive privilege for 90 years, and a gua-
rantee of 7 per cent., on the capital invested, has
been approved by the Chamber of Deputies.
_ _

The floods on the Isthmus of Panama have sub-
sided, and the railway communication is again
opened. The news from the West India Islands is
unimportant. The corps at Barbadoes are promising,
and expected to give fair returns. The health of
the islands is improving.
Exchange, 90 days, 487 half. dollars.
At Demerara the weather was wet ; trade dull,
and no prospect of improvement. Tonnage scarce ;
freights advancing.

THE AUSTRALIAN SHIPS.
PLYMOUTH, MONDAY EVENING.

The ship Monarch, 2,000 tons burden, T. W. Gill,
Lieut., R.N.R , commander, belonging to Messrs.
Green, of Blackwall, 90 days from Melbourne, hav-
ing sailed September 30, has arrived in the Chan-
nel, and was off the hie of Wight at noon to-day,
all well, bound to the Thames. The. Wave of Life
left Port Phillip the same day, the Giant's Cause-
way on the 9th of October, and the E. A. Bright
on the 11th—all three for London.

Death of the Archbishop of Paris.

In Cardinal Morlot, Archbishop of Paris, who
expired at six o'clock yesterday morning, the Galli-
can Church has lost its Primate, and the Papacy one
of its most devoted friends. The archbishop had
been ill for ten or twelve days of inflammation of
the chest, and received the last sacraments three or
four days ago. The Pope sent him his blessing by
telegraph, on hearing of his illness; and the Em-
peror himself called and sat for some time by the
bedside of one of his most loyal servants and domes-
tic counsellors on Saturday evening. Though the
deceased archbishop can hardly be designated
famous for learning or for eloquence, circumstances
will invest the fact of his death at this time with
something more than a local interest.
Francois Nicholas Madeleine Morlot, who died
invested with such high dignities, was the son of
humble working folk at Langres, in the department
of the Haute Marne, and was born December 28,
1795. After pursuing a course of study in his na-•
tivo town, he went to the Grand College of Dijon,
in which city he was afterwards dotined to hold
high ecclesiastical office. After taking orders,
young Morlot became tutor in the family of M. de
Saint Seine, and in this position, living in high
society, he gradually acquired the courtliness of
manner for which in latter years he was noticeable.
Subsequently he became, in succession, curate of the
Cathedral of Dijon, hondrary canon thereof (1825)9
grand vicar of the diocese (1830), canon of the
cathedral (1833).

After the Revolution of 1830, Monseigneur
Rey was appointed by Louis Allippe to be Bishop
of Dijon—this prelate being, with the Abbe
d'Humieres, the first chosen by the new Govern-
ment. The wrath of the Ultramontanes and Lee'
timists was excited; Rome was indignant; the
French bishops refused to consecrate Monseigneur
Rey, and he was forced to obtain episcopal ordina-
tion at the hands of a Spanish prelate. Bishop
Rey's grand vicar was the soul of this pretty illus-
tration of Roman unity. Ho resigned (or was dig.-
missed from) his office, and devoted himself to de-
molishing his bishop in the columns of the Ami de
la Ilekqton ; he published remonstrances against
the luckless monseigneur in the journals, and he
refused to accept any parochial charge. Wearied
out, Monseigneur Rey resigned his see in 1837, and
by way of compensation received a canonry in St•
Denis. The unfortunate Rey's successor, Monseig"
neur Rivet, was quite alive to the necessity of pro-
pitiating Francois Morlot, whom he reintroduced
to his vicar-generalship early in 1838. In the year
following, the obnoxious Government of July was
forgiving enough to offer M. Morlot, and he pliant
enough to accept, the Bishopric of Orleans. lle
was consecraied at Paris on the 18th of August.
Two years later he edited a supplement to the bre-
viary, and issued two commisions, one for the re-
vision of the littagy, and the other for the compile"
tion of a catechism. In June 1812 he was appointed
Archbishop of Tours, and Feb. 26,1843, received the
pallium at the hands of Mgr. Affre, Archbishop ef
Paris. In this diocese, as in that of Orleans, he
conciliated everybody, and won universal esteem.
In 1849 he presided over a provincial council, held
at Rennnes, and in 1852 over one at Tours. le'
1853, at a consistory, held on the 7th of March, tile
archbishop was nominated a cardinal priest, With
the stall of Saints Nereus end Achilles. He re-
ceived the hat from the Pope. June 27, in the sal°
year. _ _

When Archbishop Eibour fell by the hand of
mad priest, Terger, the Archbishop of Tours, 508
at Rome discharging a high mission on which be
bad been sent by the Emperor. On receiving f‘
telegraphic despatch he returned home, and
(January, 24, 1857) was appointed Archbishop n'#
Paris, and was instituted March 19, and took Po-
session of his see April 25. The 13th of the 01.
lowing August he was nominated Grand Almoner
of the Court, and head of the Imperial Chapter °'g
St. Denis. He was also created a Senator, and One
of the Council of the Regency in case of the EniPe"
roes death during the minority of his son.
The nomination gave universal satisfaction, an
a
was considered to do honour to the discretion and
judgment of the Emperor. At that time Mon'
seigneur Morlot was reputed to belong to no
treme party of the Church. His piety and
Christian charity were universally honoured st,
Tours. He did not accept the Archbishopric 0'
Paris without much personal urging on the part of
the Emperor; it was said that his final decision
was dictated rather by duty than ambition, and
there was a general rumour that the Papal
Nuncio used all his skill to prevent the appoint"
ment as one displeasing to the Vatican and the
Jesuits.

Cardinal Morlot's position has brought him int°
intimate relations with the Imperial Court, notably
with the Empress. At Tours he was said to be $
Gallican, but his ultramontanistn has been gr$(111-
ally developed till the countenance shown by tue
Emperor to the Italian cause led him to offer the
resignation of his offices at Court and in the Senate
t'
He earned his early fame by supporting the Legit 1'
mists ; he accepted preferment and honour from til°
House of Orleans and from a Bonaparte. He bas
his old age voted for the Immaculate Conceptillf
protested against Italian liberty, and has died With
the well-deserved blessing of the Holy Father on 1110
head. As a writer or as a preacher Cardinal Mor-
lot's reputation will hardly live. His mandements,
circulars, &c. are well written enough—notle
more. Among his works are " Heures Choisies
la Marquise d'Audebarre" (1825), which passed
through many editions; lectures in explanation 4/f
Christian doctrine, a catechism for Dijon diocese;
and one or two others. The cardinal received tlio
cross of the Legion of Honour in 1841 at the baPtie
of the Count de Paris; he was named officer Dec.
11, 1849, and commander Aug. 11, 1855.

In official quarters, four prelates are spoken °I
as likely to succeed Mgr. Morlot. Mgr. de la Tour
d'Auvergne, the Archbishop of Bourges ; Mgr.
Dubois, the Bishop of Nancy ; Mgr. L4PdriO4
Bishop of La Rochelle; and Mgr. Chalaud°l3l
Archbishop of Aix. The name of Cardioll
Mathieu, the Archbishop of Besancon, is
mentioned. Mgr. Landriot's candidature is secorlue
by the Empress.

THE SHAH OF PERSIA.—His dress was a kind
of short frock-coat, made of shawl-work, 411 d
awkwardly out. It stuck out in sharp angles at the skirts'
and was tightly belted in at the waist. He wore small red
high-heeled pointed shoes, European trousers of black cloth
narrow, and badly made. On his head was a high Persian
cap of black lambskin, shaped like a sugar-loaf. His Man-
ners were easy and familiar. He had a jaunty bobbing
sort of way with him ; but a good deal of sterling pride_
and a kind of dryness in speaking sometimes, as if he knew.,
a great many things which he did not intend to discuss• ie
remarked that this last peculiarity was very effective' d
had, moreover,a short,decisive royal manner of speaking,
ann
came abruptly to the point at once. On the whole,his appear-
ance struck me as being prepossessing, although the resew'
blance to the kindly and debonair lords of Austria ware
away when cne looked at him more closely. In person his
majesty is small and slight; he is dark, with regular fea-
tures, but his face is not marked with any peculiar elevation,
of thouBht or expression. He, has fine black eyes of the
shape of an almond, which are considered a great beauty ill
k'ndle• The worst of the eyes is that they never
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saniltohuoludgelidahge kfierpetinthtebmemn,eathrlayt
gerous to •
black moustache, and hadeitlo
look anybody in the face, but shift about uneasily, like those
nsaleidg,
btwthabeyer
la:
of a lion in a cage; but this may have been owing to some
slight defect of vision. The king wore a long,
drooping
exceptiong
ng.
tl
sitsi na ardent itfwhile
htihlee
hunter, ut lij'aepaegkroi ps
wild ass with a rifle. He is a bold and and dexterous rider.
He is witty and accomplished, after the m-tnner of hie
wasab e closely sberliya sdhaasivne aa.
countrymen, and, indeed, something more. He draws with
taste and talent, he has a good knowledge of military music,
and, when I was in Per,ia, had just caused a most ruagai •
&era and beautifully illustrated copy of the Arabian rights
shot able
facet with tia,
Entertainments to be prepared for his own use, Ilis habits
are simple and abstemious. His daily food is usually
.3
little rice and a little roast mutton, with dry bread. Ofs
favourite drink is champagne. His mind is active and 111371,
usually vigorous for that of an Asiatic.—Dickens's

the Year _Round," just published.
SEASONABLE LIBERALITY.—ThO tWO members
for Salisbury, Lieut.-Gen. Buckley and Mr. Matthew
Marsh, have sent VA each to Mr. John Style, the iveY°r
of the city, to be distributed in small sums among the de"
serving poc,r of the town.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY.......A10n"
day, Deo. 29.—Admissions on payment, 2,979; do. by sea.
1.94 tickctAt lA% MA MUt