The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-14 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

R 0 M E.

ROME, FEB. 12.

The day before yesterday Count Sartiges for-
warded a note to the Holy See remonstrating, on
the part of the French Government, against the
two letters of Mgr. Chigi, the Papal Nimcio in
Paris, to the Bishops of Moulins and Besancon.
The Papal Government has disavowed the conduct
of the Nuncio.

A memorandum has been sent by the Pope io the
Russian Government complaining of the suppres-
sion of the Catholic convents in Poland, and also of
the violation of the Concordat of 1847.

One of the Secretaries of the Russian Legation
has been banished from Rome for three weeks for
fighting a duel with a Neapolitan noble. His anta-
gonist was banished the city for life.

SPAIN.
MADRID, FEB. 14.

Senor Barzanallana, the Minister of Finance,
has announced that a capitalist has offered to ne-
gotiate a loan for the Spanish Government at 41.
The Novedades of to-day publishes fresh- mani-
festos of the Progressist party, recommending entire
abstention from the partial elections. These mani-
festos appear to indicate that the Progressists
desire changes in the Constitution.

THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 14.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Ceylon, with the heavy portion of the above mails,
passed the Needles at 11.20 a.m., to-day.
MARSEILLES, FEB. 13.

The Messageries Imperiales steamer Peluse, with
India and China mails, arrived here at nine p.m.,
to-day.

FRANCE.
PARIS, FEB. 14.

An Imperial decree has been published, fixing the
rate for the transmission of autographic despatches,
and permitting the public, on and after the 16th
inst., to transmit autographic despatches between
Paris and Lyons.
The ball given by Prince Napoleon and the Prin-
cess Clotilda at the Palais-Royal, on Saturday
night, was of a most splendid description. The
company comprised the Ambassadors, Ministers,
members of the Privy Council, elite of the fashion-
able world, and all the illustrious of Paris in litera-
ture, art, and science. Notfewer than 22 rooms were
thrown open on this occasion, and still the space was
not by any means too great for the number of per-
sons present, not fewer than 2,400 invitations hav-
ing been sent out. At the entrance, the grand
staircase seemed to disappear amidst a profusion
of flowers disposed with the greatest art, a similar
style of ornamentation having been adopted in the
rooms above. The first arrivals took place a little
after nine, and in another hour the rooms were
crowded. The Princess Mathilde arrived at ten,
and shortly after their Majesties entered, having
been received by Prince Napoleon and the Princess
Clotilda, at the entrance of the salons. The
Empress leant on the Prince's arm, whilst the Em-
peror conducted the Princess. On their Majesty's
entrance, the orchestra played the national air of
Queen Hortense. The Empress wore a charm-
ing dress of sea-green tint, and a rich suite of
sapphires on her neck and head. The Princess Clo-
tilda had on a white dress, with a complete suite of
emeralds and diamonds. The Princess Anna Murat
was also in white, with diamond ornaments. In:fact
the display of jewels was extraordinary. The Em-
peror, the Prince, and all the male guests were in
plain evening dress. Two orchestras played during
the evening, one disposed behind the grand stair-
case, and the other conducted by Strauss, placed be-
tween the two large rooms reserved for dancing, and
situated in the gallery looking on the inner court
of the palace. A buffet with refreshments was
placed in the large marble dining hall, and a grand
supper was served at half-past twelve in the pro-
longation of the gallery. By the Prince's express
orders no change was made in the apartments ex-
cept such as were indispensable for the fête. Every
one admired the numerous pictures, arms, busts,
and objects of art arranged with exquisite taste.
The Emperor more than once went through the
rooms, regarding the various beautiful objects.
Their Majesties left at a little after one, but dancing
was kept up with great spirit until after four o'clock
in the morning.
BOURSE, Feb. 13.--The market continues firm,
but not much business is doing. Threes, for the
Account, arc now at 67f. 20c. Mobilier 960 f.
Railway Shares continue to be firm at about late
quotations. The market closed as follows :-
41 per Cents 96 40

Do. end month —

3 per Cents. 67 15
Do. end month 67 25
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3550
Cr3dit Foncier 1275
Roman

Italian Loan 65
Do. end month 65 25
Ditto Threes —
New Mexican

Russian B9 50
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred
WAYS.

RAIL`

Cash. Acct.
Orleans
Northern lOO7 50 ... 1010
Lyons and Mediterranean 943 75 ... 947 50
Southern 578 75 ... 577 50

Western 540
__

... 542 50

Eastern

Sardinian 307 50
.., 307 50

Austrian

Lombard 546 25 ... 547 50
North of Spain 340 25 345
Saragossa 405 ... 403 75
Ditto to Barcelona 215

Address to King Victor Emmanuel.
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TURIN, Feb. 1.

The following address to the King from the
Turinese youth is in circulation, and has already
received numerous signatures :
" Sire—Attached to your august person, born
and brought up in this city in which you also have
first seen the light, we, who better than any can
testify to your virtues and your love for Italy, are
deeply affected at your departure, and believe it our
duty to lay at your Majesty's feet the `sincere ex-
pression of our regret. Sire, if we are sorrowful, it
is because we have seen you depart in sorrow. You
are too generous, sire, not to forget the facts which
have afflicted you. Yes, sire, we implore you to
forget them. It has been truly said, sire, elsewhere,
that the people of Turin—the true people—have dis-
approved what has occurred. The proverbial de-
votion of Turin to the House of Savoy cannot be
supposed weakened owing to a moment in which an
erring handful of her inhabitants forgot their duty.
The youth of Turin, sire, loves you. It is proud to
have so generous a monarch as its fellow-citizen. It
would gladly hasten by its wishes the day when it
will be able to show you that the remembrance of
the benefits received from your Majesty is inefface-
able from the hearts of the inhabitants of Turin."

At the first ordinary meeting of the shareholders
of the Oriental Financial Corporation, held to-day,
the report stated that the gross profits from the
commencement of the business in April last
amounted to £21,762 13s. 2d., which, after deduct-
ing expenses of management, rebate of interest on
bills, and all other charges, and carrying 10 per
cent. to the credit of preliminary expenses and office
furniture, left a balance of £16,975 18s. 11d. Out
of this sum the directors had appropriated £706 3s.
to the payment of ad interim interest to 30th June
last, at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, and
£3,298 12s. Bd. for dividend to 31st December,
1864, at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, leaving
the sum of £12,971 3s. 3d. to be carried forward to
the next account. The operations in India were
upon a satisfactory basis, and are capable of consi-
derable extension, but the commercial uncertainty
which had existed during the last few months has
induced the directors to restrict business.

ROME AND MEXICO,

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)

PARIS, Feb. 12.

Theille'morialDiplomatique of to-day says:—" We
learn from Rome that notwithstanding the painful
surprise with which the Holy Father heard of the
publication of the Emperor Maximilian's letter to
his Minister of Justice, under date of Dec. 25, his
Holiness manifests a most earnest desire to stifle
the conflict in its germ. The most positive assur-
ances are said to have
,been given to his Mexican
Majesty that the Pope intends neither to weaken
nor withdraw any of the promises given to the Em-
peror Maximilian respecting the disposition of the
Court of Rome to make concessions compatible with
the interests of the Church in the definitive settle-
ment of the ecclesiastical affairs of the new empire.
It was in the sense that Mgr. Meglia was about to
be instructed to furnish the most formal explana-
tions to the Mexican Government. But at the
same time the Court of Rome would represent
to the Mexican Government the impossibility
of deviating from the general and constant rules in
accordance with which all concordats are concluded
between the. Holy See and foreign Governments.
These conventions do not belong to the category of
ordinary diplomatic acts, for, in concordats, the
Pope stipulates not as a temporal prince, but as the
suprenie chief of the Church and the representative of
Catholicism. The Holy Father is therefore obliged,
in the negotiations which precede and accompany the
conclusion of concordats, to gather round him the
enlightenment of the members of the Sacred College,
and to refer the most essential points thereof to
examination by special congregations, in order that
not a single clause may infringe the dogmas of the
Church. It is for this reason that concordats are
negotiated either directly with Rome, or indirectly
through a cardinal, who actsin this case as the legate
of the Pope. Thus the celebrated concordat signed
in 1801 with France necessitated the mission to Paris
of the Cardinal Secretary Consalvi, although the
preliminary negotiations had been opened by Mgr.
Spina, assisted by the profound theologian, the Rev.
Father Caselli. In the same manner when Rome was
about to conclude a concordat with Austria, Cardi-
nal Viale Prela, although preconised since March 7,
1853, remained at Vienna in his quality of Aposto-
lical Nuncio until after the concordat had been de-
finitively signed. Consequently, according to inva-
riable custom, a nuncio raisedto the dignity of cardi-
nal ceases, ipso facto, to represent the Holy See in any
other quality than that of legate. Even the legates of
the Pope have no power to sign a concordat until it has
been referred to Rome, and authorisation has been
received to accept the arrangements agreed upon. It
follows that Mgr. Meglia, on his departure for
Mexico, had only power to open negotiations on the
basis of the promises made to the Emperor Maxi-
milian ; but he was not even authorised to draw up
the draft of a concordat presented to him by the
Mexican Court. In other words, our correspon-
dent is of opinion that the dispute which has arisen
between the Holy See and the Emperor Maximilian
originated solely from a question of form and not a
question of principles, which, in his opinion, will
greatly facilitate the re-establishment of a good un-
derstanding between the two Governments. How-
ever that may be, it is certain that the recall of
Mgr. Meglia is not so imminent as has been stated
by some journals, considering that the Court of
Rome, before coming to any decision, intends to
rely on the well-known devotion of the Emperor
Maximilian for a proper reception by his Majesty
of the explanations about to be furnished by the
Court of Rome."

Cheap Trains for Working Men.

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On the Ist of next month the great boon which
the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway have
agreed to give the working classes will come into
operation, and from that date mechanics, artisans,
and daily labourers, both male and female, will be
entitled to receive a weekly ticket at a cost of no
more than one shilling, which will be available over
the line between Victoria and Ludgate-hill for one
journey each day in each direction. The necessity
for such a gift to the working classes has long been
felt, And in the case of the Metropolitan Railway a
clause was introduced into the act by which the com-
pany are bound to run at least one working man's
train each way each day at uniform rates of a penny
per passenger. In the case of the Chatham and
Dover no such clause was introduced, nor, consider-
ing the length of the line from Ludgate to Victoria,
would it have been fair to insist upon it. The gift,
therefore, has been purely voluntary on the part of
the Chatham and Dover management, who have
merely taken care to secure themselves from damage
by obtaining an act passed last session, which, in
relation to these working men's trains, modifies some
of the provisions of Lord Campbell's act as to the
compensation to be awardedintrcats. deatheofofe, n
oourosr in-
juryo to passengers using these
railway could be expected to bind itself to run work-
ing men's trains over a costly line at so low a rate as
a penny peornpassenger in the face of the heavy
in-
surance
up passengers which Lord Campbell's Act
imposes. By the act passed last session, therefore
(27th and 28th Vic., cap. 195), the liability of the
company under any claim to compensation for in-
jury to passengers travelling with such working men's
tickets is limited to a sum not exceeding £lOO, and
to avoid law costs the amount of compensation is to
be determined by an arbitrator appointed by the
Board of Trade, and in no other way. No tickets are
to be issued for a period less than one week, and the
maximum price of such tickets is, as we have said, to be
Is. Various precautions are taken to prevent the trans-
fer of tickets, for which penalties are enforced, and
a person so convicted can never receive a ticket
again, while the company claim a reasonable time
after each application to ascertain, if necessary, if
the person so applying is really what he professes to
be—an artisan, mechanic, or daily labourer. Con-
sidering how the poorer classes have suffered by the
extensive evictions which metropolitan railway im-
provements and extensionsiave caused these work-
ing men's trains arc really no more than a just re-
turn for the loss and inconvenience they have suffered.
The united areas occupied by new railways and ex-
tensions in London during the last few years are
equal in extent to several metropolitan parishes.
The demolition of poor neighbourhoods has been
carried on wholesale, and the result generally has
been to drive the artisans and labourers to live in the
outskirts of London, or else to overcrowd the cheap
neighbourhoods which are yet left to them in the
midst of the metropolis. Within the last 10 years the
number of inmates to houses in poor neighbourhoods
has risen in the ratio of 7 to 4, and, with this steady
rise in overcrowding, has come an equally steady
rise in the Registrar's returns of fever cases, which
during the last three years have been more than
double the annual returns for nearly a quarter of a
century back. There seems no reason now, however,
if the Chatham and Dover and the Metropolitan
can afford, under such wise precautions and safe-
guards, to run working men's trains at these low
fares, why other lines—such as the North London,
Blackwall, North Woolwich, and other short lines
of the same kind—should not do likewise within
a short distance round London. To the working
classes it would be difficult to over-estimate the
value of these facilities, and it is to be hoped
that the day is not very far distant when
other suburban lines will follow the liberal
example of the Chatham and Dover. Only one thing
more will then be needed, which is to issue third-
class tickets, and thus entirely reimburse the work-
ing classes for the introduction of metropolitan rail-
ways, by which,up the present, they have suffered a
good deal, and got very little in return.

A provisional agreement Lhas been entered into
to-day between the London, Birmingham, and South
Staffordshire Bank and the European Bank, for a
transfer of the business of the former to the latter,
to take effect on the 16th March. The nominal capi-
tal of the London, Birmingham, and South Stafford-
shire Bank is £1,000,000, of which £120,000 is paid
up, and that of the European is £2,000,000, of which
£600,000 is paid up.
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.—The weekly board of
this charity has received intimation of a bequest of £5OO by
the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hill Morgan, of Berkeley-place,
Cheltenham, as a testimony of her appreciation of the great
bonefits conferred upon the poor through its agency.