The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-14 00:00:00

BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS.

About 2,500 tons of potatoes arrived last week, coast-
wise and by land carriage, in very middling condition.
From abroad the receipts were ltheral, viz., 212 tons from
Dunkirk, 499 from Rouen, 40 from Calais, 40 from Gravc-
lines, and 10 from Rotterdam. On the whole, a full ave-
rage business is doing, as follows :—York Regents, 95s to
155 s per ton ; Lincolnshire do., 75s to 110 s ; Scotch do.,
85s to 105 s ; Do. Reds, 75s to 85s French Whites, 70s to
90s ; Dutch, 65s to 85s.

The people of Rheims are actively engaged in
petitioning the Emperor to go to that ancient city
to be crowned.

The Empress has contributed I,ooof. towards the
erection of a church in Coutmerle (dep. Correze).
The Abbe de Veze, first vicar of the church of
St. Germain l'Auxerrois, Paris, has been appointed
Master of Ceremonies at the Imperial Chapel of
the Tuileries.
The Abbe Denie preached a sermon in English
yesterday at tho church of St. Roch.
A decree, dated the 9th inst., abolishes from the
Ist of March next, the Fourth Chamber ofFinance,
established Jan. 15, 1852.
M. Roily, counsellor of the Imperial Court of
Metz, has been appointed President of the Court of
First Instance at Charleville ; and a number of
other changes and promotions in the higher ranks
of the magistracy are recorded.
The Constitutionnel mentions a report that the
Ministry of the Interior, Agriculture,' and Com-
merce is about to undergo a new organisation: It
will, it is said, be divided into three distinct
branches, under the general control of the Minis-
ter. The political direction, comprising the per-
sonnel, IN ill be confided to M. Chevreau, the Secre-
tary-General of the Minister ; departmental admi-
nistration, the Beaux Arts, the charitable establish-
ments, &c., will be under the direction of M.
Fremy, Councillor of State, and M. Heurtier will
remain at the head of the direction of commerce
and agriculture.
A Council of Ministers was held on Saturday at
the Tuileries, under the presidency of the Emperor,
when the measure was read and approved of.
At the ceremony of the opening of the legislative
corps to-day, the senators, deputies, and councillors
of state are to be called on to take the oath of
allegiance.
The Gazette de France has received a first aver-
tissement, for saying that the papers of M. de
Rothschild had been ransacked by the police.
A performance extraordinary is to take place at
the grand Opera on'Tuesday, to which the Emperor
and Empress are to go in state. None will be ad-
mitte i who are not invited.

The political arrest of journalists still engage
much attention in Paris.

The Legitimists have all, with one single excep-
tion, been set at liberty for want of proof of any
kind ; and the foreign journalists are still kept in
prison, while an investigation is going on which it
is hoped may lead to the discovery of some offence.
In fact, the whole proceeding partakes largely of a
practice which nearly produced revolution in En-
gland in former times, and which has been abolished
as utterly incompatible with the liberty of the sub-
ject, namely, general warrants. The only difference
is that the practice is carried into execution in
France at the present day more arbitrarily than it
was in England in the worst of times, and that,
moreover, the people of France have nob a Habeas
Corpus Act to protect them. Here the authorities
first arrest, and then hunt out an offence of which
to accuse the prisoner. It is said that so little was
discovered in the course of the investigation before
the juge, d'instruction on Saturday, that it is sup-
posed that the whole of the prisoners, with one
single exception will be set at liberty.
The Emir Abd-el-Kader arrived at Broussa on
the 17th ult., and was joined the following day by
his family and those of his two former Kalifs. All
appeared enchanted with their new residence. The
Governor of Broussa received them with the greatest
distinction. By his orders, one of the principal per-
sonages of the city, Si-Mokhtar-Bey, met Abd-el-
Kader at Guemelek, the port of Broussa, with his
own horses, his finest saddle, and his carriage. An
escort of cavalry also awaited him there, and the
greatest number of the officers of the Pasha's housc-

hold came out to compliment him, and joined his
escort on the Guemelek road. The Sultan as-
signed as a residence to the Emir one of the finest
houses of Broussa, which was lined with carpets
and divans at his own expense. The French Go-
vernment supplied him with all the other articles
of furniture he wanted, and Abd-el-Kader and his
family are now most comfortably installed. The
families of the two Kalifs are lodged in adjoining
houses.

THE FRENCH EMPIRE. Piedmcntese Gazette, is M. Leoni, who was stabbed,[ the assassins crying, " Death to the aristocrats."
..e. ' An Austrian captain was stabbed in the vice-regal
• palace. The following telegraphic dispatch has
The Moniteur of yesterday morning contains the
Lombardy, dat3d Milan, 7
. been received at Vienna from the Governor of
following important and authoritative 'announce -
ment, completely disowning M. Billot's " Lettres
,
Franques." .We easily recognise in this " note " , " Public order was disturbed yesterday afternoon. A.
the epigrammatic power and terseness which have
band, armed with poniards, pistols, and other arms, hay-
characterised so many manifestoes of the Emperor:— ing, at five o'clock, attacked the principal post, was
" Factions cannot reconcile themselves to the dispersed ; during the night, officers and soldiers were
fact that France and Europe have escaped from attacked. At 8 p.m. order was restored, and has not
their hands. Peace lies heavy on them. Despair- since been disturbed. Twenty-eight individuals have
been arrested with arms in their hands. Everything
ing of obtaining anything from the sympathies ,of
the people, abused for a short time, their only hope indicates that this attempt to revolt has been fomented
lies in the return of disorder. To arouse it they
to frighten peaceable citizens, and, above prev all, to
by the revolutionary party in foreign countries, in order
t
avail themselves of every means ; now, sanguinary.
provocations ; now, anonymous calumnies —their enjoying the pleasures of the carnival. Proceed-
writings which, under the pretext of awakening ings have been commenced against the guilty."
thegenerous instincts of the county serve onl to
The Opinione of Turin, in giving the particulars
• of the outbreak already known to our readers, states
y,y
mislead them, and thus to maintain distrust and
agitation. ;that, on the sth, Count Gyulay had intrusted the
command of Milan to Count Strassoldo, and left
Milan for a short time. ,It adds, that had he been
" Such is the purpose of a new brochure, entitled
' Lettres Franques,' published by a writer of the
Legitimist party. It would no more merit the at- there himself, he would ,have taken much severer
measures than his deputy has. On Sunday morn-
tention of the Government than it does that of the ing, unknown persons were seen distributing money
public, were it not that silence might be falsely
, among the lower classes, but that none but a few
interpreted. ' drunkards and abandoned characters accepted, and
that it is to them the murders committed are to be
" The author addresses himself, without ado, to
attributed. The respectable portion of the inhabi-
the Emperor of the French. He decides, with in- that
not only took no part in the movement, but
credible self-sufficiency, on the highest diplomatic
;most unequivocal manner.
I actually expressed its aversion for tho rioters in the
questions, and on the destinies of Europe.
" After having assumed for the title of his
brochure
Bordeaux' th
L'Empire memoe
c'est la paix,' rable words of
the au the sp
hor em-
eech at With regard to the affair of Rimini, the Parla-
ment° of Turin, of the 9th, states that the munici-
ploys himself wholly in urging France to war, in
pality of that town, seeing
few vagabonds who had
g that they were punished
pointing out
her resentment established treaties asendeavour the fittingin oh -
thrown mud at the escutcheon of the Austrian
pets of , to en masse for the act of a
rouse our old hatred of England. Consul, immediately sent a deputation to General
Nobili at Bologna, the commander-in-chief of the
"The tactics of those who inspire such publica-
Austrian troops of Romagna, to complain to him
tions are not difficult to perceive. They have proe
-
of the exorbitant contribution of 30,000 piastres
raised themselves that the Government of th
laid upon the town by the Austrian colonel in the
Emperor would be placed in the painful alternative
of either shocking national feeling, by combatting command of the troops
that bad come from Forli.
these writings, or of giving them, by its silence, a The result of this step has been satisfactory ; Ge-
kind of tacit approbation, which would be for Eu- neral Nobili having reduced the
contribution to
rope a permanent cause of uneasiness and distrust ; 2,000 piastres only, to be paid by the town to the
so vexing is it to vanquished factions to see peace above-mentioned troops.
and general prosperity re-established without them
and in spite of them !
" The snare is too gross for the country' and the
Government to allow themselves to be caught by
it. The Emperor, like Frarce, wishes earnestly
for peace (veut la paix), a fruitful and honourable
peace, the only one which is suited to the nation;
and it certainly is-not from the old parties that the
heir of Napoleon the Great will ask counsel in any
matter of honour or of national dignity.
"Nothing can be more strange than that such
provocations should proceed from those who call
themselves Legitimists. Do these writers, then,
believe that France has forgotten her recent his-
tory, and do they not know how easy it would be
to overwhelm them with its facts ? But the Go-
vernment has the interest and the glory of the
country too much at heart, it is too anxious to put
an end to our old divisions, to allow itself to be
betrayed into recriminations, however just, and to
recal pitiable reminiscences."
The new museum at the Louvre, containing many
curious and valuable relics of the Kings of France,
was opened to the public yesterday.
The Siecle is republishing, with official approval,
Mr. Cobden's letters on the peace question.
The Athens journals report a terrible massacre
of Christians at Salonica.

MONTENEGRO.
On the 29th ult (says the Trieskr Zeitung) the
positions of Selim Bey at Limiani, in the south,
were attacked by the tribes of the Czernizza, and
the Turks were obliged to retire till reinforcements
Came up, which enabled them to '-regain their lost
footing. The population of the small district of
Piperi appear to have submitted to Omer Pacha
on condition that they should retain their arms and
pay no taxes. This was acceded to, but the
Turkish commander had no sooner signed the
agreement than twenty-five (a telegraphic notice
says thirty) of the leading men of the district were
seized as hostages, and sent off in chains to Scutari,
to be shipped for Constantinople. This act of
perfidy became known throughout Montenegro at
the same time with the news from Vienna, so
favourable to their cause ; so that great excitement
prevailed, and a general call to arms was responded
to by the infuriated tribes. Omer Pacha has been
obliged to discharge some 3,000 (the telegraph says
5,000) of his levies, raised from Albania and
tohfeir places are
Rayahs, on
aßooosonoinat, aonf din
scuobnosrisditinnagtiopartially
filled up by regular infantry drawn frtztra Rumelia,
so that the number of his army remains pretty
much the same.

By the latest dates we loam that hostilities of
the worst kind have broken out, and are still going
on ; that a Turkish army of 41,000 or 50,000 men
surrounds Montenegro (Prince Danilo, is said by
3
the correspondent of Lloyd to have 15,00 fighting
men under his command) ; and that Austria is con-
centrating a whole corps d'armee almost within
gunshot of the belligerents, having previously
dispatched a special envoy to Constantinople for- a
definite answer to a peremptory message, which is
to settle the question of peace or war—are facts
which nobody can gainsay. The prisoners of Gra-
hovo, with their Wojvod, are put in chains by the
Turks (according to the Dalmatian Observer). The
son of the Wojvod, on hearing of his father's fate,
is reported to have stabbed himself with his yatagan,
prefehing death to Turkish captivity.
An English war steamer is cruising in the Adriatic,
off the mouth of the Bojana river, to watch the
progress of the operations. A French steamer, the
Chaptal, stationed in the Pyrwus, was about start-
ing ou the same errand.
An English agent came to Scutari on the 22d
ult., on a second mission to the Pacha. He was
despatched thither (say the accounts) by the Lord
High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, imme-
diately after the arrival at Corfu of the English
consul for Albania, who 1,9,d bean absent in
England.

The Albanian coast is blockaded, we are in-
formed, by a Turkish brig and a corvette ; while
two war steamers, with the admiral, Achmet
Pacha, on board, are in the haven of A utivari.
According to the. best authorities, the Porte has
already expended 32,00,( piastres in the expe-
dition against Montenegro.