The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-17 00:00:00

venue :—" Registration dues, 18,555, 000 f. ; pros
duce of tobacco sales, 7,972,000 f. ; postaget
.2,396,000 f. ; duty on manufacture of beetroo;
sugar, .3,681,000 f. ; potable liquors, 3,829,000 f. ;
stamp duties, 2,050,000 f. ; salt duties, 2,071,000 f. ,
' corn, 1,170,000 f. ; sugar from the French colonies
1,004,000 f. ' • foreign sugar, 1,362,000 f.
A letter from Toulon of the 11th:inst. observes
that if the writer is to judge from the fact that the
Vauban, the :Oaciciue, and several other steam-
frigates are beiiig fitted for sea with all possible
despatch, the last phnsislef the Eastern question
has arrived. , The writer adds that provisions are
prepared fOr'an army of 40,v0q..\men, which could
be embarked at Touton' without delay.
desfiatch has beeiriredeivedl at 'Cherbourg com-
manding the completion as: quickly As'pbstilible of
the'ship of the line-Tiliir;bf 90 guin. - The carpen-
ters are required to wstili-on Sundays. -
j. A furtlikcie`ifiatCli, ccaultnandS an extraordinary
levyof seamen in the port.
A memorandum has been communicated ,to the
diplomatic corps by the Ottoman; Government, in
fOrming them that, in consequence of the scarcity
of grain, all-the corn' in. the provinces of Widdin,
Silistria, Scutari, Albania, Bosnia,,,Wzeroum, and
Trebizond is reserved for the .use of the Turkish
armies in Roumelia and Antolia.

A letter from St. Malo says An order has
arrived to make a levy of all the• 'seamen of from
20 to 40 years of age, who have not passed through
four years of service.. The only exception to this
measure is to be such men a have been ,dismissed
from the service within the space of a year. It
may be conceived that a great disquietude has been
spread through the country at this news:- The same
will be the case at Granville and in the Bay of St,
Prieuc. The Chare.bers of Commerce_ are about to
make a representation to the Minister of the de-
-,plorable state in which all the district of the coasts
of France, which is engaged in the cod-fishery at
Newfoundland, will be placed, should A sufficient
number of men not be reserved for these
expedi-
tions, which constitute the very existence of this
part of the country."
A letter from St. Valery-sur-Somme, in the
Courrier du Havre, states that this measure has
spread consternation among the boatmen who carry
goods from. St. Valery into the interior. They are
mostly married men, and with their savinii have
purchased the boats in which they carry on their
business, and in which they reside with all their
families like the mariners of the north. These
families, deprived of their chiefs will be thrown
into great distress for want of being able to turn
their boats to account during the absence of their
owners in the service.

The Algiers journals of the 10th contain an
account of an engagement between some Arab forces
iu the service of France, under the orders of Kha-
lif a Si Hamza, and the forces of the cheriff Moham-
med ben Abdallah, at some distance from Ouergla,
in one of the southern provinces.- The result of it
was that Mohammed's troops were routed with
considerable loss, that he took to flight to the south,
and that several of his chiefs and some of those of
the neighbouring tribes made their submissdon.
The Bourse was heavy yesterday in the absence
of any political news calculated to influence the
speculators. The Three per Cents. opened at 71f.
90c., rose to 72f. 5c., fell subsequently to 71f. 50c.,
and closed at 71f. 60c. for the end of the month.
The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 99f. 50c.
Orleans Railway Shares, 1,130 f. ; Rouen, 990 f. ;
Havre, 475 f. ; Great Northern, 815 f. ; Paris and
Strasburg, 767 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 870f.1;
Lyons to the Mediterranean, 712 f. 50c. ; Western
of France, 625 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 580 f. ;
Great Central, 485 f. ; Lyons and Geneva, 490 f. ;
Shares of the Bank of Credit Mobilier, 675 f.

ITALY.

A letter from the Papal States of the 7th inst.,
declares that extreme desolation and consternation
prevail in the Romagna, in which the inhabitants
live in constant terror of robbers, and dare not
quit their houses after night fall. The theatre is
deserted at Faenza. Wheat sells at the market of
Ravenna at 53f. the sack of 115 litres. The autho-
rities at Lugo had compelled the farmers to sell
their wheat at 20 per cent. less than the market
price. The local authorities of Faenza had for-
bidden the exportation of corn from the district.
The consequence is, that the market is closed, and
were it not for the markets of Foili and Ravenna
the inhabitants of the Romagna would be exposed
to die of hunger.

AUSTRIA.