The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-19 00:00:00

THE FRENCH EMPIRE.

The mails had been delayed by the state of the
weather, and none of yesterday's papers have come
to hand. Letters, however, from Paris supply us
with everything of importance that had taken place
up to last night.
M. Vergmaud, one of the persons arrested a fort-
night ago on the charge of giving political informa-
tion to foreign newspapers, has been set at liberty.
All the others remain still in custody, and are
likely to be kept there for some time longer,
although it appears that the investigation which
has been going on before the juge d'instruction has
led to no.discovery that by any stretch of the law
can be construed into a criminal act.
The Monitcur publishes a decree by which an
addition of ten centimes is made to the pay of all
the sous-offitiers of the French army. The aug-
mentation commences on the Ist of April.

The Municipal Council of Paris has just published.
its budget of receipts and expenditure for 1853.
The ordinary receipts are estimated at 1,166,500 f.
for the communal centimes ; 34,596,000 f. for the
octrois ;
3,177,725 f. for the rent of stalls in the
retail markets ; 136,000 f. for the weighing tax ;
145,000 f. for the voieries ;• 1,174,000 f. for the
revenue of the waterworks ; 451,000 f. for the tax
for the Caisse de Poissy, the slaughter-houses, and
the entrepots ; 629,722 f. for rents arising from
places let on the public highway ; 164,469 f. 990.
for rents of communal property ; 98,0001. for
copies of documents ; 407,500 f. for tax on funerals ;
700,300 f. for concessions of ground in the ceme-
teries ; 130,000 f. for the voieries ; 1,319,843 f.
80c. taxes for various works and services • and
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743,286 f. for sundry receipts • making atotemof
46,164,346 f. 79c. The extraordinary receipts are
set down at 950,000 f. ; making a general total of
47,114,346 f. 79c. In the enumeration of the octroi
duties, fresh water fish is set down at 44,000 L ;
oysters, 170,000 f. • sea fish, 540,0001. • poultry
and game, 1,180,0 d '
of. • corn and flour, 45,000 f. ;
butter and eggs, 550,000 f. The amount received
by the city for supplies of water by subscription is
820,000 f., and from the fountains which supply the
water carriers, 354,000 f. The letting of chairs
produces 4,364 f., and the charge to public carriages
for the right of standing for hire, 400,000 f. The
ordinary expenses amount to 40,108,851 f. 67c.,
and the extraordinary expenses to 7,005,4951. 12c.,
and making a general total of 47,114,346 f. 790.
The Bourse opened heavy yesterday under the
unfavourable impression produced in the public
mind by the Imperial decree published in the Moni-
teur yesterday morning, increasing the pay of the
non-commissioned officers of the army. The
speculators regarded it as a warlike measure,
and when the Three per Cents. were called
at 80f. 65c., many began to sell in order to
realise the profits made by the rise of Thurs-
day, and the Three per Cents. fell to 80f. 50c.,
and closed at 80f. 70c. for the end of the month.
The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 106 f.
Railway Shares were not much affected, and some
rose on the announcement that they were in good
demand in the London market. Orleans Railway
Shares closed at 1,050 f. ; Rouen, 1,015 f. • Havre,
490 f. ; Great Northern, 890 f. ; Bale, 360 f. ; Paris
and Strasburg, 827 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 927 f.
50c. • Lyons andtheMediterranean 760 f.: Western.
of France, 730 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 597 f. 50c. ;
Caen to Cherbourg, 612 f. 50c. • Dijon to Besancon,
532 f. 50c. ; Shares of the Bank of Credit Mobilier,
840 f.

SPAIN.

Our accounts from Madrid are of the 13th inst.

The Queen, in virtue of the prerogative conferred
upon her by the 30th article of the Constitution,
had appointed Lieutenant-General Joaquin de Ez-
peleta, President of the Senate, and Lieutenant-
General Francisco Armero y Ppnaranda Mariano
Tellez Giron Duke de Osdna and del Infantado,
General Juan de la Pezuela, and M. Francisco
Olavarrieta, Vice-Presidents.
The Gazette publishes a Royal decree nominating
43 new Senators, with a view no doubt of neutra-
lising the opposition in that assembly. Among
them are the two bishops of Jaen and Malaga, Ge-
nerals Carondelet, Duke of Baylen, Jose Carratala,
Valentin Ferraz, Joaquin Ayerbe, Andreo Garcia
Comba, Ramon de la Rocha, Count de Casa Eguia,
Fernando de Norzagaray, Francisco Javier de
Espeleta, Fernando Cotoner, Francisco de Ler-
sundi, Anseinto Blaser, the Lieutenant-General of
the Fleet, Francisco Bald astano, &c.
M. Lujan, the Opposition candidate, had been
elected at Santander, by 145 votes to 121, obtained
by M. Gallo de Akaittara, the Ministerial candi-
date.

The Espana, Clamor Publico, and Diario Espanol
had been seized on that day. The Nacion and
Las Novedades had experienced the same fate the
day before.

A heavy fall of snow had taken place on the 13th,
which was considered a rare occurrence in Madrid.

It being Sunday the Bourse remained closed.

MONTENEGRO.

f' From Montenegro the accounts are very imper-
fect. The Turks continue inactive (says the Aus-
trian Correspondenz). The nahia or district
Kulska had declined to accept the terms offered
in the proclamatiOn of Omer Pacha, and young
and old had made a vow to hold out to the last
man. The Grahovo prisoners were in chains, and
badly treated ; and the Bosnian volunteers, who
had joined the . expedition of Omer Pacha, are
described as committing every kind of atrocity on
both sexes of the Christian population.
By a telegraphic dispatch, received to-day from
Germany, the important intelligence is communi-
cated, that the war in Montenegro, which was sup-
posed to be for a time suspended, has broken out
afresh, with the startling accompanying circum-
stance of a serious collision between the Austrian
forces and those of the Sultan. There is now no
doubt that the mission of General Leiningen to the
Porte has terminated unsatisfactorily, and as had been
generally expected in well informed circles. The
demands of the Austrian Plenipotentiary, who,
among other things, was intrusted to require the
cession on the part of Turkey of the Sutorina, and
Kiech have been refused. The movement of Aus-
trian troops towards the Bosnian frontier has been
for several weeks continuous ; and the Ban Jel-
lachich, whose name is so famil'ar to English ears
in connection with the recent Hungarian war, has
moved from Agram, and in all probability directs
the war. It may be added, that the affair of Mon-
tenegro has been the, great Viennese topic of con-
versation since the suppression of the enveuteT
Milan ; and that the impression prevails in mili-
tary circles, that the time is near when Austria and
Russia will make a N move against Turkey, but all
these " rumours of war" have yet to be confirmed.