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THE SUN, LON-DON,' MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1853„

toes. The result, on the contrary, is very satisfac-
tory for buckwheat, millet, beans, lentiles, and
home-grown tobacco.
The Prussian Government having seen with dis-
pleasure some of its least loved former subjects
entering and travelling through the State, armed
with th rights of American citizens, has communi-
cated some new passport regulations to the Wash-
ington Cabinet. In future native Americans may
travel in Prussia by the sole authority of their own
Government, but Prussians by birth, who have
acquired citizenship in the great republic must ob-
tain a passport from the Prussian authorities. It
remains to be seen whether the American Go-
vernment will recognise a regulation which sets
limits to its sovereign rights.

of Great Britain may be expected to declare itself,
and there is every probability of his speedy return
to power. Those who know the constitutional
habits of England cannot deny the ability of this
course. We will go further and say it is doubtful
whether the opposite party in the Cabinet will dare
to face the coming session and expose itself to a
signal overthrow."
The Presse thinks the retirement of Lord Pal-
merston itself nothing but a mystification. Lord
Palmerston will, it has no doubt, come back to
power before Feb. 3, 1854, and Lord Aberdeen
will then have disappeared ; but in the mean time
his policy will have prevailed. The substitution of
Lord Palmerston for Lord Aberdeen will be made
merely as a sacrifice to public opinion, and public
opinion will consent to be so humbugged.
The Paris correspondent of the Times, thus
speaks of the retirement of Lord Palmerston
"The impression produced by the retirement of
Lord Palmerston from the Cabinet is one of sur-
prise, and, generally, of regret ; and, however un-
founded the opinion, it is nevertheless believed
that what is termed the French element' is now
wanting to the Cabinet ; meaning that the Minis-
ter who was most earnest in his desire for a com-
mon action with France generally, and in particu-
lar on the great questiox of the day, has quitted
it. Neither is it easy to convince people that it
is not in consequence of a difference of opinion on
the Eastern question that the noble lord has
retired. This error will, perhaps, be dissipated in
time, but at this moment it exists even to a greater
extent than the feeling of regret alluded to, and
quite irrespective of party considerations ; and so
firmly is it entertained that an absurd rumour,
which circulated in the afternoon respecting an
alleged order for the recall of the English fleet
from the Black Sea, if it be there, and even from
the Bosphorus, found many credulous persons.
Such a mistake as the one connected with Lord
Palmerston's retirement, though much to be re-
gretted, is perhaps excusable. His lordship's name
had been so long before the world in connection
with foreign policy that the public finds it difficult
to believe that any internal cause would be power-
ful enough to make him quit the Cabinet at such a
conjuncture as the present. On the other hand,
it is surmised by many that this retirement is but
preliminary to a further Ministerial change, and
that Lord Palmerston will before long return to the
Administration in a different, and, to him, more
congenial position than that which he has lately
occupied ; and there are not a few who do so little
honour to his lordship's straightforwardness as to
suppose that his retreat is but a political manoeuvre,
which is intended to terminate in a speedy return
to office. Such is the opinion generally expressed
of that event, which is, in any case, one that is not
without importance."
In Paris it was very confidently asserted that
the Emperor, disgusted at the vacillation of the
English Government, had sent orders to recall the
French fleet.
The first reception of the season took place on
Thursday evening at the Palace of the Tuileries.
It was very crowded, but it was remarked that
M. de Kisseleff and all the Russians were absent.
A mass was celebrated in the chapel of the
Tuileries on Thursday, the anniversary of the ar-
rival in Paris of the mortal remains of the Emperor
Napoleon I. Their Majesties afterwards drove
out, at half-past two, and visited the Bois de
Boulogne, returning to the Tuileries at half-past
four.
A telegraphic despatch has been received in
Paris, stating that Captain. Laporte, who has just
appeared before a court-martial at Mezieres, for
firing two pistols into the breast of General Count
de Neuilly, has been acquitted.
The Archbishop of Paris taking into considera-
tion the presence of the cholera in Paris, has issued
a notice by which he relieves for the moment the
persons in his diocese from the obligation to fast on
Fridays.
The authors of the dramatic piece called La
Cosaques, now being performed at the theatre of
the WO, have had a copy of their work magnifi-
cently bound, for the purpose of sending it to the
Sultan as a present.
General Wyssocki, who commanded the Polish
Legion in Hungary in 1848 and 1849, has left Paris
for Constantinople, accompanied by several Polish
officers.

SITAR 111A.RKETS-(THIS DAY).

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Saturday.

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The Constitutionnel publishes a letter from seve-
ral cotton-spinners, in reply to a publication from
the pen of Jean M. • Dollfus, recently noticed by
the Debats. The writers strongly protest against
the remarks of M. Dollfus on the subject of the
cotton-spinning trade, and deny that the protec-
tion accorded to that branch of commerce has been
an obstacle to the development of the weaving
trade, and compelled the public to pay higher
prices for their articles than they would otherwise
have done. They also deny the statement of M.
IDollfus, that the cotton-spinners, with the kind
of monopoly they have enjoyed, have realised a
profit of from. 25 to 40 per cent. on their article,
and defy him to prove that he himself can, in the
manufactory which he has just established on the
most approved system realise a profit of the
smallest of the sums above-mentioned.
• It is said that at the reception of January 2, a
striking modification of court etiquette will be
made. The corps diplomatique instead of passing
in procession before their Majesties will be ranged
round the throne, as is the practice in Spain. This
change is stated to have been ordered in compliance
with the wish of the Empress.