The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-23 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

Austria has ordered an extraordinary levy of men
in her Italian provinces.
We have announced (says the Moniteur) from a
Vienna letter, the conclusion of an arrangement
between Austria and the Porte, for the eventual
occupation of the principalities of Moldavia and
Wallachia by an Austrian corps d'armee. jVe
learn by a despatch from Constantinople that that
convention was signed on the evening of the 14th.
During the last month there has been splendid
growing weather in Austria, and there is every
prospect of an excellent harvest.

FRANCE. •
We read in the Memorial de Vaucluse :—" Tha
corn harvest is coming on under the most favour-
able auspices. In this part of the country the
stalks are bending beneath the weight of the care'
A few days' hot sun has suffieed to restore vigour
to the corn, which had been checked by the pre-
viousi cold. We- are informed that in the neigh-
bourhood of Avignon several farmers have already
commenced cutting wheat. In the vineyards the
plants are full of fruit, and the olive trees promise
a good crop. Everything leads us to hope for an
abundance."
The historical eulogium on the acts of his own
Administration drawn up by M. de PersignY, in
the shape of a report addressed to the Emperor,
and published in the Moniteur, is clearly a prelini-
nary to the retirement of that personage from the
high position which he has occupied for two years
and a half. It has for some time been arranged that g
Baroche is to be the successor of M. de Persigny.
Various circumstances have till now prevented the
realisation of the plan, and even now there are
some difficulties which have not been got completely
over. M. de Persigny left Paris yesterday for hie
country seat, but merely en conge, M. Baroche,
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taking his place as Minister of the Interior,
permanently, but merely ad interim. M. Billau.lt
is to succeed M. Baroche as President of the Council
of State, and it appears that it is this appointraerit
which creates the hitch, it appearingthat M. Bills
ult
is not particularly popular among the Councillors-
of State. The place of President of the Legislative
Corps, rendered vacant by the removal of M. Bil;
lault, is still offered to the Count -de Morny,
it is doubtful if that gentleman will accept it. The
retirement of M. de Persigny is not a subject of re-
gret in any quarter. The adversaries of the Irri"
perial Government have always held him in detes-
tation as the principal confident of Louis Napoleoni
and the person under whose advice the war agains
the Legislative Assembly was conducted, and that
,
the coup d'etat of the 2d December, which annulled
that assembly and converted the Republic into an
empire, was carried into effect; his colleagues have
always been jealous of the influence M. de per-
signy exercised over the Emperor, and his over-
bearing attitude towards themselves ; even in hl,l
own office he was not liked, for while he exacts
'
an extraordinary amount of labour from those
below him, he was particularly careful not to over;
exert himself; his apparent want of energy yea
however constitutional, and he could not help 1".;
He was incapable of any steady or lengtheneu...
application to business, which appeared to confes'
him, and his talents as an administrator are gene
rally considered as below mediocrity. His great
merit was his fidelity and devotion to his master,
and the perfect confidence he inspired in the Eni..;
peror's mind. It was this quality which raised hid`
to the high position which he attained as first 311-1" •
nister of France. The only papers which make all
allusion to the report of M. do Persigny are tht.
Constitutionnel and Pays, both of which, as a
ter of course,
.are filled with enthusiasm far tli
document and the man. Most of the other paireir
publish the report, but without a single word ° •
comment.
It is rumoured that. Persigny is about to gets
promotion in the Napoleoniau aristocracy ; he
already been made a count by the Emperor, an
ducal coronet is said to be in store for him.
Letters from Vienna give some important in;;
formation as to the attitude Prussia is beginnin
assume, in consequence of the determination v_h
ero
Austria to make common cause with the west
Powers in preventing the Russian army advanciiiig_
into Bulgaria, or retaining possession of -Alcuif
davia and Wallachia. It would appear as
the Russian army were decidedly to retreat frouL -
the provinces, and that the Emperor was de-
termined, in imitation of the policy of the Erere-
ror Alexander in 1812, to concentrate all his force:
• exclusively for the defence of his territories.
is in consequence of this new system that Mare°
Paskiewitscli is said to have gone suddenly tes
Odes3a. By this defensive policy the Czar hop
still to keep Prussia and Austria neutral if net ~,
e
attach these Powers more exclusively to his caes,-•
It is impossible, however, that England and Frane.
can accept such a solution of the affair. If Posis,
t-
is left.in possession of the power of doing misehiet
she will use it on the first favourable opportnel f,'
o.
By the by, it is evident, from the rapidity of t
movements of Marshal Pastiewitsch, that the con-
tusion which he received was not so serious as ryci
presented by the French Government papers b
; 11911,
that there is no truth in the report got up Y, ;g
Pattie, that the Prince had had a fit of paralY3,l
which deprived him of the use of his left arm an
leg.
The following changes and appointments 1i0.3,17,
just taken place among the Prefects :—M. Lenoe:,
Prefect of the Meuse, has been transferred to to
Meurthe, in place of M. de Sivry, made Senator
M. Chadenet is transferred from the Loir-et-0140
to the Meuse ; M. de Soubeyran from
Pyrenees-Orientales to the Loir-et-Cher ;
t`
de Lassus St. Genies, S üb-Prefect of Dieppe) s.
the place so left vacant in the Pyrenees-Orientale.
An Imperial decree appears in the gonite_t3'
regulating the position of the inspectors-gener
of the Ponts-et-Chaussees; another decree 3'roi
proves of certain modifications in the statutes. n_
the Lyons Railway Company ; a third decree
stitutes the office of inspectors-general to railwq.
lines ; a fourth appoints to fill such functions, fort
Sylvain Blot, ex-inspector-general of police ; Belot
Frossard, ex-inspector-general of police ; M. Toil de
and, M. Riviere, ex-prefeots, and Viscount
Ruolz, inspector of railways. ter
The French Funds were rather heavy Yes r.
day, and prices are somewhat lower. The Flo
and-a-Half per Cents. have fallen 60c., al!dotse.
Three per Cents. 20c., at 97f. 90c. an 721. %b.
The various Bank Shares are unaltered. Span,l'er
Home Debt has fallen e, and Roman :1 ; the ado
Foreign Funds are unchanged. Railway Si.hanrcss
were firm, and show but little alteration. Ellen')
on London (short), 25f., money ; ditto (90 0.1 3
24f. 70c., money.

ITALY.
The Parlainento of Turin, of the 16th inst., au'
tains the following, dated Piacenza, 13th :
"In the afternoon of the 12th, the Instructing'
Gabbi Gabbi was stabbed with a poniard in the streets d
Parma. Having extracted the weapon from the wen;
he ran after the assassin, but before lie could over'3,a
him ho encountered one of his accomplices, who inti;ici-811
on him five other stabs with a stiletto. M. Gabu` the
senseless on the pavement. One of his wounds ill
abdomen was considered very dangerous."
The Duchess of Parma had appointed Command
°
Jo pseh Cattani Minister of the Interior. first
A recent publication in the Gazette de Mild nA-rst
produced a great sensation at Turin. In
article the official Italian organ of the Alls'vg
Government attacks Russia in a very strobo
manner ;-and, what is not less remarkable) I'd
attack was made some days after the arriv3 bib
Marshal Radetzky in Italy, on his return from itb
journey to Vienna, where he had an interview' hag
the Emperor. The Austrian Government WO
ordered an extraordinary levy in Italy ; the ncuse
and the rich are very much annoyed at it, fops,b
they cannot provide substitutes. Some c,ey
nevertheless, that by making sacrifices of ra
they will be able to obtain exemptions.
SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION' OF TUE GOSP...-
FOREIGN PARTS. —Yesterday the 153 d annillone
py
festival of this society was celebrated under the "
of St. Paul's Cathedral. There was a full choral fiery;
in which the members of her Majesty's Chapel ftere,'6
of St. Paul's, Westminster Abbey,, and St. Ge°rgh-eil
Chapel, Windsor, assisted. The sermon was Prege-rth
by his grace the Archbishop of Dublin, from the fe.,°ith
chapter of the Epistle to the Philippians, and the 11.0,
verse. The attendance-- was unusually large, arld,:of
chided the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bisb°ltha
London, Oxford, and their colonial brethren in the
episcopate of New Zealand and Graham's Town, a° W
as the Lord Mayor and Shers.
THE BELGIUM LOAN.—The iff
loan at Brussels has hi,o,ce°
concluded with Messrs. Rothschild Brothers, the
tional Bank, and the Socidtd Generale. The small' 0.-
27 millions of francs, at 41 per cent., at the rate of 9 a
It is guaranteed from any conversion. until 1861) 4°e
the interest runs from the Ist May last -
payment of instalments is divided over a terra,'s
"
18 months, fro the Ist July next to the 31st from-
cember, 1855, one-tenth at each of the fell°11;
be
ing dates :-Ist July, Ist August, and 15th Noveni_.!
1854 ; Ist February, Ist May, Ist August, Ist s°°ll7e
ber, and Ist December, and the two last tenths ee „,st
31st December, 1855. The anticipation of the ilia,/
'which reckbns on the whole amount from the ist
last is equivalent for the contractors to 3 per cell
Bank
which reduces the nett rate of the loan to 87. The _,,
of Belgium has, it is said, obtained a part of the 10‘—'
and Aye millions of it will be offered to the puIAA

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