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'arinee. We
learn by a despatch from Constantinople that that
convention was signed on the evening of the 1431.1_,,
During the last month there has been splendl"
growing weather in Austria, and there is every
prospect of an excellent harvest.

FR ANCE.
We read in the Memorial de Vaucluse :—" The
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 ears.
A few days' hot sun has sufficed to restore vigour
to the corn, which bad been checked by the Pre-
vious cold. We are informed that in the neig
bourbood. of Avignon several farmers have already
commenced cutting wheat. In the vineyards the
plants are full of fnit, and the olive trees promise
a good crop. Everything leads us to hope for all
abundance."
The historical eulogium on the acts of his own.
Administration drawn up by M. de Persigny,
ltl
the shape of a report addressed to the Emperor,
and published in the Moniteur, is clearly a prelinii-
nary to the retirement of that personage from
high position which he has occupied for two year's
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 ar.,e.,
some difficulties which have not been got completeu
over. M. de Persigny left Paris yesterday for his
country seat, but merely en conge, M. Baroche
taking his place as Minister of the Interior, It?t
permanently, but merely ad interim. M. Billow;
is to succeed M. Baroche as President of the Council
of State, and it appears that it is this appointrnol
which creates the hitch, it appearing that M. Billael
is not particularly popular among the Counciller' -
of State. The place of President of the Legislativ.,e
Corps, rendered vacant by the removal of M. Blif
lault, is still offered to the Count de Morny,
it is doubtful if that gentleman will accept it.
retirement of M. de Persigny is not a subject of re-
gret in any quarter. The adversaries of the Im-
perial Government have always held him in detes-
tation as the principal confident of Louis Napoleoui
and the person under whose advice the war agaie,
the Legislative Assembly was conducted, and WI
the coup d' Rat of the 2d December, which annu
llea
that assembly and converted the iepublic into an
e
empire, was carried into effect ; his colleagles h,avr
always been jealous of the influence M. de
signy exercised over the Emperor, and his over-
bearingl%;
attitude towards themselves ; even in d
own office he was not liked, for while he e%acte
an extraordinary amount of labour from the e
!,
below him, he was particularly careful not to oveasi•
exert himself ; his apparent want of energy
however constitutional, and he could not help la
He was incapable of any steady or lengthene_
application to business, which appeared to wan:
him, and his talents as an administrator are gen%
rally considered as below mediocrity. His great
merit was his fidelity and devotion to his master,
or
and the perfect confidence he inspired in theito
peror's mind. It was this quality which raised
to the high position which he attained as first -lvt,
nister of France. The only papers which make atVe
allusion to the report of M. de Persigny are a..
Constitutionnel and Pays, both of which, as a v',..10
ter of course, are filled with enthusiasm for 0
document and the man. Most of the other pap of
publish the report, but without a single word

comment.
It is rumoured that Persigny is about to has
promotion in the Napoleonian aristocracy ; he lid
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 11;
formation as to the attitude Prussia is beginning
assume, in consequence of the determination ;
Austria to make common cause with the Wreste.„e
Powers in preventing the Russian army advan_relii7
into Bulgaria, or retaining possession of .51° if
davia and Wallachia. It would appear 390
the Russian army were decidedly to retreat fr°o.,
the provinces, and that the Emperor was de-
termined, in imitation of the policy of the Brures
ror Alexander in 1812, to concentrate all his for t
exclusively for the defence of his territories. hat
is in consequence of this new system that Mars t°
Paskiewitsch is said to have gone suddenly
Odessa. By this defensive policy the Czar loPto
still to keep Prussia and Austria neutral, if not e,
attach these Powers more exclusively to his calls
It is impossible, however, that England and Fran 8,
eo
can accept such a solution of the affair. If itil,_9Bl/
is left in possession of the power of doing iniseu!-e
she will use it on the first favourable opportunlil;
By the by, it is evident, from the rapidity of t„,
movements of Marshal Paskiewitsch, that the e°;„
tusion which he received was not so serious as =a
presented by the French Government papers ;
that there is no truth in the report got up bY, sir
Patric, that the Prince had had a fit of par34a
which deprived him of the use of his left arm 311
leg.
The following changes and appointments .117
just taken place among the Prefects :—M. Len the
Prefect of the Meuse, has been transferred to _ ,
Meurthe, in place of M. de Sivry, made SenatTe;
M. Chadenet is transferred from the Loir-et"%e
to the Meuse ; M. de Soubeyran from 111.
Pyrenees-Orientales to the Loir-et-Cher ; and es
de Lassus St. Genies, S üb-Prefect of Dieppe) ~I,7ces,
the place so left vacant in the Pyrenees-Oriental
An Imperial decree appears in the Motile
rfj
regulating the position of the inspectors-ge3e „
of the Ponts-et-Chaussees; another decree %i
proves of certain modifications in the statutes,n.,
the Lyons Railway Company ; a third decree
stitutes the office of inspectors-general to railV.
lines ; a fourth appoints to fill such functions,
rou
Sylvain Blot, ex-inspector-general of police rot
Frossard, ex-inspector-general of police ;M• de
and M. Riviere, ex-prefects, and Vscount
Ruolz, inspector of railways. ter'
The French Funds were rather heavy Y,es „r.
day, and prices are somewhat lower. The -,,,°,10
and-a-Half per Cents. have fallen 60c., ay."(s
Three per Cents. 20c., at 97f. 90c. and
The various Bank Shares are unaltered. SPail—or
Home Debt has fallen I, and Roman ;
Foreign Funds are unchanged. Railway S,hnge
were firm, and show but littl alteration.
on London (short), 25f., money; ditto (90 dal
24f. 70c., money. the other

ITALY.
The Parlamento of Turin, of the 16th inst., Ow
tains the following, dated Piacenza, 13th Ads
" Iu the afternoon of the 12th, the Instructingl6of
Gabbi was stabbed with a poniard in the streets
Parma. Having extracted the weapon from the tv'unke
could a
he ran after the assassin, but before he overta
icteti
him he encountered one of his accomplices, who le' fell
on him five other stabs with a stiletto. M.
Gabbi the
senseless on the pavement. One of his wounds in
abdomen was considered very dangerous."
The Duchess of Parma had appointed Cowl:011-e
Joseph Cattani Minister of the Interior.
A recent publication in the Gazette de 1610, first
produced a great sensation at Turin. In A nan
article the official Italian organ of the Austri
Government attacks Russia in a very str°the
manner ; and, what is not less remarkable, l of
attack was made some days after the arriva
his
Marshal Radetzky in Italy, on his return from :th
journey to Vienna, where he had an interview' 170
the Emperor. The Austrian Government bies
ordered an extraordinary levy in Italy ; the 11°„use
and the rich are very much annoyed at it, beitve,
they cannot provide substitutes. Some
nevertheless, that by making sacrifices of 331°-
they will be able to obtain exemptions.

SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF TUX CROO-
FOREIGN PARTS. Yesterday the 153 d aneivergarsile
festival of this society was celebrated under the as— ,
of St. Paul's Cathedral. There was a full choral serial,
in which the members of her Majesty's Chapel Ref%
of St. Paul's, Westminster Abbey, and St. Geleecl
Chapel, Windsor, assisted. The sermon was Pre„ac rth
by his grace the Archbishop of Dublin, from the 1°.,11,-th
chapter of the Epistle to the Philippians, and the .11.0.
verse. The attendance was unusually large, a,ncl:of
eluded the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bieaq-be
London, Oxford, and their colonial brethren la t
Il
episcopate of New Zealand and Graham's Town, as vre
as the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs. twee
THE BELGIUM LOAN.—The loan at Brussels has -
concluded with Messrs. Rothschild Brothers, the IQ;
tional Bank, and the Sociae Generale. The anl°lln 01
27 millions of francs, at 4-1 per cent, at the rate of wo a
It is guaranteed from any conversion until 1861,
The
49 ll
the interest runs from the Ist May last. f
payment of instalments is divided over a terra .
18 months, from the Ist July next to the 31st De
comber, 1855, one-tenth at each of the folloo"
ing dates : —lst July, Ist August, and 15th November,
1854 ; Ist February, Ist May, Ist August, Ist Novqw
ber, and Ist December, and the two last tenths on 01?
31st December, 1855. The anticipation of the Were°
which reckons on the whole amount from the Ist 3141/
last is equivalent for the contractors to 3 per cell
which reduces the nett rate of the loan to 87. The BO
of Belgium has, it is said, obtained a part of the 10813'
and, five millions of it will be offered to the public._