The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-21 00:00:00

FRANCE.

It is said that the close of the year will be cele-
brated by a considerable number of promotions.
M. Troplong, it is believed, will be promoted to
the post so long held by Cambaceres under the
first Empire—that of Archchancellor with the
title of Duke. In that case M. de tangle will
become First President of the Court of Cassation.
The Prince de Canino, it is reported, is endea-
vouring to induce- Louis Napoleon to interfere, in
order to get him a divorce from his wife. If the
Prince were in the succession to the French throne,
the Emperor for the time being could pronounce
the divorce by decree ; but as the Prince is merely
a prince of the family, and not an Imperial Prince,
the divorce falls within the prerogative of the Pope.
The Prince de Canino employs M. Dupin as his
counsel.
The Emperor has intimated that Prince Napo-
leon is to be President of the Committee that is to
decide on the admission of articles presented to
the Great Exhibition of the year. 1855. The com-
mission is not yet definitively selected, and the
demands are numerous for places. •
The commission appointed to examine the books
exposed for sale in the departments .by hawkers
has forbidden the circulation of a History of the
Last Roman Republic, by Marchal of. Calvi, who
is detained in prison for political. offences. The
work is insulting to the Prince of Canino. It is
said that the Pontifical Government has requested
his pardon, but Louis Napoleon, on the observa-
tions of his family, had refused.
The opening of the great Bonaparte Club (the
Globe) for the season has taken place with a grand
dinner, at which General de Bar presided. Toasts
were proposed to the health of the Emperor and
Empress. M. Belmontel, whose devotedness to
the Napoleon dynasty is so remarkable, in speaking
to the toast, remarked that the Imperial dynasty is
" a shield for the present and a lever for the
future."

M. Dupin is very indignant that his nomination
as a senator has not yet appeared in the Moniteur.
On Monday he said to a friend, "They have ap-
pointed me as a senator, and they have not the
courage to publishmy nomination in the Moniteur.
It is a loss to me.of 2,500 f. every mouth the pub-
lication is delayed."
The Chevalier de Paiva on Monday had au au-
dience of the Emperor at the Tuileries, at which
he delivered to his Majesty a letter from the King-
Regent of Portugal, in the name Of King Pedro
the Fifth, notifying the death of her Majesty
Donna Mina 11., and Confirining the Chevalier de
Paiva as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary of the King of Portugal at the Court of
the Tuileries.

Prince Gaston de Montmorency died in Paris on
Monday.
The 11l onitieur publishes the instructions given
by the Four Powers to their Ambassadors at Con-
stantinople,. and which appeared in the Dehats, but
the reproduction in the Moniteur is precoded by
the following remarks :—" We reproduce the
instructions published by the Journal- des Debuts,
and which, according to that journal, have been
addressed to the iepresentatives of the Four
Powers at Constantinople. We have not to ex-
plain ourselves as to the correctness of diplomatic
documents thus given up to publicity. If they are
false, it is a culpable manoauvre, and if they are
true, it is an unpardonable indiscretion. The Go-
vernment has taken measures to preirent the re-
currence of such facts." The other Paris journals,
with two exceptions, copy the instructions without
comment. On this subject the Pays has, a long
article, from which we extract the following im-
portant observations :
"Th• object of the European Cabinets is set forth in
these instructions with more precision 'than in the proto-
col and note signed on Dec. 5, at Vienna. It is there
stated,in fact, that the Ottoman Government willnot have
to accede to any of the demands which it has already re-
fused ; that an arrangement will be concluded for the eva-
cuation of the principalities ; and, finally, that it would be
proper to have an armistice consented to in order to
leave to the negotiations more liberty and independenCe.
However, it will be remarked that the proposition of
this suspension of hostilities, is subordinate in some
measure to the assurance given to the Porte by the me-
diating Powers, that Russia would accept the terms on
which the Divan might be disposed to treat. In this
grave question of the East, in which the unforeseen has
constantly played so great a part, it is difficult to predict
a solution ; but it must be declared that up
.to the pre-
sent time, no effort has been made of a more serious
character than this now before us or more calculated
to succeed. It is not, we hope, au illusion to believe
that Turkey may without fear adhere to the
propositions which are made to her, and that
Russia, unless she admits secret motives which
she has always denied, cannot resist this last effort
of conciliation. The union of the European States
in one policy, and above all the adhesion of Prtissia and
Austria to the views of France Al.d England, are a
proof to the Czar that Europe is de, ermined to-main-
tain her internal peace and her sovereign right. •It re
minds him of his own principles, of that policy of order,
conservatism, and respect of treaties of which he was so
long the representative and defender, and before the
inviolability of which every exclusive policy ought to
give way, even at the price of its interests and ambition.
For Turkey, this union is the pledge of her integrity
and the guarantee of her future position. Henceforward
the Ottoman empire has its place marked in the family
of European sovereignties ' • and the necessity of her
territorial existence and of her independenct is for the
first time admitted in a great diplomatic act. That is
for Turkey a moral conquest infinitely preferable to the
greatest material conquests."
The Asseinblee Nationale says that these instruc-
tions are' a proof of the wisdom and good intentions
of the four powers.

By a dec'ree of the Emperor, the Abbe Gerbet,
honorary Vicar-general of Paris and Amiens, is
named Bishop of Perpignan, in place of Mgr. de
Saunhaz-Belcastel, deceased.
. An election ,for the Corps Legislatif is to take
place shortly in the department of the Lot, in con-
sequence of the death of M. Lafon de Caix. Count
Joachim Murat will, it is said, be the candidate of
Government.

Captain Bonnard has been appointed governor
of the French penitentiary colony of Cayenne, in
the room of M. Fourrichon.

The Bourse was remarkably firm yesterday,
although it was currently reported that the English
and French fleets had entered the, Black Sea. The
Three per Cents. opened at 75f., and fell to 74f.
90c. ; but on the announcement that Consols had
risen one-half per cent. in London, they, rose to
75f. 15c. They closed at 75f. 10c.-for the end of
the month. • The Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
closed at 102 f.; Orleans Railway shares, 1,192 f.
50c. ; Rouen, 1,061 f. 25c. ; Havre, 505 f.; Great
Norther., 885 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 833 f. 75c:;
Paris and Lyons, 922 f. 50c. ; Lyons to the Medi-
terranean, 780 f. ; Western of France, 700 f. ; Bor-
deaux
and Cette, 633. 75c. ; Great Central, 525 f.;
Lyons and Geneva, 520 f.; Shares of the Bank of
Credit Mobilier, 767 f. 50c.

SPAIN.

Our accounts from Madrid. aka of the 15th inst.

The Opposition continued to report that a Minis-
terial crisis was impending, and that the Queen in-

tevded to confide the reconstruction of the Cabinet
to the Marquis de Viluma. Those rumours, how-
ever, ),ve,re considered totally. unfounded.
The English Ambassador gave, on the 13th, a
grand banquet, at which assisted the members of
the corps diplomatique, some officers of the Palace,
amongst whom was Count de Sevilla Nueva, M.
Martinez de la, Rosa, the Marquis of Viluma, Gene-
ral Lersundi, and the Ministers of Finance, Public
Works, and IVlarine. All the Ministers had been
invited, but those of the Interior and War were
unable to attend, on account of public business ;
and the President of the Council and the Minister
of. Justice were confined to their apartments by
indisposition. •
The Government had concluded a contract with
the Bank of San Fernando for the payment of the
dividend due on the 7th of January next, both in
Spain and abroad. The Bank is to advance the
funds necessary at an interest of 6 per cent., and
a commission of per cent. abroad and per cent.

in Spain. •
The Three per Cents. were done at 43& ; the
New Three per Cents, at 22a ; the Debt of the first
class, at 8 ; and that of the second, at 41.