The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-25 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

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The steam-ship Adria arrived from Alexandria
at Trieste at 2 p.m. yesterday, after a passage of
140 hours. _

She left Alexandria on the 18th inst., and brings
the - following news from India
'the Burmese occupy the Aeng with a large force.
Pegu (the province, we suppose) has been again
occupied by a large force of Burmese. They raised
the siege on the Bth and 9th of January, and
marched to the defence of Ichoygt, upon learning
that General Steel was advancing upon that place.
The Burmese have retired from Prome and from
Meadami.

It is said that a revolution has taken place at
Ava, by which the old King has been deposed and
driven out, and. that the new King has recalled the
troops to Ava, and desires peace.
Fever and. diarrhoea prevail among our troops,
and were increasing.

Trade in India was languid.
Exchange was firm at 2s. Id. in Calcutta.
The insurrection in China caused considerable

devastation.
The Pottinger has brought (to Suez) 21 boxes of
gold dust from Australia.

THE FRENCH EMPIRE.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday
in due course.

All the heads of the admininistration of the city
of Paris, and of the department of the Seine, have
taken the oath of fidelity to the Emperor and the
Constitution, before M. Merreau, the Secretary-
General, at the Hotel de Ville.
By a decree of the Emperor, M. de Lacour,
French Minister at Vienna, has been appointed
ambassador to the Sublime Porte, in the room of
the Marquis de Lavalette, who returns to France
at his own request. Baron de Bourqueney is to
replace M. de Lacour at the Court of Vienna.
M. Rouland, Procureur-General of the Cour
Imperial of Paris, has been named Councillor of
State, unattached to any particular section.
The Moniteur, under the head of Erratum,
states that, instead of saying that M. Fremy has
been charged with the general direction of the Mi-
nistry of the Interior, it should be said, "is charged
temporarily, &c."
The Emperor has just decided that out of the 10
millions appropriated by the decree of 22d Janu-
ary to the improvement of the habitations of the
Working classes, three millions shall be immediately
placed at the disposal of the Minister of the Inte-
rior. The proprietors of houses inhabited by per-
sons of the working classes may at present address
their demands for aid and submit their propositions
to the Prefect of the Seine.

The Emperor, on the proposition of the Minister
of Justice, has exempted 158 individuals from the
police surveillance, to which they had been sub-
jected by the Mixed Commissions of the Depart-
ments and the Commission of Revision.

The Emperor has presented the Bishop of Nancy
with a sum of 3,000 f. for the poor of his diocese.
The Minister of the Interior, M. Persigny, has
addressed a circular to tit° Prefects throughout
France, relative to the privileges of the Credit
foncier Company, requiring information as to the
various engagements or mortgages in each depart-
ment.

The bill lately presented to the Legislative
Body, concerning foundlings, proposes some
marked changes in the system now in force. The
new measure authorises the Government to in-
troduce such changes as experience may have
shown to be indispensable. To the absolute
o'oligation of having a turning-basket at each
lospital, the bill allows the Government to sup-
press or establish such a mode of reception as it
may deem most advisable. It also permits it
to adopt such general measures as may appear
best, either to lessen the number of children re-
ceived, or to regulate their mode of admission.
Another modification relates to the yearly sum
for each child. Hitherto it was paid up to the age
of 12 years only, the law presuming that children
could be usefully placed out at that age. Ex-
perience, however, has proved that this limit was
too narrow, and that 15 years must be considered
as the youngest period at which a child could be
provided for with advantage. All the enactments
contained in the old law relative to the property
which foundling children might be left by will are
preserved. The situation of the children when
bound to trades is made the object of special enact-
Inents, the prefect being ordered to take note by
frequent inquiries of the manner in which each
child is treated. The new bill allows the prefect
to authorise, on the sole condition of paying the
expense incurred, the delivery of the children
claimed by their parents. This reduction of the
cost to the parents will, it is thought, tend to lessen
the number of children thrown on society. The
bill fixes penalties for the repetition of the offence
of abandoning children, such a practice being
evidently contrary to the law of nature.
The Minister of Police has authorised the crea-
tion at Paris of a Society of Regattas, on the same
plan as those which exist in diffrent sea ports, the
object being to encourage the navigation of the
Seine.

The Presse says that Monsieur V. Verneuil, a
literary character, has proposed to the Minister of
Police to make a change in the ordinary travelling
Passport, which will prevent many of the frauds at
present practised by thieves and other bad charac-
ters, who frequently commit robberies and even
murders to possess themselves of a passport, un-
der which to screen themselves from detection.
The change will consist of the likeness of the person
named in the passport, taken by the daguerreotype,
and placed beside the signature. An artist has
already offered to the Minister to execute the like-
ness at a cheap rate, and a chymist has undertaken
to render the likeness indelible. With this im-
provement it will be impossible for any but the
person named in the passport to make use of it.
The Minister of Police has taken the proposition of
M. Vernemll into his serious consideration.
Yesterday there was more fluctuation and excite-
ment on the Bourse than for a week past. Very
unfavourable rumours were prevalent relative to
misunderstandings with Austria, which had the
effect of depressing the Rentes until the 4- per
Vents. fell 80c. below the quotations of yesterday,
closing at 105 f. 10c. for cash ; Bank Stock also was
called five francs lower, leaving off at 2,800 f. The
Three per Cents., on the other hand, left off at an
improvement, the last price being 80f. 85c. Very
little business was done in railway shares, and no
improvement was observable in prices. Foreign
funds altogether neglected.

ITALY.
11'he military authorities, believing that Mazzini
was still in the town, have taken the most rigorous
xneasures to prevent him from escaping. Tjiey
even opened the coffins which were being carried
to consecrated ground, to assure themselves that
Mazzini was not concealed in one of them. By
order of the Commandant, all the houses were illu-
minated on the 19th, in rejoicing for the preserva-
tion of the Emperor's life.
Orders had been is.sued to the 'householders to
suspend, for the purpose of lighting the town, a
F.tmp from the first-floor of every fourth house,
'which is to remain burning from six o'clock in the
evening until daylight. In case of disturbance the
householders are to close their doors, and every man
found in the street is to be treated as concerned in
the affray. The inhabitants are forbidden to ap-
pear on the bastions from six o'clock in the evening
till seven. in the morning.
It is believed in Turin that the visit of M. Mas-
!limo d'Azeglio to London, is connected with the
Loucicn refugees, and that he has been despatched
at the, instance of the Queen, who still remains in
the 'Tyrol.
The Government continued to expel from Pied-
inont the most dangerous of the refugees.
The loan of two millions would be effected with
the house of Rothschild at Paris.

SPAIN.
-The Madrid journals of the 18th have come to
hand. The Clamor Publico states that Major-
General Ortega has been placed under the imme-
diate orders of the Minister of War with full pay.
It was currently rumoured at Madrid that M.
Estban. Collentes would be named Minister of
Public Works before the opening of the Cortes.
A private letter from Madrid announces that the
Government has concluded a loan of 52 millions of
reals with the Bank of St. Ferdinand, on the se-
cv.rity of the receipts from Havana during 1854.
YA is believed M. Manuel Burmudez de Castro will
be named Intendant of Havana after the meeting
of the Cortes. The Herald() aives the contents of
some letters from Lisbon, which state that, in con-
sequence of the death of the Princess Dona Maria
Amelia, which took place on the 4th inst., the
Queen of Portugal will receive no one, norleave
her apartments 'for a week ; that all the func-
tionPaies of the Palace shall go into mourning for
font,. months, that all judicial affairs shall be sus-
Le.nded, anti the theatre closed for three days.
T=he same letters give intelligence from Rio Ja-
neiro to the 14th ult., and from Pernambuco to
the: 21st The Brazilian Government had had a
decided triumph in the late elections. The greatest tranquility prevailed throughout the country. Up-
"r4B " 500 British and American vessels had