The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-09 00:00:00

THE AUSTRIAN AMNESTY.

The following are the autographic decrees by
which the Emperor of Austria amnesties a number
of political prisoners, and raises the sequestrations
in Lombardy :
" Dear Field Marshal Count Radetsky,—l have
resolved entirely to raise the sequestrations laid,
on the 13th Feb., 1853, upon the property of poli-
tical emigrants from my Lombardo-Venetian king-
dom. You will at once take proper measures for
restoring the estates to those who can satisfactorily
show themselves to be their proprietors. At the
same time I authorise you for the future to take
measures for receiving returning emigrants again
into the country, and restoring to them the quaity
of Austrian citizens where they may have lost it,
and to grant them pardon when solicited on a for-
mal promise to conduct themselves hereafter as
loyal and faithful subjects. I charge you immedi-
ately to publish this my sovereign will.
" Tenice, Dec. 2."

4 6 FRANCIS JOSEPH.

" Dear Field Marshal Radetsky,—l grant an en-
tire
remission of their penalty to the persons here-
after mentioned, who have been condemned for
high treason or for other criminal acts contrary to
public order, viz. :—Guiseppi Fiuzi—Paolo Flora
—Guiseppe Paganoni—Giulio Faccbli—Angelo
Mangili Domenico Fernelli Attillio Mori
Guiseppe Nova—Paolo Veladini—Carlo Sabbioni
—Antonio Lazzati—Ferdinando Bos;o Omero
Zannucchi—Giovanni Nuvolari—Giovanni Ma-
laman Carlo Marchi Lisiade Pedroni
Agostino Galli Guiseppe Merini—Ctrlo Girotti
—Luigi Dolci Giovanni Vergani (recte Swo-
boda) Girolano Cagliari—Domenico Cesconi—
Luigi Pastro—Alberto Cavalletto—Francesco Ros-
setti—Francesco Strada—Siro Negri Ambrosio
Giussanni Paolo Lombardi Paolo Longoni_
Giuseppe Brusa—Caelo Marelli—Carlo Peroli—
Luigi Pagani—Carlo Ferrini—Pietro Campanara
Andrea Triboldi Luigi Rosetti Giovanni
Mpoogrgeira—ni—CarlotoMniaozzmolionrib—inCi arloßellixi—Angelo
Gaetano
Gosen—
Ginieppe Scaltritti—Francesco Pagani—Vincenzo
Longate—Giacomo Ghirardelli—Ulisse galis—An-
t onio Z anetti—Paride Petenati—Serafirio Rastelli
—Giovanni Bernarda—Fraquelli Gio Battista—
Pietro Fraquelli Giovanni Bianchi—.
Giovanni
Faggi—Giacomo Geninazzi—Andrea Grlndi—An-
tonio Leoni—Giovanni Cordoni—Marcc Chiesa—
Gaetano Mandelli—Francesco Spernazzitti—Giu-
seppe Gariboldi—GiuseppelAlnisetti—Liigi Nara.
" FRANCIS fosEpll.

" Tonic°, Dec. 2, 1856."

FRANCE.
PARIS, MONDAY EYENING.

According to the Debats, Turkey is the only
Power which has not sent in its adhesion to another
Conference, but its assent is considered ctrtain.
It is the general impression at Berlin
that the
affair of Neuchatel will terminate in a corkpromise.
The lifortiteur states that his Excellency, Baron
Hubner, Ambassador-Extraordinary and Plenipo-
tentiary of the Emperor of Austria,
was received
yesterday by the Emperor, and delivered a letter
from his imperial and royal master, notifying the
marriage of his Imperial Highness the Archduke
Charles Louis of Austria, brother of the Emperor,
to the Princess Margaret of Saxony, daughter of
the King of Saxony.
The Monitory also contains a decree, prow.ulgat-
ing a convention for the mutual protection of copy-
right in works of art or literature in the two States
of France and Wurtemburg.
The ball given on Sunday evening at the Opera,
for the benefit of the poor of the arrondissement,
was honoured by the presence of their Majesties,
who arrived soon after eleven, and did not retire
till one in the morning. When their Majesties
appeared in the Imperial box they were greeted
with loud and repeated cries of " Yive rEmpereur I
Vive rlmperatrice !" which were renewed on their
leaving. Their Majesties were attended by a bril-
liant suite. The Princess Mathilde was also pre-
sent. The ball was crowded, and the result will
prove very favourable for, the poor.

Advices from Constantinople, of the 26th ult.,
state that Ministerial councils wero taking place
every day under Reschid Pacha. The Prussian
Oonsul-General, M. Meusebach, arrived at Bucha-
rest on the 20th ult.

THE AFRICAN MAILS.

PLYMOUTH, MONDAY.

The African mail-steamer Gambia arrived at
noon to-day, with the homeward mails. She
brings eleven passengers, 1,269 oz. of gold, 350
puncheons of palm oil, with cotton, cochineal, and
other African produce.

By this arrival we learn that, at different parts
of the coast, there were again disputes between the
iatives.
At Old Cameroons, the missionaries and traders
were at variance respecting some Sierra Leone
people, whom the former had taken under their
protection, and who were trading in an underhand
way.
There was a great battle being fought in the
neighbourhood of Sierra Leone, and there had
inhabitants
and great loss both on the side of the
and the natives.
The previous steamer brought news that an
attack on the town was imminent.

BETTER TREES.—Though there has been a considerable
increase in the population of South Shields, the expendi-
ture for the poor, in maintenance and out-door relief,
•6s. •
wasl 863/ 7d during the first half-year of 1856, as
,
ma p ed with on expenditure of 3,0061. 14s. 9.; d. in the
compared with n expenditure of 3,0061. 140, 9d. in the
same periodr of 1350, showing a decrease of 1,1431. 85.2
FORGING A RAILWAY PAM—LIVERPOOL, December
6....—George Nash, who describes himself as a reporter for
railway newspapers, was charged at the police court to•
day, on remand from the previous week, with having
travelled from London to Liverpool on the London and
North-Western Railway with a forged pass. The case
was proved, and he was ordered to pay the fare, 21. 55.,
and was also convicted in the penalty of 40s. and costs,
or to be committed for two months.
THE SHREWSBURY ESTATES.—LIVERPOOL, December
6.—The following circular has been addressed to
the tenants of the Shrewsbury estates is this neigh-
bourhood :—" 32, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London, Dec. 1,
1856. Sir,—Wo find thst Earl Talbot's agents are trying
to persuade the tenants in Staffordshire and Chehire
that his lordship is now entitled to those estatee,although
the first legal step towards establishing his claim has not
yet been taken. Similar attempts have already been made
in Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, and Worcester-
shire, by advertisements, by personal notices, and oven
by treating the tenants at public- houses, but without
success, the tenants on those estates having very pro-
perly considered that these are not the means by which
such an important question can be decided. There are
other claimants of the earldom, any one of whom has just
as much pretence as Earl Talbot fir claiming the estates,
but none of them have thought it right to interfere with
the tenants, while their claims to the earldom as well as
i to the estates remain wholly uninvestioated. It is only
as Earl of Shrewsbury that any one can claim the estates
as against the trustees of Lord Edmund Howard ; and,
until some one of the claimants has established a title to
the earldom, he cannot even question the right of the
trustees (as it is clearly their duty) to retain possession
of the estates. If any y claimant should hereafter esta-
blish a claim to the earldom, which we believe impossible,
Lord Edmund and trustees will be quite prepared to
maintain in the courts of law that the late earl had full
right, like every other landowner, to dispose of own
family estates, notwithstanding the restrictions imposed
by the old act of Parliament on which Lard Talbot
relies, hut which, like all other laws imposing penal-
ties on religious opinions, has .ong since been repealed.
We trust that
the Shrewsbury tenants in Stafford-
shire and Cheshire will follow the unanimous example
of the tenants on the other estates, and continue
(upon the indemnity of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk)
to pay their rents to their old landlords until (if
ever) the House of Lords shall have decided that
there is an 'Earl of Shrewsbury,' and the courts of
law shall have determined that he is, as such,
entitled to the Shrewsbury estates.' The Duke of Nor-
folk's written indemnity will be given to each tenant at
the ensuing audit, or it may be obtained in the mean
time upon application to R. J. Butler, Esq., Alton
:Cowers, or to Thomas Hogging, Esq., Trafford-lodge,
near Chester, the local agents of the Staffordshire and
Cheshire estates.—We are, air, your obedient servants,
CUREIE, WOODGATE, and Wiwatts."