The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-28 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY EVMNING.
The Emperor yesterday presided at a Council
of Ministers held at the Tuileries.
• Accounts received hero confirm the rumour that
three English officers and one French had been
taken prisoners by the Cossacks near Kertch.
Count Cavour has expressed his intention of
leaving Paris on Saturday. This is another indica-
tion that the Treaty of Peace will be signed on or
before that day.
Aali Pacha is about to give a grand ball, to
which he will invite the Emperor.
The Moniteur publishes the following circular
from the Minister of Justice
" Monsieur le Procureur General—Malevolence has
already on several occasions spread a report that the
government contemplated either suppressing, or at
least buying back, public and ministerial offices. The
Moniteur has given the most energetic contradiction
to this perfectly unfounded rumour, and a journal
which had propagated it was by my orders proceeded
against and condemned in Paris in 1853. I never-
. theless hear that, for some time past, endeavours
have been made to cause uneasiness to the holders of
such situations, .by announcing that a bill will shortly
be presented having fol. its object to interfere with the
possession of those offices. Nothing is more contrary
to the intentions of the Emperor's government. It
respects the property of offices as well as every other,
and it has never thought of depriving the holders and
their families of whit constitutes their principal resource.
Be pleased to give to this circular all the publicity you
may think desirable, and send copies of it to the cham-
bers of the notaries, avoues, hussiers, and auctioneers of
your district. You will please to communicate to me
what you have done on the subject.--Accept, &c„

" ABBATUCCI."

A Paris letter in the Independence of Brussels
says :—" All the regiments in.garrisen in the neigh-
bourhood of Paris have received orders to hold
themselves in readiness for a grand review. It is
said that not less than 150,000 men will be assem-
bled. The troops coming from a distance will be
quartered in the ♦illages as far as the Seine-et-Oise,
Arrangements are being made for receiving these
soldiers for four days at the least. The artillery of
the Guard will form four batteries per regiment.
It is expected that after the signature of the treaty
of peace a camp will be formed at Clialons-sur-
Marne, and it is certain the Imperial Guard are
preparing for an encampment this year."

BOURSE, March 27.—The following were the las
quotations :

Cash. ft. a. End of Month.
t per Cent 5.......... 93 75 —f. —a •

3-p'er Cents - 72 60 72 80
New Loan 73 10

Bank Shares.... ..... 3,500 Roman

Credit Alobilier 1,580 Austrian

89

Belgian Five 5........ Spanish Threes
Piedmontese(s). 94 25 Rome Debt ...... 40

RAILWAYS-NOS CASH.

ft. c. fr. e
Orleans ... 1,300 Western 9OO
Northern
Lyons ,. „. 1,270 New Ditto 827 1:0
&lediterranean .._....1,565 Grand Central
Lyons Geneva
Cette

RUSSIA.
A St. Petersburg letter of the 18th says :

" The Emperor Alexanier is about to make an ex.
torsion into into Finland to inspect the works which
d.fend the coasts, and to visit the interior of that pro-
vince. All the military commanders on the coast of the
Baltic, the Gulf of Finland, the Gulf of Bothnia, and
the White Sea, have received orders, in consequence of
the re-establishment of the blockade, to carry out their
instructions for the defence of the ports and coasts, as
on previous occasions."
The following telegraphic despatch was received
in Paris yesterday :

" BERLIN', March 27.
" The Emperor of Russia has left St. Petersburg for
Einlaud."

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.
By the Royal mail steam-ship America, Whit-
Man, commander, from Boston and Halifax,
whose arrival we announced yesterday, we are
in the receipt of our usual advices from. New York
to the 10th inst., from which we select the follow-
ing interesting items of intelligence :
A message had been received from the President,
asking for an appropriation of $300,060 for the sup-
pression of Indian hostilities in Oregon.
In the House of Representatives the question of
asking for power to send for persons and papers in
reference to the Kansas Case had been under consi-
deration, but without any result.
A Washington 'despatch of the 10ih says that
Col. Wheeler, the United States' Minister at Nica-
ragua, notwithstanding his perseverance in his en-
deavour to convince the State Department that he
was justifiable in recognising the new Government,
has failed to satisfy the Secretary of State of the
propriety of his course. Mr. Marcy places little or
no confidence in the testimonials—the signatures
which Col. Wheeler has transmitted to him in this
connection justification of the conduct of an offi -
cer resting, according to usage, more on the officers'
statement of facts than the endorsement of pri-
vate individuals.

Messrs. Jones and Ferguson, produce commis-
sion-dealers in New York, had suspended payment.
Their liabilities arc about $250,000, mostly owing
to banks and merchants in the interior of the
State. They have been recently heavy speculators
in grain.
. .

The steamship Union was announced to leave
New York on the 15th instant, for Gibraltar and
other Mediterranean ports.
A fire had occurred at Washington, by
_which one
fireman was killed and several others were severely
injured by the falling of a wall. The damage was
estimated at $15,000.
_ _

In reference to the missing steam-ship Pacific
Captain her late commander, in a letter pub-
lished in the Nye,ew York papers, has given the public
to understand that something unusual was-not un-
likely to •happen to the machinery of the Pacific,
from the fact stated by him that she had a new en-
gineer for this voyage. In reply to this Samuel
Matthews, her chief engineer, in a letter dated only
five days before the Pacific leit Liverpool, expresses
entire confidence in the engines of the Pacific, and
Horatio Allen, the resident engineer-in-chief of the
company, in a card published in the New York
papers, introducing the letters of Mr. Matthews,
wholly removes the insinuations thrown out by
Capt. Nye, and puts to rest the suspicions which
the statement of her late commander had awakened.
At Norfolk an express train went through a
curve on a bridge, killing three persons and se-
verely injuring several others. The train, after the
accident; took fire, and was totally destroyed. Ac-
cidents and loss oilife have been frequent through-
out the States.

Mr. Edward Everett and Dr. Kane had been re-
ceived with honour at Richmond by the city go-
vernment, and President Pierce was expected to
attend Mr. Everett's oration.
The Coninaeroial Bank of Chicago had closed its
doors.

A bill In the Kentucky Legislature, to establish
a patrol on the Ohio river, to prevent the escape of
slaves; has been referred to a special committee.
Mr. Nuttall advocated the bill. He said 100,000
dols:-wort-h of slave property had escaped from the
border counties. since Christmas. •
In the Virginia House of Delegates the question
of the emancipation of slaves in Virginia was under
consideration. One of the speakers maintained that
there ought to be no right to emancipate by will,
except for meritorious services. He said that this
right of emancipation was the right of annihilation,
which the law did not recognise. He said a man
should enjoy at his death the largest right to dis-
pose of his property among the community as he
thought proper. He maintained that the right
should, be withheld, except under the circumstances
indicated.

Colonel Garland, the treasurer of New Orleans,
bad taken flight, having become a defaulter to the
extent Of $150,000. He was the originator and
president of the Louisiana Savings-bank. The
depositors were mostly poor men and women, an
immense crowd of whom gathered around the bank
when his delinquency became known. He had
cut the telegraph wires in order to facilitate his
escape.
At Louisville a steam-boat collision had occurred
by which 20 persons had lost their lives.
From Toronto we learn that the Legislative
Council of Canada has passed to a second reading
a bill to permit money to be loaned by all parties,
excepting banks, at any rate of interest which may

be agreed upon, the said interest to be recoverable
in the courts of law.

At Portland, New Brunswick, 10 houses had
been destroyed by fire, and more than 80 families
rendered houseless. The value of the buildings
burned is estimated at something over 3,500/.,
about 1,8001. of which was covered by insurance.
Among the houses burned was the ancient resi-
dence known as the Old Simonds' Hauge, which
was the oldest in the pi ovince, having been erected
in the year 1764.

LATEST VIA HALIFAX.
NEW YORK, MARCH 13.
European news by the Arabia was published
yesterday (Wednesday) at 3 o'clock. Money
continues abundant. Fancy stocks quiet. Ster-
ling exchange, 1091. Cotton has declined lc. ;
middling Orleans quoted 10c. ; middling uplands,
9jc. Flour, Is. to 2s. (York) lower.
NEW ORLEANS, MARCH 12.
Our latest European news is by the Africa.
Sales to-day-8,500 bales ; middling quoted 9ic.,
and weak.

ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC.
LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MORNING.
The Baltic has arrived, with advices from New
York- to the 15th instant, and $273,661 specie.
The City of Edinburgh was passed going into
New York. The Arabia had arrived at Boston,
and the Ericsson at New York.
There are no tidings of the Pacific.
There is no political news.
The Kansas Free State Legislature was organised
on the 4th. The Governor counselled entire obe-
dience to the Federal authority. Everything was
quiet, tbut an outbreak was anticipated at any
monien
Rifles and cannon intended for the Free State
men had been captured at Lexington.
28,000 bales of cotton had been destroyed by fire
at New Orleans.
The advices by the Northern Light from Cali-
fornia were to the 20th ult. She had on freight
272,583 dols.
A shock of earthquake was felt at San Francisco
on the 15th February. The damage was slight. ,
The markets had slightly improved, and the mines
were yielding largely. Money was, easier.
President Pierce's message had caused a good
deal of excitement and a large amount of political
speculation at Belize, Honduras. The Legislature
had proposed to tax rum and sagar. Cochineal
and indico were scarce.
The New York money market continued well'
supplied with capital, and an active business was
being done at previous rates.
The stock market was depressed. Sterling ex- --
change was firm at 08 to 9i.
In cotton a further decline of an eighth per cent.
had taken place.
The market for flour was dull, and declining. In-
ot her articles there was no particular change.
Freights remained firm.