The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-18 00:00:00

great activity.

MADRID, SEPT. 16.
The Gazette publishes a Royal decree which re
establishes the Constitution of 1845.

An additional article explains what offences o.
the press are to be brought before the jury.

The minimum of the duration of the session of
the Cortes will be four months ; the existence o
the Council of State is ratified, and the authorise.

tion of the Cortes will be required for the mar

riage of the sovereign or the heirs, of the crown
for the sale of Royal patrimony, and for genera

amnesties.

The Times' Paris correspondent (Second Edi-
tion) says :
" There was an unusual stir last night at the
Prefecture of Police and at the prison of Mazas,
owing to the arrest of about 30 persons belonging
to a secret society. This society, composed of
revolutionists of the most violent and dangerous
kind, held a meeting yesterday, at which it is
said that it was decided to assassinate the Empe:
ror on his return from Biarritz. I understand
that the police know all the members of this society,
most of whom are old members of the Marianne,
inhabiting the 6th, 7th, and Bth arrondissements
of Paris. The majority of them are artisans. Seve-
ral of those arrested are very young, and appear
intelligent and not uneducated. They have been
placed in solitary confinement at Mazas, and are
allowed to communicate with no one. The search
made at their residences has brought to light
nothing that compromises them, but the police are
prepared to prove the existence of the society,
and to bring forward witnesses of its frequent
meetings.

" This confirms the evidence, already pretty
positive, contained in the details I sent you con-
cerning the Marianne, as to the existence of a
secret society, whose members are sworn to at-
tempt the life of the Emperor. Fortunately the
police are vigilant and sharp-sighted, and history
is there to show us how rarely such attempts
succeed. It is doubtless very difficult to form a
society of this kind, into which some agent of
the authorities does not find means to insinuate
himself, and even when that is not the case, at
the last moment it is rare that all the conspira-
tors preserve their firmness of purpose and of
nerve.

" I am assured that the French Government
has given an order, dating from the Ist instant,
prohibiting any further transportations to Ca-
yenne."

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNASDA.r EVENING.

The Messager de Bayonne gives the following
account of the proceedings at the Villa Eugenie on
the latter days of the past week and the commence-
ment of the present one
A.. 6 en on Pridfty night in honour of
Prince Adalbert and his young bride the invitations
were more numerous than usual, and dancing was
kept up with great spirit until one o'clock in the
morning. The Empress wore a dress of plain white
gae/atanne, excessively fine, having for ornament only a
bouquet of bluets and diamonds placed in the centre of
the corsage. Her Majesty's head-dress was a garland of
the same flower intermixed with diamonds. The
toilette of the Infanta consisted of a dress of white
muslin, with deep flounces of black lace with rose-
coloured ribbon, and she was profusely decorated with
diamonds. Among the guests were the Marquis and
Marquise de Turgot, Marshal and Mine. Serrano, M.
de Menique (the Prefect of the Gironde) and Mine. de
Menique, &c. On Saturday MM. Joseph Salvador
de Lequerica and Antoine Lopez de Calle, deputed by
the province of Biscay to offer to the Prince Imperial
the title of Biscayan, were received by the Emperor,
being presented by Marshal Serrano. His Majesty re-
ceived them with the greatest courtesy and conducted
them to the Empress, who thanked them for the flatter•
hag compliment offered to the prince her son. The de-
putation, after an appropriate address, handed the offi-
cial document to the Emperor. His Majesty replied
that he was very grateful to the Queen for allowing the
deputation to be presented to him ; that he deeply felt
this mark of sympathy for the Empress ; that such de-
monstrations could not fail to strengthen the bands
which unite the two countries ; and that he was happy
to think that the Prince Imperial had also Spanish
blood in his veins, for he (his Majesty) had always en-
tertained for that chivalrous people as much affection as
esteem. The two gentlemen afterwards had the honour
of dining with their Majesties, from whom while at
table they were the object of the most flattering
attentions. After dinner, they had the honour of
being taken into a private salon by their Majesties,
where they conversed together for more than an
hour. The Emperor with the warmest interest
inquired into the state of the crops, the position of
the working classes, and the resources and wants
of the country. At the conclusion of the confer-
ence the Emperor presented to each of the gentle-
men the cross of the Legion of Honour, and told
them at the same time that he had given orders for
three vases to be manufactured at Sevres., orna-
mented with portraits of the Emperor, the Em-
press, and the Prince Imperial, which were to be
offered to the general deputation of Biscay, as a
mark of the gratitude of their Majesties for the
souvenir given to their son by the representatives
of that noble province. On Sunday, after hearing
mass at the church of Biarritz, their Majesties went
to the bull fight. The Emperor and Empress were
in an open carriage and four, without escort. Two
other carriages and four followed with their suite.
The Emperor and Empress stopped until the con-
clusion of the scene. On Monday their Majesties
passed through Bayonne on their way to Bidache
to visit the ruins of the chateau of the Dukes de
Grammont." _ _

BOURSE, Sept. 17.—The following were the lasi
quotations
Cash. ft., e. End of Month.
4i per Cents (id) 92 75 —f. —a
3 per Cents 7O 50 70 75
New Loan 7O 50
42Q

Bank Shares 4,125 Roman
Credit M0bi1ier......1,725 Austrian «
Belgian Fives Spanish Threes,....,
Fiedmontese(s) . 9l Home Debt ........

RAILWAYS-708 CASH.
ft. 0
fr. C.
Orleans ......... ...... 1,360 Western... 943 75
Northern
Lyons -....1,345 New Ditto
Mediterranean 1795 Grand Central
Lyons Geneva ?'sate
Cetto
Austrian Com.. ..... 875
The Moniteur of yesterday announces that Mar-
shal Serrano had presented to the Emperor and
Empress at Biarritz the deputation charged with
the official act by which the Junta of Biscay recog-
nised the right of the Imperial Prince to enjoy the
prerogatives and privileges attached to the citizen-
ship of the province.
The Emperor, who received the deputation very
graciously, replied that he was very grateful to the
Queen of Spain for allowing the deputation to be
presented to him ; that he was extremely touched
by this proof of sympathy on the part of the pro-
vinee for the Empress and her son ; that such de-
monstrations could not but strengthen the ties
which two nations
Prince
;and thathad
he
s wwahsichhaapl;yeactloy uthniintekd the
that
he Imperial
Spanish blood in his veins, for he had ever felt as
much affection as esteem for that warlike and chi-
valrous people.

PRUSSIA.
A letter from Berlin of the 14th, in the Condi-
tutionnel, says :—" The statement made by several
journals that the residue of the loan of 30 millions
of thalers, amounting to 8,700,000 thalers, is to be
employed in increasing. the Prussian army is com-
pletely unfounded. A bill will be submitted to
the chambers to devote this sum to the construe-

tion and fitting out of three large iressells of war
A. letter from St. Petersburg states that the Em-
press Dowager of Russia will start for Italy about
the end of the present month. She will pass
through Berlin in the beginning of Oct. Plans
are now under consideration at the Ministry of
War for the complete reconstruction of the fortifi-
cations of Magdeburg. That place requires exten-
sion in consequence of the increas e of the tinhabi-
tants, but the present fortifications prevent any
new houses from being built."
Another letter from. Berlin of the same date
says :—" We understand that a note Igo been ad-
dressed to the foreign powers relative to the affair
of Neufchatel. The object of it is not merely to
reserve the rights of Prussia, but it is said that the
Prussian government con3iders the definitive sat-
tlement of the question according to treaties as in:,
dispensable in the interest of the peace of Europe.

ITALY.
TURIN, Sept. 12.—The following are the words
of the decree by which the Duchess Regent Of
Parma orders the raising of the state asiege in her
capital f—
" Art. 1. The state of siege ordered by So vereigii de•
cree of the 17th of March, 1856, No. 121, in the coin'
mune of Parma, and in all the rural communes adjoini4
the same shall cease on the 10th of the present month.
" Art. 2. On the day following, all those dispositions
of the Sovereign decree of the 10th of June, 1856, No.
226, which in consequence of the proclamation of the
state of the siege bad remained in abeyance, shall return
in vigour for the said communes.
" Art. 3. The affairs relative to the state of siege,
which on the said 10th of September shall not yet have
been irrevocably decided, and which may be pending
before the military authoriOes, shall be referred to the
mixed commission or to the ordinary tribunals,
accord-
ing to Art. 5 of the decree of the 10th of June, 18551
above quoted.
" Art. 4. The Minister of Grace and Justice, and oar
Private Cabinet Secretary, Minister of State, Presided'.
of the Military Department, are charged with the execu-'
tion of the present decree. " LOUISA.
" Given at Piacenza, Sept. 7, 1856."
The Monitore Toscano, in alluding to the mis-
sion of the Russian General Stackelberg to Parma,
confirms the rumour that the late measures adopted
by the Duchess were mainly recommended by hinn.
The following is the substance of the words attri•
buted to him :—" The Czar has felt the deepest
sympathy for the Duchess on the occasion of the
trials to which she has been exposed ; he takes the
greatest interest in her prosperity ; he advises her.
to persevere in her wise and mild intentions ; and,
should she meet with obstacles, the Court of
Russia is determined to support her with all its in•
fluence."

SPAIN.
The Madrid journals of the 13th have arrixed.
A council of ministers had been held under the
presidency of the Queen, and in it, it was said, the
draft of the proposed new constitution had been
read to her Majesty. The Bishop of Urgel) ;ig.
n.
exile at the Balearic islands, bad received pert'''
sion to return to Spain. M. Costina and M. B°(13
had returned to Madrid. Marshal Narvae2 bad
caused action to be brought against the Nacion for
publishing a letter from Loja in which he consider
himself libelled. A band of eight or ten men 114
appeared in the province of Burgos, but the caP;
tain-general had published a bando declaring and,
such of them as might be taken should be shot, alTe
says one of the papers, they " are sure t° be
exterminated." At the great fair in Biscay, th;c,
was a large supply of wheat, and prices fell. e,
vintage on the whole, in all the kingdom, is rePr Y
rented to be favourable. The works of the railwa
between Barcelona and Martorell were nearly Oa'
eluded.

The King of Sardinia has aointed Lieutenalui
General Durando, late ministeppr of war, to the P°_,'
of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotow
tiary at Constantinople.