The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-23 00:00:00

affairs.

MADRID, AUG. 21.

By a royal decree published in the Gazette,
wheat, flour, oats, and foreign maize are ex-
empted from import duty until June next.

A letter from Berlin of the 19th, in the Presse
Beige, says :—" The Prussian Government has
determined to wreak a terrible vengeance for the
affair of the Riff'. A company of the chasseurs
of the guard from Potsdam, another of the 4th
chasseurs from Magdeburg, a third of the Bth
chasseurs of the Rhenish province, and a com-
pany of Marines from Dantzic have been placed
on a war footing, and are about to leave in trans-
port vessels. An order has been sent to the
Prussian vice-consul at Fez to inform the Moorish
Government of what is intended, and to declare
that all relations will be interrupted between the
two powers, should any attempt be made to op-
pose a descent on the coasts of the Riff. Eng-
land, it is affirmed here, will 00-operate in the
repression of the pirates."

ASIATIC TURKEY.

EVACUATION OF KARS BY THE RUSSIANS,

ERZEROIIM, JULY 29.
Colonel L. Melekoff, the officer in command of
the Russian forces at Kars, arrived here on Sunday
last, the 27th inst., with his staff. In a few days
he returns to Kars to give that place up to the
Turks. Hussein Pacha is to be sent to take over
the place from the Russians. This same Hussein
Pacha was the chief of the staff at Kars under
Shukri Pacha, and was sent away by General Wil-
liams for drunkenness and debauchery, and now
that General Williams has left they send him back
honourably.
The crops in the plains in this neighbourhood
are almost entirely destroyed by drought; in very
many instances the wheat is dried up and withered
before it has come into ear.

The troops here are almost nil. There are 1,300
in Erzeroum and
.1,500 at Hassan lialeh (distant
six hours). A new army will have to be raised.

FRANCE.
PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.
The Moniteur contains a long report to the Em-
peror, from the Minister of Marine, on the admi-
nistration of the personnel of the navy, which forms
a suite to his previous report of the sth of June
last, on the organisation of the same persons. The
scree to which this report is the preamble com-
prises two grand divisions. The first relates to the
pay and the regulation of the expenses, and gives
the complete accounts of the navy with respect to
the State ; and the second part regulates the admi-
nistration and the internal accounts of the naval
department on shore and of the vessels afloat ; and
also directs the management of the funds and the
store's.

In the session before last of the Senate Baron
de Ladoucette brought forward a proposition
having for ita object to lay down the bases of
a rural code. A committee was appointed to
examine the subject, and it devoted several
months to the task. The Moniteur now publishes
a first report, which M. de Casabianca was charged
to present in the name of the committee. The plan
elaborated by that body divides the rural code into
three parts—the first relating to the soil, the second
to waters, and the third to the rural police. The
report now published by the official journal only
gives the first part of this plan—that which con-
cerns the soil—but it treats of various questions of
great interest to agriculture, and particularly those
which refer to the division of property, the forced
co-operation of landowners in works of common in-
terest, the right of commonage, country usages,
enclosures, and rural contracts. The other two
portions of the code are to be the object of separate
reports.

The grand dinner given by the members of the
medical profession in France to the French, Eng-
lish, Turkish, and Sardinian medical officers who
served in the late war, took place on Wednesday
evening in the large room of the Hotel du Louvre.
Baron Paul Dubois filled the chair, and more than
600 French and foreign medical men were present.
At the dessert the chairman rose and proposed a
toast, "To the manes of the medical men who
died courageously in the East ;" also one, "To
Napoleon II." Dr. Ricord proposed, "To the
Russian men, who attended to the wounded pri-
soners with great humanity." Dr. Maheux "To
the universal Medical Fraternity united by science
and humanity." These toasts were all drunk with
great enthusiasm, and were responded to by M.
Jules Roux, of Toulon, in the name of the fleet ;
by M. Begin, in the name of the medical pro-
fusion generally ; by M. Baudens, in the name of
the army of the East ; by Sir John Hall, for
the English army • by the Chevalier Comisetti,
physician-in-chief of the Sardinian artily, on belialf
of his fellow-countrymen ; and by Dr. Sinapian,
professor at the School of Medicine at Constanti-
nople, in the name of the Turkish medical profes-
sion. Professor Piorry read some verses composed
for the occasion, which were warmly applauded.
At the end of the banquet a subscription was
opened for the widows and orphans of the nume-
rous medical men who died in the East, which was
liberally contributed to.

The Journal du Loiret says :—" The Emperor,
the Empress, and the Prince Imperial passed
through the Aubrais at a quarter-past eight on
Tuesday evening. The train stopped for nearly a
quarter of an hour at the station, but no one
alighted. It was quite dark at the time, but the
salon iu which the Emperor and Empress were
seated was brilliantly lighted, and every one could
see their Majesties. His Majesty conven.el with the
functionaries who were present at the station, and
questioned them as to the state of the harvest in
Beauce, andeon the consequences of the inundations
in the department. The Empress saluted with
her usual grace and affability the people assem-
bled. One of them having said, " Madame, w e
should like to see the Prince Imperial," her
Majesty replied, My friends, I should be happy
to show him to you, but he is asleep.' Do not
disturb him, then,' was the reply, and the people
abstained from any cheers, that the sleep of the
Prince should not be broken."

The Constitutionnel publishes a letter from
Strasburg, Aug. 20, addressed to it by the owner
of the Lyonnais French steamer, erroneously
stated to have been lost in ascending the Danube.
BOURSE, Aug. 22.—The following were the last
quotations :

Cash. fr. s. End of Month.
44 per Cents 95 —f. —c.
3 per Cents 7O 75 70 80
New Loan —
Bank Shares 4,125 Roman
Credit Alobilior 1,623 .Austrian
Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes......
Piedmontose(s) 9l Home Debt .......,.

RAILWAYS-FOB CA.B/1.

fr. c. ft. 0
Orleans
Northern .1,063 50 Strasburg
Lyons —.... 1,426 New Ditto
Mediterranean 1,815 Grand Central
Lyons Geneva BO7 50 Testa
Cette BO3 Austrian Com. 875