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

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.
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.
Mali Pacha is about to give a grand ball, to
which he will invite the Emperor.
The Meniteur publishes the following circular
from the Minister of Justice :

"Monsieur le Procnreur 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, fcr 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 for its object to interfere with the
possession of these 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 what 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.,
" ABBITUCCI."

A Paris letter in the Independance of Brussels
says :—" All the regiments in garrison in the neigh-
bourhood of Paris have received orders to hold
themselves in readiness for a grand review. It is
said that not leiss'than 150,000 men will be assem-
bled. The troops coming from a distance will be
quartered in the villages 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 Chalons-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. fr. e. End of Month.
41 per Cents...... ~ 93 75 —f. --c.
3 per Cents • 72.60 72 80
New Loan 73.10

Bf.4uk Shares 2 Roman . 90

Credit '1;580' Austrian

Belgian Spanish Threes
Piedmontese (5) . 94 25 Lome Debt 40

RAILWAYS-I'oB CASH.

fr. c. fr. a
Orlesns ... 1,300. - Western 9OO
Northern , 90, -- Strasburg
Lyons _ _1,270 -:-- New Ditto 827 1;0
5101,1iterranean ......1,565 Grand Central
Lyons Geneva 797 50 Testa
Cette
753 75 Austrian Com...— 912 50

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

" The Emperor Adexanier is about to make an ex-
clrion it,t, into Finland to inspect the works which
d3rend the coasts, and' to visit the interior of that pro-
vince. All the military commanders on the coast of the
Biltic. 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
Finland."

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 $300,000 f)r 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 10th says that
Col. Wheeler, thp: 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 lan. the endorsement of pri-
vate individuals.

Messrs. Jones and Ferguson, produce commis-
sion-dealers in New York, had suspended payment.
Their liabilities are about $250,000, mostly owing
to banks and merchants in the interior of the
State. They hate 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 Nye, her late commander, in a letter pub-
lished in the Now 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 chiefengineer, in a letter dated only
five days before the Pacific left 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 hists of life have been frequent through-
out the States.
Mr. Edward Everettand 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 Commereial•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, N uttall advocated the bill. He said 100,000
dols. worth 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,
had taken flight, having become a defaulter to the
extent of $150,000. lie 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 iu order to facilitate his
escape.
At Louisville a steam-boat collision had occurred
by which 20 persons bad 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 rato of interest which way

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

At Portland, New Brunswick, 19 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 1,800/. of which was covered by insurance.
Among the houses burned was the ancient resi-
dence known as the Old Simonds' House, which
was the oldest in the p. °wince, having been erected
in the year 1764.