The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-16 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

THE PEACE PROPOSALS.
VIENNA, JAN. 14.
The Allies have declared the Russian propos:
tions inadmissible.

Prince Gortaohakoff is expected to leave this
city on the 18th, bat awaits orders from St.
Petersburg.
All the Vienna evening papers speak of the
new state of affairs as " most serious," " unex-
pected," and "alarming."

PARIS, JAN. 16, 8.30 A.M.

The Monitetar publishes the report of the

Minister of Finances to the Emperor upon the
financial condition of the country.
The report concludes as follows :
" To resume, Sire, this simple sketch of the
principal financial events of the past year shows
us a commercial activity without a parallel ;
unheard of progress in consumption ; two enor-
mous loans, paid up with the greatest regu-
larity, and in a great measure before the pay-
ments were due ; besides the loans, more than
135,000,000, a sum 'Which had never before
been known to have been employed in the pur-
chase of rentes, for the departments ; the di-
rect contributions paid by anticipation, and al
most without expense ; a well-balanced budget ;
the floating debt reduced ; and all this despite
the war, despite the crisis in the high price of
food, despite the very considerable outlay, which
accidental circumstances imposed upon us. What
greater proof could be given of the vitality and
richness of the country and of all that France is
capable of under a popular Government, with
such resources wisely employed ? Extravagance
alone might be feared. Your Majesty will know
to obviate that danger by your high prudence,
by firmly opposing the inconsiderate temptations
of speculation, and by adjourning, in the interest
of the enterprises already commenced, all those
which do not bear the evident mark of urgency."

HAMBURG, JAN. 14.

Two vessels of war have arrived at Copenhagen
from England, proceeding to tho Baltic to cruise
before the Russian ports.

MADRID, JAL 14.

Marshal O'Donnell has resumed his duties as
Minister of War. The Government has granted
an amnesty to the Carlist prisoners of Catalonia,
on account of the complete pacification of the
principality. General tranquillity prevails.

FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.

The Duke of Cambridge, in the name of her
Majesty Queen Victoria, to-day distributed the
British Crimean medal to 14,000 French troops,
just returned from the seat of war.
They were drawn up in the Place du Carrousel.
The Emperor was much cheered, and the whole
scene was very imposing.

The Monitjur contains the revenue returns for
1855. Indirect taxes there is, as compared with
1853, a net increase of 103,619,000 fr, and as com-
pares with 1853 an increase of 101,075,000 f.
The Moniteur publishes the returns of the in-
direct taxes and revenues of France in 1855 ; from
which it appears that the receipts amounted to
950,879,000 f., or 103,619,000 f. more than in 1854.
The following are the different items forming that
amount :

F.
Registry duties, mortgages, &c.
Stamp duties
Import duties—on corn
----- merchandise
---- French colonial sugar 37,191,000
--- foreign sugar 35,199,000
Export duties
Navigation dues 3,255,000
Sundry Customs duties and revenues 3,096,000
Salt tax
Duty on potable liquors
Duty on domestic sugar
Miscellaneous duties and receipts 43,704,000
Sale of tobacco, &c.
-- gunpowier ... 8,800,000
Postage of letters
Duty of 2 per cent. on money forwarded
through the Post•oftce 1,662,000
Fares in mail coaches
mail packets B,OOO
Transit duty of foreign correspondence
Accidental receipts

Total 950,879,000
The items which exhibit an increase compared
with 1854 are—Registry duties, mortgages, kc.,
37,165,000 f. ; stamp duties, 2,760,000 f. ; import
duty on merchandise, 24,944,000 f.; ditto on French
colonial sugar, 3,999,000 f. ; ditto on foreign sugar,
11,424,000 f. ; navigation dues, 146,000 f. ; sundry
Customs receipts and revenues, 263,00 f. ; salt
tax, 1,965,500 f. ; miscellaneous duties and re-
ceipts, 8,615,000 f. ; sale of tobacco, 7,630,00'H. ;
ditto of gunpowder, 775,000 f. ; duty on money
forwarded through the post-office, 138,000 f. ; tran-
sit duty on foreign correspondence, 53,000 f. ;
accidental receipts, 22,000 f. Total increase,
108,120,000 f.
The items which exhibit a decrease are—lmport
duty on corn, 556,000 f. ; export duties, 133,000 f.;
duty on domestic sugar, 2,906,000 f. ; postage of
letters, 707,000 f. ; fares in mail coaches, 151,000 f.;
ditto in mail packets, 48,000 f. Total decrease,
4,501,000 f. _ _

The receipts of 1855, as above stated, will be
further increased by the. addition of a snm of
6,130,000 f. remaining to be recovered on the 31st
of Dec., so that the receipts of the year will have
amounted to 957,009,000 f. The total receipts set
down in the budget were only calculated at
891,756,000 f. They have consequently been ex-
ceeded by a sum of 65,253,000 f., in which the new
taxes, established by tke laws of the sth of May
and th of July, 1855, figure for 33,230,000 f.
The proceeds of the property or direct tax col-
lected on the 31st of December, 1355, amounted to
417,555,000 f., leaving only 18,542,000 f. to be re-
covered at that date.

The Council of War assembles daily at Paris
under the presidency of the Emperor, but the
strictest secrecy is maintained reApecting the deli-
berations. The Debats of yesterday says that one
of the principal questions under discussion is the
unity of the command of the Allied armies. The
Paris correspondent of the Independance Belge be-
lieves that the campaign will be continued in the
Crimea, and that the expedition to the Baltic, to
be almost exclusively English, will be without an
army for disembarkation. The same writer men-
tions a report that the new French loan " will be
subscribed, if not entirely in England, at least with
a solidarity of the resources of the two nations, and
guaranteed by the two governments."
BeURSE, Jan. 15.—The following are the last
quotations :

Cub. fr. e. End of Month.
4i per Cents 9l 75 —f. 0.
3 per Cents 62 40 62 60

Yew Loan 63 10
Bank Shares 3100 Roman
Credit hlobilier 1217 50 Austrian

Belgian Five 5........ Fjpanish Threes
Piedmonterse B4 Home Debt