The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-24 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
Prussia has requested a passage for its troops on
the 15th of February.
The Plenipotentiaries will meet, and the first
Conference take place, on Saturday next, the 27th.
The Arondeur publishes an imperial decree ap-
proving of the decision of the municipal council of
Paris relative to the bases of the personal furniture
(mobitier) taxes for 1857. Rents below 250 f•
a year CotliDaUeexempt, (-xcept the occupiei s ate
patentes (have licences for carrying on business),
in which case they will have to pay 3 per cent. ;
rents from 250 fr. to 4991 r. will pay 3 per cent. ;

500 fr. to 909 fr., 5 per teat. ; I,ooofr. to 1,4991 r.
7 per cent. ; and I,so!jir. and upwards, 9 per cent
" The prej,-ct," says the Malta Mail, "of con
strut ing a tunnel to effect a communication be -
twcen the two harbours of Valetta appears to have
hen laid by government before the Chamber of
Oommerce.
The constitutionnel offers the following com-
ment on the budget of the civil list, published by
order of the Emperor in the Momiteur :
"In ordering this publication, the Head of the
State employs the inea,ure with which be has al-
ways triumphed over erroneous and malevolent re-
ports directed against his policy or against the acts
of his government. He has appealed to publicity.
In fact, malevolence has spread the rumour, which
I the correspondents of certain foreign journals had
repeated, that the civil list was in debt, and that
in order to meet the munificence of the Sovereign
it, was necessary to adopt various expedients, and
notably to have recourse to loans, authorised by
the Treasury. These spiteful rumours are victo-
riously- responded to by the report of M. Fould. In
truth, no doubt could possibly have been enter-
tained by those who are initiated in the mechanism
of our government. The rigorous rules to which
the administration in all its branches is submitted
in our country are well known. The Treasury pays
only on the authority cf au " ordonnance,' and
every 'ordonnance' must repose on a decree or on
a law. The cashier at the Treasuty could not make
any payment that is not based on those conditions
without engaging his personal responsibility. N°
one can infringe on these rigorous prescriptions,
which offer a complete safeguard for all."
BOURSE, Dec. 23.—The following were the last
quotations :

- Cash• ft.. c. End of month.
I per Cents , 9l 50 —fr. —o.
'I per Cents 66 6'3 66 80
New Loan
Bank Shares 4,075 Roman (x. d)
Credit Mobilier 1,415 Austrian
Belgian Fives 97i— Spanish Threes
Piedmontese (5) 9l 50 Home Debt

E 5
88i
42i
391

RAILWAYS—FOR CASH.
fr. c. fr. c
Orleans 1,305 Western -
Northern 035 Strasburg
Lyons 1,360 New Ditto -
Mediterranean 1,715 Grand Central
Lyons Geneva
Cette

NEUCHATEL.

A telegraphic despatch from Berlin, dated yes-
terday, in the Nord of Brussels, says :—" On the
initiative of representatives of the United States,
the Minister of England has invited the missions
of the Powers which have not yet intervened in the
Neuchatel affair to recommend the Federal Council
to set the royalist prisoners at liberty. The object
of this intervention appears to be to arrive at an
arrangement, towards which Prussia might be
induced to make an important concession, after the
Federal Council should have manifested a sincere
desire of conciliation and peace."
The New Gazette of Prussia contains a Yell
strong artficle, in which it says that if Switzer-
land grants an amnesty to the Royalist prisoners
:I) Neuchatel that step does not regard Prussia, in-
asmuch as Switzerland not having the right to try
'he prisoners has not the right to pardon there•
it adds, Switzerland hopes that Prussia will cede
in consequence of such an act, she is mistaken/
for
it is the duty of the king to defend his honour an'i;
his right, and the Prussian people know that till
honour of the king is the honour of the people.
The Austrian, Gazette on its side contains a letter,o
'rem Berlin, which says that in consequence of
expense of the military preparations of PrusB:
tgainst Neuchatel, it is probable that the Prussia
,_
Chamber will not vote the sums necessary for the
.rtlfication of Berlin, projected by the, Govellt-
melt.

THE EAST. '
We have received the Constantinople journals
and letters to the 12th brought by the Danube.
The instructions sent to the Turkish Ambas'3"r
in Paris by Salih Bey son of Reschid Pachs, et'..
to
join that diplomatist declare to the allied go:
vernments represented in the new confereneel
that the Porte will not consent to any kind::
arrangement, unless Bolgrad, the Isle of Serpell"
and the Delta of the Danube be given into its PI
session. The Turkish Ambassador is also charge.
to oppose any project for the union of the princi-
palities. These instructions are positive and The
eise, and will not admit of any wavering. .-I•
seizure of the Turkish vessels had caused copsider:
able sensation at Constantinople. It was said that!
the Cossacks, who had been brought in sil,. •
a singular manner to Trebisond,
to Constantinople. The Turkish Ministry' 5
lithe
actively engaged in impelling the coutitry in, A
path of material ameliorations. An appeal eta':
been made by the Porte to all the capktalistsooral
Europe for the construction of a railway
from
Varna to Rustchuk. The offers
were to be ion:
made byous.
Government are said to be very
conceded to
The line to Adrianople was about to be
an Englishman named Wilki n, who represents a -1-'°l4._
don company. The organisation of the Ottoinau_
th e intelligence of an
Post-office has been confided to advantage
Englishman, Mr. Smith, who was Postmaster-Gene-
ral of the British forces in the Crimean expedition:
He will also have the direction of the principo
president of the
racha, Presid
Imes of telegraph. Kiang
Council of Finance, has been appointed governor.
of Cyprus. On the night of the 10th a fire broke out
at Kedik Paella, ono of the quarters of Constanti-
nople, and, notwithstanding the utmost efforts et
the firemen and of the inhabitants, destroyed efforts
houses before it could be got under. A letter froul
Galatz of the 30th ult. says :
"The international commission is continuing it!
labours. Last week the members embarked °:
board an Austrian gunboat, in order to explore cue
Kilia mouth of the Danube, to the north of the
~,,-;
French Tina,
gauanebrwoaatrdsA
itheert St.e
a eGn
nemo George, i
etdo the
French gunboat A!erte accompanied them. south. J-0603?
English engineers had previously surveyed the eg
George's Channel, and found the difficulties it Pregallb;
meounstsidbeera
at its mouth so
it to account that all idea o
Galatz have been increased Fog"
by the arrival of the 24
lish gunboat abbleandoned. The vfestelerris I's;
Boxer, which left her heavy glign:olv
hasfallenConstantinople. The Alertd is to winter here. .'s to
float in
abundance, and the Danube begihneing
down large pieces of ice, the thermometer 'our
10 deg, below zero Centigrade 0.4 Fahrenheit). cut
communications
unications with Constantinople ill 00 011 be
w
off,"

SARDINIA
A deputation from the inhabitants of the Leg-
_imis and Marches, composed of Counts Marnalll
B.ancoli, and Ercolani, and Chevaliers Farlijo
and Cesari, presented ou the 10th, at Turin, a gioof
medal to Count Camillo Cavour, and a bvortrr.b-0
honour to General Alfonso Lamarmora.
modal displays ou the obverse the profile. of Coil%
Cavour, with the inscription taken frompetrarseo
—" Che, fan qui tante peregrine spade ?" (18 1
(what are so ina,ny torei,_;n swords doing
On the reverse is the following victor
Camillo Cavour —the gifted Minister--of
Emmanuel, the best of Kings—who, at the
gross of Paris—Defended the contemned rights de
Legations and Marches —with gratitu"
and faith." The hilt of the sword is of gold,.silli3/1
and bronze, and of beautiful workmanship•
bears the inscriptions—" Crimea and Tsbernar ;ti
"To Gen. Alfonso Lamarmora, the Legations au_
Marches ;" " L'antico valore—negli cor it Italici e
ancor spento "(The ancient valour has not 10
died away in Italian hearts).

THE BALTIC.
HAMBURG, DEC. 22.
We learn from St. Petersburg to the 13th inst.,
that the Emperor confirmed, on the 12th of NO;
last, the regulations laid before him by the Grape',l
Duke Constantine, for the future management e
the flotilla of Siberia and the harbours of the
Eastern Ocean, and the rules to be observed by
the marine troops of Eastern Siberia in the Per'
formanec of their duties.
A French Cabinet Minister's courier arrived 111
the 11th in St. Petersburg, with very iniP°l4s°lll
despatches for the Ambassaor, and another t°
his departure immediately after for Paris.
1
The Duke of Ossuno, Ambassador Extraorisliv,
from the Queen of Spain, arrived on the sago (!t9e.
iu the Russian capital, with the whole of ii' ,
heldh°'
At a general meeting of shareholders,
Saturday last, at the principal saloon of the e
change, and at which Mr. Godefrey presidecYdry.
directors of the hamburg and American New 1°
ie,
Steam Packet Company made a very satisfactori r a
port of the state of the affairs of the compaDY/13ea
with the unanimous consent of the meeting obtaeio
permission to borrow the sum of 2,000,000 of
banco (about 180,0001.) for the purchase of t 0
other steamers of the same size and qualitY,,,,,
the Borussia and Hammonia, to commence runu'l.
every 14 days in the course of the ensuing 31',73a
It has even been rumoured that the directors I'3_
ordered these vessels to be built by a firstate fif.r;
iu Glasgow, and that they are now in a v.,ery„°ol
ward state. The amount required will be
art 8
to the company by private loan on the part of s°1)1,
moneyed people here, at 6 per cent. interest, ixo
af the
standarduko fwhi'h interest.decline
ss
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• , al. way Jt Jersey and Southampton.,
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The Essex Herald has reason to believe that the wr',th
of the foreigu legions will cease to exist by the
lv
January next.