The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-12 00:00:00

FRANCE.

gramme of the fetes of the baptism of the Prince
Imperial :
" On Saturday salvos of artillery will announce
the commencement and the conclusion of the cere-
mony, which will take place at half-past five in
the cathedral church of Paris. Immediately after
its termination their Majesties will dine at the
Hotel de Ville. In the evening that building and
its approaches will be illuminated, as will also the
tower of Saint Jacques la Boucherie and the pub-
lic buildings.
"On Sunday salvos of artillery will be fired by
the cannon of the Invalides at six in the morning,
and at the same hour in the evening. A grand
day fete will take place simultaneously from two
to eight at the esplanade of the Invalides and at
the Barriere du Trone. At each place there will
be theatres erected for the performance of military
and other pieces. Climbing poles will be also fixed
with a number of prizes for the successful parties.
At two o'clock 300 balloons will be let off from the
esplanade, each carrying small bags of baptismal
sweetmeats. At half-past four a large balloon will
ascend from the esplanade, from which similar bags
will be showered down among the crowd. At night
the public buildings will be again illuminated, and
at nine o'clock a display of fireworks will take place
at the Quai d'Orsay and at the Barriere du Trone.
Grand ball at the Hotel de Ville.

The Emperor is expected this evening in Paris,
from his third tour in the inundated provinces. At
Nantes his Majesty has given away 20,000 f. from
his private purse, and caused 100,000 f. to be dis-
tributed from the finance of the State.

The Moniteur says :—"All the tickets of invita.

tion to the ceremony of the baptism of the Prince
Imperial having been distributed, no further appli-
cations to the Grand Master of the Ceremonies will
be replied to." On his side, the Prefect of Police
has issued the following notice :
" The list of invitations to the fete offered to
their Majesties by the city of Paris on the occa-
sion of the Imperial baptism is definitively filled
up. Several foreigners of distinction had requested
to have tickets for this fete, which the municipal
administration have been endeavouring to render
worthy of their illustrious guests. The city of
Paris has always made it a point to exercise to-
wards the natives of other countries the most ex-
tended hospitality, but the more just it has ap-
peared to admit such persons in great numbers on
previous occasions, the more proper it has been
considered on the present occassion, on account of
the particular character of the fete, to more par-
ticularly invite natives of France. otwithstand-
ing the great extent of the apartments of the
Hotel de Ville, the number of applications for in-
vitations from Parisian families, which have been
acceded to, is unfortunately but too restricted."
"We are requested to announce," says the
Moniteur, " that in conformity with established
usage at the Court of Munich, the King of Bava-
ria does not accept any of the literary or artistical
works which the authors may send for presenta-
tion to his Majesty."
The Constitutionnel says :—" A telegraphic
despatch which we yesterday received from our
correspondent at Hamburg stated that it was re-
ported at Copenhagen that Count de Molke would
be replaced at Paris by an Envoy Extraordinary.
This rumour appears to be without foundation."
THE BOURSE, June 14.—The following were the
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THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.
We extract the following from a letter, dated
Bucharest, May 18 :
There appears to be scarcely a doubt that Gen.
Coronini, his staff, and a large portion of the
Austrian army of occupation will leave the Princi•
palities, at the end of the present month, their de-
parture, which was not to have taken place until
the middle of June, having been accelerated. There
will then remain two regiments of infantry and one
of cavalry in Wallachia, and a similar force in Mol-
davia, consisting of—waggon train, &c., included
—a corps d'armee of 20,0 ,0 men, each Austrian in-
fantry regiment being about 4,000 strong. It is
not known when these are to leave, but it is com-
monly reported that they will remain until the
month of September, and this is the expectation of
the troops themselves. In the convention of the
14th of June, 1854, it was stipulated that the
Austrians should evacuate the provinces as soon as
possible after peace was concluded. But the wording
of the clause was such as to afford loopholes for eva-
sion and procrastination. Lord Pahuerston's speech
of the Gth inst. has raised fresh hopes of prompt
evacuation. "As the Principalities are close to the
Austrian frontier," said his Lordship, "it of course
follows that their evacuation will take place long
before that of the Crimea or of the Turkish terri-
tory near Constantinople." Neither the proceed-
ings of the Austrians nor the expectations here
generally entertained are in accordance with
this prediction. In 12 days two months will
hays elapsed since the signature of the
treaty of peace, which was the signal for the
allies to commence moving from the Crimea ;
and, as regards the possibility of the whole of the
Austrians having already cleared out of the Prin-
cipalities, and of their still doing so, were they so
inclined, within a fortnight from this date, there
can be no reasonable doubt. Upon what pretext
then should 20,000 men pass the summer in a
country to the safety of which their further stay is
manifestly and completely unnecessary I Some-
thing has been said about apprehended disturb-
ances should they at once depart, and strong ef-
forts have been made here to get representa-
tions of such apprehensions put forward by trades-
men and others at Bucharest, efforts, however,
which signally failed. The desire to get rid of
the Austrians proved stronger than Government
influence. If fear of popular commotions be
really seriously advanced as a motive for the con-
tinuance of the present foreign occupation, as-
suredly no more shallow and unfounded pretence
was ever resorted to. Whatever are the alarming
rumours which it may be thought expedient to
propagate here or in Vienna, there is no more
chance of disturbances in the Principalities when
the Austrians go than there would be of tumults
in London if the Guards were withdrawn from the
parks and despatched to the country. Effervescence
there possibly may be—the effervescence of joy at
the departure of an army that has done so much
to oppress, annoy, and irritate the peaceable and
harmless population upon which it was thrust. It
would not surprise me if bonfires were lighted and
Bucharest illuminated when the last of the white-
j.;,ckets are seen to march away.

SPAIN.
The Madrid journals of the 6th, which have ar-
rived in due course, contain nothing about the al-
leged plot to assassinate the Queen. In the Cortes
a motion calling on the Government to give expla-
nations for having dissolved the " Progressist
Club" of Barcelona was brought forward • but the
Minister of War demanded that it should be re-
jected, as it was impossible for the Government to
govern if it could not prevent juntas arrogating to
themselves a certain degree of power from being
established in provincial towns. The motion was
rejected by 100 votes to 96. The Gazette says
that the Queen has expressed the desire that the
marriage of Dona Amalia and Prince Adalbert of
Bavaria shall be celebrated with the greatest pos-
sible solemnity. The marriage is to take place on
the arrival of the Prince in Madrid, which is
shortly expected. Heavy rain had fallen in the
city during two days. The Novedades says that it
is not true, as stated in one of the journals, that
the Queen is to proceed to the provinces recently
visited by the Duke de la Victoria.

The Opinione of Turin of the 9th says :—" We
learn that when General de Dabormida passed
through Vienna on his way to Warsaw he left his
card at Count Buol's, who sent to request an in-
terview with him. As General do Dabormida had
no mission from his government to that of Vienna
the visit was strictly of a private nature, and we
are told that it led to no satisfactory solution of
the present difficulties. They conversed about the
sequestrations in Lombardy, each maintaining his
own opinion unflinchingly. General do Dabor-
mida, in conclusion, said the only solution possible
was the repeal of the decree of sequestration by
Austria, after which the two diplomatists sepa-
rated."

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
tr3llo following appears in the Moniteur :—" In
~ sequence of the decision come to by the Emperor
bEmpress to stand sponsors to the children
clttt en the same day as the Prince Imperial, more
o,a, 3,600 applications have reached the Minister
Household of the Emperor. The prefects
ti-,°o been charged to make inquiries as to the situa-
h;ll of the families of those children, and assistance
ith4. been already ssnt to such as are in need of it.
e 4 el. intention of their Majesties is to transmit to
1:11, of those families, through the medium of the
th„e'ec,te) a certificate delivered by the Minister of
-4mperor's household, and stating the favour
Granted to the children by their Majesties. An
sum will be inscribed on the budget of the
h "if
List of the Emror for the assistance of
tSitoUs families, and their Rlajesties will
or", care of the children if they become
thl)„."ane. Several mayors have made known
th",' families have delayed the baptism of
ofe,.'r children until the day of the baptism
'be Prince Imperial. These persons may choose
Whom
tiB they please to hold their children at the bap-
ponlal fonts. The mayors will represent the Em-
413,_ir n case of need."
4'4e Moniteur publishes the following as the pro-

The King of the Belgians and all the Royal
family came from Laeken to the palace at Brussels
on Sunday, and the Duke de Brabant received a
deputation from the municipality of Namur, in-
viting them to the fetes which are to be given in
King's that town in honour of the accession to the
throne. The ex-Queen Marie Amelie and the
Duke and Duchess de Nemours visited the palace
at Brussels the same day, and her Majesty received
some ladies of distinction. Iu the afternoon the
King returned to Laeken, and a little later the
Queen, the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, and
the Belgian royal family followed.

It is whispered that the King of Prussia. .has
sent to the Emperor of Austria 3 through Prince

Windischgratz, an invitation, or something amount-
ing to one, to come to the autumn manoeuvres
here. This method of inviting not being indirect
enough, considering the very ticklish footing on
which the two Courts now stand, we hear that even
the suggestion to hint it was conveyed to Prince
Windischgratz by General Groben.

The Breslau Gazette asserts that Austria intends
to recall her charge d'affaires from Turin, on ac-
count of a new note raid to have been addressed by
Count Cavour to the court of St. Petersburg, and
containing complaints against Austria, on account
of the attitude she has assumed with regard to Sar-
dinia.

LORD DALHOUSIE'S INDIAN•AD3IINIS•

TRATION.

Yesterday was issued, in the form of a return to the
House of Commons, the copy of a minute of the Marquis
of Dalhousie, dated the 28th of February, 1856, and
addressed to the Indian Board, reviewing his adminis-
tration in India, from January, 1818, to March, 1856.
The minute is of great length, extending* to forty-five
folio pages. The marquis enters into a minute recital
of the measures which have been taken for the prosecu-
tion of material improvements in India, and refers to the
progress that has been made towards the removal of
certain noted evils, such as Suttee, Thuggee, female in-
fanticide, &c. Accession of territory, political changes,
improvements in civil administration, education, public
works, and the general development of the resources
of India are treated of in detail. "If the recital,"
he says, "should seem dry in itself, it may be
hoped that the results which it exhibits pill not be
thought by the honourable court to be unprofitable or
disappointing." The marquis concludes :—" One of the
last, and not the least important, of those measures
which have emanated from the government of India
during the past years, has been a resolution to require
henceforth from the government of every presidency,
from each lieutenant.governor, and from the chief of-
ficer of every province, an annual report narrating the
incidents that may have occurred during the year with-
in their several jurisdictions, and stating the progress
that may have been made, and all of moment that may
have been done, in each principal department of the
civil and military administration. My parting hope
for India is, that, in all time to come, these reports from
the presidencies and provinces under our rule may
form, in each successive year, a happy record of peace,
prosperity, and progress.
(Signed) " DALHOUSIE.
"Feb. 28, 1856."

RAILWAY l NTELLIGBNCE.

WIMBLEDON AND CROYDON.

A special meeting of this company was held yesterday at
the office, Parliament-street, to consider a bill in compli-
ance with the standing orders of the House of Lords; Mr.
W. Reed in the chair.

The CHAIRMAN explained that the object of the bill was
to enable the company to lease the line to the London,
Brighton, and South Coast Company, and to authorise the
raising of further capital to construct a second line of rails,
should it be required by the Brighton Company.

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