The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-06 00:00:00

as usual is watching to take the side of the stronger
_tarty, and then make a virtue of it.
The mail from Algiers brings news from Kabylia
to the 24th ult. The divisions of Generals Renault
and Yusuf have had a brilliant engagement with
the insurgent Xablyes, in which the loss of the
latter was very considerable.
The majority of Commissioners for the Danubian
Principalities have refused to discuss the proposed
questions until the Austrian troops evacuate, and
until the Sultan decrees the meeting of the Divans
on such terms as are embodied in the protocols of
the Peace of Paris.
The Moniteur contains a list of subscriptions,
received from Huddersfield, Yorkshire, for the in-
undation fund. It amounts to 11,820 fr. 60 c.
The total amount received has now reached the
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sum of 11,291,804 fr. 33 c.
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with the steam-
frigates Isly, Duchayla, I'l3lln, and Napoleon.
The following letter p;pp
tionnel ears in the Consfitu-
--Sardinia claims the right of
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the navel
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Al demonstration intended against
Naples.
A to Austria here fleet is already sailing
for‘itWheith aroGruelgr
of Naples ; and we conjecture that it
must now l'Ave arrived from Malta, where it touched
lately accrirding to the last accounts, under the order of
Vice-AeAmiral Count de Bourguignon. The Austrian
ships -would then be the first at the rendezvous, for the
French and English fleets have still orders to receive
before advancing to the capital of the Neapolitan States.
"There are also some Piedmontese, and Piedmont is
going to send four of her frigates with the four ships and
four frigates of Great Britain and France.
A letter dated Paris, Oot. 4, says A good
many persons, some say 100, were arrested the
night before last in the Rue Mouffetard and in
other streets of the nth arrondissement. The
parties are charged with being implicated in the
posting up by day, and particularly by night, pla-
t ntrhae
occ inor character.recommend
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breadet ha rr de as t oeo fnr adeath, very
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measures against the owners of house property,
and several of them used very disrespectful and
even menacing expressions towards the Emperor
himself. Such angry ebullitions of popular
feeling, occurring at the moment when the work-
ing classes are called on to pay their rent, show
the sort of relations which exist between them
and the proprietors. Those relations are the
worst that can possiby be imagined. Political
economists tell us that things find their level, and
are of general benefit sooner or latter. They are, no
doubt, right, but the classes I speak of have rather
loose notions on political economy ; they only feel
that they PAre ground down by high rents and as
high taXation, and they are discontented. It may
be trite, as the ilioniteur lately stated, that for
eve-ry house pulled down four or five new ones
tiave been built ; but it is equally certain that
those who occupied the old houses could no more
become tenants of the new edifices which have
arisen on their sites than they could take up their
quarters in the moon. Rent has quadrupled
within the last four years, and the condition of
thousands whose income has continued stationary
must be deplorable. In the newly-constructed
houses rent is enormously high ; in some of the
principal streets it is not uncommon to find a second •
and even a third floor, unfurnished, let for 10,000 f.
(4001.) which a few years ago might be had for less
than one-fourth. But it is not merely in new con-
structions that this increase is found. Houses which
have hardly undergone any repair —which have been
untouched by the brush of the painter or varnisher
—have risen with the same rapidity, so that any-
thing like cheap or even moderate lodging is out of
the question. People who invest capital in building
do so unquestionably for profit, and they have a
right to fix whatever value they please on their
property ; but it is undeniable that many house
proprietors are most grasping and remorseless in
their exactions. What with the high price of p,o-
visions of all kinds and enormous house-rent, it is
difficult to understand how not merely the working
classes, but also the small employes under Govern-
ment and clerks in commercial houses, can manage
to live. At this conjuncture, so critical to so great
a portion of the public, I am assured that many
families have been thrown upon the street. They
know not where to go for shelter, for the new
landlord will be found as exacting as the one that
ejects them. This hatred, just or unjust, against
the proprietors, is intense and general, and if ever
any disturbance takes place these, I fear, will pass •
a maurais quart d'heure. I have seen the tran-
scripts of one of the placards torn down by the
police the night before last, with the words, " Tu.;
ton proprietaire ; jo tueraile mien I—Mort aux
proprietaires ;" and some other specimens of the
same kind.
The Moniteur publishes two decrees—one ex-
tending to the 31st December, 1857, the delay
fixed by the decree of the 19th September, 1855,
for the modifications in the Customs tariff in the
colonies of Martinique, Guadeloupe, Ile de la Re-
union, and Senegal, as far as regards corn, flour,
and pulse ; and the other adding copper, either
pure or mixed, with zinc, and sheet zinc, for the
use of ships' bottoms, to the list of articles admitted
free of duty when intended for naval constructions.
Bonass, Oct. 4.—The following were the last
quotations :

Cash. tr. e. End of Mouth.
per Cents 9l 75 —f.
$ per Cents 67 60 67 75
New Loan —

Bank Shares 3,975 Roman
Credit Mobilior 1,535 Austrian
Belgian Fivos. 9Bi— Spanish Threes
Piethnontese(s) 9O Some Debt
RAILVi'AYEI—TOII C 6.1311.
tr. c.

fr. c

Orleans (id) ........1,300 Z- Western (xd)... ...... 896 25
Northern
Lyons ... 1,295 New Ditto
Lyons Geneva 760 Teste
Cette — Austrian Com. ...... 615

AUSTRIA.
A letter from Vienna, in the Bdtrsenhalle of
Hamburg, says :—" A courier arrived here on
the 27th ult. with despatches from Count
gtackelberg, Russian Ambassador at Turin. It
is said that he conveys to Baron de Budberg the
intelligence that an interview has been ar-
I ranged at Nice, during the residence there of the
empress Dowager of Russia, between the EM-
perors of France and Russia and the ring of
Sardinia. It is not true that the Emperor of
Austria has any intention of visiting Rome in his
approaching excursion into Italy. He will
not proceed farther than Milan." Another letter
from the Austrian capital, in the Post Ampt
Gazette, says :-m-" The budget has been approved
of by tie Emperor. A considerable economy has
been effected in the military department, but that
of the navy has received an additional sum, in con-
sequence of its intended augmentation. An in-
crease has likewise taken place in the Department
of the Minister of the Interior and in that of the
Minister of Public Instruction." A third letter,
in a Berlin journal, says :—" Since the return
here of the Emperor of Austria from Hungary,
several councils of ministers have been held, at
which the affair of Naples and the present state of
the public funds were discussed."

NAPLES.
NAPLES, Sept. 28.—The Neapolitan Govern-
ment had sent, or was about to send, a very volu-
minous despatch to the great Power, which was
to be considered as a defence of the King and his
Government.

The late State trials had terminated ; most of
the accused having been found guilty. Captain
Acuti had retracted his assertions about the King
having ordered the prisoners to receive so many
lashes, by which means he has, no doubt, saved
himself from imprisonment.
We find the language of the Neapolitan Govern-
ment thus shadowed forth in the Debats :

"We believe that the wrongs attributed to the King
of Naples have been exaggerated, and that the number
of political prisoners is far less numerous than has been
stated. Two and even three thousand untried prisoners
have been mentioned ; but this appears improbable. It
is not conceivable that so large a number, belonging
almost exclusively to the superior classes of society,
can have been separated with violence from their
families and placed in dungeons where they have
boon rotting for years. According to reliable infor-
mation, it appears that the Neapolitan Government
held in confinement less than 200 political offenders,
and that, as soon as the protocol of the sitting of
the Bth April becameknown in Naples, the King ordered
more than half the prisoners to be released ; thus, when
Austria made her first step, not above remained 100 in
prison. Since that step, and the notes of France and
England, the King has accorded other pardons, but with
a secrecy which he believes calculated to preserve the
tranquillity of the kingdom and his personal dignity."
SWITZERLAND.
The Indepenclance Beige publishes the following
letter, dated Neuchatel, 29th ult.:---"Our Cantonal
Grand Council adopted in its two last sittings various
resolutions, referring to the Royalist insurrection of
the 3d. The Administrative Council of the capital
of the canton, which remained completely passive,
during the nocturnal invasion of the band of La
Sague, and obeyed with extraordinary conde-
scension the requisitions of the insurgents, has
been not only suspended, but the powerful cor-
poration over which it presided, the bourgeoisie of
Neuchatel, has been abolished as a political and ad-
ministrative body, to make room for the municipal
authorities, at the same time that the considerable
property it possessed is to be applied to the wants
of the citizens. The decree, erecting the city
of Neuchatel into a municipality was voted by