The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-25 00:00:00

LATEST N E WS.

MARSEILLES, Nov. 24.

Icy accounts of the 14th, from Constantinople,
it appears that 600 wooden houses had been de-
stroyed by a fire at Pera.
The authorities and the Sisters of Charity had
taken charge of the families who were left without

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an asylum.
Another extensive fire had broken out at

Adrianople.
The catastrophe at, Rhodes, occasioned by the

lightning having struck the itnmense store of
gunpowder which was placed in the vaults belong-
ing to the Ancient Knights, destroyed the whole
Turkish quarter so completely that only three
children were saved.

The Journal dc Constantinople states that a
Russian company in the Black Sea has purchased
forty steam-vessels.

The Sultan has conferred the order of the
Medjide on the Hereditary Prince Royal of Persia,
and decorated several of the Persian Ministers.

Ferukh Khan, Ambassador of Persia to Franc;
had been at Constantinople, and paid a visit to
Baron Boutenieff, the Russian Minister.
The prices of corn have fallen at Marseilles,
owing to the arrival of 80,000 hectolitres.

MADRID, Nev. 23.

The Gazette denies that Lird Bowden had de-
manded explanations with regard to the future
policy of the Cabinet.

BERNE, Nov. 23.

The Federal Council refuses unanimously the
demand of Prussia for the unconditional libeza-
tion of the Neuchatel prisoners. It declares
itself ready to eater into negotiations, and con-
sents to renew relations on a neighbourly footing;
but, at the same time, will leave justice to take
its legitimate course.

FRANCE.
The French mail had not arrived at the time of
our going to press.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, Nov. 22.

I cannot send you any details relative to what has ;
recently occurred in the highest political spheres ; •
but two persons, who know exactly how matters
stand, have to-day informed me that the Bessara-
biau front ier question may be considered settled "in
as far as Bolgrad is concerned." It was not said
whether Russia had yielded, or whether England,
Austria, and Turkey had come to an understanding
with France ; but the positive assurance was given
me that New Bolgrad w*uld eventually be ceded
to Moldavia. The same may be said as regards the
Isle of Serpents.
Although Austria retrogrades in most things, she
progresses in all those matters which come under
the more direct cognisance of the Minister of
Finance. It is but a few years since Baron Bruck,
as Minister of Commerce, abolished all prohibitive
duties, and he is now about to enter into negotia-
tions with Prussia for facilitating the intercourse
between Austria and the Zollverein. Austria is
willing to listen to any suggestions that may be
made by the Zollverein, and she trusts that it will
display equal complaisance should the Imperial
Government make proposals for facilitating the
intercourse between the different Customs-Union
States, and for reducing the duty, in both tariffs,
on the produce of foreign countries.
The Frankfort Post Zeitung has learnt from
Berne that the Emperor Napoleon received Gene-
ral Dufour, " who was formerly one of his teach-
ers," in a most friendly way (avec les demonstra-
tions de la plus granule amitie). The Swiss general
was closeted with the Emperor for three hours, but
the latter still strongly insists on the liberation of
the Neuchatel Royalists. In the Grand Council
of the Canton of St. Gall there were '7B voices
against, aid 45 for, the abolition of capital punish-
ment. Executions have to take place by means of
the guillotine in an enclosed space, but in presence
of witnesses.

The Augsburg Gazette learns from the Polish
frontiers that the Russians are not likely to be in

any hurry to fulfil the obligations which They took
on themselves in the month of March, "as they
know that they have nothing to fear from the guns
of the British vessels in the Black Sea until April,
1857.

The concession granted to the Theiss Railroad
Company has appeared in the Wiener Zeitung ; but
you long ago received a correct summary of its con-
tents, and it would therefore be superfluous to say
anything more on the subject.

NAPLES.
NAPLES, Nov. 20.

His Majesty lives within a world of his own, and
beyond it cares little perhaps for what is going on.
His flatterers crowd about him and offer their
incense daily • and the offering is duly accepted,
and through these odorous clouds little is seen
distinctly. In previous letters I called your atten-
tion to the impious epithets which the Giarnals
(the Court journal) was always applyirg to Ferdi
nand 11. ; for a short time they were modified,
but since the Ministers of the allied Powers have
left there has been another outbreak, and all that
the most impious and fulsome adulation can repeat
is daily published in the Times of Naples. I send
you a translation of a leader in the number
of the 17th, not as a mere literary curiosity, but as
a specimen of tone which is adopted by those who
know how best to crawl into the royal favour, and
as being highly significant of the feeling f the
Court, for in this country, where the censor blots
out every offensive word, not a line would be per-
mitted which did not meet with approbation. The
passage runs as follows :
" Felicity and joy ever dwell where our adored Monarch
is with his august consort and his royal children. Every
act of theirs, every step, is an example of edifying
piety, of provident love for the good of all, of charity, of
munificence without limits and without parallel. The
best of kings, the best father of a people boundlessly
devoted and grateful to him, consecrates unweariedly to
the cares of State certain days, condescending to direct his
benign attention to whatever is subjected to his exalted
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no greater pleasure than that of succouring and benefit-
ting ; nor does ho re-enter the Palace until after having
visited the house of God, gathering about him her Majesty
the Queen and the Royal Princes, as well in the temples
as at the altars, as he did on the evening of the 13th inst.,
at the first hour of right, receiving the benediction in
the Church of St. Judas Taddeaue, which was added by his
piety not long since to the many sacred monuments of his
incomparable zealfor Divine worship. And this is the flame
which, burning ever in the magnanimous heart, compels
the Sacred Hand which rules our destinies to scatter with-
out ceasing in our necessities, in vast sums, the balsam of
beneficence. Among most recent examples of Sovereign
generosity, we ought to cite the many thousand ducats
there bestowed (query, where? On the road between
Gaeta and Castellon° ?) by his beneficient Majesty to the
indigent, if undeniable truths had any need of proof."
The Malacca, British war steamer, which came
in on Saturday, is likely to remain here, at all
events until further orders, a fact which gives us
all satisfaction, for though we are in a state of the
most perfect tranquillity, and the Liberals are re-
solved not to disturb it, all contingencies should
be provided for, nor is it consistent with the dig-
nity of a great people that any of its members
should be left unprotected.