The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-08 00:00:00

PRINCE ALFRED IN BELGIUM.

Aletter from Ostend of the 4th says :—" Prince Alfred,
second son of the Queen of England, arrived her.) this
morning by the English steamer Vivid. The vessel
could not enter the port on account of the low state of
the water, and the prince landed in a boat. His royal
highness was acclmpanied by his tutor. Colonel de
Moerkerke arrived here in the morning to receive him.
After having breakfasted the party walkelahrough the
town, and then left for Brussels by a special train.
Prince Alfred is on his way to Coburg, and will after-
wards proc2ed to Berlin."

A Brussels journal of Thursday says :—"Prince Alfred
of England arrived here at two o'clock yesterday (Wed-
nesday) afternoon, from Ostend, accompanied by his
governor and a numerous suite. Two carriages were
waiting at the northern station to convey them to the
palate. The King, the Count die Flanders, and the
Princess Charlotte, were at the palace to receive the
young prince, who is in his 13th year. The dinner party
included in addition to the royal family, M. Damon,
Minister of Public Works, Baron d'Anethan, Minister
of State and Senator, and other persons of distinction,
as well as members of the royal household. After din.
ner the King and the Royal Family icft Laeken.
"The young prince, son of the Queen of England, ac-
companied by the Count de Flanders ; Captain Burnell,
ai•'-de.camp, and persons of the prince's suite proceeded
yesterday to visit the Hotel de Ville, the Museum, the
Veterinary School, &c."

THE TURNER COLLETTIOV AT
MARLBOROUGH-ROUSE.

The following 20 pictures by the late Mr. Tur-
ner will be exhibited on Monday next at Marl-
borough-House :-
459 Moonlight; a Study at Milllbank (1737).
463 View in Wales (about 1800).
463 View on Clapham Common (3bout 1802).
*476 Shipwreck (1805).
p 433 Greenwich Hospital (1803).
485 Abingdon, Berkshire (about 1810).
489 Cottage Destroyed by an Avalanche (about 1812).
496 Bligh Sand, near Sheerness—Fishing-boats trawling
(1815).
The above pictures are in Turner's first style.
*499 The Decline of the Carthu.ginian Empire (1817).
This work belongs to his imitations of Claude.
*535 The Bay of Baba (1823).
511 View of Orvieto (1830).
*516 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage—Italy (1832).
*5lB Apollo and Daphne (1837).
*521
Phryne'' going to the Public Bah, as Venus (1838).
522 The Fighting Temerairo" trvsged to her last Berth
(1839).
523 Agrippina Landing with the Ashes of Germanicus
(1839)
The above pictures, from No. 505 inclusive, belong to
his second style.
5.27 Venice—The Bridge of Sighs (1840).
01 The Burial of Wilkie (1812).
535 The " Sun of Venice" going to Sea (1843).
511 Approach to Venice (1441).
The last four works illustrate the "lore extravagant
manner of his latest period.
The pictures marked thus * are of large dimensions, and
are among Turner's greatest works.

Lord Palmerston left Claremont, the seat of Sir Ben-
jamin Heywood, yesterday morning., on a, visit to Liver-
pool, and was expected back last e vening. His Lord-
ship and Lady Palmerston will have Manchester for
London this (Saturday) morning by the 9.30 express
train.
His Grace the Duke of Richmond is to preside at the
war medal dinner, which is to take place in the Hope-
toun Rooms, Edinburgh. on the 20th inst.
General Sir F. W. Williams, is expected at
the mayor's dinner at Caine, on Tuesday, which is
deferred till that day, the gallant general being engaged
to dine with the Lord Mayor of Lun don on Monday.
Commercial advices from Hamburg report an easier
discount market, the rate having resected to 6 per cent.
The Devon Reformatory was detsbroyed by fire a few
days ago. It was set fire to by one of the inmates. He
has been fully committed for trial for arson.
In the event of Sir A. Cockburn accepting the office
of the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Re-
cordership of Bristol will become -vacant. Sir J. E.
Wilmot, Bart., is likely to succeed to the appointment.
The Belgian jauruals announce that the Prince de
Ligne, who is now at his Chataau of. Belceil, is seriously
ill from an attack of pleurisy.
The whole of the store] helongLur to the Engineer
Corps of the TurkLh Contingent baying been handed
over to the Royal Engineers, that. corps has been dis-
banded. _ _ _

GOOD Nzwa Fon BELGRAVIA..—on. Thursday hackney
cabriolets were permitted to pasa through the Stable-
yard-gate, St. James's-palace, and! Buckingham-gate,
conveying passengers to and from Pimlico and Pall-mall,
making a difference of ls. in the Lire of a eab as com-
pared with the old road by Piccadilly, to say nothing of
the saving of time.
The Rev. Daniel Moore, the successor of the Rev.
Mr. Melville, at Camden Church, Camberwell, is a can-
didate for the lectureship in the gift of the Haberdashers'
Company, vacated by the resignati, in of Mr. Melville.
A royal commission has just bee a appointed to report
onthe question of the superaunuatioi t abatement. The fol-
lowing are the names of the noblem an and gentlemen on
the commission :—Lord Belper, Lard Monck, Sir A.
Spearman, Sir E. Ryan, and Mr. W. iguelin, the governor
of the Bank of England.
The installation of Earl Howe L.'s Provincial Grand
Master of the Leicestershire Masni iic Lodge will take
place on Tuesday, Nov. 18, when the noble earl will
lay the foundation stone of the new iohools in connection
with St. John's Church, Stamford.
BIG BEN, OF WESTMINSTER.—Th Lis bell is composed
entirely
of copper aid tin, and its exact weight is 15
tons, 18 cwt., 1 qr., 22Ibs.
At a meeting of the Marylebone wardens yesterday,
a letter wag read from the secretary of the Poor-law
Board, requesting to be informed of the decision of the
guardians relative to filling up the office of the master
of the workhouse. After a rather stormy discussion the
following resolution was carried—" That the Poor-'aw
board be informed that the guardians had the resigna.
tion of the master still under consideration, and had
come to no decision with respect to it."
General Nordin, the Swedish Amin.ssador at the court
of St. Petersburg, has received his dismissal from that
post, after having occupied it for nearly 20 years. The
wifo of General Nordin is a Russian 7,.irineess, and a lady
of considerable influence in the court; circles.

LATEST NEWS.

THE POLITICAL PRISONERS IN
NAPLES.

The Neapolitan correspondent of the Times
(Second Edition), transmits the following list of
prisoners confined in the Bagni of the continental
part only of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies :
Bagni and other places of confinement
Darsena 205
Corvette Etna
Carmine 2BB
Pozzuoli old Bagno l2B
Pescara
Brindisi 635
Gaeta
Capua
Central Hospital
Frigate Urania 5278
New Bagno of Pozzuoli
Sta. Caterina a sornello'
Old Bagno of Ganatello, idem Nuovo 342
Nisida
Castellamare 727
Procida 1,177
Hospital of Aversa (lunatic) 4
Castel Capuano 9
Montesarchio
Montefusco (all political)
Ergastole of Procida
Ditto, St. Stefano
Second Bagno of Granate110
In the service of Alessandro Nunziante
Ditto, the heir of Fred. Nunzianto

Total 7,087
Of these 585 are political prisoners.

RUSSIA AND FRANCE.

The Vienna correspondent of the Times (se-
cond edition), in his letter dated Nov. 4, says :
" The news of the triumph of Austro-English
diplomacy at Constantinople has not produced a
very agreeable impression in Vienna, as it is felt
that the defeat of Messrs. de Thouvenel and de
Boutenieff must greatly exasperate the Powers
which they represent. " If Aali Pasha," says the
Austrians, " had remained in office, the Frontier
Question might have been satisfactorily and
speedily settled, and the Black Sea and Danubian
Principalities evacuated, but as things now stand,
the Russians are as little likely to be willing to
cede Bolgrad and the Isle of Serpents an the
French are to urge them to do so." In short,
the prospects of an alliance between Russia, and
France make the inhabitants of this city extremely
nervous, as they feel that Austria would have no
just claim to the assistance of England if she
should be molested by Russia in Galicia, far by
France in Italy."

The Paris correspondent of the Times (second
edition), in a letter dated yesterday, says :
The reception of General Kisseleff by the Em-
peror at Compiegne was, it is generally said, very
gracious and very flattering, in a greater degree,
perhaps, than is the cos, with ordinary members
of the diplomatic corps. The General was not,
as you are aware, received in his official capacity,
as his credentials have not yet been presented, and
"gill not until the Emperor's return to Paris ; but
rather as the bearer of an autograph letter from the
Czar, and no doubt as a distinguished stranger
named to so high a post as that of the reparesen-
tative of his Sovereign. That his reception was
marked by particular courtesy is hardly to be
wondered at under the circumstances. The
Emperor received him alone, and the interview,
it appears, lasted about an hour and a half. Of
course, people's curiosity was a good deal excited
as to what passed during the interview. What
passed has, however, as yet remained a secret.
The General replied to the inquiries of his friends
that he was most kindly received by the Emperor,
and that matters were going on well. The
Moniteur of this morning corroborates the fact I
mentioned a day or two since about the auto-
graph letter from the Czar, as presented on the
same occasion by General Kisseleff.

" It was reported some days since that the
English Government was known to be dessirous
of the exclusion of Russia from the Congress,
in the event of a Congress being held ; and that
it also desired that the Congress should meet
at London or Vienna. With reference to the
exclusion it appears there is not, and was not,
any intimation to exclude Russia taking part in
the Conferences ; the objection was to Prussia
and Sardinia. It seemed better to admit no
Power that had not an immediate and direct
interest in the East, and neither of those
mentioned was in that situation. The atti-
tude of Prussia during the war it is super-
fluous to recall. Sardinia no doubt behaved
courageously and loyally ; but we are told she
has already received no small recompence by her
moral aggrandisement in Italy. Prussia was ad-
mitted to sit at the Congress table, but only at
the last hour and when a European question was
to be settled. It was by an act of grace rather
than from strict right that she was allowed to
name a Commissioner to the Danubian Principali-
ties, and it was because Prussia, whose claim was
so slight, was admitted, that the same was aoceded
to Sardinia. There is another reason, too, which,
if I am rightly informed, explains the objection
to Sardinia. It is said that the opinion of
the Sardinian Government, touching the 13olgrad
frontier and the occupation of the Principalities
and the Black Sea, was not in accordance with
England and Austria. There was not, I believe,
any formal communication from Piedmont to that
effect, but sufficient was known to induce the
British Cabinet to ask for an explanation. When
the question was put both by France and Eng-
land, Sardinia hesitated, and though that hesita-
tion was not satisfactory to either Power, it was
apprehended that in a new Congress on these
disputed points we might have Sardinia
against us.

" I alluded yesterday to the rumours of Minis-
terial changes. These rumours to-day again circu-
late, but they now more particularly refer to the
Minister of Foreign Affairs. Whenever a rumour
of the sort prevails, we may be sure to have
many others of the same origin. Those who are
probably desirous of hastening a dismemberment
of the Cabinet go so far as to speak of a letter
said to be addressed some few days since to the
Emperor, complaining of the conduct of M. de
Persigny in London. It is alleged that the
French Ambassador at our Court acted in a man-
ner similar to that which was attributed, wrongly,
I suppose, to the French Ambassador in 1840,
and which had in view the overthrow of the
Thiers' Ministry, that he held one language to
the
..,English Government on the question of
theccupation, and another to his own Mi-
nister_ such as, that France had no objec-
tion to the occupation of the Black Sea by
the English, or of the Danubian Principalities
by the Austrians, or to England exacting the
rigorous execution of too Treaty of Paris; and, in
a word, that the Emperor would see with pleasure
the English squadron anchored in the Turkish
waters as long as Austria occupied the Principali-
ties. Again the story goes that the French Am-
bassador gave a reason for the energy with which
our Cabinet exacts the execution of the Treaty
different from the ono which is put forth, and
which is most obvious—that Lord Palmerston
was not as serious as he appears in demanding
that execution, or in sending ships of war to the 0

"M. Marine will perhaps be but very little
regretted in the Finance, particularly if he is
replaced by M. Vitry, distinguished for his intel-
ligence. M. Yitry has already given proofs of
his talents in the Legislative Assembly ; he oc-
cupies now the post of Councillor of State, and
all questions of financial importance are confided
to him to be r6ported on. I need scarcely add
kat the Minister of Foreign Affairs is one of his
Majesty's advisers spoken of as likely to retire.
In conveying this gossip, I only repeat the gene-
ral topic of conversation in Paris. My own im-
pression is that there will not be so many changes
as are here referred to.

"It has been decided that the fortifications of
Toulon are to be extended, as an official notice
has •been posted up in Paris, announcing to con-
tractors that the works for this object, which arc
to be completed in three or six years, and are
estimated at three or four millions of franc?,
are to be put up to tender on the 20th of this
month.