The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-09 00:00:00

THE AUSTRIAN AMNESTY.

The following are the autographic decrees by
which the Emperor of Austria amnesties a number
of political prisoners, and raises the sequestrations
in Lombardy :
" Dear Field Marshal Count Radetsky,—l have
resolved entirely to raise the sequeStrations laid,
on the 13th Feb., 1853, upon the property of poli-
tical emigrants from my Lombardo-Venetian king-
dom. You will at once take proper measures for
restoring the estates to those who can satisfactorily
show themselves to be their proprietors. At the
same time I authorise you for the future to take
measures for receiving returning emigrants again
into the country, and restoring to them the quality
of Austrian citizens where they may have lost it,
and to grant them pardon when solicited on a for-
mal promise to conduct themselves hereafter as
loyal and faithful subjects. I charge you immedi-
ately to publish this my sovereign
FRANCIi JOSE?".

" Tenice, Dec. 2."
" Dear Field Marshal Radetsky,—l grant an en-
tire remission of their penalty to the pArsons here-
after mentioned, who have been condemned for
high treason or for other criminal acts lontrary to
public order, viz. :—Guiseppi Finzi—}aolo Flora
—Guiseppe Paganoni—Giulio Faccidi—Angelo
Mangili Domenico Fernelli Attilli) Mori
Guiseppe Nova—Paolo Veladini—Carle Sabbioni
—Antonio Lazzati—Ferdinando Bosi( Omero
Zannucchi—Giovanni Nuvolari—Giovanni Ma-
lama Carlo Marchi Lisiade }edroni
Agostino Galli Guiseppe Merini—Calo Girotti
—Luigi Dolci Giovanni Vergani (irtcte S wo-
boda) Girolano Cagliari—Domenico Cesconi—
Luigi Pastro—Alberto Cavalletto—Francesco Ros-
setti—Francesco Strada—Siro Negri Ambrosio
Giussanni Paolo Lombardi Paolo longoni—
Giuseppe Brusa—Caelo Marelli—Carlo Peroli—
Luigi 1;
Pagani—Carlo Ferrini—Pietro Cnnpanara
Andrea Triboldi Luigi Rosetti —Giovanni
Morer— Carlo Mazzolini—Carlo
Poggiani—Antonio Morbini Gaetano
.Gosen—
Giieppe Scaltritti—Francesco Pagani—irlncenzo
Longate—Giacomo Ghirardelli—Ulisse Solis—An-
tonio Zanetti—Paride Petenati—Serafinl Rastelli
—Giovanni Bernarda—Fraquelli Gio lattista—
Pietro Fraquelli Giovanni Bianchi—Giovanni
Faggi—Giacomo Geninazzi—Andrea G raddi—An-
tonio Leoni—Giovanni Cordoni—Marco Chien—
Gaetano Mandelli—Francesco Spernazzati_Giu-
seppe Gariboldi—GiuseppelAlnisetti—Lui Nava.
" FRANCIS J)sEpli.
" Tenice, Dec. 2, 1856."

FRANCE.
PARIS, MONDAY EVa,TING. 1
According to the Debats, Turkey is he only
Power which has not sent in its adhesion tc another
Conference, but its assent is considered certain.
It is the general impression at Berlin that the
affair of Neuchatel will terminate in a com)roraise.
The Moniteur states that his Excelleric3, Baron
Hubner, Ambassador-Extraordinary and ?ienipo-
tentiary of the Emperor of Austria, was •eceived
yesterday by the Emperor, and delivered a letter
from his imperial and royal master, notif2ing the
marriage of his Imperial Highness the Abhduke
Charles Louis of Austria, brother of the Emperor,
to the Princess Margaret of Saxony, daugiter of
the King of Saxony.
The Moniteur also contains a decree, proikulgat-
ing a convention for the mutual protection o copy-
right in works of art or literature in the two States
of France and Wurtemburg.
The ball given on Sunday evening at tho opera,
for the benefit of the poor of the arrondissenent,
was honoured by the presence of their Majsties,
who arrived soon after eleven, and did not etire
till one in the morning. When their Majesties
appeared in the Imperial box they were grketed
with loud and repeated cries of " Yive l'Emperaur !
Vive l'lmperatrice !" which were renewed on heir
leaving. Their Majesties were attended by a )61-
liant suite. The Princess Mathilde was also )re-
sent. The ball was crowded, and the result yin
prove very favourable for,„ the poor.

Advices from Constantinople, of the 26th ut.,
state that Ministerial councils were taking Pltce
every day under Reschid Pacha. The Prussirn
Oonsul-General, M. Meusebach, arrived at Bucla.
rest on the 20th ult.

THE AFRICAN MAILS.

PLYMOUTII, MONDAY.

The African mail-steamer Gambia arrived al
noon to-day, with the homeward mails. She
brings eleven passengers, 1,269 oz. of gold, 350
puncheons of palm oil, with cotton, cochineal, and
other African produce.
By this arrival we learn that, at different parts
of the coast, there were again disputes between the
Natives.

At Old Cameroons, the missionaries and traders
were at variance respecting some Sierra Leone
people, whom the former had taken under their
protection, and who were trading in an underhand
way.
There was a groat battle being fought in the
neighbourhood of Sierra Leone, and there had
been great loss both on the side of the inhabitants
and the natives.
The previous steamer brought news that an
attack on the town was imminent.

BETTER TlMM—Though there has been a considerable
increase in the population. of South Shields, the expendi-
tenance and out-door relief,
ture for the poor, in
was 1,8631. 6s. 7d. durthing.inthe first half-year of 1856, as
with an expenditure of 3,0061. 14s. 9ed. in the
periodco
same
of. 1850, showing a decrease of 1,1431.
FORGINO A. RAILWAY PASS.—LIVERPOOL, December
c--George Nash, whe describes himself as a reporter for
',away newspapers, was charged at the police court to-
day, on remand from the previous week, with having
travelled from London to Liverpool on the London and
North-Western Railway with a forged pass. The cane
was proved, and ho was ordered to pay the fare, 21. Se,,
and was also convicted in the penalty of 40s. and costs,
or to be committed for two months.
TAB SVIREWSIBURY ESTATES.—LIVERPOOL, December
6.—The following circular has been addressed to
the tenants of the Shrewsbury estates is this neigh-
bourhood :—" 32, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London, Dec. 1,
1856. Sir,—We find that Earl Talbot's agents are trying
to persuade the tenants in Staffordshire and Cheshire
that his lordship is now entitled to those estates,although
the first legal step towards establishing his claim has not
yet been taken. Similar attempts have already been made
in Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, and Woreester-
shire, by advertisements, by personal notices, and even
by treating the tenants at public-houses, but witho*t
success, the tenants on those estates having very pro-
perly considered that these are not the means by which
such an important question can be decided. There are
other claimants of the earldom, any one of whom has just
as much pretence as Earl Talbot fir claiming the estates,
but none of them have thought it right to ititerfere with
the tenants, while their claims to the earldom as well as
to the eetates remain wholly uninvestigated. It is only
as 'Earl of Shrewsbury that any one can claim the estates
as against the trustees of Lord Edmund Howard ; and,
until some one of the claimants has established a title to
the earldom, he cannot even question the right of the
trustees (as it is clearly their duty) to retain possession
of the estates. If any claimant should hereafter ester-
end, a claim to the earldom, which we believe impossible,
Lord Edmund and trustees will be quite prepared to
maintain in the courts of law that the late earl had full
right, like every other landowner, to dispose of his own
family estates, notwithstanding the restrictions imposed
by the eld act of Parliament on which L' rd Talbot
relies, but which, like all other lows imposing penal-
ties on religions opinione, has lung since been repealed.
We trust that the Shrewsbury tenants in Stafford-
shire and Cheshire will follow the unanimous example
of the tenants on the other estates, and continue
(upon the indemnity of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk)
to pay their rents to their old landlords until (if
ever) the House of Lords shall have decided that
there is an 'Earl of Shrewsbury,' and the courts of
law shall have determined that he is, as such,
entitled to the ' Shrewsbury estates.' The Duke of Nor-
folk's written indemnity will be given to each tenant at
the ensuing audit, or it may be obtained in the mean
time upon application to R. J. Butler, Esq., Alton
Towers, or to Thomas Hoggins, Esq., Trafford-lodge,
near Chester, the local agents of the Staffordshire and
Cheshire estatee.--We are, sir, your obedient OOTTBiItR,
CURRIE, WOODGATEI and WILLIAMS."