The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-07 00:00:00

THE StTN, .LION'DON, TITESTAr ETEININet, OCTOBER 7 1

that the EMPEROR "does not sulk," that he
means " to devote all his powers to the development
of the internal resources of his country." The state
of Europe might tempt him to philanthropic enter-
prises like that of NICHOLAS against Turkey, but
he means to limit his philanthropy to patriotism.
Why, yes, to be sure, that is very prudent. W e
fancy it would be rather dangerous work at home
were he to attempt marching his forces just now
beyond his own boundaries, or taking his fleet out
of theßaltic just yet. NESSELRODE would not have
faced about like a thrashed schoolboy after he had
got far enough out of the way of his conqueror.
After all, the Allies are foiled doubly—they
wanted to save the dignity of Russia, but she
won't be dignified—they wanted to check her
arrogance, and she's as arrogant as ever. To
have accepted her defeat and acted accordingly
would have been dignity in misfortune—to talk
like a conqueror in the preamble, but to apologise
for impotence in the peroration, is what neither
Hngland, nor France, nor Sardinia, nor Turkey,
have ever done. It's the big Circular of a little
mind, after all.

LATEST _NEWS.

THE FRENCH BUDGET.
PARIS, TUESDAY MORNING.

The Moniteur publishes a report of the Minis-
ter of Finance, relative to the Budget of 1856.

The most remarkable points advanced by the

Minister are the following

" That not only the amount of revenue of
1854 has been attained and passed—not only the
extraordinary level of 1855 is reached---but the
first months of the present year, compared with
the corresponding months of the last year, show
a considerable increase. The increase, for the

first six months alone, is 63,000,000 as against
1854, and 26,000,000 as against 1855.
" Much has been said of the exportation of
bullion. A succession of bad harvests, the pur-
chase of silk from foreign sources, and other less
legitimate causes, have influenced, no doubt, the
export of French coin. Silver especirlly has
become the objects of a trade which disturbs
the public mind. The trade consists in select-
ing the finest coins, and obtaining for them
their surplus value. This unfair choice of
coin, which tends to destroy the general equili-
brium, was by ancient law considered as a high
misdemeanour, and was punished by severepenal-
ties. Modern legislation cannot be powerless
against such an abuse, which has nothing in com-
mon with the undisputed principle of commercial
liberty. The Government of your Majesty is
justly concerned about the matter.

"The two first loans have been entirely paid
up, and the terms of the last, which will suffice
to liquidate all the expenses of the war, are ful-
filled with exactitude.

"The public revenue is augmenting in a
hitherto unparalleled proportion. The taxes are
paid with the most exact punctuality, end even

The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post
(second edition), in lus letter dated yesterday,

says :

" If I am correctly informed concerning the
state of Naples despatches must have reached
London, showing the necessity of immediately
sending vessels to Naples for the protection of
British subjects. There seems to be no doubt
that the police of the Court, headed by Campagnia,
have received orders to organise the lazzaroni,
with a view of attacking the property of any one
who may be pointed out by their leaders. The
lazzaroni of certain quarters of the city are said
to have already received money from the Court.

"An ordinary telegraphic despatch appears this
evening in the French journal; giving news from
Naples up to Oct. 2. It is here declared that M.
Martini, the Austrian Ambassador, arrived at
Naples on the 29th. The King had returned to
Naples, from Gaeta, for the purpose of holding a
Cabinet Council. The despatch then says that a
report was very genera! about the formation of anew
Ministry, and that Gen. Filangieri had been named
as likely to come into office. If there be any truth in
this telegraphic news, the King is acting with more
wisdom and less obstinacy than usual. As regards
Gen. Filangieri, he is the soldier who commanded
the Sicilian expedition, was afterwards appointed
governor of the island, and certainly ruled with in-
telligence. Therefore, as might be expected, he fell
into disgrace with the King and was recalled,
Prince Cassecicala taking his place. Filangieri is
said to have ever advised the King to make an alli-
ance with France and England rather than Austria,
a Power without a fleet, and Russia a friend that
could not very easily approach the Two Sicilies
if called upon to do so by political events. But
there is one reason why General Filangieri might
not be acceptable to the King at the present mo-
ment ; he is an old soldier of the days of Murat,
and Ferdinand is very sensitive on that subject.
At all events it is well to regard with caution the ,
whole of the information in this despatch for the
moment. The Patric says M. Martini was the
bearer of a letter from the Emperor of Austria to
the King of Naples urging him to give way.
Had his Majesty done so wo might have heard
something about it by this time; but yesterday
we got quite contrary news from Vienna."

RUSSIAN CORONATION FETES.
(F, )2n th?. Second Edition of the Times.)
MOSCOW, SEPT. 23.
The English Ambassador and Lady Granville's
state ball on Wednesday night was very brilliant
and very successful. The Emperor and Empress,
the Grand Dukes Constantine and Michael, the
Grand Duchesses Constantine and Marie, honoured
the party by their presence, and all the Foreign Am-
bassadors and Ministers and suites, as well as the
principal Russian nobility, and every person of note
in Moscow, attended this splendid reunion, which
appropriately terminated the princely hospitalities
that have distinguished the English Ambassador's
residence in this city. To mention all the great
people would be impossible, seeing that about nine
hundred parsons were present, most of them of
high rank or position, and some of whom were
so anxious indeed to pay their respects to
Lord and Lady Granville that they came without
any invitation whatever. Some thirty or forty
people offered our Embassy this high compliment.
Pue outside of the Graziani Palace was illuminated
with coloured lamps, which cast a bright glow on a
crowd of faces in the streets, all silent and quiet, as
a Russian crowd ever is. In order to provide danc-
ing room for such a large assemblage, a very spacious
and handsome apartment had been erected with in-
finite pains and trouble, projecting over the garden
at the rear of the house, on a level with the drawing-
room floor, into which it opened. The top and sides
ware formed by a monster tent or marcinee striped
white and red, with alcoves—one at one side for
the orchestra, another opposite for those who might
desire to retire from the dance. At the further
extremity were the communications with the sup-
per rooms. The entrance to this temporary ball
room was effected by means of a passage brined by
canvass, which led from the hall through the gar-
den, and so up by a staircase to the level of the
first floor. This passage, which wound through
the natural trees of the garden, had two branches,
in one of which was a comfortable little buffut,
well provided with good wine; it was lighted
with variegated lamps, and had a very pretty
effect, and it was very useful in removing the
pressure of so large a party on the front stair-
case. The usual reception-romn of the palace
was fitted up with much taste and magnificence
for the supper of the Emperor and Empress,
the Imperial family, the high ambassadors, and the
ladies of the Imperial court. One long table,
covered with silver epergnes, goblets,' and cups of
the finest workmanship which English hands could
produCe, and with beautiful white china extended
along one side of the room. On the wail, over one
extremity of the table, there was an oil full-length
of the Queen, which Mr. Ker, one of the attaches
to Lord Wodehouse's mission, managed with
I small means to paint verycreditably, and with great
rapidity. Two round tables, equally well-ap-
pointed, were placed at the other side for those of
the Court who did not sit at the principal table.
The large room used for dancing at Lady Gran-
villes's previous balls was arranged as a supper
room for the distinguished polloi who were not
included in the guests at the tables of the Imperial
party. A long table, well supplied with silver
plate, scarcely sufficed to sustain
various dishes--hams, the
hams, tongues, jellies, p
foies Bras which were placed on it, particularly as
it was rather weak on its legs, and was exposed to
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seat at one of which was an object of much exer-
tion and ambition, or of patience not always re-
warded. A row of gold plate and salvers adorned the
buffet along the wall, and all the supper was served
on silver plate. Here France had again come to
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tween de 'Morey and Lord Granville was
v presence of the servants of the
French Embassy, who were lent on this State occa-
sion to assist in meeting the great exigencies of the
night, a service which has, I believe, been recipro-
e
cated in kind. The vases in the Emperor's supper
room were adorned by a profusion of flowers and
rich bouquets, and the effect of these rooms, all
very brilliantly lighted with wax, was uncommonly
warm and comfortable. It was about 9.30 when
the Emperor and Empress arrrived. They were re-
ceived by Lord and Lady Granville at the stairs, and
the attaches and suite of the Embassy were also in
attendance. The Grand Dukes and Duchesses
and the ladies of the Court followed, and the party
proceeded to the ball-room. On entering the or-
chestra struck up a polonaise. The Ambassador
was honoured by the hand of the Czarina, the
Emperor led forth Lady Granville, and the ball
was opened by a stately promenade in this order,
from one end of the room to the other, to the
strains of the band, in a kind of measured step, the
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MONDAY, SEPT. 29.
The ball given last night by M. de Morny, the
French Ambassador, was a triumph in its way, and
it may be safely pronounced the most splendid and
successful entertainment of the kind that has been
given here during the fetes. The rooms were admi-
rably disposed and used to the best effect, and the
temporary ball-room was so pretty and elegant that,
in spite of some incongruities of colour in °Lie or
two places, it may be pronounced ono of the very
few erections of the kind which it would be a pity
to take down again. This apartment nearly a square
in form with a large quadrilateral recess at one
side in which was the alcove for the chairs of the
Imperial guests, was constructed in the garden at
the back of the Palace, and was admirably adapted
for all its purposes except in one respect—there was
no parquet, and the new floor, which was covered
with a composition of wax for dancing, scarcely
formed the best possible surface for the contact of I

that would follow, and to which French and Eng-
lish residents would be alike exposed, would force
us to interfere in a more direct manner than we
could wish. The question is one of great diffi-
culty."

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satin shoes and wafer-soled boots. The sides of
this square were covered with a delicate gold lat-
tice-work, within which were twined wreaths of
ivy from the floors to the top of the apartment.
The effect of this green and charming—the arched
roof of which in the centre rose into a kind of
cupola, was covered with an imitation in green and
gold of the lattice-work and natural leaves below.
High up near the ceiling was placed an orchestra,
which as well as the door and the sides of the
alcove was hung with a flowered silk damask
„bat some critics found fault with for want of har-
mony in colour with the prevailing tone of the
ball-room. The alcove was lined with rich tuffted
blue cloth and silk at the back. The room was sur-
rounded at the sides by a continuous line of otto-
mans and sofas, covered with silk to correspond with
the drapery of the doorways and orchestra. Magni-
ficient mirrors deflected the brilliant scene in every
direction. On the roof were large medallions of
Cupids and infant Bacchi contemplating the com-
pany with great satisfaction. The lighting was very
successful ; handsome chandeliers, re-hating from
a central! sun of wax-lights, threw a perfect light
from above ; but all the annoyances of shadow
and vertical ill*mination were obviated by the dis-
position of very massive and richly gilt candlesticks
or candelabra at the side, of the room.
All the pilasters and the window-frames, the
lines of the facade, the porch, the eaves, and the
lines of the roof were traced in lines of richly
harmonised light emerald green, gold-colour, red,
ultramarine, and light blue, combined most per-
fectly, and above all, shadowed out in fire, was
the Imperial eagle and cipher. me company
were more numerous than at Prince Esterhazy's.
The attendance of Russian nobility was very
large, and in addition to the Emperor and Em-
press, all the members of the Royal Family, with
the exception of the Grand Duchess Helene were
present.

MONDAY NIGHT.
The feu d'artifice to-night was on a scale of the
greatest magnitude, but again the weather was un-
favourable to the people.

FRANCE,
PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
The Emperor and Empress left St. Cloud yester-
day afternoon in an open carriage for the Bois de
Boulogne, to see the cascade of Longchamps play
for the first time in presence of their Majesties.
The cascade succeeded perfectly, and was much
admired.
The Council-General of the Bank of France has
reduced to 60 days the date of bills which will be
received on discount. The measure comes into
operation to-day.
The Messager de Bayonne says :—" The active
division assembled on our frontier under the com-
mand of General Crosbon is about to be dissolved.
Two of the regiments composing it are, however,
to remain in the country—the 51st at Pau, the 3d
at Bayonne."
BOURSE, Oct. 6.--The Bank of France havi.
decided that they would not discount the bills hav
jug more than 60 days to run, and having also
adopted new restrictions to their advances on secu-
rities, refusing to lend more than 40 per cent. on
Rente, and 20 per cent. on Railway Shares or De-
bentures, for a period of only one month. A new
panic has been caused in tho market, and all securi-
ties have been continually offered. The following
were the last quotations
Cash. ft. e. End of Month.
4i per Cents 9O 75
—e.
3 per Cents 65 90 66 15
New Loan 66
Bank Shares 3,951 Roman
86
Cr&lit litobilier 1,465 Austrian
Medan Fives 9Bl— Spanish Threw
rieamonteso(s)..,... Home Debt i.—
ItAILWAYS—ron CdriU.
fr. c.
fr. Orleans ..... 1,240 Western (xd)...
Northern
Lyons-. ....... ... 1,210 New Ditto
tileditoiranear, (xd) 1,690 Grand Central
Lyons Genova 725 Testo ....... -
Cotta 690 Austrian Cern. ..... 780

suppression of smuggling. The new law on the
provincial deputations will shortly appear.
A royal decree, in the Gazette, dissolves the
Commission on Codes, and appoints a new one of
seven members under the presidency of M. Cortina.
The Epoca announces that M. Garcia y Tassara,
whom it calls a " distinguished orator and writer,"
has been appointed minister to the United States,
and that M. Galiano, who was formerly minister
at Washington, has been appointed to Lisbon.
Admiral Estrada, commander of the division of
Ferrol, spoken of as likely to be appointed to the
command of the squadron to be sent to Naples,
had been summoned to Madrid.

Tho Official Veiona Gazelle, a journal written
under the eye of the Austrian Government, has
for some time past been entertaining its readers
with virulent al against England. In its num-
ber of the 3d it contrasts the moderation of Rus-
sia as regards Bolgrad and the Island of Serpents
with that of England, which "is at this moment
meditating the devastation of the Two SicP;es by fire and sword, because they have not the good for-
tune to possess a parliament and a press like that
of England." In another passage, England is re-
presented as desirous "of perpetuating in Greece
the disastrous consequences of the war." It is ra-
ther singular that, in all his articles the editor
omits to mention France, or even to hint at her
existenee.

The Moniteur de l'Armee contains the follow-
ing :—" The Shah of Persia has just founded a
military college, destined for the instruction of
young officers. The Prince takes the most lively
interest in this establishment; which is near his
palace in Teheran. The instruction consists of
mathematics, drawing of plans, the principles of
the military art, and the French language, the
knowledge of which is indispensable, as, strange
to say, all the words of command are given in
French."

The Danish Ministry has not been foamed, all
the endeavours made having failed. The Cham-
bers, which opened on the 4th, have been prorogued
to the Ist December. The King will preside at
the Grand Council."

A letter from odena, in the Risorgimento
Turin, states that the Duke of Modena is fortifyin of
g
his frontiers on tho side of Piedziont, and building
a new fort under the walls of Reggio.

The Monitore Toscano publishes a Grand Duce
decree, authorising the establishment of a company
under the name of Ferdinand Railway Company,
for the construction of a line between Florence and
Rome, through Arezzo.

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND THE
LONDON PRESS.

tg The Oonstitutionnel of Sunday rejoices at the change
• of sentiment which it discovers in the leading articles of
the London papers; and states that the latter "have be-
• come more just towards France, and more grateful to
jthe Emperor ' than was the case some time ago. That
ournal thus expresses itself .--
" We take note with sincere satisfaction of the protes-
tations of friendship which the serious and elevated por-
tion of the English press is now pleased to offer to the
French Government. We will not inquire whether it is
•not to the unexpected appearance of the Russian circular
that the actual attitude of the London journals is to be
attribute°. Should this be the case the document of
Prince Gortschakoff will have had a result which cer-
tainly had not been anticipated or desired ; it will have
contributed to draw nearer in the face of eventualities the
moral and material alliance of two great nations and of
two powerful courts, which, united, mao serve, without
dant-ger La- themselves, the cause of humanity and of civi-
lisation over the whole globe. But it would be both tin--
just and narrow-sighted on the part of the English press
not to acknowledge the immense services which the
Imperial Government has been able to render since
its establishment to the cause of European order, and
to the general peace. We will merely add that as
alliance such as that which France and England formed
during the Eastern crisis derives its strength especially
from its disinterestedness, and that neither of those two
powers can dream of employing this union in any man-
ner calculated to serve its own especial int 'rests. The
high position to which the Emperor has raised France
the councils of Europe gives to us the right, and im-
poses on us the duty, of elevating our voice in all foreign
courts, of maintaining on all points of tlie globe our in-
terests and the security of our countrymen, and finall.),
of preventing the occurrence of anything likely to trouble
the general peace. Bat France knows how to exercise
her right and to fulfil her duties with so much wisdom
and moderation that not an act nor a word calculated
to compromise the security of the West is to be feared
on litr part."