The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-27 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Money steady. Loans on call, sto 7 per cen
Stocks very dull. Exchange on London, 1084 I
1031; on France, sf. 171 c. to sf. 20c. Flour mar
ket quiet; superior qualities easier. Wheat firm
but quiet. Coffee steady. Cotton firm; sales in
three days, 5,300 bales; middling uplands, 111.
Ashes steady. Iron dull ; Scotch pig, 25 dols. to
25 dols. 50c. Provisions steady. Tallow firm.
Sugar buoyant. Freights tending upward.

NEW ORLEANS, FEB. 13

Cotton easier, but quotations unchanged; sales,
7,000 bales. Sugar steady. Freights and ex-
change unaltered.

CHARLESTOWN, FEB
Cotton unchanged ; sales, 2,400 bales.

LATEST NEWS BY TIIE ASIA.

NEW YORK, FEB. 15

The steamers Arago, from Southampton, and
the Sir Robert Lowe, from Genoa, arrived to-day.
A fire broke out at Elizabeth city, North Caro•
lina, and destroyed 40 houses.

NEW ORLEANS, FEB. 14

Cotton has declined J-c. Middling 10,1 e. to 11c,
Sales in three days, 30,000 bales; receipts,
33,000 bales.

QUEENSTOWN, FEB. 27

The Royal Mail steamship America. Captain
Millar, arrived here yesterday at 10.30 p.m.., em-
barked mails and proceeded at 11.30 p.m. for Hali-
fax and Boston. All well.

QUEENSTOWN, FEB. 26.
The Royal Mail steamship Asia, Captain Lott,
from New York on the 15th inst., passed Roche's
Point at 5.30 a.m.

THE ITALIAN QUESTION.

(From the Second Edition of the Times.)

The " Italian question" is becoming a more com-
plicated riddle every day. As in the " Eastern
question," human ingenuity exhausts itself in
searching for a solution that will satisfy, or, at
least, not dissatisfy all ; but as successive solutions
are suggested new complications arise. The Pied-.
montese Governmenthave more than once entreated
to be informed from Paris as to how they were to
act. The Piedmontese were getting impatient,
the Tuscans impatient, the Romagnols impatient ;
all was uncertainty, and if time were lost might
soon be confusion. Would the Emperor Napo-
leon decide for the annexation of Tuscany ;
or would he declare against it ? They were
ready to yield to his wishes or his orders, what-
ever they were. Were they to attribute his con-
tinued silence to tacit assent to a " policy of action"
on their part—that is, the final and definitive in-
corporation of Tuscany ? If they were thus to in-
terpret it, they were ready for action, and, ap-
parently, they had little apprehension of the result ;
but if, the contrary, they entreated him to speak.
Up to Friday last this vexatious uncertainty pre-
vailed. I cannot affirm it has ceased, but it
is repeated that at last an answer has been
sent to Turin, something to this effect :—The
son of the late Duke of Genoa (a child
six years old), and nephew to Victor Em-
manuel, is to be offered to the Tuscans as
their Prince—whether by the title of Grand
Duke or King does not much matter; during
his minority a regent shall be appointed to act in
his name; and, most delicate of all, a Grand Vicar
shall adminster the Romagna under the suzerainete
of the Pope. Such, substantially, is the project
said to be transmitted within the last two days to
Turin. Victor Emmanuel will, I presume, offer no
difficulty. But with the Pope the case is different.
To the proposal for the separation of the Romagna,
under any form, however, modified, Rome will still
answer, " Non possumus ;" and, if she continues to
resist, will force be employed ? I doubt much as to
the mysteries and profound policy often attributed
to the Emperor Napoleon. I rather believe that he
is sometimes as much puzzled what to say or do as
the most uninitiated of the public.