The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-20 00:00:00

TURKEY.

Thu truttunal de Uvicatuntiabuple publishes the
speeches of Lord Stratford de Redcliffe and of the
Sultan, on the occasion of the ceremony of the in-
vestiture of the Garter.
Lord Stratford said—

" By order of the Queen, my most gracious Sovereign,
and in virtue of her Royal mandate, I have the honour,
in eoncert with Sir Charles Young, chief Kiug-at-Arms,
and my colleagues on this occasion, to present to your
Imperial Majesty the insignia of the mot famed and
most noble Order of the Garter, founded, as your Majes-
ty knows, by ono of the most illustrious princes of the
long series of the monarchs of England.
"The Queen, in nominating her plenipotentiary to invest
your Majesty therewith, esteems herself happy to give a
public mark of her friendship and of her Royal consi-
deration for your august person, and thus to make
manifest to the world her cordial desire that the alliance
so usefully established between the empire of her Ma-
jesty and yours may be maintained without interruption
and mutually cemented.
"In adding to the numerous species of glory which
surround your Imperial name a distinction without pre-
cedent, your Majesty may attribute it to that personal
benevolence, to that policy of conciliation, which have
associated your Government with the great European
family, and the results of which, already proclaimed,
only await their full execution to shower everywhere
around the most precious benefits.
" May I be allowed in my private name to express
hew deeply I feel the honour which will be reflected by
this investiture upon me, the humbleinstrument destined
to perform it 9"
The Sultan replied—
" I receive with the highest satisfaction these noble
insignia as a new and striking marktofe Englishthefriendanhaitioonf
which her Majesty the Queen and the
have given U 3 so many proofs, and for which we are ever
grateful.
" I attach the more value to this mark of friendship,
as it is at the same time an imperishable memento of the
happy alliance of our two empires—an alliance so fruit-
ful in good results, and so useful for the accomplishment
of the work which I have undertaken to insure the wel-
-1 fare of all classes of my people.

"I also consider this event as a new consecration of
that alliance. I shall hasten to write to her Majesty the
Queen, to express to her my gratitude ; but in the
meantime I beg you to convey to the Queen the ex-
pression of my thanks, and the assurance of my most
sincere friendship. Your lordship must feel persuaded
that it is also a pleasure for me to receive these noble
insignia from your hands."

ROME.
The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the follow
ing :

" ROME, Nov. 13.
" General Count de Goyon, recently appointed to the
command of the French division, arrived at Rome on
Saturday evening. He was immediately presented to
the Holy Father and to the Cardinal Secretary of State.
His Holiness and his Eminence displayed the most
friendly courtesy to the General, and gave him the most
distinguished reception. The language addressed by the
new Commander-in-Chief to the Sovereign Pontiff and to
his Minister appears to have elicited sentiments of ex-
treme satisfaction and of deep gratitude towards the
Emperor.
"General de Montreal left this morning for France,
taking with him the regrets and the esteem of all those
who came in contact with him, whether strangers or
natives. His successor, from a feeling which was fully
appreciated, led all the officers of the garrison to take a
solemn leave of him. The Holy Father, in bidding fare.
well to M. de Montreal, addressed him in the most
flattering terms, and gave him his portrait set in bril-
liants.
"The Government Committee on the Finances has
just met and has held some sittings. The Holy Father
has recently given audience to the deputie. of the pro•
vinces and appealed to them for their support
for settling the forthcoming budge'. In coneluri-
ing his address to them his Holiness congrate-
lated himself on being able to present to the com-
mission a budget the very small deficit in which
presented a considerable diminution upon the last one,
and allowed the hope that a perfect balance might soon
be expected. In fact, the draught of the budget for
1857, which has just been published, shows a deficit which
does not amount to one-twentieth of the revenue of the
Pontifical States. Subtracting the sinking of the debt
and unforeseen expenses there would he a surplus. The
indirect taxes, especially the Customs, thanks to the
measures recently taken, exceed the expectations of the
Governatent by the returns already made, and by those
they still promise. The sum of these results is emi-
nently satisfactory, and speaks well for the real resources
of the country, and, at the same time, for the care be-
stowed by tl4e Government in the regulation of the finan-
cial system.