The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-27 00:00:00

CIRCULAR BY M. THOUVENEL.

The following circular was addressed yestersday
by M. Thouvenel to the foreign Ambassadors at

Paris :

Monsieur, —You are aware that the Emperor, by
a decree dated the 4th inst., has deigned to entrust
to me the Department for Foreign Affairs.
In entering to-day upon the functions to which
I have been called, I congratulate myself on the re-
lations I am empowered to maintain with you.
Full of confidence in your personal intentions, I
shall do my utmost to create concord in our mutual
efforts for maintaining and consolidating the
friendly relations which exist between the Govern-
ment of his Majesty the Emperor of the French
and the Government of his Majesty—(here the
name of the foreign country is added).
Receive the assurances of the high consideration
with which I have the honour to be your very
humble and very obedient servant,
(Signed) THOUVENEL.
Paris, Jan. 24, 1860.

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY.

THE BOURSE, Jan. 26.—The market has been
rather firmer, with a slight advance in prices.
Threes have been done at 68f. 60c. and 68f. 70c.
Mobilier varied from 767 f. 50c. to 765 f. ; Lyons,
895 f. to 900 f.; Orleans, 1,362 f. 50c. to 1,370 f.;
Northern, 910 f. to 913 f. 75e. ; Lombard, 556 f. 25c.
to 557 f. 50c.; Austrian, 513 f. 7:5e. to 516 f. 25c.
The following were the last quotations:—

4i per Cents. N 80
Do. end month
3 per Cents. 6B 50
Do. end month 68 50
Bank Shares 2825
CrMit Mobilier 756 25
Do. Account

Credit Foncier 750
Belgian 41 —
Piedmonteso (5)
Roman Bl
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt 43 25

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern
New ditto B3O .. 827 b 0
Lyons and Mediterranean 895 .. 893 75
Geneva 507 50 .. 507 60
Southern
Western 682 60 .. 580
Eastern
Sardiniaa 4OO .. 400
Austrian
Lombard . ..
Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 6c. ; money,
25f. Sc.; three months, paper, 2,4 f. 91c.; money, 24f. 900.

HUNGARY.

A letter dated Pesth, lan. 21, says :

" Though in reality sore afraid at the turn things
have taken in Italy, the Austrian Government is
making its newspaper organs, both at home and
abroad, talk in Bobadil strain. The Emperor of
Austria,' cries the Boraenhalle of Hamburg, one of
the most zealous of these organs, will not go to
war to restore the dethroned Sovereigns or to defend
the Pope ; but if an attempt be made to take a single
inch of Venetia his Majesty will fight. And a for-
midable man is the Emperor. He has only to
make a sign with his hind and the most warlike
nation in Europe will r se en masse, arms in
hand, in his defence.' Of course, by the most
warlike nation in Europe' Hungary is meant.
Now it would not perhaps be polite to tell
the Boersenhalle and its patrons at Vienna that it
says what it knows to be contrary to truth. But
it really is impossible to believe that the Hapsburgs
and their advisers are so infatuated as to suppose for
one moment that Hungary ' would rise in their de-
fence' under any circumstances whatever. They
must know that the 10 years' oppression she has
endured have made the Hapsburgs and their
creatures hateful in her sight, and that the
fact that the deaths of many of her noblest sons,
and the imprisoning and exiling of many more, are
still unavenged, weighs on her conscience as the
unavenged murder of his father did on the
conscience of Hamlet. They must know that
the Hungarians see clearly that the per-
secutions of the Protestants, and a hundred
other events of recent occurrence—the dismis-
sal of Baron Hubner because he was friendly to
Hungary, the exiling of the Archduke Maximilian
because he recommended concessions to Hungary,
and the refusal of the Archduke Stephen to accept
the Governorship of the country, in order not to
have hand or part in the oppression which he sees
the Viennese Government is bent on maintaining—
the Hapsburgs, I say, must know that all these
circumstances demonstrate to the Hungarians that
there is no hope whatever of a reconciliation being
ever effected between them and their rulers.
And therefore it is childish for the Austrian news-
papers to prate about the aid which the most war-
like nation in Europe' will render to the Hapsburgs.
It is worse than childish—it is insulting—for
to aid the Hapsburgs is to aid tyranny all over
Europe, and especially in Italy; and it would be
infamous for a nation which is aspiring to be free
to do that. Assist the Hapsburgs, indeed ! Why,
in the Italian war the Hungarians were on the very
point of rising in insurrection against them, and
probably would have done so if the war had only
lasted one short fortnight longer ! Yet the
Hungarians were not then so exasperated against
the Hapsburgs as they now are—all the na-
tionalities, religions, and classes into which they
are divided were not bound together in hatred
of them as they are now. Heaven help the Haps-
burgs if they trust in the Hungarians ! Depend
upon it that the next time this family shall see
Hungarian swords flash, and hear the clatter
of Hungarian horses—they will be in sore dismay;

and, ten to one, will be flying like sheep attacked
by the wolf.

" The high Catholic clergy lose no opportunity
of showing how heartily they sympathise with the
national movement in which their countrymen are
engaged. The Bishop of Erlau, Mgr. Bartakovics,
has, for example, just sent the magnificent sum of
£l,OOO English to the fund for building a palace
for the National Academy at Pesth, and his chapter
has given a like sum. Nothing causes more anxiety
to the Austrian Government than to see that the
Roman Catholic clergy are every whit as national,
and are as earnestly bent on regaining the national
treaties, as the rest of their countrymen."