The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-31 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

CALMS, THURSDAY NIGHT.

Four steamers of the Russian fleet have been
signalled. They will be in harbour to-morrow
morning. The official order has arrived by tele-
graph to have a supply of coal ready for them.
These steamers are a portion of the Russian
squadron, so long talked of.

TEHERAN, OCT. 6.

The English expedition to the Persian Gulf has
caused great alarm here. The Persian troops of
th 3 army of Affgbanistan have been sent to occupy
the country around Herat-. ;

NAPLES, OCT. 29.

The Ambassadors were ready to depart on the
28th. M. Breuier has, it is said, consented to
delay, upon concessions proposed. Another
telegraph says they are expected at Marseilles on
the Ist.

General Lanza replaces General Gaeta as go-
vernor of Naples. Considerable military precau-
tions continue to be adopted. The city was
tranquil, but trade dull,

The Gazette du Midi, has received by the last
packet from Naples the following intelligence,
the exactitude of which it guarantees :
" The English and French Legations, on re-
ceiving orders to act definitively, applied to M.
de Caraffa to fix. a day on which they might
communicate to him the tenour of their
despatches. The Honourable Minister appointed
the 21st for the purpose, in Order to give
himself time to confer with the King. On that
day Baron Brenier and Mr. Petro proceeded to
the Minister's hotel, and the English diplomatist
read a note couched in violent terms; Baron Bre-
.
mer read another to the same purpose, but in
more courteous language. M. de Caraffa replied
that he should have wished to receive the visit of
these gentlemen for a more agreeable purpose, and
that he regretted not to have any answer to give
them. Baron Brenier then said that on the
Saturday (25th), he would have recourse to his
(the Minister's) kindness for his passports. The
other declared that he was quite at his service.
The two Ministers then took their leave."

A letter from'Montenegro of the 18th, in the
German Journal of Frankfort, says :—" Prince
Danilo has received from the Russian consul the
assurance that Russia and France have taken Mon-
tenegro under their protection."

The Paris correspondent of the Times (Second
Edition), in his letter dated yesterday, says :

" I hear frail authentic sources that an unusual
amount of Russian influence, or intrigue, is being
used at Constantinople in order to induce the
Porte to demand the retirement of the English
vessels in the Black Sea, and the evacuation of
the Austrian forces now in the Danubian Princi-

palities. According to late despatches, it was
very doubtful if those who oppose English policy
in the East would not succeed. The changed lan-
guage of some persons about the Sultan had given
rise to suspicions which are not foreign to the
traditional corruption of Turkish officials.

" It was not at Naples, but at Civita. Vecchia,
that Baron Brenier embarked, according to a
telegraphic despatch from Marseilles. He left
Naples for Rome, and from Rome went to Civita
'Vecchia, whera a French ship waited to take him
to Marseilles. A private reason may be given for
this ; but it is really to prevent a French vessel
of war appearing in the Neapolitan waters. There
is no desire here to alarm the King, or to occa-
sion excitement among the people, which the pre-
sence of the French or English flag in the Bay

might
odoe.
,sm thing
is said of the probability of an ar
rangement by the. King making concessions after
the departure of the Ambassadors, but I cannot
say that it rests on any good foundation.
" The Monitenr has thought proper to give a
lecture
en way
received, of
lesson on good manners to the English press; and,
doubtless
has
showingand whowitfhavwouhraatblryeatdhye
acquiescence it will be acted upon, the official
Chesterfield this day displays in its most promi-
nent page, and in its largest and boldest type,
three long articles from the Morning .Past, the
Standard, and the Morning Chronicle. These
articles, which bear pretty much the same rela-
tion to the note of the Koniteur that the
orations of the mover and seconder of the ad-
dress do to the Speech from the Throne, that is,
the echo or the paraphrase, it seems to consider
as representing the sentiments or opinions of the
whole English people, for it quotes no other
public organ. The other Paris journals were, it
is true, permitted to give an extract from the
Times on the same subject, but the tex ract was
merely the paragraph which contained a just eulo-
giurn on the conduct of the Empersr Napoleon
in
the Russian war, but they went no further.
" When a stranger takes upon himself to re-
monstrate with us on the morality of our life, to
control our domestic concerns, to examine into the
manner in which we conduct our
households,
&c.,
if we did not inform him that such unasked for
intermeddling was impertinent, we would at all
events be justified in requiring that before he as-
sumed the office of a monitor he should himself be
free from all reproach on that head. When the in-
spirers of the Monitette feel so sensitive about im-
pairing the entente between the two nations, they
should look first at home. They have supreme
control over the press of their own country, and
whether it be Ministerial or otherwise, they have
the power to suspend or silence for ever any
journal in the French Etnpire. Hardly a num-
ber of the Assembles Nationale, the Univers, or
the Union appears in which the institutions,
the foreign and domestic policy, and the re-
igious creed of the great majority of Englishmen
are not denounced, and in which sometimes
th© basest motives are not attributed to the
acts of our public men, and generally to the
whole nation. Yet we do not call upon the
French authorities to exercise their arbitrary
power and silence our censors ; we occasionally
answer them and defend ourselves as best we can,
and we have no official organ at our command to
menace them with a rupture of the friendly un-
derstanding between their Governments if they
do not cease reviling.
" The journals just mentioned are not the only
ones in which those amenities appear. There is a
paper published at Strasburg called the .Alsacien.
It has as its frontispiece 'an Imperial eagle,
surmounted with a crown, forked lightning shoots
out horizontally from his talons, he grasps the
thunder, and is encircled with what is intended
as a halo of glory. There are other indications,
too, which show its political colour ; and a notice
in its front page informs the public that it is
specially appointed to publish the official adver-
tisements of the arrondissement. We therefore
infer that it is more or less .the organ of the
local authorities ; that, in fact, it is the
journal of the Prefecture, and consequently
under official patronage and control. The
Alsacien, moreover, is printed half in German and
half in French, so that its lucubrations are made
familiar to the German as well as the French

population of the Rhine. Tho Alsacien has for

some time past been publishing a series of articles
on what it calls "Les Gros PClches Politiques de
I'Angleterre," and in which it reveals, for the
edification of the double nationality of its readers,

;he enormities of British statesmen and of the

British people. In its number of the 2G th of
September last I find, among others, the follow-

ing passages :

" Let it, then, be well understsod, and the English
journals cannot complain of this explanation, that their
hutnourist escapades are merely the result of at-
mospheric variations. It may be established as a
principle that in certain respects their aggressive po-
lemics are but a question of the barometer ; "their mani-
festations descend the scale of good manners to the
forgetfulness of all conventional rules, and even down
to brutality," &c. "We do not mean to say that side

by side with these excesses, which in our eyes are insig-
nificent peccadilloes, we have not to reproach England
in general, as well as its statesmen au& its press in par-
ticular, with other grievances still more serious, founded
on their selfish and aggressive policy. We find in them
certain penchants which have become chronic, and which,
inspired by the spirit of mercantilism and domination,
are manifested by acts in which deceit and violence are
too often employed instead of frankness:and generosity."

Again, on the 12th of the present month, the

Alsacien says :

The descendants of the proud and rude preux who
shared in the labours of William (the Conqueror) and
his successors have remained the aristocratic portion of
English society, and they continue to possess the soil
conquered by their ancestors. They would think it a
disgrace to apply to manufactur:ng industry, or to traffic,
properly so called. But they have become, apparently
without degradation, agriculturists, breeders of cattle,
and coal merchants. After such a social transformation
it would be vain to expect from them disinterestedness
or magnanimity in their political acts, or in their inter-
national relations. Every thing is based on calculation ;
and selfishness and thirst of gain universally prevails.
In the history of England there is not a single war re-
corded which was not undertaken with a view, more or
less patent, to commercial interests. Not a single
durable :peace has been made by them without the
cerriby pelmet of resuming hostilities as soon as possible
if their mercantile speculations were not amply satisfied.
"Let uw now see how England applies these disposi-
tions in her international relations. We only find con-
tradictions, bad dealing, and insolent pretensions. In
her foreign relations England has declared herself alter-
nately, and sometimes at the same moment, according
to place and cirnunestancee, the champion of pure inon-
arch), or of absolutism. Since 1815 the wind keeps
pretty constant in the Liberal quarter. Let us not be
deceived, however ; these ideas she only professes for
nations independent of her domination. For those that
are under her yoke there, is another regime, and the
flagrant contradictions between her external acts and
her pretensions give her no anxiety whatever."
"To illustrate this passage Ireland is brought
forward. Speaking of India the Alsaci*!ri says
The populations are oppressed in the most revolting
manner, and recent disclosures show how liberal England
obtains the payments of her imposts. The stick and the
torture are the means of persuasion used towards the re-
fractory taxpayers. Portugal has become the tributary
and satellite of England since the Treaty of Methuen.
From that period English manufactories supplied the wants
of the Portuguese, and the Eoglish merchants have almost
exclusively to their profit all the principal branches of
commerce. Portugal is in the eyes of England the
model country ; and the fate of Portugal is that which
she reserves for all other States if she could realise her
cupidity. Naturally, such conduct is not of a nature to
invite confidence on the part of other nations. It is
with the utmost reserve and with the greatest precau-
tions that the Sovereigns of weak States accept the alli-
ancegof England. Such mistrust is not to the advan-
tage of England, and she seeks a remedy for it by put-
ting herself forth as the champion of liberalism.'
"Again, on the 19th of the present month, it
describes you thus :--
Everything is calculation in England. The English
nation is merely an agglomeration of traders and specu-
lators. The habits of the counting-house have for ages
invaded the regions of Government. Statesmen are forced
to regulate their policy according to the interests of com-
merce. All their relations with foreign nations are
made subordinate to the balance of profit and loss. Lift
up the veil ofldisintereetedness and magnanimity with
which her diplomatists cover her most memorable acts,
and you shall find nothing but speculation inspired by
mercantilists. Scrape a Chatham, and you will find
a commercial agent. Everything in England is made
subordinate to commercial and trading prosperity ; fur in
her social organisation that prosperity is he only true
basis of her power and grandeur. Since 1&15 there has
not been a single revolutionary movement which did not
find mere or less sympathy in England, when it had not
been provoked by her, and everywhere she places alt the
obstacles in her power to the re-establishment of order
France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary,
&c., have had to undergo successively that sinister in-
fluence. That very policy is still nothing but calcula-
tion. We have seen how she treats the nations that are
eubj Acted to her domination. She cares very little about
liberal principles. English liberalism abroad is merely
a speculation, a means of securing markets fur her trade
and her manufactured products.
' When, at a later period, England declined associating
herself with the Holy Alliance, her doing so must not
be attributed to any sincere regard for liberty. A period
of calm was to follow the long wars which bad ex-
hausted Europe. The Holy Alliance was intended by
its promoters as an additional guarantee for the Treaties
of the Congress of Vienna. It was, therefore, contrary
to the speculation of English mercant lisin, which fore-
saw the approach of continental industry, and the sac-
cessiv e creation of Customs' leagues. It was a merely
personal interest whichlprevented her from joining the
Holy Alliance. She preferred being isolated, because
that position gave her greater liberty of action to carry
on her policy according to the wants and exigencies of
her traffic. But in spite of the skill she displayed in
her foreign relations, the whole of the great continental
States have very little taste for the new English system
of free trade,and have closed their ports to her products.
It was for this that she called to her aid the panacea of
the principles of liberalism.'
" The character given of us by the semi• official
Alsacien, is not, as you see, very flattering. We
are treated by it as unprincipled politicians, ruth-
less tyrants, spoilers, hypocrites, and false to all
obligations ; and even the very few fair qualities
we may exhibit are assumed merely to cover the
baseness of our real character, and to dupe, cheat,
oppress, and plunder friends and foes alike.
" Now the Alsacien, has a perfect right to judge
us as it pleases, and that judgment will not
provoke the English Government to retaliate
in the London Gazette, if the Gazette be not a
myth. Yet if the inspirers of the Moniteur are
so sensitive as to apprehend that the Anglo-
French alliance may be imperilled by the language
of a part of the English press, they surely ought
one of their own proteges
to begin by reprimanding
for the character it gives of us to the French and
German people, particularly when that paper
depends for its prosperity, and perhaps its exist-
ence, on the will of the Prefect, and when the
Prefect in turn depends on the Government.
At all events, they should look at home before
giving lessons on truih and politeness to other
people."

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY

The steam corvette Da Chayla left Toulon on
the 28th on a special mission. T:t is probable that
her destination is Civita Vecchia,' to convey Baron
Brenier to France. _

BOURSE, Oct. 30.—The following were the last
quotations :
Casb, ft. o • End of Month.
90 70 —fr. —c.
4i per Cents
66 55 66 45
3 per Cents
New Loan
Bank Shares 3,875 Roman
Credit Mobilier 1,360 Austrian
.......... - 86t1
Belgian Fives 99i— Spanish Threes......
Piedmontese (5) B9 Home Debt
RAILWAYS—FOR CASH.
fr. c. fr. c
Orleans 1,245 Western
Northern 9ll 25 Strasburg
Lyons 1,262 50 New Ditto
Mediterranean 1,650 Grand Central
Lyons Geneva 702 50 Teste
Cate

RUSSIA.
A letter from St. Petersburg of the 21st says :
"Daring his stay at Moscow, the envoy of the
Sultan, on being asked as to whether the pro-
longed occupation by the Austrian troops of
the Principalities was contrary to the views
and wishes of the Turkish Government, is said
to have replied that, as far as he had been in-
formed, his governmrnt expected that the evacua-
tion would take place as soon as the affairs of Mol-
davia and. Wallachia should be settled. Russia, in
consequence of this information, did not think it
necessary to demand through France that Austria
should evacuate the Principalities. All the Aus-
trian journals evidently endeavour to excite mis-
understanding between France and Russia, and it
is high time that M. de Kisseleff should explain
himself frankly at Paris in order to prevent the in-
trigues which are set, to work to arrive at that
result."

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SWITZERLAND.

The J3und of Berne says :—" The valley of Lits
near Avers, in the Grisons, not far from the foil-

tier of Valteline, which is in dispute between
Austria and Switzerland, has become the scene of
fresh difficulties created by Austria, who has carried
away a quantity of wood cut on that territory.
The authorities of the canton of Grisons have
despatched a commissioner to the spot in order to
inquire into the circumstances."
A correspondent from Neuchatel writes to-fa-y--.
that the intelligence given in the telegraphic des-
patch from Berne of the 22d, stating that the
Federal Government had released the political
prisoners at that place is greatly exaggerated. The
letter adds :

" A- few persons, slightly compromised, have been re-
leased on bail, but 13 or 20 are still in close confinement,
and although treated with humanity are subject to prison
discipline and fare. The interrogations having been-
ended, and no new measures taken to terminate the
affair, the country is in a painful state of suspense, in-
creased by some really unworthy allusions in the local
papers to what occurred in the first revolution in France,
in case the King of Prussia enforces his claims. The
Federal occupation still continues, and is made to bear
heavily on the Royalist party, two of them having had
50 soldiers quartered upon them for seven weeks. If
this continues, some may be half-ruined before trial."