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

LATEST NEWS.

CALAIS, 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.

TELIERA.N, OCT. 6.

The English expedition to the Persian Gulf has
paused great alarm here. The Persian troops of
the army of Affghanistan have been sent to occupy
the country around Herat.

NAPLES, OUT. 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
tramquil, but trade dull.

The Gazette th 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 Brouier and Mr. Petre proceeded to
the Minister's hotel, and the English diplomatist
read a note couched in violent terms; Baron Bre-
nier 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
S3.turday (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 from 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

n the East world 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 Tecchia,
that Baron Brenier embarked, according to a

telegraphic despatch from Marseilles. He left
Naples for Rome, and from Rome went to Civita
Vecchia, Where 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 do.

" Something 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 Monitov has thought proper to give a
lesson on good manners to the English press; and,

doubtless by way of showing how favourably the
lecture has been received, and with what ready
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 Post, the
Standard, and the Morning Chronicle. These
articles, which bear pretty much the same rela-
tion to the note of the Moniteur 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 tho extract was
merely the paragraph which contained a just eulo-
gium on the conduct of the Emperor 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 Moniteur 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 Empire. Hardly a num-
ber of the Assemblee 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
the 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 Abacien.
It ha; as its frontispiece an Imperial eagle,
surmounted with a crown, forked lightning shoots
out horizontally from his talons, he 6raspa 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
ienpeictisa lfyr oanptp' Po
iangtile d tinformso7 üblitslhie
tiFements of the arrondissement. We therefore
tphuehloicffictihalataditveris_
infer that it is more or less the organ of the
local authorities ; that, in fact, it is the
journal of the Prefectuxe, and consequently
under official patronage and control. The
dlisacien, moreover, is printed half in German and
half in French, so that its lucubration& are made
familiar to the German as well as the French