The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-05 00:00:00

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The following telegrams were received at Mr.

Reuter's office :

ROME, MAY 3.

A, proclamation of the Pope has beet published
to-day, in which his Holiness makes an appeal to
the Catholics on behalf of the subscription to the
new Roman loan of 50,000,000 francs, bearing in•
terest at 5 per cent. The bonds are of three cate-
gories—viz., 100, 500, and 1,000 francs each. The
subscription has been opened in the capitals of
Europe. Belgium has already subscribed 15,000,000
francs.

PARIS, MAT 5.

The Moniteur publishes a decree fixing the indi-
vidual payment for exemption from military ser-
vice at 2,300 f., and the bounty on re-engagement
for seven years' service at 2,000 f.

GENOA, MAY 4.

An English man-of-war has arrived here bring-
ing news from Marsala to the 24th, Trapani to the
25th, Palermo to the 26th, and Messina to the
27th ult.

The insurrection continued. One regiment had
refused to march from Palermo, as the soldiers im-
mediately on leaving the city would be exposed to
the fire of the insurgents.
Five of Aim principal inhabitants had been sub-
mitted to the judgment of the civil tribunal of G ir-
genti. The arrests continued at Messina. Marsala
was tranquil.
Three Neapolitan steamers were watching the
coast.

PARIS, MAY 4.
M. de Lavalette has left for Constantinople.
A letter, dated Barcelona, Wednesday last, from

a good source, says :
" The Spanish Princes have spontaneously offered
their abdication.

" The Princes have further promised to renew
the abdication on their arrival in a foreign country,
and to write to their brother Don Juan, requesting
his adhesion."

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY,

The Illoniteur contains en Imperial decree con-
ferring the rank of grand officer in the Legion of
Honour on Vice-Admiral Count Serra, commander -
in-chief of the Sardinian navy, The same decree
nominates four other officers, in the same service,
to the rank of commander ; six to that of officer
and 18 to that of knight, as a reward for the ser-
vices rendered during the war of Italian indepen-
dence.

The Constitutionnel makes the following remarks :
—" The Lisbon journal brings us wonderful news.
An English fleet, with 12,000 men on board, is at
this present moment expected at Lisbon. What
can these 12,000 men be sent there for ? To pro-
tect Portugal against the execution of a treaty con-
cluded between France and Spain, in virtue of
which the Government of Queen Isabella is to
cede to France the Balearic Isles and Navarre, in
exchange for the annexation of Portugal ! In
publishing this intelligence the Portuguese journals
maintain their gravity, which is more than we can
do. An English fleet with 12,000 men on board
for operations on land, a treaty ceding Navarre
and the Balearic Isles to France, Spain absorbing
Portugal, constitute altogether one of the best
canards we have heard of for many a day. Far
from seeking to throw any doubt upon the state-
ment, we will only congratulate the Portuguese
journals in this effort of their inventive powers. It
is hardly possible to be more successful in rivalling
Punch."

A letter from Nice, of the Ist says :—" The Olaff
returned to Villefranche the day before yesterday.
She brought back to Nice the Grand Duchess
Maria, who had gone to pass the Easter week at
Rome. There appears not to be sly doubt that the
departure of the Empress Dowager of Russia has
been deferred, and that her Majesty will be still
here when the Emperor and Empress ot the French
arrive." It is stated also that a petition to the
Emperor, praying that the title of Count de Nice
may be conferred on the Imperial Prince, is being
numerously signed in all the towns and villages of
the county ; and that the ladies of the city are
signing a similar petition to the Empress.
The delegates of the Commercial Committee of
that important city have, consequently, drawn up
a statement, disapproving M. Magne'e scheme, and
they have sent copies of it to the members of the
Legislative Corns. The document is as follows :
Until the year 1854 foreign wines, on their en-
trance into France, were subject to the following
duties :

Ordinary wine, imported by land, 16f. 50c. the
hectolitre, the decime included.
Ordinary wine, imported by sea, 36f. 50c. the
hectolitre, the decime included.
Fine wines, whether imported by land or see,
110 f. the hectolitre, the decime included.
The four years 1850, 1851, 1852, and 1853 have
given the following results with respect to ordi-
nary wines :

" Hectolitres received Hectolitres Duty levied,
^ Years.
in ent repot. consumed. Francs.

1850 4,316 .. 593 .. 15,951
1851 4,430 .. .. 682 .. 17,604

1852 .. 9,400 .. 627 .. 16756
1833 .. 26,880 .. 863 .. 22,863

45,050 2,765 73,174
Being on an average 690 hectolitres yearly, baying
produced the Treasury a revenue of 18,260 f. Under
the same regime and during the same years fine
wines gave the following results :

1850 .. 4,570 .. .. 2,602 275,589
1851 3,970 .. 2,638 .. 279,092
1852 .. 3,760 .. 2,851 .. 308,115
1853 4,880 .. 3,614 .. 360,115

17,180 11,70.5 1,222,941
Being an average for each year of 2,926 hectolitres,
having produced to the Treasury a revenue of
305,735 f.; or a total average for all foreign wines
of 3,617 hectolitres, having produced the Treasury
a revenue of 323,983 f.

The duties on foreign wines were abolished in
August and September, 1854, and replaced by a
duty of 25 centimes or with the decime 271 cen-
times.

The four years which followed this change give
the following results for ord;nary wines :
Years. Hectolitres Received Hectolitres Duty Levied.
in Entrepot. Consumed. Francs.
18:5.5 .. 403,520 .. 395,542 112,351
1856 .. 330,300 .. 325,476 .. 97,557
1856 .. 618,910 .. 611,377 .. 183,512
1858 .. 108,350 .. 100,710 .. 30,287

1,461,080 1,433,087 423,710
Being an average consumption of 358,272 hecto-
litres, having produced to the Treasury an average
revenue of 105,927 f.

During ;the same period fine wines figure on the
Custom-house book as follow :
Years. Hectolitres Received Hectolitres Duties levied

.........,. --...... —.... .........
in Entrepot. —Consumed. Francs.
1855
1856
1857
1858 ,

71,220

69,400

20,600

" Being an average consumption of 17,350 hecto-
litres, having produced an average revenue of
5,150 f. to the Treasury.
In a word, when we compare the two periods
we find the average results have been—
Average from 1850 to 1853:
Importation. Consumption. Duges
Ilectolitres. Ilectolitres. Francs.
Ordinary wine 11,260 690 .. 18.260
Fine wines 4,295 .. 2,926 305,735

25,555

3,616

323,995

Average from 1855 to 1838 :
Ordinary wine 365,270 ..358,27'
Fine wines

105,927
5,150

383,075

375,622

111,077

In fine, if we decompose the origin of the wines
imported, we find that of the 375,000 hectolitres of
ordinary wine imported on an average each year of
the second period, more than 300,000 are Spanish,