The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-20 00:00:00

LioN'uoN, WEDNES P, VEN IN G A UTIF UST 20, i-66.

LATEST _NEWS.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY.

The Moniteur announces that the French Go-
vern anent have received a telegraphic despatch
from Constantinople, dated the 18th, informing
them of the departure, ou that day, of the last
French troops from Constantinople. General
Pariset himself, their commander, with his staff,
had embarked on the 18th. The evacuation of
Turkey is thus completed.

MARSEILLES, AUG. 19.

The Indus has arrived with accounts from Con-
stantinople to the 11th. The Ottoman Ministry
is said to hare been seriously divided on the sub-
ject of the reorganisation of the principalities.

Some sensation has been caused at the Porte in
consequence of Prince Gortschakoff, the Russian
Minister of Foreign Affairs, having communicated
the approaching arrival of M. de Boutenieff to the
Grand Vizir, instead of, as is customary, to the
Minister of Foreign Affairs.

The Russians claim 400,000 f. from France,
for damage done to the residence of the Embassy
during its absence from Constantinople.
It was said that Admiral Stewart was to return
to Constantinople, but that the English fleet will
cruise in the Black Sea until the end of September,
when it will proceed to Malta.
The Lyonnais steamer, Captain Magnan, be-
longing to a French company which has obtained
permission to navigate the Danube between the
Pruth and Ser3th, has been lost in one of the
rapids of that river after she had passed in safety
through the pass called Iron Gates. All on board
were saved.

The last accounts which had been received from
Persia did not give a very favourable sketch of
the situation of the country. The crop of grapes
had suffered severely, and a violent disease was
raging among the cattle. Engineers had been
sent to Khiva in order to put it into a proper
state of defence, as it was thought that Russia was
turning a very longing eye to that quarter.

MADRID, AUGUST 18.
The Marquis de Turgot is to return to Madrid
in one month.

A letter from Naples, of the 9th, asserts that
France and England have addressed an ultima-
tum to the Government of the Two Sicilies, and
that in the event of a refusal to comply with their
demands their representatives are stated to com-

prise a general amnesty and administrative and
judicial reform. The same letter adds that the
King has consented to some concessions, but they
have not appeared sufficient to the representa-
tives of France and England, who have neverthe-
less referred the matter to their Courts.

more. These are striking and extraordinary innova•
tions in Eastern habits."

RUSSIA.

A letter from St. Petersburg of the 10th, in
the Debats, says :—" Count de Morny is every-
where the object of the most flattering attention.
On the day before yesterday he was present at all
the fetes given in honour of the birthday of the
Empress, and was treated everywhere with the
greatest distinction. The telegraph from Moscow
will report every quarter of an hour the progress
of the ceremony of the coronation, and religious
ceremonies analogous to those performed at Moscow
wiil take place here at the same time. Several
civil and military employes, including General
Benkendorff, have gone on a tour to the Crimea to
visit the late scene of operations. Colonel Bar-
tholomei, attached to General Mouravieff's staff,
has left in all haste for the Caucasus, where the
temporary command will probably be entrusted to
General Bebutoff "

A letter from Warsaw, in the Cologne Gazette,
says :—" It appears that a considerable number of
exiles have applied to profit by the late amnesty,
but no reply has as yet been made to their appli-
cation."

FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY.
The En? peror left St. Cloud this afternoon, at
five o'clock, for the terminus of the Orleans
Rail rev.
The steam-frigates Impetueuse, 800-horse power,
and Imperatrice Eugenie, 900, were launched on
the 15th inst.—the first at Cherbourg, the second
at Toulon.

BOURSE, Aug. D.—The following were the last
quotations :

Cash. ft. a. End of Months
ii per Cents 95 —f. —O.
3 per Cents 7O 80 71
New Loan 7l

Bank Shares 4,150 Roman
Credit Mobilier 1,627 50 Austrian
Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes —
Piedmontese (5) 9l Home Debt ......... 39i
RAILWAYS-108 bABIL

fi. c. fr. 0
Orleans ..."... ...... 1,4'20 Western 972 50
Northern 1,070 Strasburg
Lyons ... • 1,427 50 New Ditto
Mediterranean 1,840 Grand Central -47 50
Lyons Geneva Bl5 Taste
Cette , 812 50 Austrian Com. B9O

CORONATION OF THE EMPEROR OF
RUSSIA.

(From the Special Correspondent of the MorWng Post.)
ST. PETERSBURG, Ara. 13.
There can scarcely now be any more adjourn-
ments, as it was expected there would still be, of the
coronation-day. The 26th of August (old style 7th
of September) is formally adhered to in this morn-
ing's Vedontoste.

Already Earl Granville's extreme accessibility;
and the charm inherent in frank and simple man-
ners, have secured him those golden opinions
which the truly golden preparations that heralded
his arrival had predisposed the Russians to enter-
tain. The Rotel Demouth, where he is sojourning
for the short time before the corps diplomatique
set out to Moscow, is situated on the first canal
that crosses the Nevsky Prospect, and crowds of
Isvostchiks, and other Russian idlers of the lower
class, succeeded each other all day long, Friday,
Saturday, and yesterday, on both sides of the
canal, and upon the police-bridge, or Politziiskoo
Most, to gaze at such of the new inmates as occa-
sionally appeared upon the massive balcony. One,
an English naval officer, attracted the greatest
attention, thanks to his thoroughly professional
look, and to the uniform which set it off. The
Isvostchiks were never tired pointing to him, and
then to their own shoulders, to indicate the gleam
of his ponderous bullion epaulettes, exclaiming,
"Ah ! dobrah eta Ah I carasho !" " ! how
fine he is ! how splendid !" Bat the St. Jean d'Acre
at Cronstadt is the grand centre of attraction ; and
every day the Vesta (or, as she is labelled in the
Russ characters, the Bec Ma), with other steamers
to Cronstadt, is packed as closely as the standing
room on its decks allows of with curious excur-
sionists, repairing to feast their eyes upon that
beautiful and terrible steam liner. In the whole
Russian navy there never was her match ; never,
probably, any two vessels together, of which, in a
good open sea, she would not have managed to give
a conclusive account. Most of the Russian sight-
seers I have mentioned are wonderfully innocent
about the application of the most recent naval im-
provements. What particularly struck them was
the manner in which the mighty ship, when lying
at her moorings, is wont, as they express it, to dis-
guise her steam power. Many would not believe
till after a very close inspection that she was a
steamer at all. Being a screw-propelled vessel, she
of course has no paddles ; but where are her chim-
neys—where are the funnels ? The St. Jean d'Acre,
as your readers know, can at pleasure winch down
her funnels, like opera-glasses, to within a foot of
her deck, and wind up her screw clean out of water.
She appeared to the Russians in her beauty and
strength, when all this was understood, a true war-
sorceress.

What lends peculiar splendour to Earl Granville's
Embassy is the number of distinguished persons who
accompany it, the arrival of any one of whom at St.
Petersburg, even unofficially, would have made at
all times a considerable sensation. Sir Robert and
Lady Peel are much commented upon, on account
of the late Sir Robert's fame, tariff, political expe-
riments,land personal fate. For some three weeks
before I came up through the Gulf of Finland that
sea had swarmed, I am told, with Russian vessels
of war and transports conveying the troops—por-
tions of the great army of Finland, from Wyborg,
Sweaborg, Abo, Nystadt, and even further round
the northing of the Gulf of Bothnia, from Nasa,
Gamla, Karlaby, Uleborg, and Tornea. These
troops, with other detachments coming overland
from Archangel, and in the opposite direction—
brought by vessels from Riga, Pernau, Revel, and
other parts of Courland and Livonia, and march-
ing from the fort of Narva, overlooking the field
where Charles XII., 150 years ago, with 8,000
Swedes, defeated 80,000 Russians ; and from the
great summer camp of Krasno-Selo, still nearer to
St. Petersburg (Narva is only 70 miles away)—
were converged upon this place, and then de-
spatched as fast as they arrived to Moscow, there
to be ready to add to the imposing pageantry of the
forthcoming festival. At the same time, from Bes-
sarabia, Katerinaslav, Kiev, Volhynia, the Ukraine,
and other regions in the south and west, with de-
tachments from the army of Poland, troops have
been continually directed towards Moscow for the
last two months. lam assured that there will not
be less than 350,000 in Moscow during the cere-
mony to swell the pomp of their young Monarch's
coronation. Of the various forces of Russia those
of the Finland army and of the St. Petersburg and
neighbouring Governmentshave probably furnished
the largest contingents for this combined centripetal
movement.

The. programme in the Vedomoste regards St.
Petersburg only, and directs that on the evening
of the 6th Sept. a solemn service be performed in
the Kazan Church, on the Nevsky, to beg the
blessing of Heaven on the reign which next morn-
ing is to be religiously inaugurated at Moscow, in
the presence of Russia, and of the whole civilised
world assisting there, in the persons of the various
Ambassadors and Envoys. Next morning the
clergy of St. Petersburg are to assemble in readi-
ness at the Kazan for the telegraphic message which
will announce the exact moment when the proces-
sion shall have begun to move from the Petroffsky
Palace, outside the ancient walls of Moscow. At
that instant three guns will be fired ; and from all
the watch-towers of St. Petersburg (fire-alarm
towers) white flags (biaalie flagee) are to be dis-
played for the space of ten minutes, while the as-
sembled clergy intone in the Kazan hymns of sup-
plication and propitiation. Another pause of expec-
tancy and silence then ensues, to await the electric
message which will mark the moment of Alexander
IL's arrival in the Kremlin, which moment will again
be announced to St. Petersburg by a salute of three
guns. Upon this the white flags on the watch-
towers will vanish, and be replaced by red, and the
clergy and people in the Kazan Sodor (cathedral)
will join, 500 miles away, in the same prayers, ac-
cording to the Greek liturgy, which will be offered
in the Kremlin Church, at Moscow. This will be
at half-past 11 a.m. ; and when the crown is placed
on the young Emperor's brow, a third message will
flash along the telegraph, and 101 guns will pro-
claim to the northern capital that the absolute
Sovereign of 70 millions of human beings has re-
ceived the solemn emblem of his high authority.
There is then to be sung in the Kazan the Te
Deuin, which at the same moment will be chantei
in the older and more august metropolis. That
evening there is to be a festival with singing, music,
and fireworks in the summer garden, and in the
Champs de Mars behind it, where booths are per-
mitted to be pitched for the sale of refreshments.
This is for the masses. For the better classes there
is to be a ball in the great theatre (bolshaea teatra),
and a dinner in the Hall of the Nobles. To the
people the Alexander and Michael theatres and the
circus are to be thrown open for gratuitous perfor-
mances. St. Petersburg is to be illuminated, and the
three days— the seventh, the eighth (despite anniver-
sary thoughts), and the eleventh of September, are
to he kept as holidays, not in the religious, but the
sportive sense. Why the 9th is pretermitted I know
not, but the 10th (which is in Russia the 29th of
August) happens to be their festival of Alexander
Nevsky, whom they honour as a saint and as one
of the chief patrons of Russia. The scaffoldings
for the illuminations aro to be kept up till the re-
turn of their Majesties from Moscow.
Such is the programme for Stßetersburg, which
capital is now every day literally emptying itself
upon the Great Southern line. It is arranged that
the Court shall preserve its present quietude and
retirement at Peterhoff till its departure. As to
soc:ety, with the exception of the Foreign Ambas-
sadors, who ara almost on the wing, there is hardly
any left. In short, there will be nothing more in
the nature of incident to chonicle here except those
incessant arrivals which alone prevent St. Peters-
burg from looking at this moment a dese:ted and
forsaken city. Only an hour since the Steam boat,
for example, arrived deep in the water with her
human freight. A pound sterling more than the
fare was demanded on board for something to lie
upon, besides the floors of the cabins and the planks
of the deck. Amidst this crowd, exactly eighty of
whom (and not eighty poor persons, but gentlemen
travelling for their pleasure, for whoever can afford
an excursion from the west of Europe for the pur-
pose of seeing the great coronation at Moscow must
have independent means)slept onithe deck. Amids,;
this great crowd, I say, were tliree French generals
coming, like three-fourths of the rest, to see the
coronation. They are all three Crimean generals
—Lebceuf, of the Line ; Dupont, of the Engineers ;
and Froissart, of the Artillery. There were lots of
Russian princes on their return, and one, whose
name ends in " off," with a most beautiful wife, a
Greek, who, while hardy-looking men were still a
little sick from the roughness of the two last days
of the four which they had occupied in steaming
from Stettin, had no sooner got out of the larger
into the smaller boat at Croustadt than she de-
scended into the cabin and attacked a beefsteak
with evident relish. Of what that beautiful person
is capable may be judged. General Mouravieff
was on board, and could not accomplish the feat
in question. The portraits of Mouravieff which I
have seen in England do him ()Toss injustice. There
was ono I especially remember, representing him
as a portly, heavy-faced, stupid-looking man of 60.
He appears about 48-is small, active, sprightly,
with such a good-natured and good-humoured ex-
pression of countenance as to prevent your remark-
ing at a first glance its unquestionable keenness
and intelligence. Some of the princes and heroes
who came with him were in uniform, and covered
with orders. He wore plain clothes, not even a
ribbon, and, instead of a military hat, a little black
cap—looking altogether like a sensible traveller
used to the sea, It is not a fine thing to Bee i 1 DUD,

who glitters with stars, crogsl. And badges, sea-

giich ale aid Miseellaneous arrivals every day-
our worthy countrymen flgt4ring largely in each
new crowd that is cast upon thego granite quays.
Most of them are pleasure-seekers. Among those
who come bent dti business, the two most numerous
classes are the importers of wine (who reap an im-
mense harvest at the present moment), and those
heirs of the future in Russia, as they deein them-
selves, the civil engineers. Meanwhile, there are
swarms of agents from the great capitalists of Lon-
don, of Paris, and of the various chief towns of
Germany, who are making interest here against
each other to obtain concessions of the many new
lines of railway which are in contemplation. That
from Warsaw to Moscow is begun, but awaits
capital to be continued. That from Moscow to
Odessa, or to Itherson, awaits capital to be begun.
A whole network of embryo railways in the north
are waiting for capital to hatch them into good
dividends. There are altogether 4,000 versts of
line clearly shown, and maturely admitted, to be
needed in this country, which hold out really good
promise of more or less ample remuneration when
accomplished. They are all waiting for capital ;
and capital, at the same time, is not only waiting
for leave to undertake these gigantic works, but
vehemently suing for it, or at least for permission
to commence part of them. They wish the coro-
nation all over. And well they may ; for till then
no other business will meet with any very close
attention from Alexander the Second. He is ab-
sorbed—heart, mind, and soul—in the preparations.
St. Petersburg has been recently very much amused
and puzzled by the sudden visit of Sir Charles
Napier, and his equally sudden departure. The
gallant admiral was treated with much condescen-
sion by the Grand Duke Constantine, and was, I
believe, invited to a naval review, but he departed
suddenly on the receipt of letters from England.
Many characteristic anecdotes are told of him,
especially as to the way in which he parried some
good-humoured taints _respecting his celebrated
boast about tha capture of Cronstadt—a boast
which, by the way, he never made. it is said that
when an illustrious personage asked him " Why
he didn't come in to Cronstadt ?" the retort cour-
teous of the old " Salt" was, " Why didn't you
come out c!'' On another day he visited a Greek
convent, where he was introduced as " Mr.
Napier." One of the young lady pupils hearing
the name, timidly inquired whether he was any
relative of the terrible admiral who was to have
taken Cronstadt; and his answer was, "No relation
at all, miss, lam the man himself." I select these
two out of about a dozen that are flying about re-
specting the veteran of Acre, without vouching for
their accuracy, but at the same time being strongly
impressed with their vraiseinblance. The official
journal as yet contains no positive news about the
coronation, but I believe the dates will be—Depar-
ture from St. Petersburg, Aug. 26 ; public entry,
29th ; coronation, Sept. 7. It is remarkable that
even the official programme contains nothing about
the day.

THE FATE OF OWERIJACCHIO.