The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING.

LATEST NEWS.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.
TRIESTE, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The steamer Bombay arrived to-day at 4 p.m.,
in 144 hours from Alexandria.

The Indian mail left Alexandria on the 22d Feb.,
with intelligence from Calcutta to the 24th Jan. ;
Bombay, 2d Feb. ; Hong-kong, 15th Jan. ;
Shanghai, Bth Jan.; Canton, 12th Jan.
Oude is to be annexed, with General Outram as

Chief Commissioner.
Lord Canning arrived at Bombay on the 28th of

January.
The banks at Bombay have raised their rates of

interest to 12 per cent.
At Calcutta the money market has improved,
and exchange on London is 2s.
There has been a great fire at Macao.
Exchange—Canton, 4s. 11d. ; Shanghai, 6s. 9id.

BERLIN, FEB. 26.
The short duration of tLe armistice creates an
unfavourable impression here.

Letters from Warsaw state that deliberations
have taken place under the presidentship of Prince
Gortsehakoff, relative to the military reorganisa-
tion of Poland.

Letters from officers of the German Foreign
Legion in the service of England state, that notice
had been given them that everything was ready
for their departure for the Crimea.

VIENNA, FEB. 26.

Our money market was exceedingly firm to-
day, in consequence of the announcement in the
Moniteur that an armistice had been agreed to.
All kinds of securities were in request.

TURIN, FEB. 26.
General La Marmora set out to-day for the

Crimea.

The Aftombladet, of Stockholm, of the 12th of
Feb., says that a committee formed under the Pre-
sidency of the Prince Royal, is formed to propose
a plan for the fortification of the Swedish capital,
on an immense scale, embracing the valley of the
Maeler River.

FRANCE.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY.
There has been no meeting of the Congress to.
day. There will be one to-morrow.

Isis Excellency Lord Cowley will probably leave
Paris for London on Saturday. Should he do so
it is for the purpose of receiving instructions on
some difficulties which are expected to occur at
the Congress, and then return for the sitting on
the following Monday.
The letter of the Times' Paris correspondent,
dated yesterday, 6 p.m., says :
" The second sitting of the Congress, which was
believed to be fixed for to-day, has not taken place.
This fact has given rise to a variety of rumours,
whi?,li I believe to be unfounded, because of the
strict obligation of silence in all that relates to the
pro:42diugs of the Congress imposed on its mem-
bers. A week at least before the Conferences
opened I mentioned that the sittings would not
follow each other consecutively day after day ; and
that two, three, and perhaps more days might very
probably intervene between two sittings. Neither
are these sittings fixed beforehand for par-
ticular days in each week. They depend a good
deal on the progress of the negotiations, and
are determined by the Pleniopotentiaries them-
selves. The (.).nistitationnel is therefore mistaken
in saying that the Congress would invariably meet
three times a week. The members do not know
till the close of each sitting the particular day or
hour at which the next will be held. With respect
to the issue of the negotiations I can add nothing
to what I have already said. The public is full of
expectation that peace must come of them, and
there are few who venture to affirm the contrary.
Many chances are in its favour, of that there is no
doubt ; but until six or eight days of conferenv
pass over it would be hazardous to affirm anything
positively."
The Union, contains the following :—" Some de-
tails have been communicated to us concerning the
concert of Count Walewski, at which all the
plenipotentiaries were present. Count Orloff,
with the ease of a grand Russian nobleman, and
with that elegance of manner which seems so
charming when allied with military bearing, con-
versed readily with the various groups which in
succession collected round him. After the count,
one of the high personages who most attracted
notice was the Grand Vizier, Aali-Pacha, the
Turkish representative. He is a man of delicate
appearance, apparently in not very strong health,
awl presented a striking contrast with the tall,
manly, and animated figure of the Russian envoy.
But his intelligent and keen glance, his strongly-
marked feature, and his severe physiognomy, give
evidence of a resolute and energetic character.
Count de Cavour also attracted much attention.
He is a man of middle stature, rather stout, with
features remarkable for their frankness and open-
ness, and over which a smile loves to play. Turn-
ing to another class of guests, we may state that
Geus. Canrobert and Bosquet were much observed.
The concert took place in the gallery in which the
statue of Napoleon 111. stands, and from that
apartment the guests could enter freely into the
other rooms of the long suite thrown open on the
occasion. Every one examined with curiosity the
Salon des Ambassadeurs, in which the sittings -of
the congress take place. The crowd circulated
round the table in the centre, reading the names
of the several powers written in pencil on a, sheet
of paper, placed before the seat which each repre-
sentative occupies. It was then easy to see that
the accounts given in some of the public journals
of the position of the powers were incorrect. The
real place of each is this :—The French plenipoten-
tiaries are in the centre, the English representa-
tives on the right, and the Austrian on the left ;
next to the English are the Russian Envoys, and
next to the Austrian the Turks ; the Sardinians
are between the Turks and the Russians. At the
concert, although not a word was spoken by the
plenipotentiaries to infringe the secrecy which they
are bound to observe, the features of all of them
bore that look of satisfaction which would imply
that all was going on smoothly towards the re-
establishment of peace."
A letter from the Paris correspondent of the
Independance, of Brussels says :—" I have just read
a letter addressed to a member of the Legislative
Body by the Archbishop of Avignon, in which I
find an interesting piece of news. The archbishop
has arrived from Rome, and, before quitting that
city, he went to take leave of the Pope, who told
him that he should visit France in case a Prince
was born to the Emperor. Pius IX. promised
that, should he take the journey, he would stop
two days at Avignon, after which he would proceed
to Paris to baptise the Imperial child. The letter
in which the archbishop announces this news is
written with a feeling of great satisfaction."
BOURSE, Feb. 27.—The following were the closing
quotations :

_
Crib. fr. s. End of Month.
4i per Cents ' 96 --f. —a.
3 per Cents 73 73 5
New Loan. 74
Bank Shares 3,455 Roman
Credit Mobilier 1,537 50 Austrian
Belgian Fives 96l— Spanish Threes...... 7,
Piedmontese (5) . B9 Home Debt .......«361