The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-24 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

A letter from Vienna of the 18th, in the Debats,
gives the following account of the financial embar-
rassments of the money market in that city :
"The hopes which had been entertained by the
commerce of Vienna to see the national bank re-
sume cash payments in November next, have again
vanished, without its being at all possible to fore-
see the period when that great financial establish-
ment will be able to realise that measure. The
premium charged on specie is to-day 9 per cent•)
and it is thought that it will soon be raised to 10
per cent. During the last week silver bullion, to
the amount of three millions of florins, was received
from Hamburg and Frankfort, but the price has
not at all given way, and specie is still scarce. The
paper issued of late years by the national bank, and
which is now in circulation, is infinitely out of pro-
portion with the metallic resources at its disposal ;
no hope can therefore be entertained of any im-
provement in the course of foreign exchanges. The
last balance sheet of the bank states the successive
issue of 387 millions of florins in notes against 81
millions of gold and silver, deposited in the cellars
of the bank as guarantee for these 387 smillions of
notes. The conclusion to b 3 drawn from this enor-
mous difference between the paper issued by the
bank and the cash at its disposal is, that this
establishment is far from being able to resume its
cash payments."

THE PRINCIPALITIES.
A letter from Vienna of the 18th, in the Siicle,
sums up the three arguments adduced by the Aus-
trian Cabinet for still occupying the Danubian
principalities. It says :
" I have it on good authority that the reply of our
Cabinet to the note of Count Walewski, on the prolong-
ation of the military occupation of the two Danubian
Principalities, has been decidedly sent off to Paris, after
its contents had been communicated to Baron Bour-
queney by our Minister of Foreign Affairs. As the
note of the French Cabinet is specially couched in an
interrogatory diplomatic style, requesting the Austrian
Government to explain itself as to the duration of the
continued stay of our corps d arm& in Moldavia and
Wallachia, Count de Buol is said to have clearly replied
to the three points which form the object of the French
despatch—namely, that our occupation being legitima-
tised and rendered necessary in consequence of a special
treaty with the Sublime Porte, the Emperor cannot give
orders to his troops to evacuate until Turkey should
(Iceland that cenrse ; and that, as England is equally
desirous with Turkey that the Austrian troops should
remain in occupation, Count Buol recommends Count
Walewski to address himself to those powers in order
to put an end to it. The Abstrian Cabinet states that
it has no motive for hesitating to declare that it will
order the evacuation of the provinces the moment the
Western Powers shall direct the withdrawal from Greece
of their sea and land forces."

SPAIN.
MADRID, Oct. 21 .—By a royal decree, published
in the Gazette, M. Melchor Ordonez is named Civil

Governor of Barcelona. The refusal by
Gene
de la Pezuela of the post of Director-Gen:
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La
Cavalry has been accepted. The effective of t. 12_
provincial militia is to be incorporated with tip
regular army.
The Madrid Gazette of the 19th contains royal
ral
decrees which remove General Lemerich from the
captaincy-general of Porto Rico, and nominate
General Campezano his successor ; General Aleson
from the captaincy-general of the Philippine
Islands to the captaincy-general of Andalusia ; and
General Norzagaray from the captaincy-general of
Andalusia to that of the Philippines. Ocher decrees
appoint General Arpirez director-general of artil-
lery, and M. Arrazola president of the Supreme
Tribunal of Justice, in the room of M. Luzuriaga,
resigned. General Dulce had left Madrid for San-
tander. The Nacion, says that all the superior
and the greater part of the subaltern employes of
the ministry of justice had been dismissed. 311.
Ruiz Pons, a democratic deputy, had received
positive orders to leave Saragossa, in which city he
had been residing for some time, within three
days. At Saragossa the fetes of the Virgin del
Pilar had been celebrated with great pomp, and
accompanied by splendid bull-fights. The Eq3ana
says that the General Company of Credit of Spain
has obtained permission to import precious metals,
and have them turned into coin at the mints._
According to a provincial paper, great scarcity of
specie exists at Barcelona, and the bank of that
place had raised its discount to 6 per cent. ; the
scarcity, it adds, was chiefly caused by the calls
for funds by the Credit Company.
A letter from Madrid of the 17th, in the Siecie,
says :
" Uneasiness is at its height here ; every one feels
convinced that the existence of the Narvaez cabinet
be even more ephemeral than that of O'Donnell, and
bets are laid that the Marquis de Viluma will be presi-
dent of the council before Christmas. The fact is that
the presidentship of a new cabinet was really offered t
him on Tuesday last, and if the prudent marquis hago
not thought proper to aosept it, it is only, as he says'
At tbe
because the proper time has not yet arrived.
rate, however, at which things are pushed on, the time
will soon arrive. The retrograde march of she govern-
ment displays itself with mathematical precision. In the
same way as the concessions of O'Donnell carried ie
their bosom the cabinet of the Duke of Valencia, se !'r,e,,
the Narvaez concessions pregnant with the approacbieis
advent of the Marquis de Viluma. Emancipated from
the odious tutelage of elective assemblies, Isabella 11'
very soon wears out her ministers."
A letter from Durazzo of the Bth says
great number of the regular Turkish troops whic-
have arrived at Bitollie are to form the garrisons
of Varna and Larissa. Two battalions have already
gone to Elbasson ; two others are to go to the die"
trict of Canaza and Tiranna. The Turkish Govern-
ment continues to send here arms and ammunition
in spit© of the assurances given that the affair of
Montenegro should be terminated by diplomeeP
Twelve cannon and'a large quantity of ammunition
for our fortress have arrived, and 20 other large
guns are shortly expected."