The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-16 00:00:00

G MARCH 16, 186 G.

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LATEST NEWS.

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The following telekvcons have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office

PARIS, MARCH 16.
The Moniteur of to-day contains a decree nomi-
nating M. Michel, Chevalier, Senator.
The Noniteur also contains a report of the
Minister of War, Marshal Randon, proposing—as
the ideas of war are receding—to reduce the
effective of the battalions of Chasseurs from eight
to six companies, the force which existed before
1853.

The report is followed by a decree of the Empe-
ror, approving the Ministerial proposal.

PARIS, MARCH 15.

The Swiss Envoy at Paris has handed to M.
Thouvenel a protest against any measure of annexa-
tion of Savoy to France.
The Swiss Government will address a note to the
Powers who signed the Treaties at the Congress of
Vienna for the maintenance of the status quo in
Savoy, and the guarantee of the neutrality of Swit-
zerland, and of a portion of Savoy.

FLORENCE, MARCH 15.

The proportion of votes in favour of annexation
to those for a separate kingdom, was as 70 to 3.
The number of persons who voted was three-
fourth of the total inscribed on the electoral lists.

MARCH 16.

The total result of the voting in Tuscany is as

follows :

Total number inscribed on the lists, 386,445.
For annexation
For separate kingdom 14,925
Cancelled . 4,949

TURIN, THURSDAY.

The returns of the voting in the Xmilian pro-
vinces are complete. The numbers in favour of an-
nexation to Piedmont are as follow :
The Romagna 202,659
Modena .. 115,621
Parma .. 88,511
The number of votes for separate kingdom has
not yet been announced.

,ROME, MARCH 15.

The report that the Papal Nuncio at Paris had
received orders to leave France is totally unfounded.

VIENNA, MARCH 16.

Lord Loftus having invited the Austrian Govern
ment to send an official delegate to the fourth in
ternational statistical congress, the Emperor o:
Austria has appointed Baron Czoernig as the re
presentative of Austria at this congress, which wil
open at London in July next.

DRESDEN, THURSDAY.

The offic:al Dresden Journal publishes a power-
ful article on the annexation of Savoy, in which

it says—

" The whole blame is to be attributed to the
policy of England, which shook the basis of peace
agreed upon at Villafranca, and to the passive atti-
tude of the other Powers on the non•realisation of
the treaty of Zurich. To offer any opposition at
the present moment would be too late, as the an-
nexation of Savoy to France may be regarded as an
accomplished fact."

CALCUTTA, FEB. 8.

Grey shirting', 50 reed, 6 lbs, 3r 15a to 4r per
piece ; readapollams, 50 reed, 3 lbs, 2r 3a per piece.
Raw silk ; G. G. M'Cassibagnai, 15: to 17r 8a per
seer. Jute—Serasgunge, 2r 14a to 3r 6a per bale.
Sugar—First quality, 8r 4a to 8r 8a per maund.
Iron, flat, 32r to 34r per maund. Saltpetre, 108 r
per fy maund. Linseed firm, 3r 4a to 3r 6a ; low
to middling, 2r 12a to 3r 3a. Freights to Eng.
land—For saltpetre, 50s; sugar, 50s to 52s 6d ; in.
digo, 80s to 100 s.
COLOMBO, CEYLON, FEB. 16.
The native crop of coffee is very short. Freights,
80s to 85s.

SHANGHAI, JAN. 22.

Business is partially suspended, owing to the
Chinese holidays. Tea settlements small. Imports
—Grey shirtings 52 to 52 catties, 1.85 to 1.91 taels;
61 to 62 catties, 1.95 to 2.2 taels ; 71 to n catties,
2.45 to 2.50 taels; H.H. scarlet long elle, 7.5 taels.
Lead, 5.2 to 5.3 taels ; iron, 3.2 to 3.5 taels.
Freights to England—For tea, 30s. to 405.; silk,
70s.

Disastrous fires at Nagasaki and Jokuhama hare
destroyed a large amount of European property.

FOO-CHOW-FOO, JAN. 19.

Tea 1 to taels lower. The quantity to complete
season's yield is expected to be small, and higher
rates are confidently looked for.

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY.

" Several foreign journals," says the Patrie,
" have announced that England was making a
present to Piedmont of sixty rifled cannon, and
that those guns were now being prepared in the
arsenals of Great Britain, preparatory to being
handed over to some Italian officers appointed to
receive them. A letter, which we have received
from London, rectifies this statement. The sixty
pieces of artillery in question are not a present from
the British Government, which has nothing what-
ever to do in the matter, but have been ordered
direct from private founders which are preparing
them for Piedmont."

BOURSE, March 15.—The market has been quiet,
but very firm. A rise of on the English Consols
contributed to this steadiness. Threes improved
from 67f 95c to 68f sc. Mobilier varied from
746 f 25c to 748 f 75c; Lyons, 893 f 75c to 895 f ;
Orleans, 1,391 f 25c to 1,392 f 50c; Northern, 922 f
50c to 925 f ; Austrian, 502 f 50c to 505 f ; Lombard,
536 f 25c to 538 f 75c. The following are the last
quotations :

4i per Cents. .... 95 75
Do. end month .. -

Credit Foncier 745
Belgian 4} .
Piedmontese (5) Bl 50
Roman Bl
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt 43 75

3 per Cents 6B 5
Do. end month 6B 5
Bank Shares 2BOO

Cliclit Mobilier .. 746 25
Do. Account ..... 747 50

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern
New ditto 835 .. 835
Lyons and Mediterranean 897 50 .. 897 50
Geneva 470 .. 470
Southern
Western 582 50 .. 585
Eastern
Sardinian 397 50 .. 397 50
Austrian
Lombard ....
Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10c.; money,
25f. 71c.; three months, paper, 24f. 87ic. ; money, 24f 85c.

the most measured language and with every assur-
ance of the most respectful devotedness, Victor
Emmanuel, in substance, asked to be amicably in-
vested with the Vicariate of Romagna, the Marches,
and Umbria. This request, though made in the
most delicate manner, gave great offence; and Car-
dinal Antonelli, when refusing, on two occasions,
to admit the King of Sardinia's almoner to an
audience of his Holiness, expressed himself in some-
what angry terms. In the course of the in-
terview, the cardinal said that he was astonished
to see an ecclesiastic, and not a diplomatist or aide-
de-camp, charged to bring such a despatch. To
that, the Abbe Stradella ingenuously replied ' that
the mission had been proposed to him, and he had
accepted it, precisely because it was thought, and,
in his opinion justly, that for a conciliatory mis-
sion to the Court of Rome, the ecclesiastical cha-
racter was preferable to all others.' As to the
Holy Father's answer, it was written with his own
hand. The cardinal declares it was not communi-
cated to him, which is very probable. Some persons,
usually well informed, assert that it contains this
phrase, ' Your letter is unworthy of a Catholic
King and of a prince of the House of Savoy.'
Whether this statement is correct .z)r not, I have no
means of ascertaining."