The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-02 00:00:00

year. The Empress was not present. Frio,i
Tuileries the parties proceeded to the Palais
pay their respects to Prince Jerome and bis son
Napoleon, and then to the Rue de Courcelles to vi
Princess Mathilde. The day was fine, and the 1111
the State carriages and liveries attracted the usury
bar of curious people in the neighbourhood
Tuileries."

We have received the Moniteur. It dal
contain any news of interest.
Advices received here from St. Petersburg
that the Council of War had reported that thi
sources of the empire were capable of maintain
second, third, and °von fourth campaign. Tile`
of Prince Bebutoff had received reinforoerli
and General Mouravieff's forces were to be,
mented. Perhaps no other sort of report Cow,
expected to be made public ; private correff
ence, however, gives a very different view ,
resources of Russia, and the means of maim
the war, even through the spring campaign.

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A letter from Vienna of the 27th ult.,
Suabian Mercury, says :—" It was Austria
assumed the initiative in explanations relatill,
the reduction of her army, as, in a note add'
to the Allied Powers, she explained that
only a financial measure, and that the army es°
at any moment re-established on a war fonti4
The Stockholm correspondent of the 0!
landet, of Copenhagen, states that such great',
vity has never prevailed as at present in 51/,
manufactories in Sweden engaged in making'
tart' equipments. All the commanding offid,
regiments have received orders to hold thems
in readiness for service, and officers who had
manded leave of absence to go abroad have P
told that it cannot be granted for the moment.

THE SANTAL REBELLION.

The Calcutta Gazette of the 10th inst. cod:
he following proclamation : i
"Whereas certain persons of the tribe of Santahl4
others, inhabitants of the Rajtnahal Hills, of the DI
i-Koh, and of certain pergunnahs in the distrieli .
Bhaugulpore, Moorsheddbad, and Beerbhooref
owing allegiance to the British Government, are,,
for some time past have been, in open rebellion ag j
the authority of the Government; and whereas
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after the first outbreak of the said rebellion a prool
tion was issued offering a free pardon to all who'eburS
come in and submit within a period of ten days, el
ringleaders and persons convicted of murder, notioi.
standing which act of clemency the great body of
rebels have not availed themselves of the offer of 11
thus held out, but continue in rebellion,—where.;
it has become necessary, for the speedy and effetj
suppression of this rebellion, that aclean9
should be taken of the season to commence
tematic operations against the rebels, for which par
it is expedient that martial law should be declared,
that the functions of the ordinary criminal courts of,,,kJ
dicature should be partially suspended in .the said a'
bricts ;
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"It is hereby proclaimed and notified that the i'l,,e
tenant-Governor of Bengal, in the exercise of the ant!),
O
rity given to him by Regulation X. of 1804, and
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the assent and concurrence of the President in Collp,.
does hereby establish martial law in the following il'i
tricte—that is to say,—
"So much of the district of Bhaugulpore as lies 011
the right bank of the river Ganges ;
"So much of the district of Moorshedabad as beg C°i
the right bank of the river Bhagirutte ;
"The district of Beerbhoom ; !
and that the said Lieutenant-Governor does also iOPpOl
the functiontiif the ordinary criminal courts of Judi 1;
ture within the'districts above described with respect ~,
all persons, Santals and others, owing allegiance to tv,,
British Government, in consequence of their either bad
ing been born or being resident within its territories BP.,
under its protection, who after the date of this proe,w
mation and within the districts above described 810,117
taken in arms in open hostility to the said Geyer/moo!
or shall be taken in the act of opposing by farce of Ards
the authority of the same, or shall be taken in the 06"
tual commission of any overt act of rebellion against the
state.

"And that the said Lieutenant-Governor does 011!
hereby direct that all persons, Santals and others, owl!!
allegiance to the British Government, who alter P'
date of this proclamation shall be taken as aforesaid)
shall be tried by court-martial ; and it is hereby notifir°
that any person convicted of any of the said crimes
the sentence of such court will be Fable, under section Srf
regulation 10, of 1804, to the immediate punishment
death."

VOLCANO IN THESAN:bWICE ISLANDS'

according to the following description,- says the
Washington intelligencer, the eruption of the ye
cano of Hawaii is becoming horribly dangerous
, 1855.
" Hawaii still burns. The great furnacel3 on Mope
Loa is in full blast. For 63 days the moltori flood bag
rolled down the mountain without abatement. Oa
Hawaiian atmosphere is loaded with smoke and gage*
through which the sun shines with dingy and yellow
rays. The Irnount of lava disgorged from this awftu
magazine i.fenormous. The higher regions of the monr
td.ia are 1100 e ".ed with vast tracts of smoking lava, 10111
the streams, shich have flowed down the side of the
mountain spread over a surface of several miles in breadth.
The main stream, including all its windings, must to
more than 50 miles long, with an average breadth of
three miles. This is still flowing direct for 'our bay, and
is supposed to be within 10 miles of us. It is eating it'
way slowly through the deep forest and the dense jungle
in our rear, and its terminus must be the sea, unless the
great summit fountain should cease to disgorge. On the
2d instant Mr. M'Culley and myself set off to explore
the eruption, taking the bed of the stream, the Wailuke
river, as our path. We reached the terminal crater in
four-and-a-balf days, tracing up the fiery streatn from the
upper skirt of the forest to the summit of the mountain.
In the woods we could not follow it on account of the
dense jungle. The burning stream now runs all the war
in a covered duct, so that it can be seen only at its vents,
which let off the gas. These are truly fearful. We
looked down one of them, and saw the fiery current
rushing under us, in sonic places at the rate of 40 knots.
We returned via Kilauea, and were absent 10 days.
What we saw, and beard, and felt, cannot be described."
Letters fr

.rom Jerusalem state that the Latin Patriarch
has received the Belgian decoration of the Commander
of the Order of Leopold. The Cross of the Commander
has also been given to the Governor of Palestine, whose
reception of the Due de Brabant has not been forgotten.
Dr. Duigan, recently returned from the Crimea, and
who has just been appointed surgeon of her Majesty's
ship Seahorse, has been entertained by his townsmen at
a public dinner in the Club-house of his native town,
Kilkenny.
DRESDEN, Dec. 31.—The Dresden Journal of to-day
announces that Colonel von Manteuffel, who arrived
yesterday at noon from Berlin, was received by the
King at a private audience, and then invited to dine
with his Majesty. He set out again at night by the
express train on his return to Berlin.
The marine artillery at Cherbourg and Brest is at
present making experiments with new balls, of a coni-
cal form, terminated by a point of steel, and filled with
gunpowder, the explosion of which can break to pieces,
it is said, the hardest stonework.
General Durand° has assumed the command of the
Sardinian army in the Crimea.
The Geneva Journal says that in a forest near Yvorne,
in the Pays de Vaud, the earth opened in three places
at the moment of the late earthquake in the Valois, and
that a kind of smoke issued from the fissures. The
government is about to send some men of science to in-
vestigate the phenomenon.
The Sher6orne Mercury says :—" Thanet may be
proud of the defenders of Kars, for among them are
numbered one if not more, who are natives of the island.
We are informed on good authority that General
Williams was born in this parish, of which his father
was vicar at the tinse. Many cf the resident gentry re-
collect the gallant general in his youthful days. An-
other of these heroes is Lieut.-Col. Lake, son of the Dowa-
ger Lady Lake, of Ramsgate, who married a daughter
of the late Sir W. Curtis, Bart."
MONEY MARRET.----With the approach of the 3d of the
month the demand for money continues extremely active,
but the applications at the Bank yesterday were mode-
rate. On Monday, it is said, they were greater than
at any period during the last eight years, the total ad-
vaueed in loans and discounts having exceeded 900,0001. ;
500,000/., however, has returned to the establishment
yesterday afternoon, in the shape of a 10 per cent, in.
stahnent on the Turkish loan. The general advances
this quarter up to the present time are believed not to
have been much in excess of the usual amount.
THE MAIL STEAkER WASHINGTON.—The following
notice was issued from the General Post-office yesterday,
viz. :—" The United States mail packet Washington,
being detained for repairs, cannot leave Southampton on
the 2d instant, the day appointed. The next mails for
North America will therefore be despatched by the Bri-
tish packet America, to leave Liverpool, for Boston, on
the sth instant. The Washington will leave Southamp-
ton, for New York, on the 6th inst., and all letters
forwarded by that vessel."
P to the evening of the sth will be
about 4 per mule prernium (according to the last tariff),
posZto iEnoFLGolo'df,non.—uThe quotation of gold at Pavia is
which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10Id, per
ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25'27
and, the exchange at Paris on London at short being
25.22 A, it follows that gold is about 0.18 per cent, dearer
in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburg
the price of gold is 425 per mark, which, at the English
Mint price of 31. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold,
gives an exchange of 13.41 ; and, the exchange at Ham-
burg on London at short being 13.4 it follows that gold
is 0.29 per cent, dearer in London than in Hamburg.
The course of exchange at New York on London for
bills at GO days' sight is about 109 per cent., and, the
par of exchange between England and America being
109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is nomi-
nally 0.58 per cent. against England;
allowance for charges of transport and difference of in-
terest, the present rate leaves no profit on the transtuis-
eign of gold either way between the two countries.
GREAT Loss of LIFE.
Nov. 9.—The
Waverley, from Suatao, near Amoy, bound to Lima
with 450 coolies on boatel, put in here 25th October with
the master dead on board, and, as there were symptoms
of dysentery among the coolies. she was put under qua-
rantine. Some disturbance subsequently occurred, when
the mate and ere-4' fereed the coolies down the bold and
battened down the hatches ; when opened about
fifteen
hours after wards 251 of the coolies were found dead from
uffocation. Manilla, but,
after
making

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