The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-12 00:00:00

EN(4, APRIL 12, 1856.

LATEST NEWS.

PARIS, SA.TIIRDAY.
The Monitetcr gives the following despatch from

Marshal Pelissier

SEBASTOPOL, APRIL 7.

There i 3 a marked continuance of the improve
ment in the general health of the army.

The typhus daily diminishes in malignity, and
sensibly gives way. I hope that at length we

shall have spring.

TRIESTE, APRIL 10.

Accounts from Constantinople of the 31st ult.
state that the special law relative to the right of
property of Europeans in Turkey will be promul-
gated very shortly.

ST. PETERSBURG, APRIL 9.

The Emperor Alexander has just accorded to
the nobility of Livonia, Esthonia, and Courland
letters of favour, which guarantee to them all

their rights,
,customs, advantages, and privileges
during the reign of his Imperial Majesty.

FRANCE.
PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.
To-morrow the Plenipotentiaries will meet 'at
the hotel of Foreign Affairs. The Italian question,
it is said, will suggest a stormy debate between
Count Cavour and M. Buol. As Piedmont is sup-
ported by Lords Clarendon and Cowley, and as the.
French representatives of the Emperor are inspired
with favourable views towards Sardinia, it is by no
means impossible that a sort of protest will be re-
gistered against the existing system of government,
so obstinately persevered in by the rulers of certain
States of the peninsula.
The Times'. Paris correspondent (second edition)
says :—The Congress sits to-morrow, and the re-
sult is looked forward to with much interest. The
question of Italy has occupied them earnestly for
several days back, and it will again form the prin-
cipal subject of their deliberations. Tliey hope to
terminate it in to-morrow's sitting ; if they do not,
they will consider it again on Monday or Tuesday.
In any view the Plenipetentiaries might take of
the situation of the Italian peninsula, the. occupa-
tion of certain portions of it would naturally be
among the first, and it is said that on this point
also M. Cavour particularly directed the attention of
his colleagnen. He showed the inconsistency of
an occupation of territory, contrary to the will of
its population, by foreign troops ; dwelt on its in-
utility, and the impossibility of such a state of
things lasting for any time. In truth, a moment
must come when such an anomaly must cease. The
principle of intervention is, no doubt, to be depre-
cated, but if intervention is at all justifiable, it is
when the object is to support good government--a
government based on justice ; and not to porpetu-
ate an oppressive and detested despotism. It is
not improbable that the governments which exist
solely by the support of foreign bayonets will be
informed that the time is. come for them to
consider seriously what they ought to do. Those
Governments declare that the vast majority of their
subjects look up to them with confidence, respect,
and affection ; that they are no longer led astray by
mischievous theofes, and that they have a horror
of revolutionary doctrines. If such be the case
surely they have no need of foreign protection, and
it will be submitted to them whether it is consistent
with their own dignity that French or Austrian
troops should for ever come between them and the
zeal and love of their people. A French army can-
not for ever occupy Rome ; and if its occupation be
continued it ought to be to aid them in establishing
necessary reforms in their internal administration.
In other words, the.condition on which the occupa-
tion will be maintained is that these reforms shall
be introduced. If the Pope is really the idol of
his subjects he cannot want French or Austrians
to keep him ou his throne. It is the necessity for,
such an alternative that has been discussed in the
Congress, and some resolution on it is expected to
terminate to-morrow's sitting. If no conclusion
be come to, the Congress will, as I said before,
again meet on Monday or Tuesday. It is curious
that on this point Russia has given her support to
Sardinia, and Count Orloff lets slip few occasions
of appearing on the best terms with Count Cavour.
I will not say that this proceeds from any -new-
born zeal for representative government. It is
unquestionably attributable to the hatred which
now animates Russia against the very name of
Austria. No one has forgotten M. Nesselrodo's
note when Sardinia resolved on giving her contin-
gent to the allied armies. He complained that Sar-
dinia had drawn the sword before any formal decla-
ration of war, and M. Cavour in his reply reminded
the Russian Minister that the Czar had not only
never recognised the Constitutional Government of
Sardinia, but had evinced his hostility in every
way he could short of making war. I have reason
to believe that the main, if not the only cause
of the refusal of such 'recognition was Austria. It
was Austria that urged Russia to that refusal, and
it was Austria that secretly encouraged the Czar in
his enmity, and fanned the flame of his resentment.
Of. Austria it may now be said that she is quite as
much, if not more isolated than Prussia. Even last
night, durine, the fete at the Ottoman Embassy, it
was remarkedt' that Count Buol was hardly ad-
dressed by any. I have said that the Plenipoten-
tiaries hope to bring their labours to a close to-
morrow or early next week ; this, however, is but
a hope and not a certainty. Lord Clarendon ex-
pects to be able to leave Paris on Friday next.
On the subject of the Danubian Principalities
the Congress do not agree with the Porte in the
plan of establishing a Moldo-Wallachian Commis-
sion at Constantinople for its final settlement.
They prefer that the question of according to the
Principalities a new organisation, or of conferring
that which now subsists, should be maturely
examined by the Sultan in concert with the
allies, and not by such a Commission, which
would at Constantinople be exposed both to the
pressure of the Porte and of the Fanariot party,
whose administration of that ill fated country
is remembered with detestation. The Congress
desire that the internal organisation of these
countries shall, according to the terms of the
first guarantee, be in conformity with the wants
and the wishes of the populations ; they wish
that while the suzerainete of the Sultan is main-
tained, the interests of the provinces as well
as those of Europe shall not be disregarded,
and for that purpose they require that the
examination into their wants and wishes shall
be entrusted to a mixed commission composed of
the representatives of the contracting Powers—the
Porte of course being included—and of delegates
from the Principalities. During the Conferences
of Vienna a note was addressed, after due notice
to the Porte, to the Flospodars, inviting them to
send representatives to Vienna to give to a Com-
mission, to be forined of the Plenipotentiaries
of Fiance, England, Austria, and Turkey, the
necessary information relative to the exceptional
state of the Principalities. The Porte, in re-
ply, proposed to : send to Vienna a Bayard
for each Principality with the title of Pleni-
potentiary for the Ottoman Government, and
whose mission should be limited to furnishing in-
formation on the state of the Principalities. Before
"this could be done the Vienna Conferences came to
an end. The invitation addressed to the Hospo-
dars showed that the "sovereignty of the Principali-
ties was recognised at Vienna ; the proposal of the
Porte indicated a wish to get rid of the question
bfa side wind.

The Porte has, it is said, done its best to maintain
the poSition of the Hospodars, as established by the
treaty of Balta-Liman, and the right of nominating
them every seven years, forgetting however its own
declaration that all treaties with Russia are annulled
by the war. It is believed that the Congress will
maintain the immovable character of the Ilospo-
(lariat as it before existed. A change in that re-
spect would be' a violatioh of the stipulations, and
would, instead of creating a government with the
elements of durability, only excite mistrust and
alarm among the Christian populations,and abandon
the Principalities to constant agitation, which, in
spite of all that could be done to the contrary, would
end by restoring the influence of Russia in those
countries.

A. u official despatck from Valence says that tran-
quillity has been again disturbed. The authorities
had sent for troops. The pretence for these dii-
turbances, it will be remembered, is the recruiting.
T. he Moniteur del' Armee explains that the medals
which, as announced in the English papers, the
Emperor has sent to the English Government to be
distributello :British soldiers who served in the
East are not, as generally supposed, similar to the
Crimean one given by the Queen of England to the
French troops, but the ordinary military medal.
The same journal adds that the number of these
medals granted by.the Emperor is 500.
The baptism of the daughter of Count Walewski,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, took place yesterday
morning, in the chapel of the Tuileries. The
Ethperor and the Empress, who stood sponsors,
were represented on the occasion by the Duke de

Bassano and the Princess d'Esling. The Bishop
of Arras, assisted by the Abbe Ver,ini, one of the
chaplains of the Emperor, performed the service.
At the ball given last night by the Turkish Am-
bassador, and which was honoured by the presence
of the Ethperor, none of the Russian Envoys ap-
peared, which was a subject of remark, as nearly
all the other Plenipotentiaries and Ambassadors
now in Paris attended, together with a large as-
sembly of notables.

The following telegraphic despatches have been
received here :

" COPENHAGEN 10th.—In the Privy Council of State
to-day the Hereditary Prince of Denmark swore to ob-
serve all the institutions of the country."
" MADRID, 'ILI:I.—The Gazette publishes a decree with-
drawing from General Villalonga the Captain-G en eralship
of Valentia, and appointing in his place a commission
having at its head a Minister of State, invested with ex-
traordinary poWers and specially representing the supe-
rior authority. Valentia is tranquil ; the assemblages
have materially diminished. Madrid is perfectly tr,tn-
quil. The Spanish Commercial Society is constituted."
Despatches froin Naples state that the Govern-
ment is about to reduce the exportation duty on
corn to one-half. This measure is said to have
arisen out of the suggestions of the representatives
of France and England. It was reported that the
King had made significant approaches towards the
French Ambassador, occasioned by passing political
events.

THE BALTIC.
HAMBURG, April 10.—The English frigates
(screw) Euryalus and Pylades, with the Harrier
screw-corvette, arrived at Kiel yesterday on their
return from the Baltic, and will probably be joined
this day by the Imperieuse, Captain Watson, C.B.
The paddle steam-sloop Sampson' which reached
Kiel a couple of days back, has taken her depar-
ture for England, and will, very likely, be followed
by the remaining portion of the flying squadron as
soon as the vessels have taken in coal.