The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 1856.

country whose six per cents, are scarce aboire par,
the cost of placing two fortresses, most important
to her future defence, in au efficient state of
repair, we should rather say of reconstructing them,
is a serious matter. Our secret servants, however,
have so managed that not only have they secured
to Tarkey no indemnity for the heavy expenses
to which she has been put by the wanton
aggressor, but they have allowed him to saddle
her, with fresh charges. This innocent reli-
ance on the honour of a court whose pride at
home is not its honour, but its successful
violence and knavery, could never have betrayed us
could we but have warned our diplomatists in
time. But for the popular fatuity, or indolence
rather, which tolerates a system like this, how
different would have been the terms of the peace !
—how different for Poland, for Bessarabia, for the!
Crimea, for Circassia, for Turkey herself.
But an end must be put to the scoffing of
Premiers and their subordinates when our repre-,
sentatires ask how our diplomatic account stands
with foreign Powers. We are not for ever to be
mocked with the reply one week, that the business
is not yet complete, and the next, that it is now
settled beyond our power to alter it. We must
now demand to look into the diplomatic ledger at
all times, and to know how we like the
items as far as they are posted up. Wp
could then generally tell how the thing was
working, and make provision in time. Why
should not every power on earth be told by our
Ministers that they do their business as servants
of the nation ; that they keep, therefore, all prO-
03edings open to the nation ; that the people can
canvas every step, and that none can be taken
which they will not scrutinise. As to all the
Courts who disapproved of this plan, the less we
had to do with them the better. They could de-
sire secrecy for no other reason than some con-
templated unfairness to their own subjects or to
us. We wish for no transactions with Foreign
Governments which we are ashamed should see
daylight as they proceed ; if they need the dark-
ness, we do not, and should remind them that,
in our view, honesty and publicity were inse-
parable.

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MARSEILLES, JULY 21.

The Indus has arrived from Constantinople

with intelligence to the 14th.

Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, Omer Pacha, Aali
Pacha, Mehemet Reirealy, and other persons of

note were present at the grand dinner given to
Marshal Pelissier by M. Thouvenel.
The intelligence from the Crimea states that
the evacuation of Balaklava was completely ter-
minated.

DRESDEN, JULY 21.

The Princess Margaret of Saxony was yester-
day betrothed to the Archduke Charles Louis;
Governor of the Tyrol and the Voralberg, and
second brother of the Emperor of Austria.

Count de Lucena, awl we shall save liberty from
the dangers which menace it.
" President, ANTONIO FALCON.
" Vice-President, FALICIANO POLO.

" Members—Manuel Gorriga, Joaquim Marin,
Jos Cano Manuel, Lorenzo Maria Schmid, Candid°
Cond Simon Gimeno, Geronimo Borao."

FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.
The Moniteur contains a decree promulgatine,
a convention concluded between France and the
free city of Hamburg, for the reciprocal guarantee
of the property of literary productions and works
of art.
The returns of the customs and indirect taxes
for the first six months of the present year, as com-
pared with those of the corresponding periods of
1855 and 1854, are published in the Moniteur. The
whole amount of the import duties received in
1E56 was 84,031,894 f. to 88,306,730 f. in 1855, and
67,049,329 f. in 1854, being 4,264,836 f. less than
the former year, and 6,982,565 f. more than the
latter.

BOURSE, July 22.—The following were the last
quotations :

_
Cash. fr. a. End of Month.
ii per Cents 94

3-per Cents 7O 50 70 75
Nevi Loan 7O 55

Bank Shares 4,125 Roman
Credit Mobilier 1,465 Austrian
Belgian Fives. ... . . Spanish Throes 44
Piedmontese (5) 9O Home Debt 39