The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-14 00:00:00

FRANCE.

Private accounts from Naples state that a con
spiracy had been discovered among a portion of the
Neapolitan army ; and, on the same authority, it is
affirmed that the plot has been traced to the agency
of Piedmontese emissaries. It also appears that a
note is to be transmitted, if it has not been so
already,to the Powers, complaining of these attempts
to excite disaffection. In the same manner a
clue has been discovered to excite the mutiny of
the Swiss regiments some time since in the service
of Naples.
The Pope has addressed the following letter to
the Bishop of Orleans, dated the 14th January :
"Venerable Brother, health and apostolic bene-
diction.—ln this great trouble of Italy, which has
violently overthrown sovereigns, and ruined
throughout the 'Emilia and the Romagna the legi-
timate authority of the Holy See, that which the
contrivers and promoters of the rebellion desire—
their last thought, inn fact—has been fully disclosed
by that work, full of deception, which has been pub-
lished in France, a; ad has been circulated not only
in the cities, but al so in all the hamlets of Italy.
As for you, venerahlo brother, you at once perceived
the detestable object of that production, and you ap-
plied yourself immediately, resolutely and courage-
ously, to its refutation. Your energy, your firmness
of soul, are admired even by the enemies of our
temporal sovereignty. The good celebrate it every-
where in the effusion of their soul, and, venerable
brother, for this new and signal service which you
have rendered to the Apostolic See and to our sove-
reignty, we address to you, fraternally, our most
sincere thanks. We thank you, then, for this new
production, which you have sent to us, and which
we have read with extreme satisfaction.

" As to the other work which you are preparing
in defence of this mine sovereignty of the Holy See,
we not only approve it, venerable brother, but we
are now certain that, it will be very useful esta-

this day is not disagreeable. Letters from the
the
departments speak of violent storms, and of a
heavy fall of snow. Accounts from Havre state
that the weather, which had promised to be fine
last week, had again changed, and a heavy fall of
snow had been succeeded by a severe gale. several
ships which were about to sail received counter
orders, and the captains of the Arica and Tonkin,
who had reached the outer port, thought it more
prudent to return. The temperature in the depart-
ment of the Jura has become mach colder. An enor-
mous quantity of snow has fallen in the Upper Jura,
and the mails to Paris have not been able to pass.
At Besancon on Saturday last the thermometer
marked 11 degrees below freezing point. A hurricane
from the south-east was experienced at Nantes, fol-
lowed by a fall of snow. A let ter from Marseilles says
that a violent gale from the north-west caused much
damage in that town on Friday. The driver of an
omnibus was blown from his seat, and so seriously
injured, that it became necessary to take him to an
hospital. A chimney pot was thrown from a house
in the rue Paradis, and fell near the spot where the
merchants are accustomed to transact business out-
side the exchange ; fortunately nobody was hurt.
The state of the sea prevented the departure of any
vessel. The greater part of the Vaucluse is covert d
with snow, and in some quarters of the department
of the Basses-Alpes the snow is 12 feet deep. This
la t storm the inhabitants believe is the parting
salute of winter. There are eight feet of snow in
the village of Meolian, in the Hautes-Alpes, through
which the inhabitants have cut galleries to commu-
nicate with each other. In some places the drifted
snow is 20 feet deep.
The Three per Cents. closed to-day at 67f 70c for
the end of the month, and the Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. at 97f 35c ; Orleans Railway shares, 1,350 f ;
Great Northern, 903 E 75c ; Strasburg, 632 f 50c;
Paris to Lyons and the Mediterranean, 878 f 75c;
Western of France, 577 f 50c ; Bordeaux and Cette,
492 f 50c; Lyons and Geneva, 490 f; Bank of Credit
Mobilier, 740 f ; Austrian Railways, 495 f ; Roman
Railways, 350 f.
Ezchango on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10c.; money,
25f. 9c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 871 c. ; money, 24f. 85c.