The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-27 00:00:00

amount.

At Bombay the money market was rather
tigher, and the banks had raised their rates of
discount 1 per cent. ; Government and other secu-
rities were lower than before. Freights continued
high. The import market was steady. A good
harvest was reported from almost all parts of the
interior. Exchange on London, 2s. 2d. to

2s. 2.41.
At Calcutta the import market had improved.
Money was plentiful. Freights to Europe firm.
Exchange on London, 2s. I.ld.
At Madras there was no change in the prices of

imports. Money was very abundant. Exchange
on London, 2s. Id.
Exchange at Canton, 43. 81d.; Shanghai, 7s. 6d.
to 7s. Bd. English and American firms were
withholding duties on exports from Foochow Foo,
until satisfaction should be given for the murder
of Mr. Cunningham.

BERLIN, Nov. 25.

The Prussian Correspondence states that public
opinion in Europe is in favour of the rights of
Prussia on Neuchatel, and concludes by calling to
mind the great military power of Prussia.

VIENNA, Nov. 2G.

The Turkish Ministerial crisis is over.

Redschid Pasha, is Grand Vizier ; Ethem
Pasha, Foreign Affairs ; Aali Pasha and Fuad
Pasha are Ministers without portfolios.

The Vienna correspondent of the Times (second
edition), dated Nov. 24, says :
" Within the last four-and-tweaty hours oppor-
tunities have presented themselves for learning
the opinions of several well-informed persons on
more than one matter of importance, and
their observations, combined with information
acquired at other reliable sources, will enable me
to give your readers some insight into the actual
state of affairs. The policy of France is still
unsatisfactory, for instead of positively declaring 11
that Russia must fulfil to the letter the engage-
ments which she entered into on the 30th March,
she is endeavouriug to mediate between the St.
Petersburg Cabinet and England and Austria. The
London and Vienna Cabinets, however, still insist
on the cession of Bolgrad to Moldavia, as they
agree with the Porte in thinking that the freedom
of the Danube will be but imaginary if that town
remains in the possession of Russia. Austria was
an unfitting mediator between Naples and the
Western Powers, because she is on principle op-
posed to any intervention in the internal affairs
of independent States, and France cannot act as
arbiter between Russia on the one side and Eng-
land, Austria, and Turkey on the other, " be-
cause she has made promises to Russia which
she cannot possibly keep without violating her
engagements to England and Austria." In the
sentence quoted you have the opinion which pre-
vails in Austrian official circles, and the general
impression here is, that the Emperor Napoleon, i
he values his reputation for consistency and goes'.
faith, will be necessitated to make a change in his
Cabinet. As long as M. Drouyn de Lhuys was
Minister for Foreign Affairs all went well, but his
successor has managed matters so clumsily that he
deprived his Imperial master of the confidence
of Austria, disturbed the friendly relations be-
tween England and France, and greatly diminished
the influence of Fiance in the Turkish capital.
The partisans of Napoleon aver that he will be a
gainer by the change, if he can secure the friend-
ship of Russia and Prussia, instead of that of
England and Austria ; but dispassionate lookers-on
are not of the same opinion. In the estimation of
the St. Petersburg Cabinet the Emperor Napoleon
is a political adventurer who may be of service to
Russia, but neither the Court nor its official ad-
visers feel any sympathy for him. In the opinion
of the Imperial family the Count de Chambord
fa the legitimate heir to the French Throne,
and Louis Napoleon is probably still spoken of as
"se Monsieur,' and " Monsieur Bonaparte," as
was the case three years ago. We still hear from
Paris and Berlin that the rapprochment between
the French and Prussian Governments is increas-
ing from day to day, but a closer alliance between
France and Prussia would be so unnatural that
it could not be of duration. It is rumoured
that the Emperor Napoleon has promised not
to interfere should a Prussian corps d'arinie
march against Neuchatel, but the report cannot be
correct, for the news of the movement of Prussian
troops towards the Gallo-Swiss frontier would not
fail to raise a storm in France whichitwonld
to very difficult to lay. Enlightened German
politicians consider his Majesty King William
IV. of Prussia "a European misfortune," and
heartily wish that he had less imagination and
feeling, and more judgment and firmness of charac-
ter. The Prince of Prussia is known to be even
more anti-Austrian than his royal brother, but
those persons who know him more intimately
assert that, if he were on the throne, the policy
of the Berlin Government would be very different
from what it now is. It is self-evident that the
natural allies of Prussia are England and Austria,
but the King seems to fancy that an alliance with
France and Russia would be more conducive to
the welfare of his country and people."

NEUCHATEL.
The Inclependance of Brussels, after mentioning
the announcement that the Swiss Federal Council
had unanimously refused to release the royalist
prisoners at Neuchatml, says :—" We are among
the number of those who would have preferred to
have seen rather more condescension on the part
of the Federal authorities. Nevertheless, it is but
fair to admit that, in presence of the attitude as-
sumed by Prussia, it was difficult for the Federal
Council to have come to any other decision. Had
it yielded to the kind of intimidation which it
was perhaps wrong to attempt towards it, it
Would not probably have obtained the appro
bation of the people of the Confederation, jealous
as they are of their independence. The even-
tuaity of coercive measures azd the' oorialon

actiron of several German States, far from inducing
Switzerland to yield, must, on the contrary, have
impelled her to resistance. -.Lc must not moreover
be forgotten that Prussia demanded the release of
the prisoners as a right • and that while saying
that she was well disposed to come to an arrange-
ment as regards the groundwork of the question,
she did not at all make known, even by allusion,
the length ahe would go in the path of conciliation,
when she should have obtained this first conces-
sion. To grant an amnesty, not from motives of
political clemency, but by admitting the innocence
of the prisoners, the Federal Council could not do,
For that course would have been to furnish its ad-
versaries with an argument against Switzerland in
the negotiations which are to definitively regulate
the destinies of Neuchatel. The Federal Council
has besides declared that it was ready to open ne-
gotiations and to renew relations of friendship and
good neighbourhood with Prussia. It remains now
to be seen how this latter Power will reply to these
overtures."

Petitions are now being circulated in the Neu-
chatel army which are covered with signatures.
The petitioners beg the members of the Federal
Council to allow them to be the first to march, in
the event of the independence of Switzerland being
attacked. They take a solemn oath to shed the
last drop of their blood rather than suffer any fo-
reign domination whatever, and their request ter
ininates with the cry of " A l'avant garde ! Vive
la Confederation !"