The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-16 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

FRANCE. •
PARIS, THURSDAY.
The Emperor left Paris yesterday afternoon for
his estate of Mothe-Beuvron, in the S,logne, and
arrived there at five o'clock, having been every-
where received along his journey with the loudest
acclamations. his Majesty is accompanied by M.
Fould, Minister of State ; General Baron de Be-
ville, aide de-camp • Colonel the Marquis de Tou-
longeon, orderly officer; and M. Vicaire, director-
general of the Domains and Forests of the Crown.
The Moniteur publishes a return of the re-
venue for the first quarter of 1858, as com-
pared with the corresponding period of 1857,
and which shows an increase in favour of the for-
mer period of 4,713,000 fr. As compared with the
corresponding quarter of 1856, the augmentation
amounts to 18,915,000 fr. The items of revenue
which show an improvement during the first three
months of the present year, as compared with those
of 1857, are registration dues, 1,321,000 fr. ; cus-
toms duties on French colonial sugar, 1,022,000 fr.;
export duties, 288,000 fr. ; duty on potable liquors,
2,348,000 fr. ; beetroot sugar, 4,676,000 fr. ; sale
of tobacco, ,215,000 fr. ; Post-office, 65,000 fr.
The heads which show a falling off are : Cus-
toms, 3,616,000 fr. ; sundry duties and receipts,
674,0001 r.; stamp duty, 579,000 fr.; corn, 351,000
fr.; foreign sugar, 454,0001 r.; sundry customs
duties, 131,0001 r.; duty on salt, 71,000 fr; gun-
powder, 301,000 fr. If the suppression of the second
decime on the registration dues, which ceased to be
received in 1858, were taken into account, the in-
crease on the first quarter of the present year as
compared with 1857 would be 9,687,000 fr.; and
with 1856, 23,685,000 fr.
The London journals have committed an error
in announcing the arrival of Lord Cowley in the
English capital. His lordship has not left Paris,
but intends, we understand, proceeding to England
on Monday or Tuesday next, with the intention of
making a very short stay there.
The following telegraphic despatch has been re-
ceived here :

"Christiana, April 14.—A fire last night de.
stroyed three-quarters of the town. The Bank
was burned down, but all the papers were saved.
The damage is estimated at nine or ten million
francs.

BOURSE, April 15.—The following were the
closing quotations :

4A per Cents 93 20
Do. end month —
3 per Cent. .....
Do. end month 69 45
Bank Shares ...."
Credit Mobilier 730
Do. Account 726 25

Credit Foncier
Belgian 4z
Piedmontese (5) 9O
Roman
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
--Fon CAM.

RAILWAY S.•
Orleans
Northern
. .

Midi
Westerns 622k
Strasburg
Grand Central
Sardinian
Austrian

New Ditto 775

Lyon and Mediteran. 810
New Ditto 7BO

Geneva

PRUSSIA.

In the Second Chamber of Prussia on the 12th,
on the vote of the budget of the police of Berlin,
M. de Patow, ex-Minister of Public Works, stated
that seat dissatisfaction existed in Berlin, in con-
sequence of the police department of the city having
openly taken under its protection a certain adver-
tising sheet in preference to a rival journal, and
had not only made constables collect advertisements
for it, but had threatened several keepers of
coffee and public-houses with the withdrawal of
their licences if they did not advertise in it.
He said that the sheet thus patronised by the
police was a new one, and that their reason for
encouraging it was that its proprietor had under-
taken to pay the administration 10,000 thals. an-
nually, and even 12,000 or 15,000 thaLs., according
to its circulation ; whereas the rival sheet had only
given 1,000 thalers to the police and its owner was
besides a noted and very active member of the con-
servative party. He concluded by denouncing the
police for such interference. The Government
commissioner replied that there was exagger-
ation in M. de Patow's complaint. An animated
debate ensued on the matter, and eventually
the Chamber adopted an order of the day, in
which it declared that " the affair of the adver-
tising journal ought to be regulated in a different
manner."

A. committee of the Chamber of Nobles of Prussia
has recommended the adoption of the proposition
of M. d'l zenplitz, that the Government should be
requested to use its influence in the Diet to obtain
the suppression of gambling-houses in Germany.