The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-19 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company have received the following telegraphic
despatch from Marseilles this morning :
" The steam-ship Valetta, with the Bombay
mails, arrived at Marseilles at 10 last night.
" The mails leave for London at 10.30."

FRANCE.
PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.
For the last three days it has been reported that
M. de Persiany, the French Ambassador at the
Court of St.'James's, had sent in his resignation,
owing to differences with M. Walewski. Such is
the fact ; but it is said the Emperor, up to a late
hour to-clay, has not accepted his ambassador's
resignation. His Majesty is still contemplating
l Ministerial and diplomatic.
itan Government has communicated
many
The changes,Neapo
with the Cabinet of Vienna on the Cagliari question,
as the Derby Cabinet is known to take different
views on that question from those entertained by
Palmerston, and which were suggested by the
Austrian Ambassador in London.

TlCi;;iaTeTi that M. Pietri just before quitting Ms
post strongly recommended that 40 or 50 persons
who were in arrest should not be sent out of the
country, but that his recommendation was not at-
tended to. _

-I,;ti; first title since the attempt of the 14th
of January the Emperor and Empress visited the
French Opera, in the Rue Lepelletier, last night.
The crowds were about the same as usual, but the
precautions taken were of a stricter character. For
instance, about half an hour before his Majesty ar-
rived the street was completely cleared ; no group
of persons was allowed to remain opposite the
entrance ; and no persons allowed to stand at the
corner of the Rue Rossini. The head of the Rue
Lepelletier was also cleared, and the crowd com-
pelled to fall back about twenty paces of the
Boulevards from the edge of the pathway. A
chain of sentinels was stationed on both sides,
en echelon, on the pathway, and the middle of
the street was patrolled now and then to keep it
clear, while a picket was stationed from the corner
of the street to the Rue de la Paix. The front of
the theatre and the corners of the streets were, as
usual, illuminated with gas. The Emperor and
Empress arrived about half-past 8. The carriage
was preceded by five or six Lancers, with an escort
of about 26 or 30 : not more than the ordinary
number followed. The Emperor did not leave the
Opera till past 12. The same precautions were
employed on his departure as on his arrival. The
crowd mustered as usual on both sides of the Bou-
levard.

werth have been
A letter from Cherbourg, dated yesterday, states
that the trials made with the ship of the line Dona-
the Tourville is to be transferred to the Donawerth,
perfectly successful. The crew of
which will hoist the flag of Rear-Admiral Lavaud.
At Brest the ships of the line 1:31m and Austerlitz
made sail on Tuesday, and performed several evo-
lutions in the roads. The fitting out for sea of the
corvette La Serieuse was finished on Monday.
Accounts from Toulon state that the three Rus-
sian corvettes of war which have been for some
time in that port sailed on the 11th inst.
The Toulon fleet will sail on a cruise towards the
end of the month, and about the end of April it
will be joined by the fleet under the command of
Rear-Admiral Lavaud.
The Moniteur contains the following :—" Some
foreign journals appear to feel astonishment that
France should have applied to the continental
Powers near her territory to remove all dangerous
refugees to a distance from her frontiers. France,
in so doing, has only made use of a right of intar
national reciprocity. No one was astonished last
year when Switzerland requested the French Go-
vernment to assign a fixed residence in the interior
to the refugees who wished to effect a royalist
restoration at Neuchatel. Neither did any
one feel surprise that Spain should have re-
quested a similar measure to be adopted
towards the Carlist refugees, and that the Cortes
should have thanked the Emperor for having, by
that measure, prevented civil war. The conduct of
France has therefore been founded on an absolute
principle of international right, which has existed
from time immemorial."

We find the following also in the Moniteur :
" The Times, in its number of the 15th, states
that the French police penetrate even to the
domestic hearth and produce uneasiness and
mistrust in the relations of private life. It
regrets the time when admiration could not be
refused at the noble confidence of the Emperor
in driving his phaeton, but who never quits
the palace at present, except surrounded by
squadrons. It is only necessary to point out
such allegations for them to be received with the
contempt which they merit. Never were the
French police less inquisitorial than at present, and
if they have redoubled their zeal since the event of
the 14th January it is only those persons who
regret the failure of the attempt that can complain.
As to the remark relative to the Emperor person-
way his usual habits, and that he
ally, every one knows that his Majesty has not
chanted
out, every day, without escort.
There is reason for surprise that the Times, which
continues
o
has such means for being correctly informed, should
entertain the English public with statements so
ridiculously false."
The improvement which had manifested itself in
the health of Prince Jerome continues, and there is
every reason to hope that his Imperial Highness
will soon be able to leave his room.
General Damas has been appointed first aide-de-
camp to Prince Jerome.
BOURSE, March 18.—The following were the
closing quotations :
4.i per Cents 93 40
Do. end month
69 40
3 per Cent. .....
Do. end month 69 40
Credit Mobilier
Do. Account
Bank Shares .

11 Credit Fonder
Belgian 4.;
Piedmontese (5)
Roman BB
Austrian
I Sp oes anish Thr
Home Debt 37i
SWAYS.

RAIL'
Orleans .................. 1365
Northern ............ 9574
New Ditto ............... 795
Lyon and Mediteran. 825
New Ditto ............ 795
Geneva .................. 6751

Midi
Western 660
Strasburg
Grand Central
Sardinian
Austrian

TURKEY.

Intelligence from Constantinople has been re-
ceived to the 10th. The troops for Albania, 4,000
in number, whom the stormy weather had forced
to return to Constantinople, took their departure
again on the 9th. The governor of Jerusalem had
brought to trial the murderers of the two Euro-
peans at Jaffa ; the result was not known. From
Greece advices state that Prince Adalbert returned
on the 11th from Constantinople to Nauplia, where
he was received by the King and Queen of Greece.
The sword which the Sultan presented to his Royal
Highness is said be worth 75,000 f.”
The attention of the Porte was mainly directed
at that date to the affairs of Bosnia and the Herze-
gowins. No important intelligence had been re-
ceived from those insurgent province 4, but the
energetic attitude of the Turkish Government
proved that it had at length determined on re-
establishing its authority in a vigorous manner.
Rumours were again current of a loan proposed by
cartlin English capitalists, but the terms had not
transpired. The financial state of the country is
described as deplorable, and a ministerial meeting
held at the Grand Vizier's on the 4th, in which the
uestion of ways and means was discussed, termi-
nated without any satisfactory result,

BELGIUM.
In the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium
y,'sterday, M. Rodenbach and M. Vandenpeere-
boom drew attention to the fact that the revenue of
the post-office has for some time past, exceeded
the expenses by 2,000,000 fr., and they insisted
that the government ought consequently to fulfil
an engagement entered into in 1849 to r. duce
the postage, whenever that surplus was attained,
to a uniform rate of 10c.; they also maintained
that a reduction to that rate would cause such an
augmentation in the number of letters that it
would be profitable to the treasury. The Minister
of Public Works said that the government was
favourable to the re luction, but thought that
the moment was not opportune for effecting it ;
that, besides, various diminutions not taken into
account by the honourable representatives had to
be made from the 2,000,000 f., and that, though
exceedingly well arranged, the existing system was
being subjected to improvements which ware
causing expense.
discussing of the
would bring forward the question whether the
ways and means, he
Ablo.dOgertts
of
fnilounced that, in tt.e
general situation of the finances would not allow
the reduction of the postage to be effected without
inconvenience, The Minister of Finance con-