The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-31 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLICI'ENCE

AUSTRALIA.

By British and Submarine Telegraph.)

MALTA, AUG. 30, 11 A.M.

The following has arrived per Ripon, in advance
of the Teviot, just signalled, with the Australian
mails :

The Pera left this morning for Alexandria. The
Australian homeward mails leave to-day, with iutel-

ligence from Sydney to the 10th of July, from
Melbourne to the 15th, and from Ceylon to the 7th
of August. The May mail by the Victoria had not
arrived.

The Victoria Parliament stood adjourned to the
10th of August, and will meet early in October.
The import trade is dull, but not unhealthy.
The exports in the six months exceeded the im-
ports by £385,000.
The wool market was unchanged. Tallow in
moderate demand. Exchange banks buy at 1 per
cent. discount, and sell at par. In October railway
debentures will begin to be transmitted, not exceed-
ing £150,000 per month.
The departures of gold ships for England were—
June 24, the Sultana, for Liverpool, with 40,500
ounces; July 3, the Supply, for London, with
79,992 ounces ; the 13th, the Ocean Chief, for Liver-
pool, 47,594 ounces.

FRANCE.
PARIS, MONDAY, 6 P.M.
A steamer now waits at Dover to convey Lord
Stratford de Redcliffe to the coast of France. His
Excellency will pass through Paris on his way to
Constantinople, probably about Sunday next. A
great number of absurd reports are in circulation
about his lordship's visit to the old scenes of his
diplomatic triumphs, and a political character has
been given to his return. The fact is, Lord Strat-
ford de Redcliffe goes again to Constantinople simply
to take leave of the Sultan. He will not remain
long, as he proposes to spend the winter in Rome. It
may be observed that M. Thouvenal, the French
Ambassador, has been instrumental, in conjunction
with Sir H. Bulwer, in directing the Sultan's serious
attention to the unsatisfactory political and financial
state of the Turkish Empire. His Highness
thoroughly appreciates the motives of the Ambassa-
dors of England and France, both of whom are on the
best terms with the Sovereign to whose court they
are accredited.
A steamer waits at Dover, also, at the disposition
of the Grand Duchess of Mecklenbourg-Strelitz,
who is about to leave England.
Lord and Lady Palmerston are passing the day
with the Earl and Countess Cowley at Chantilly. I
am sorry to be obliged to record such dry facts at a
moment when some journals are making out Lord
Palmerston an arch-conspirator, who, in a gloomy
cave near Paris, is supposed to be plotting a mysteri-
ous political tragedy, accompanied by blue lights,
which is to turn out the Derby Ministry and revolu-
tionise Europe ! La Presse, with a childish simpli-
city, informs the world how Lord Palmerston has had
several interviews with M. Walewski and M. de Per-
signy, in order to replace the Derby Ministry by a
Whig Cabinet. This supposition unfortunately
upsets another little bit of political news which the
Presse promulgated, when that journal printed
from some obscure London newspaper a paragraph

telling us Lord Palmerston was about to retire from
public life. Your contemporary is therefore now
obliged to add :—" Le bruit generalement accredits,
it y a quelques jours, de la retraite de cet homme
d'Etat semble done, sinon denue de toute espece de
fondement, du moins fort anticipe." It would surely
be in the interests of the Presse to pause and con-
sider from which source it ought to take its English
information. Experience might have taught the
editor of the Bulletin du Jour where to look for
correct information. It only remains to add that the
asserted interviews between M. Walewski, Count
Persigny, and Lord Palmerston could not have been
very frequent, since his lordship has never been
further from Paris than St. Cloud ; whilst Count
Walewski is at Vichy and M. de Persigny at his
country seat.
A letter from Jassy of the 18th, in the Vienna
Gazette says :—" Our Ministry is now complete. It
is composed as follows :—Minister of the Interior,
the Grand Logothete, Alexander de Balsch ; Fi-
nance, Parajoti deßalach; Justice, George Beldimann;
Hetman of the Militia, George Ghika ; Public
Works, Alexander Ghika ; Public Instruction,
Prince Demetrius de Cantacuzene ; Secretary of
State, Jean Cantacuzene ; Prefect of Police, Saoull
Mono." I presume this is the Ministry under
whom the elections will take place.
In Paris the new Turkish Cabinet is considered a
guarantee for reforms so long demanded. I hear on
good authority that the new advisers of the Sultan
will call in aid some English, French, or German
financiers, to assist in regulating the affairs of the

Treasury.
The International Telegraphic Commission assail
bled at Berne has concluded its labours. The gene
ral tendency of the modifications adopted is to ap
proach as nearly as possible to the Austro-German
convention of Stuttgardt ; and, with that view, seve-
ral articles of the French project have been replaced
by the corresponding articles of a mixed convention
signed at Brussels between Brance, Belgium, and
Prussia, but which has not yet been ratified. The fol-
lowing basis has been adopted for the tariff :—For
despatches not exceeding 20 words to distances not
exceeding 100 kilometres (iths of a mile), lf. 50c. ;
for every additional ten words or fraction of that
number, 75c. to distances not exceeding 10 kil.; and
for every additional 50 kil. the same sum of 75c. is
added. Thus, for example, a despatch not exceeding
30 words to a distance of 700 kil. will cost 9f., and
not exceeding 40 words 12f.
The following are the opinions of four of the
Parisian journals on Count de Persigny's speech :
The Siecle says —" M. de Persigny occupies a special
position in the Government. His faith in Napoleonian
ideas, and his devotedness to the person of the Emperor,
give to the words of the president of the council-
general of the Loire an importance and a significa-
tion which the language of other presidents cannot
have. We think it well that men who are in-
vested with the confidence of the G vernment, in
the sole elective bodies in which the wishes of the
country can be manifested, should express their
tendencies and desires, and the opinions which they suppose
to he those of their constituents. . We believe that M.
de Persigny is ill inspired, and that, notwithstanding his de-
votedness to the Imperial dynasty, lie is mistaken when he
indefinitely adjourns the liberal reforms which have been so
long expected and announces. He has just occupied with
distinction an eminent post in a free country, and he must
have understood the necessity of liberty amongst our
neighbours. Mow can he admit that France is not anxious
for the conquests of liberty—conquests for which she
has shed her blood ? For our part, we believe
firmly, that, abstraction made of persons, there is in all
France a true, sincere attachment to moderate liberty and
to free institutions. As to the English alliance, we see
with pleasure that the ex-Ambassador rf France at London
appreciates at its just vabie the union of the two nation..
The old hatreds which the Royalists and Jesuits endeavour
to revive, appear to us, as they do to him, nearly effaced.
The two nations have a just sentiment of their farce, and of
stehleviresacatsioionviinooTlreo,
European
longafi.al a irss ; they justly consider them-
their flags shall be united.
We have, therefore, only to express approbation of that
part of the speech of M. de Persigny which is relative to the
English alliance."
The following is from the Presse :
" We regret that M. de Persigny, who passes for a man
professing liberal opinions, should have expressed unre-
served approbation of the laws which now govern the press,
the regulation of which, visibly provisional, appears, even
to many of the friends of the Imperial regime, to be in con-
tradiction with the definitive character which NI. de Per-
aim attributes to the present political establishment."
The Gazette de France remarks :
" This speech is net distinguished by any salient point
from the usual run of official speeches. There is, however,
one passage relative to Eneland which acquires some im-
portance from the high diplomatic position which M. de Per-
signy cccupied at the Court of St. James's. The English
address
pssolicoyf ofl‘ LEudreo
journals have hailed this passage with enthusiasm, as it ap-
peared__re to them to hold out a hope of peace, so that the
pPe.ersiTainley
phoabslicaaltmiooost
of
fentteh
docu-
ment by the Moniteur
after so many days' delay
adds to its importan-ce
did not before possess,
oranerthr gives it what it
circumstance has
induced us to copy it, 'jus--t,. as it wast delivered, entered into
or curtailment. It is not for us,eivaserewd4iwbietlwioeultl anyun-
derstood, either to express approbation or disapprobation of
it. Every one knows our opinion of the English alliance,