The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-02 00:00:00

Cagliari.

FRANCE.
PARIS, THURSDAY.

The Ztfoniteur contains the following :
" British subjects residing in France, in places
where there are no British consuls, can obtain,
as heretofore, from the local authorities, passports
for travelling i❑ the interior of the French domi-
nions. The same authorities are empowered, in
case of urgent necessity, to give passports to
return to England. The British Ambassador at
Paris will also forward passports on demand to
all parts of France, provided the application is
accompanied by a certificate from the nearest
mayor or other authority that the applicant is
known to him as a'Btitish subject.
M. earlier, formerly Prefect of Police, is dead.
A Council of Ministers, the Emperor presiding,
was held yesterday at the Tuileries.
The refusal of England to encourage the pro-
jected canal of Suez, and the armed cccupation
of the island of Perim, aro thus commented on
by the Presse and by the Patrie. Tie first-named
journal says :--
"Let England examine her position in the
world. She has offended France, her best and
most sincere ally. She cannot be ignorant of
the inveterate hatred towards her which ani-
mates Russia. Democracy, which she had
flattered and unchoined at her will, has
learnt the value of her professions. The
insurrection in India swallows her soldiers
and her money. The United States awaits the
moment for replacing her maritime supremacy.
Prussia alone experiences certain religious and
bolienel sympathies for her. Witla respect too Aus-
tria,' fiberal EuglAud is p,rfoutly aware of the
value of the friendship of the most reactionary
and backward power of the continent. Is it a
sensible policy to stand alone and to defend a bad
cause against the entire world? England would
act unwisely in despising the universal hostility
inspired by her egotistical and haughty policy. No
nation seeks to humble her, nor to weaken the
practice of those noble qualities which have created
her political and commercial greatness ; but she
will not be permitted to treat the world like a
conquered province, nor t.) sacrifice the universal
interests of humanity to her narrow-minded pre-
judices, nor to render the commerce of the world
tributary to the artillery which she is now plant-
ing on an island seized in time of peace from au
allied power."
The 1 ateie thus expresses itself :
" Our dignity, not less than the dignity of
other nations, is at stake ; it is time that the habit
of England to indulge in her traditional encroach-
ments should be broken by Europe. It is certain
that the question of Perim cannot long remain
undecided, and must either become the object of
diplomatic negotiations or be discussed in ttie ap-
proaching Congress of Paris. If the European
nations do not wish to place the navigation of the
Red Sea in the hands of England ; if iza their eyes
the integrity of the Ottoman Empire is not a fic-
tion, they must without delay place the question
of the occupation of Perim by the English among
the highest political considerations.

BOURSE, April 1. The following were the
closing quotations :

.q per Cents 93 90
Do. end month —
3 per Cent. .....
D. end month 69 70
litnk Shires .....
Credit Mobilier -
Do. Account

RAIL'
Orleans
Northern
New Ditto 7B2i'
Lyon and Mediteran. 826.}
New Ditto 79i
Geneva

Credit Fonder
Belgian 4,1
Piedinontese (5)
Roman ......... ......... 89
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt

Midi
Western
Strasburg
Grand Central . .
Sardinian
Au3trian

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the 28th ult. have ar-
rived. The following are some additional enact-
ments of the new bid on the press :—No printing-
office shall be established without permission of
the authorities, and the person responsible for all
publications shall be, first, the author ; next, in the
event of that person not being known, the publisher;
and thirdly, in default of the publisher, the printer.
No printed paper or periodical is to be put in cir-
culation until after a copy shall have been com-
municated to the authorities. The authorities
can seize any publication attacking directly or
indirectly religion or the Sovereign, but the
author may appeal to the Council of Ministers,
whose decision is to be final. Etch journal must
have a responsible editor. Offences are to be
punished with fines varying from 4,000 to 60,000
reals, and the fines are to go to charitable establish-
ments. Special tribunals, composed of judges of
the Civil Tribunals, are to try offences. A journal
wh;ch has been three times condemned can be sm.
pended by the government for from fifteen to ninety
days. The opening of public subscriptions for the
payment of fines imposed on journals is inter-
dicted. In a rrp :rt p:caad to Cie 1),11, and
addressed to the Cortes, the Minister of the In-
terior protests that the sole object of the bill
is, on the one hand, to give the press every rea-
sonable liberty, and, on the other, to prevent it
from falling into dangerous excesses. The proceed-
ings in the Congress were not of importance, and
the journals contain no news, except that some
agitation is perceptible amongst the Carlists of
Maestrazgo.

ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.—The number of public acts
passed in the present icszion, which commenced on the
3d Dec., is only nine,