The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-06 00:00:00

ITALY.

FLORENCE, Dec. 5.

A decree has been issued granting an amnesty to
the authors and abettors of the rocent invasion of
the Pontifical territory, and pardon for all offences

connected with it.

The Opinione asserts that a restricted conference
will assemble shortly at Paris to deliberate upon
the bases of discussion on the Roman question.
The great Powers will be represented by their
Ambassadors, accredited at Paris.

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, Dec. 5.

The House of Representatives has passed a bill
for the repeal of the tax upon cotton grown after
the present year.

At a mass meeting held here, and called by mer-
chants and bankers of New York, General Grant
was nominated national candidate for the Presi-

den cy.
Mr. Horace Greeley has refused his appointment
as United States Minister at the Court of Vienna.
6 P.M.

The Committee of Ways and Means reported
to-day a bill to suspend Secretary M'Culloch's
authority further to contract the currency.
The St. Andrew and the United Kingdom arrived
out to-day.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Closing Prices. —Gold, 137. Sterling exchange
on London, 1091. Five—Twenty United States'
Bonds, 1071; Illinois, 135 ; Erie, 71k. Cotton--
Middling Upland, 16ic.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 5.
Petroleum—standard white, 24c.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 4.

The Porte has granted a provisional concession
for a railway from Constantinople to Bussorah,
with a 5 per cent. guarantee, upon an estimated
cost of 37,000,000 sterling. The surveys and the
plans are to be completed in two years, when the
concession will become definitive.

TEe Grand Vizier is expected to return shortly

from Crete.

DEBATE IN THE FRENCH CHAMBER.
PARIS, Dec. 6.
M. Rouher made the following additional state-
ments in yesterday's sitting of the Corps Legislatif :
" Long ago Italy had received a verbal commu-
nication, to the effect:that on the day Garibaldi put
his foot on Pontifical territory France would inter-
vene. The resolution of France was taken as far
back as the 10th of last October. Both fleet and
army were in readiness. The Italian Minister was
warned. But French journals of the Opposition,
combating the idea of intervention, deceived public
opinion abroad, encouraged the agitators, and
dragged the Garibaldians on to the battle-field of
Mentana."

Stating the long forbearance of France in the
affairs of Italy, M. Itouher said that it was not the
wish of the French Government to confound the
Italian nation with an ephemeral Government. It
wished to allow time for mature reflection. It was

time to reconstitute a Liberal Conservative Ministry
decided to respect the faith of treaties. We thus
succeeded in shielding the Pope without having to
struggle with Italian troops. M. Rouher refuted
the statements of M. Thiers relative to the Italian
war of 1859. Speaking of the reverses of Austria,

he said—How could we foresee them in 1859 ? It
is a fact which we have taken into account
since by aiding Austria to rehabilitate herself by
contracting with her a sincere friendship, which
I hope will not be without its influence upon the
peace of the world.
M. Rouher said that the conquest of the Two
Sicilies, accomplished by Garibaldi and accepted by
King Victor Emmanuel, had established a heavy
joint responsibility, of which Victor Emmanuel
was, in a large measure, now bearing, he dare
scarcely say, the punishment. That conquest was
a blameable means of constituting Italian unity.
M. Rouher censured the conquest of the Marches
and the Umbria. He denied that the Emperor
Napoleon had tacitly authorised it by a sort of
laisser passer. He reminded the Chamber that the
French Government had blamed Italy, but it could
not go further.

M. Rouher justified the Convention of the 15th
September, and also the intervention. He said
that if after the invasion of Garibaldi France bad
remained indifferent she would have sunk very low
in the opinion of the world. French intervention
was also a protection to the throne of King Victor
Emmanuel. By saving Rome from invasion France
had saved Italy from anarchy. Alluding to what
he termed the conspiracies at Geneva, M. Rouher
styled them filthy, demagogic mud scraped from the
pavement of Paris. A miserable attempt had been
made at an appeal to arms, but it disgracefully fell
to the ground.

All sectarians know each other. They had three
watchwords—Rome, Paris, Florence. France has
therefore performed a work of Liberal Conserva-
tism in which all the established Powers of Europe
are interested.

Speaking of the proposed conference M. Rouher
said :—" 'We have declared to all the Powers that
we do not wish to draw up a programme ; we shall
present ourselves at the Conference with our past
and our present ; the Pope has accepted our inter-
vention without reserve."

Replying to the dilemma that the Popo had need
of Rome, and that Italy could not do without it,
M. Rouher said, " We declare that Italy shall not
seize upon Rome. (Prolonged applause.) France
will exact from Italy a vigorous and energetic exe-
cution of the Convention of the 15th September,
otherwise she will provide for it herself. Is this
clear ?" (Renewed applause.)

M. Rouher reminded the Chamber that the French
Government had always held the same language.
" We wish (he added), at the same time, that we
firmly and energetically respect the Convention of
the 15th September, also to respect and strengthen
Italian unity. We wish the co-existence of Italy with
the Papacy. We do not wish that the work accom-
plished by our victories should be destroyed by the
second part of our reign. The French people do
not desire either to overthrow the Pope or the de-
struction of Italian unity. Let us endeavour to
convince Italy that the idea of Rome for a capital
is a sterile idea, a fictitious want, the satisfaction
of which would be a fatal acquisition to Italy.
What Italy especially wants is to constitute herself ;
she must not be alarmed because an old man
addresses prayers to God under the dome of St.
Peter, for with his extended hands that old man
appeases the anxious consciences of Catholics."

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Dec. 5, Two o'clock.—No great ac-

tivity in the market, and quotations generally ex-
hibit weakness. Three per Cents. are at 69f. 15e.,
a decline of 35c. Italian Fives are active at 46f.,
losing 30c. Credit Mobilier 160 f., losing Bfr. 75c.
Spanish Mobilier 200 f., less by Of. 25c. Comptoir
d'Escompte recedes Of. at 610 f. Credit Fonder

1,362 f. 50c., a lods of 7f. 50c. Paris Gas shares
are weak at 1,445 f. French Railways show weak-
ness ; but foreign are better held. English Con-
sols are telegraphed with a rise of at 93i.
Three o'clock.---The market closed as follows:--

41 per Cent.
End of month._ Italian Loan
3 per Cent
End of mouth 69 15 Mexican Loan ... 11
Credit Mobilier
End of month... 160 Spanish Threes
Credit Foncior _1360 Home Debt 36
End of m0nth...1360 Deferred —

RAILWAYS.

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean ..
50uthern.........
Western
Eastern
Sardinian •
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa ....
Roman..

Account
870
11781
881
5)7j.
533}
46
515
3511
67
102
531

EXTRAORDINARY SPEECH BY THE
FOREIGN 111INIS7ER OF FRANCE.

PARIS, Dec. 5.
Towards the close of the sitting in the French
Legislative Chamber yesterday, M. de Moustier,
after narrating the events which ensued after the
arrest of Garibaldi, said :
" The Italian Minister then made a verbal com-
munication to me of the gravest importance. He
brought forward the idea of a European Conference
for the solution of the Roman question, and pro-
posed meantime a joint occupation of Rome by
French and Italian troops. We took note of the
first proposal, and rejected the second. If I may
be allowed coarsely to express my thoughts, I shall
say we were invited not only to take the part of a
dupe, but also that of a traitor. We, therefore,
indignantly declined the complicity proposed to us
with a sort of bonhoninzie which made it doubly in-
sulting. From that moment the expedition to
Rome was decided upon."

PARIS, Dec. 5 (Evening).
In the Legislative Body to-day the bureaux re-
jected the interpellations respecting the octroi taxes
at Paris and the election of the municipal authori-
ties at Lyons. The debate upon the Roman ques-
tion was then resumed. M. Jerome David approved
the second expedition to Rowe, which was justified
by Italy's aggresive attitude against the Papacy
and her ingratitude towards France. Italy had
selected the moment to break the convention of
the 15th September when she fancied France was
on bad terms with Prussia, and not prepared for
war. France ought to remain at Rome until there
was a complete change in the attitude and acts of
the Italian Government. This did not imply that
France should be responsible for the Pontifical
Government, nor for its theological declarations,
which were of interest only to the spiritual order.
M. Jerome David also spoke in favour of submit-
ting to the Government a motion demanding that
the French troops should be maintained at Rome.
M. Rouher explained and justified the French in-
tervention at Rone from a moral, religious, and
social point of view. He showed what religion
Garibaldi wished to substitute for that of the Ca-
tholic Church. The ccnduct of Italy, he said, had
been sincere up to the 28th August. Then she be-
came obliging, subordinate, and an accomplice.
France went to Rome to stop a revolution which
had three stages—one at Rome, one at Florence,
one at Paris. M. Rouher declared that French
troops would remain at Rome as long as the safety
of the Pope rendered their presence necessary. He
added--" Safety does not mean alone material tran-
quillity. We must have good guarantees from
Italy. Italy shall never possess herself of Rome.
(Loud applause.) At the same time the French
Government is desirous to strengthen Italian unity;
those two things must co-exist." M. Rouher re-
fused to entertain the interpellation of the Left.
The interpellation of M. Chesnelong deserved the
explanations which had been given. In conclusion,
he said—" Does a community of ideas exist between
us and the Chamber? (Expressions of assent.)
Then let the Chamber give to the Government a
vote of confidence, and, above all things, let there
not be a split in the majority." (Applause.)
The sitting was then adjourned.

On the re-assembling of the Legislative Body M.
Rouher again ascended the tribune, and explained
that when he said the French troops would remain
at Rome as long as the safety of the Papacy re-
quired their presence, he meant by the word Rome
the integrity of the present Pontifical territory.
(Applause.) M. Jules Favre admitted that the
Government this time had made a clear declaration,
but to endeavour to maintain at the same time the
temporal power of the Papacy and to strengthen
Italian unity was still chimerical ; the occupation
would be for an indefinite period. M. Chesneloug
announced that, considering the declarations made
by the Government, the movers of the second de-
mand of interpellations withdrew their motion. M.
Berryer regretted that determination, and desired
the Chamber to register M. Rouher's declaration by
referring the iuterpellation to the Government. M.
Rouher observed that the means to prove an agree-
ment between the Chamber and the Government
would be to vote the order of the day upon the in-
terpellation of M. Jules Favre. The discussion was
then declared to be closed, and the order of the day,
par et simple, upon M. Jules Favre's interpellation
was voted by 237 votes against 17. The discussion
of the interpellation in reference to the German
question has been fixed for Monday next.

.111ARKETS—(This Day.)

MARK LANE.

To-day's market was partially supplied with English
wheat in but middling condition. The attendance of
buyers was limited, and the demand for both red and white
qualities ruled heavy at barely Monday's currency.
The fresh imports of foreign wheat were large—viz.,
35,010 quarters. The show of samples was only moderate,
and sales progressed slowly at late rates.
Floating oargoes of grain off coast were very inactive.
Fine barley was scarce, and commanded full prices, but
inferior kinds were very dull, on former terms.
In malt, very little was doing. Prices, however, were
unaltered.

There was a good business doing in oats, at extensive
quotations.

Beans, peas, and flour wore inactive, on former terms.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.

Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch 650 280 1,310 60 1,190
Irish
Foreign 35,010 7,010 14,070 90 sks
Maize, 1,520 qrs. 24,100 brls