The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-27 00:00:00

&TEST NEWS.

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company have
brought the following despatch from Marseilles
this (Saturday) morning :
"The steam-ship Euxine, with the Calcutta

and China mails, arrived at Marseilles at 5 p.m.

yesterday.

" The mails left for London at 10 p.m."

Accounts have beenreceived from Constantinople
to the 21st. At that date the Porte had officially
requested the ambassadors of the great powers to
recommend the commissioners in the Principalities
to complete their report as soon as possible."

The Russian troops have thrice attacked the
Circassians, but each time unsuccessfully. The
Russians lost 1,000 men in the three assaults.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY.

The favourable manner in which the appoint-
ment of the Due de Malakoff has been received by
the principal English journals has produced the
best effect here.
The Moniteur contains the official announcement
of the raising of the blockade of the port and
river of Cant,n on the 10th February.
It is said. that M. Lessepa has at length obtained
permission from the Sultan to pierce the Isthmus
of Suez, and that be had left Constantinople for
Egypt to complete the concession with the Viceroy.
BOURSE, March 26.—The following were the
closing quotations :-
4i per Cents 93 50,
Do. end month —
3 per Cent. .. ... 60 85
Do. end month 69 85
Bank Shares ,
Credit Mobilicr
Do. Account BO7 50

Credit Fonder
Belgian 4)
Pied m ontese (5)
Roman B9
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
NAYS.

RAIL'
Orlearn
Northern
New Ditto 7871
Lyon and Mecliteran. 840
New Ditto 7964
Geneva

Midi
Western 662.
Strasburg
Grand Central
Sardinian
Austrian

TURKEY.

We have received journals and letters from Con-
stantinople to the 17th. The financial state of
affairs appeared to promise some hops of ameliora-
toi. At a recent meeting of the mixed commis-
sion appointed to examine the project of the issue
of consolidated notes (sehims), and at which Fuad
Pacha and the Minister of Finance were present, the
question was the subject of a long and serious dis-
cussion. All the principal points of the measure
were decided on, and the details alone remained to
be arranged. Thenew notes to be issued are all to be
reimbursed in 24 years by means of. a sinking fund,
which, as well as the interest at 6 per cent., is to be
furnished from the customs revenues of Constanti-
nople. The governmenthas engaged not to make any
change in the intrinsic value of the present gold
coin, which is to be on the footing of 100 piastres,
the Turkish pound. These guarantees are of a
nature to inspire confidence, and it is thought that
god results will be obtained from the combination.
Although the measure has been decided on in prin-
ciple, the application has been postponed for three
months, either because the government wishes,
in that interval, to remove every obstacle to its
entire success, or from a hope that a loan may
be negotiated in Europe, which would enable it
to withdraw all the paper-money from circula-
tion. Baron Prokesch, the Austrian minister
at Constantinople, was about to proceed to
Vienna on leave of absence, and it was generally
thought that he would not return to his post. M.
de Thouvetiel had had a private audience of the
Sultan to deliver the reply of the Emperor Napo-
leon to the autograph letter sent on the occasion of
the attempt of the 14th January. Some days be-
fore, M. de Souza, the Spanish Envoy, de:ivered a
letter to the Sultan from his sovereign, notifying
the birth of the Prince of the AsturiA. The last
accounts which had reached Constantinople from
the Herzegovina were m•re satisfactory ; order had
not been re-established, but the irritation in the
minds of the people was softening down, notwith-
standing the off ,rts made by the Montenegrin party
to keep up the agitation.