The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-21 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1858.

LATEST NEWS.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY.

The Emperor yesterday gave a private audience
to M. Corvaia, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary of the Republic of the Equador,
and M. Alberdi, appointed in the same quality by
the Argentine Confederation, who presented to his
Majesty their credentials. M. Marcoleta, the
Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Nica-
ragua, who, in the absence of the Emperor, had
delivered his letters of credence to the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, also had a private audience. The
Emperor afterwards received General Almonte,
the Mexican Minister.
A journal says that Prince Jerome is again suffer-
ing from slight indisposition. The statement is
quite unfounded.

The Grand Duke Constantine arrived in Paris
this afternoon at half-past one o'clock. His Impe-
rial Highness was received at the railway station
by the Russian Ambassador ; H.I.H. and suite was
immediately conducted to the Palace of the
Tuileries. At four o'clock he paid a visit to the
Hotel of the Embassy.
To-morrow at 12 o'clock the Court of Appeal of
the Correctional Police will hear M. de Montalem-
bert's appeal against the sentence which the Em-
peror had by the note in the .Zloniteur sought
entirely to efface.
• The Toulonnais gives some account of the arrival
of the Grand Duke Constantine at Toulon :—" The
Russian squadron on its arrival was received with
a salute from all the vessels in the roadstead. Early
in the afternoon the Grand Duke landed at the
arsenal under a second salute from all the vessels,
and proceeded in an open carriage to the Prefec-
ture. In the evening, there was a grand dinner
given to his Imperial Highness on board the admi-
ral's ship the Bretagne, at which all the prineipal
civil and military authorities were present.
salute of 24 guns was fired by the Bretagne on the
arrival of the Prince on board, which was returned
by the Russian line-of-battle ship the Rattvisan.
On the following morning his Imperial Highness
left for Marseilles on board the Advice boat Rurik."
On his arrival there, a letter states, the authorities
went on board to pay their respects, and H.I.H.
entertained them at breakfast, and afterwards left
for Paris.

The Moniteur publishes the official return of the
customs revenue for last month and for the expired
11 months of the present year. The receipts of
November amounted to 12,627,411 f., being an in-
crease of 270,638 f. as compared with the corre-
sponding month of last year. The amount received
during the 11 months was 167,365,099 f., showing a
decrease as compared with the same period of 1857
of 2,575,106 f. Those items of revenue which have
shown an improvement from the beginning of the
present year to the end of November are French
colonial sugar, 14,591,918 f. ; cocoa, 256,069 f. ;
coffee, 642, 673 f. ; hemp and flax, 413,701 f. ; cochi-
neal,4l,s2of.; raw cotton, 131,922 f. ; coal, 645,007 f.;
oil, 521,795 f. ; rough salt, 15,096 f. ; raw and spun
silk, 45,303 f. ; sulphur, 47,432 f. ; pepper, 8,478 f.
Those which show the greatest falling off are—fo-
reign sugar, 6,222,153 f. ; cattle and sheep, 100,975 f.;
mahogany, 62,462 f. ; potable liquors, 5,879,079 f. ;
corn, 573,905 f. ; hemp and flax thread, 261,510 f. ;
oleaginous seeds, 311,054 f. ; tallow, 167,082 f. ;
indigo, 197,299 f. ; raw wool, 402,840 f. ; rough
castings, 1,669,731 f. ; bar iron, steel, and copper,
and 'lead, 575,245 f. ; linen and hempen cloth,
129,520 f. ; gold and silver, 63,003 f. (the amount of
the former was 1,683,808 f., and of the latter,
7,096,188 f.) ; sundries, 3,275,744 f." The number
of French vessels which entered the different ports
during the 11 months of the present year was
9,838, measuring 1,496,083 tons, being, as compared
with 1857, a decrease of 378 vessels, and an increase
of 42,776 tons. The number of departures in 1858
was 8,471, measuring 1,288,296 tons, being an in-
crease on the preceding year of 2,072 vessels and
175,000 tons. The number of foreign vessels which
have arrived in the 11 months of the present year
was 12,433, measuring 2,014,553 tons, being a de-
crease, as compared with the corresponding period
of 1857, of 1,373 vessels and 312,649 tons. The
departures gave 9,788 vessels and 1,358,804 tons,
being an increase of 1,561 vessels and 93,106 tons.
BOURSE, Dec. 20.—The market has been very
flat ; capitalists are unwilling to take the lead in
any important movement, so long as nothing is
decided about the newly-projected Bank of Credit.
Threes have been done at 73f. 15c. and 73f. 10c. ;
Mobilier at 975 f. and 970 f. ; Orleans, 1,392 f. 50e.
and 1,390 f. ; Northern, 1,005 f. and 1,002 f. 50c. ;
Lyons, 881 f. 25c. to 878 f. 75e. ; Southern, 587 f.
50c. and 582 f. 50c. ; and Austrian, 640 f. and
635 f. The following were the last quotations :
tt per Cents. .... 96 55 Credit Fonder -- --
Do. end month Belgian 4}
3 per Cents. 72 95 Piedmontese (5)
Do. end month.... 73 5 Roman 93
Bank Shares. 3005 Austrian
Cr6dit Mobilier 967 50 Spanish Threes
Do. Account 966 25 Home Debt 43 50

BE-ORGANISATION OF THE INDIAN

ARMY.

THE NAVY.

From letters which have recently been received
from Australia it appears that up to the time of the
despatch of the mail nothing whatever had been
heard of the Sappho, 12, Commander F. Moresby,
which sailed from the Cape of Good Hope for Aus-
tralia in the month of Jan. last. H.M.'s screw
steamer Cordclia, 11, Commander C. E. H. Vernon,
had arrived from making a careful search along the
whole track the missing vessel was supposed to
have taken, but without meeting any traces what-
ever of her. There is, therefore, too much reason
to fear that the vessel has foundered at sea, and
that all on board have perished. Nothing whatever
had been heard in Australia of the alleged wreck
of the vessel on an uninhabited island and the
rescue of a portion of the crew, and the statements
to that effect which were made public a short time
since have been ascertained to be without founda-
tion.

A court-martial will take place to-day on board
the Victory, at Portsmouth, to try Capt. Thos. H.
Mason, commanding H.M.'s ship Curagoa, and the
master of that ship, Mr. E. Maunder, for getting
the ship ashore in the Mediterranean.
The lads belonging to the Illustrious, Captain R.
Harris, at Portsmouth naval cadet training ship,
were mustered yesterday morning on board, after
which they were granted the usual Christmas holi-
days.

The repairs of the machinery of the screw steam
ship Victor Emmanuel, 91, Capt. J. Wilcox have
been completed at Devonport. It is expected she
will be out of the shipwrights' hands on Thursday.
The paddlewheel steam sloop Virago, 6, Com-
mander M. B. Dunn, will be ready for sea on New
Year's-day.
The screw steamship Desperate, 8, Commander
R. G. Craigie, was inspected in Plymouth Sound,
on Saturday by Capt. W. J. Williams. She dis-
charged her powder in the evening, and on Sunday
morning went alongside the jetty at the Devonport
Dockyard preparatory to her being paid off.
The steam tender Avon, Second Master J. Palmer,
left Plymouth on Saturday for Wales.
The screw steamship Liffey, 51, took in her pow-
der-at Plymouth on Saturday.
Mr. Dunbar has, by arrangement with the au-
thorities, substituted the Cospatrick for the convey-
ance of detachments to India in place of the dis -
masted Bombay. The troops in Cork will go to
Plymouth for embarkation.
Captain the Hon. J. R. Drummond, C. 8., was
yesterday appointed Commodore Superintendent at
Woolwich, vice Commodore Shepherd, appointed to
flag rank. The gallant officer relinquished his duties
as one of the Junior Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty yesterday, and will hoist his flag at
Woolwich to-day. Rear• Admiral the Hon. F. T.
Pelham, C. 8., is mentioned as likely to suceed Cap-
tain the Hon. J. R. Drummond, C.B.

Commander G. P. Mends is promoted; Lieut. J.
Moresby is promoted to Commander ; and Lieut. E.
Keane is to be Commander on the reserved half-
pay-list, vice Rabbett, deceased.