The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-29 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY.
Official despatches have been received from St.
Petersburg announcing that the Duke de Monte-
bello had been most graciously received by the Em-
peror Alexander. The French Foreign-office seems
to set much importance on the presence of the new
ambassador at St. Petersburg.
M. Haussmaan, lately appointed French Consul
at the Cape of Good Hope, has left Paris for
Southampton to embark for his post.
The Pays says that the announcement in several
foreign journals that the French Government is at
present fitting out a fleet at Toulon to make a
demonstration on the coast of Morocco is not true.
The screw ship of the line Austerlitz sailed from
Brest on Tuesday last for Toulon to reinforce the
Mediterranean fleet.

A letter from Marseilles, dated yesterday, states
that a hurricane from the west, which continued
to blow on Tuesday and Wednesday last with in-
tense fury, caused great anxiety for the ships in
the offing. The French steamer, with the mails
from Alexandria of the 18th inst., had not been
able to reach Marseilles. She took refuge in the
roads of Toulon.

Letters from Rome announce that, owing to the
intervention Dom Miguel accepts the
basis of
oPope
sition, s made to him by his
tale of p thero
p
nephew, the King of Portugal, and that a recon-
ciliation is about to take place between the two
chiefs of the House of Braganza.
Official despatches, which have reached Paris
from China, le id to the conclusion that the envoys
of England and France scarcely hope to accomplish
their views without further hostilities. An ordinary
despatch says :—Advices from China to the 12th of
April state that in reply to an address from the Bri-
tish merchants at Canton, Lord Elgin assured them
that the demands of the Allies were moderate, but
that they would insist on their being complied with.
They aro prepared to resort if necessary to force, and
they will not slid* should it be found requisite,
from carrying hostilities to the very walls of Pekin.
The Hong Kong papers state that Teent-Sin, a small
harbour about 50 miles from Pekin, will easily fall
into the hands of the Allies, and they urge that
gunboats should be sent up to the capital. At Can-
ton the native authorities secretly persecute and
torture all who are suspected of favouring the allies.
Great atrocities have teen discovered. In the in-
land provinces anarchy is said to be on the in-
crease."

Additional resignations have been received from
the directors of the charitable endowments in the
principal towns in France, in consequence of
M. Espina.sse's unlucky "ordre du jour, by cour-
tesy called circular, for the sale of the property,
and that the Prefects have been ordered not t 3
accept the resignations. How the directors can be
compelled to exercise these functions, gratuitous
as they are, against their will, it is difficult to
imagine. So strong is the feeling on this subject
that it is found necessary to administer an antidote
to the "Circular." The Moniteur will probably
contain in a day or two something meant to be
conciliatory.

The plan for the new organization of Algeria,
with Prince Napoleon as Pro-consul or Imperial
Lieutenant, has been submitted to the Council of
State. The Council has called for documents from
the War-office.

M. de Pene, the victim of the duel with Sub-
Lieutenant Hyenne, is to-day reported better, but
no well-founded hope is felt of his ultimate recovery.
Hyenne and Courtiel (the latter a near relative of
the Minister cf the Interior, and whose conduct in
the first duel was admitted to be honourable), were
summoned to Versailles. The officers of the garri-
son gave them an entertainment, and it is said
that a toast was drunk to the defenders of the
army, with some smart remarks about journalism
and journalists. The animosity between the mili-
tary and the opposite element, the civil, grows
stronger and stronger, and envenoms the existing
discontent. Among the men of sense and honour
in the army who have disapproved in very decided
terms the second duel, is General Macmalion. The
law officers are determined to follow up the affair
vigorously.

The following telegraphic despatches have been
received here :

"BERLIN, May 23.—Accounts from Constantinople,
of the 221, state that the Council of Ministers had as-
sembled on the previous day, and came to a decision
wi h regard to Montenegro. A fresh circular from the
Porte was expected on the eve of the fete of the Ramazan.
An engagement has taken place between the Circassians
and the Russian garrison of Jekaterinodar, in which the
latter lost 300 men."

" BERNE, May 28.—The French vice-consul has been
recEived at Ch”x-Jc-Fondii. At the reception dinner
he declared his Lope that the institution of a vice-consu-
late would be udeful to the commercial relations of the
two countries. A good impression has been everywhere
produced in favour of the new functionary." .
BOURSE, May 28.—The following were the last
quotations:—

4i per Cents 93 40
Do. end month — --
3 per Cent, ..... 69 60
Do. end month 69 60
Bank Shares
Credit Mobilier
Do. Account 635 25
RAILWAY S. -
Orleans . 1215
Northern
New Ditto
Lyon and Mediteran. 7311
New Ditto
Geneva

Credit Foncier
Belgian 44
Piedmontese (5)
Roman 9l
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
-Fon CASH.

Midi
Western 560
Strasburg
Grand Central
Sardinian
Austrian

TILE CAMBRIDGE HOUSE CABAL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIIN.
&A—As an old politician, or careful observer of
passitg ev.mts, and a cont•cientious seeker after the
truth whether involved in Ethics or Politics, I
c ►nnot refrain from offering my meed of thanks to
Mr. Disraeli for his masterly denunciation, at
Slough, of the contemptible cabal which, by such
unworthy means, and with such unscrupulous tools,
sought the overthrow of the Government —a Go-
verunent which, I am convinced, will bear com-
parison with any that has preceded it, whether
vieved in reference to the talent of its members,
the soundness of their views, or the patriotism of
their motives. As might naturally be expected,
the Times of this morning devotes its first leader
to an attempt to lessen the influence which
the Chancellor of the Exchequer's speech
mtst perforce have upon the public mind,
and, as usual, has recourse to the unworthy
means of imputing falsehood to a statement of facts,
waich, to all not wilfully blinded by partizanship,
must be patent as the sun at noonday. I will pass
orer those salient points, which every news-
paper reader can form his own opinion upon, in-
volved in the contrast between the present state of
our external and internal relations, as compared
with that existing on the advent of Lord Derby to
power, and merely suggest the insincerity of the
Times, in calling for proof of that which is known to
every educated man who mixes in good London
society, that is, the connection between members
of the late Government with that journal, and the
constant visits of its responsible editor to Cambridge
House. I have, myself, seen the name of the latter
gentleman, more than once, figuring in that piece
of vanity—the list of guests—and can any man of
common semse doubt the rno.ive, if, indeed, he can
doubt the effect of the invitation to appear there.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
London, May 28, 1858. J. L. H.