The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-08 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans

Northern ..
New ditto..

977 50
.. 830 -

980 -
830 -

Lyons and. Mediterranean BBO .. 880
New ditto
Geneva
Midi

650 - .. 652 50
602 50 .. 602 50

Western
Eastern ..
Grand Central

622 50 .. 618 75
740 - .. 737 50

Sardinian .

465 -

.. 467 50

Austrian
Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 171 c. ; money,
25f. 15c.; three months, paper, 25f. ; money, 24f. 971 c.

RUSSIA.

The Inralide Russe contains the following article
on the subject of the apprehensions manifested by
some English journals at the Russian establishment
in the port of Villafranca :—" Everybody has heard
of the strange comments of the English and Austrian
journals with regard to the renting by the Russian
Steam Navigation Company of some buildings in
the port of Villafranca for the purpose of forming
t here a depot for stores and coal. We at first refrained
from noticing the affair, in which the truth had been
so strangely misrepresented by those journals, think-
ing it only one of secondary interest, but as it has
since been generally taken up by the foreign press,
we consider it our duty to say a few words on
the manner in which certain persons have magni-
fied a molehill into a mountain. Villafranca,
which forms part of the general intendance of Nice,
is only at a short distance from that town. As the
port of Nice- is not practicable for vessels drawing
much water, ships of war come to anchor in the
roadstead of Villafranca. The town is surrounded
by crenelated walls and defended by a fort, flanked
by three bastions constructed on a height. Another
fortification, called Fort St.Alban, built on the hill
which separates Nice from Villafranca, is intended
for the defence of both towns. The Russian Steam
Navigation Company, whose vessels now run direct
from Odessa to the Mediterranean, has rented for 24
years, from the Sardinian Government, not the port
of Villafranca, but a spot of ground on the eastern
shore of the bay, in order to establish storehouses
and workshops. An article in the regulations of
the company recognises the right of Russian vessels
of war to enter the ports where the company now
have or may hereafter have establishmentf of the
kind, in order to effect any needful repairs. This
is the whole affair, and it is this simple event
which some persons have endeavoured to trans-
form into a political question of the highest im-
portance. It is impossible to refrain from a
smile on reading the fears expressed by an
English paper, which already pictures to itself the
Russian fleet leaving Cronstadt, taking shelter in
the roadstead of Villafranca, and thence threatening
England. The English paper has doubtless for-
gotten the distance which the Russian fleet would
have to accomplish in order to reach the Mediter-
ranean from the Gulf of Finland. The English
periodical prints, which doubtless, from a dearth of
other political news, have conjured up this strange
improbability, -would have acted more frankly in
at once avowing that it was disagreeable to them
to see other nations etending their commerce and
increasing their fleet. As to the clamours raised on
this subject by some Austrian journals, it only need
be mentioned, in order to appreciate the object of
their remarks, that the steamers of the Austrian
Lloyd's run to the Mediterranean ports. To the
honour of the sensible part of the English public,
it must be said that the cry of alarm raised by those
few journals has not produced any impression on
them."

According to a letter from the head of the Russian
consulate at Alexandria, the health of Egypt is
perfectly satisfactory. No case of either plague or
cholera has been pointed out in the country, although
the latter disease is making some ravages at
Jeddah.