The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1838

LATEST NEWS.

The following telegraphic despatches have been
received at Mr. Reuter's office :

MADRID, SATURDAY.

The Portuguese Government has firmly refused
to communicate to the Chamber of Deputies certain
documents asked for concerning the Charles-et-

Georges affair.

According to advices received from Lisbon, the
Municipal Council has been dissolved.

SUNDAY.

The Count of Paris arrived on the 17th ins.

at Seville.

CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 18.
Several shipwrecks have taken place on the
coast of Dobroudscha.

ST. PETERSBURG SATURDAY.

Mr. Murray, the English Ambassador in Persia,
his physician, Dr. Dixon, and the accompanied by
secretary of the embassy, Mr. Bastell, arrived at
Tiflis, on the 27th November, from Essessan (qy.
Teheran).

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY.

On the morning of New Year's Day the Emperor
will receive the diplomatic corps and the consti-
tuted bodies. On the 2d the Emperor and Empress
will receive, at half-past nine in the evening, the
ladies of the diplomatic corps, and such ladies as
have been already presented to their Majesties.
The ladies may be accompanied by their husbands.
Gentlemen must be in full uniform or court cot-
tume, and the ladies in court dresses.

The Grand Duke Constantinelßft Nive on ThArs-
day evening, and arrived at Toulon on Friday.
From Toulon his Imperial Highness was to proceed
to Marseilles, and thence to Fontainebleau, where
he is to sleep to-morrow night, and to which place
Count de Kisseleff, the Russian Ambassador, pro-
ceeds. The Grand Duke will arrive in Paris on
Monday at about noon, and it is said that he will
only remain in the capital until Wednesday or
Thursday.
Two of the Paris journals, the Constitutionnel
and the Pays, publish long articles on the project,
which is at present under consideration; for en•
larging Paris, by carrying back the octroi limits to
the fortifications. Both journals are strongly in
favour of the proposed measure, and adduce argu-
ments to prove that the realisation of the project will
not only be unattended with any injury or incon
venience, but will be productive of much positive
good. The Constitutionnel gives a sketch of the suc-
cessive changes effected in Paris, from which we
glean that it has been enlarged not fewer than nine
times, and that its superficies, which was scarcely
40 acres in the time of Julius Caesar, had become
8,505 in the reign of Louis XVI, and will reach the
vast extent of 18,625 acres, should the plan, now
spoken of, be carried fully into execution. The
great amount of the population in the various com-
munes of the banlieue, our contemporary declares,
is an evident proof that Paris, properly so called, is
not large for its inivelitants and that the Govern-
ment is by that very circumstance warned that
the time has arrived to provide more ample accom-
modation for the constantly increasing influx of
settlers from the departments.

BOURSE, Dec. 18.—The market has been very
flat, with little business doing, and there has been
a slight fall in all securities. Threes have been
done at 73f. 35c., and are now at 73f. 20c. ; Mobi-
Her varied from 987 f. 50c. to 980 f.
.; Orleans, 1,395 f.
to 1,392 f. 50c. ; Northern, 1,006 f. 25c. to 1,003 f.
75c. ; Lyons, 882 f. 50c. to 880 f. ; Southern, 590 f.
to 585 f. ; and Austrian, 642 f. 50c. to 640 f. The
following were the last quotations :

4f per Cents. 96 75
Do. end montk -- --
3 per Cents 73 10
Do. end month 73 20
Bank Shares
Credit Mobilier
Do. Account 97i

Credit Foncier 62 50
Belgian 4i —
Piedmontese (5)
Roman 93
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt 43 50

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern . lOO5 • . 1002 50
New ditto 845 .845
Lyons and Mediterranean...:• • • 880 ' 881 25
New ditto
Geneva 620 " .. 622 50
Midi — --
Southern
Western 607 50 .. 60.5
Eastern ' 695 697 50
Grand Central —
Sardinian ..
Austrian
° Exchanr,e on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 c. ; money,
25f. 10c. ; three months, paper, 244. 971 c. ; money, 24f.
95c.