The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LOND O.N, FRIDAY E V_ENING, JULY 16, 1858,

sentiments. We may fairly banter- the Conser-
vatives good temperedly for recognising in office
that the nation will have certain measures which
they have always opposed. But seriously to call
it political immorality for men to adopt the
views which we deem right, to abuse them
for accepting the truth when we ought rather
to blame them only for past errors, is the
height of perversity. Conservatives, no doubt,
like Liberals, have been guilty enough of one poli-
tical creed in office and another in opposition.
We blame, however, and justly enough, the
Liberal leaders for being less liberal in office than
out of it. Are we, then, to turn round, when the
Conservatives are in, and abuse them fur being
more liberal ? In regard to any Ministry, with
us, byegones shall always be byegoneq, if they will
adopt what we deom right measures. We don't
want, in politics, to have a kind of Arabian blood
feud.

LATEST NEWS.

nOuntdiTaiA-Of the abolitiOn of privateering thit
the private property of subjects or citizens of the
belligerent powers should be exempt from seizure
at sea by the respective ships of war. With these
exceptions, all the Cabinets have adhered unre-
servedly to the four principles which constitute
the declaration of the Congress of Paris ; and in
that way is ratified in the international law of
almost all the States of Europe and America, a
progress to which your Majesty's Government, con-
tinuing one of the most honourable traditions of
French policy, may congratulate itself on having
powerfully contributed. yln order to prove and
make known these adhesions, I propose to your
Majesty to authorise the insertion in the Bulletin
des Lois of the official notes in which they are an-
nounced, and if your Majesty accedes to this pro-
position, I will have published in the same manner
such adhesions as may hereafter roach me.—l
am, &c., 6` WALEWSKI.".

To the report is appended the signature of the
Emperor, declaring that the proposal male by the
Miuis'er is approved of.

THE APPROACHING- PROROGATION OF
PARLIAMENT.

FRANCE.
PARIS, THURSDAY.

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It is now said in political circles that---subject, of
course, to the state of the public business—Parlia-
ment will be prorogued on the 31st inst., and that
the Speaker will give his customary entertainment
to the Sergeant• at-Arms and other principal officers
of the House of Commons on Wednesday, the 28th
inst. The Ministerial whitebait dinner is ap•
pointed for Saturday, the 24th inst.

Despatehes quoted by the Pays state that the
Turks have attacked the Montenegrins. The latter,
after having beeti thrice assailed, have withdrawn
into their mountains to await the enemy.
A telegraphic despatch from Constantinople, re-
ceived by the Turkish Ambassador Extraordinary
in Paris or by the French Government, announces
that the Porte bad sent to Jeddah a corps of 2,000
men, for the purpose of inflicting exemplary chas-
tisement on the assassins of the French and English
Consuls. M. Emuat, who was chancellor to the
Consul at that place, and who, under the trying
circumstanceshe passed through, showed great reso-
lution and courage, has been named Knight of the
Legion of Honour. It is said that orders have been
sent to the Commandant of the naval division in the
Chinese seas to despatch two ships of war at once to
the Red Sea. The Admiral commanding on the
Greek station is ordered to proceed to Candia. If
,Russia be wronged she is much to be pitied, but
there are persons who persist in tracing her hand in
the troubles that have taken place lately in various
parts of the Turkish empire; and it is now, as ever,
her interest that peace and order shall never be
established in Turkey. It is stated that the loan
which the Viceroy of Egypt wished to make with
an English company is abandoned. The guarantees
demanded were—the railway from Alexandria to
Suez, the abandonment in favour of the company
of one of the provinces of the Delta, and lands de-
pending on the town. It was these demands, it is
said, which caused the matter to be broken off.
We give this version as repeated in semi-official
quarters here, without vouching for its accuracy.
The itfoniteur publishes the comparative return
of the revenue for the first six months of 1858 and
1857. The total receipts of the former period were
539,927,000 f., and the latter 526,017,000 f., being
an increase in favour of 1858 of 13,910,000 f.

TIIE ATLANTIC CABLE.

QUEENSTOWN, JULY 13.

The Agamemnon, Captain Preedy, is coaling.
The Niagara, Captain Hudson, and Gorgon, Cap-
tain Dayman, have coaled, and the Valorous, Cap-
tain Aldham, has nearly coaled. The. whole
expedition will, it is rumoured, start again about
Monday, the 19th.

ITALIAN OPERA, DRURY-LANE.

MR. E. T. SMITH'S BENEFIT.

Saturday evening, the last night of the Italian
opera season at Old Drury, has been fixed foe the
benefit of Mr. E. T. Smith, the enterprising and
untiring lessee of this national establishment. The
opera selected for the occasion is Mozart's magnifi-
cent opera of " Don Giovanni," thus powerfully
cast : Donna Anna, Madame Viardot Garcia ;
Elvira, Madlle. Sedlazek ; Zerlina, Madame Per-
siani ; Don Giovanni, Signor Badiali ; Leporello,
Signor Rovere ; Commendatore, Signor Manfredi ;
Masetto, Signor Kinni ; and Don Ottavio, Signor
Naudin. After the opera, Dibdin's musical farce
of "The Waterman" will be given, in which Mr.
Charles graham, Mr. J. Newcombe (lessee of the
Theatre Royal, Plymouth), and Miss Rebecca
Isaacs, will appear. Setting aside the intrinsic
merit of the entertainments, we think the public
are under great obligations to Mr. Smith ;
for had. it not been for his persevering
spirit thousands would never have experienced
the delight of hearing Italian opera, supported
by first-rate artistes, at a moderate price. To
Lim we are also under obligations for the intro-
duction of several artistes of the greatest ability,
who, had it not been for the opening of Old
Drury, would to this day have remained amongst
the " illustrious obicure." We therefore expect
to-morrow evening to witness an overflowing
house, as an acknowledgment on the part of
the public that Mr. Smith's exertions to provide
first-rate entertainment for the million has not
been disregarded or unappreciated.

BOURSE, July 15.—The following were the latest
quotations :

4:1 per Cents 95 25
Do. end month
3 per Cent. ..... 68 25
Do. end month 6B 30
Bank Shares
Credit Mobilier
Do. Account 632 50

Credit Fonder
Belgian 4_,;
Piedmontese (5)
Roman SOY
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
-FOR CASH.

RAILWAYS.
Orleans
Northern
New Ditto
Lyon and Mediteran 7664
New Ditto
Geneva

Midi
Western 5874
Eastern
Grand Central ......
Sardinian
Austrian

CANADA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MORNING.

The'screw steamship Nova Scotian has arrived
from Quebec with advices to the 3d and from New
York to the 2d inst.

She has on board the remaining officers and 435
non-commissioned officers, rank and file, of the
100th Regiment.

Dulness was the characteristic in the Quebec
timber-market ; freights hardening, and vessels
for London and the British Channel scarce and in
demand.

A.dvices received at New York from Washing-
ton on the Ist inst. state that despatches which
had been received at the Mexican Legation were
silent upon the subject of the American Minister
having demanded and received his passports. The
Government had received despatches, contents
unknown. Proceedings against foreigners who
refused to pay continued. Non-contents orderEd
away. Russians, Germans, and Americans had
claimed protection from the United States Min-
ister.

At Buffalo, a fire in the lumber-yard of Vansleck,
Churchill, and Barker had destroyed 6,000,000 ft.
of pine lumberland 'other property, to the value
of 300,000 dollars.

NEW. YORK, JULY 2.

Cotton very dull, quotations nominally un-
changed ; flour ditto ; wheat dull at opening, but
closed a shade firmer, particularly for sound ;
corn dull for common ; prime firm, prices un-
changed ; pork steady ; beef unchanged ; cut
meats and lard ditto ; sugars active and firavn. ;
spirits of turpentine steady ; rosin buoyant ;
freights firmer.
NEW ORLEANS, JIILY 1.

Sale of cotton, 2,000 bales, at a quarter cent.
advance ; middling quoted 12 cents. ; sugar and
molasses quiet ; flour steady. Exchange on New
York nnelang-d. Frei,;lits firm, bat vi:Ll.uat
change.