The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-22 00:00:00

CHINA.

The Tartar General and Yeh were taken pri-
soners on the sth Jan.
Yeh has been sent on board the Inflexible, and
remains a prisoner off Tiger Island.
The Cantonese were returning to the city.
The blockade has not yet been raised.
Exchange at Hongkong, 4s. 10d.
SHANGHAI, JAN. 7.

The import market had improved. In raw silk
very little was doing, and quotations were nominal.
Exchange, 6s. id. to Gs.

The following telegram was received at the
Foreign-office Feb. 21, at 10 a.m.:-
- ALEXANDRIA, FEE. 16, 1858.

The Bengal has just arrived at Suez, and brings
the following intelligence. Sir C. Campbell had de-
feated the rebels (at) Futtyghur, and was waiting
for a heavy siege train from Agra, on arrival of
which he could move with his wholo force, in
concert with Jung Babadoor, on Oude.
Canton was taken on the 29th of December.

Commissioner Yeh was captured on the sth of
January ;,also the Tartar General. Yeh was taken
in the dress of a Coolie. He was sent on board
the Inflexible on the Bth.

LYONS, Admiral.

The following telegram from her Majesty's
Acting Consul• General in Egypt was received at
the Foreign-office Feb. 21, at 1.45 p.m.:—
ALEXANDRIA, FEB. 16.

The Oriental arrived at Suez the 13th inst.
She brings Bombay dates to the 28th of January.

The Commander-in-Chief moved on the 14th of
January with the head-quarters of his army to a
position (Kanowy) occupied up to that time by
Walpole's Brigade.

That corps had been previously thrown forward
to the Ganges, for the purpose of constructing 'a
bridge at a point opposite the confluence of that
river with Rumguhr.
Brigadier Walpole completed the required
bridge, and crossed the Ganges by it into Rohil-
cund.
The Commander-in-Chief reviewed and inspected
the brigade previous to its departure for Bareilly,
whither it was to march for the purpose of clearing
the city of the rebels under Khan Bahadoor Khan.
Sir Corm Campbell himself did not intend enter-
ing Rohilcund with the main body till he bad
received from Agra a siege train, to be escorted
down by her Majesty's 38th.
The rebels, who passed from Rohilcund into the
Moozufernuggur district on the 30th January, were
b2aten by Oap'ain Boisragen and driven back across
the river.
The Calpee rebels are still in force, it is said,
under the leadership of the Nana Sahib, and that
this chief is threatening us in the direction of
Nagotee. If this be so, the gradual concentration
of columns from Jubbulpore, Rewa, and Sehore,
tiler c sow,. be an end to tin.; resistan;:e.
An engagement took place between Captain
Montgomery, the Superintendent of Police at

Ahmednuggur, and a gang of Bheols in the dis-
trict of Chan°lore, on the road to Mallagamur.
Captain Montgomery, three other aims, and 50
men were wounded.

This telegram arrived at Malta and Alexandria
by her Majesty's ship Urgent, on the 20th Feb., at
11.50 p.m.

LYONS, Admiral.

THE FRENCH PASSPORT SYSTEM.
PARIS, MONDAY MORNING.

The Constitutionnel publishes the following
"communicated" article :--"The public is warned
that all foreigners coming from abroad will be
admitted to the territory of the Empire only on
the production of passports furnished by the com-
petent authorities of their country, and vised by a
diplomatic or consular agent of France. The
French visa must be renewed on the occasion of
every journey to France."
The result of the division on the " Conspiracy
to Murder Bill" has produced a great sensa-
tion among all classes of people here. The
Ministerial organs evidently did not expect
such a result, and are much taken aback.
Their language has lost something of its vain-
glorious style. Iu official quarters no trifling
bewilderment is apparent, and eves people who
are not over friendly towards England admit
that matters have been carried too far with her.
There is a pretty general feeling that a series of
unfortunate blunders has been committed. It
is difficult for ordinary men to explain, unless
on suppositions of the strongest kind, mis-
takes which a novice in government could
hardly have committed. M. de Morny's
address, the military addresses, and, what is as
great a blunder as either, M. Walewski's famous
despatch. some certainly regret the fall of Lord
Palmerston, but nearly all concur in condemning
the causes which led to it. Few can recal without
indignation the language of the colonels ; or with-
out shame the statement of a French Minister, that
in England the doctrine of assassination is openly
preached.

It is said that the defence intended to be set up
by Pierri during his trial is, that though he entered
into the conspiracy for the assassination of the
Emperor, yet he was suddenly struck with remorse,
or perhaps fear, a few minutes before the time ap-
pointed for the commission of the deed, and that
under this impulse he did not throw his grenade.
Orsini, who it appears avows all, corroborates
Pierri in that respect. It is certain that the
grenade was found on Pierri, and what he says
about remorse may be true.

PARIS, Feb. 19.—The Legislative Body sat yes-
terday, Count de Morny in the chair. The order
of the day was the adjourned discussion ou the bill
relative to Measures of Public Safety, Arich 1
being under consideiation. Tee following is the
official summary of the proceedings

M. Legrand (du Nord) bad to remark that this article
did not belong to the political, but to the judicial and
permawnt part of the measure, supposing, as had been
affirmed, that the bill was to apply only to the ill-dis-
posed, he could not see that was a reason why the
guarantees which were the right of the accused should
be suppressed ; at all events, the bill ought to be clear
and precise. Now, he could not see that Art. 1 po a-
seated that character, and consequently, he must ask
for explanations on the point. In particular, he should
like to know if the article applied both to crimes aud
misdemeanours provided for by Art. 86 of the Penal
Code, or to crimes only.
M. Adolphe Debelleyme spoke in favour of the article.
He thought that the bill ought not to be separated from
the facts which bad led to its presentation. The great
character of the measure was one of imperative neces-
sity, and its object was the security of society—it wa',
in a-word, a bill brought forward for the present con•
juncture.
Count de Pierre must oppose the bill. He felt astonish-
ment that the Government of the Emperor—thm Go-
vernment so well established and so strong—was power-
less to maintain order in the country. He was also
surprised that some persons should have asked them-
selves what would have become of the country if the
Emperor had perished on the 14'h of January. For
his own part, he did not enter:ain the slightest doubt
that the general ory would have been—" L'Em-
pereur eat mort l Vive l'Empereur I " A great
mistake, in his opinion, was made in rapresent,ng the
present Government as ono which was now establishing
itself. The Government was perfectly established, and
was so from the day on which the popular will acclaimed
the name of Napoleon. Replying more particularly to
M. Granier de Cassaguac, to whom he thought he could
reproach a warlike humour of too persevering a charac-
ter, he thought that in mentioning the number of
imprisonments effected by the Cornmstt3e of Public
Safety that hon. gentleman seemed to imply that, with
such an example before it, the present Government
would have an ample margin to act in an arbitrary
manner. Adverting to wnat bad been said relative to
secret societies, he could not admit that they existed ;
' but he was of opinion that the mea•uros now proposed
were not sufficient to annihilate them, while the enact-
ments of the Penal Code were powerful enough to
rennier them innocuous.

Art. 1 was then put to the vote and adopted.
The Marquis de Taihoet wished to learn what persons
could be affected by Art. 2, for he could not see that
there was a just proportion between the acts mentioned
and the penalties to be applied.
M. Baroche, President of the Council of State, must
maintain that no reproach of want of precision could be
alleged against the articles spoken of. The words
"rnanceu vres and understandings" employed in the article
already existed in several of the French laws. The
manceovres which Article 2 could punish were not of an
indeterminate character, but acts clearly iniuted out
by the object which they aimed at. They bhould
have for object either to trouble the public peace or
to excite to hatred or contempt of the Government
The Bill had not in view to punish either regrets or
reminiscences, or even hopes. He could declare that
opinions expressed with more or less warmth of language
—epigrams or alttisions—were not what the bill desired
to reach.

M. Emile 011ivier would wish to have some explana-
tio) given of the real meaning of the article. It spoke
of intelligence kept up either with the interior or with
foreign countries ; ho would like to know whether if
permitted a blame of the acts of the Government to be
expressed in a letter written to a friend in the interior.
Ho acknowledged that he felt uneasy at the vagueness of
the languag - used, and in his opinion object and means
remainedalikeat the mercy of arbitrary decisions. What,
in his opinion,it was designed to reach and puni,d), was the
opposition which was to be found in the bosom of facility
circles. Having such opinions, he must call on the Go-
vernment Commissioners to assign a precise meaning
to the languate of the article.
M. BABOOHE said that the whole question was this—
ought it to be permitted to excite to hatred and contempt
of the Government, or to trouble public tranquillity, or,
on the other hand, ought the Government to endeavour
to punish the manoeuvres which aimed at that object.
Nothing inquisitorial was intended by the article, and the
words ()fleeted to were not more vague in the bill now
under consideration than in the penal code. The fact of
having written a letter which might have been seized,
did not constitute a manceuvre,!and,for his part, he could
not conceive an extreme case which might never occur,
being brought forward as a sufficient reason for opposing a
measure-intended to defend such grave interests as those
at stake.

M. OLLMEE must insist that the bill reached every
provocation made in a public place or in the press. That
he perfectly well understood ; but what he could not
understand was that it should be desired to reach the
remarks exchanged between friends.
M. GRANIER DE CASSAGNAO desired to reply to M. de
Pierri on a matter which concerned himself personally.
He wished to observe that for five a, d twenty years be
had been defending the cause of order and society ; and
when he looked at the sate of the country, he was
apprehensive that the moment had not arrived for him
to retire from action.
e. 2,3, 4, and 5 were successively, put to the vote
and carried.
M. AYME must oppose Art. 6. Having voted for Arts.
1 and 2, he had not thought it right to oppose Art. 5,
which rendered persons condemned in virtue of these
provisions subjec to the measures of publ a safety, but
he could not admit that that enactment be applied to
persons condemned for other crimes or misdemeanours.
It appeared to him that, as fa'r as related to such persons,
there existed a sufficient guarantee, in Art. 221 of the
Penal Code, which permits the judges, in extreme cases,
to subject them to the surveillance of the police.
Art. 6 was adopted, as were Arts. 7,8, and 9. •
M. GAREAII, in speaking on A. 10, observed that at
the moment of voting this most important measure, he
felt an indescribable sadness in corning forward to declare
that he could not accede to the bill. It was because he
was more anxious than any other to behold the firm
maintenance of the empire, that he felt unable to vote a
bill designated unfortunate by its supporters, and die.
astrous by its opponents.
Art. 10 was adopted.
The whole bill in its ensemble was put to the vote,
and adopted by 227 votes to 24.
The sitting was then brought to a close.

A number of arrests of Italian refugees have
been aide at Genoa. Also that ()fan Eng:iihman,
who was taken at the inn called the Hotel de la
Vile. A report was spread that it was Allsop who
had been arrested ; but the prisoner is a younger
man—his name is Durrell Hodges. It is said that
some at least of these arrests are in consequence o
the persons being implicated in the Paris attempt.

fflort., to zcco d tito tt.‘aci. 3:‘ Alt,ZOAkde:
Black, the eminent architect, cf Edinburgh. Mr. B!aok
expired on Friday morniiig last, at half-past one o'clock,
haying just completed hie 60th year.