The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-28 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARTS, TUESDAY.
Despatches have been received at the Foreign-
office announcing that an attack was mile on the
24th, by 3,000 Turkish troops, on the Montene-
grins, and that the latter hAt retreated to the
mountains, with five of their advanced guard killed
and eight wounded.
It invariably occurs that when the Emperor is
absent, or on the point of undertaking a journey,
we hear rumours of plots, conspiracies, discovery
of imp!ements of destruction of some kind or other.
This is now the case, and for the last day or two a
rapert has circulated al/Jut something of that
been found out at St. Eienne, and
haying d
that an inquiry is going on.
itis natureals ho
We read in the illoniteur that the bronze plate
with the inscription commemorative of the opening
of the works and the inauguration of the basin of
Napoleim 111., at Cherbourg, has arrived at its
destination on board the Pelican steamer, Com-
mander Hamelin, from Havre, whither it was trans-
mitted from Paris. This plate weighs upwards of
half a ton, and measures nearly seven feet in
length, by nearly four feet in breadth. It bears
the followlng inscription :
" This basin, decreed on the 15th of April, 1803,
by Napoleon the First, was begun on the 28th of
June, 1836, arsl was inaugurated on the ith of
August, 1858, in presence of their Majesties the
Emperor Napo:eon HI., and the Empress Eugenie,
his Excellency Admiral Hamelin being Minister of
Marine." _ _

A plate of platina, bearing the same inscription,
will be fixed it the bottom of the basin, with
me lals, and a spedimen of every sort of gold, silver,
and copper money struck during the reign of the
Emperor Napoleo❑ 111.
BOURSE, July 27.—The following were the last
quotations :

4. per Cents 96 Credit Fonder
Do. end month — Belgian h -
3 per Cent. ..... ... 68 25 Piedmontese (5)
Do. end month 6B 20 Roman 9l
B,nk Shares:. ...... 310 J Austrian
...

Credit Mobilior 615
Do. dteount 613 75

Spanish Throes
Ilorne Debt 3B
-FOR CASH.
Midi

RAI:NAYS,
Orleans

5031

Northern
New Ditto.,
Lyon and Mediteran ; 760

Western 590
Emtern
Grand Central

New Ditto
Genova

Sardinian
Austrian

JEDDAH.

ALEXANDRIA, July 17.—Public attention since
the despatch of our last post has naturally been
almost exclusively occupied with the Jeddah mas-
sacre and with surmises and doubts on the conse-
quences it may yet entail.
Her Majesty's
gunboat Wanderer arrived here
esterdayfrom M4lta, with despatches for the Cy-
clops, which were immediately forwarded to Suez
iu charge of Mr. Vice-Consul C-ilvert. It is be-
lieved he will accompany Captain Pillion to Jeddah.
Fr im that pla3e we have no further intelligence,
but through all the comments tha; are made upon
the late disastrous events a strong impression shows
itself to the effect that, if strict inquiry be made
into the circumstances, the Turkish authorities will
not be found wholly blameless. Namik Pi eira is
said to have exhibited a decided leaning in favour
of the assassin:, and his as ertion that the ,ur.br:'[..l::
olit,e 4.:,1 oi :lie Turkish tlag having been
hauled down from the Irani is sufficiently proved
to be false by the fact that previous to the naval
court being held upon the vessel the Consul, in
the presence of Captain Pullen, had received notice
cf the exis ence of ill, plot. This was not the first
warning, and that very circumstance may have had
the fatal effect of lulling Mr. Page's apprehensions.
He refused the offt r of refuge on board the Cyclops,
saying that though some disturbance might arise
he felt perfectly confident he could rely for his per-
sonal safety upon the protection that would he
afforded to him by the flag of his Consulate.
It is believed that the despatches brought by the
Wanderer are of a nature to show that cur Govern-
ment, in concert with that of Franca, has decided
upon energetic measures such as the occasion calls
for. Whatever active steps are taken iu the
matter by the two nations, and more particularly
by England, will be anxiously watched, not only
by Europeans, but by every race and nation in the
East.

The force at Captain Pullen's disposal is more
than sufficient to enable him to exact the fullest re-
paration from the town of Jeddah ; and, indeed,
many per Eon«, even among those who take the most
dispassionate view of the *case, unhesitatingly de-
plore that Captain Pullen did not at once take the
law into his cwn hands and insist upon the imme-
diate puni,hment of the ringleaders, even at the
risk of finding himself compelled to have recourse
to measures perhaps not in strict accordance with
the rules which usually guide the intercourse be-
tween civilised na'ions, but which indeed could
net be evoked in the CIS9 in question.