The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-17 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY.
The Emperor returned to Paris last evening at
half-past seven from the Sologne, His Majesty is
in excellent health. _ .

Three Opposition candidates have sent in their
names as desirous to become deputies for Paris, in
place of Messre. Cavaignac, Carnet, and Goudcb aux.
The new candidates are Messrs. Lionville, Jules
Favre, and Ernest Picard, advocates.
Gomez has left Brest in the Ocean, for Cayenne.
Ho will be shortly followed by Rudio.
The Emperor has issued a decree authorising the
opening of a credit for 180,000 francs (7,2001.) for
the purchase of the tomb and residence of the
Emperor Napoleon at St. Helena.
A telegraphic despatch from Marseilles announces
the arrival there of Feruck Khan, who was warmly
received by the authorities, and was present at a
fete given in his honour by the future Persian
consul.
It is said that two frigates are to be constructed
on the plan of the ships of the line, plated with
i ron, as invented by the Emperor. They are to be
first class, and built after the model of the Auda-
cieuse and the Impetueuse.
It is stated that the French riflemen are to be
armed with double-barrelled guns ; and that the
experiment will be made with a few companies at
first.
The following telegraphic despatches have been
received here :
" MARSEILLES, April 16.—Accounts have been
received from Constantinople to the 10th. The
projected prison reform had been approved of by
the Sultan. M. de Prokesch had taken his depar-
ture on leave of absence. Omer Pacha had de-
spatched from Bagdad an expedition against the
neighbouring hostile tribes. The Presse d' Orient
announces that the Porte has severely punished the
the Armenians who obtained passports as natu-
ralised Russians. It was desired at Constantinople
that this lesson should not be lost on the Armenian
population of the empire. M. Benedetti, French
consul at Trebizond, had been active in direct-
ing the salvage of the cargo, bullion' and machi-
nery of the Egyptus. The son of Sefe r Pacha bad
diwcovered, by means of intercepted letters, a
plot organised in Circassia in favour of Russia.
The Hungarian Bangya, who had taken service
with the Circassians, had confessed his share in the
plot, and had been condemned to death, with seve-
ral emissaries of the Russian General Philipson."
" TRIESTE, April 16.—Intelligence has been re-
ceived from Constantinople to the Bth. The Sultan
had decided on augmenting the pay of the troops.
Mustapha-Pacha was to be sent on a hydrographical
miss'on to the Black Sea. The Greek Chambers
have voted a pension to the family of Conduriotis."
" BERLIN, April 15.—Letters from St. Peters-
burg announce that Prince Vassiltchikoff has been
named ad interim Minister of War during the
absence of General Soukhozanett, in consequence
of ill health."
" LISBON, April 15.—Prince George of S ixony
has arrived here after a favourable passage of four
days."
Another proof of the extraordinary credulity of
the French peasantry was presented to the Tribu-
nal of Correctional Police of St. Flour (Lozere)
a few days ago :—A farmer of the village of Le
Fayat stated that his daughter having fallen ill, he
consulted one Moraud, who was considered a con-
juror, and that man persuaded him that the girl
was bewitched, and that the way to cure her was
to buy a handful of new Bails and boil them in a
new pot until the pot broke, at the same time bury-
ing with sundry incantations time sous under
a stone at a distance ; but this did not succeed.
Morand then made him try new experiments, such
as boiling calf's liver with horse nails, &c. All,
however, failed. Morand did not give these valu-
able counsels gratis, but got from the man 50f. in
money, a cow worth 120 f., and a mare worth 130 f.
The man's neighbours, however, told hlm at last
that Morand was no conjuror, but an impudent
swindler, and the dupe had him arrested. The
tribunal condemned Morand to four months' im-
prisonment, and to restore what he had obtained.
BOURSE, April 16.—The following wore the
closing quotations :

4A per Cents 93 40
Do. end month — —i
3 per Cent. .....
Do. end month 69 40
Bank Shares .

Credit Fon cier
Belgian 4,1
Piedmontese (5)
Roman
Austrian

Credit Mobilier 717 50 Spanish Threes
Do. Account 717 50 home Debt

RAILWAYS.— FOR CASH.
Orleans
Northern
New Ditto — Strasburg
Lyon and Muditeran. fO7l Grand Central —
New Ditto 772,1 Sardinian
Geneva

MALTA.
VALETTA, APRIL 10.

A meeting of the Council of Government took
place on the 6th inst., when, at the termination of
the business of the sitting, his Excellency the Go-
vernor, Sir W. Reid, as President of the Council,
delivered the following farewell address :
" I now propose to adjourn this council to the
7th day of May, by which time my successor will
have fairly entered upon the duties of Governor.
" As I have now met you for the last time let me,
gentlemen, in the most earnest manner thank you
for the difference you have uniformly paid to the
chair, and for the orderly manner in which all our
proceedings have been nuiducted for mo; e than six
years that I have been honoured by presiding here.
" You have not only made my duties of Presi-
dent easy, but what far more important, you
have thereby established a character for decorum
in your proceedings whilst engaged in the grave
subject of local legislation.
" There is nothing which I have had more at
heart whilst I have been Governor of Malta
than that the measure adopted in the time of
my predeces3or of placing a limited portion of
elective members in this council should prove
successful. My opinion is that it has been success-
ful. I trust that, through a continuance of mode-
ration
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Crown should enjoy.

"TWA council-lanow adj•surned to the 7th day
of May, at Lalf-pa,it two o'clock.
(Signed) " Wm. REID, Governor.
"Palace, Valetta, 6th April, 1858."

A letter from Alexandria of the 3d says :—" The
am bassadors of King, Theodore of Abyssinia, accom-
panied by the Copia Patriarch of that semi-bar-
barons empire, have arrived here, and were.yester-:
day presented to the Viceroy. They have brought
an immense nuualx,r of presents fur his highness.
The disturb inces of the Soudan are far from being
appeased, and fur the second time the armies of the
Viceroy have been defeated, The insurgents have