The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-20 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

MARSEILLES, Nov. 18.

The ,Tournal tie Constantinople announces the ar-
riyal of a reinforcement of 12,000 men for the army
of Arabia.

M. Thouvenel has arrived and leaves this even-
ing for Paris. Count Lallemand remains charged
with the French embassy at Constantinople. The
Presse d' Orient states that at M. Thouvenel's
audience to take leave, the Sultan thanked him for
having always endeavoured to preserve good rela-
tions between Turkey and France.
The English and French Commissioners arrived
on the 12th at Jeddah on board the Cyclops.

Namick Pacha, to whom information of their
arrival was forwarded, returned immediately from
Mecca to Jeddah.

The French commissioner landed at once ; the
English commissioner remained on board.
There were three English ships of war in the

roadstead.

MADRID, Nov. 19.
Government hastens the preparations for send-
ing troops and material to Havannah.
The Queen will open the Cortes in person. The
French frigate Theophile has been lost near Cadiz ;
eight persons were drowned.
The Three per Cents. closed, yesterday, 42f. 50c;
Deferred, 30f. 95c.

BERNE, Nov. 19.
The advocate Scharz, a Radical, has been elected
member of the Government.

A despatch from St. Petersburg says :—" A
subterranean telegraph has been laid in the Mi-
nistry of the Interior, which will thus be put in
communication with all the networks of telegraphs
in the empire."

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY.

It appears that the short-hand writers for the
newspaper press will be prohibited from taking
notes, either with pencil or with pen, during the
trial of M. de Montalembert ; and that any one
found doing so will be summarily ejected from the
Court,

An imperial decree, published in the Moniteur,
publishes, under the guarantee of the City of Paris
and under the authority of the Prefect of the
Seine, a special Caisee charged with the financial
part of the great public works of the city, and
which is to take the title of Caisee des Travaux de
Paris :—The duties of this establishment will be to
settle all indemnities due , for expropriations or
damages caused in the execution of the said works ;
to pay all the expenses of them after due verifica-
tion, and on the production of the usual vouchers,
signed and ratified by the Prefect of the Seine.
There shall be paid into this Caisee all the proceeds
arising from the sale of any of the disposable part of
the expropriated ground and from the produce of
the materials of the houses demolished, and any
other funds accruing in the course of the execution
of the works. A special account is to be opened
for every separate operation, and the sums paid or
received shall be duly entered therein. A copy of
these accounts is tobe delivered every three months
to the prefect for verification ; and at the comple-
tion of every operation a generil account is to be
made out. The Caisse des Travaux de Paris will
have the power of issuing credit-notes to meet the
requirements of the service, but only within the
limit fixed on for .each issue by the Municipal
Council, and approved of by Imperial decree. All
the expenses attendant on the Caisse are to be de-
frayed by the city, and the institution will be
managed by a director. His duty will be to superin-
tend the proceedings of the cashier, to propose the
annual budget to the prefect, and to deliver at the
end of the year a report on all the operations of
the Caisse. The cashier is held responsible for the
regularity of all the payMents and for his accounts,
and must furnish a sufficient guarantee deposit, for
which the usual interest will be allowed. The
nomination of the director rests with the Minister
of the Interior, on the recommendation of the
prefect, and that of the cashier, with the prefect
himself. A consultative committee, presided over
by the prefect, and composed of the governor of
the Bank, the director-general of the Sinking
Fund, the director of the general movement of the
funds at the Ministry of Finance, and three
members of the Municipal Council, will be called
on for its opinion on the different financial
operations of the Caisse, and to examine
the accounts presented every year by the director."
The Minister of the Interior is charged with the
duty of seeing the decree properly carried out.
BOURSE, Nov. 19.—The market has been rather
unsettled, but prices have been maintained, not-
withstanding considerable sales for realisation.
Threees have varied from 74f. 80c. to W„ and are
now at 74f. 85c.; Mobilier, 1,047 f. 50c. to 1,040 f. ;
Austrian, 657 f. 50c. to 656 f. 25c. ; Orleans, 1,407 f.
50c. to 1,412 f. 50c. ; Northern, 1,007 f. 50c. to
1,012 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 887 f. 50c. to 892 f. 50c.; and
Southern, 592 f. 50c. to 593 f. '7se. The following
arc the last quotations :

ti per Cents. 97 75
Do. end month 9B --
3 per Cents
Do. end month 74 80
Bank Shares 3155
Credit:Mobilier -
Do. Aceount 1032 50

Cr6dit Fonder 680
Belgian 4 . 99 75
Piedmontese (5) 95
Roman 95
Austrian
Spanish Threes 46
Home Debt —

LkILIVA:fS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern
New ditto 847 51 .. 845

Lyons and Mediterranean BB7 50 .. 886 25
New ditto
Geneva
Midi
Southern
Western 627 50 625
Eastern
Grand Central
Sardinian 460 460
Austrian

- _ _

- - .. 637 60

Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 71c.; three
months, paper, 24f. 950. ; money, 24f. 921 c.

The Gazette of St. Petersburg has an article on
the affair of the Charles-Georges, in which, on the
subject of immigration in general, it expresses
opinions almost textually the same as those in
the Emperor Napoleon's letter to his cousin. The
writer in the Russian journal could not have
known at the time of the letter in question. The
following is an extract from the Russian article :
" We know that the negro, when he is free,
never thinks of abandoning his country, and con-
sequently the idea of contracting an engagement to
labour beyond the seas can never occur to him.
We know also that there are very few free negroes
on the coast of Africa. There are, however, some
residing on the coast who may be good sailors, but
who do not like agricultural labour. What then
is done 'to obtain labourers P Application is
made to the native princes, to the toenes, who, by
the continual wars they carry on amongst each
other, obtain troops of slaves. It is these petty
kings who supply the French dealers with what
are called the free blacks. We are aware that
Europeans may pretend that in purchasing blacks
from the kings on the coast they are zealous pro-
moters of civilisation. But this argument resembles
that by which slave-dealers formerly defended their
traffic. Do we not,' said they, ' save the slaves
from certain death ? Do we not make Chrtstians
of them by sending them to the sugar, cotton, and
coffee plantations ?' Thank God, however, this
fallacious argument has never been admitted, it
has been shown that in reality the demand for the
black merchandise excited the native princes to in-
testine struggles, in order to procure slaves. And
who can affirm that what is called the free engage-
ment of negroes would not, by taking more con-
siderable proportions, produce similar results ? It
seems to us that in this affair it is indispensable to
reassure public opinion ; it is necessary at least to
elucidate and thoroughly examine this question ;