The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, lONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1858.

LATEST NEWS.

grams have been received at
Mr. Renter's office offieetete

MARSEILLES, THURSDAY.
Advices have been re ceived from Constantinople
to the Ist inst.
The ambassadors of the Great Powers have met
in conference, during two consecutive days, to de-
bate on the critical state of the Principalities.
There is an extrarirdinary movement and activity
among the mem'oers of the diplomatic corps. The
reserve of the arnay in Asia has been called out.
Notwithstand'lng the arrival of a part of the
loan, contracted in England, the Turkish troops
have not yet received their arrears of pay. There
is also a delay in paying the salaries of the public
functionaries.

An incredible stock jobbing is going on with the
deeds of the Seraglio debts.
Adviccs from Persia state that a distinguished
reception had been given to the French military
mission.

MARSEILLES, WEDNESDAY.
Advices have been received from Lebanon to the
25th November.

Notwithstanding the death of several of the
insurrectional chiefs and the submission of the
Syrian tribes, disagreements and disorder increase
continually, and the inhabitants of Syria implore
the protection of the European powers.
A fight has taken place near Damascus with a
horrible slaughter of the Mutualis (a Syrian tribe)
by the Nomades.

ST. PETERSBURG, DEC. 7.
According to news from the Caucasus the Cir-
cassians have been defeated at Bagnado.
During September and October 4,600 Circassians,
with the Naib Schago and his brothers, have gone
over to the Russians (emigres chez les Russes.)

GENOA, DEC. 7.

The Grand Duke Constantine of Russia has left
for Villafranca. A distinguished reception was
given to him by the authorities of Genoa.

MADRID, DEC. 8.

Marshal O'Donnell declared yesterday that the
Government has resolved to preserve the Constitu-
tional system.

Three per Cents. closed 43 65; ditto Deferred,
31 45.

HANOVER, DEC. 8.

The Ministry has been again defeated. The
Second. Chamber has rejected, by 44 votes against
36, the law presented by the Government to in-
crease the income-tax.

The following was received at Mr. Reuter's
office from Naples, by letter :

"NAPLES, DEC. 3.
"I have to communicate a fact not yet noticed

by the press.

" The King of Naples had, it is stated, some time
ago, asked the Cabinets of London and Paris to
allow his ambassadors to be sent to those places, in
the hope that their visit to Queen Victoria and the
Emperor Napoleon, would tend to re-establish di-
plomatic relations which would facilitate the send-
ing of ambassadors to Naples by the Courts of St.
James's and the Tuileries.

" The English and French Governments not hav-
ing sent any reply, it was feared that things would
remain in static quo. But the English Cabinet has
now quite unexpectedly sent an answer. I have
been told that Lord Malmesbury's despatch is to the
following effect :
" The Government of her Majesty has seen with
satisfaction that his Majesty the King of Naples is
anxious to renew diplomatic relations, which had
been broken off.

" The English Government hopes that the King
will facilitate the means of doing so by no
more refusing to the present Cabinet a measure
analogous to that which was taken when Lord
Palmerston was at the head of the Ministry.

"The treaty with the Argentine Republic has
not been ratified or carried out. Could not the
King find any other means to apply those mea-
sures of clemency which he thought of at that
time ?"

Mobilier varied from I,ooof. to 990 f. ; Orleans,
1,405 f. to 1,400 f. ; Northern, 1,005 f. to I,ooof. ;
Lyons, 886 f. 25e. to 882 f. 50c. ; Southern, 595 f.
to 590 f.; and Austrian, 652 f. 50e. to 650 f. The
market rallied again before the close, when the
following were the quotations :

it per Cents. 96 50
Do. end month 96 60
3 per Cents. 73 05
Do. end month 73 35
Bank Shares
Credit Mobilier 997 50
Do. Account

Credit Fonder 675
Belgian 4i . —
Piedmonteso (5) 94
Roman 93 25
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —

RAILWAYS,

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern , lOOO .. 1002 50
New ditto 842 50 .. 845
Lyons and Blediterranean 835 .. 885
New ditto — . •
Geneva 625 .. 627 50
Midi —•—• • •
Southern
Western 612 50 .. 610
Eastern 7OO .. 700 "'—
Grand Central — . .
Sardiniaa
Austrian

Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 12ie. ; money,
25f. 10e. threo:pontha, paper, 24f. 951 c. ; money, 24f.
95c.

PRUSSIA.

A letter from Berlin of the 3d says :—" A part
of the suite which accompanied the King and
Queen to Meran have returned to the capital.
General de Gerlach soon after waited on the Prince
Regent and delivered a letter from the Queen.
Different versions were in circulation as to the
contents of this letter. It is said by some that
the Queen complains bitterly of the changes
which the Regent has effected among the high
functionaries of the State, and particularly of the
speech made by the Prince to the ministers, and
in which, it may be remembered, he alluded to the
faults committed under the preceding Government.
The Queen, it is said, observed in her letter that
it was rather premature on the part of the Prince
to pronounce such an opinion while the King ova
still alive, and might at any moment resume the
reins of Government."

The Emperor of Austria on the 2d received the
Archbishop of Vienna, who took leave on his de-
parture for Rome, where he goes to receive the hat
of cardinal. His Majesty also received the reign-
ing prince of Leichstenstein, who had arrived the
day before from his country seat at Eisgrieb.

DEATH OF JOHN SEED, ESQ.

We have this day to note, with no ordinary €36 -
row, the death of the proprietor and editor of this
journal. There is always something especially sad
in recording in his own paper the last notice of one
who has long watched over its interests, and in
this instance that peculiar feeling which almost in-
variably makes the relationship between the editor
and the sheet In which he sends forth to the world
his every-day thoughts, was powerful in the ex-
treme. Only a few weeks have rolled away since
Mr. Seed was busy in the maze of mercantile events,
collecting material for his paper, and criticising
with scrupulous attention every single note of pass-
ing events, in order to ensure perfect accuracy in
the statistical department of the journal. On Mon-
day, the Bth ult., he took suddenly ill, and was
obliged to leave the office long before his usual
hour. Some partial rally of the system took place
about ten days ago, but the change was only tem-
porary, and he gradually sunk, until an early hour
on Thursday mo-ning last, when his death took
place, leaving a wife and six children, the youngest
only a few weeks old. Of Mr. Seed's abilities as a
commercial journalist, we can speak in terms of
unqualified eulogy. There was about his entire
habits a matter of fact system of action, and at the
same time a spirit of keen inquiry, which invested
him with peculiar fitness for the discharge of his
duties as editor of the Mercantile Journal. The
greatest man that wielded power over the local press
—he whose remains have been suffered to rest
without a single line to record the name of the
tenant who sleeps in that silent grave—once said
that the conductor ora paper should be as careful
of the authenticity of his editorial matter, as he
would be of the statements he uttered in his capa-
city as a private gentleman. The important aphor-
ism seemed to rule in all the details of Mr. Seed's
commercial literature, and the result was to bring
out week after week, in the columns of his paper, a
mass of mercantile in formation, which, for variety
and truthfulness, could not be equalled by any pro-
vincial journal in the United Kingdom.
The following grace:ul compliment to the memory
of the late Mr. Seed appeared in the Northern
Whig of Saturday :
"In our obituary column of yesterday we had
the melancholy duty of recording the somewhat
sudden demise of this bishly-respected gentleman.
Mr. Seed, though still in the prime of life, had
long held an imnm 'cant position in the commer-
cial affairs of thiS town, and, as an honourable
and stra;ghtforward man of business, he stood
deservedly, hi3h in the estimation of his fellow-
citizens. The title, however, by which he will be
more especially remembered. in relation to his
public character, is that of Editor of the Belfast
Mercantile Journal. Ey his exertions and adap-
tive talents, he not only raied that paper into
considerable popularity with the mercantile pub-
lic, but he, at tha same time, did good service to
the commercial status of Belfast. From the first
day on which he took charge of the Journal—even
to the latest exertion of his official duties—he in-
fused a new spirit into the dry details of mercantile
statistics, and ultimately stamped the paper with
the character of an authority on all subjects con-
nected with the history of Ireland's trading enter-
prise. So far, therefore, as an exceedingly valua-
ble department editorial labour is concerned, the
death of Mr. Seed leaves a blank in our local

literature which will not easily be filled up. On
leading points connected with the industrial pro-
ducts of this country the late respected gentleman
was remarkably well informed. He possessed an
intuitive taste .An: statistics, and the bent_of his
mind was 'peculiarly fitted to give full play to his
idea on the questions in which he took such interest.
" The merchants o Belfast will redily recollect
with what. zeal Mr. Seed took un the case connected
with 0117 export 4 rade, and dealt with it in a style
that called forth . the attention of .the ' leading
journal.' In the Board of Trade Returns, Belfast
is usually cet don n as exporting about £70,000 or
£BO,OOO a year. The actual value cs.:' all our exports
has averased nine reill'ons for the last six years;
but, as the vast proportion of these expm is are sent
via Liverpool, and not direct, the latter-named port
gets credit for every pound's worth of goods sent
fzom thence, as i the total had been the result of
local industrial enterprise. Mr. Seed put this quection
into its legitiniute shape, andhad he never done a
greater service to our mercantile character that one
act is worthy of the grateful recollection of the
inhabitants of Ulster's capital. In private life Mr.
Seed was a gentleman in every sense of that com-
prohensive. term; and one of the best of all his
practical virtues was that of never forgetting an
act of friendship.
" It is no di:.,closure of private arrangements for
us to gratefully acknowledge that the late Mr.
Seed was,.fo • very many years, connected with the
Northern -Whig in its trace repor Is and commercial
news, and that we have frequently been indebted
to his pen, for many valuable and important contri-
buiions on local commercial Copies.—Beyast Mer-
cantile Neivs.