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

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMIIER 9, 1858.

LATEST NEWS.

The following. telegrams have been received at
Mr. Renter's office :

MARSEILLES, THURSDAY.
Advices have been received 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 extraordinary movement and activity
among the members of the diplomatic corps. The
reserve of the army in Asia has been called out.
Notwithstanding 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.
Advices 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 Oetober 4,600 Circassians,
with the Naib Schago and his brothers, have gone
over to the Russians (emigres chez les Russel.)

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 effeet I.
" 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 of

" 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 ?"

SARDINIA.
The Opinione of Turin states that the Sardini

Minister of War has justvisited the fortifications of
Casale, and found. them very far advanced. The
same journal states from Lombardy, on the other
hand, that the greatest activity reigns in the
arsenal of Venice ; that the number of workmen
there has been doubled, and that warlike stores of
all sorts are being brought in. It adds that
several arrests have taken place at Milan, and
that 17 students have been arrested at Pavia,
where several houses have been searched for arms
many of which have been seized. The garrison
has been increased by a field-battery.
It has already been -stated that the Archduke
Charles Louis, brother to the Emperor of Austria,
lately visited the. Pope. The Opinione of Turin
states that he is formally entrusted with a political
mission, the object of which is to obtain permisoion
from the Pope to occupy some new point of the
Legation with Austrian troops, in order to be pre-
pared against an outbreak.

FRANCE.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY

The Moniteur publishes an official notification
from Admiral Rigault de Genouilly, Commander in
Chief of the French and Spanish forces in Cochin-
China, to the effect that on and after the Ist of
September, 1858, the bay and river of Tourane and
the port of Cham-Callao are declared in strict
blockade. All vessels attempting to fprce the
blockade will be treated according to the usages of
international law. _ _ _

A telegram has been received in Paris, an-
nouncing that Mehemed Djemel Bey, Ambassador
from the Porte to the Court of France, had embarked
at Constantinople to return to Paris.
A second telegram received in Paris, announces
the arrival at Alexandria of Mahmoud Pasha, the
new Governor of Jeddah, who was appointed to
that situation at the recommendation of M. Thou-
vend, the French Ambassador. The Turkish
Government desired that Mahmoud Pasha should
reach Jeddah previous to M. Sabatier, the French
Consul-General, leaving that town.
M. de Mornard, French Consul at Salonica, has
arrived in Paris on leave of absence._
The 3loniteur also publishes a report from Mar-
shal Vaillant, approved by the Emperor, appointing
a committee to examine into the best means for
improving the manufacture of fire-arms in France.
Marshal Bosquet, we regret to say, is again in a
very unsatisfactory state of health.
The last accounts from China (says the Pays)
announce that Baron Gros, the French Envoy,
who had left Shanghai on the 25th Sept. for Japan,
on board the steam corvette Primauguet, accom-
panied by the Pregent, steam advice boat, had
arrived at his destination. He was received in the
most distinguished manner by the Japanese Govern-
ment, and after negotiations, which had been carried
on with the best feeling on both sides, had signed
a treaty of amity and commerce with that power.
BOURSE, Dec: 7.—The market continued buoyant,
and with a further advance of prices at the opening ;
but the sudden rise induced sales for realisation,
and caused a slight reaction. Threes, after having
been 'done• at 73f. 40c., are now at 73f. 20c. ;

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. 25c. to 882 f. 50c. ; Southern, 595 f.
to 5901.; and Austrian, 652 f. 50c. to 650 f. The
market rallied again before the close, when the
following were the quotations

ti per Cents. .... 96 50 I Credit Foncier 675
Do. end month .. 96 601 Belgian 41
3 per Cents. 73 05 Piedmontesa (5)
Do. end month.... 73 35 Roman 93 25
Bank Shares. 3170 Austrian
Credit Mobilier .. 997 50 Spanish Threes
Do. Account ..... 1002 50 Rome Debt ..—

DEATH

D, ESQ.

We have this day to note, with no ordinary sor-
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 morning 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 of a 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 information, which, for variety
and truthfulness, could not be equalled by any pro-
vincial journal in the United Kingdom.
The following graceful 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 highly-respected gentleman.
Mr. Seed, though still in the prime of life, had
long held an important position in the commer-
cial affairs of this town, and, as au honourable
and straightforward man of business, he stood
deservedly high 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. By his exertions and adap-
tive talents, he not only raised 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 farrtherefore, as an exceedingly valua-
ble department of 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 for 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 of Belfast will readily recollect
with what zeal 'Mr. Seed took up the case connected
with our export trade, 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 set down as exporting about £70,000 or
£BO,OOO a year. The actual value of all our exports
has averaged nine millions for the last six years;
but, as the vast proportion of these exports are sent
via Liverpool, and not direct, the latter-named port
gets credit for every pound's worth of goods sent
from thence, as if the total had been the result of
local industrial enterprise. Mr. Seed put this question
into its legitimate shape, and had 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 disclosure of private arrangements for
us to gratefully acknowledge that the late Mr.
Seed was, for very many years, connected with the
Northern Whig in its trade reports and commercial
news, and that we have frequently been indebted
to his pen for many valuable and important contri-
butions on local commercial topics.—Belfast Mer-
cantile News.