The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-14 00:00:00

ST. PETERSBURG, MONDAY, DEC. 13.

The Northern Bee of this day publishes a leading
article, respecting the lonian Islands, and says :
"It is necessary for England to retain possession
of Corfu, on account of its importance as a station
in the Adriatic. The other lonian Islands could
be given up to Greece, with the option left to the
inhabitants of Corfu to emigrate within a stated
time."

BERLIN, MONDAY, DEC. 13.

The Prince of Wales will leave Berlin to-morrow.
He will pass the night at Magdeburg and will go
on Wednesday morning by express train to Cologne,
whence, after a short stay, he will set out by
special train for London.

The Bank of Prussia has announced that the
Bank discount from to-morrow will be 4 per cent.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY.

The Emperor received on Sunday, at a solemn
audience, his Excellency M. Mon, who came to
present his credentials as ambassador extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary of the Queen of Spain
and of the Duchess Regent of Parma to the Court
of the Tuileries. The Emperor was surrounded by
the great officers of the Crown and the officers of
his Majesty's household on service. The ambassa-
dor, having been presented by the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, addressed the Emperor in the fol-
lowing words :

" Sire,—ln presenting to your Majesty letters of
H.M. the Queen of Spain, which accredited me to
you in the quality of ambassador extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary, I am happy and
proud to be able to express the sentiments of sin-
cere and cordial friendship which actuate my
august sovereign towards your Majesty, and those
of the whole Spanish nation, for the illustrious
French nation, its neighbour and ally. Deign,
Sire, to permit me to hope that your imperial Ma-
jesty will be pleased to receive with kindness the
person who feels honoured at having to express
these affectionate sentiments on the part of a
friendly people and government. I will employ
all my efforts to render myself worthy of it. Sire,
I have the honour at the same time to present to
your Majesty letters from H.R.H. the Duchess
Regent of Parma, which also accredit me to you
as ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipo-
tentiary."
The Emperor replied :
" Monsieur l'Ambassadeur,—l always seize with
pleasure the occasions which present themselves
to express my sincere friendship for the Queen of
Spain and my esteem for the Spanish people. Will
you assure her Majesty that I express wishes for
her happiness and for the prosperity and glory of
the people she governs ? I thank you for the senti-
ments you express to me, and lam persuaded that
the distinguished men whom the Queen selects as
her representatives at Paris will, by their presence
among us, contribute to draw closer the ties which
unite the two countries."

The audience then terminated. M. Mon and the
gentlemen of his embassy were conveyed to the
palace of the Tuileries in court carriages, and after
the audience were taken back in the same way to
the Spanish Embassy.
A Paris letter in the Nord of Brussels says :—" A
dispatch has, it is said, been received at the Ministry
of Marine which makes known a very serious act
on the part of M. Sabbatier at Djedda. The
French Commissioner, in consequence of the inves-
tigation which he had made, felt fully convinced
that the principal instigator of the assassinations
was the governor himself, Namick Pacha. Acting
on that conviction, M. Sabbatier and the captain of
the English frigate, accompanied by a detachment
of French and English sailors, went to the Gover-
nor's palace, and arrested him in the midst of his
staff. No resistance was offered to this bold pro-
ceeding. Namick Pacha was conveyed on board
the Duchayla, where he is detained a prisoner, until
instructions are received from the French Govern-
ment. The news of this arrest, if it be confirmed,
will produce a considerable sensation at Constanti-
nople, and will most propably lead to remon-
strances from the Porte."

BOURSE, Dec. 13.—The attention of speculators
has been en grossed to-day by the financial state-
ment just published, and which produced a favour-
able impression on the market. Prices are steady.
Threes have been done at from 73f. 20c. to 73f.
30e. ; Mobilier, 985 f. to 992 f. 50c. ; Austrian,
641 f. 25c. to 642 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,397 f. 50c. to
1,400 f. ; Lyons, 882 f. 50c. to 885 f. ; Southern,
585 f. to 590 f.; and Northern, 997 f. 50c. to I,ooof.
The following are the last quotations :

lf per Cents. 97
Do. end month 97 30
3 per Cents. 73 15
Do. end month 73 15
Bank Shares 3120
Credit Mobilier
Do, Account

Credit Foncier
Belgian 41 lOl 12
Piedmontes© (5) 94
Roman 93
Austrian
Spanish Threes 47 75
Home Debt 43 50

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern lOOO .. 1001 25
New ditto. B4O .. 843 76

Lyons and Mediterranean BB2 50 .. 882 50
New ditto

Geneva
Midi
Southern
Western 602 50 .. 606 25

620 -

.. 622 50

Eastern
Grand Central
Sardinian

.. 697 50

435 - .. 435 -

Austrian

Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 c. ; money,
25f. 10c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 971 c. ; money, 24f.
Vbc.

AUSTRIA.

A letter from Vienna says :—" The new financial
measures which are to be adopted in the course of
this month are looked for with great impatience.
The object of them is to enable the Bank, which
is now in a very critical position, to meet all the
demands which will be made on it from the Ist
January next in consequence of the new monetary
convention, withon t its being compelled to have
recourse to restriotions. An expedient might be
found in the reimb.ersement, even if partial, of the
debt of the State to the Bank, but the difficulty
would be to disco,ver the means of enabling the
State to do so. Tlw assigning over to the Bank the
first instalment of the sum due to the State for the
purchase of the r xilways by the Austro-French
company would be but a very feeble assistance, the
metallic reserve re( iuiring to be reinforced in a far
different knanner. The hope which had been v.t one
time entertained th at the house of Rothschild would
discount half of the • sum has vanished, all the nego-
tiations entered in,to for that purpose having failed.
The only plan is to have .recourse to a loan, and
rumours arc alread y current that the Government
is negotiating for ( )ne with some bankers abroad.
The amount is estir aated at from 80 to 100 millions
of florins (from 200 I'D 250 millions of francs), and
it will, according to : report, be exclusively applied
to the extinction of ,e debt to the Bank, and be