The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-30 00:00:00

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PARIS, SUNDAY, 6 P.M.
I may assure you there is no truth in the reports
periodically circulated about England and France
being about to resume diplomatic relations with
Naples. There are persons both in Paris and Lon-
don interested in re-establishing embassies at the
Court of the Two Sicilies, because it would assure
them a pleasant diplomatic appointment. There are
also persons in Naples who think to persuade King
Ferdinand of the necessity of making some changes
in his Cabinet, and according a limited political am-
nesty. The information which reaches me from
Naples represents the King as rather pleased than
otherwise to dispense with the presence of French
and English plenipotentiaries. Nevertheless, as cer-
tain officious approaches are from time to time made
with a view of reconciliation, we must expect perio-
dically to find exaggerated reports of the same in
the continental journals. These reports generally
are first printed in an Austrian or Belgian paper.
They thus get into some London newspaper, and
finally become reprinted from the English text in
one or two French journals. The StBele of to-clay,
for example, publishes from one' of your contempo-
raries an " important rumour," by which we learn
how the King of Naples has accepted conditions for
a reconciliation with England and France. Thy fact
is, England and France are perfectly agreed on what
terms they will resume relations with Naples, and
those terms are, no doubt, such as the honour of the
two countries demands, and the real interests of
Naples suggests—therefore not likely to be accepted
by King Ferdinand.
The French Government has not yet received any
confirmation of the treaty with China from its own
agent, nor can any such confirmation arrive, it is
calculated, for ten days. Despatches, however, have
reached Paris which anticipate the possibility of
China accepting all the demands of the Allies but
one, but the objectionable " one" is not named. May
it not be the establishment of Ambassadors at

Pekin ?
A letter from Berlin, of the 26th, contains the im-
portant announcement of the elevation of the Prince
of Prussia to the functions of Regent of the king-
dom, intelligence for which your readers are pre-
pared :

"The question relative to the Government is at
length decided. Two days ago there was received at
Babelsberg a resolution of the King on the subject,
but which will not, however, be published before the
expiration of the present delegation. The Prince of
Prussia will, on the 23d October, take in hands the
reins of government, with the complete exercise of
sovereignty and in quality of Regent. This affair is
settled in all its political bearings—it only remains to
make the necessary financial arrangements. This in-
formation may be considered as authentic."
A letter from Berlin, of the 24th, in the Augsburg
Gazette, says :—" The Prussian Cabinet has, within
the last few days, sent a fresh despatch to the Aus-
trian Government to again explain the attitude of
Prussia in the question of Radstadt."
In this document the Prussian Government per-
sists in maintaining that it bas, as well as Austria,
a right to place a garrison in that federal fortress.
A letter from Vienna, of the 24th, in speaking of
the Prussian Note, says :—" Much sensation has been
caused here by a decisive note which the Prussian
Government has just addressed to Count Buol, rela-
tive to the resolution of the Diet on the subject of
the pretensions of Prussia to keep a garrison at Bad-
stadt, conjointly with Austria and the Grand Duchy
of Baden. As it was thought here that this affair
was settled, at least for some time, the sudden arrival
of this note has produced considerable sensation in
the higher political regions of our capital."
I have received communications from Athens,
dated Aug. 20. The Queen continues to direct the
political affairs of Greece, which are chiefly confined
to the question of the succession to the throne.
Her Majesty now intrigues against the pre-
tensions, or rather rights, of the Bavarian
Court. This is so obvious that the Minister of
Bavaria no longer visits the Kynosargis (Royal
Palace). The Queen desires to see her brother suc-
ceed to the Crown, and openly declares that the
Prince Alymadas would embrace the Greek faith if he
were elected heir to the throne. I need scarcely add her
Majesty is strongly supported in this proposition by
Count Oziroff, the Russian Minister at Athens. The
King himself is said to support this arrangement,
and will try to settle the question before he returns
to Athens. The public works of which we heard so
much are still confined to paper ; the French en-
gineer, M. Daniel, is unable to get the Government
to permit him to do anything at all. Ile has nothing
to think of, though well paid, but his 'pipe, and the
iTITOCO V iIEXI (the famed honey) of that delicious
land. The Anglo-French Financial Commission is
equally employed in doing nothing. Unhappy
Greece !
The Opinione of Turin reminds the Morning Poet
that it is in error to suppose Mazzini uses that jour-
nal to promulgate his revolutionary circulars. "If
we have produced the document," say the Opinione,
"it is because by so doing we avail ourselves of the
best means to show its impotence and absurdity."
Italy, in future, need fear nothing from Mazzini ; the
people are perfectly well aware who are their friends
and who their enemies.

A letter from Mauberge states that on Sunday
last, the 22d, ten Protestants were expelled from a
room in which they were assembled, and four of
them, one the minister, who had been sent from the
Consistory of Lille, carried to prison. If this be true,
the authorities have acted quite contrary to the policy
observed by :he French Government in religious affairs.
Toleration ofall religious sects—the equal protection of
all—the participation of all in public benefits, are the
rules to be observed throughout France. It is only
when a religious doubt has been employed to screen
political designs that the State interfered. The central
authorities will assuredly punish the fanatical passions
of those wbo convert religion into the intrigues of
ignorance, and substitute persecution for that Chris-
tian toleration of all Christian sects which belongs
to the principles of the great Revolution—on which
the,present dynasty and Government of France are
founded.
The Lien, a journal of the Reformed Churches,
publishes the following extract of a circular lately
addressed by the Prefect of the Sarthe to the Sub-
Prefects and other authorities in that department,
relative to the hawking of books and other printed
publications :—" I must add, according to instruc-
tions from the Minister of the Interior, that in all
the departments like ours, where only a small pro-
portion of the population profess the reformed reli-
gion, Protestant Bibles must be assimilated to other
writings contrary to the religion of the majority, and
consequently of a nature to excite a certain degree of
irritation. It is, therefore, proper to exclude those
works from being hawked even when they have the
usual stamp." I very much question if the Minis-
ter of the Interior ever issued instructions preventing
the distribution of any Bibles. Is it to be believed

that France, in 1858, is not to possess the faithful
text of the Bible ? The subject deserves the atten-
tion of Government, in order that such a reported
scandal may be removed. Rome does not dictate in

Paris ! If so, such does not belong to the great Re-
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