The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, 1858.

the issue of notes of small and convenient denomi-
nations for domestic use would have completely
averted the distress and saved the country, as the
contemned £1 notes did in 1825. Let agriculturists
and manufacturers for once be persuaded that so
far as the money laws are concerned their interests
are one and indivisible, and by combined action
assail that code which has occasioned so much mis-
chief and annoyance to each and all.

MR. G. F. H. SMITH'S WEATHER PRE-
DICTIONS FOR DECEMBER.

From Ist to sth, mild weather ; from sth to Bth,

also mild, or nearly so ; and, although rain will
intervene between the Ist and 2d or 4th, fine
weather prevails to the Bth. From the Bth to the

11th or 13th, changeable, alternating between
showers and fine weather ; from the 15th to the
19th, conficting as to temperature—l judge a me-
dium result. From the 20th to the 24th there may
be an occasional keenness in the atmosphere, but
principally a mild or medium temperature will
prevail. From 24th to 31st, weather generally fine,
and a medium temperature to 31st, with an occa-
sional freshness or keen atmosphere.

LATEST NEWS.

VIENNA, Nov. 30.
Advices have been received from Corfu to the

27th inst.

The ten deputies of Corfu have protested against
the statement of Si; John Young, that the inhabi-
tants of Corfu desire incorporation -with Great Bri-
tain, and have expressed, at the same time, their
desire of being annexed to Greece.
This protest has been forwarded to the Colonial
Minister, Sir Edwcrd Bulwer Lytton.

BERLIN, TUESDAY.
The Ojicial Prussian Gazette publishes an article
on the result of the elections.

These, it is said, give room to hope that the
Ministry and the Legislature will co-operate with
cordiality, each respecting the other's privileges
and obligations.

But, it is added, the Government cannot permit
any political party to take the initiative in mea-
sures. Government by party is totally inconsistent
with the spirit of the system of the Prussian mo-
narchy.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY.

Madame Barret, mother of MM. Odilon, Ferdi-
nand, and Adolphe Barrot, died on Sunday night
last. This melancholy event has delayed the de-
parture for Madrid of M. Adolphe Barret, the
- k
newly-appointed Ambassakor to the Cottrt of Spain.
Madame Barrot, sister of General Borrelly, of
Sevres, was the widow of the Conventionalist
Barrot, who, at the trial of Louis XVI., voted for
the exile of that unfortunate Monarch, notwith-
standing the menaces of the Terrorists.
The Minister of War has received the following
letter from Marshal Canrobert

" Paris, Nov. 27.

" Monsieur le Ministre,—The publication of the
Journal of the Siege of Sebastopol of General Niel
has already given rise to numerous comments, both
in the journals and elsewhere. Several writers of the
press, whose knowledge of military art and of forti-
ficatians cannot be very extensive, have selected
from the General's book certain passages which,
when quoted isolatedly, have a sense which they
could not possess when taken in connexion with
the whole of the work, or consequently in the mind
of the author. For instance, they say—'lt results
from the work of General Niel that Sebastopol
was scarcely defended when the Allies appeared
before it ; and in the opinion of this general a
coup de main might have been effected.' It
results from the real facts, represented by General
Niel with that good faith which characterises
him, that the first defences of Sebastopol (de-
tailed at pages 22, 23, 24, 28, 30, 31, and 33),
were not such as could be carried at the point of
the bayonet. lam persuaded that General Niel,
if he had commanded the Engineers of the French
army from the commencement of the siege, would
have shared in the firm conviction of his glorious
and intrepid colleague, the much to be regretted
General Bizot, who according to his own words,
would have taken care not to advise an attack by
main force before having employed, against strongly
armed works, and four at least of which were
permanent ones, closed at the gorge and supported
in the rear by the upper-deck guns of 50 vessels of
war, the 120 pieces of heavy siege artillery which
the allies had at their command, and before an
attempt had been made, with the aid of that power-
ful means, to rapidly destroy two or three of the
points of defence, while at the same time carrying
nearer to them the starting point of the columns
of assault. This opinion the distinguished officer
above mentioned categorically explained to
your Excellency from the very commencement
of the operations before Sebastopol and by each
- samo #tleit Was at ume enter-
tained on the spot by many of the best officers
of the army, and I more strongly than ever
coincide in it now, as, after having read the able
work of General Neil, I am more convinced that
the success of a coup de main was impossible.
There is certainly no necessity for me to remind
your Excellency what a failure would have led to
under the circumstances in which the allied armies
were placed. I have thought it my duty, Monsieur
le Ministre, to address to you these simple observa-
tions. If you approve of them, as I hope you will,
You may perhaps consider it useful to have them
inserted in the Moniteur.—Accept, &c.,

" CANROBERT."

BOURSE, Nov. 30.—The market has been steady,
and prices well maintained at from 74f. 40c. to 74f.
50c. ; the option was declared at 74f. 45c. ; Mo-
biller varied from 1,040 f. to 1,045 f. ; Orleans,
1,410 f. to 1,412 f. 50c. ; Southern, 590 f. to 595 f. ;
Lyons, 880 f. to 885 f. ; Northern, 1,002 f. 50c. to
1,005 f. ; and Austrian, 655 f. to 657 f. 50c. The
following are the last quotations :

41 per Cents. .. • 96 75
Do. end month ' 96 65
3 per Cents 74 60
Do. end month 74 40
Bank Shares. . 3175
Credit Mobilier
Do. Account

Credit Fonder 672 50
Belgian 41 lOO
Piedmontese (5)
Roman 95 50
Austrian —
Spanish Threes -
Home Debt 42 75

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern
New ditto. B4O .. 840
Lyons and Moditerranean 877 50 .. 878 75
New ditto

.. 632 50

Geneva 630
Midi —
Southern
Western 617 50 615
Eastern
Grand Central - --
Sardinian
Austrian

Exchange on London;at sight, paper, 25f. 121 e. ; money,
25f. l lc. ; three months, paper, 21f. 95e. ; money, 21f.
92te.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Nov. 28.

After a heavy stamp duty had been imposed on
the political papers published in Austria very few
of the Vienna organs of the press found their way
into the provinces, and hardly any into foreign
countries. The heads of the Foreign, Home, and
Police-Departments -soon -had occasion- to remark
that a blunder had been committed, but they long
refrained from expressing their disapproval of the
so-called " financial measure." At last, however,
they took courage, and informed the Minister of
Finances that, in their opinion, the tax imposed on
the political part of the press was too heavy. Baron
Bruck at first replied that he could not remit any
part of the stamp duty, but eventually he accepted
a proposition which was made by his colleagues.
The nature of the proposition is to be seen in the
subjoined Ordinance, which appeared in the Wiener
Zeitung of this morning :

" IMPERIAL ORDINANCE, VALID. FOR THE WHOLE

EMPIRE.

" After having heard the opinion of my Minis-
ters and of the Council of the Empire, in respect to
a uniform taxation of the periodical press, I have
resolved to reduce the stamp duty on newspapers
published in my Empire and in the States belong-
ing to the (German) postal association (Postvereins
Staaten) from the two new kreutzers to one new
kreutzer. The papers published in other countries
will pay a stamp duty of two instead of four
new kreutzers. A change will, however, be
made in the law of September 6, 1850, and in
the Ordinance of October 23, 1857 ; and in future
all papers, whether, published at home or abroad,
which appear once a week, or several times in the
course of the week, will be subjected to the above-
mentioned stamp duty. The sole exceptions are
official papers, and these which treat of scientific,
artistic, or technical matters ; but these last, if
published in Austria, gill have to pay the stamp
duty if they contain advertisements or Unterhal-
tungs-Lecture (romances, novels, &c.)
"The Miniiitry of the Interior an' ,1 the Finance

and Police Depitrtments will have to decide which
papers are exempted from stamp duty.

" This ordinance is to come into force on the Ist
of January, 1859.
" Briinn, Nov. 23, 1858.
" FRANCIS-JOSEPH, Emperor.
" Count von BUOL SCHAUENSTEIN.

"Baron von BACH.
" Baron von BRUCK.

" Baron von KEMPEN.
"By order of his Majesty,
" Baron you RANsoN.NET,"

LIBERTY OF THE PRESS IN PARIS.

(From the Correspondent of the Daily _Yews)

The Times, Daily News, Morning Post, Morning
Chronicle' Sun, Express, Examiner, Spectator,
Saturday Review, and almost all the weekly papers
are seized.

My despatch was received at the telegraph-office,
and my messenger brought me back a receipt for
the cost of transmission. This evening I have
received an intimation on an open piece of
paper, without any signature, that my despatch
" No. 23,859" was not forwarded, and no reason
why is vouchsafed. This public announcement
will probably lead higher officers, of -state in
France than those who were immediately respon-
sible for keeping back my despatch to consider
seriously whether such a petty, miserable inter-
ference with the use of the private telegraph can
in any way whatever add to the dignity or contri-
bute to the safety of the empire. If the officials
concerned possess but a grain of common sense they
must have known that all their zeal could only
retard the knowledge of the truth in England some
three or four hours ; or whatever may be the exact
interval of time that elapses between the publication
of your first and second editions. Can they look
one another in the face and offer any rational plea
for their conduct ? When will they learn that in
attempting to injure the English press they bite a
file ? The French pavers do not dare to state the
reason for the razzia among the English journals.
The Presse says at the head of its news of the day
that the " English journals did not come to hand
yesterday, for a reason which it is not for us to
explain."