The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-03 00:00:00

tiONpON, WEDNESDAY' EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, lgNa

LATEST NE WS.

THE ROYAL SQUADRON.

The Victoria and Albert brought up last night
at the Nore, and departed thence for Antwerp at
two o'clock this morning. She was expected to
reach her destination at nine o'clock.

Her Majesty's despatch gun-boat Alacrity,
Commander Wodehouse, one of the Royal squa-
dron, got ashore on the Shingles Shoal at 4.30
this morning, where she remained high and dry.
The Port-Admiral at Sheerness sent her Majesty's
steam-tenders Lizard and Wildfire to her assist-
ance, and there was no doubt she would be got
off at high tide.

THE BRAZILS AND PORTUGAL.
[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
The screw steamer Petropolis, Captain Paulsen,
has arrived from the Brazils. She brought up
outside Calshot all night on account of thick fog.
The Petropolis left Rio Jan. 1 ; Bahia, '7th ;
Pernambuco, 10th ; St. Vincent, 20th ; and Lis-
bon, 29th.
She brings 20 passengers, '71,0001, in specie ;
diamonds, value 3,500/. ; 6,000 bags of coffee, and
a general cargo.
On the outward voyage spoke ship Allen, Bed-
forth, from
for Valparaiso, all well, in
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3de pg .
Liverpool
y n gov.ool 30
deg.
w.
At Rio were hex Majesty's ships Virago, Harrier,
and Madagascar ; French frigate Pursuivant, and
American frigate Plymouth.
At Bahia her Majesty's brig Siren.
The markets at Rio were materially affected by
the disastrous news from Europe.
On the 24th the Bank of Brazil raised their rate
of discount to 11 per cent., and bills on England
had been passed at 24 to 234.
Stocks of coffee were very large, amounting to
about '75,000 tons. Excepting in wines, sales had
been very limited. Bank Shares were worth 106
to 108 premium. Trade was generally dull, and
would so continue till sales of coffee could be
effected. Freights dull. Arrivals numerous.
At Bahia sugars were up to 2.400 raw browns,
and 2.700 fine browns ; whites were neglected at
3.200 ; coffee, 5.300 to 5.600 per arr. ; unwashed,
firsts, 4.500 to 5.150 ; seconds, 3.650 to 4.400 ;
cocoa, 6.600. Crop nearly over. Tonnage abun-
dant. Exchange closed at 22}. The weather was
very wet, which would retard the sugar crop.
The mail steamer Avon arrived at Bahia Jan. 1.
Considerable anxiety prevailed at Pernambuco
in commercial circles, on account of the news from
!his side. Exchange had gone down to 24, 90
days, and even to 23, 60 days. Discounts advanced
to 12 to 15 for first-class bills. Portuguese gold had
been freely purchased at 12 prem.; sovereigns, at
1.0.300. Prices of sugar were very high compared
with European rates :—Muscovados were 2.400 to
3 per arr.; whites, 3.400 to 4.500 ; stocks for sale
small, and packers firm in their demand. Cottons,
6.600 to 6.800.
Her Majesty's steamer Wasp arrived at Pernam-
buco on thcsinber 31, and proceeded to Paraiba
and Para on the 2d of January.
On the Lisbon Exchange bills continued scarce.
General rates on London were 53 to 30 days; and
53i for three. Some short bills were done at the
clo-:e under 53. A. good deal of money remaining
over. Continental paper scarce. Paris, 52G ;
Amsterdam, 43; Hamburg, 48 ; Genoa 52.
The Marquis de Soule's Cabinet had been rein-
stated in office.

FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.

We have received the Moniteur of yesterday.
It ;fives an account of the meeting of the Senate
under its President Troplong.
At half-past 3 o'clock M. Fonld rose and
" Gentlenien Benaters,—Tne Emperor has ordered me
to bring you the following message :
Messieurs lee Sonateurs—The Senatus-Consultum
of the 17th of July, 1856, leaves a doubt which I now
think it advisable to put an end to. In fact it only
confers the Regency on the Empress, or, she failing, on
French Princes, provided the Emperor has not by some
public or secret act willed it otherwise.

" believe lam responding to the public wish at the
same time that I follow my own feelings of the highest
confidence in the Empress by designating her as
Regent. Actuated by the same feeling, I designate, she
failing, as her successors in the. Regency the French
Princes in order of hereditary succession to the Crown.
"'I have also wished to provide for any doubts which
might arise as regards the Council of Regency from the
alternatives left open by the 18th article of the Senatus-
Consul, um of the 17th of July. Consequently, I have
established a Privy Council, which with the addition of
two French Princes nearest in the line of hereditary
succession, will bccome the Council of Regency from the
sole fact of the accession of the Emperor a minor, if at
that moment I should not have established anothei• by
public act. This Privy Council, formed of men who
enjoy my confidence, will be consulted on the great
affairs of the State, and will.prepare itstlf by the study
of the duties and necessities of a Government for the
important task which the future may have in reserve for

1L.16 I whereupon, I pray God to have you in hie holy
keeping.

"'NAPOLEON.
Palace of the Tuileries, Feb. 1, 1858.rn
The Message was accompanied by letters patent,
couched as follows :-
4, Napoleon, by the grace of God and the national
will, Emperor of the French, to all present, greeting.
"Being desirous of putting a stop at once to any
doubts which may result from the Senates-Consultant
of the 17th of July, 1856, and of giving to our well-be-
loved spouse Eugenie marks of the high confidence we
repose in her, we have resolved to confer upon her, and
do confer upon her by these presents, the title of Regent
to bear the said title and to exercise the functions thereof
from the day of the accession of the Emperor as minor,
in cmformity to the regulations of the Senatus-Con-
sultuin on the Regency.
" We charge our Minister of State to communicate
the present letters to our Keeper of the Seals, to be
inserted in the Bulletin des Lois, and also o the' Pre-
sidents of the Senate of the Legislative Carps, and of
the Council of State.
"Dane at our Palace of the Tuileries Use Ist of Feb.,
1858.
" Countersig-ed,

" NAPOLEON.

"ACHILLE FOULD."
His Excellency then read the following decree,
establishing the Privy Council
Napoloin, by the grace of God and the national
will, Emperor of the French, to all present and future,
greeting..

" Wt; have decreed and do decree as follows :
" Alt. 1. A Privy, Omen is established, which will
meet under the presidency of the Emperor.
"Art. 2. The Privy Council will become, with the
addition of the two Fiench Princes nearest in line of
succession, a Council of Regency, in case the Emperor
should not have designated another by public act.
" Art. 3. The following
are appointed members of the
Privy Council:--
,His Eminence Cardinal Morlot.
"His Excellency Marshal Duke of Malakhoff.
" His Excellency M. Achille Feuld.
" His Excellency M. Troplong.
"His Excellency Count de 111,:roy.
"His Excellency M. Boroche.
" His Excellency Count de Persigny.
"Are. 4. Our Minist,r of State is charged with the
execution of the present decree.
" Done at the Palace of .the Tuileries the Ist of
February, 1858.

" Countereigu,d, gi NApOLEOZT,

" ACHILLE FOULD,
(Minister of S ate)."
This communication was received (says the Moni-
ieur) with repeated shouts of " ViTe. P.Erupereur I.
The President then said :
"The Senate takes note of the documents which have
just been communicated to it, and, conformable to Art.
7, of the Scnatus Consultuna of the Regench
the Senate
ordains that the Message, as well as the documentsthereuntoannextd—viz., the letters patent and the decree
,appointing the Privy Council—sball be placed among
the archives."
The meeting broke up amid renewed cries of
4‘ Vivr l'Empereur !"
The following articles occur in the " PrJjet de
Lori" relating to measures for insuring the public
safety :

. 1. Imprisonment from two to
n
five years, and a
itine of 500 to 10,000/rancs, to any individual who
shall have excited, i whatever manner,
to crimes
contemplated in Articles 86 and 87 of the Penal
Coc'e, when such excitement shall not have been
followed by practical effects.
2. Imprisonment from one mon'h to two years,
and a fine of 100 to 2,000 francs to any individual
who, with the object of disturbing the public tran-
quillity, or of exciting hatred or contempt of the
G)vorninent of the Emperor, shall have entered

into intrigues, or kept up communications, whether
in France or foreign countries.
3. Every individual who, without being legally
authorised, shall have manufactured, sold, or dfs-
tributed—

I. Destructive machines, acting by explosion
or otherwise ;
11. Fulminating powder, of whatever descrip-
tion—
shall be punished with imprisonment for six months
to five years, and to a line of 50 to 3,000 franc!,
Article 7 declares al follows :

cc Any individual may be interne in France or
Algeria, or expelled, who was condenined, expelled,
interne, or transported in May or Juno, 1848, in
June, 1.849, or in December, 1851, and who may
again have been pointed out by important circum-
stances as dangerous to the public safety."
THE BOURSE, Feb. 2.—The following were the
closing quotations:-
4l per Cents 95
Do. end month — -
3 per Cent. ..... 69 n
Do. end mouth 69 30 .......
Bank Shares
Credit Mobilior 90
.....
Do. Account 9lO

Credit Foncier ........
Belgian 41
1 Piedniontese (5) ..
Roman —
Austrian
Spanish Throes
Florae Debt 361
MAYS.

RAIL'
Orleans
Northern
New Ditto BO7
Lyon and 11Iediteran. 875
Now Ditto B5O
Geneva

Midi
Western 697i
Strasburg
Grand Central .
Sardinian
Austrian

THE PRINCIPALITIES.
The following is the text of the Imperial firman
addressed to Prince Alexaudf-r Ghika, Caimacan of
Wallachia, ordering the dissolution of the Divan
of that Principality :
" The Divan, which was convoked in virtue of
my firman, in order to carry into execution in the
province of Wallachia, which forms an integral part of
my empire, articles 23 and 24 of the treaty of the 30th
March, 1856, assembled for the purpose of expressing
the wishes of the country, and of giving to the com-
mission, of which the delegate from my Sublime Porte
as well as those of the guaranteeing powers form pert,
the necessary information for the accomplishment or its
mandate. The said commission having declared that
this Divan cannot be of any further utility, I have
decided, in concert with tuy allies, to order its dissolution.
On the reception of my Imperial order, you will have to
dissolve the said Divan ad hoc, and to notify this docu-
ment to all whom it may concern." (Signed by the
Sultan.)