The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-28 00:00:00

THE CONGRESS.

The following telegrams have been received a
Mr. Reuter's office :

BERLIN, MONDAY, MARCH 28.
The town of Mannheim has been selected as the
place of meeting of the Congress.
It is understood here that it will assemble next
month.

FRANKFORT, SATURDAY.

The following is official :—The federal assembly
has voted supplies for arming the federal fortresses
with necessary artillery.
The Ober- Postamts Zeitung contains news from
Stuttgardt to the effect that Prince Frederick of
Wurtemberg has been appointed commander-in-
chief of the Bth Federal Corps d'Armee.

Advices have been received from Alexandria to
the 20th inst. The Progress announces that the
Viceroy has rejected the written application of M.
de Lesseps for permission to commence the work of
the Suez Canal, and that Mr. Licantbeg, the engi-
neer-in-chief, has tendered his resignation.

Letters from Turin state that the Prince of Wales
will not visit that town, but that he will prolong
his stay at Rome.

A letter from the frontier of the Tyrol announces
the intended organisation of companies of Tyrolean
volunteer carbineers. The Government of Vaud
remonstrates against the duty on the export of
horses, which it represents as being unfavourable
to agricultural interests.

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY.

The Moniteur of this morning states that the
publication in' the Annonia of the 2d instant of a
summary of a despatch, alleged to have emanated
from the Duke de Grammont, is absolutely false,
no such despatch having been sent.
At 1 p.m. yesterday Count Cavour was received
by the Emperor in a private audience. . The Sar-
dinian premier afterwards visited the Prince and
Princess Napoleon and Count Walewski, and will
dine this evening at the Tuileries.
The Marquis dlAzeglio, Sardinian ambassador in
London, is also now in Paris.
It is now said that the Congress will meet about
the Ist of May. It will be attended by five
Cabinet Ministers—Lord Malmesbury representing
England ; Count Walewski, France ; Prince Gort-
schakoff, Russia; Count Buol, Austria; and Baron
Schleinitz, Prussia. The Italian States will be
represented at the Congress.
The Siecle implores French diplomacy to oppose
in the projected congress any confirmation of the
treaties of 1815 :

" We cannot refrain from addressing a prayer to
our diplomatists ; it is to prevent that from the

deliberations of the congress there should proceed
in a direct or indirect form anything approaching
to a ratification of even the least important parts
of the treaties of 1815. Nations are not always in
a position to obtain the reparation due to them,
but it is essential for the sake of their honour that
they should preserve under all circumstances a dig-
nity which is their security for the future."
The same journal insists on the abolishment of
the temporal power of the Pope. Our contem-
porary considers that Jerusalem would be as favour-
able a spot as any for the Papal court to withdraw
to, consoled by a civil list to which all Catholic
countries would contribute :

" It, however, little matters where the Pope
resides. Wherever he may dwell, it will only de-
pend on himself to conquer the admiration, sympa-
thies, and respect of the world. He would
merely have to return to the spirit of the Gospel,

to humility and charity ln order to
regulate the state of Italy, and consequently of Eu-
rope, it is essential that the treaties which at this
moment rule the existence of European nations
should be modified, and that the Papacy should
consent to abandon its temporal power and exercise
the plenitude of its spiritual power under the pro-
tection of Europe in general, and of the Catholic
powers in particular. We should then no longer
behold the anomalies witnessed at all times, and
which our century has observed in the exile of
Pius VI., of Pius VII., and of Pius IX., provoked
alone by the possession of their temporal power
. Since John VIII., who the first disposed
of the empire, and gave it to Charles the Bold, the
most terrible proofs have not been wanting to
show that this temporal rule is a chain which not
only shackles Italy but also the Papacy itself. John
VIII. was himself compelled to fly, and to seek
refuge in France. Stephen VI. was put in irons
and strangled. In the tenth century, John X. was
imprisoned and suffocated ; Benoit VI, was
strangled ; John XVI., Pope or anti-Pope, had his
tongue and nose slit open and his eyes torn out;
Stephen VIII. was disfigured ; Leo V. was driven
out and imprisoned; Sergius 111., John XIII., and
Gregory V. were driven out; Benoit was deposed,
as also was Leo VIII. From the eleventh to the
thirteenth centuries, the same scandalous scenes,
struggles, and disorders were repeated. Victor 11.
nearly fell a victim to poison ; Pascal 11. was de-
posed ; Luke 111. was driven from Rome ; Celestin
IV. was poisoned, &c., &c."

BOURSE, March 26.—The market has been very
flat and the prices declining, owing to a further
fall of per cent. in English Consols, and in the
negotiation of a Russian loan of 12 millions of
pounds in Three per Cents., at 67 per cent. Threes,
after having been done at 68f. 75c. and 68f. 60c.,
rallied to 68f. 70c. Mobilier varied from 792 f. 50c.
to 787 f. 50c. ; Austrian, 550 f. to 551 f. 25c. ;
Lombardo-Venetian, 520 f. to 522 f. 50c. ; Orleans,
1,360 f. to 1,362 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 842 f. 50c. to 845 f.
Southern, 515 f. to 517 f. 50c. The following are
the last quotations :

41 per Cents. .... 96 50
Do. end month .. 96 40

Credit Foncier.... 645

3 per Cents. 6B 70
Do. end month 68 65
Bank Shares 2BBO
Credit Mobilier
Do. Account

Bel an 41
m_
Piedmontoso (5)
Roman B6 50
Austrian

Spanish Threes —
Home Debt 4O 50

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account
Orleans
Northern 935 .. 933 7,
New ditto BO6 50 .. 805
Lyons and Mediterranean 845 -- .. 845

New ditto — . .
Geneva 535 .. --
Midi — —
Southern
Western 6OO .. 600
Eastern • 677 50 .. 672 50
Grand Central — ..
Sardinian 395 .. 395
Austrian '
Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 c. ; money
25f.10 c. ; three months, paper, 25f.; money, 24f. 971 c.