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

THE CONGRESS.

The following telegrams have been received
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• Postcznits 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 Armenia 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 d'Azeglio, 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 fiy, 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 N.—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. 75e. 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. 50e. ; 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 Credit Fonder 64_5
Do. end month 96 40 I Belgian 4:k —
3 per Cents. 6B 701 Piedmontese (5) ~ 79 50
Do. end month.... 68 65 Roman B6 50
Bank Shares
Credit Mobilier .. 788 50 Spanish Threes
Do. Account ..... 787 50 Home Debt 4O 50
RAILWAYS.

Cr 9h. Account.
Orleans
Northern
New ditto BO6 50 .. 805

Lyons and Moditerranean 845 81
New ditto —
Geneva

Midi
Southern
Western 6OO .. 600
Eastern
Grand Central —
Sardinian
Austrian '

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

AUSTRIA.

A letter dated Vienna, March 23, says :—Dur-
ing Lord Cowley's sojourn in Vienna Count Buol
would not hear of a Congress, but when Russia
seconded England and Prussia, the Imperial
Government became more docile. It is suspected
here that France, Russia, and Sardinia are playing
a concerted game, but it appears to me that
the St. Petersburg. Cabinet is acting in strict con-
currence with the Berlin and London Govern-
ments. Yesterday evening there were two strange
and somewhat alarming reports in circulation,
which were probably purposely spread by the spe-
culators ala baisse. One of them was, that the
Hospodar Couza had " altogether disappeared," and
the other, that the Emperor had left for Italy.
The truth is, that the Hospodar has gone down the
Danube to Braila and Galatz, instead of returning
by land from Bucharest to Jassy. lam not aware
that the Emperor left Vienna last night, but if he
did, it was probably to shoot capercailzie in the
neighbourhood of the Semmering.
The war preparations aro almost complete in
Italy, but there is still much to be done in Dalmatia
and Istria, which, in the event of a war, would
doubtless receive a visit from a French squadron.