The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-19 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

The Austrian governor of Venice has published a
notification that from the firing of the evening gun
until the firing of the morning, no vessel of any
kind shall be allowed to enter or leave that port;
and that persons violating the regulation shall be
arrested and punished according to military law.
A Vienna letter says :--
"We are only just at the beginning of a war of
which the misfortunes and the end cannot even be
foreseen, and already the financial abyss threatens
toswallow up not only all the present resources of
the State, but, frightful to relate, all those of
which it can dispose in the future. The Viennese
public, scarcely recovered from the astonishment
(not to use a stronger word) occasioned by the Im-
perial decree of the 30th April last, ordering the
issue under form of a loan of a new series of bonds
to the amount of 200,000,000 florins, with interest
of 5 per cent., of which the National Bank was
forced, in return for the right to issue 150,000,000
florin of new notes of Rye &rine each, to take

three parts ; the public, I say, hoped that with
this sum, which in normal times would have been
equal to 500,000,000f1., the Minister of Finance
would have been able to provide for all the ex-
penses which the war in Italy occasions. But this
has unfortunately not been the case. Persons
in a position to know the state of the Treasury
affirm that so far back as the 10th it was
completely empty, and that the 200,000,000
florins of the loan decreed on the 30th April are
completely disbursed in the enormous purchases of
military stores and war material indispensable for
the army in Italy. It has been announced to-day
at the Bourse, that, on the proposition of the
Minister of Finance, the Emperor has decreed a
new loan of 75,000,000 florins, to be payable in
specie—a condition which will, on account of the
ruinous depreciation of paper-money in Austria,
double the amount of it. These 75,000,000 florins,
which make 150,000,000 fr., are to be placed to the
charge of the Lombardo-Venetian provinces ; that
is to say, those provinces are to pay the amount in
gold and silver coin in the same way as the Go-
vernment has thought right to make them do on
previous occasions. The Minister of Finance at
Vienna will be charged after the war to pay off the
bonds to be created for this loan ; the payment to
be effected by annual instalments of sums taken
from the direct and indirect taxes levied in the said
provinces. The whole system is a ruinous one for
all the parties concerned."

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY.

BOURSE, May 18.—An escompte of 307,500 f. of
Three per Cent. Rente and of 9,000 f. of 41 per
Cents. was posted up, but it has had no great effect
on the market, speculators feeling uneasiness rela-
tive to the attitude of Germany. Threes varied
from GOf. 70e. to GOf. 85c.; Mobilier, 550 f. to
567 f. 50c.; Austrian, 348 f. 75c. to 351 f. 25c. ;
Orleans, 1,140 f, to 1,150 f. ; Lyons, 762 f. 50c. to
767 f. 50c. ; Northern, 862 f. 50c. to 872 f. 50c.

The following were the closing quotations
4} per Cents. .... 89 Credit Fonder 635
Do. end month .. 89 Belgian 41 —
3 per Cents
Do. end month 6l Roman BO
Bank Shares 2750 Austrian

CrMit Mobilier .. 572 50 Spanish Threes —
Do. Account ..... 572 50 Home Debt 35 50

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 767 50 .. 767 60
Geneva 442 50 .. 435
Southern -
Western 487 50 .. 485
Eastern
Sardinian 340 .. 330 75
Austrian

Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 71e, ; money,
25f. 21c.; three months, paper, 24f. 90c. ; money, 24f. 871 c.

RUSSIA.

" The Russian forces which are to protect the
provinces bordering on Austria," says the Inde-
pendance of Brussels, "are becoming very consider-
able. Our correspondent at St. Petersburg has
mentioned the mobilisation of two corps d'armee—
the 3d and 4th—presenting an effective strength
of 70,000 men, and afterwards of the sth, in
Bessarabia, amounting to 26,000, and he now
states that similar orders have been given for the
corps which occupies Lithuania, and another in
Poland. These particulars, the exactness of which
we think we can guarantee, complete and rectify
a telegraphic despatch published in the Russian
journal the Nord, and dated from Berlin. The
mobilisation must, according to that despatch,
comprise all the corps d'armee from the Ist to the
6th. That is an error. The 3d and 4th corps
ought not to have been mentioned, because they
had been previously mobilised. As to the 6th corpse
that of the central army, the headquarters of which
are at Moscow, it is very rarely, if ever, mobilised.
The five corps which have been, or are about to be,
mobilised, constitute together a force of more than
200,000 men. This measure, although it cannot
fail to produce some sensation in Germany, has
nothing but what is perfectly natural, and is only
what is being done both by England and Prussia."

THE BOMBAY MAILS.

INDIA OFFICE, MAY 19.

Thb following telegram has been received, via
Marseilles, from the Secretary to the Government
of Bombay, dated the 26th of April :
TO JAs. COSMO MELVILL, ESQ., INDIA-OFFICE, LONDON.