The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-12 00:00:00

NUE SUN', LONDON, MODDAY EVENING; DECEMBER 12, 1859.

LATEST NEWb.

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

TURIN, SATURDAY.

The Austrian letter of invitation to the Congress,
signed by Count Rechberg, has arrived, and is
couched in the same terms as that of France to
Piedmont:

FLORENCE, DEC. 10.

The Provisional Government has, by allowing a
discount, collected in advance the land-tax for 1860,
amounting to between six and seven millions of
francs.

PARIS, SATURDAY.

The Council of State is preparing a project of law
reducing the customs duties, more especially on

articles of primary necessity.
Marshal ltandon, the Minister of War, has, it is
said, tendered his resignation.

DRESDEN, SATURDAY.

A telegram from Frankfort, published by the
Dresden Journal, says :—" In to-day's sitting of
the Federal Diet, the committee on the affairs of
Electoral Hesse was increased by the appointment
of representatives of Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, and
Saxony."

MADRID, DEC. 10.
The following despatch has been published :
CAMP, ELOTTRO, Dec. 9, Evening.

This morning the enemy impetuously attacked
our redoubts, but were energetically repulsed by
the garrison, and retired to the valley commanded
by these redoubts.

The enemy then came up again, but were at-
tacked and. repulsed by 10,000 men of the second
corps, serving as our vanguard.
The Moors lost 300 killed and 1,000 wounded;
the approximate loss of the Spanish was 30 officers
and 280 men wounded, and 40 killed.

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY.

The sailing frigate Forte quitted Cherbourg on
the 7th inst. for China, with 400 men of the Ist
Regiment of Marines, and 200 seamen drilled to the
use of the musket. The Andromaque, Vengeance,
and Perseverante had previously sailed with an
equal number of soldiers and seamen. The only
ship now to sail for China from the ocean ports is
the screw steamer Rhone, which is at Brest, and
has on board the 2d battalion of Riflemen. It is
expected that the Rhone will sail immediately.
The Emperor having been informed that 800 men
had been embarked on board a frigate for China,
saw that the frigate must be inconveniently crowded
and ordered that a steamer should be at once de-
spatched from Toulon to bring her back, in order
that the men might be sent in detachments of 400
each. No French newspaper has, I believe, alluded
to the fact. Is this silence a proof of the liberty of
the French press, that no one ventures to mention a
fact which redounds to the praise of the Emperor,
lest it might be considered as implying blame to the
Minister of Marine, and which perhaps would be
followed by an avertissenzent ?
A letter from St. Petersburg of the 3d inst. men-
tions that Count Maarawiew-Amourski, Governor-
General of Siberia, has paid a visit to Jeddo, the
capital of Japan, with a squadron composed of 12
vessels of the Russian Imperial navy, viz.,—the
frigate Askold, bearing the Governor's flag ; the
corvettes Rinder, Gridene, Waiewada, Nowik,
Boiarine; clippers Plastonne, Djignitte, Opzitchnik '
transports Yaponez, `Vostok, and the steam corvette
Amerika. It is added, that so large a foreign fleet
was never before seen at the capital of Japan, and
that it produced a profound sensation there.
THE BOURSE, Dec. 10.—Large sales have con-
tinued throughout the day for realisation of profits,
and the prices were rather lower. Threes, after
having been done at 70f, 45c., declined to 70f. 25c.
Mobilier varied from 845 f. to 8331. 75c. ; Austrian,
774 f. 25c. to 772 f,; Lombard, 772 f. 50c. to 7701. ;
Orleans, 1,435 f. to 1,425 f.; Lyons, 942 f. 50c. to
935 f, ; Northern, 9821. 50c. to 9771. 50c. ; Southern,
540 f. to 535 f. The following were the last quo-
tations

41 per Cents. .... 96 75' Credit Foncier 710
D. end month .. I Belgian 4} ' 99 50
3 per Cents . 70 201Piedmonteso (5) —
Do. end month.... 70 50 Roman B4 ---
Bank Shares — Austrian
Credit Mollifier .. 830 Spanish Threes
Do. Account ' 847 50 Home Debt 43 25