The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-14 00:00:00

she 4th.

The Ceylon with the homeward Calcutta and
China mails, ex Candia, arrived at Malta at 6 p.m.
on the 9th, and was to leave, at 9 a.m. on the 10th.
The steamer from Bombay reached Aden on
the sth.

MARSEILLES, DEC. 13,

The Panther, with the mails from Calcutta and
China, ex Candia, arrived here at B.m. this

morning.
The mails left for London at 10.
SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
The Ripon steamer, with the Bombay and Ails•
tralian mails, passed Hurst Castle at 9.25 a.m.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY

To-morrow Prince Metternich will present his
letlres de creance to the Emperor as Austrian Am-
bassador at the Court of the Tuileries. M. Desam-
brois, the new Piedmontese Minister here, is ex-
pected to go through the same form early next
week. _ _

It has been said that the Roman Government had
only agreed to meet the Powers at Congress on
written conditions. This is not true ; although the
Government of Rome has let it be known what are
its views concerning the temporal powers of his
Holiness and the necessity of restoring the States
of the Church now declared to be in revolt.
The France Centrale, published at Blois, has
received a second warning for having protested
against the first.
Madame Lemoine has lodged an appeal against
her sentence before the Court of Cassation.
The Moniteur contains the following :—" The
Minister of the Interior has made himself ac-
quainted through one of the principal functionaries
of his department with a project for the construe•
tion of dwellings for the working classes of Lille,
an account of which has been forwarded to him by
the Bureau de Bienfaisance of that city. Well
knowing the constant solicitude of his Majesty for
the working classes, his Excellency, after having
examined the reports submitted to him on the sub-
ject, has allotted to the city of Lille a sum of
100,000 fr. for the construction of those dwellings."

The 6ecle publishes the following observations
on the assertion that M. de Tavel is a diplomatic
agent of France in Italy :—" That gentleman does
not belong to the French diplomatic body, but he
is an ex-avoyer of Berne, and was intimately ac-
quainted with the Emperor, when he was a refugee
in Switzerland. According to some persons M. de
Tavel had a long conference with the Emperor and
received his instructions on several points, one of
which was to caution the Italians against encourag-
ing too positive or sanguine hopes as to the decisions
which they anticipate from the Congress, and
against' the dangers of an obstinate resistance to
those decisions if they should not be exactly in con-
formity with the wishes of Italy. We persist in
hoping that these precautions will be unnecessary,
land that the majority of the European plenipoten-
tiaries will listen to the wishes of the Italian popu-
lations."
The loss occasioned by the fire on the Place de
la Concorde in the old Garde-Meuble is estimated
at 80,000 fr.
THE BOURSE, Dec. 13.—Sales for realisation
have continued today and checked the upward
tendency. Threes have been done at 70f. 75c. and
70f. 65c.; Mobilier varied from 865 f. to 855 f. ;
Lombard, 582 f. 50c. to 580 f. ; Austrian, 578 f. 75c.
to 576 f, 25c.; Lyons, 947 f. 50c. to 942 f. 50c. ;
Orleans, 1,440 f. to 1,435. ; Southern, 545 f. to 540 f. ;
Western, 585 f. to 580 E The following were the
last quotations:-
4i per Cents. .... 97 Credit Fonder 725
Do. end month 97 40 I Belgian 4i
3 per Cents. 7O 50 I Piedmontess (5)
Do. end month.... 70 60 ; Roman B4
Bank Shares. 2890 Austrian
Credit Mobilier .. 855 Spanish Threes
Do. Account 853 75 Home Debt 43 50