The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-11 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

THE CALCUTTA MAIL.

ALEXANDRIA, APRIL 3.

The Calcutta and China mails have arrived. The
dates areu---Calcutta, March 9th; Madras, March
14th; and Hongkong, February 25th.
The Governor-General has proposed to increase
the Customs' duties to the extent of £1,300,000

a-year.
The Begum was in Nepaul.
Tantia Topee was in Bundelcund.
The Calcutta import markets continue depressed.
The Fives, 12 ; the Fours, 23 per cent. discount.
Exchange, 2s. 1-Zd. ; freights were dull.
There was no political news of interest from
China.
At Hongkong business was dull. Exchange
4s, 7d.

SHANGHAI, FEB. 19.

The import market was quiet. Silk had advanced
10 tads to 15 taels for Tsatlees, and 5 taels for Tay-
saams. Exchange, Gs. 2d. for Bank-bills.

The supplies of tea very short, and prices higher
at all the ports.

There was a decrease in exports to Great Britain
of 4,528,0001 b.

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.
[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY MORNING.
A telegraph announces that the Alhambra
steamer, Captain Woodgates, with mails of the
ith instant from Lisbon, passed Hurst Castle at
10.35 a.m.

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

TRIESTE, APRIL 10.

The Austrian Lloyd steamer, just arrived, brings
the following advices from Calcutta to the Bth of
March :

Major Wallace had marched against the revolted
Bheels.

The Portuguese Governor of Macao had concluded
a treaty with Siam.
According to advices received from Cochin China,
the French squadron and expeditionary corps had
quitted their station, leaving, however, a party of
occupation, who had been attacked by the Cochin
Chinese with a loss of 200 men on the French side.
Rich gold mines had been discovered at Tonquin.

MARSEILLES, APRIL 9.
Advices have been received from Constantinople
to the 30th March.

The Grand Vizier having become convalescent,
will not tender his resignation. The troops being
insufficient to form a secondcorpsd'arinee at Shumla,
the Porte has called in 150,000 men of the reserve,
half of whom have deserted, In some parts the
people have used menacing gestures towards the
recruiting officers.

The deputation from Bosnia and the Herze-
govina, wearied by the refusal of justice, are about
to depart ; but Fuad Effendi is endeavouring to
detain them.

The Governor of Suez had ordered the arrest and
punishment of workmen in the quarries engaged by
M. de Lesseps.

TURIN, APRIL 9.

Letters from Milan confirm the authenticity of
the warlike order of the day recently stated to have
been posted up in the barracks of that town. The
same source also announces that the attitude which
Austria has assumed on the Piedmontese frontier is
of a menacing character. Reinforcements are con-
tinually arriving at Milan and Pavia.

The Vienna correspondent of the Times, in his
letter dated the Bth inst , says :
" In a few days it will probably be my painful duty
to inform you that Austria has declared war against
Sardinia, information having reached me of an
authentic character that the Emperor Francis
Joseph has expressed his resolve not to be
the Spielball (" football" is the most correct
translation of the word) of the Emperor of the
French. Great complaints are made of the want of
good faith of the French Government, which so-
lemnly promised that it would make Sardinia dis-
arm. Instead of keeping that promise—which
was made to the British and Prussian Govern-
ments—the Paris Cabinet advised Count Cavour
not to disarm, and subsequently proposed that
both Austria and Sardinia should withdraw their
forces from the frontiers. The proposition was
made by one of the mediating Powers to Aus-
tria, who rejected it, but at the same time ex-
pressed her readiness to disarm, if France and
Sardinia would do so likewise. The mediating
Power—it was probably England—communicated
the offer made by Austria to the Emperor Napoleon,
who indirectly rejected it, inasmuch as he ordered
the armaments to be continued with the greatest
possible despatch. Such conduct ou the part of the
French Monarch naturally confirms the Austrians in
their suspicion that he is resolved on going to war,
and they are, therefore, now considering whether it
would not be better to take the initiative, and
endeavour to put the Sardinians hors de combat
before the French are fully prepared to take the
field. The night before last a Council of War, at
which the Emperor presided, was held, and it was
not at an end until towards four in the morning,
although it had met soon after 10 in the evening,
Count Buol still has a faint hope that war may be
avoided, but the Emperor is of opinion that any
more time spent in negotiation will be time lost."

FRANCE.
PARIS, APRIL 10.

Sir James Hudson has just left Paris for London.
From letters which have been received, we learn
that the Austrian troops continue to advance upon
the frontiers of Piedmont, and are taking up very
threatening positions.

Thus the seventh corps d'armee (Zoebel), which
for the last three weeks has established its head-
quarters at Verona, has just transferred them to
Bergamo, while at the same time it has despatched
a brigade to Molza.

The third corps crarmee (Schwartzenburg) which
had arrived only a few days from Vienna, and esta-
blished its head-quarters at Breccia, has changed
them from that place to Lodi.

The fifth corps darntee (Stadion) still has its
head.-quarters at Milan, but it has commenced its
march towards the banks of the Lago Maggiore.
The eighth corps d'arince (Schaffgotsche), which
was at Padua, is to be replaced by the ninth corps,
now expected from Olmutz,
The direction of the Lombardian railways has
received orders to hold in readiness a sufficient
number of carriages to convey into Italy 25,000
men.

The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the follow-
ing curious article :

T' The French Government, as well as any other,
understands and respects national susceptibilities.
If in its intentions or its conduct it had given to
Germany a ground of fear for its independence, far
from disdaining the outburst and alarms of Ger-
manic patriotism, it would have praised them as
noble and legitimate.

" But we cannot easily believe in an act of injus-
tice against us from men to whom we have given
no cause of offence. Our confidence in the equity

of other States is only the result of the honesty of
our policy. When manifestations were made in
certain districts of the German Confederation we
read them without emotion, because we counted
upon the healthy and enlightened portion of Ger-
many, which would soon admit that those effusions
were silly.
" This confidence has not been deceived. The
agitation in the German press and in the German
Governments is diminishing instead of increasing.
We state this with great satisfaction.
"To throw suspicion upon the French Govern-
ment, it was made indirectly responsible for news-
paper articles hostile to the independence of the
German Confederation, published by a press which
has no control over it. Such opinions, for which the

writers alone are answerable, were looked upon in
Germany as a threat. 111-nature spread them, alarm
was created, and they gave rise, perhaps,' to
lamentable errors as regards the intentions of the
Cabinet of the Tuileries.

"When justice is all that is required, light is not
feared. The French Government has nothing to
conceal, because it has nothing to disown. The
position it has assumed in the Italian question, far
from warranting the distrust in Germany, ought,
OR the contrary, to inspire it with confidence.
France could not think of attacking in Germany
what it wishes to shield in Italy. Her policy, which
disowns all ambition for conquests, follows only the
rules laid down by international law, the happiness
of peoples and the interests of Europe.
"In Germany, as in Italy, it wishes nationali-
ties recognised by treaties to be maintained and
strengthened, because it considers them as one of
the essential bases of order in Europe.
"To represent France as hostile to German
nationality is not only an error, but a contradic-
tion. The Government of the Emperor has for ten
years exerted its influence to remove difficulties and
settle them equitably. In Spain it has always
supported the constitutional throne of the Queen by
keeping a strict watch upon the refugees which
successive revolutions threw upon our frontiers. In
Switzerland its friendly mediation contributed to
settle the Neuchatel question, which might have

led to complications with Prussia. Even in Italy
it anticipated present difficulties, and, having re-
stored the Pope to his authority, it inspired mode-
rate views everywhere. At Naples, acting in con-
cert with its ally the Queen of England, it endea-
voured to induce the Government of the Two Sicilies
to introduce reforms which would have consolidated
it. In Germany, in the delicate question which arose
between the Confederation and Denmark on the
affair of the Duchies, it understood, despite its sym-
pathies for Denmark, the just susceptibility of
German patriotism for provinces which are con-
nected by so many ties with the German Confede-
ration, and the counsel it gave to the Copenhagen
Cabinet was perfectly conciliatory.
" As regards the Danubian Principalities, it en-
deavoured to promote the success of the legitimate
wishes of those provinces to insure in that portion
of Europe order based upon satisfied national in-
terests.

" The policy of France has not two weights nor
two measures ; she weighs in the same scales the
interests of all nations.

" What she intends to make respected in Italy,
she will respect herself in Germany.
" It is not we who will be menaced by the example
of a national Germany which would conciliate its
federate organisation with the unitary tendencies,
the principle of which has been already established
in the great commercial union of the Zollverein.
Everything which developes in neighbouring States
relations created by commerce, industry, and pro-
gress promotes civilisation, and everything which
promotes civilisation raises France.":
BOURSE, April 9.—A great agitation has pre-
vailed to-day on the Bourse, owing to the legal
proceedings of the parquet against the jobbers of
the coulisse, whose books and papers have been
seized by commissaires de police. Securities have
been also depressed in consequence of a fall of 1 per
cent. on the English Consols, and of 11 per cent.
on the Metalliques of Vienna. Threes, declined to
67f. and 66f. 85c., rallied to 67f. 20c., and are now
at 67f. ; Mobilier varied from 650 f. to 645 f. ;
Austrian, 'sl7f. 50c. ; to 512 f. 50c. ; Orleans,
1,245 f. to '1,2401; Eastern, 615 f. to 612 f. 50c. ;
Northern, 905 f. to 902 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 815 f. to
812 f. 50c,.. The following were the closing quo-

tations
:-
4 per Cents. .... 95 10 Credit Foncier
Do. end mentla 4
3 per Cents. 67 30; Piedmonteso (5)
Do. end month.... 67 15 Roman B6 75
Bank Shares 2BOO Austrian

Credit Mobilier .. 655 Spanish Threes
Do. Account 656 25 Home Debt 4O 25

RAILWAY S.

Cash. Account
Orleans , 1247 50 .. 1250
Northern . 905 .. 900
New ditto... , 782 50 .. 775
Lyons and Mediterranean .. d. . . 820 .. .. 820
New ditto
Geneva ~• ~ 515 .. 505 _

Midi ~. #
Southern
Western . 625 -- .. 530 •
Eastern .-. 617 50 .. . 620 -
Grand. Central , • . -
Sardinian .. .. 385 -
Austrian

Exchange'on London, at sight, paper, 25f.7c.; money
25f.21e. ; three months, paper, 24f. 971 e.; money, 24f. 921 e.

SPAIN.

The Madrid. jouinals of the 4th have arrived.
The Chamber of. Deputies had been again occupied
with the affair of-the statue of Meudizabal. M.
Pidal, in a somewhat violent speech, defended him-
self and the Narvaez Cabinet, to which he had
belonged, from certain attacks made on it, and
especially against the charge of having, in the in-
surrection at Madrid in 1848, acted in a most arbi-
trary manner, causing numerous persons of high
respectability to be arrested or transported without
any form of trial: His observations drew forth re-
peated marks of disapprobation, and he at last said
that the persens'arreSted in 1848 were " all crimi-
nals or traitors."

Against this declaration all the Progressist party
vehemently protested, and a scene of great confu-
sion ensued. At length the President of the Coun-
cil, by some, remarks, restored calm, and the Cham-
ber decided that the petitions praying that a statue
might be erected to Mendizabal should be referred
to the Government, and that it should do what
might seem best. This decision puts an end to the
Mendizabal affair, which has been a long time in
suspense. Although the Senate had resolved not
to try M. Santanella, a committee had reported that
-that gentleman ought to abstain from appearing in
his seat in the Senate until the charge of pecula-
tion brought against him should be disposed of.
This resolution of the committee had created great
sensation.

The Vienna journals continue to employ very
strong language when speaking of matters con-
nected with Italy. The Austrian Gazette asserts
that the warlike preparations of Austria do not in
any way menace Sardinia, although the 30,000
Austrians concentrated on frontier could easily
defeat the 70,00(}Piedmontese who are echeloned
along a line twenty-five leagues in extent. Besides,
adds the same journal, Austria displays mag-
nanimity towards Sardinia, in order to prove
to Europe how moderato she is. The Aus-
trian. Gazette states against what Power the war-
like preparations of Austria are directed :
" The extensive preparations- of Austria are not
made with a view to Piedmont, but with a view to
France. As to commencing 'an attack 'on France,
that would be on the part of Austria such an ex-
travagant act that neither the Siecle nor the
Opinione have dared to ascribe it to her. Austria
arms in order to be able to repel a combined attack
of the troops of France and Piedmont. If Sardinia
were to disarm, that would be-a proof that France
does hot mean to attack, and that she is even dis-
posed to suspend her warlike preparations. Now,
when Austria shall be convinced that she will not
be attacked, she will hasten, people may be
assured, to reduce her army."

On its side, the Ost Deutsche Post recommends
Prussia and England to join Austria European
diplomacy is striving to preserve peace. But instead
of giving to the common idea a uniform and ener-
getic expression, it loses its time in sterile and con-
fused proceedings. How many notes and despatches
have been written which have had no other result
than to complicate the existing differences. And