The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-31 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

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

ZURICH, AUG. 31.
Private conferences continue to take place
between the plenipotentiaries.
For the last three days the representatives of
France and Austria have daily conferred together.
Yesterday there was a meeting of the French and
Sardinian plenipotentiaries.

BOLOGNA, AUG. 30.

The elections are over—the greatest order pre-
vals. The Assembly is to meet on the Ist Sep-
tember. The troops of General Mezzacopo have
made a movement in advance, in the direction of
Cattolica, and have been replaced at Bologna by
Tuscan troops. •
Count Reiset and other representatives of foreign
states have arrived here and were present at the
sitting of the Assembly.

NAPLES, AUG. 30.
Fresh arrests have taken place here.

MARSEILLES, AUG, 30.

Advices have been received from Rome to the
27th inst. The Duke de Grammont had held a
conference with Cardinal Antonelli on the subject
of the reorganisation of the Legations. It is as-
serted that the Government of Bologna had dis-
solved a regimeulz, in which some Mazzini volun-
teers had attempted to cause an excitement. One
French division only will remain in Rome. The
garrison of the Pope is on march to Pesaro, where
the troops are being concentrated. An earthquake
had taken place at Norcio ; 200 persons were killed
and a large number injured ; 9,000 of the popula-
tion are encamped in the neighbourhood of the
town. The Pope has despatched assistance.
FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY.
The following are extracts from the article which
uppeared in the Constitutionnel of to-day
" We have hitherto abstained from taking part
in a discussion which we considered premature,
and as sterile as irritating. When, however, the
moment for expressing an opinion on that grave
incident arrives, it seems to us that it will be easy
to do so in a few words. The Emperor at
Villafranca accepted, without any sort of repug-
nance, the restoration of the Princes. At the hour
of reconciliation he was unwilling to remember
that at Solferino some among them were in the
ranks of his enemies. What, in fact, did that mat-
ter to him ? It was not against those Princes that
he directed his arms, but against the political sys-
tem of which they were the accomplices or the first
victims. The system once vanquished, why pro-
long resentments, the motive of which no longer
existed ? Was a war of principles to be changed
into a war of persons ? 'I hat would have been to
fall very low."
As the Emperor Napoleon had entered Italy to
achieve the independence of a whole people, and
not to favour some local revolutions or to aid indi-
rectly to the expulsion of some petty princes, he
was not opposed to the return of the latter. He
conceived that having had a severe lesson they would
be inclined to grant salutary reforms, and that in
that manner their restoration would prevent new
lolitical complications. If the reforms proved
ifflcient Ceiatral Italy would be spared those scenes
-;' ;"1- 'N•hich sometimes afflicted even the most
' s
144 generous object," says the
'6r the sake of the populations

than Princes, that the French Go.
its promises, caused the lan-
guage of re .o be employed in the three
Duchies. It h abandoned all hope of suc-
cess, and it will :r to the end to fulfil loyally
its disintere But if it should not suc-
ceed, what v, ; asked with strange per-
'e. Do said, ' the services which
alas rendered to Italy authorise her to offer
something else than eounsels ?' To give orders per-
haps, and to make menaces, to be soon followed by
acts ? No ; France is not a gendarme in the ser-
vice of Princes against the populations. She en-
deavours to unite them in mutual and profitable
accord, and will not do violence either to the one
or the other. By what right, by what means
could she act between them ? By an armed inter-
vention ! But that would be to walk in the path of
the old Austrian policy, which was defeated at
Magenta ; it would be to exercise the right of in-
tervention, which was torn to pieces at Solferino.
It is not consistent either with the dignity or the
honour of France to do herself what she condemns
in others. Austria has lost for ever the profitable
monopoly of armed intrusions in the affairs of the
Peninsula, and will never claim it for our own
advantage. If at Rome an army of occupation
is charged with the mission of protecting the
Sovereign Pontiff, it is because there is at Rome
not only an Italian Prince in presence of his sub-
jects, but the Pope, the father of the faithful, whose
repose and security it is important to us to secure.
At Rome we do not defend a private cause ; we defend
in the interest of France and in that of Italy herself
the cause of Catholicism. Everywhere else the
princes are subject to the common law, and that law
requires that no one shall place himself between them
and their people. As friends, whose devotedness
ought forgotten, we believe that we have
moren
right
igoht t o t
than
hbe anothers t
give to the populations
of the Duchies advice which we consider wise and
prudent. If they do not follow it, we may feel
regret, but we shall never endeavour to impose it
on them by force. In a word, Italy owes to us
her independence, and we will not take back to-.
morrow what we have given to-day."
13(musE, Aug. 30.—The Rente remained for a
long time stationary at 69f. 10c. to 69f. 15c., but
several sales having been made, they receded to 69f.
Mobilier, varied from 830 f. to 825 f.; Lombard,
557 f. 50e. to 553 f. 75c.; Austrian, 558 f. 75c. to
556 f. 25c.; Orleans, 1,365 f. to 1,362 f. 50c.; Lyons,
868 f. 75c to 867 fr. 50c.; Southern, 510 f. to 507 f.
50c. The following were the last quotations :
II per Cents. .... 95 25 I Credit Foncier
Do. end month I Belgian 4f
3 per Cents 69 —lPiedmontese (5) • ' 86 --
Do. end month.... 68 80 Roman B6 --
Bank Shares 2790 Austrian
Credit Mobilier .. 822 50 Spanish Threes
Do. Account ..... 821 25 Home Debt 42a