The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-24 00:00:00

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The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post
:second edition) says :

"I have just received a communication from
an authentic source, which says, yesterday the
Persian Envoy declared that he was in a position
to sign the bases of peace.

The Vienna correspondent of the Times (second
edition) says :
" There is reason to believe that an important
fact was communicated to you by me before it
occurred. Some days since you were told that
Austria bad addressed a very energetic note to
the Sardinian Government ; but, as the document
did not leave Milan as soon as it was originally
intended, it did not reach Turin until the 13th
inst. Reliable information has to-day been given
me that the bearer of the note was Count Paar,
the Austrian Minister at Turin, who, before he
left Milan, received information to break off his
diplomatic relations with Sardinia, if the satisfac-
tion demanded for the insults offered by the press
to the Emperor of Austria since he had been in
It tly is not given. It is whispered that the
Minister of Finance is about to raise a loan of 160
millions of florins."

Letters have been received in Paris from the
China Seas. They announce that on the 3d inst.
the Mardarin Syh, Governor of Shanghai, died sud-
denly. The news is said to have produced great
fermentation among the lower classes of the popu-
lation, who accused the Europeans of his death.
For two days serious disturbances were appre-
hended, but owing to the presence of the French
and English ships and the energy of the comman-
dant of the Tartar troops, who co-operated with
them, tranquillity was maintained. According to
the latest accounts the town was tranquil.

The Swabian Mercury says that a new cause of
division has arisen among the great powers on the
subject of the Danubian Principalities. " England
and Austria," it says, " though in accord on the
question of the union of these principalities, are
not so with respect to the guarantee of their integ-
rity—Austria desiring that such guarantee shall
only be given by the powers whose territories join
those of the Principalities; that is to say, Turkey,
Russia, and herself ; whilst England thinks that it
ought to be given by all the powers which took part
in the conferences of Paris."

Letters from Athens of th 3 14th state that the
Senate has rejected the arrangement relative to the
financial commission of the three protecting powers.
This resolution has been communicated to the re-
presentatives of the said powers, who will delibe-
rate on it.

FRANCE.
PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.

The Emperor yesterday received several foreigners
of
.distinction, who were presented to his Majesty
by the Austrian Ambassador and the Sardinian and
Dutch Ministers.

BOURSE, Feb. 23.—The following were the las
quotations :

Cash. fr. c. End of Bronth.
44 per Cents
3 per Cents 7O 10 70 35
New Loan —
Bank Shares 4,2; 0 Roman
Credit Mobilior 1,520 Austrian
Belgian Fives .. 99,f Spanish Threes
Piedmentose (5) 9l 25 Home Debt

RAILWAYS-FOR CAS Fl.

fr. C. fr c
Orleans 1,407 50 Western
Northern 915 Strasburg
Lyons 1,430 -- New Ditto
Mediterranean 1,825 Grand Central - 613 75
Lyons Geneva — Teste -
Cette 7BO Austrian Cum. ~.... 773 75

PRUSSIA. •
A Berlin letter says :—" The question of Neu-
chatel still occupies much attention in Govern-
mental circles. It is certain that the Prussian
Cabinet will not relax from the conditions which it
has already made known. The title of Prince of
Neuchatel forms one of them. it is not until
Switzeiland shall have accepted purely and simply
the preliminary conditions laid down by the Prus-
sian Government that Prussia will, on her part,
renounce her rights of sovereignty over Neuchatel.
The period for the conferences of Paris cannot be
fixed until after the safsfactory solution of those
preliminary questions. Wan regard to the
Danubian principalities, the Prussian Cabinet is
decidedly in favour of their union under a prince
chosen from one of the sovereign houses of Eu-
rope • but it wishes that the people of Moldavia
and Wallachia shall freely express their opinion on
the subject, through the divans ad hoc. The in-
structions of Baron de Richtofen, who is to leave
for Bucharest about the middle of next month,
will be drawn up in this sense."