The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-19 00:00:00

tranquil, and he made the chaplain promise he
should visit him again to morrow.
BoußsE, Jan. 17.—The following were the last
quotations :

Cath. fr. c. End of Arontb;
4i per Cents
3 per Cents 6B 25 68 40
New Loan
Credit Mobilier ...... 1,115 Austrian
Belgian Fives ...... .. 99. j— Spanish Threes
Piedmontese (5) 92 50 Home Debt
RAILWAYS—FOR CASH.

tr c
Orleans ............... 1,402 50 Western
Northern ............... 955 Strasburg
Lyons 1,385 New Ditto
Mediterranean ......1,780 Grand Central
Lyons Geneva ...... 755 Teste
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SWITZERLAND.
Measures for the release of the prisoners were
taken immediately after the definitive vote of the
Council of State upon the propositions submitted
by the Federal Council. The prisoners, 56 in
number, will be escorted to France and there set
at liberty. Dr. Kern, the successful negotiator, is
going to Paris again.
The Prussian official journal of the 15th contains
an order for the mobilisation of the army, and it is
therefore clear that the King of Prussia recognises
the negotiations, since he has not acted up to his
threat of proceeding to hostile measures unless the
prisoners were enlarged by January 15th.
The names of the four members of the National
Council who constituted the minority against the
propositions of the Federal Council are MM. Cam-
perio and Darier, of Geneva, Thury, of the Canton
de Vaud, and Weingart, of Berne.
A curious letter from London, dated the 13th,
in the Kreutz Zeitung, of Berlin, asserts that the
Prussian Minister at the Court of Queen Victoria
has lately been instructed to communicate to our
own Government several despatches from the
Cabinet of Berlin, upon the subject of the
course which had been pursued, with re-
gard to the dispute between Prussia and
Switzerland, by Mr. George Gordon, the
British Minister at Berne. These Berlin deapatclies,
if we may believe the correspondent of the
-Berlin newspaper, have been described to him by
somebody connected with the Foreign-office here
as "rather rough, but very impressive indeed ;"
and it is further stated by the same informant that
they have had the effect of inducing the British
Government to disavow earnestly the conduct of
its representative at Berne. One accusation brought
against Mr. George Gordon, says the same letter,
is that he is in the habit of keeping company with
the Red Republicans (llochrothen)' and that he
frequents meetings of Mr. James Fazy and his
friends, whose remarks upon political affairs he has
even heard with approbation. This, of course,
was what the King of Prussia could not allow, and
upon his remonstrating with the Government of
Great Britain, Mr. George Gordon was " obliged
rather unceremoniously to contradict himself, and
has for some time past been the Minister in Swit-
zerland only in name, the most important matters
of business belonging to the English legation in
Switzerland being conducted exclusively by the
ambassador at Paris, Lord Cowley."

PARMA.
Letters received from Parma say that no doubt
is now entertained there of the approaching re-
moval of the Austrian garrison, as the General
Commanding General Baumgarten had re-
ceived orders of readiness, and towards the middlo
of next month it is expected they will at last be
withdrawn, after having been constantly quartered
there since 1849, and in cases of state of siege
held military possession of the country for six
or eight months at a time. The joy of the in-
habitants at this anticipated relief from seeing
foreign soldiers continually in their streets
is said to be intense, but in a military point of view'
the change is of small importance, once the civil
Government of the country was restored to its
supremacy, as the Power which holds the fortresses
of Mantua and Piacenza must always strategically
command central Italy. The Emperor Francis
Joseph, it was expected, would pay a flying visit
to the Duchess Regent on his way to visit his kins-
folk at Modena and Florence.