The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-10 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

OPENING OF THE SARDINIAN
CHAMBERS.
The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

TURIN, MONDAY, JAN. 10.
The following is a summary of the Royal

speech :

The King thanks the Chambers for the assistance
afforded him during the last session, which conso-
lidated the national policy and the progress of
Piedmont. He announces that Government will
bring in bills for judicial, administrative, and
municipal reform.• He regrets that the financial
crisis and the scarcity of silk crops prevented a
balance in the national Exchequer.
His Majesty says, that the political horizon is
not clear, but that the future must be awaited
with firmness. The future cannot fail to be
fortunate, because the policy of Piemont is based
on justice and love of its country's liberty.
Piedmont is small, but great in the councils of
Europe, on account of the principles it represents,
and the sympathies it inspires. It respects treaties,
but is not insensible to Italy's cry of anguish.
The King concludes with the words—'• Let us
resolutely await the decrees of Providence."

Prolonged acclamations of Vice le Rol ! followed
the conclusion of the speech.

PARIS, SUNDAY, Jan. 9

The Monitettr of this day contains a decree con-
voking the Senate and the Legislative Assembly
for the 7th Feb. next.

Another decree re-establishes the Council of Sea
for Titles (Conseil de Sceau des Titres), and nomi-
nates the members of this Council.

TURIN, SUNDAY, JAN. 9,

The garrisons of Verona, Mantua, and Milan have
been reinforced, and orders have been given to
victual the fortresses completely.
The Austrian army in Italy will be increased to
140,000 men.

The following telegram was also received lasi

evening :

• VIENNA, JAN. 9.
The despatch of troops to Laibach will continue
to-day and to-morrow.

The Empress will accompany her sister, the
Duchess of Calabria (who is on her way to Naples),
as far as Trieste.

A Lisbon telegram, dated Friday, has been re-
ceived at the South Sea-house, announcing that the
Portuguese Government prorogues the permission
of duty-free importation of foreign wheat, barley,
and beans into Portugal up to May, 1859, exclud-
ing, however, maize.

TRIESTE, JAN. 9,

The Calcutta mails reached Suez on the Ist inst.,
with dates to the 9th ult., Madras 14, Galle 17,
Aden 26, and Hongkong 30th Nov.

Calcutta.—lmports in active demand. Produce, a
moderate business done, at improved prices. Money
unchanged. Freight dull. Exchange, 2s. 01,d. to
2s. ltd.

Madras.—Exchange, 2s. ON. to 2s. lid.
Canton.—Little doing in exports ; demand for
English goods increased.

Hongkong.—Freights dull. Exchange, 4s. 81d

Shanghai, Nov. 22.—Silk and tea in brisk de-
mand, at higher prices. Exchange, 6s. 9d. to
6s. 91d. Freights, 30s. for tea, 70s. for silk.
Foochow.—A considerable business done in tea.

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY,

The Emperor yesterday received the reply of the
Germanic Diet to the letters of recall of Count de
Monttessuy, who filled the functions of Minister
Plenipotentiary of France to the Confederation ;
also a letter by which Don Ramon Castilla notifies
to his Majesty his election to the Constitutional
Presidency of th• Republic of Peru.

The Salut Public of Lyons says :—" We are
happy to learn that there is no truth in rumours
which have lately been current that Marshal de
Castellano was about to quit this city to become
Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour or
Grand Equerry to the Emperor, which last post
has been vacant since the death of Marshal de St.
Arnaud : the Marshal is to remain in command of
the army of Lyons."
Captain de Saissel, of the French navy, the new
Governor of the French establishments in Oceanea,
arrived at Papeita, capital of the Society Islands,
on the 17th September last, in the Andromede
frigate, and the day after he was officially.iiikalled
in his new post. He subsequently paid a visit, to
Queen Pomare. It is stated that he found the re-
lations between. the French authorities and the
Queen extremely friendly, arid the general situa-
tion of the French establishment's satisfactoiy.
Some difficulties, which had arisen between the
natives of Raiatea and other places had been
settled.

BOUR,E, JAN. B.—The market has been in a
state of great agitation during the day, variations
of 25e. and 30c. taking place at every moment.
Threes were done at 70f. 90c., then declined to 70f.
60c., rallied to 711'. 5c., and are now 70f. 85c.
Mobilier varied from 860 f. to 856 f. ; Austrian,
600 f. 50c. to 592 f. 50c ; Orleans, 1,345 f. to 1,340 f.;
Lyons, 852 f. 50c. to 847 f. 50c.; Northern, 952 f.
50c. to 950 f. ; and Southern, 555 f. to 552 f. 59c.
The following were the last quotations:—

4t per Cents. 97
Do. end month 97
3 per Cents. 7l
Do. end month 70 95
Bank-Shires
Credit Mobilier
Do. Account

Credit Foncier
Belgian 4/ .
Piedmontese (5) 93 -
Roman — -
Austrian -
Spanish Threes -
Home Debt 42 -

RAILWAYS.

Cesh. Account.
Orleans
New ditto
Lyons and Modderftnein..-.-.- B6O .. 860
New ditto — • •
Geneva 692 50 .. 590
Midi — ..
Southern . 555 .. 556 2.5
Western 595 .. 600
Eastern
Grand Central — ..
Sardinian
Austrian
Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 15e. ;.money,
25f. 121 e.; three months, paper, 241. 9710. ; money, 24f.
95e.

THE lONIAN ISLANDS.
(Train the Times' Correspondent.)
CORFU, JAN. 3.
By this time the enthusiasm of the Greeks at the
supposed prospect of seeing the territory of King
Otho considerably increased has no doubt been
damped by the clear denunciations of Mr. Gladstone
in his address at Zante. The unhappy project of
abandoning five of the lonian Islands .has, how-
ever, stirred the embers of the great, question
which lies smouldering throughout the EaSt, and
it will remain now to be seen how the glow is to
be extinguished. Let us hope that it may gradually
subside of itself; as, should it not, it may prove
difficult to lay the ghost which has so inadvertently
been raised. No thinking person is sanguine
enough to suppose that with the fall of Sebastopol
all thoughts of aggression in the East have been
abandoned by Russia, and time alone can, show what
barrier is to be placed to her future onward march.
The Greeks, it is needless to say, are the great lever
with which Russia is working her way in the East,
and on which that Power mainly dependslor the
prosecution of its views. It is not, however, to
be supposed that so crafty a people have no
national desires which they dream of satisfying, and