The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-16 00:00:00

(LATEST BY TBLBGBAPLI VIA HALIFAX.)

NEW YORK, Nov. 5.
The City of Baltimore has arrived from Liver-
pool.
The Canada advices were published on the
afternoon of the 4th.

Cotton very dull to-day, but prices nominally
the same. Breadstuffs in good demand, and
tending upwards, excepting for Indian corn 3
which is drooping. Sterling exchange to-day
quoted at 105 to 108.
The money market is decidedly easier, the Cali-
fornia mail steamer having arrived with about
1,400,000 dols. in gold.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 4, ETENINO.

Cotton to•day was quite buoyant, and prices
advanced 3-16 c. per lb. The days's business had
been 3,500 bales. Sterling exchange flat, but
the market is certainly easier.
The Citizen's Bank resumed payment, in specie,
to• day.

Messrs. Neill, Brothers, and Co. of New
York, telegraph, under date Nov. 5, as follows :
" Our telegrams from the south today report
the cotton markets generally brighter. A. large
sale of sterling bills has been made at New Or-
leans at 10 dis.; small amounts are quoted at 5
to 6. The New York market for cotton to-day
showed no change."

BELGIUM.
DISSOLUTION OF THE BELGIAN CHAM-
BER OF REPRESENTATIVES.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
The Moniteur Beige has just published th© fol-
lowing proclamation :
" Leopold, &c. pursuant to Article 71 of the constitu-
tion, which is as follows :
" The King has the power of dissolving the Cham-
bers, either simultaneously or separately. The act of
dissolution must provide for the convocation of the
electors within 40 days, and the Chamber within two
monthr.'
" Upon the report of the Minister of the Interior, and
with the advice of our Council of Ministers,
We have ordered and do order
"Article 1. The Chamber of Represeutaves is dis-
solved.
4, Article 2. The electoral colleges of all the arrondisse-
ments of the kingdom are convoked for Thursday, the
y
10th day of December next, at ten o'clock of the, morn
ing, for the purpose of electing each one the number of
representatives indicated on the subjoined list.

"Art. 3. The Senate and the Chamber of Represen-
tatives are convoked for Tuesday, the 15th Deo. next."

Then follows the list referred to in the second
article.

It is therefore now certain, as I informed you
would be the case in one of my previous communi-
cations, that the act of dissolution only applies to
the Lower House, the Senate remaining for the
present intact.

M. Mercier, the late Minister of Finances, was
summoned yesterday to the presence of the King,
and had a long interview with his Majesty.
M. Lebeau, formerly Minister for Foreign Affairs
and of Justice, has been appointed a Minister of
State.

M. Delfosse, formerly President of the Chamber
of Representatives, has been likewise appointed a
Minister of State.

FRANCE.
PARIS, SIINDA.Y EVENING.
Ths French Government is really desirous that
the feud which has raged detween. M. Thouvenel
and Redschid Pasha should cease. A telegraphic
despatch received yesterday from Constantinople
announces that the Ambassadors of Russia and
Prussia had again set to work to bring the
two great men to an understanding. It is now
said that France and Russia are not unwilling
to modify their views respecting the Principali-
ties, and that, whatever those views are, Prussia is
agreed with those Power. The Turkish Govern-
ment, it appears, desires that Fuad Pasha should
assist Mehemet Bey, its ambassador in Paris,
during the Congress, which is now believed to be
fixed for the end of December. Fuad is well
acquainted with the Principalities. M. Hubner
will not now quit Paris. Lie had yesterday an in-
terview with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and it
is probable that the project of union alluded to was
the subject discussed by them.
The Court is not expected to leave * 2ne
Comp
for Paris before the 26th of this month.
,M.
Walewski and Lord Cowley are still guests of the
Emperor.

THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.
The following is the text of a despatch addressed
to the representatives of the Sublime Porte at the
Courts of the Powers which signed the Treaty of

Paris on the subject of the Principalities. It is
dated Oct. 28 :
" The divans ad hoc of Wallachia and Moldavia have
just expressed their opinion on the following points :
—Union of the two provinces under the denomina-
tion of Roumania ; foreign prince belonging to one
of the reigning families of Europe ; the heir to
be brought up in the orthodox religion ; auto-
nomy, constitutional Government and c dlective guaran-
tee of the Powers which signed the Treaty of Paris.
The speakers, in expressing their wishes, have carefully
avoided even mentioning the words suzerainty, and
have made use of expressions which sufficiently show
the object they wish to attain. It is true that, in order
to save appearances, or the better to conceal they wishes,
they have spoken of their desire to respect the ancient
stipulations with the Sublime Porte—treaties the
original of which nowhere exist in the world, and
which have been violated mere than once by the
Moldo-Wallachians themselves. The history of the
empire and innumerable documents will show wha'
are the true titles in virtue of which the Sublime
Porte has exercised its legitimate sovereignty over those
countries for so many centuries, and which was the
origin of their privileges. The actual composition of
those assemblies led to the result which we have now
before us being foreseen ; and it was precisely under that
provision that my circular despatch of the 23d Sept. was
drawn. No more reasonable issue could be hoped for
from elections in which men, imbued with the ideas
which nearly overturned the whole of Europe in 1848,
took so large a part. In instituting the Divans, the Powers
more particularly had in view to ascertain the adminis-
trative reforms of which the Principalities might stand
in need far the progress of their prosperity. Far
from thinking of this, the Divans have commenced by
demanding reforms purely political, that is to say, by
two wishes, which were nothing less than an attack on
the principles of the suzerainty and on the mainten-
ance of the integrity of the Ottoman empire, ratified
once more by the said Treaty of Paris. There can be no
doubt that subsequent votes will be entirely in unison to
those already given, and the whole together will form a
state of things which will raise more than ene difficulty
to be solved. However this may be, the European
Commission will set forth in its final report all that
will be submitted to it on the part of the
Divans, and it will be fer the Congress afterwards to
appreciate the bearing and character of their works. As
to the Sublime Porte, confident in its rights iu the per-
fect sincerity of the intentions of its august allies, it will
wait with security for the meeting of the Conferences of
Paris, to discuss and combat the soy disant national de-
mands of the assemblies in question. You aro requested
Monsieur, to explain yourself to the Government to
which you have the honour to be accredited on the last
phase of the affairs of the Principalities, conformably to
the principles which I have above pointed out.
" Accept, &c., "

The following despatch, dated St. Petersburg,
22d ult., was sent by Prince Gortscha,koff, the
Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, to M. de Bou-
tenieff, the Russian Minister at Constantinople :
"M—, the Turkish Envoy at St. Petersburg, was
charged by his government to send to me and leave me a
copy of a despatch from the Turkish Minister of Foreign
Affairs relative to the question of the principalities. In this
document of which I have the honour to annex a copy,
Aali Pacha, renewing the declaration of the 14th October,
1856, a copy of which has bee❑ also left with me by the
Turkish Envoy, maintains the resolutions which are
therein set forth on the eventual question of the
union of the Principalities, whatever may be the
wishes expressed on the subject by the newly-elected
Divans. My reply to the Turkish Envoy was that
on this point the Imperial Cabinet could only refer to
the attitude which it has invariably adopted from the
very commencement of the question, that is to say, that
without declaring itself in any way either for or against
the union of the Principalities, and at present limiting
its action to the pure and simple execution of the clauses
of the treaty of March 30, the Imperial Cabinet would
entirely reserve its definitive judgment on the future or-
ganisations of the provinces until the time when it shall
be called on to do so at tee conferences. In the convic-
tion that this course is in strict conformity with the
spirit as well as the letter of the Treaty of Paris, the
Imperial Cabinet sees no motive for departing from
it, and cr:Nsequently maintain it 3 resolution to remain
faithful to Your Excellency will please commu-
❑icate this ilespatch to Aali Pacha, and leave him a
copy of it The Austrian Charge d'Affaires has read
me a despv 113 frourißaron de Werner, which completely
joins in thL point of view of the Ottoman Cabinet. I
have given to Count Szechengi an answer perfectly
identical to that which I now beg you to communicate
to the Minister of Foreiga Affairs of the Sultan.—
Accpt,

" GORTSCHAUFF."