The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-16 00:00:00

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LATEST NE WS.

TURIN, MAY 16.

Yesterday a Government bill for a line of railway
from Naples to Ancona was laid on the table in the
Chamber of Deputies.
The Chamber then adjourned until Saturday
next.

On Monday Signor Ricciardi will put a question
to the Ministry with reference to certain events at
Naples.

NAPLES, MAY 15.

The National Guard of Naples fraternised with
the army yesterday evening, and a grand dinner
was given in the San Carlo Theatre.
More than 9,000 persons were present.
The Chevalier di Nigra will leave for Turin on
Saturday next.
It is generally believed here that the French
garrison will soon quit Rome.

The Bourbon party at Rome is preparing fresh
expeditions to the Abruzzi.
Naples and the provinces are quiet.

MADRID, Af'AY 15.
There is no fear that tranquillity will be dis-
turbed in Africa.

The Correspondencia Autografa of to-day says :
—" It is not true that England has diplomati-
cally interfered in the question of Morocco."

PARIS, MAY 15.

The discussion on the petition in favour of the
occupation of Syria was continued to-day in the
Senate.

M. Billault gave a historical outline of the events
in Syria, and said that the almost powerless state
of Turkey obliges the great Powers to act with ex-
treme circumspection; He mentioned the negotia-
tions that preceded the occupation of Syria by
French troops, which was prolonged until the sth
June, notwithstanding some objections. England,
he said, only consented to the prolongation on the
express condition that it should be the last term.
With regard to the organisation of Syria, the Go-
vernment has weighty reasons for supposing that
the proposal to appoint a Christian chief only, who
would govern the whole population of Mount
Lebanon, has great chances of being adopted. The
only thing to be done, therefore, is to execute the
convention, and •evacuate Syria on the sth June.
If the withdrawal of our troops has lamentable
consequences, certain persons have accepted a great
responsibility. Should blood be shed because our
counsels have been misunderstood we shall call
Europe to witness to the immense responsibility it
has incurred. (Sensation and applause.) It is not
France who evacuates Syria, it is Europe. When
France supports a cause of her own her acts are
free, and she does not withdraw. (Marks of ap-
probation.) What will now be the conduct of the
Emperor? France will not forget her duty.
With the transports which are to bring back the
troops will leave six vessels, which will cruise in
the:waters of Beyrout, and will be the terror of the
murderers. England is aware of this, and associates
herself with us. Her flag will float in the Levant
side by side with ours and that of Russia, and then,
if necessity requires them, other measures will be
taken.

M. Billault read the circular of M. Thouvenel,
dated 3d of May, explaining the course which
France will follow, and concluded by saying that
France, being freed from the mandate of Europe in
regard to Syria, recovers all her individual liberty,
Hsi then proposed that the Senate should pass to
the order of the day. (Great agitation.)

The Marquis Larochejacquelein expressed his
satisfaction at the Ministerial declaration, and said
that he should vote for the order of the day.
The%order of the day was then adopted almost
unanimously, there being only two dissentient
votes.

NEW YORK, MAY 4:
(Per City of Washington, via Queenstown.)

Pi esident Lincoln has issued another proclama-
tion calling for 42,000 volunteers, 23,000 for the
regular army, and 18,000 seamen.
A deputation from Western Virginia has in-
formed President Lincoln that Western Virginia
would support the union if the people were armed.

The chartered steamer Atlantic has arrived. She
reports having reinforced Fort Pickens success-
fully, and without resistance on the part of the
Secessionists.

Baltimore is quiet. A report on Federal rela-
tions very hostile to the Federal Government has
passed the Maryland Legislature.

The Governor of Missouri, in his message to the
Legislature, condemns the action of President Lin-
coln's administration.

The steamer Northern Light has arrived from
San Francisco with 870,000 dots. in specie.

THE OUTWARD INDIA AND CHINA
MAILS.

The Pera (from Southampton on the 4th of
May) arrived at Malta on the 13th, at 4 p.m.,
and left at midnight for Alexandria.

The Vectis (from Marseilles on the 12th) reached
Malta on the 14th, at 11 p.m., and left at 4 the
next morning for Alexandria.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, May 15.—The market had an upward
tendency at the commencement of business, but
afterwards gave way on the arrival of the last de-
spatch with lower prices in Consols. Threes, for
the Account, after having been done at 69f 75c,
are now again at 69f 55c. Railways quiet.
The following were the last quotations:-
4f per per Cents 96 30 r Credit Fancier 990
Do. end month.... 96 30 I Belgian 4/ —
3 per Cents
Do.end month 69 50 , Roman
7:_3/

Bank Shares 2890 j Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 708 751 Spanish Threes 49 75
Do. Account 7lO --I Rome Debt .. 4B 75

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans 1366 50 .. 1367 50
Northern
New ditto 987 50 .. 897 50
Lyons and Mediterranean 933 75 . , 935
Geneva 422 50
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian 382 50 .. 383 75
Austrian
Lon'bard 505 • . 506 25

Colonel and Mrs. Henry Armytage have left
;own for Maidenhead.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—MdIIe. Adelina Patti,
who produced so great a sensation by her singing in the part
of Amina, in Bellini's " Sonnambula" on Tuesday, will
repeat the character on Wednesday next—a special per-
formance being given on that evening solely for that
purpose. Mdlle. Patti has been pronounced the star of the
season by the most aristocratic and critical audience in the
world.

HERR BLUMNER'S CONCERT.—Herr S. Blumner,
a German pianist, gave an orchestral concert last evening
at the Hanover-square Rooms. His most pretentious effort
was the execution of a concerto by Henselt, with orchestral
accompaniment. Herr Blumner played it energetically and
skilfully, eliciting on several occasions unanimous and well-
deserved applause. The concerto was accompanied with
unerring precision and admirable expression by an excel-
lent band, guided by the masterly ability of Mr. Alfred
Mellon. The vocalists were Mdme. Lemmens Sherrington
and Mr. Walter Bolton. The beautiful violin playing of
M. Vieuxtemps, who played two pieces of his own in his
very best manner, contributed largely to the enjoyment
which this excellent concert afforded to a very numerous
and highly fashionable audience.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.

The Jura, whieh touched at Londonderry yester-
day with the Canadian mails, has arrived. Her
advices are in all important points anticipated by
telegraph.

The Southern Congress assembled at Montgomery
on the 29th, President Davis having promulgated
his Message. In this document he announces the
ratification of a permanent Constitution of Con-
federate States. So soon as the elections have
taken place officers will be designated to administer
the government. The declaration of war made
against the Confederation by President Lincoln ren-
dered it necessary to convene Congress to devise
means to replenish the Treasury, and provide for
the defence of the country. After making these
statements, the President reviews the relations
which have heretofore existed bet Ween the States,
and traces the history of the events which have
led them to assume their present hostile attitude.
Referring to the visit of the commissioners to Wash-
ington, he says that the most crooked paths of dip-
lomacy can scarcely furnish an example so wanting
in courtesy, candour, and directness as was the
course adopted by the United States Government
towards those emissaries. He alludes to the pru-
dent caution observed by the fleet off Charleston
during the bombardment of Fort Sumter, and pays
a high compliment to the Carolinians for their for-
bearance before, and heroism, daring, and mag-
nanimity after it. Commissioners have been sent
to ',England, France, Prussia, and Belgium to ask
these States to recognise the Confederate States as
belonging to the family of nations, and as an in-
dependent Power entitled to make treaties of amity
and commerce. Other diplomatic agents should
now be appointed. The Confederacy, through Mr.
Stephens, has concluded a convention with Vir-
ginia, by which she has united her powers and
her fortunes with the South, and assurances have
been given by other Southern States that they
will follow the same course. Most of the Exe-
cutive Departments, it is stated, are now in
successful operation. The Postmaster-General
will soon be ready to assume the direction
of postal affairs. The President, in the conclusion of
his Message, congratulates the Confederacy on the
patriotic devotion exhibited by all classes of citi-
zens, men of high official and social position and
wealth having willingly served in the volunteer
ranks; while railway companies had, on the simple
security of bonds by the Confederacy, proposed low
rates for the transportation of the mails. United
and resolved, he says, the men of the South cannot
fail. Their cause is just and holy, and on their
behalf he protests solemnly in the face of mankind
that they desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of
honour and independence. They seek no con-
quest, no aggrandisement, no concession from the
Free States of the North. All they ask is to be let
alone, and that none shall attempt their subjuga-
tion by arms, which they must and will resist to
the direst extremity: The moment this intention is
abandoned the sword will drop from their grasp,
and they will be ready to enter into treaties of
amity and commerce, mutually beneficial. So long
as this pretension is maintained, with a firm reli-
ance on that Divine Power which covers with His
Iprotection the just cause, they will continue to
struggle for their inherent right to freedom, inde-
pendence, and self-government.
The Secretary of the Federal Treasury had ad-
vertised for proposals till the 30th inst., unless the
whole amount offered is sooner taken up at par, for
14,000,000 of stock, under the Act of June, 1860.
Lord Lyons had contradicted a report that he had
solicited an armistice. Mr. Secretary Seward had
contradicted a similar report as follows :
" There is not a word of truth in the report of an
armistice. That sort of business ended on the 4th
I of March. "F. W. SEWARD.°

In the Maryland Senate on the 2d Mr. Seelott re-
ported a Bill to provide for the safety and peace of
the people of Maryland :
" Whereas the present extraordinary state of the
country and disturbed condition of the people
demand that prompt and efficient measures
should be adopted by the General Assembly to
secure peace and safety of the people, to avoid
the evils and terrors of civil war ; therefore, be it
em.:cted by the General Assembly that Ezekiel F.
Chambers, of Kent county ; John V. M'Mahon
and Thomas Wymans, of Baltimore; Thomas G.
Pratt, of ftandel county; and -Walter Mitchell. of
Charles county, together with the Governor of
Maryland for the time being, who may be lawfully
acting in the capacity, be and they are hereby ap-
pointed a Board of Public Safety to and for the
State of Maryland, a majority of whom may act
in any case wherever the said Board may be autho-
rised to act under the provisions of this or any
supplementary act. And be it enacted that the
Board of Public Safety so constituted and ap-
pointed, shall have full power and authority to
provide for the better organisation of the militia of
this State, and may remove or appoint any officer
of the militia above the rank of captain, and may
commission any such appointed in the name and
under the great seal of the State of Maryland ;
and the said Board of Public Safety shall have full
power to provide for the protection, safety, peace,
and defence of the State. And be it enacted, that
if any vacancy shall occur in the said Board it may
be filled up by a majority of the remaining mem-
bers of the said Board, and the person or persons
so appointcd shall hold office until within one
month of the commencement of the next session of
the General Assembly of Maryland. Provided,
nevertheless, in the event of a Convention elected
by the voters of Maryland, in pursuance of a call
of the present ov of any succeeding General Assem-
bly, then said Board shall be subject to such Sove-
reign Convention, which Convention shall have
power to remove any or all the members of said
Board of Public Safety."

A private letter from Annapolis says that the
brig Caledonia had two men hanging from her
yardarms, one for smuggling powder and provisions
to Charleston, the other for piloting the 7th Regi-
ment on to Chesapeake Bar, with the intention
that the secessionists should capture Annapolis be-
fore the 7th reached there.
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Senator Hunter, W. C. Rives, W. D. Preston,
and Judges Camden and Proctor had been ap-
pointed by the Virginia Convention as delegates
to the Southern Congress.

The blockade of Norfolk, Virginia, was being en-
forced, and it is reported that the bay was dotted
over with transports. It was reported that the
Navy Yard was to be retaken and rebuilt. Governor
Lecher is said to have informed President Lincoln
that no hogtile demonstration against the Govern-
ment would bn made by Virginia; that she only
intended to protect her own soil. No notice was
taken of this letter by the Government.

SOIREE TO MR. HARPER TWELVETREES.—Last
evening a soiree was given at the Princess's Concert Rooms,
Castle-street, Oxford-street, in honour of Mr. Harper Twelve-
trees, one of the candidates for Marylebone at the last
elec-
tion, for his public-spirited conduct in presenting himself to
the electors, and in recognition of his having been the first
independent candidate who has enunciated the principle that
the power for the legislative regulation or suppression of
the liquor tariff should be in the hands of the people. After
refreshments had been partaken of, Colonel Rains took the
chair, and addressed the meeting upon the circumstances
which had called them together. Mr. T. Hattersley then
moved, Mr. S. Dolby seconded, and Mr. Conquest supported
the following resolution :—" That this meeting hereby re-
cord-: its high appreciation of the patriotic motives that
induced Harper Twelvetrees, Esq,, to offer himself as a can-
didate for Marylebone at the late election, and believing
him to be in every respect eminently qualified to occupy a
seat in Parliament, expresses its earnest hope that ere long
he may be returned to the House of Commons." The reso-
lution was carried unanimously, after which Mr. Harper
Twelvetrees entered into a detail of his personal antecedents
and of his political principles, and announced his confident
expectation of hereafter becoming member for Marylebone.

DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN IN CIIURCH.--On Sun-
day morning last, as the Rev. George Barber, curate of
Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, was officiating at Divine
service, it was observed that he sat down, instead of stand-
ing up, while the choir was chanting the Te Deem. One of
the congregation, becoming alarmed, went int ) the reading
desk as soon as the Te Deem was over, and found hi 31 ap-
parently quite insensible. The rev. gentleman's collar and
cravat were immediately loosened, and his hands, temples,
and the backs of his ears bathed with cold water. He 'ass
then conveyed, by order of Mr. Jenkins, surgeon, to a
neighbouring house and placed upon a bed; but notwith-
standing that every attention was shown to him, he expired
in about a quarter of an hour, having evinced no signs of
consciousness. On Monday an inquest was held on the
body by Mr. Frederick Grain, deputy coroner, at the Black
Bull at Bassingbouni find the jury, in accordance with the
medical testimony, returno r vefdio lo the effect ii;* the
decea§A &ericius apoploxy,