The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-22 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

VIENNA, THURSDAY.

Instructions for the evacuation of the Princi.
palities by the Austrian troops have been sent off
this day for Bucharest aid Jassy.
The homeward march is to begin in the month
of March next.

BERNE, JAN. 21.

The Royalist prisoners received their pass-
ports at Verviers, where their departure was offi-
cially recorded. Dr. Kern has gone to Paris.

HANOVER, JAN. 21.

The returns show a majority of 48 Government
candidates against 36 Opposition. There are only
three places from which the returns are not yet
received.

A Paris correspondent of the Nord of Brussels
states that " despatches have been received which
confirm the intelligence of the occupation of As-
trabad, in Persia, by the Russians, and the march
of one of their brigades on Tabriz." This infor-
mation is in itself exceedingly improbable, and we
find nothing in any other quarter to confirm it.

Accounts from Astrabad, on the borders of the
Caspian Sea, state that a division of the Russian
flotilla attacked on the 28th December the pirates
3f Starpa, the most formidable on the coast, and
inflicted on them a considerable loss. The
Russians having destroyed the boats of their
opponents, landed, and pursued them into their
haunts, and forced them to fly in all directions.
The Russians, during the last ten years, have
been making, at the request of the Persian
Government, continual attacks on these pirates,
who desolate the Caspian Sea and the coasts of
Mazanderan.

The Berlin correspondent of the Times (second
edition) in his letter, dated Jan. 20, says :
" Now that the Swiss Federal Assembly and
Government have at length resolved to comply
with the Prussian demand for an unconditional
liberation of the prisoners, and the quashing
of the proceedings against them, as a prelimi•
nary to all negotiation for the cession of the
sovereignty of Neuchatel, you are doubtless
anxious to hear from me what Prussia has
done, is doing, or will do further in the matter.
This Government has, I learn, lost no time in in-
forming its representatives abroad, by a circular de-
spatch, of its willingness, now that its preliminary
stipulation has been fulfilled, to enter into nego-
tiations for the settlement of the sovereignty
question. Tke despatch, lam told, is dated the
17th inst., and was sent off the same day. Now,
as it was only the day before that the Swiss
Council of State had adopted the resolution to
liberate the prisoners, which the National Council
had adopted the day previously, it must be ad-
mitted that the folks here have certainly not been
slow this time in committing their intentions to
paper, and bringing them to the knowledge of
foreign Governinens.

During the whole of the complication and even
since the probability of Prussia's having to resort
to arms became evident, I have not heard in so-
ciety or read in newspaper literature a single ex-
pressioi of exultation at the numerous defeats
which every good Prussian firmly believed awaited
Switzerland had it come to a war ; on the contrary,
nothing but regret was ever heard for the evils
that were about to be entailed not only on this coun-
try, but, in a still higher degree, on. Switzerland,
by the late ill-advised attempt on Neuchatel,
and the tenacity of the Swiss. I do not learn
that this circular despatch of the 17th inst. puts
forward any distinct proposals as to what form
this Government contemplates the negotiations
takiig, whether direct with Switzerland, or
through the intervention of some one State, or by
a Conference of all the great Powers of Europe,
with the addition of Switzerland as the party
mainly interested. As regards the probability of
either of thew courses, it would appear to be
most in favour of a Conference.

The King of Naples has ordered his police to
make out the list of pardons for political offences
granted up to 1856, in order that they might be
forwarded to the Governments of the great Euro-
pean Powers. These official tables declare that,
since 1849 up to 1856, the King has pardoned
16,083 political offenders 1 We have frequently
beck told that there were very few political pri-
soners confined in the Two Sioilies ; but some idea
of their numbers may be arrived at when the effi.-
cial report ha question acknowledges to 16,083
pardons in the continental dominions alone.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The state of the Prince Imperial continues to
improve. His Imperial Highness is now convales-
cent.

_ The Dcbats states that the ministerial note pub-
lished in the Moniteur of the 9th March, interdict-
ing the introduction of any new industrial enter-
prise, will not be renewed this year. But it adds
that the Government has authorised the syndicat
of the agens de change to point out such enter-
prises of a serious nature which might be excepted
from the interdiction hitherto imposed.
"If we are to believe letters from St. Peters-
burg," says the Constitutionnel, " Gen. Chruleff,
who commanded the Russian corps d'armee on the
extreme frontier near Persia, was only summoned
to the capital to receive verbal instructions for the
eventuality of his corps d'armee being required as
an auxiliary by the Shah of Persia."
The Assemblee Nationale submits the following
disinterested and flattering advice to England
England is indebted to her industrial development
for the strength and grandeur she enjoys—a fictitious
strength and grandeur, since it is this excessive
development that has created those perils which
cause us at this hour to question the destinies of the
haughty nation which aspires to the destinies of
ancient Rome. England endeavours to extend her
domination over all the seas, islands, and conti.
newts ; she should perhaps renounce these vast
ideas in favour of the more humble task of assur-
ing her internal existence, which is menaced by
the barbarians who people her manufactories
There exist in England volcanoes tlainapdtpeaarre now
ances.,
audible, and which will finish by running over.
It is not for nothing that, amidst a civilisation
proud of its luxury and its brilliant
there exist masses of men, women, a
who wallow in the most fearful misery
andeh children
dlrievne
beyond the pale of Christian laws."
Cardinal Merlot, Archbishop of Tours, will, in
all probability, be the new Archbishop
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of Cassation, which
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tomorrow.
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When the officer arrived at the prison of the
Conciergerie to transfer the convict to the Roquette,
Verger,
After having taken leave of the keepers Verger
in tears, took leave of all the keepers.
Was preparing to leave, but at that moment he
manifested into ise anxiety. He believed they
were concealing the truth, and he repeatedly asked
whether his removal from the Conciergerie had not
some other motive than a change of prison. On
being answered that it had not he took courage,,
but when he was ascending
crowd in the Court, he cried, "the van, and Fa w a 1
They are deceiving
am being removed for the
me ;
of executing it is certain that I
purpose !
to be executed."
me Oh yes ! I have no
doubt now but I am about
" No," replied the officer, " you are, as you were
already told, to be taken to the prison of La Ro-
quette." This reply did not appear to satisfy him ;
he was ghastly pale, and it was with some diffi-
culty he could mount into the van, where
he was placed with an officer in the fore part.