The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-14 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

INDIA AND CHINA.

We have received the following despatch from
Trieste, dated yesterday, the 13th of Feb. :

The steamer Calcutta arrived here this morn-
ing at half-past 'T o'clock a.m. She left Alexan-
dria on the 7th of Feb.

The India mails left on that day, with advices
from Bombay to the 16th of Jan., Calcutta to
the Bth of Jan., Madras Jan. 13, Ceylon Jan.
15. Dates from Bushixe are to the 30th of Dec.
It is said that the Persians were contemplating an
attack on the British troops encamped near the
city.

General Outram and his Staff sailed from Bom-
bay on the 16th of Jan. Government was pre-
paring for the immediate despatch of reinforce-
ments, to form a second division for service in
Persia.

Several interviews had taken place between
Dost Mahomed and Sir J. Lawrence, but the na-
ture of the communications had not transpired.

At Bombay the tightness in the money-market
was increasing. The import-market was very ac-
tive, the export quiet. Freights, 2/. 10s. to 2/.
12s. 6d. Exchange on London, 2s. 2kd.
At Calcutta the import-market was inactive.
There was a slight decline in indigo. The money-
market was more stringent. Exchange, 2s. 2d.
Dates from Hong Kong to the 30th of Decem-
ber state that all the foreign buildings at Canton
had been burnt and pillaged.
Admiral Seymour had been throwing hot shot
into Canton, but at the latest date had ceased hos-
tilities, and was strengthening his position.
Troops were about to be sent from India .
The lorcha Alma had been taken by the Chi-
nese, who were said to have mutilated the master.
The steamer Thistle, towing the lorcha Ano-
nyms, was attacked by 200 junks, and obliged to
abandon the lorcha with her cargo.
The bad feeling against the British was spread-
ing to the other ports.
It was rumoured that the Emperor was desirous
of peace, but that the Cantonese were uncontrol-
lable.

Exchange at Hong Kong, 4s. Bd. ; Shanghai,

Gs. Bd.

At Madras the import-market was steady, but
unusually light.
There had been a further advance in indigo.
The Bank had raised the rate of interest 1 per
cent.

Freights were somewhat lower. Exchange,
2s. lid.

The following telegraphic despatch has also
been received at Trieste

Accounts from Hong Kong, of the 30th, state
that commissioners were expected there in Feb.,
who were to be sent by the Emperor of China to
arrange the differences relative to Canton.

Governor Yeh is disgraced, degraded, and
awaits the Imperial sentence.

The Emperor had promised a pardon to the
rebels.

The Chinese at Hong Kong had, it was said,
formed a plan of burning the place, but the
English were on their guard against their pro-
jects.

COPENHAGEN, FEB. 13.

Two fresh notes have been received by the
Danish Government from Austria and Prussia.
The latter Power demands a prompt answer to its
precedent communications relative to the German
Duchies. Prussia fixes the period for an answer
at four weeks.

MADRID, FEB. 13.
The elections continue to be favourable to the
reactionists.

The Council has decided on the abolition of
some, and the reduction of other public salaries. (?)

The Suisse contains the following :—" The
Swiss journals, whioh entertained the greatest
confidence in the prompt solution of the ques-
tion of Neuchatel, begin to share the fears
which we have expressed with regard to the
affair, and to complain of the little progress
made in the negotiations. The Band itself
dwells on the strange language employed by the
journals and letters of Berlin, which is of a nature
to cause doubts to be entertained of the disposi-
tions of Prussia for an amicable arrangement of
the conflict. The same letters deny that Prussia
has ever entered into engagements with any power
whatever to renounce entirely her rights over
Neuchatel, in return for the unconditional release
of the royalist prisoners ; they declare that
Prussia simply said that by the release of the pri-
soners it would be possible to enter into negotia-
tions on the abandonment by the King of his
rights, but that nothing positive was promised on
, the subject. We may remind Prussia that hence-
! forth it will not be with Switzerland aloie, but
with France and Switzerland that she will have to
deal, if she should refuse to subscribe to the pro-
mises made by her to the Emperor of the
French."

The Paris correspondent of the Times
(second edition), in his letter dated yesterday,

says :

" People are already speculating on the Speeoh
from the Throne. It will, it is said, 4nnounce
the probability of a pacific solution of he Neu-
chatel question, as also the settlement of our dis-
pute with Persia. Much reserve, if no', complete
silence, will be maintained on Napl3s. It is
doubted whether any allusion will be made to a
new French loan.

" Two or three days ago circulars 'were sent to
the diplomatic agents announcing tLat Paris is
to be the seat of the Conferences on the Neu-
chatel question, and negotiations aro going on in
the meantime so as to render more speedy and
certain the settlement of it.

" On the subject of the Danubiar Provinces I
am informed that a communication bas been made
to the Emperor by the English Government of
its opposition to the union of these countries."

The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post
(second edition) nays :
" It is declared in political circles here that
the Persian Envoy, in a day or two, will receive
despatches enabling him to make peace with
England."

Accounts from Constantinople to the 6th state
that fresh despatches from Teheran recommend
Feruk Khan to make peace with England. A
reinforcement of 700 men has arrived from Bom-
bay in the Persian Gulf.

FRANCE.
PARIS, FRIDAY EYENIAG.

The Emperor will on Monday next, at 1 o'clock,
open in person, in the Salle des Marechaux, the
Legislative Session of 1857, and receive the oaths
of such members of the Senate and of the Legisla-
tive Body as have not yet gone through that for-
mality. All the persons called on to form part of
the cortige of their Majesties, as well as the diplo-
matic body, the cardinals, ministers, marshals, ad-
mirals, deputation of grand crosses of the Legion of