The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-06 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY (NOON.
3 per Cent. Rentes, 67f. 90c. Heavy.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY,

The Moniteur of this morning announces that
the interest on Treasury bills has been raised to 31,
4, and 41 per cent., according to the length of time
they have to run.

ROME (via Marseilles), MARCH 2,

Francis 11. and his Queen are making prepara-
tions for departure to Bavaria. They are selling
their carriages, and have dismissed their household.
General Bosco is about to proceed to Spain.
Placards have again been posted up bearing the
words, " Long live Victor Emmanuel."
A fresh demonstration by the students of the
University has taken place.
The works on the Roman railways are being
continued. The funds for the next half-year's pay-
ments have been deposited at the bank.

NAPLES (via Marseilles), MARCH 2.
The Mint and some other former royal establish.
ments have been suppressed.

Placards, secretly printed, demanding the auto-
nomy have been suppressed.
Tranquillity has not, however, been disturbed.

ROME, MARCH 3

Popular political manifestations are continually
taking place.

Twenty students have been expelled from

university.

Francis 11. has dismissed his suite, composed of
100 persons, and also Prince Besignano, his Grand
Chamberlain.
Cardinal Antonucci is on the point of death.

!POSEN, MARCH

All Polish noblemen holding offices throughout
the kingdom of Poland have tendered their resig
nation. Their example has been followed by al
the Poles in the Russian service.

BERLIN, MARCH 5.

The New Prussian Gazette (Kreuzzeitung) says

" According to private advises from Warsaw
Prince Gortschakoff is said to have telegraphed
the address of the inhabitants to St. Petersburg,
and received an unfavourable reply from the Em-
peror, who blamed the clemency of the Prince,
and, it is asserted, commanded him to proclaim a
state of siege."

PARIS, MARCH 5.
MM. Jules Favre, Darimon, Picard, Emile, 011i-
vier, and Dr. Henon, members of the Opposition,
proposed to-day the following amendment to the
address :—" The hour has come for applying to
Rome the wise principle of the system of non-
intervention, by the immediate withdrawal of the
French troops, to leave Italy mistress of her own
destinies."

MARCH 5 (Evening).

In to-day's sitting of the Senate paragraphs 6,
6, and 7of the Address were agreed to. An amend-
ment of Senator Pietri, referring to the annexation
of Savoy and Nice, was also adopted.
On the paragraph relating to Syria being read,
M. Billault stated that negotiations on the question
of the prolongation of the occupation having com-
menced, it was impossible to enter into any expla-
nations. The Conference would shortly reassemble,
and there was reason to hope that the mission of
pacification would be continued by France.

The discussion of the amendments relative to
Rome was adjourned until to-morrow.

THE BRAZIL MAILS.
LISBON, MARCH 5.

The royal mail steam ship Magdalena, Captain
IVoolward, has arrived here with the above mail.

At Rio Janeiro, on the Bth ult., exchange on
London was quoted 26 to 26k. Coffee, good first,
5,500 to 5,600 reis ; shipments since the departure
of the last mail, 127,700 bags, including 56,000 for
the Channel ; stock, 40,000 bags. Freight, 65s to
755.

At Bahia, exchange on London was quoted 261
Cotton, 8,000 to 8,200 reis.

The Pernambuco exchange on London was 26,
,o 26-;. Sugar, whites, 4,200 reis.

SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 5.

The Hay tian war steam corvette Twenty-second
December, Capt. Depury, from Newcastle, bound
for St. Domingo, has put in here for coals.

THE EMANCIPATION OF THE RUSSIAN
SERFS.

A letter from St. Petersburg; dated February
25, says :
" The Council of the Empire held its last sitting
to-day on the question of the emancipation of the
serfs. The Emperor spoke at considerable length.
Other speeches were made, among others a remark-
able one by Prince Paul Gagarine. A decision was
adopted by a considerable majority, to the following
intent :

" ' PerAonal liberty is accorded to the serf; all
relations between proprietors and peasants cease
at once. The latter are to receive as their own
property the house they live in and the kitchen

garden (potager) belonging to it. As regards the
allotment (nadiel) of the labour land the Council
L of the• Empire has accepted the fixation of one-
fourth of the allotment first fixed by the committee
on the report according to the different districts, or
from one to two dissiatines per head.'
"A little explanation is necessary. The com-
mittee on the report had proposed to allow to the
peasants a certain quantity of labour land amount.
ing, according to the districts, to from
three to eight dissiatines, at a fixed price de-
termined by the commission in the project.
The committee admitted in principle that the
peasants that were to be liberated and endowed are
all cultivators. But, in reality, the number of
cultivators is far from forming the totality of actual
serfs. A great number of them are occupied in
different trades, and it would be hard upon them to
compel them to purchase a c Dnsiderable quantity of
labour land belonging to the landed proprietor. It
is, moreover, very difficult to ascertain at once the
exact number of cultivators in. Russia, the greatest
portion of the landed property, being administered
by means of the Obrok, that is to say, a fixed tax
paid by the peasants. It is only when the system
of the Corvee (barstchina) prevails that the peasant
is compelled to be cultivator, because he is obliged
himself to cultivate the land of his proprietor. How
the 1 ibour of the Russian peasant will henceforth
be divided has still to be seen, but it would be very
useless, even dangerous in a point of view of the
expansion of the 'productive resources of Russia, to
settle everything beforehand, These are about the
reasons which actuated the Council to decide that
the allotment at a fixed price shall only extend to
one quarter of the obligatory purchase-land deter-
mined by the Committee in the reprt, and that if
the peasants are desirous of cultivating larger tracts
of land on their own account they must come to a
private agreement on the subject with their former
proprietors.

" Thus has been resolved, if not in a perfect man-
ner—and there is nothing perfect in this world—
at least in a possible and practicable manner, the
great 'question of emancipation, which for years
held the whole couAtry in suspense. The modifica-
tions made in the original project are of a nature
to conciliate the slJtsceptibilites as well as the in-