The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-20 00:00:00

THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.

The following circular has been addressed by
Lord Palmerston to each of the Liberal Members,
urging their attendance on the first day of the
session :

Downing-street, Jan, 16, 1857.
Sir,--The meeting of Parliament having been fixed for
Tuesday, the 3d February, business of great importance
will then come under the consideration of Parliament ;
and I trust, therefore, that you will allow me to express
my earnest hope that it may be consistent with your con-
venience to attend in your place at the House of Commons
at the opening of the session.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient and faithful servant.
PALMEIBTON.

LATEST N E WS.

A despatch from Berne, dated the 18th inst.,
announces that the Neuchatel prisoners, escorted
by a detachment of Swiss troops, were conducted
on the preceding night to the French frontier,
which they crossed at Pontarlier. The Federal
Council has issued orders for immediately dis-
banding the troops already assembled.
On the 17th General Dufour announced to the
army the pacific conclusion of the dispute.

The result of the general election in Hanover
for the Secr.‘:.d Chamber, so far as yet known, is
that of 18 electoral districts ten have returned
Opposition members.

The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post
(second edition), in a letter dated Monday, 7

p.m., says :

" Important despatches have reached me from
Athens, dated Dec. 22 (Jan. 31). Mr. Wyse,
her Britannic Majesty's Minister, had received
instructions from the Home Government ordering
him to make representations to the King concern-
ing the affairs of Greece generally. Similar in-
structions were expected from Paris, as the Cabi-
nets of England and France are united in their
policy towards Greece. The Russian Minister was
invited to join them in addressing King Otho. His
Excellency said he had no instructions to address to
his Majesty personally, but that ho would be happy
to join them in interrogating the Greek Minister
of Foreign Affairs. On this, the representatives
of England and France observed that they never
could hope to obtain the objects in view from the
existing Government of Greece. They held the
King alone responsible. So for the moment the
affair rests. Meanwhile M. Mercier's instructions
are hourly expected to reach Athens, when the
iniuence of France and England would be brought
to bear on questions which the Allied Cabinets
think proper to settle before the evacuation of
Greece shall take place.
"His Excellency the Persian Ambassador reached
Paris last night. The mission is composed of the
following personages :—Ferouk Khan, ambassa-
dor ; Mirza-Zeman-Khan, first councillor ; Mirza-
Maloolm-Khan, second councillor ; Mirza-Beza,
dragoman; Mehamed-Aali-Aga, second dragoman;
Neriman-Khan, first secretary ; Mirza-Aali-Negui,
second secretary ; Mirza-Ebol-Gassem-Khan, first
writer ; Mirza-Hussein, second writer ; Mirza-
Hussein, and Mirz-Reza, actors.

" In addition to these personages there are up-
wards of 20 others in his Excellency's suite. Six
magnificent horses have also arrived, presents
from the Shah to the Emperor."

The Paris correspondent of the Times (second
edition) says :
" I have to correct an error in my letter of
yesterday with reference to Verger, who now lies
under sentence of death. He has but 40 days
after the rejection of his appeal by the Court of
Cassation--if, as is all but certain, it be rejected.
He had three clear days after the sentence to
appeal. Generally speaking, persons in his con-
dition wait for the last day ; Verger sent in his
this morning. The Court of Cassation will, lam
told, meet to-morrow, and the appeal will
doubtless be taken into consideration. If
the Court come to a decision during the
sitting, and the decision be negatived, ho may
be ordered for execution on Thursday. He has
intimated a wish to petition the Emperor for a
commutation of the sentence, or even pardon.
No one believes that the prayer will be granted,
as no extenuating circumstances, real or imaginary,
have been found in his case. The execution will
probably take place some day this week at the
prison of La Roquette, near the I'Ve la Chaise,
on the esplanade outside the gates.
" The dejection of Verger is greater to-day
than yesterday. He signed his appeal to the
Court of Cassation to-day at 12 o'clock. The
strait waistcoat was removed for that purpose.
Verger then asked the Director of the prison
whether that measure of precaution might not be
dispensed with as it was real torture, and it pre-
vented him from writing. M. Leveille, the Di-
rector, said it was impossible to indulge him, and
he submitted. He has asked to-day to see the
physician of the prison, as well as the chaplain,
and he appears to await with impatience the re-
sult of his appeal to the Court of Cassation.''

FRANCE.
PARIS, MONDAY.

Feruk Khan, the Persian Ambassador, arrived
here last night with a suite of 31 persons, and is
lodged in a private hotel in the Champs Elysees.
The Moniteur announces that on Sunday their
Imperial Majestic I received a large number of
foreigners of distinction, who were presented by
the Papal Nuncio, the Russian and Turkish Am-
bassadors, the United States and Wurtember,
Ministers, and the Greek Charge d'Affaires. His
Majesty received Count Kisseleff, the Russian Am-
bassad• r, anl Baron Brunow, Envoy Extraordi-
nary from Russia.
A Paris correspondent of the Nord of Brussels
offers the following explanation relative to the
reported changes in the organisation of the Bank
of France :—" M. Schneider, one of the governors
of the bank, has been requested to draw up a re-
port on the modifications which might be intro-
duced into the statutes of that establishment with
respect to the extension of the charter, which ter-
minates in 1868, to the year 1900 ; and to the
increase of capital, which from 91 millions would
be carried up to 250 millions. This would permit
the bank to dispose of a more respectable sum for
making reports, or carrying over 3 per cent. stock
at the Bourse at a low rate.

BOURSE, Jan. 19.—The following wore the las
quotations
Cash. ft. ft. c. End of Month.
44 por Conts
3 per Ceuta 6B 20 68 15
New Loan

Bank Shares 4,200 Roman (a d) ......... 87,
Credit Mobilier 1,405 Austrian ........ 88
Belgian Fives . 99, Spanish Three 5.......... 42
Piedmontose (5) 92 50 Home Debt . ........
RAILWAYS—FOR CASH.

tr. e.
tr e
...........
8877 :10
Orleans 1,390 Western ....
950 Strasburg
.. .......... I'l
Northern
Lyons 1,387 50 Now Ditto
........... 776 23
.....m......... . . --
Mediterranean 1,775
___— Grandste Central . ..... 610
Cette
Lyons Geneva
767 50 Austrian Co
.. 767 50

PIEDMONT.
A letter dated Turin, Jan. 15, contains the
following :—This morning has been fixed by the
Emperor of Austria for his solemn entrance into
hisTLheomEb4rdercoar pital.
Francis Joseph has fared but in-
differently in his
ni
triumphal progress through his
Italian dominions. s sojourn at Venice was so
far from leaving
an agreeable impression upon him
that he gave vent to his displeasure in some very
sharp and wrathful words addressed to the p3desta
the ,
or mayor of whom he seemed to hold re-
sponsible for the evident disloyalty of hi
fellow-
citizens ; and when the luckless mayor tried to ac-
count as he best could for the absence of the per_
sons who ought to have Len present to do obeisance
to their ruler, and for the lukewarmness and ein!
barrassment of those who actually were present,
the Emperor cut him short with great disdain,
and the following burst of idiomatic Italian—
" Signor Pod
lialionnEnniiglvisene, 6, Don't you try toga a vender luccioie
eisnta p ,
per 'attune ;"
come over me with your soft sawder." The anec-
dote rests on very good authority. At Vicenza it
is a fact that the appearance of the Emperor at the
theatre was a signal for the whole population to
leave the house, so that the pit and most of the
boxes remained entirely empty. At Brescia the
Emperor only stopped for one hour, because only
one lady, the wife of au old employe, was found in
the whole town to wait upon the Empress. The
determination of the whole Lombard population in
showing its ill-will to the Autocrat and to his

troops exceeds a4l belief. Lampoons and pasqui-
nades, some of them so outrageous that they could
not be translated literally into English, and would
convey no meaning except to those initiated
in the worst slang of those Italian dialects, are
posted up every night at every street corner in
Milan. A triumphal arch made with hums
skulls, drawn with the very greatest skill in the
Fischietto, the Italian Punch, was published is
I a few weeks ago. The Government here
deemed it right to seize the paper for that day, so
that we might be allowed to suppose that the ob-
noxious print is out of cirulation. Nevertheless,
hundreds and thousands of copies have found their
way into Lombardy ; they are stuck up at every
corner of the streets almost daily, and this morn-
ing they will be seen at every street corner where
the Emperor is to pass, whatever efforts the police
may make to tear them down. A crown made of real
human skulls has been hung in the night on one
of the many triumphal arches with which tbs
Lombard capital has been decorated for the occasion
A duel has taken place between a Milanese noble-
man, of the name of Viola, and an Austrian officer,
in which the former was severely wounded, and
the latter behaved towards his fallen enemy with
the greatest brutality, striking him repeatedly with
his sabre when he was on the ground. Many of the
Lombard nobles, well known for their antipathy to
the Austrian rulers, have been ordered to absent
themselves from Milan durina. the Emperor's stay.
The exasperation on both sides is immense ; more
than 4,000 or 5,000 of the low°, t classes, many of
the most desperate characters in that town, are
armed to the teeth, especially with revolvers,
which have been smuggled across the frontier by
the same means by which prints, caricatures, and
all sorts of seditious writings are brought in under
the very nose of those keen-sighted bloodhounds of
the Austrian police.
Uader these circumstances it is felt that some
appalling news may reach us at any moment.
From Modena, from Parma, from Milan, from
most Lombard towns, incessant and lavish sub-
scriptions come in for the hundred cannon destined
for the fortification of Alessandria. Cavour and
colleagues are in danger of being crushed by the
hisl,e r
very
eess of their popularity.
' TURKEY,
CONSIA.NTINOPLE, Jan. 9.--On Wednesday last'
the 7th nst., another conference was held in the
French Palace on the firman to be issued for the
convocation of the Divans ad hoc in the Danubian
Principalities. The object of it was the final revi-
sion of the whole document, which had been dis-
cussed point by point in the former conferences.
It was the 'ast of its kind. There will be, indeed,
some more conferences in which the Commissioners
are to participate, but these will be taken up rather
by giving the necessary explanations on the spirit
of the whole document and hearing any observe'
tions which aaembers of the Commission may think
fit to make, than by any discussion on the tenour
of the firman itself.
_ _

Mr. Layari, M.P., left Constantinople on Wed-
nesday last, on his route to England. His railway
project, connecting the Danube with the Archi-
pelago, may be considered as settled. It has passed
all the series of councils, has the consent of the
Grand Viziers, and the Irado, which is already
drawn up, has only to be signed by the Sultan. It
will be sent after him as soon as this is done. That
this railway excites great hopes you may judge
from the circumstance that 1,000,000/. sterling
have been subscribed in the place. This is a better
guarantee for its paying than the 5 or 6 per cent.
which the Turkish Government could have been
made to promise.

SPAIN.
The Madrid letters of the 14th inst. announce
that the Bishops of Osma, 'rich, and Astorga had
presented addresses to the Queen, thanking her
Majesty for the services which she has lately
rendered to the Roman Catholic religion. A
visit of the Queen to Andalusia in the spring
was again talked of, but nothing had been
settled on the point. It having been resolved
to draw up a complete statistical return of all
matters interesting to the country a census of the
population had been ordered. The Tribunal of
War and Marine had decided that there was ground
for prosecuting General Prim for the publication
of his recent letter ; in consequence, a Court, com.
posed of Generals, was about to be formed to try
him. Seditious proclamations of a Republican cha-
racter were every day circulated in the capital, but
according to the Ministerial journals nobody paid
any attention to them. These papers, however, sal_
that the Government was on the qui vivo, and that
there were to be any outbreak it would repress it
with the greatest energy. A band of insurgents,
under the orders of Vilialain, which had for some
time been infesting the province of Burgos, had
disappeared ; it was supposed the persons compos-
ing it had fled into France. Accounts from the
Philippines (date not mentioned) say that an at-
tempt had been made to create an insurrection, but
that it had failed. Letters from Porto Rico to the
13th state that the situation of the island was
satisfactory.

A letter from Galatz, of the 20th ult., in the
Moniteur, states
had that the
ration Commission European Danube Explo-
ration its labours. A
number of details are given to show that the St.
George's mouth Would be preferable to the Kilia or
Sulina mouths as a permanent channel.

The Duke and Duchess of Grafton are entertaining
company at Wakefield Lodge, Stoney Stratford.
The Earl and Countess Craven are expected in town
in a few days from Ashdown-park, Berks.
The Earl and Countess Cawdor
are expected in town
in a few days, from Cawdor Castle.
The Earl and Countess of Lanesborough are expected
in town on the Ist of February, from Mount Sorrel,
near Loughborough.
The Earl of St. Germans has arrived at his residence
in Dover-street.
Viscount and Viscount Palmerston arrived in town
last night, from Broadlands. His lordship has quite
recovered from his attack of gout.
Viscount and Viscountess Einyln are expected in
town on the 3d February, from Golden Grove, Llan-
dilo, South Wales.
Lord and Lady Ashburton are still sojourning at Nice,
South of France.
Lord Forester has taken a mansion in Audley-square,
late the residence of Viscount Maidstone.
In the general business of the port of London during
the past week there has been increased activity.
The shares of the Nassau Railway Company have
been dealt in at a 1 pm.
ROYAL BRITISH BANK.—A circular has been issued
by an agency firm in the city, offeringßAy,s.iNzirto buy up any
deposit account at the rate of 12s in the pound less the
dividend already received.
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, G
ROAD. —The
number of patie-nte relieved at this hospital during the
week ending the 17th of January, 1857, is 2,391, of
which 668 were new cases.
THE TEA TRADE, Jan. 19.—The deliveries in London
estimated for the week were 642,8271 b., being a de-
crease of 32,1021 b. compared with the previous state-
ment.

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The precise amount of specie shipped by the Penin-
sular and Oriental steamer Pera, which sails to-morrow,
I'3 367,327/., the whole, with the excepbion of 7,8821.
gold, l'eing silver for Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras.
SCULI TURE-ROOM AT TILE NATIONAL GALLERY.—
Sculptors will be glad to learn that plans have been
obtained by the Council of the Royal Academy for con-
verting the halls into a sculpture gallery. Height
seems the maia difficulty, and should be kept in view.
—The Builder,
APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—A marriage
secondt
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MOVEMENTS OF SPECIR.—LIVERPOOL, Monday.—The
greater portion of the specie brought by the Europa,
in of
February.Twe
which arrived yesterday from New York, was on account
of merchants in Havre, and was transhipped on board
the Cunard screw steamer Italian, Captain Harrison,
sailed this afternoon for Havre.

A letter from Sebastopol states that the city is gra-
dually becoming repeopled. It now contains about
7,000 inhabitants ; Kanaiesch 2,000. Three hundred
houses partly destroyed during the siege have been
rebuilt, and 80 new ones constructed.
The Cape Town Mail, of Nov. 18, says :—"Madame
Ida Pfeiffer, the celebrated lady traveller, has arrived
again in Cape Town, from Holland, in the Zalt Bommel,
and intends proceeding to Madagascar, via Mauritius,
in the Governor Higgins ,n, which war to have left yes-
terday, but was detained by the south-east wind."
The departures from the port of London for the Au.
stralian colonies during the past week have comprised
five vessels, three to Port Philip and two to Sydney,
with an aggregate capacity of 3,821 tons. The rates of
freight exhibit a tendency to heaviness.
It is with muoh pleasure we (Manchester Examiner)
learn that Lord Palm rston has conferred upon Mr.
Charles Swain, author of " The Mind," and other poem,,,
a pension of 501. a year ; at the same time expressing
his regret that the fund at his dieposal will not allow
him to make a larger grant.
The half-yearly meeting of the Union Bank of Aug.
tralia was held yesterday. The report showed a net
divisible profit of 83,4701, 15s 2d., from which a divi-
dend was now made of 2/, 10'. per share equalling 20
per cent. per annum. It was stated that the trade of
the colony was improving, but the great competition of
the banks in the purchase of r nigh gold had diminished
profits. Only a moderate but safe business had, there-
fore, been
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on the part of this corn-
l'anY• After a very short discussion, the report and

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