The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-15 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

The following telegrams have been received at

Mr. Reuter's office :--•

PARIS, THURSDAY.

In yesterday's sitting of the Conferences on the
Danubian affairs, the representatives of Austria and
the Porte, on the reading of the protocol of the first
sitting, demanded certain modifications, by reason
of which a third meeting will take place.

Lady Cowley has departed for Baden-Baden, but
Lord Cowley remains at Paris.
It is confidently asserted that the negotiations
for the Congress continue, but that their progress
is slow on account of great difficulties which are
still to be overcome.

It is asserted that the Emperor will shortly leave
for Lyons. A memorandum from Count Buol,
hostile to Piedmont, is spoken of.
TURIN, THURSDAY.

The Cavaliere d'Azeglio left this morning for
Paris, charged with an extraordinary mission to the
Governments of France and England.
ROME, WEDNESDAY.

The death of the King of Naples is hourly ex-
pecte d. Public prayers are offered np in the churches
for his Majesty.

DRESDEN, THURSDAY.

The Dresden Journalalleges its acquaintance with
the fact that according to a more recent counter-
proposal of France, which is said to be also seconded
in other quarters, the Congress will assemble on the
23d inst. at Carlsruhe, and will commence opera-
tions by resolving on a general disarming.

STUTTGART, APRIL 14.

The official Wurtembergischer Staatsanzeiger
pubEshes a royal decree calling in the Landwehr.
The first bands are to be composed of those soldiers
who have left military service within the last two
years, and the two junior classes which have not
yet begun military service, are summoned for the
Ist of May.next.

MADRID, WEDNESDAY.

The Congress has approved a bill of indictment
against Senor Collantes by 178 voices against 66.
Senor Collantes was forthwith lodged as a prisoner
in the hotel of the Civil Governor.

TRIESTE, APRIL 14.
Advices have been received from Athens to the

9th inst.

A convention has been concluded with the Aus-
trian Government relating to the connection of
Trieste and Greece by telegraph. The telegraph
line between Trieste and Alexandria is to pass
through Greece.

The Austrian Lloyd steamer arrivedhere (Trieste)
with advices from Constantinople to the 9th inst.
Ismael Pacha had left to take the command of the
corps d'arinee on the Danube. The arrival of Omer
Pacha at Constantinople is not confirmed.
SMYRNA, APRIL 9.

The agitation against the Jews continues.
CORFU, APRIL 10.
A new decree concerning the promotion of the
public functionaries has been published.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY.

The illoniteur of this morning publishes the
usual monthly debtor and creditor account of the
Bank of France, made up to yesterday (Thursday).
The corresponding figures of the last month are
added :

DEBTOR.

April.

March.

F. C. F. C.
Capital of the Bank 91,250,000 0 91,250,000 0
Ditto, New
Profits in addition to Capi-
tal (Art. 8, Law of June
9, 1857) 1,510,527 65 1,510,527 6.5
Reserve of the Bank
New. Reserve
Ditto in landed property 4,000,000 0 4,000,000 0
Notes in circulation 7,303,718 2M706,261,625 0
Bank-notes to order 6,507,855 72 7,153,200 0
Receipts payable at sight 8,918,766 0 7,655,304 0
Treasury account current
creditor .

76,238,579 99 88,975,430 9

Sundry accounts current 209,804,576 91 225,001,263 29
Ditto with branch banks 28,224,369 0 32,461,242 0
Dividends payable. 652,674 25 951,520 25
Discts. sundry interests 2,232,389 62 1,432,072 25
Commission on deposits 5,617,304 50 3,877,432 60
Re-discounted the last six
months
Surplus of paid-up bills 20,629 22 23,158. 36
Sundries

Total 1,283,181,273 80 1,286,663,787 18

CREDITOR.

April.

March.

F. C. F. C.
Cash in hand
Cash in the branch banks. 315,094,036 0 303,598,152 0
Commercial bills overdue. 364,913 47 291,388 8
Commercial bills dis-

counted, not yet due 218,204,357 73 216,052,062 90
Do. in the branch banks 226,778,150 0 230,787,508 0
Advanced on deposit of
bullion.
Do. by the branch banks
Do. on French public secu-

163,800 0 316,700 0
405,900 0 694,600 0

cities
26,865,600 0 26,259,700 0
Do. by the branch banks 13,202,500 0 12,417,100 0
Do. on railway securities 95,236,300 0 85,325,100 0
Do. by the branch banks 30,519,300 0 29,96G,120 0
Do.on Credit Foncier Scrip 633,900 0 724,400 0
Do. on branch banks Scrip 424,700 0 423,600 0
Do. to the State on agree-
ment of June 30, 1848 48,000,000 0 45,000,000 0
Govern. stock reserved 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
Do. disposable
New shares, not settled
Hotel and film. of Bank 4,000,000 0 4,000,000 0
Landed property of branch
banks
Expenses of management.
Sundries

6,787,597 0 6,911,032 0
1,121,952 34 784,709 63
4,222,530 SO 4,417,773 43

Total 1,283,181,273 80 1,286,663,787 18

SARDINIA.

With reference to Count Cavour's memorandum
of the Ist ult., to-day's papers publish a circular
from the Lieutenant-Governorship of Lombardy, as
confirmatory of the Sardinian Minister's statement
that among the causes of Lombardo-Venetian hatred
to Austria was to be reckoned the severity and cor-
poral punishment to which women were subjected.
The Turin papers give the circular as taken from
the official Provincial Bulletin of the Acts of the
Government for Lombardy, issue of the 7th March,
It runs as follows :

Cireular of the I. R. Lombard Lieutenant-Governorship,
Jan. 22, 1859, concerning the execution of the corporal
punishments to be inflicted on persons of the female sex
condemned or prosecuted (inquisitees).
" Copy of the decree No. 23,586 of the Ministry of Justice.
" On the occasion of a demand that has been presented,
the Ministry of Justice, in accordance with the Ministries
of the Interior and of Finance, determines that, for the
punishment by blows with a rod of prosecuted or condemned
women, the wives of the gaolers (prison guards), or the
maid-servants of the same who may be found most adapted
to the office, are principally to be employed, with a retribu-
tion of 20 sous of the new coinage (about 5d.) for every
execution.

" Of this charge communication shall be given to the de-
pendent judges for their observations, it being declared,
however, to the same that the execution of corporal punish-
ment on prosecuted and condemned men constitutes part of
the ordinary service of the prison officials, from which no
pretence of special recompense can be derived.

" Vienna, Jan. 4, 1859."

The Turin prints declare this document to be
genuine, defy the Milan Gazette to contradict it, and
remark on the strangeness of the spectacle presented
to the civilized world by the concurrence of three
principal Ministers of a great European Power in
deciding such matters as the flagellation of women
for 20 sous, and of men gratis. They also call atten-
tion to the passages of the circular which establish
that corporal punishment may be inflicted, not only
on women who have been condemned, but also on
those who arc only under prosecution.

COLOGNE, APRIL 11.—Mr. Ellerton's Symphony
No. 3 was performed by the Musicalische Gesellschaft of
this city, under the direction of Herr Hiller, on Saturday
evening, the 9th inst., with complete success. The com-
poser, an Englishman, was loudly cheered at the conclusion
of the piece both by the orchestra and the audience.
THE CONDEMNED PRISONERS IN CHESTER
CASTLE.—The two poachers, Richard Boulton and John
Danks, who were found guity of the murder of the two
gamekeepers at the last assizes and were condemned to
death, have been respited. Both prisoners were much
affected on receiving the intelligence,