The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-18 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern
New ditto BBO .. 890
L9ons and Mediterranean 893 75 .. 887 50
Geneva
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard

502 50 .. 502 50
548 75 .. 570 --
593 75 .. 590 -
372 50 .. 370 -
467 50 .. 465 -
465 465 -

NAPLES.

The following is the text of Victor Emma.
nuel's proclamation to the people of Naples. 11
is dated 7th inst.:—

" Italians of the Neapolitan Provinces !—The
cares of Government have obliged me, to my re-
gret, to separate myself from you. I cannot
give you a greater proof of affection than
that of sending you my beloved cousin, Prince
Eugene, to whom I am wont to entrust the
Monarchy during my absence. He will go•
vern the Neapolitan provinces in my name, and
with the same powers which I exercised myself,
and which I had delegated to the illustrious states-
man who withdraws from that honourable office
in consequence of the loss of a dear relative.
Repose the same confidence in Prince Eugene, of
which you gave me such undoubted proofs ; and,
while waiting your representatives in Parliament,
aid him in the task of unification which he comes
to promote by your concord and civic wisdom.
Europe, which for the last two years has been
viewing with astonishment the great facts which
are being accomplished in Italy, will learn from
your conduct that the Neapolitan provinces, if they
entered late into the society of their liberated sisters,
are not on that account less ardent in their firm
resolve to see our common country united.—Turin,
Jan. 7, 1861.
(Signed) " VICTOR EMMANUEL.
(Countersigned) "C. CATOVR."

THE WEST INDIA MAILS.

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SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY.

The Royal Mail steamship Oneida, Capt. Bevis,
with the above mail has arrived. She brings
38 passengers and 394,335 dols. in specie. She
left St. Thomas on the 2d inst. and experienced
head winds and heavy seas throughout the passage.
The accounts from Barbadoes are favourable as
regards the coming crops. Exchange on London,
30 days, was quoted 4.90 dols.

The Camperdown and the Merrie England had
arrived at Demerara with immigrants from Calcutta.
Manufacturing operations were drawing to a close.
The crops generally showed favourable results.
The Jamaica markets exhibited no change in
prices. Exchange on London, 90 days, 1 per
cent. premium.

St. Thomas continues healthy. Affairs were
ranquil in Bolivia.

The political news from Valparaiso is unim-
portant. Business was dull. Exchange, 434 d. to
43td.

AMERICA.

LONDONDERRY, FRIDAY

The Montreal Ocean Company's steamer Anglo-
Saxon, Captain Ballantine, from Portland on the
sth inst., has arrived here and landed all mails.
The Charleston Convention had passed a trea-
son ordinance making the levying of war against
the State of South Carolina punishable with
death. The same convention had passed an or-
dinance giving federal judicial power to the State
courts and Congressional power to the General
Assembly.
It was proposed to starve out the garrison of
Fort Sumter, and then to attack it on rafts. It
was determined to sink the revenue cutter Har-
riet Lane, if she entered the harbour of Charleston.

The Forts at Savannah and Mobile had been
taken by the State troops.
A dvices from Washington, to the 3d instant,
state that the South Carolina Commissioners had
returned home, disgusted with the unexpected
attitude of President Buchanan.

A combination was on foot to take possession of
Washington, and prevent the inauguration of
Mr. Lincoln as President.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, JAN. 4.
This being the day set apart for humiliation and
prayer all the markets were closed.

NEW ORLEANS, JAN. 3.
The cotton market is steady—sales, 8,500 bales ;
middling, 111 c. to 12c.
(Latest by Telegraph.)

NEW YORK, lAN. 5.

News from Charleston states that Fort Sumter
had not been besieged. General Scott bad ordered
all the available troops at Leavenworth to proceed
to Fort 11I'llenry, near Baltimore.
The City of Manchester and the Fulton have
sailed for Europe, the latter taking 17,000 dolls. in
specie. The stock market is dull. Illinois Central
79: ; Erie 38t- ; New York Central 78.
Great indignation was arising in the Free
States.

The cotton market is active, and firm. Middling
upland, 121 c.
Breadstuffs closed with an advancing tendency.
The provision market is steady.

THE FRENCH INTERVENTION 42

GAETA.

The Moniteur of yesterday contains the follow-
ing remarkable piece of special pleading, apropos
of the recent remarkable interference of the French
fleet in behalf of the ex-King of Naples :
"The object in sending the squadron of evolu-
tion to Gaeta was with the object of preventing
King Francis 11. from finding himself suddenly
invested by land and by sea in the place to which
he had retreated. The Emperor desired to give a
proof of his sympathy to a Prince cruelly tried by
fortune ; but his Majesty, faithful to the principle
of non-intervention, which has entirely directed
his conduct in regard to Italy since the peace of
Villafranca, did not pretend to take an active part
in a political struggle. In further prolonging this
demonstration be would change its character. The
presence of our Bag, intended merely to cover the
retreat of his Sicilian Majesty. in a manner con-
formable to his position and rank, would be inter-
preted as an encouragement to resistance, and
would become a material support. Incidents soon
occurred which compelled the Commander-in-Chief
of the squadron to remind not only the Neapolitans,
but the Piedmontese, of the position of strict neu-
trality which was prescribed to him and which it
was nearly impossible for him to maintain. It yet
more concerned the Government of the Emperor
not to accept the responsibility of such a situation,
and that candid and repeated declarations should
not give rise to any mistake as to the nature of in-
tentions. From the end of October, indeed, Vice-
Admiral de Tinan did not fail to inform King
Francis 11. that our ships could not remain for
an indefinite time at Gaeta, idle spectators of a
conflict which could only result in a yet greater
effusicn of blood. The same warnings were repeated
many times to his Sicilian Majesty, whose courage
had so completely vindicated his honour. Mean-
time, the circumstances we have indicated became
more serious, and desirous of reconciling the de-
mands of a neutral policy with the first idea of con-
triving a means of free departure to King Francis
11., the Government of the Emperor made itself the
medium of a proposal for an armistice, which
has been accepted by the two belligerent parties.
Operations ceasing from the Bth of this month,
hostilities will be suspended until the 19th, and
upon that day Admiral de Tinan will depart from
Gaeta."

The folio wing are the documents establishing
the Armistice :

" General Cialdini, commanding the besieging
army before Gaeta, to Admiral Le Barbier de
Tinan.

" CASTELLONE, Jan. 11, 1861.

" Admiral,—l have the honour to assure you that
before the close of the day of the 19th inst. there
shall be on my part no act of hostility towards the
place, nor any work of approach, nor any increase
of the number of guns in battery, unless the place
provokes me by its fire or its works. In that case
I shall consider myself free from all engagements,
and the cessation of hostilities will cease, also, on
my part.
" However, Admiral, I shall not open fire with-
out giving you previous notice of it. You will then
be judge, and will inform his Majesty the Emperor
which side has been wrong.
" Be pleased to accept, &c.,
" CIALDINI,

" General commanding the siege before Gaeta.'
" General Ritucci, Governor of the Fortress o:
Gaeta, to Vice-Admiral Le Barbier de Tinan.
" GAETA, Jan. 12, 1861.

" Admiral,—Having received the orders of his
Majesty the King, my august master, I have the
honour to announce to you that before the close of
the day of the 19th inst. no construction of new
batteries, or augmentation of those already existing,
shall be proceeded with in this place, and only
works of reparation demanded by circumstances
shall be executed.

" If, however, the besiegers should provoke us,
either by increasing their batteries or by construe-
big new ones, it is obvious that we should remain
free from all engagements.
" In order to remove any false interpretation in
the event of the re-opening of the fire of the place,
I shall beg of you to send me, when the moment
has come, one of your officers to judge upon which
side is the wrong.
" Be good enough, Admiral, to believe in the
assurance of my high consideration.
" ItiTucct,
" Lieutenant General commanding the fortress of
Gaeta."

CHURCH MISSION TO ITALIANS IN LONDON.—A
Church of England mission to Italians resident in the me-
tropolis has been opened with the sanction and approval of
the Bishop of London, who has nominated the Rev. P.
Leonini to conduct it. It is said that there are 20,000
Italians resident in the metropolis, An effort will be made
to secure one of the City churches for the use of the inis-
oi9u, but no arraugemeuts have yet been completed,

,INO7.IIER GALE.-8110cKING kEIP

WRECKS 0.37 THE COAST.

Another serious gale from the eastward has
swept the North Sea and south coast, occasioning
several melancholy shipwrecks. It, commenced
early on Tuesday, and continued, with more or less
violence, during the night, the cold being very
severe. A sad list of disasters has been received
by Lloyd's agents. We append a notice of the
more serious.

While the gale was at its height on Tuesday,
between one and two o'clock, a large French brig,
called the Theodore, Captain Leblond, bound to
Dieppe from the Tyne, which had become dis-
abled, was driven ashore at Skinuingrove, a few
miles from Redcar ; and within a quarter of
an hour or so after she struck, owing to the sea
which broke over her and her violent bumping, she
began to go to pieces. The crew, eight in number,
seeing the inevitable loss of their vessel, took to the
ship's boat, and in endeavouring to reach the shore
was capsized, when the whole of the poor fellows,
with the exception of the captain, were drowned.
The master, when picked up, was in a very
exhausted state. The brig speedily went to pieces,
and her cargo was strewed on the coast. Several of
the bodies have been cast up.
A heavy loss is reported to have happened on the
Roar Bank, on the east side of Dungeness. The
barque Sarah Love, bound to London from St.
Vincent, was making her way up Channel on
Tuesday, when she went ashore on the Roar Bank
and remained. The coast-guard were soon in
attendance, and every effort was made to get her
off, but without success. The last accounts state
that her back is broken. The unfortunate ship
hailed from Sunderland.

Two colliers, named the Mayor, of Sunderland,
and the Zephyr, of Stockton, bound to London,
were wrecked on the Swin Middle-sand, two of
the crew of the latter vessel perishing. The sur-
vivors suffered much from the severe cold, and
were rescued and landed in the river Colne by
the smack Queen Victoria, of Brightlingsea.
Another collier, the Cockermouth Castle, bound
to Dieppe from Shields, was lost on the Inner
Dowseys on Tuesday night. About 20 miles north
west of the Humber, the mate and crew of
the collier brig Charles Henry of Sunderland,
abandoned that vessel in a sinking state. She had
lost her rudder and was totally dismasted. The
master, John Anson, refused to leave her, and his
fate is left in great uncertainty. The 'new, who
took to the boat, were picked up by the collier brig
Elizabeth Young of Shields, and, with the excep-
tion of a seaman named Lea, who was drowned,
were safely landed.

It is feared that some sad catastrophe has oc-
curred between Orfordness and Harwich. Several
bags of tobacco and spices have been picked up,
and some bags containing black pepper, marked
"B. C. L." and "J. J. and Z." A ship's topmast,
lower yard, and beams have also been east ashore.