The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-14 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

THE WAR WITH PERSIA.

MARSEILLES, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
The Euphrates has arrived from Constantinople
with papers and letters to the sth.
The British fleet in the Black Sea is ordered to
hold itself in readiness to return at the first
notice, which will not be delayed beyond the
evacuation of the Principalities by the Austrian
army ; but it will not take place till then.
Mr. Wilkin has been authorised by a telegraphic
despatch from London to enter upon the organi-
sation of the Bank of Constantinople, with a
capital of eight millions.
The British fleet in the Persian Gulf is hasten-
ing on its operations. It expects to complete the
campaign in three months.

Notwithstanding its financial derangements,
and fear of revolt, the Persian Government ex-
hibits great activity.
The Persians are masters of almost all the
roads on Kandahar.

The Journal de Constantinople says that Persia
is in a state bordering on anarchy. The Shah
fears for the communications of the left of his
army from threatening movements of the
Affghans.

The Russian flotilla on the Caspian has disem-
barked a corps at the Persel Islands, alleging
their right to do so by ancient treaties.
There are disturbances among the mountaineers
of Lebanon (Syria).

BERLIN, TUESDAY.
The Russians have evacuated the Isle of Ser.

pents.

The Archduke Constantine has arrived here,
It is rumoured that he will visit Paris, and that
he is going to Nice, after his short stay ai
Hanover.

Colonel Manteuffel has returned from Vienna.
The Government has communicated to the
Chambers that the revenue is in a flourishing
condition, but that additional taxation is neces-
sary to meet extraordinary charges.

There will be an additional duty on salt, and
on many branches of industry, railways excepted.
The house tax is to be augmented.

BERNE, JAN. 13

The Message to the Federal Assembly from
the Federal Council proposes the discontinuance,
or suspension, of the proceedings against the
prisoners until the final arrangement of the nego-
tiations in progress. The conditions of these
will be submitted to the Federal Assembly.
Military levies will be temporarily suspended.
The Russian and Austrian ambassadors have
communicated a note, identical in contents with
the proposals of France and England.

BUCHAREST, JAN. 12.

The news of the settlement of the frontier diffi-
culty was made known here yesterday. The
approaching retreat of the Austrian troops from
the Principalities caused the most unbounded joy.
The police have interfered to prevent the illumi-
nations.

FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.

The lawsuit against the Univers has been termi-
nated by the Abbe Cognat having abandoned the
prosecution.

A Paris letter, in the Independance of Brussels,
says :—" I learn, that Mgr. Salinis, Bishop of
Amiens, figures first on the list of names which
has been submitted by M. Rouland, the Minister
of Public Works, to the Emperor for the vacant
archbishopric. The other names are, I understand,
Mgr. Daniel, Bishop of Coutance ; Mgr. de Ga-
vignies, Bishop of Soissons ; Mgr. de Bonnechose,
Bishop of Evreux ; and finally, Mgr. Blanquart de
Bailleul, Archbishop of Rouen ; but what I am
best able to affirm is that no cardinal is on the
list."

More than half the Moniteur is filled with re-
ports and decrees relating to the extension of
municipal government in the colony of Algeria.
The Debats insists upon it that England has no
claim to the larger share of credit in the settlement
of the Neuchatel affair.

Among the wild schemes and speculations with
which France is rife, the Debats introduces us to a
pamphlet, in which the writer proposes that the
Government should purchase all the houses in
Paris, and give coupons, bearing a certain interest,
to be declared every six months.

THE NEW BESSARABIAN FRONTIER.
It will be observed that the note, announcing the
result of the Paris Conferences, which has been
published by the Moniteur, says that in return for
the cession.of Tobak and Bolgrad, Russia shall re-
tain the town of Komrat, with a territory of above
330 square versts. Komrat is not mentioned in or-
dinary geographical works, but it belongs to Bessa-
rabia, and is situated on the right bank of the Yal-
pouk at about 65 versts above Bolgrad, in the zone
comprised between that river and the Pruth. The
town did not exist in 1812, when was signed the
treaty of peace of Bucharest, which added Bessa-
rabia to the empire of the Czars. It is only of re-
cent creation, and is built on the site on which for-
merly stood the small town of Arka, famous for
having given birth to Prince Bessaraba, who first
reigned over the country, and from whom the name
of the province is derived. The town of Komrat
is third in rank after Kichenew, the chief town of
the province. The Russians propose, it is said, to
make Komrat the centre of the Bulgarian colonies
and to establish a custom-house in the place. The
colonies are prosperous, and consist altogether of
85 villages.

RUSSIA.
The Nord publishes the text of a despatch
addressed by Prince Gortschakoff, the Russian
Minister of Foreign Affairs, under date of 30th of
December last, to Baron Budberg, the Russian
Envoy at Vienna, in reply to a communication from
Vienna on the Neuchatel question. It says :
"We fully share, M. le Baron, the opinion of the
Vienna Cabinet as regards the perfect legality of the
rights claimed by his Majesty the King of Prussia--
rights guaranteed by the act of the o,,ngress of Vieniia
and solemnly sanctioned by the protocol of London.
" We do not the less desire to see a pacific settlement
of the question. The counsels we have all.along given to
the Berlin Cabinet have been with that object in view;
and we have seen with sincere satisfaction that the
Prussian Government, after keeping constantly in the
path of moderation, while preparing at the same time
for more efficacious measures, still kept open a door to
conciliation.
"Nevertheless, M. le Baron, we derive from the very
circumstances which gave rise to the Neuchatel affair in
September last the conviction that it is our duty to leave
the Government of his Majesty the King of Prussia
perfectly at liberty to appreciate what its dignity, its
rights, and its interests demand.
The despatch then enters into a discussion of the
London Protocol, to show that all the recent mea-
sures adopted by Prussia were justifiable.
As regards the attempted Royalist insurrection
at Neuchatel the despatch says :--
" Moreover, some devoted subjects of the King of
Prussia having recently attempted to overthrow the de
facto Government existing at Neuchatel and to restore
the authority of their legitimate Sovereign, they were
seized, ill-treated, sent into a severe imprisonment, and
submitted to the jurisdiction of the de facto authorities
at Neuchatel. _ _

" His Majesty the King of Prussia could not remain
indifferent to such acts nor abandon the defenders of his
cause. His Majesty demanded the immediate liberation
of the Royalist prisoners. But he deemed that his
dignity required that he should insist that they should
be liberated unconditionally before entering into any
ulterior negotiation ; and it is only after having ex.
hausted the means of conciliation in his power, and, on
the obstinate refusals of the Helvetic Government to
comply with that demand, that his Majesty has come to
the conclusion that he must necessarily have recourse to
more efficacious measures than a purely diplomatic in-
tervention.