The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-05 00:00:00

estimate of thf) liabilities growing out of the esta-
blishment of the Emporio I laliano Institution.

Already it is observable that this singularly
attractive design has enlist-d the sympathies of
the Italians themselves, and elicited from the
leading portions of the Milian Press the very
strongest expressions of encouragement. It has
been commended very earnestly, for example, by
the Spettatore of Florence, by the Gazetta of
Milan, by the Corriere published at Vienna, by
the .Risorgimento of Turin, by the Pirata of
Genoa, by the Giornale of Bologna and the
Giornale of Mantua, by the Gazetta of Trieste and
the Gazetta of Venice, by the Trieste Osservatere,
and the Turin aim-wee delle Arti e delle Industrie.
It commands hardly less urgently the sympathy
of the British than of the Italian newspapers—
the encouragement of the organs of public opinion
in England than that of the journals printed and
circulated in the chief cities of the Roman Penin-
sula. It has ours already, at any rate, frankly
and cerdially—The hesitating not to ac-
cord to this beneficent scheme of the Imperio Ita-
lian° the homage of its frank sympathy and the
aid of its cordial encouragement. We shall watch
the development of the design with an interest
not less than that of earnest solicitude. May it,
if once set energetically afoot, do good service in
its own good way and in its own good time, in the
pacific and beneficent advance of the interests it is
intended to forward—those, as we have said and
seen, of the great cause of Italian Regeneration !

A Prospectus recently issued by the Harwich
and Continental Royal Mail Steam-Packet Com-
pany—a newly organised Company, proposing to
establish a regular periodical mail-steam-packet
service between the former port and Rotterdam
—gives very large and ♦ery reasonable promise,
we cannot but think, not merely of considerable
advantages to its own shareholders, but of others
accruing from it t 3 every one having capital
already embarked either in the Eastern Counties
or in the Dutch Rhenish Railways. A very
rational and obvious deduction, this—as any one
may recognise upon the merest glance at the web-
work of railroads branching off from either ex-
tremity of the newly-projected route across the
Channel. The Eastern Counties Railway con-
ducting the traffic from Harwich to Colchester,
and thence onwards—north, south, east, west—
along the various lines in England, to London,
Southampton, Exeter, Birmingham, Liverpool,
York, Manchester, &c.l The Dutch Rhenish
Railways, starting from Rotterdam and the
Hague, penetrating through the Netherlands
to the extremities of Hanover, Holstein,
and Westphalia, and so onwards, in like
manner, and upon a yet ampler scale—
north, south, east, west—to all parts of the Eu-
ropean Continent. Downwards to Cologne, to
Wiesbaden, to Frankfort, to Darmstadt. Up-
wards to Harlingen, to Emden, to Cuxhaven, to
Lubeck, to Kiel I Although the shares of the
new company have been fixed at 10/. each,
it is anticipated by the Directors that no imme-
diate call will be requisite beyond 5/. at the
utmost. Already we are in no way surprised
to see enrolled among the list of subscribers an
important and, comparatively speaking, remote
body like the Liverpool Commissaries. The
auspicious character of the proposed mail steam-
packet service across the channel, between 11 Ar-
wich and Rotterdam, being sufficiently obvious at
the first instant, to the enterprising men of Lanca-
shire. As, we conjecture, it must infallibly prove
elsewhere, in our own country, and in most of
the northern countries of Europe, approached
from England through the Netherlands.

THE DIVISION 0-V THE ADDRESS.

The following is a list of the majority against Lord
Grey's amendment on the Address to her Majesty :
Lord Chancellor Viscounts. Cremorne

DUKE. Falkland De Tabley
Argyll Sydney De Manley
MARQUISES. Torrington Dufferin
Ailesbury BISUOPS. Foley
Lansdowne Bath and Wells Glenelg
EARLS. Chester Hatherton
Airlie Down Lilford
Abingdon Gloucester Lyndhurst
Bessborough Llandaff Lyttelton
Clarendon London Methuen
St David's Panmure
Cork

Cowper BARONS. Say° and Selo
Granville Belper Stanley of Alderley
Harrowby Broughton Truro
Shelburne Caraoys Vivian
Spencer Crewe Wenlock

man-
sion in St James'-;quare, last evening, the Earl of
The Earl of Derby entertained at dinner, at his
Chesterfield, the Esrl of Dartmouth, the Earl of Powis,
the Earl of Verularn, the Earl Beauchamp, the Earl
of E. wont, the Earl of Portarlington, the Earl of Erne,
the Earl of Lanesborough, the Earl of Enniskillen,
the Earl of Darnley, Lord Forester, Lord Dynevor,
Lord Ravenswortb, Lord Sondes, Lorl Bateman, Lord
Wassingharn, Lard Feversham, Lord NV) nforti, and Lsrd
Cloncurry.
The Eari and Countess of Albemarle and the Ladies
Keppsl have arrived at their mansion in Grosvenor-square,
from Quidenharn Hall, Norfolk.
Viscountess Palmerston bas issued cars for assemblies
on every Saturday during the present mon. h.
Viscount Wellesley has left the Clarendon for Dray-
cott House, near Chippenham.
Lard Dufferin has left the Clarendon for Windsor
Castle.
Rear-Admiral.tbe llon, Sir Richard Dundee, K.C.8.,
"special service," tt
() ont
l seat in the Admiralty.
It is snaoi
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Matedo,)mo unot attnohdar
aboutt)furtrh et to his
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15,000 qrs. of red Lincolnshire
wheat were bought on French account at the close of
last week.
OLYMPIC THICATRE.—A false imuression having gone
abroad with respect to the health of Mr. Wigan, we have
been requested to state that he is still seriously indis-
posed.
TROOPS FOR INDIA.—On Tuesday an order was re-
ceived in Dublin from the Horse Guards for the Queen's
Bays and 3.1 Dragoon Guards to hold themselves in im-
mediate readiness to proceed to India. Similar orders,
it is also added, have been also issued to seven regiments
of infantry.
FUNERAL OF BARON ALDERSON.—The remains of
this learned judge were removed to Bury St. Edmund's,
Suffolk (his birth place), on Tuesday morning. Great
numbers of people were assembled in St. Mary Magda-
len'a Criurc'i at an early hour to take part in a solemn
service in the church of which he laid the first stone.
The body was met at the door by the Revs. E. Stuart,
incumbent of St. Mary's ; W. U. Richards; incumbent"
of All Saint's, Margaret-street; and J. Murray, incumbent
of St. Andrew's, Wells-street. The coffin was placed on
the floor of the nave, and three candles were burning on
each side of it. The pall was of blue velvet with a yel-
low fringe, and a cross worked nn it of red velvet. The
39th Psalm was sung to a Gregorian chant, and the
lesson (1 Cor. xv.) read by Mr. Murray. The Holy
Communion was then celebrated, the sons and daughters
of the deceased baron, his nephew, Mr. Drew ; his son-
in-law, Mr. W. C. Cocks, and other mourners ; and Mr.
Justice Coleridge. Mr. J. D. Coleridge, Mr. A. D. Cole-
ridge, the Rev. W. H. Milman, and one or two other
friends of the family, being the commtiniants.
BUSIIIRE AND KARACK —A. French paper says :
"Bushire, which has just been captured by the English,
is situated in Fars or Farsistan, the province of Persia
known by the ancients as Persia. The name of the town
is really Bender Abouschehr. It is situated on a tongue
of land once covered by the waters of the gulf, and is
defended on the land side by a high wall flanked with
towers, constructed at unequal distances. This port,
which is the most important of Persia, manifests none of
the activity that characterises European maritime towns.
The majority of the vessels which navigate the Persian
Gulf touch at Bushire and Basra, in order to land or
take in goods. This trade does not, however, give em-
ploymen, to more than eight vessels under the English
fls,.,is and six under the colours of the Imaum of Muscat.
Thee vessels form a tonnage of about 4,500 tons. The
town of Busbire contains about 400 houses, besides a great
number of huts constructed of palm timber, erected outside
the wails. The number of inhabitants, stated by some
travellers to amount to 20,000, has been considerably
reduced by plague, cholera, and numerous wars, of
which Farsistan has been the theatre, and at present
does not probably surpass 6,000 souls. Bushire con-
tains erven mosques, four of which belong to the Shiiites
and three to the Sunnites, also two baths and two
caravanserais. The English factory is situated about
two miles.from the town. Karack or Kharedj, the
island now occupied by the English, contains an excel-
lent port, good wells ut fresh water, and is capable of
being strongly fortified. In a commercial, political, and
military pout of view, Karack is of high importance.
Up to the present moment this island has been known
only for its lucrative pearl-fisheries. The most
able pearls are despatched to Europe by Bagdad ; the
inferior ones Akre employed by the Persians in the deco- I
ration of their pipes, harness, and pocket mirroro.",

LATEST N E WS.

THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.
PARIS, THURSDAY, 9 A.M.

The Moniteur contains an article on the ques-
tion of the union of the Danubian Principalities.
The Plenipotentiary of France at the Conference
of Vienna had st ►ted it as his opinion that it was
the combination bErst suited to assure to those pro:-
vinces the strength necessary to become a bulwark
for the Ottoman Empire. The French Government
has not ceased to profess the same opinion, and
what has recently taken place between it and the
other Cabinets has only tended to confirm it in its
convictions. It does not despair of seeing them
prevail in the councils of the Powers, and that
the one most interested will admit that the union
of the Principalities has nothing which is not
completely in accordance with the rights of suze-
rainty of the Sublime Porte with regard to the
Danubian Principalities.

MARSEILLES, FEB. 4.
We have arrivals from Constantinople to the
26th January.

The Presse d' Orient announces the reception of
the Commission for reconstituting the DAnubian
Principalities by the Sultan. The Porte is pre-
paring a general amnesty for Moldc-Wallachia.
Rustum Paella replaces M. Mussuras as Minis-
ter of Turkey at Turin.
The Gazette de Teheran publishes a State docu-
ment, complaining of the injustice of the English
in declaring war while negotiations wereopending
at Constantinople.
The taking of Bushire was known on the 4th
of January. Persia is not discouraged, but is
sending troops into Farsistan.

The rumours of a concession and of pacific av-
rangements are unfounded.

The English are moving troops from Bushire
upon Shiraz.

The Pays announces that another collision has
taken place on the frontiers of Persia between the
Russians and the Turcoman tribes. In virtue of
a convention signed between Russia and Persia
in the year 1846 the Russians constructed the
fortress of Petrowsky on the Caspian Sea, near
Astrabad. The commander of the fort, iu order
to protect the garrison from a surprise, lately
erected two exterior works communicating with
the fort. These works had scarcely been finished
when, on the 11th of January last, the Turco-
mans, profiting by a dense fog, fell suddenly on
the Russians and forced them ti fall back on
the fortress with a slight loss. The Governor
having placed the garrison under arms, sallied out
with a strong force, and held in check the Turco-
mans, who had already begun to demolish the
works ; and he, at the same time, demanded assis-
tance of the Governor of Ashoorada, which was im-
mediately sent to him. The Russians then
pursued the Turcomans, killed some, and took more
p among whom was a chief of the prin-
cipal iof pirates in the Maz tndaran, who was
at onceson tribee
sent to the Governor-General at Astrakhan.
The Russians by waging an implacable war against
rrs
the Turcoman robbers have rendered some service
to the merchants trading in those 'countries.

TREATY FOR THF. REDEMPTION OF
THE SOUND DUES.
The following is the outline of the treaty about
to be concluded between Denmark and the various
European Powers trading with the Baltic, for the
redemption of the Sound Dues :
The preamble states, that with a view to facilitate
and increase the commercial and maritime relations
at present exizting between Denmark and the other
contracting States, these parties have agreed to
negotiate a treaty for abolishing the dues levied on
ships and other cargoes passing through the Sound
and the Belts, and for diminishing the transit duty
payable on goods • passing overland from the Ger-
man Ocean to the Baltic.
In the first article the King of Denmark under-
takes for the future not to levy any duty under the
name of customs, tonnage, or for lighthouses, buoys,
kc., on any vessels, or their cargoes, passing from
the German Ocean to the Baltic, or vice versa,
through the Belts or the Sound, and this, too, irre-
spective of whether the vessels simply pass through
the Danish waters, or whether they be compelled
by stress of weather or for the sake of commercial
operations to cast anchor there, or to put into a
port. No vessel of any sort belonging to the
contracting Powers is in future to be subjected
to any detention or other hindrance while
passing through the Belts or the Sound ; with
regard to the vessels of other States not partici-
pating in this• Treaty, the King of Denmark is to
be at liberty to settle by separate arrangements the
fiscal conditions that are to be accorded to them.
The King undertakes further to free &dm all dues
for lighthouses, beacons, buoys, &c., and, in general,
from all maritime taxes, with the exception of ab-
solute port dues and customs, any such vessels of
the contracting parties as may enter or leave Danish
ports, either in cargo or in ballast, and equally
whether they have or have not entered into any
commercial transaction at the port.
In the 2d article the King binds himself to main-
tain and keep in good order all the lights, beacons,
buoys, &c., at present in use, both at the ap-
proaches to Danish ports and roads, or along the
Danish coast. Secondly, in the interest of com-
merce and navigation, to pay due regard to the
expediency of modifying the position or the form
of these said lights, beacons, buoys, &c., or of
increasing their number, and this without any
charge or burden to foreign vessels. Thirdly, to
keep up the present supply of pilots, whom it
shall be optional to all masters of vessels to
employ or not. The charges for pilotage are
also never to rise higher than they are at present ;
they are to be the same for Danish as for
foreign vessels, and are to be payable only
by those vessels that take pilots on board. Fourthly,
he will permit private individuals, whether natives
or foreigners, to establish stations in the Sound and
Belts for providing steam tugs to vessels passing
through and desirous of profiting by this facility.
Fifthly, he extends to all canals or other routes
leading from the German Ocean to the Baltic the.'same
exemption from duty which Danish and foreign
merchandise of certain kinds enjoy on certain
routes, (here follows a specification of the various
kinds of merchandise and the various routes); and if
in future anygoods notspecified here should succeed
in obtaining an exemption from transit duty on any
one of these routes, that exemption shall be extended
to all others. And sixthly, he undertakes to re-
duce the rate of transit duty on all those goods
now liable to it to an uniform rate of 16 skillings
Danish money for 500 lb. Danish weight ; and
finally, should the transit dues come, at any
future time to be lowered on any one of the routes
below this rate, the King undertakes to put
all the route 3 now connecting, or which may
hereafter connect the German Ocean or the Elbe
with the Baltic or any of its tributaries, on a
footing of perfect equality with any routes that may
hereafter be opened between any two ports of his
dominions.

According to Art. 3, the provisions of Articles 1
and 2 are to come into force on and after April the
Ist of this year.
Art. 4 binds the States entering into this treaty
with Denmark to pay the latter as an indemnifica-
tion for the sacrifices it makes in the above articles
the sum of 30,570,698 rix dollars, according to
various quotas already agreed upon, and with the
provision that each State is liable only for its own
quota.

In Art. 5 it is provided that tho various amounts
above fi pecided ghall be paid within 20 years, in 40