The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-24 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

(NEUTER'S . TELEIRAMS.)
PARIS, JAN. 24.

General Willisen was revived yesterday by
the Emperor, to whom he renitted a letter from
the King of Prussia anniuncing @the death
of his brother and his ovn accession to the
throne.

ROLES, JAN. 23.

Troops have been despatch3d to the Abruzzi
and Calabria, where they were cheered by the
inhabitants. The reactionary movement has been
everywhere suppressed.
The batteries of Gaeta have slackened their
fire.

The Official Gazette of Naples publishes a
declaration of the blockade o: Gaeta.

NAPLES, JAN. 22, A.M.
The batteries of Gaeta opined fire against the
Sardinians this morning.
The latter are actively working at the new
batteries.
The blockade of the bay isbeing rapidly carried
out.

MOLA DI GAETA, JAN. 22, P.M.

At eight o'clock this morning the batteries of
Gaeta unexpectedly commenced a very heavy fire.
Our batteries promptly replied, and compelled
the place to remain silent.
The fleet placed itself in line at twelve o'clock.
The fire of the besiegers continues.

TURIN, JAN. 22.

The bombardment of Gaeta commenced to-day.
Fourteen vessels are stationed before Gaeta. The
reactionary bands in the Abruzzi have recrossed
the frontiers.

COPENHAGEN, JAN. 22.

The Minister of Marine has ordered the equip-
ment of a steam squadron of 22 vessels, including
gun-boats and mortar boats.

A reserve force of 890 sailors is ordered to
assemble on the Ist March.

A large popular meeting has been held at Oden-
see, when addresses were voted to the King for the
entire exclusion of Holstein and Lauenburg from
the joint State.

A committee has been appointed for the purchase
of gunboats.

JAN. 23.

The Minister of Marine has announced that
a certain number of captains of merchant vessels
can be received into the naval service, if they
are prepared to undergo a course of instruction
in the Government training schools, which will
be opened at the beginning of February.

PESTH, JAN. 23.

The General Assembly of the Comitat of Gran
has ♦oted a reply to the last imperial resolutions
communicated by the Chancellor of Hungary to
the Government at Buda. The following is a sum-
mary of this reply :
The permanent conflicts with the Government
have rendered Hungary distrustful.
The imperial diploma of October 20 is in con-
tradiction with the pragmatic sanction, which is
binding on the King as well as on the nation.
The oath taken by Charles HI. is binding on
his successors.

Taxes not sanctioned by the Hungarian Diet
are illegal.
The Comitat demands guarantees for the right
of the Diet to sanction or to reject taxes, and wishes
that the King (Emperor of Austria) should reside
in Hungary.

CONSTANTINOPLE, 'TAN. 16.

The new commercial treaties are advancing to a
conclusion on the expected basis of unform duties
of eight per cent. on imports and exports.
FRANCE.

BOURSE, Jan. 23.—Tie market, at the commence-
ment of business, had lather an upward tendency,
in consequence of the first telegraph from London
bringing a rise of i ptr cent. As the second
despatch, however, wipEd that improvement away,
prices again receded. For the Account, Threes
are now at 67f 40c ; Mebilier, 658 f 75c ; Orleans,
1,378 f 75c ; Northern, 910 f ; Mediterranean, 910 f;
Austrian, 470 f; and Lonbard, 467 f 50c. The fol-
lowing were the last qu)tations :-
41 per per Cents ... 97 Credit Foncier
Do. end month.... 96 9(i Belgian 4f —
3 per Cents
Do. end month 67 41.; Roman ***
Bank Shares'...... 2870 Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 657 5(! Spanish Threes 47 60
Do. Account 658 71.1 Rome Debt .....

RAITWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans . 1381 25 .. 1380
Northern ~ 956 25 .. 957 50
New ditto 893 „
Lyons and Mediterranera 910 908 75
Geneva , 367 50
Southern , 508 75 .. 507 50
Western . 551 25 .. 551 25
Eastern
Sardinian......
Austrian
Lombard . 466 25 .. 466 25

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, JAN. 20.

The Wiener Zeitutzg of this date contains an
Imperial ordinance for the raising of a loan of
30,000,000 of &rine.

The subscriptions to the loan are to begin on the
21st of January, 1861. The conditions are as
follows :-1. Each subscriber of 88fl, Austrian
currency will receive a State bond for 100 fl. 2.
The bonds to bear 5 per cent. interest. 3. The
sum subscribed will be repaid in five rears, and
in five equal parts. The first-part (one-fifth) will
be paid on the Ist December, 1862; and the last
on the Ist December, 1866.

In the proem to the ordinance, which is counter-
signed by the eight members of the Cabinet, it is
said that a loan must be raised " because the neces-
sity for protecting the frontiers has rendered an
increased outlay for the army necessary ; and the
Hungarians are it arrear with their taxes." It is
added, that the necessary steps for getting in the
outstanding taxes in Hungary have been taken.
rescript was sat by Government to the The day before yesterday a very energetic
Lord-
Lieutenants of the Hungarian counties, but it has
not yet found its way into the public papers.

DEATH OF SIR HUGH LYON PLAYFAIR.—The
severe and protracted illness of Sir Hugh Lycra Playfair
termirtated fatally at his residence, St. Leonard's!, at a quar-
ter-pa st 11 o'clock on the evening of Monday last, and has
cast st deep gloom over the whole community of St. An-
drew's. Sir Hugh was the son of the distinguished Prin.
cipal Playfair, of the United College, St. :Andrew's, and
was born at the manse of Meigle and Newtylo, of which
parishes his father was then minister, on Nov. 17, 1786.
He INras thus at the time of his death in his 75th year. In
1804, having previously joined the volunteers, in the colo-
nel's staff of which he occupied a distinguished place, he
recei• red an artillery appointment in Bengal, and his career
as a soldier in the East India Company's service was of a
somex vhat eventful kind, and led to repeated promotions,
In 181.6 he was appointed captain, and in 1827 major,
which. rank he hold when, in '34, he left the service and
return te dto St. Andrew's. lle was subsequently honoured
with tLe rank of lieutenant-colonel. It is, however, more
for wlmtt he has done for St. Andrew's during the 18 years
he has; filled the chair of Provost-of that city that he has
been i more generally esteemed. He was elected Provost in
1842, and from the hour of his appointment he devoted
hims elf with great and appreciated energy to the improve-
ment,. physical, social, and intellectual, of his native
city. The surviving members of his family aro Lady
Playfhir, three sons, and four daughters, with whom., be-
reave mo3nt the highest sympathy is felt. For his varied ser-
vices tlte Queen was pleased to confer on the late Provost
the haw tour of knighthood in 1856, in which year the uni-
versi.ty also conferred on him the degree of LL.D. By his
death nd that of Sheriff Monteith there are now two ye-
cancies in the trusteeship of the Madras College,—Scots•
man.