The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-07 00:00:00

PERSIA.

A despatch received in Trieste states that the
Shah of Persia is in no way disposed to make the
concessions demanded from him by England.
He will offer a vigorous resistance, and defend
himself to the last extremity.

He has appealed to his subjects, and proclaimed
a Holy War.

A secret treaty for Russian support is generally

spoken of.

VIENNA, FEB. 5.•

The representatives of Prussia and Austria at
the conferences relative to the Mouths of the
Danube have arrived this day at Trieste.

MADRID, FRB. 5.

The sums kept back from the salaries of the
government functionaries will be suppressed in
the next budget. The municipal election com-
menced this day ; the Conservative party appears
to have a certainty of success. Everything is
tranquil in the provinces.

A Vienna letter of the 2d says :—" The secre-
tary of the Austrian legation in Switzerland has
arrived here with very important despatches from
Baron de Menshengen. They give details on the
preliminary negotiations which have taken place
at Paris between Dr. Kern, the Swiss envoy, and
Count de Hatzfeld the Prussian Minister at Paris.
It appears that, to the great regret of the Federal
Council, no direct conclusion can be come to on ac-
count of the pertinacity with w hich each part y main-
tains its pretensions. Switzerland might easily
have come to a direct understanding with Prussia,
had she been willing to give way on the ques-

tions of the domains. If Switzerland insists on
rejecting the Prussian demands, it will be neces-
sary to have recourse to the arbitrary decision of

a conference."

Letters from Constantinople of the 30th ult.
announce that the capture of Herat has excited
great enthusiasm amongst the Turcomans in
favour of Persia. The Khan of Khiva has sent
an ambassador extraordinary to the Shah. Omer
Bey, governor of Sulina for Turkey, has left for
the Mouths of the Danube, taking with him
a garrison for Sulina and for the Isle of Serpents.

TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Jar. 28.
On Saturday last, the 24th inst., the Commission
for the Principalities had its audience of leave from
the Sultan. It was entirely a private interview,
resembling more an amicable reception than a
State ceremony. No guards were under arms, as
is usually the case on such occasions, and all the
habitual display of attendants was dispensed with ;
the only person present, besides the Commissioners
beingEthem Pasha, the Minister of Foreign Affairs
who acted as interpreter.
The reception took place not in the State apart-
ments but in one of the private rooms of the Sul-
tan, who himself, as well as the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, was in plain clothes, and without any
decoration.

The customary compliments having been gone
through, the Sultan drew a paper from his pocket,
and read a kind of farewell address and last words
to the Commission in Turkish, which were trans-
lated to them by Ethem Pasha. In this address,
which was of considerable length, the Sultan &-
pressed a hope that the Commission would success-
fully terminate its labours, and that it would take
care to keep the sovereign rights of the Sultan in-
violate. To this address appropriate answers were
returned by every member of the Commission, to
the effect that they would endeavour to accomplish
their task so as to maintain the sovereign rights of
his Majesty, to give satisfaction to their respective
Governments, and a due consideration to the wishes
of the Principalities.
Thus the Commission may be considered to have
closed the first and certainly most ungrateful part
of its duty.
In consequence of the evacuation of the Isle of
Serpents by the Russians Admiral Lyons has re-
called the whole of the English ships that were in
the Black Sea. They have joined the squadron
which was at anchor at Bujukdere.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY,

Feruk Khan had an interview with Lord Cowley
this afternoon. It is reported to have been of an
amicable character.
Baron Hubner has asked explanations from Count
Walewski of the note in the Moniteur.
The Moniteur announces the appointment of
Monsignor Guibert, bishop of Viviers, to be Arch-
bishop of Tours, in the place of Cardinal Morlot,
named to the Archbishopric of Paris ; and of Mon-
signor Chelandon, Bishop of Belley, to the Arch-
bishopric of Aix, vacant by the death of M. Darri 3-
soles. Monsignor Desprez, Bishop of St. Denis, is
also named Bishop of Limoges, in place of Mon-
signor Buissons, deceased.
The Moniteur also says :—" Numerous com-
plaints have been addressed to the Minister of
Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works, re-
specting the early date fixed for the Universal
Agricultural Exposition ; a date necessitated by
the Exhibition of Fine Arts, and by the short
interval which will intervene between it and
the meeting of 1856. The Government,
while admitting the justice of these com-
plaints, has decided that the Universal Agrioultural
Exposition, the opening of which stood appointed
for the Ist of June next, shall not take place at all
this year."
The orations of M. Biot and of M. Guizot, on
the occasion of the installation of the former as a
member of the Academy, fill the greater part of the
official journal.
A private letter from Bombay, dated the begin-
nbywrofelashatvme ohnatdh
,hsetraetefsoa'sr efioglihr dsa:y—s the French
frigate the Sibylle, which has left to proceed to the
Persian Gulf.

" The Sibylle appears to have a double mission
to fulfil in the Persian Gulf ;—first of all, to watch
the events which may arise from the present war
with Persia, and on this point M. de Maisonneuve
has received particular instructions ; and to ex-
actly ascertain the disposition of the Imaum
of Muscat, who, about ten years ago, concluded
with France a treaty of commerce, which can
hardly be said to have been executed. The com-
mander of the Sibylle has also orders to explore
carefully the whole of the Persian Gulf, with a
view to ascertain what are the advantages French
commerce may derive from the friendly relations
which have been just established with the Shah of
Persia. We are assured that the French Govern-
ment is desirous of giving all the extension in its
power to its trade in those parts."
BOURSE, Feb. 6.—The following were the last
quotations

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PRUSSIA.
The Ministerial journal, the Zeit, doubts the
news of the Bund, relative to a proximate Con-
ference at Paris on the affairs of Neuchatel. It
declares that no negotiations have yet taken place
between Prassia and Switzerland.
The King of Prussia intends, it is said, confer-
ring the order of Hohenzollern on fourteen of ti e
principal Royalists of Neuchatel, lately set at
liberty.
The National Gazette of Berlin says :—" The
Government, a short time back, presented to the
Chamber of Deputies two bills tending to modify
the constitution. According to one of them, the
session of the Chambers would only commence in
January instead of November; whilst the oth-r
abridged the delay imposed for the -vote on the
modification introduced into the constitution. The
Committee on the Constitution has now proposed,
by a majority of 15 votes against 6, the rejection
of the two bills. A rumour is current that the
Government intends to dissolve the Chambers, on
account of their opposition to the financial pro.