The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-06 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.
The Government have received intelligence from
China, which states that the Governor of Lin-imum
had seized the central opium depot, on Dec. 5, the
property belonging to Englishmen and the East
India Company.
The Commission appointed to arrange the affairs
of Neuchatel has this day, at one o'clock, held its
first sitting in the cabinet of M. Walewski, at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Four Powers were represented at it by L'rd
Cowley, Count Kisseleff, Baron Hubner, and
Count Wa'owski. The litter' as repres,mtitt:ve of
the Power in whose capital the Conference is held,
will have the direction of it.

Neri Khan, an attache of Ferukh Khan, left
Paris on Wednesday evening for Teheran with' the
treaty just signed, which requires the ratification
of the Persian Government.
To•day, the project of law relative to the dota-
tion of the Duke de Malakhoff was carried unani-
mously, 225 members having voted.
In consequence of the ministerial crisis in Eng-
land, Gonzales Bravo will not proceed to his post
in London, but will return in a few days to
Madrid.
The first meeting is merely one of form, but it
will be followed by others at short intervals until
the question is definitively settled. It is right to
take advantage of the present favourable humour
of the King o Prussia, as no one knows when a
change may come over the Royal mind. De-
spatches were received yesterday from the Marquis
de Moustier, the French Minister at Berlin, re-
lative to the same question. They are so far
favourable that they state his Majesty is well dis-
posed for an arrangement, and that he wiehes the day
for the meeting of the Conferences to be shorly
named. It was immediately afterwards that this
day was fixed. The affair will doubtless appear of
little importance b?side the graver ones which
now occupy public attention ; but it is as well to
have a complication the less at this moment.
The signing of the Treaty with Persia is also an
additional relief, and leaves us but one war to
attend to. No one appears more satisfied with this
amicable solution than Feruk Khan. He went
yesterday to the telegraph office to have the plea-
sure of transmitting in person his deipatch to
Bucharest, where an attache of the Persian Embassy
has been waiting for intelligence in order to set
out at once for Teheran. Feruk Khan remained
at the office till he got the answer, which he did
in less than half-an-hour. He uttered an exclama-
tion of wonder and delight on receiving the reply
to his despatch. He will proceed to London for the
ratification of the Treaty.
Monsignor Menjaud has left Paris for Rome. Hi 3
mission is said to be that of arranging with the Pope
for the coronation of the Emperor by Pius IX.
The French- papers were some time since prohi-
bited from publishing notices on the Russian rail-
road projects. The prohibition has been this day
removed. The new law imposing a tax on all
Bourse transactions will, it is said, contain a special
enactment with respect to the coulissiers, or out-
door agents.

BOURSE, March s.—The following were the las
quotations : _

Cash. fr. C.
4i per Cents
3 per Cents 7O 50

End of Month,
—fr.
71 10

oan

Bank Shares 4,200 Roman ......
Credit Mobilier 1,415 Austrian .......
Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes....
Pied tnontese (5) 9l 25 Home Debt

RAILWAYS-FOR CASH.

tr. c. tr c
Orleans 1,440 Western ............... 830
Northern 9BO Strasburg ............ 840
Lyons 1,465 New Ditto
Mediterranean 1,920 Grand Central
Lyons Geneva
Cette

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, MARCHE uA3.
s.
FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE

TRIAN CREDIT BANK.
The General Assembly of the Austrian Credit
Bank met yesterday for the first time, and the fol-
lowing is a brief account of what occurred. About
1,000 shareholders were present, and at half past 9
the sitting was opened by Prince Schwarzenberg,
the President of the Board of Directors, who
addressed a short speech to a most heterogeneous
assembly. Among the persons present were many
of the highest nobles, the principal bankers and
merchants, barristers, pnvsicians, military men, the
editors of the principal papers, tradesmen, stock-
jobbers, dre. After the President had introduced to
the assembly the Imperial Commissary, M. von
Brentano, who is a counsell)r in the Finance De-
partment, the principal Dir ector of the Credit Bank
read the printed account of the transactions of the
Company during the year 1856. Subjoined is a
condensed summary of the contents of the docu-
ment, which is of considerable length :

"On the 31st December, the `DebtorAccni
of the Company stood thus :—Subscriptioonus' (passiva)
30,491,4201; balance of current accounts,4o,6Bs,oZld 18ir.-
"p;
bills of exchange for the establishment in circulation,
3,093,0871 42k.; interest of shares which had not bee
claimed, 56,4558. ; profits derived from the stock of the
Company, 4,369,0361 52k.; commission, 160,52211. 52k.;
interests, 1,526,959 ft. 50k. Taken together, the foregoig
sums make 80,392,2461 34k. ; but as 171,5636. 14k. as the
outlay for bureaux, payment of clerks, and furniture must
be deducted from it, the total of the Passive Property is
80,210,6831 20k.
" The 4 Creditor Account' (acti va) was as follows:—Certi-
ficates of railroad shares, 8,856,0341 15k. ; industriel
stock of different kinds, 5,198,1141 ; Government stock,
6,468,8976. 9k. ; Priority Bonds, 959,8021 23k.—together,
21,482,8478, 47k. Bill Portfolio, 22,768,0521 27k. ; ad-
vances made on Government and industriel stock,
p:836,23811. 47k. ; balance of current acc0nnt5,12,234,9221
2,8'i6; cash in hand, Exchequer bills, and coupons,
9655,g7f1a
.5275kk. ;
fienttaelreosft pactiveaid
36 ~,,?,854ft. 30k. • furniture, according to inventory,
on own, shares,
210 6838. 20k.
By the foregoing in
property, advance
S 0 ,
establishment it will be seen that the gross profits of they
niu"'' 40
„ 8,6 amounted to 5,884,6568. 20k. After deduot-
°6s,727fl. .4; 7k. for the 5 par cent. income tax, and
shares the net. the abovementioned 5 per cent. interest on
Credit,Bankdprofits amount to 4,510,27811. 4Sk. As the
thegreaterpa not begin business until Jan. 15, 1856, and as
the end of ofthe second instalment was not paid up until
the year 185' November, the establishment worked during I
5 with •
a capital of about 19,000,00011, Thu