The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-17 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS,

AMERICA.

ACCIDENT TO THE VANDERBILT.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING.
The steam-ship Vanderbilt, from New York, for
Southampton and Havre, was passed yesterday off
Cork, disabled, her rudder being damaged.

PARIS, THURSDAY, Dec. 17, 8.30 a.m.

An Imperial decree in the Moniteur announces
that foreign brandies have to pay on importation
into France a duty of 25f. per hectolitre of pure
alcohol.

A despatch from St. Petersburg, dated the
14th December, announces that General Jeffolo
Kimoff has just gained an important victory over
the Tcherkesses—a great number of the latter
were killed In this affair a number of the villages
of the Tcherkesses were burnt.

BERLIN, *WEDNESDAY.

The e xistence of a Russian despatch, addressed
to the Danish Government, on the question of
Holstein, and favourable to the demands of Ger-
many, has been confirmed.

This despatch was expedited at the beginning of
the current mouth (December).

It is said that this has been viewed in Copen-
hagen as a slight from the Court of St. Peters.
burg.

HAMBURG, WEDNESDAY.
The Burgesses of Hamburg have just authorised
a new loan.

The loans contracted now amount to about
40,000,000 francs.
A sum of 1,950,000 francs has been advanced
by the Bank of Denmark to a house charged to
maintain the relations between the banks in Den-
mark and Germany.
The attempt at Berlin to obtain a loan of
10,000,000 mares banco in silver on the part of
Hamburg has totally failed. A like want of suc-
cess has marked their endeavour in Dresden.

The commercial crisis in Norway is still very
severe. Two delegates from the Government
went to Hamburg, some days ago, with money to
support the firms there whose failure would be
prejudicial to Norwegian commerce.

The sitting of the Belgian Chamber of Repre-
sentatives, on the 15th, was very calm.
For the Presidency, M. de Verhogen is the
Government candidate. It is thought that he
will be elected.

A letter from Teheran of the 3d ult., in the
Presso of Vienna, says :—" War and rebellion
still continue in the country, near the districts of
the Turcomans. The governor has assembled
considerable forces at Mesched, the chief town of
Khorassan, one of the principal provinces of the
country, and almost inhabited by the Sunnites,
whom the Akindji of the Turkestans were exciting
to rise. The Akindji were most anxious to pillage
Mesched, where all the riches of the Imam Riza
are deposited, but the governor-general of Ashera-
bad advanced against the Turcomans at the head
of a battalion of the guard, two battalions of the
line, a battery of artillery, and 600 cavalry, and

came to a sanguinary conflict with them near Ban-
nerie. The Persians, although having 400 of
their men placed hors de combat, compelled the

I Akindji to recross the Amon-lieria. Another
Persian general is preparing to march to the re-
lief of the garrison of Bugiamurd, which was closely
hemmed in by a body of Turcomans. The Shah
is now residing in Teheran.

FRANCE.
_ PARIS, WEDNESDAY.

The Moniteur prints the postal treaty between
France and Austria. It contains 29 articles of the
usual character, a series of tables of rates of postage,
and is signed by Count Walewski and Baron Hub-
ner and ratified by the Imperial hand
Theindependance of Brussels says :—"The cam-
paign opened in France by the Courrier de Paris
for the formation of an opposition camp in the
midst of the institutions of the empire has comp to
an end for want of combatants, after having caused
a considerable sensation in the public mind. It has
procured us the good fortune of receiving a letter
from M. Emile de Girardin. This gentleman
does not deny being the author of the articles
attributed to him in the journal just named,
but he confines himself to rejecting the asser-
tion that he had purchased a part of the jour-
nal which has developed his ideas, and the inten-
tion attributed to him of wishing to enter the
Legislative Body as deputy for Paris. A candi-
dateship, he says, was offered to him, but refused.
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free trade in butchers' meat. _

The Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres
has elected M. Lerpold Dalisle as member, in the
room of the late M. Quatremere.
By order of the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris,
midnight mass will be celebrated on Christmas-eve
in all the churches in the capital. Mgr. Morlot
will officiate pontifically at Notre Dame.
The French government, in order to prevent a
repetition of the mistake which occurred at the
Bourse the other day, in transmitting by tqegraph
the quotations of the Stock Exchange at London,
has ordered that henceforth the quotations shall be
transmitted in words instead of figures.

The ltioniteur • )ntains an imperial decree
making several promotions and nominations in the
upper ranks of the magistracy. Another decree pro-
motes three surgecna of the first class in the navy
to the rank of principal surgeon, and a third makes
five nominations to the rank of knight of the Le-
gion of Honour. . . _

BOURSE, Dec. 16.—Securities have been in good
demand, in consequence of a report that the Bank
of France would to-morrow reduce the rate of dis-
count to 6 per cent. The following were the last
quotations :

Cash. fr. End of Month.
ii per Cents
3 per Cents 66 80 67 ___
Sank Shares 3150 Credit Foncier 530
Credit Mobilier 785 R0man............... -
Do. Account 73) Austrian . 881—
Belgian 4i -, Spanish Threes 4 t
Piedmontese (5) 9O Horne Debt -