The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-19 00:00:00

LATEST NE WS.

The Official Milan Gazette of the 14'h, in a
leading article ou the queLtion of the Danubian
Principalities, refers to the late article in the
Moniteur on.that subjec,, and after observing that
Austria and England join with Turkey in demand-
ing the separation, adduces arguments in favour
of the latter course. It quotes a Vienna letter
from the Journal de Frankfort, in which the
writer attributes the article of the Moniteur to
some secret object, knoWn only to the Courts of
Paris and St. Petersburg, which " might cause
fresh clouds to accumulate on our political hori-
zon." The letter then says :—" O❑ account cf
this demonstration, the Cabintt of Vienna iP,
however reluctantly, obliged to apply for positive
explanations to the French Government, before it
withdraws it 3 battalions from the Principalities.
If we are well informed, Baron Hubner will be
directed to ask for the precise interpretation of
this last singular manifestation on the part of
France."

The Paris correspondent of the Morning Pos
(Second Edition) says :

" Aclvices from Florence state that the Grand
Duke experiences great difficulty iu forming a new
Government. He wishes to gather about him
Ministers who aro favourable to the pretensions of
Rome. M. de Bach, who is at present in Milan
(one of the tools of Rome in the Concordat con-
tract), will start in a few days for Rome. It is
thought that he has been invited to Rome to re-
ceive the personal +hanks of the Pope.
" The French* Foreign-office is still waiting de-
spatches from Berlin and elsewhere before the
Neuchatel difficulty can be placed in the way of
settlement."

FRANCE.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
_ _

The Legislative Body met yesterday at 2 o'clock;
M. Schneider, one of the vice-presidents, acting as
President, in the absence of Count de Morny, in
the chair. Count Joachim Murat, the Marquis de
Chaumont-Quitry, M. Tesneire, and M. Edouard
Dallos were installed as secretaries. The President
then addressed the depu ies in the following terms :

"Gentlemen,—l am indebted to the absence of Count
de Morny, to whom the Emperor has confided an im-
portant mission, for the high honour of presiding over
the sittings of the Legislative Body. To occupy the
place of a man who is distinguished as much by hi.
personal quslities as by the signal services which he
has rendered to the State, is a task the great im
portance of which I am fully sensible of. I will
devote myself to the duties of that high position
with devotedness, and with the confidence that
my honourable colleagues will be pleased to vouch-
safe to me the same kind feeling that they have
heretofore accorded me. Have you not, besides, gen-
tlemen, constantly proved that you know how to unite
in your deliberations the calmness and the mature view
which best suit the grave interests entrusted to you ? By
still pursuing the same course, we shall continue to give
well-considered, and devoted co-operation to our loyal,
the policy of the Emperor."

This address was received with loud marks of
approbation. Leave of absence was accorded to
Count d'Houdetot, Count de Montalembert, Gene-
ral Barn Grose, and MM. Belmontel, de Chazelle.,
Cazelles, Chauchard, and Gi,clard. A letter
was lead. from M. Benoit-Champy, expressing
his regret at being obliged to resign his seat
in the Chamber, in consequence of the new func-
tions to which he has been appointed. Leave
was given to the Marquis d'Andelarre to print
the remarks which he made last s=ssion
on the bill relating to superior functionarie;. A
decree was c)mmunicated to the Chamber declar-
ing that in addition to the Imperial Commissioners,
M. Baroche, President of the Council of State, is
charged to defend before the Legislative Body al
bids presented during the present session. A bi..l
was presented to accord to Marshal Pelissier, Duke
de Malakhoth, an annual dotation of 100,000 f., dat-
ing from the Bth Sept., 1855 ; also a bill to regu-
late definitively the budget of 1854 ; likewise two
bills concerning exchanges of property ; and
lastly, fifteen local bills. The bureaux were then
fixed by lot, in the usual manner, and the proceed-
ings terminated.
A let! er from the banks of the Danube an-
nounces that Vie, fort of Salina, placed at the mouth
of that river, had been given up on the 4th of
February to the Ottoman Commissioner, Owe.
Bey, a captain in the Turkish navy, sent for that

purpose from Constantinople. The fort of Sulina
is situate on the delta of the Danube. Omer Bey
is appointed naval commander of the district
newly created, of which Sulina is the capital.
The European commission appointed to report on
the practicabi ity of navigating the Danube from
Isiktcha to the Black Sea is pursuing its objet'
wile great activity. M. Beckt-, the Austrian dele-
gat has presented his report, approved by the
commission. It is, consequently, hoped that com-
merce in general will profit by the 15th article of
the treaty of Paris, which declares the navigation
of the Danube free to all nations.
BOURSE, Feb. 18.—The following were the last
quotations :

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