The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-17 00:00:00

HUNGARY.

PESTI', Jan. 16.

Count Andrassy is said to have been appointed
to act as Royal Commissioner with the Hungarian
delegations.
The conclusion of the Hungarian Railway Loan
has been postponed for a short time.

CROATIA.

AGRAII, Jan. 16.

Fourteen members of the Croatian Diet, belong-
ing to the Autonomist party, resigned their seats,
protesting against the new constitution of the
Diet.

SPAIN.

MADRID, Jau. 16 (Evening).

In the Chamber of Deputies to-day the discus-
sion of the bill upon public instruction was
closed.

The American squadron, under Admiral Farra-
gut, has left the Balearic Isles, sailing towards
the East.

FRANCE.

" Public beneficence in Paris," says the Droit,
keeps pace with the wants of the destitute. The
twenty soup kitchens of the Prince Imperial distri-
bute daily from 40,000 to 50,000 portions. Thanks
to the aid given by the Civil List, each portion,
consisting of bread, meat, soup, and vegetables,
costs only 5 cents. The kitchen of St. Ouen, where
the greatest wretchedness prevails, distributes gratis
daily, in the Emperor's name, upwards of 2,000
rations. His Majesty is not satisfied with making
personal sacrifices for the succour of the poor during
the rigours of winter ; he has invited the co-opera-
tion of the city of Paris, which has ordered the
establishment of additional kitchens in the sth,
11th, 12th, 13th, 19th, and 20th arrondissements.
The city, besides, distributes fuel in large quantities
at the various offices of public charity, and the
quantity of bread supplied to families who are
assisted has been increased."

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BounsE, JAN. 16, Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :

41- per Cent.
End of month -
3 per Cent
End of month 6B 67i

Bank Sharps 3250
ItaFan Loan

End of month 42 95
Mexican Loan l7
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred —
Account

Credit Mobilier ... 163 75
End of month... 163 75
Credit Fonder ...1347 50
End of m0nth...1360 -
RAILWAYS.

Orleans
Northern

1150

Lyonsand Mediterranean
Southern.....
Western
Eastern ••
Sardinian
Austrian so2i
Lombard
3414
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman 45

560

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Jan. 16.

The press has had ample time to avow its senti-
ments on the prosecution of the Irishman, and it
is not flattering to that great organ that so little
notice should have been taken of the proceedings
against it. Perhaps this seeming indifference
to the fate of a journalist whose name is an appeal
to national sympathy arises from an instinctive
belief that, after all, he is not in very serious dan-
ger. As far as any comments have been made, their
tenour is one rather discouraging to the Govern-
ment. The Mail deprecates a weak prosecution, its
objection being not to the policy or principle, but
to the conduct of the prosecution. The Evening
Post thinks it unfair that what was tolerated a
month ago should now be complained of. The
Cork Examiner considers it a hardship that a news-
paper should be held responsible nit only for the
opinions it expresses, but the news which it pub-
lishes. The Northern Whig takes a dispassionate
view of the subject, and observes :—" No impartial
person who has read, during the last few months,
some of the extreme ' national' organs published iu
Dublin can hesitate to declare that the liberty of
the press has been grossly abused. British freedom
was deliberately turned against itself. Every art
of misrepresentation was employed, and the advi-
sers of the Crown never had the slightest credit
given them for the leniency with which the insurrec-
tionists of last March were treated, nor for the mo-
tives which impelled them in the case of Allen, Gould,
and Larkin, to allow the law to take its course.
Many most influential Liberals, including Mr.
Gladstone, approved the action of the Administra-
tion. The national' organs, however, refused to
make any allowances, or to see anything but their
own prepossessions. They continued, as with
direct malice aforethought, to inflame the public
mind. . . A prosecution is, however, a ques-
tion of policy, and, when decided on, ought to
be conducted with discretion. We may ap-
prove the end the Government have in view, but
we may not altogether approve the means they
take to accomplish that end. The Adminis-
tration is clearly right in preventing, by all pro-
per means, the diffusion of sedition among
the people. Few Liberals have blamed the admi-
nistration of Lord Wodehouse for suppressing Mr.
Stephens' organ, the Irish People, in Dublin, or,
when it was afterwards printed in America, for pre-
venting its circulation in this country. But, whether
the Irishman be guilty or not, there can be no doubt
whatever that more persistent and more directly
inflammatory articles might have been selected for
prosecution from other journals ; while, by found-
ing the summons on letters of Col. Kelly, which
have appeared as news in such papers as the Times
and the Daily News, the Crown lawyers are really
complicating a question which might have been
very simple and intelligible."
Mr. Daniel Downey, a tailor in Dawson-street,
who was tried and acquitted at a commission in
Green-street, on a charge of having arms concealed
in his house, was arrested yesterday, under the
Lord-Lieutenant's warrant, and lodged in Kilmain-
ham Gaol.

An unusual compliment is about to be paid by
the Lord-Lieutenant to the legal profession by con-
ferring the honour of knighthood on Mr. 11. J. J.
Orpen, president of the Incori °rated Society of
Attorneys and Solicitors. Mr. Orpen is respected
by all classes, and the exercise of the Viceregal pre-
rogative will be received with general satisfaction.