The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-05 00:00:00

THE SU N, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANU'ARY 5, 1857

passed with hone iur, an d respect, and even, be it
added, with vene, 7aticrii for his personal character,
through all the pol' itical change and social tur-
moil consequent u pa n thesuccessive disorganisation
and reorganisation of the Supreme Government.
Himself an Ultra= .ontanist a l'outrance, he has
nevertheless, from first to last, preserved an
equable unanimity among his suffragans, through-
out the whole cc en pli.cation of the Gallic Hierarchy
—at home, thrc nigh, the downfall of Republican
Democracy, thr augh the interregnum of the Bona-
partist Presides ,cy., through the coup d'etat, through
the inauguratiN •e, years of the new Imperial regime
—abroad, thro-ag h the revolutionary convulsions of
'4B-'49, through the Pontifical Sojourn at Gaeta,
through the atoll ny two years of the conflict with the
Russian Autocracy He has perished at last, like his
revered predecei nor, byaviolent death, by the band
of a murderer, by a thunderbolt of assassination.
Struck down-4 if not upon the barricades, with a
palm-branch ith his hand, and that hand raised in
sublime medi atioa between the combatants—
"under the dame in the midst of the temple
consecrated by religion to the GOD of Armies."
Murdered—so far like the great Archbishop of
CANTERBTrRY (A'BECKET)—in his pontifical vest-
ments, during the celebration of the religious
rites, upon the steps of the sanctuary ! It is
impossible not to shudder at so hidious a profa-
nation.

Virtue is rising at Washington. Will it be
believed that the House of Representatives has
actually anathematised the slave trade as "shock-
ing to the moral. sentiments of the enlightened per_
tion of mankind," and declared that, " any act on
the part of Congress legalising or conniving at the
legalising of that horrid and inhuman traffic would
justly subject the United States to the reproach
and execration of all civilised and Christian peo-
ple throughout the world ;" and all this by a ma-
jority of sixty-six. By the still larger majority
of one hundred and seventy-five (183 to 8) it
pronounced the repeal of the laws prohibiting the
African slave trade to be " inexpedient, unwise,
and contrary to the settled policy of the United
States." Surely after this rya may begin to hope
even for the United States. The South had
begun in some States to talk of reviving the
slave trade, and to resent the laws against it as a
stigma on their " domestic institution." Such a
stigma as it is, however, they must be content to
bear it. Even Congress cannot make up its mind
to efface the mark. The votes were wise ones.
The slave-breeding States were, of course, as op-
posed to the African slave trade as any aboli-
tionist. It would lower the value of their human
cattle iu the market. Indeed, so much would it
do so that some theorists have proposed
an unrestricted importation of fresh Afri-
cans as the means of so reducing the
value of slaves to render the property worthless !
What with the Northern votes, and the infamous
slave-breeding votes of the South, the majority is
easily accounted for.
It strikes one, however, as very cheap Senato-
rial virtue to denounce the slave trade. Northern
sentiments and Southern interests, and the dread
of an implacable war with Great Britain, perhaps
with France also, made it easy enough to reject,
with ostentatious phrases of philanthropy, what
they dare not practically adopt. What makes us
smile here is the appeal to moral sentiments, and
to a religion which equally condemns the internal
slave-trade and slavery itself ; and the apparent
deference to " the enlightened portion of man-
kind," and to " all civilised and Christian people,"
who to a man " execrate" American slavery, and
deem it a reproach hardly second to the Cuban
slave trade. If moral sentiments and Christian
civilisation be referred to, let us hope, in all
reason, that they will be invoked against existing
abominations, as well as against those which are
impracticable. In the British dominions, indeed
throughout civilised Europe, Christianity has
abolished slavery as well as the slave trade,
and European Christianity will be apt to think
American Christianity little better than cant and
hypocrisy, unless it show itself strong enough to
do the same thing. There are but too many
Athanasian Creeds founded on metaphysics, and
damning men if they do not accept their dogmas ;
but of all the damnable heresies on earth, the
worst assuredly is that which ranks the kidnap-
ping, the buying and selling of human beings
amongst the institutions of Christianity.
Our virtuous cousins, however, cannot escape
the trials to which all virtue is exposed. It seems
that despite of Fugitive Slave taws, more slaves
than ever have of late escaped from their bene-
factors ; and worse than that, their ingratitude
has even reached the pitch of rising against their

masters, and proposing rather to kill them than
to continue the property of nigger floggers ! Half
TenneSsee has been terrified out of its senses with the
fear of a negro insurrection. Not a single white was
actually attacked, but we suppose the accounts of
those who can read and write iu slave states, must
be taken as to the projected attack on the masters
in less populous districts first, to be followed by
attempts on the towns. As the negroes can tell
us nothing, we must take their oppressors at their
word, and relying ou this we must believe that it
was intended on Christmas•day to blow up
churches, and to murder the masters in every
direction. Some powder, suspiciously concealed,
was found ; some slaves ran away when they
thought their plan was detected, and on being
brought back confessed to the conspiracy. At all

events, the whites have hung and shot the poor
creatures without a shadow of resistance on their
part. Some whites, suspected of exciting them to
revolt, were flogged, in one case to death, or thrown
into prison, and all the indications of real fear
were exhibited. In Tennessee the slaves are about
a fourth of the population of the State ; but the
danger, no doubt, arises from their cDncentration

in particular spots. In the present case some one
or two hundred were employed together, with few

superintendents, in coal and iron works.
The savage tone of the papers is characteristic
alike of guilt and fear. The tyrant must hate

his victims if they know their wrongs and their
rights—above all, if they are in danger of assert-
ing them. The slaveholders, conscious that their

slaves may justly rise for liberty, as their fore-
fathers did under GEORGE 111. ; and knowing that
bloodshed for personal liberty must be even more

lawful than for political liberty, intensely hate
those whom their oppressions have given the
fullest right to rise in social war. One journal
in the district, the Jeffersonian, gloats over
the idea of " every tree in the country bending
with Negro meat !!" It demands "fearful and
terrible examples the fagot and the flame."
Others denounce missionaries amongst the Negroes
in a similar spirit ; indeed we are reminded

strongly of NICHOLAS among the Poles, or Austria
among th• Italians, with a difference, perhaps, in
favour of European villany.

The immediate cause of the insurrection, ac-
cording to the most probable accounts, was similar
to that which occasioned the Jamaica insurrection

prior to emancipation there. In Jamaica the de-
bates of the British Parliament reached the slaves
in some garbled form, and induced the belief that

liberty was granted them by England, but with-

held by their masters. In Tennessee it would ap-

pear that the rabid denunciation of the North and
FREMONT suggested the idea that FREMONT was
actually in arms in their behalf. They must, in
any case, have learned from the speeches and con-
versation of their masters that a large and power-
ful part of the Union was opposed to slavery.
The wonder is not that a few should plot, but
that the whole three millions of black population
were not excited to insurrection. Humanity, of
course, shrinks from the thought. Unarmed
negroes rushing on the bowie knives and revolvers
of the well-armed and more numerous white;,
is but a hopeless attempt, however morally
it may be as justifiable as the deeds of a
WALLACE, a TELL, or a HAMVDEN. The moral
right of the slaves, as of the Italians or Hun-
garians, to liberate themselves how and when they
can, is the thorn in the pillow of the American.
He knows that there is a vitality in that right
which must, one day by some means, vindicate
its strength, and possibly at the cost of much
bloodshed and suffering. American slavery must
be bought off by dollars, or slowly extinguishei
by law, or it will annihilate itself, even if it perish
like SAMSON in the despairing effort.

The further increase of 330,3171. under the head of
Governinelt securities in last week's Bank returns is
assumed to consist of a portion of the 1,000,0001. of Ex-
chequer-bills which, according to the revenue statement
for the quarter, have been taken by the Bank from the
Govern went.
In the year ended March last 91,4151. was expended
in medals. In the preceding year the expense was only
1,2531.
HABERDASHERY AND MILLINERY.—From January to
November the value of haberdashery and millinery sent
abroad wax 3,308,339/.
CRYSTAL PALACE. Half-crown Day. Saturday,
Jan. 3.—Admissions on payment, 391 ; do. by season
tickets 1,167 ; total visitors, 1,558.
The expense to the country for education in Ireland
in the year ended March last was 195,040/.
A sum of ss. per share is to be returned to the share
holders of tho Australasian Pacific Mail Steam Packet
Company o❑ the 12th instant.
NEW VALLEY DRAINAGE WORKS.—The commis-
sioners have appointed Mr. John Fowler, C.E , as
their chief engineer to carry on these important works,
originally commenced by the late Mr. Rendel, C.E.
Mr. Hillyard, who, since the resignation of Captain
Austen, has been the governor of the Birmingham
borough gaol, has been appointed governor of the
Maidstone county gaol. The salary is 600/. per annum.
The sudden death of M. Louis Bolmida, an eminent
banker, and member of the Piedmontese Chamber of
Deputies, is announced by the Correspondancc Italienne
of Turin.

An extensive robbery has been committed at the
banking-house of Messrs. Mellersh and Keen, in the
town of Godalming. The burglars are supposed to have
come from London by the South-Western Railway by
the early morning train.
We have satisfaction in stating that the arrangements
for the transfer of the fine fleet of the General Screw
Steam Shipping Company to a new company have been
brought to a satisfactory conclusion. It is anticipated
that the vessels will be actively employed between this
country and the British and Brazilian coasts within
a few weeks.
The City of London Union frauds will, it is said,
involve defalcations to the extent of 100,000/. It is said
I 0 U's of the late Alderman Gibbs, who was chairman
of the Union, are found among the vouchers. He ap-
pointed Paul, and also his own son the auditor. Seventy-
two of the guardians have resigned.
LIGHT DUES AT THE PORT OF LIVERPOOL.—LIVER-
FOOL, Jan. 2.—By further reference to the Liberpool
Customs Bill of Entry we find that the total amount
received for light dues, the whole of which passes into
the coffers of the Board of Trade, was in 1856 but very
little short of 100,0001., an amount considerably in
excess of London, and an increase on the amount of the
previous year by 14,0001,
By the last mail from India accounts have been
received that the body of the young officer, Alexander
James Trotter, of the Bengal Horse Artillery, second
son of the late Mr. Archibalcl Trotter, of Dreghorn, who
had attempted to swim across the river Jhelum, in Cash-
mere, had been found, and buried with military honours
at Rawul Pindee. He was a young man of great promise,
deservedly respected and beloved by his brother officers.
Six new fellows of the-University of London have been
appointed by the Crown, viz. : —Lord Stanley, M.P.,
Right Hon. M. Talbot Baines, M.P., James Heywood,
M.P., Sir E. Ryan, Dr. W. Withey Gull (Guy's Hospi-
tal), and Dr. J. F. Wood,
The Senate of the University of London has resolved
to admit the Working Men's College into the University.
The Danish Government has replyed to the note in
which Austria and Prussia protested against the sale of
the Holstein-Laueburg domains. MM. Andrae, the
Finance Minister ; M. von Scheele, the Minister for
F • oreign Affairs ; and M. Bang, the President of the
Council, are believed to have been the authors of the
answer now given to the two great German Powers.
The Danish Government is unable to accede to the
demands of Austria and Prussia, and positively refuses
to agree to a revision of the constitution of the whole
State (Gesammt-Verhassung).
A letter from Canes, the capital of the island of
Candia, published in the Moniteur, informs us that the
quantity of spun silk produced in that island during the
year 1856 was much inferior to that of 1855. It is
estimated that the last crop will not exceed 15,335
kilogrammes. Spun silk was worth in July last 250
piastres the oke (the Turkish piastre is equal to 21d.,
and the oke of Candia is 211 b.) but, the article having
risen in Europe, the price rose in Candia to 280 piastres.
It is now quoted at 265 piastres. The Candian silk care-
fully spun is of very fine quality, but that spun by the
peasants is very inferior.
RICHARD THE THIRD'S GRAVE.—A memorial has just
been erected at Bow bridge, whereon it is recorded that
near that spot lie the remains of King Richard 111. It
is a very handsome stone, set in the gable of one of the
new buildings there. The monument is in Ketton
stone, designed by Messrs. Flint and Shenton, and exe-
cuted in first-rate style by Mr. Broadbent—the work in
each case being presented as a free gift. The inscription
is in the following words—" Near this spot lie the re-
mains of Richard 111., the last of the Plantagenets,
1485."—Leicester Journal.
A EMAIL BAG LOST.—Placards, dated " Post-office,
Manche ter, Jan. 1, 1857," have been issued, offering a
reward of 20/. for the recovery, or such information as
shall lead to the recovery, of the Radcliffe and Man-
chester mail bag, which " was entrusted to the care of
the train guard at the Radcliffe station, on the night of
the 18th December, and, by the carelessness of that in•
dividual, is believed to have been lost between that
station and Manchester." Any person detaining the
bag, or any portion of its contents, after such a notice,
will be guilty of felony, and liable to transportation for
life.

THE CHEAP Peas.—• The best-conducted and last of
the Leicester cheap newspapers expired on Wednesday.
The editor, in his concluding remarks, says :—" We do
not halt because we cannot take a step further. We are
brought to the end of the year, when it behoves every
one to take stock of his doings. Following, as journa-
lists, the excellent business custom, and not finding a
very satisfactory balance, we think it a suitable time to
relinquish that which does not yield remuneration for
our labour."

WALKING THROUGH PLATE Giass.—A very curious
accident occurred on Monday to Mr. Sargeant, organist
of the Roman Catholic Chapel. He was leaving Mr.
Courti's shop, High-street, under the mistaken impres,
sion that the door was open, and so walked through a
large pane of plate glass. In paying this involuntary
compliment to the glass manufacturer, he injured his
face rather severely.— Western Times.
VIOLENT STORM.---The metropolis and suburban dis-
tricts were visited on Saturday by one of the most severe
wind storms that have taken place for several years.
The storm commenced early in the evening, and was
attended with an enormous destruction of property, and
it is feared that along the coast a great loss of human
life has taken place from shipwreck. Even on the river
Thames the damage done to barges and small craft is
considerable, many vessels having their sides stove in by
being driven so violently against each other.
A BoY SHOT BY A COMPANION.—MALTERN, Jan. 3.
—A shocking occurrence has happened at the village of
Leigh, near this town, which was the subject of a coro-
ner s inquest, held before Mr. Hill, yesterday. Two
farm servants, named William Grout and John Judge,
were at breakfast in the kitchen at the house of their
master Mr. Hill, a farmer, of Leigh, when one of them
picked up a gun which had been lest loaded in the room,
and after pointing it at a fellow servant was about to
return it to its place, when the charge exploded, and
Grout was shot through. the head, his brains being
scattered about the room, and, of course, his death
being instantaneous. A verdict of "Accidental death"
was returned.
Somersetehire juries are proverbial for wisdom. Re-
cently a man was tried for burglary ; be had been caught

in the fact, and a conviction was naturally expected,
The prisoner's counsel protested that he believed the man
to be innocent, and notwithstanding the judge's clear
summing up, the jury returned a verdict of acquittal.
The foreman was afterwards asked the reason for the
verdict. " Well," said ho, "we be most on ns P--
men, and though the Lunnon judge said he thought the
prisoner wur guilty, our Recorder (as was the prisoner's
counsel) said he warn't ; and we likes to stick up for
our Recorder I"—Gloucester Journal.
A SCREW STEAMER oN SHoRE.—PENZANCE, Jan. 2.
—Nine of the crew of the screw steamer Dunaskin,

Captain Macfarlane, of Aye, have been landed here to.
day, and report that their vessel, while on her voyage
from Lisbon for Bristol, with a cargo of fruit, has gone
on shore. They state that she struck on a rock about
11 o'clock last night, and in about 15 minutes went on
shore on the main land ; they gat into the boat, leaving
the master, mate, and a man named Foley, on board,
whose fate is as yet uncertain, The crew report that
owing to the heavy sea striking the vessel, the boat
parted, and they could not reach the vessel again. It is
supposed that the vessel must be Cu shore within the
Rundlestone, near Porthgwarrow Cove.
;
AUSTRALIAN TRADE TO LivEnrooL.—The Liverpool
Chronicle, of Jan. 3, states that during the past :ear,
125 vessels left the Mersey, of an aggregate tonnage oi
140,652 tons, while from the Thames during the same
period 276 vessels sailed, of .a tonnage of 209,012 tons.
The average tonnage of the vessels leaving the Mersey
was 1,125 tons, while those from the Thames averaged
750 tons each. 17 vessels carrying Government emi-
grants have been despatched during the year from the
Mersey, chiefly by the " Black Ball" and " White Star"
line of packets. Nearly 7,000 persons were sent from
Liverpool by the Emigration Commissioners. In the
early portion of the year the emigration to Australia
was very slack, but on the receipt of favourable news
the tide again turned, and the third and fourth quarters
of last year bear a striking contrast to those of the

preceding one. Above 16,000 persons were conveyed
in private ships from Liverpool.

CONFESSION OF A MIIRDER.—The Limerick papers
state that at the city police-court on Wednesday, before
Alderman Watson and Captain Gavin, Johnston, a pri-
vate in the, 88th Regiment, who gave himself up a few
days since to constable Doyle, stating that he was the
murderer of a man named Pickersgill, at Hull, in October
last, made the following startling confession:---"He
enlisted in the 52d Regiment, from which he deserted,
when Pickersgill gave information which led to his arrest.
At the outbreak of the war in the East he was allowed
to volunteer into the 88th Regiment, and served with
that regiment during the whole of the campaign, for
which he was decorated with the war medal with four
clasps. On the morning of the 15th of October last he
met Pickersgill in Humber-street, Hull, with whom he
retired to a public-house, where they both drank to
excess. They afterwards parted, but not before having
a few angry words. On going up by the warehouse,
Pickersgill crossed before Johnston, when the latter
struck him on the bead with a stick having lead at the
end. Pickersgill, with the force of the blow, fell into
the dock and was never heard of afterwards. Johnston
was sent back to gaol awaiting the result of the inquiries
being prosecuted at Hull.

LATEST NE WS.

ASSASSINATION OF THE ARCH•
BISHOP OF PARIS.

PARIS, SUNDAY,

The Archbishop of Paris was assassinated at 4
o'clock yesterday afternoon, in the Church of St.
Etienne du Mont, by a priest who had been in-
terdieted from officiating, named Verges. The
reverend prelate died immediately. The assassin
was arrested.
The good Archbishop had headed a procession
to the Church of St. Etienne du Mont, to cele•
brate the Neuvaine of Sainte Genevieve, the
patron saint of Paris.
After the performance of the ecclesiastical cere-
monies the procession passed round the church in
solemn splendour, and returned to the nave, when
the Archbishop paused, to bestow his blessing on
the crowd which had been attracted by the gor-
geous spectacle. The good prelate had raised his
hands, and was in the act of saying the Benedic-
tine, when an unfrocked priest, named Verges,
rushed out from amidst the crowd, drew a poniard
from his gaberdine, and plunged it into th 3 Arch-
bishop's heart ; then, fearful lest his deadly ven-
geance might not have been sufficiently slaked, he
drew forth the reeking weapon from the wound,
and plunged it again into the Prelate's bosom.
The attendant priests then rushed forward and
seized the assassin ; the people also surged on-
ward, and the Archbishop fell amongst'them, his
blood rushing forth upon the floor of the church.
They raised him up, and bore him bleeding to the
sacristy, whore he breathed his last, muttering,
with dying breath, "le Malheureux," as extreme
unction was being administered to him. After
gasping forth a few sob; he faltered forth his
soul and expired, shadowing forth, in dying mur-
murs, the benediction which had been so un-
towardly interrupted.
The crime was so sudden, so utterly unexpected,
seeing the sanctity of the place, and the religious
feelings with which such a spectacle would natu-
rally inspire so impressionable a people, or that
small portion of the people who still assist at the ob•
servauces of their Church, that such an event was
held to be impossible ; even when the blood
gushed forth, staining the floor of the nave, and
the gorgeous archiepiscopal raiments, the assem-
bled prelates and people could not believe the
dreadful tale that their eyes had told them. Even
the Grund Vicar of the Church, the Abbe Surat,
who stood beside the Archbishop whilst he was
bestowing his blessing on the people, did not oven
perceive that he was wounded, until the prelate
fell at his feet bathed in• blood.
Archbishop Sibour was appointed to be the
head of the diocese of Paris by the Government
of General Cavaignac, upon the death of Arch-
bishop Affre, who was killed by a musket shot
at one of the barricades near the Rue St. Antoine
during the sanguinary conflict which ensued on
the Communist insurrection of June, 1848. The
Archbishop bad gone to the scene of carnage with
the intention of appealing to the populace, and
entreating them to desist from further bloodshed.
Verges is but 32 years of age, and had already
been unfrocked by his diocesan, the Bishop of
Meaux. This sentence had been confirmed by the
Archbishop of Paris, and for this injury he had
sworn to be avenged. He had been noted on the
peristyle of the Madaleine of late, bearing a pla-
card on his breast, calling attention to his imagi-
nary wrongs. The police, from an ill-judged
respect to his sacred office, refrained from treating
him like other disturbers of the public peace, and
will now have to deplore their ill-timed clemency.
It is said that he is imbecile, others say that ho is
mad ; we must hope that this latter palliation

will be proven.
The body of the Archbishop will be shown pub-
licly to-morrow at the lying in state in the Cathe-
dral.

The assassin declares that he has committed
this awful crime as a protestation against the doc-
trine of the Immaculate Conception.
A Sister of Charity, who had observed the
movement of the assassin, and attempted to throw
herself between the Archbishop and him, was
wounded in the hand.

The assassin made an attempt to escape in the
crowd, but he was seized by five or six of the con-
gregation, and narrowly escaped being strangled
by them. In his examination before the authori-
ties he answered coolly. Re says he was sus-
pended without just cause.

The following notice has been posted on the
doors of the Church of St. Etienne-du-Mont :
"Monseigneur the Archbishop having been
stabbed to death at 4 o'clock this afternoon by a
criminal hand in the Church of St. Etienne-du-
Mont, the church remains under an interdict
until the expiatory ceremony which shall be
subsequently commanded."

To-day the outside of the Church of St. Etien-
ne-du Mont is hung with black. No High Mass
has been chaunted to-day in any church through-
out the diocese of Paris. In its place a low mass
was celebrated, after which the clergy sang the
seven penitential psalms.

The Metropolitan Chapter has already met for
receiving the official notification of the death of

the Archbishop, and for taking measures for the
administration of the diocess until a successor be
appointed. The church of St. Etienne-du-Mont
is placed under interdict by the fact of the crime
having been committed there, and it will not be
opened until it is purified by an expiatory cere.
mony.

The Momiteur announces the murder of the
Archbishop of Paris in the same terms as the
above, adding :

"It is impossible for us to describe the deep
emotion felt by the numerous faithful who were
assembled in the church, and the painful impres-
sion which the news of the death of the virtuous
prelate caused that evening in Paris."

BERN E, JAN. 4.
We are expecting the ultimatum of France and
England.

The new levy amounts to 14,000 men.
A service of vigorous surveillance has been orga-
nised on the frontier.

People are looking
Federal Council.l'. 6 for a Proclamation by the
General Dufour has organised a numerous staff.
On his application, the Federal Council has given
orders to place on a
war footing eighteen addi-
tional battalions of infantry, as well as nine com-
companies of carbineers, cavalry, and artillery.
General Dufour, after his acceptance of the
command-in-chief of the Federal army, expressed
himself as follows, at a public meeting :
"It is a noble ~ask which has been confided to
me, and I Rill do everything in my power to
show myself worthy of the confidence which Swit-
zerland, our common country, has placed in me.
I am happy to be again able at the end of my
career to testify my devotedness to the common
cause by rendering all the service in my power to
the naticual cause. It is not only the military
strength and the riches of a country which make
it respected, but it is the enthusiasm and union
of a people. I am proud for my country's sake

of the unanimity of which it has given proof uncle z
existing circumstances. I have confidence in tire
goodness of our cause, and I have, above all, the
firm confidence that the God of the Grutli—that
the God of our fathers—will not abandon 'us.
May God protect Switzerland !"

The permanent committee of the two Chambers
of Wurtemburg, in supporting the petition of a
certain number of the deputies against the passage
of Prussian troops through the country, has de-
manded explanations from the Ministry on the
present state of the negotiations with Prussia on
the subject.

A telegraphic despatch from Trieste announces
from Constantinople, under the date of Dec. 26,
that some ships of the English squadron were on
the point of sailing for the Circassian coast, in
order to demand of the Russian authorities the
restitution of the cargoes of those boats which
were lately captured by the Russian general who
took possessioa of the fort of Soujouk Kaleh.

The steamer Carmel, from Constantinople, with
dates of the 22d, has arrived at Marseilles, but
the intelligence which it conveys is meagre in the
extreme. No details are offered us respecting
the march of events in the Persian Gulf, and the
local news are very uninteresting. We learn that
Feruk Khan is still intent on his journey to Paris,
and that he had paid his farewell visit to the
Sultan. Abd-ul-Medjid profited by this occasion
to assure the envoy of the Shah of his friendly
and pacific sentiments towards Persia. It is
said that the Shah is forced to carry on the war
by the fanaticism of the population. The tribes
of Asterabad had offered cavalry to the Shah.

By a decree, signed by the Prussian Minister
of the Interior and the Minister of Finance,
dated Dec. 30, the exportation of horses across the
frontiers, in every direction, is prohibited until
further orders.

The late rumours of the retirement of Marshal
Radetzky from the chief command in Austrian
Italy are confirmed. He will be replaced by
the Archduke Maximilian.

The Vienna correspondent of the Times (second
edition), in his letter dated Jan. 2, says:—
" It is now certain that Colonel von Manteuffel
has come here as an Agent Provocateur.' The
King of Prussia, who displayed such an
un-
friendly feeling towards his Imperial nephew
during the late war, is now extremely desirous
that the latter should assist him in applying the
moral thumb-screws to the Swiss. Colonel von Man-
teuffel is to try to persuade the Emperor Francis
Joseph to withdraw his Minister from Berne, but
his Majesty will hardly consent to do so. This
Government has probably nearly (if not quite),
as much faith as the Berlin Cabinet in the disinte'
restedness of the Emperor Napoleon ; but it i$
one of the fundamental principles of Austrian
state-craft not to place implicit confidence in aui
one, and therefore Baron Mensshengen will be
left at Berne. Should the Prussians get possessio'2
of Basle and Schaffhausen, and French troop,
enter Geneva and the Pays de Vaud, the Austrians
will occupy Tessin, but if France remains a mere
looker-on, Austria will do no more than place $
corps of observation on her frontier towardl
S witzerlan d."