The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-10 00:00:00

THE FRENCH FUNDS

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
At the close of business on the Bourse to-day
the prices of the French Funds were thus quoted :
—Four and a Half per Cents, 94f.; Three per
Cents, 71f. 20c.

LATER NEWS
FROM AUSTRALIA.

The Oliver Lang, belonging to Messrs. James

Baines and Company (Black Ball Line of Australian
Packet Ships), was telegraphed off Holyhead yes-
terday (Wednesday) evening, at five o'clock. The

Oliver Lang is supposed to have left Melbourne on
the 27th April, and consequently she brings a
months later intelligence than that already pub-
lished.

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.

The telegraph will have informed you before this
of the sad piece of news which the government has
received to-day—the death, from apoplexy, at Ems,
of M. Fortoul, Minister of Public Instruction.
It was only last week that I announced to you his
departure from Paris; he was then in his usual
health, though rather fatigued. He was in the
early prime of life, and was of no political note at
all, until, in the time of the Republic, he attracted
the attention of Louis Napoleon, and was by
him made minister. He was in the Cabinet
at the time of the coup d'etat, of December,
1851, and was, in fact, the only minister of the
present Cabinet who was. It is not a little
singular, that out of nine ministers who constitute
a cabinet in France, not fewer than four of those
who took part in the coup d'etat, have been carried

off by death. These four are M. Ducos (Minister
of the Interior), M. Binean (Minister of Finance),
Marshal St. Arnaud (Minister of War), and now M.
Fortoul. Although the news of the unfortunate gen-
tleman's death has only been known a few hours,

speculations are already rifo in political circles as
to who will be his successor. Amongst the names
mentioned I have heard that of M. Dumas of the
Institute, the savant, not (it is hardly necessary to
say) the novelist.
You will have observed in the Moniteur,
sent off by special parcel, as usual, this
morning, that the government has received a
telegraphic despatch from Constantinople of the
6th, announcing that the evacuation of the Crimea
by the French is now a fait accompli, and that that
of Constantinople is proceeding.
There has been rather a heavy fall on the Bourse
today, owing to the fact that the metallic reserve
of the Bank of France has undergone a considera-
ble diminution, and that, in all probability, the
bank will not, in its weekly meeting on Thursday,
reduce its rate of discount.

The provincial papers announce that arrests of
persons supposed to be connected with the
Marianne secret political society have been made at
Sables d'Olonne.

The Emperor has declined to accept a residence
in the City of Nantes for the Prince Imperial
offered him by the municipality.
The accounts of the Emperor's movements at
Plombieres contain nothing of interest His
Majesty enjoys good health.
Accounts from Constantinople to the 30th ult.,
say that swords of honour, and the Cross of
Medjidie, in diamonds, were to be presented, with
grand cerejnony, to Marshal Pelissier and General
Codrington. The grand vizer, Aali Pacha, has
returned, and the government had nominated two
caimacaws (Vice Hospodars) to the govermanship
of Moldavia and Wallachia.