The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-28 00:00:00

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. •
There is positively not a line of political news to

send to day

The Bourse has been better to-day, owing chiefly
to the Bank of England having reduced its dis-
count, and to English capitafists having com-
menced purchasing rente. The Threes closed at
an advance of 50e. for cash, and 25c. for the end of
the month, over the closing prices of yesterday;
the Credit Mobilier at an advance of 5f , and
the principal railways at an advance of from sf.
to 15f.

The Count de Chambord (Henri V., the " right-
ful King of France" according to right-divine
notions) has sent 20 000 fr. (LS00) to the fund for
victims of the inundations, and has written a very
pretty letter expressing his profound regret at not
being able to do more. The government, I hear-,
is not over pleased at the attention which the+
public seem disposed to pay to this donation of the--.
exiled prince; it is less pleased with the sensation,
which that, somewhat larger, recently made by the,
Orleans family, created.

From an official return published to-day it
appears that the price of wheat for the month just
ended, presents an increase of 2!r 17c. per heelo_
litre over that of last month. This is the average
increase for the whole country, but, as will be sup-
posed, it is considerably more in the districts visited
by the inundations.

A postal treaty between France and Spain has, it

'is said, been concluded

A Madrid despatch says that several of the
insurgents of Valladoled, having been condemnedi
by court-martial, had been shot.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

THE BOURBON J ND ORLEANS FAMILIES

Intelligence from Pails el der Thursday's date,
states that it is generally ;;elieved that the
Princes of the Orlraiis family intblundtanitliinuag
ttilltee
opportunity afforded by the late law, ;:a
sum of 600,000 f to the heirs of the Prinesses, to
protest, if they have not airealy done so, ag,:inst
the Decree of Confiscation of January, 1852. Ti2o
present law they consider as an admission on the
part of the Emperor of the illegality of that
decree—as an admission that the confiscation to.
the State of the property in question, was an act
of violation of all the rights of property. It is not
said, however, that the parties benefited by the law-
will decline availing themselves of it. It appears
that the grant was arranged between the Prince
de Chimay and M. Dupin, the executor to the will
of the late King Louis Philippe and the law
adviser of the family. The Duke of Nemours
has, it appears, written to M. Dupin a bitter
couched in very strong terms on the impropriety
of his having concluded the arrangement without
consulting him as the head of the family.
The Union publishes a letter from the Dtte de
Levis, with a communication addressed to the
latter by the Count de Chambord, on the subject or
the inundations which have desolated France, aryl
towards the relief of which the Count has con--
tributed the sum of 20.000 fr. The following is the
letter of the Count de Chambord :
VENICE, June 16 —I was on a journey, my dear
Duke, when the news of the frightful inundations
which have desolated France, particularly in the
South and West, reached me. I could not read
the details of those scenes of devastation and.
mourning without having my heart deeply affected-
On returning to this city my first ,care is to send.
you, as a mark of my lively sympathy for the
numerous victims of those terrible catastrophes, Et,
sum of 20,000 fr., with the expression of my deep.
regret that my circumstances will not allow me to
send you more. It is particularly on these occa-
sions that I suffer severely at finding myself kept
far from my country, not being able to hasten
personally to the assistance of so many sufferers,.
and at only having at my disposal resources too.
limited for it to be possible for me to contribute so,
effectually as I could have wished in relieving so,
much distress. My wife is not less affected than
I am at these disastrous events, and it is in her
name as well as my own that I send you this stun.
May this feeble mark of cur sincere interest give
some alleviation to the sufferings of those afflicted
people. I renew to you, my dear Duke, the assur-
ance of my constant friendship.