The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-25 00:00:00

THE FRENCH FUNDS

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
Business on the Bourse to-day was closed with
the funds at the following quotations :—Four and a
half per Cents., 04f. Three per Cents, 72f. 70c.

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING

The Peade Congress met again yesterday, and it
had been expected that the treaty of peace would
be signed in the course of the sitting ; but
it turns out that matters are not yet quite
sufficiently advanced for that formality. It is not
doubted, however, that the siging will take place in
the course of the present week, or at all events
before the 31,st. Thus one of your London co-
temporaries, who speaks of a renewal of the
armistice as likely, is in error.
Now that peace seems certain these fickle
Parisians are almost inclined to wish for a
continuance of the war :—at least some of
those who were formerly clamorous for peace
on any terms. n3w say that the peace is not worth
what it has cost ; that it would have been better for
France to have joined England in standing out for
higher terms, &c. ;—and this language may be
more especially heard amongst the real friends of
the Bonapartist dynasty.
The semi-official journals publish letters from
St. Petersburg, which teem with fulsome adulation
of the French, and of the French Emperor.
According to them, the Russians in general
are burning with the desire to throw them-
selves into the arms of the French, who
thrashed them so gloriously at Sebastopol:—
the Czar Alexander is so full of enthusiasm for the
Emperor Napoleon, that he not only sings his
praises in his drawing room, but vows that the
moment peace is concluded, nothing shall prevent
him from coming to Paris to demand his friend-
ship. All this is very like bosh.
At Notre Dame, to-day, a Te Deum has been
chanted with a good deal of pomp for the birth of
the Imperial Prince. A vast number of Marshals,
Generals, Colonels, Senators, Councillors of State,
Members of the Legislative body, and public
functionaries of all sorts, all in splendid uniform,
bedizzened with gold and silver embroidery, or in
red or black robes, were present. All the Minis-
ters were in attendance, and the vast church, in the
parts not occupied by the officers, was crowded by'
the profane vulgar. To sing the Te Deum, two or
three bands, and the companies of the opera houses
were engaged,—and well they did it, in. an artistic
point of view :—but in my English and Protestant
eyes, their performance seemed a sad desecration
of the house of God. And what seemed still worse
was to see detachments of the Imperial Guard and
National Guard stationed, musket on shoulder and
schakoes on head, in lines from the altar to the
great door, and to hear the words of command—
" Shoulder arms!" " Present arms !" etc., given as
on parade, whilst the drums beat loud tattoos!
I am told that the nomination of Generals
Canrobert and Bosquet to the dignity of Marshal
was made known to them by what the French
call " une surprise." The day before the decrees
of nomination appeared in the Moniteur, the
kmperor gave a grand dinner, to which Bosquet
and Canrobert were bidden; and at the dessert he
rose and said : " Gentlemen, Fill your glasses !
I propose the health of Marshals Bosquet and
Canrobert !" On this great enthusiasm was mani-
fested ; and Bosquet and Canrobert—Frenchmen-
like—burst into tears !

The Moniteur to-day publishes the official report
of the birth of the Imperial Prince. It occasions
much ridicule from the terms in which it is
couched.

An absurd project is on foot—the raising of a
regiment of children under the protection of the
Imperial Prince, and under the name of " Pupils
of the Guard." Something of that kind, it appears,
existed under the elder Napoleon. To compose it,
it is proposed to take the children of soldiers and
foundlings.

P.S.—I am told that according to present proba-
bility the treaty of peace will be signed in the next
sitting of the Congress, which will take place on
Tuesday or Wednesday. The sitting of yesterday
was, it is said, taken up with the discussions of the
propositions presented by the sub-committee.

PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING.
Another proof of the priority and correctness of
my information has been afforded to-day. I told
you, some days back—what no other Paris corres-
pondent of any journal, London or provincial,
knew—that the Gogernment was about to take
measures to check the negociation of foreign
securities on the Bourse ; and to-day for the first
time, the negociation of all shares in foreign
enterprises, not quoted in the official lists, has been
formally prohibited. This has created an immense
sensation on the Bourse. Amongst the companies
whose shares can no longer be sold are the Aus-
trian Credit Mobilier and the London Omnibus.
The measure of the government is, of course,
caused principally by fear of the crisis which is
" looming in the future." But there are not want-
ing people who say that private motives are also
mixed up with it—that for instance, the Emperor
is not sorry to give the speculating world a lesson
for not having saluted the birth of his son with a
huge rise ; and that M. Fould, Minister of State,
and M. M. Perriere are anxious to vex Rothschild
by excluding his Austrian Credit Mobilier from
the Bourse.

P R ESENTATTO N.—Yesterday afternoon a few friends of
Captain Kennedy, of the ship Parker, of this port, belonging
to Sandbach, Tinnie, and Co., assembled at the Castle
Hotel, Birkenhead, for the purpose of presenting to him a
handsome and massive gold snuff box, bearing the following
inscription :—" Presented to Captain H. C. Kennedy, of
the ship Parker, at the dying request of the late Andrew
Low, Esq., for the uniform kindness, and attention, con-
ferred upon him and Mrs. Low, during their passage home
from Demerara. Liverpool, October, 1855." Mr. A. 8
Walters, father-in-law of Mr. Low, addressing Mr.'
Kennedy said,—" I have on the present occasion a
pleasing
and melancholy duty to perform—pleasing because it
affords me an opportunity of testifying to the merits of a
gentleman, who, as commander of the ship Parker, has
manifested all the feelings of a kind-hearted friend, and the
sympathy of a true-hearted British sailor. The duty is also
melancholy because it brings to my mind the loss of a
valuable member of my family. In presenting to you this
token of my respect, and esteem, I can assure you that it is
no less at the dying request of my son-in-law, the late Mr.
Andrew Low, than the earnest wish of his bereaved widow,
my daughter, for services performed by you during their
passage &mu Demerara in your well appointed and excellent
ship, the Parker. I believe I am correct in stating that
your kind attention to the wants of the one, during his
serious illness, saved him from a watery grave, and
ameliorated in no slight degree the afflictions
of his beloved wife. On their behalf, then,
I hand this token of their regard to you, and at the same
time offer you my very best wishes that prosperity and
happiness may attend you, whether ashore in the bosom of
yonr family, or following your noble but difficult occupa-
tion on the mighty waters." The box having been handed
to Captain Kennedy, that gentleman briefly acknowledged
the compliment, Ere begged to return them his sincere
thanks for the kind present, and assured Mr. Walter and
his friends, that in what he had done for Mr. and Mrs.
Low, as his passengers, he had only done what was his
most anxious desire, to render their passage as comfortable
and as agreeable as he could, more especially, as far as
possible to relieve the ain and suffering under which the
gentleman laboured. e should always highly esteem the
fl
Present which had that ay been handed to him, inasmuch
as it would be a lasting memento of one of the most noble
hearted gentlemen who had ever nonoured him with his
a cquaintance.