Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-19 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY.
The Emperor and Empress left St. Cloud to-day
at 4 o'clock for Biarritz.
The Illoniteur announces the reception, by the
Emperor, of his Excellency Ferukh Khan, Ambas-
ador of the Shah of Persia, at a private audience,
whereat the Ambassador presented an autograph
letter from the Shah, together with a sabre which
belonged
to Shah Abbas the Second, as an offering
o the Emperor.
M. Billault. Minister of the Interior, is elevated
'0 the
dignity of Grand Cross of the Legion of
honour, and M. Rouland, Minister of Instruction
PUblic Worship, to that of Grand Officer in
the same order.
Marshal Vaillant, Minister of War, is charged
with the Ministry of Public Instruction and
worship, during the leave of absence granted to
41. Rouland. There is also several lists of promo-
tions in honour of the fete of Saint Napoleon.
The distribution of medals to the successful
artists tkt, the exhibition of 1837, is also contained
in the ()racial journal.
The prefect of police has issued the following
circular to the police commissaries of the depart-
Ment of the Seine, on the important subject of
the reimbursement of the sacrifices made during
the last three years to keep down the price of
bread in Paris:—
My decree of this day's date lowers the price of bread
to 40c. (it was previously 44e.) f:,r the second fortnight of
August. The'd =arness of bread, which involves high prices
of almost all the necessaries of life, has not only been
openly combatted during the long crisis which we have
pass .d through, but it has also been indirectly remalied by
measures of assistance without precedent, sad I may also
Say without limits. The Emperor's gifts have enabled us
to Open in Paris and the department of the Seine no less
than 70 kitchens, who re during the winter substantial food
had been sold to the poor at very cheap rates. The Em-
reca has generously endowed the " Institution of smell
49dgings." Their Majesties, through the Mi..ister of the
Interior, have placed at my disposition large resources,
which hb.,te enabltd me to make daily disttibutioes of
money and provisions. Thanks to those combined effirts
We have been able to attenuate the effects of the crisis,
which now approaches its termination. But the cot-se-
quences will be felt for some time to come. It is only
by great s-.crifices that, daring the: last three years
the price of bread has been kept in Paris and the
department of the Seine at a rate much low r
than what perple have been paying in all other parts of
the empire. The municipal council of Paris, which his
lentt its aid to the government in these trying cireurnstance3,
Bias bean c rniAlled to call for the restitution of very con-
siderable advaeces both in the interest. of the city and of
the great public works, which concern alike the present
and the future. Its resolution, approved of by the ministers
131 agriculture and commerce, makes it necessary to keep
up the price of bread a little above its natural level, but
111,3 measure will be used with an exit., me reserve, and the
surcharge will never in future exceed two or three centimes
the kilegramme. This triflirg sn-charge of a centime the
Pound proves sufficiently that the Emperor will not allow
the people to pay by new sufferings for the reli:f they re-
ceived formerly. Let them know this, and assure them
'fiat no one is more penetrated than I am with these senti-
ments of the Emperor, who, as you know, will never be
"lisfied till he has muted the welfare of the labouring
elasseso —Receive, &c, the Senator Prefect of Police,

PIETRI.