The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-05 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY.
The Moniteur publishes an Imperial letter to
M. Magee, hitherto Minister of Agriculture, Com-
merce, and Public Works, appointing him Minis-
ter of Fißance, in the room of M. Bineau, who
retires on account of ill health.

The Moniteur also publishes the following ac-
count of Prince Napoleon's reception by the Em-
peror :
On the day after his arrival at Paris his Imperial
Highness Prince Napoleon was received by the Empe-
ror, His Majesty, embracing the Prince, could not
control his emotion at witnessing the very great cLange
in the Prince's features. The Prince, who was ill in
Constantinople when the army departed for the Crimea,
forgot his sufferings in order to pub himself at the
head of his division, and the world knows the glo-
rious part he took in the battles of the Aline and
of Ink-ern-lan. The state of his health, seriously af-
fected by fatigue, would sot, however, have prevented
his remaining in the camp if the assault of Sebastopol
had not been necessarily postponed. Informed by the
General-is-Chiof that the period for making it had been
put off, and no longer having in view the only prospect
capable of sustaining him, the Prince was compelled to
leave for Constantinople, wkere he indulged the hope of
a recovery, which might permit him to return speedily
to the Crimea. In this hope he has bees disappointed.
Doctor Levy, chief physician of the army, has written to
the Emperor that a longer stay in the East would in-
falliby be attended with results fatal to the Prince, and
his Majesty immediately ordered his Imperial Highness
to return to Paris.

The affectionate reception given by his Majesty, and
the expressions of sympathy bestowed on the Prince,
will assuage the regret he feels at having been obliged to
separate himself from an army where his conduct has
procured for him the praise of every one that wit-
nessed it.

All the ministers, the presidents of the grand corps of
state, the great officers of the crown, aid the principal
fenctionaries have hastened to present themselves and
offer their homage to his Imperial Highness on the oc-
casion of his return.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs has received from
Lord Cowley the following communication :

" Monsieur le Ministre,—l have the honour to trans-
mit to your Excellency the annexed copy of an address,
in which the Legislative Council and the Legislative
Assembly of Canada offer conjointly to the Queen their
congratulations on the occasion of the victory gained by
the allied armies at the Alma, and express their inten•
tien of contributing to the subscription in aid of the
widows and orphans of the soldiers and seamen, both
English and. French, who have fallen in the present
struggle. A sum of 20,000/. having been for this ob-
ject sent to London by the Government of Canada, to be
divided equally between the two nations, I am charged
to request your Excellency to inform me of the wishes
ofithe Government of the Emperor relative to the mode
of transmitting the 10,000/, (250,000 f.), which belong to
France.—l am, &c.,
" Jan. 30. " COWLEY."
The above letter is followed in the Moniteur by the
address above alluded to, signed by the Presidents
of the Legislative Council and the Legislative As-
sembly of Canada.