The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-16 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
The Moniteur contains the following :
_ _

" CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 13.

"On Sept. 29th the Russians attempted a gene-
ral attack on Kars. The combat lasted seven
hours with extreme desperation. The enemy was
at length repulsed, and his retreat became a com-
plete rout. On the 30th they had already buried
4,000 dead, and the field of battle was strewed
with dead bodies. The loss of the Turks is only
• about 1,000 men."

The Emperor and the Duke and Duchess de
Brabant honoured the Theatre Francais last even-
ing with their presence, to witness the performance
of Macille. de la Seigliere.
Solemn thanksgivings for the pregnancy of the
Empress were yesterday offered up in the Reformed
Churches of the Paris district.

Vice-Admiral Parseval-Deschenes, who last year
commanded the French fleet in the Baltic, has just
arrived at Geneva.
The Moniteur publishes a return of the receipts
of the taxes and indirect revenue for the first nine
months of 1855, which amounted to 699,789,000 fr.,
being 81,055,000 fr. more than in the correspond-
ing period of 1804.
The rerite of Lille states that every night dur-
ing the past week railway trains conveying troops
have passed through that town from the Camp of
the North, which is now completely at an end.
Each of the trains conveyed not less than 700 men.
Most of these troops are on their way to the
Crimea, and it is difficult to describe the joy and
animation which prevails among them.
The Debatscontinues its analysis of the despatches
of Prince Gortschakoff, by an examination of his
proclamation to the Russian army on the fall of
Sebastopol. M. Saint Ange certainly asks, very
reasonably, why that powerful fleet never even
showed itself at the entrance of the roadstead,
ff
battle under the guns of its forts, or,
at e
least
er
with the chance of ret, eating under their
v
" It might have been beaten, but it could
have returned shot for shot ; the honour of the
Russian flag would have been saved, at least it
would have been more glorious to have finished in
a naval action, than to have been sunk inglo-
rious by its own seamen in its own port."
BOURSE, October 15, Two o'clock.—The prices
of the funds awl shares. have been buoyant.
The defeat of the Russians at Kars, though Omer
Pasha was not yet arrived with his reinforcements,
is considered as an event of great importance. The
market besides is in a better situation, speculators
for a fall having oversold themselves, and now
obliged to repurchase stocks. The option (Reponse
tdeeslPiqruinaideastiO which took place to-day previous to
h
n of shares,was made on rather favour•
able prices, and the railway shares have in conse-
quence been very steady.
Half-past Three.—The market has closed with
an advance, and with many demands on all securi-
ties.
Prices are as follows :
Cash. fr. e. End of Month.
4i per Cents 9l
65 25 —f.
3 per Cents 65 30
New Loan 66 25
Bank Shares — Roman
1215 A

Credit Mobilier. ..... . Austrian
Belgian Five 5........ Spanish Threes
Piedmontese ......... 85 - Home Debt 32;

RAILWAYS—PM CAMEL
fr. e. c.
Orleans ............... 1120 Lyons Geneva 785
Western ............... 880 Strasburg
Cott° .................. 1140 New Ditto.., 767 50
Mediterranean ...... Teste ......
Northern
Lyons.. .., 680 Austrian Cora 750