The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-08 00:00:00

LORD DUNKELLIN.

The Kreutz Zeitungpublishes the following
letters from the Earl of Clanricarde and Lord
Dunkellin, relative to the exchange of the latter.
The following are translations from the German,
and, therefore, may differ from the strict text of
the originals

" Nov. 18, 1854.
" Prince—l have the honour to inform you that I have
received the letter which his Imperial Majesty ordered
to be addressed to me. I beg your Excellency to
place at the feet of his Imperial Majesty the expression
of the lively gratitude and profound emotion inspired in
me by the kind and gracious recollection which his Im"
penal Majesty has been pleased to preserve of me. The
order which the Emperor has issued in regard to my
son is perfectly in hammy with the personal good-
ness that his Majesty formerly exhibited towards me,
and which I can never forget. I have motives for
thinking that no one can better comprehend thaa his Ins-
perial Majesty the public duties which under unfortn•
nate circumstances are required of ue. I will
hasten to communicate your wishes relating to Cap-
tain Kulzowleff to the War Department. Permit
me, Prince, to express my warmest thanks for the
kind manner in which you have conveyed to me the
orders of his Imperial Majesty, and receive the as-
surance of my highest consideration.
(Signed) "CLLNRICARDE.
"To his Excellency Prince Basilius Dolgorucki,
Minister of War, &c. &c."
"Kaluga, Nov. 10, 1854.
"Mr. Governor—l hope I need not, in the first place
assure your Excellency, I feel moved by the act of kind-
ness the Emperor has been graciously pleased to ex-
hibit towards me. This magnanimity, which restores
me to complete freedom, and unconditionally, is really
the act of a great man, and although I shall never be
in a situation to express to him my whole gratitude
with words, I nevertheless pray you to have the kind-
ness to inform the Minister of War how deeply I am
moved by the noble and magnanimous conduct of his
Majesty the Emperor. My heart will never forget it.
An agreeable recollection will always remain in it of my
short, and, through your thousand acts of kindness, no
ways unpleasant, imprisonment at Kaluga.
"Trusting to your excessive kindness, I will not at.
tempt to find apologies for the commission with which I
have permitted myself to charge you.
(Signed)

" DIINKELLIN."

STATISTICS OF FRANCE.

The Annuaire du Bureau des Longitudes for the pre-
sent year, contains the following statistics. Since the
adoption of the decimal system, there have been struck
in France 6,471,648,544 f. 20e. of gold and silver coins.
Paris consumed in 1853, 1,241,062 hectolitres of wine in
cask, and 11,603 hectolitres in bottles; 2,297,575 kilog.
of paper ; 51,366,193 kilog. of butcher's meat, coming
from the slaughter- houses, within the walls, and 13, 876,500
kilog. from outside; 4,001,134 kilog. of pork; 7,874,030 fr.
of fish ; 1,641,359 fr. of oysters ; 15,000,000 fr. of butter;
7,157,044 fr. of eggs ; and 8,000.000 fr. of wood. In
Pails, in 1853, 34,049 children were born, 16,603 girls,
and 17,446 boys, 10,833 being natural children. Ta
number of marriages was 11,574. The number of deat •
was 38,262, of which 16,792 were of males, and 17,476
of females. One individual reached the age of 105 years
and 9 months ; 495 individuals died of small-pox. In
1852, there were born in the whole of France, 965,080
children, of whom 70,000 wer©illegitimate; and the
deaths have been 810,695. Tue increase of the popula-
tion has been 154,385. The average of life is at present
is at present at least 36 mil-
lions, 36 years and 7 months. Ihe population of France was,
in 1851, 35,783,000, anti
lions, exclusive of Algeria and the colonies. In 1820, it
was 30,451,187; 18;:1, 32,560,934; 1836, 33,540,910;
and in 1841,34,230,178.

DEPARTURE OF TEE CANADA.—On Saturday forenoon
the British and North American Royal mail steam-ship
Canada, Captain James Stone, sailed from the Mersey
for Boston and Halifax, with the usual mails, 95 passes•
gers, and a full cargo.