The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-15 00:00:00

PRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.
The Moniteur has the following :
The Minister of Public Instruction and Worship,
has just addressed the following letter to the arch-
bishops and bishops
:--
"PARIS, Oct. 11, 1855.
"Monseigneur,—Divine Providence, to whom
we have just returned public thanksgivings for the
victory granted to our arms, is pleased in this me-
morable year to shower down His blessings on
France and the Emperor. His Majesty has deigned
to charge me with the- duty of making you ac-
quainted with the happy pregnancy of the Empress
I am confident that your Eminence will hasten to
il,,
thank God for au event v. Lich Ii n.• with
, v,
satisfaction the heart of the Emperor, becomes a
new pledge of security for the country. I beg

you, Monseigneur, to be so kind as to invite the
clergy and the faithful of your diocese to ask of
Heaven that the preservation of the Empress's
health may insure the accomplishment of the na-
tion's hopes.
" Deign to accept, Monseigneur, the assurance
of my high consideration.
" The Minister of Public Instruction and Wor-
ship, "H. FORTOUL.

"lon the same occasion letters have been ad-
dressed by the Minister of Public Instruction and
Worship to the presidents of consistories of the
non-Catholic form of worship."
It is current here that Otchakoff and the mouths
of the Bug and Dnieper are the quarters really
aimed at by the Allied fleets.
Great importance appears to attach to the visit
to Berlin of Count Haztfeld, the Prussian Ambas-
sador to France.

It is stated positively that Russia has made re-
presentations, both to Prussia and Austria, to
induce them to act as mediators with the Western
Powers.

A rumour has been in circulation to-day of a
rising in Sicily, and that the King's troops have
been worsted. It wants confirmation.
We read in the Moniteur :—" Some journals
have announced that the War Department were
engaging workmen of different trades to send to
the Crimea. This statement is completely errone-
ous. It is true that the military intendant of the
9th division was charged to enrol a certain number
of porters of Marseilles to be employed in the East
in loading vessels, moving goods and stores in the
warehouses, &c. These wants have been long since
satisfied, and no engagements of the kind are any
longer made."

The lona and the Charlemagne, ships of the line,
arrived on the 10th at Toulon from Constantinople
with convalescent or wounded soldiers on board.
The Uranie, sailing frigate, also arrived the same
date from the East.

A Paris letter, in the Independance Belge, im-
plies that the note lately published in the Moni-
teur relative to the affairs of Naples originated on
a representation made by the Neapolitan Ambassa-
dor. The Pays denies that any representation of
the kind was made. "The note in question," it
says, " was the spontaneous expression of the
policy of the Imperial Government, and that policy
is too straightforw'Lrd and firm for any manifesta-
tion on its part to be called forth by an external
pressure."
BOURSE, Oct. 13, Two o'clock.—Prices are steady
in all securities, with a slight improvement. Specu-
lators seem surprised at the heaviness of French
Stock, when the English Consols have improved
nearly 2 per cent. It is said many sellers of
Three pei Cents. are b9na fide holders of stock,
which they threaten to deliver at the end of the
month. Titles of Stocks and Railway Shares have
been more abundant than for the last few days.
Half-past Three.—The last prices were steady,
with a slight advance. The Threes improved to
64fr. 55c. The Railway Shares were quoted with-
in the limits of yesterday's quotations, except for
the Southern Shares, which advanced suddenly at
the end of the market from 665 fr. to 680 fr. for the
next account. The following are the last prices
Cash. fr. e. End of Month.
4i per Cents —f. —a.
3 por Cents 64 45 61 55

l•few Loan 65 59
Bank Shares 3100 Roman
Credit Mobilier 1172 50 A.ustrian
Belgian Fives 9li Spanish Threes —
Piedmontese B4 50 Home Debt ...... ... 32

RAILWAYS—FOB CASH.
cr. e. 0.
Orleans
Western... 776 25 Strasburg
Cette 665 New Ditto —
Mediterranean 1.220 Teste
Northern
Lyons...". ...... .44... 1127 50 Austrian Corn 740