The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-27 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Union records that rumours are again afloat
in Paris of a new Minister being created, who shall
have under his control the post-office, the railways
and the telegraphic lines.
A NEW SORT OF AUTOGRAPH.—The last number
of the Autographe—(a weekly newspaper published
in Paris and containing nothing but autographs, ur,
to speak more properly, lithographs)—exhibits the
signature of a personage who created some sensation
a fortnight ago. We mean Vermouth, the famous
horse of M. Delamare. A friend of M. de Ville-
messant bethought himself of presenting to the noble
animal a small board covered with clay, which
enabled the conqueror of the English to stretch forth
its fort and so to impress on it its signature, which
the Autographe now reproduces, having previously
declared that Vermouth is not a thing, but a glory !

TIIE GREENBACKS OF ALEXANDRE
In order to complete the 2,000 francs which he re-
quires to purchase Mone's life-boat, Alexandre
Dames has hit upon the following process :—He has
cut out several sheets of paper in a great number of
little quares, and upon each of them with that same
hand from which came out so many attractive and
amusing works, he traced those simple words—
" In the name of _Vane and of lnyself, thanks—A.
Dumas." M. C. Pradier distributes those auto•
graphs, which can be procured for 10 centimes (1d).
This, as eversb3dy can see, is es:111.111y simple but
ingenious. But there are very few men who couid
raise the wind by such means.

In the midst of the negotiations eng?ged in at
Kisai;igen and Carlsbad between, the Northern
Powers, says the Union, the minor States of Ger-
many have expressed their wish to stand aloof.
The sovereigns and princes who have repaired to
Kissingen have done an act of courtesy, bat did not
take any part in the deliberations held by the Em-
perors of Russia and Austria, the King of Prussia,
and their Ministers. This reserved attitude of Ger-
many is considered a result of the interview of M.
de Beust at the Tuileries. Everybody knows that
the Saxon Minister is, at the present moment, the
representative of the German Diet at the London
Conference. The minor States of Germany have,
it is said, manifested their intention of departing
from that reserved attitude solely in the case when
the French Government itself should interfere in

the complication, which threaten to happen be.
tweon the Great German Powers and England.
Moreover, the Cabinet of
the Tuileries has not
ceased to declare at London, as well as at Berlin,
at Vienna, and at C)penlinen, that if war should
burst between England and the German Powers
on the Danish question,
Prance would preserve a
strict neutrality, and watch the march cf events.
A certain number of French diplomatists, with-
out any official title, have been sent to Carlsbad,
where is also our ambassador at Carlsbad, the Duke
de Gramont. The French Government is very
anxious to be well acquainted with everything
which is said or done in that town.

A new Jewish Synagogue, recently erected on th•
site of the Salt Granery at Lyons, was inaugurated
the day before yesterday. Among tho persons
present on tke occasion were 117. Vaisse, Senator,
Prefect of the department. The interior of the
building is of great splendour, and the curtain which
conceals the tabernacle containing the tables of the
law was purchased and presented by the Jewish
ladies of the city at a cost of 15,000 f,
BOURSE, June 25.—The market, which at first
declined, again rallied on the arrival of the English
funds with higher prices, but Threes, for the Ac-
count, show no improvement on previous prices,
bring now unvaried at 65fr. 70c. Mobilier have
advanced to 1,027 f. 50c. Railway Shares have also
slightly recovered. The market closed as follows :

4! per Cents . . 93 35
tio end mouth •• • •

Italian L0an...... 69 80
Do. end month.... 69 70
Ditto Threes...... 43 75
New Mexican. .... 55
Russiau ........
Austrian ........ 82
Spanip!h Threes...
aome Debt ...... 50
Deferred ........ 45}
PATS.
Cash. Account.
867 50 4. 865
985 o. 986 25
872 50 .. 875

3 per Cents
Do. end month

-- . -
Credit M0bi1ier....1025
00. end m0nth....1030

Bank Shares 3355 --

Credit konoier 1230
Roman - --

RA 11,

Orleans! -..••
Northern
Lyons and Plediterranean

New ditto . _
Southern ........
Western
Eastern
Sardinian 361 25 .. 360
Austrian
Lombard , 520 --- • • 517 60
North of Spain
Saragossa 666 25 .. htj..s,
Ditto to Barcelona -

PAYMENT OF POLICE FOR 6PECTAL SERVICE.—
There are ratepayers who aro apt to " consider too
curiously" as to parochial expenditure, and in so doing
give themselves needless anxiety. Some of these may
query to themselves, " whose money is it that pays the
policemen who ar© always to be seen at the Houses of
Parliament and other public buildings, as well as in theatres
and many private establishments ?" Such economists may
rest assured that those special services of the police aro all
charged to the institutions that receive them, the respective
payments being placed to the debit of the metropolitan police
fund. The Admiralty is the largest customer for police
supervision that department paid £33,015 for such
service, and the War-office—for policemen at Aldershot
and other stations—paid £lO,OOO. For their attend-
ance et the Treasury Offic,s and Houses of Parliament,
£857 was paid ; at the Royal Mint, £460 ; and at
the Record Office, £419. The Geological, Science and Art
Museums of the Board of Trade cost for police guardian-
ship, £3,546; the British Museum, £730; and the two
National Galleries—at Trafalgar-square and South Ken-
sington—cost £1,005 for the protection of their priceless
treasures. The inland Revenue Office paid £1,283, mainly
for the services of the police at Somerset House ; and a
similar sum was paid by the trustees of Greenwich Hos-
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