The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-02 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, JAN. 23 (Afternoon).
Noney tight. Gold 56i,7- per cent. premium.
stocks steady. Now York Centrals, 1371 ;
Illinois, 1301 ; Erie, 1081.
Ireadstuffs quiet. Crude petroleum, 31, 32; re-
fined, 461, 471.

JAN. 23, EVENING.

holey tight. Gold 561 per cent. premium,
Exehange on London—Bankers' bills, 172.
Stccks tending downwards. New York Centrals
1361; Illinois, 1301; Erie, 1071.
Cctton—middling upland, 84 to 84ie.

FRANCE.
PARIS; FEB. 1 (Evening).

The amount of bullion in the Bank of France has
diminished by three million francs since Saturday.
PARIS, FEB. 2.

The Constitutionnel of thin morning publishes an
article signed by M. Paulin Limayrac, stating that
in commencing hostilities on the Eider, the two
great German Powers have taken the initiative in
measures pregnant with perilous incidents, consi-
dering the pride and courage of the Danish people.

REPLY OF NAPOLEON TO THE DEPUTATION
WITH THE ADDRESS.

PARIS, Feb, 1.
The Emperor received the depuration to-day
from the Corps Legislatif, which brought up the
Address in reply to the Speech from the Throne in
November last.

His Majesty said, in reply, that the debates upon
the confirmation of the members' elections, and on
the Address, had been long and profound, and
though they had taken nearly three months from
the legislative business of the House, they had not
been useless. To an impartial mind, the result had
been to reduce into nothing the accusations which
had been skilfully spread.
The Emperor then continued :

" The policy of the Government is better appre-
ciated. We have ft more compact majority, and one
more devoted to our institutions. These are great
advantages. After the fruitless efforts of so many
forms of Government,
the first want of the country
is stability. Nothing durable can be founded on an
ever shifting base, without consistence. For sixty
years liberty has become an arm in the hands of
parties to overthrow the existing Government.
Thence have resulted incessant fluctuations—power
succumbing to liberty, and liberty succumbing to
anarchy. 'Phis must no longcr exist. The example
of recent years proves the possibility of conciliating
what has bog
appeared irreconcilcable. Really
fecund progress is the fruit of experience.
" Its advance will not be hastened by systematic
and unjust attacks, but by the intimate union of the
Government with a majority inspired by patriotism
and unseduced by vain popularity-
" Let us await, from agreement and from time,
such ameliorations as are possible. Do not let the
delusive hope
of a chimerical future unceasingly
compromise the present good which we have at
heart to consolidate together. Let us each remain
in our right sphere—you, gentlemen, enlightening
and controlling the progress of the Government ; I
taking the initiative in all that may promote the
greatness and prosperity of France."
BOURSE, Feb. I.—The market has been very
heavy, and the little business done has been at a
decline on Saturday's quotations. For the Account,
Threes are now at 66fr. 50c. Mobilier has receded
to 1,012 fr. 50c. Railway Market also dull, with
lower prices on some of the lines. The market con-
tinued heavy to the close, and left off as follows :

4t per Cents. 95 10
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 05
Credit Mobiber.... 1006 25
Do. end month 1006 25
Bank Shares 3280
Credit oncier 1222 50
Roman
BAILI

Italian Loan 6B 10
Do. end month —
e, w ditto
Do. end month ___
Russian I
Austrian
Spanish Threes 5O 50
Home Debt
Deferred
44
50
Account. Cash.

Orleans ..........
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean
New ditto .....•-.
Southern
Western
Eastern ............••
Sardinian
Austrian
Lon.bard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

991 25 ..
945 - .. 945 -

925 - 922 50

882 60
650 - 645 -
515 -

480 - .. 477 50
375 - .. 375 -
385 - .. 385 -
513 75 .. 512 50
487 50 .. 480 --
571 25 .. 570 -
300 - .. 300 -

THE LATE J. P. SOMERS, FORMERLY M.P. FOR
SLIGO.--We regret to learn that the widow and
family of the late J. P. Somers, so long Whig M.P. for
Sligo, have been left in a very distressed state, and, were it
not for Lord Palmerston's generosity, would bo badly off.
This is not as it should be. Mr. Sowers had his faults,
failings, and weaknesses like others, but he was since 1836,
when he first entered Parliament, a constant supporter of
the Whig O'Connell policy of civil and religious liberty.
O'Connell never had a truer supporter, to whom he was as
much attached as to one of his own family. As thorough
exponents of Whiggery, we regretted to learn the position
his fainily were placed in; and if the Whigs will not do
their duty, we must apply to the Conservatives, whom ho
so long and successfully opposed. Charity is not of any
party or sect, but universal. We should therefore hope to
see something done for the widow and orphan.—Cork
Reporter. [A committee having been formed, we under-
stand, in Dublin, consisting of Sir John! Gray and other
gentlemen, with the Ulster Bank for treasurer, we should
like to see one formed also here, in London, with a few
members of Parliament of both sides of the house upon it.
—ED, Sun.] .