The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-24 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Itioniteur publishes the following note :
" Several journals have announced that the
design is entertained of establishing at the Gobelins
a large manufactory of furniture, such as existed in
the time of Louis XIV. There is no foundation
whatever for this report ; the Civil List, though
reserving to itself the right, as it always has done,
of occasionally supplying private industry with
models of the furniture made for the Imperial
palaces, has never thought of assuming the
monopoly of progress, and still less of reviv-
ing an institution which, in the present state
of the cabinet manufacture in France, is altogether
unnecessary, and had even ceased to exist before
1789."

"The clerical journals," says the Sieale, "have
often glorified the hospitality which the Bonaparte
family had received in the Pontifical States. The
Nazions of Florence divulges several authentic
documents which reduce this great benefit to its real
value. It is there seen that in the month of January,
1817, the Pontifical Government, in order to reas-
sure the great Powers, charged the Cardinal• Legate
Forli to have the Prince de Canino watched so
narrowly as not to be lost sight of, and that Prince
Jerome Napoleon, after having built a magnificent
residence at Porto de Fermo, was, at the reiterated
summons of the court of Rome, forced to leave and
to sell his palace at a low price to Count Luigi
Pelagallo. In the same document appears this
more recent letter, being a circular to the governors
of the province :

" ' Bologna, 16th June, 1846.
" The public journals announce the flight of
Prince Napoleon Bonaparte from the castle of Ham,
where he was imprisoned, and it is pretended that
he is trying to enter secretly the Pontifical States
in order to create disorder there. I inform your
Excellency of the fact, that, according to the orders
I have received from the superior authority, you
may cause a diligent watch to be kept in your juris-
diction, in order to arrest that person if he ventures
to enter there, keeping him under a sure guard until
further orders.—The Commissaire Extraordinary.' "
A Munich letter of the 21st, in the Moniteur
says :—" The financial plan of M. de Plener appears
to have been imperfectly understood by the foreign
press, which reproaches him with attempting to
make the shareholders of the Bank of Vienna bear
the penalty of past faults committed by the Govern-
ment. Just as the Bank of France, as the price for
prolonging its privilege, had to pay 500 millions to
the consolidation of the national debt; as the Bank
of England also pays £lBO,OOO a year to the Govern..
ment, the Bank of Vienna is to consent to a reduc-
tion of the State debt due to it, viz., to the figure of
80 millions, on which it will receive 3 per cent. in-
terest, and which the Bank cannot realise during
the existence:of its privilege. The Bank, disposieg
of a social capital of 100 millions of florins, cannot
find in this monetary consolidation any hindrance
to the resumption of cash payments. The Bank of
Vienna, which now possesses in specie and bullion
not less than 130 millions of fl nins, will receive,
according to M. de Plener's scheme, 20 millions
more in specie, as a reimbursement to be paid in
the course of ten months. When it is considered
that the amount of its notes in circulation does not
exceed 480 millions, it is easy to see that it has
made a considerable advance towards the ratio of
one to three, between its specie and notes issued,
which will allow it to resume its payments in
specie,"

BOURSE, Jan. 23.—The market has been again
buoyant, and a rather large amount of business has
been transacted at an improvement on the closing
rates of the previous day. Threes, for the Account,
are now at 70f. 40c. Railways also firm.
The following are the last quotations :-
41 per7per Cents ... 98 60 Credit Foncier 1276
Do. end month.... 98 70 Belgian 4I —
3 per Cents
Do. end month 7O 20 Roman
Bank Shares 2950 Austrian
Credit!Mobilier.... 721 25 , Spanish Threes —
Do. Account 720 50 ! Home Debt -
RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans 1327 50 .. 1330
Northern ....
New ditto 915 .. 917 50
Lyons and Mediterranean 1050 . 1051 25
Geneva 360 --. ..
3G2 50
Southern 673 75 .. 67.5 --
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lowbard

The Grand Duke Leopold of Tuscany has just
sent to Florence the sum of 40,000 fr. to be employed in
finishing the front of the Church of the Holy Cross.
SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE
FINE ARTS.—Last evening, at the society's rooms, in Con-
duit-street, Mr. Alfred Gilbert gave his second and con-
cluding lecture on "Beethoven and his Works," before a
crowded room. The discourse extended over the second
and third periods of the great composer's career, which was
copiously exemplified by passages, vocal and instrumental,
given by Madame Gilbert, Madame Andrea, Herr Pollitzer
(violin), Herr Daubert (violoncello), Messrs. Southwell,
Reilly, &c., the whole composing an entertainment of sin-
gular attractiveness and interest.

MR. ROEBUCK, M.P., AND THE NEW EDUCA•
TIONAL MINUTE.—We learn from the Sheffield Indepen-
dent that on Wednesday afternoon a deputation consisting
of clergymen, schoolmasters, and gentlemen connected
with the work of education in Sheffield, waited upon Mr.
J. A. Roebuck, M.P., who is at present in that town, to
express their opinions in reference to the new Educational
Minute issued by the Privy Council. Various members of
the deputation having explained their objections to the
minute, Mr. Roebuck said—" I think the subject is so very
important, that the more it is ventilated—to use a cant
phrase—the better; and I would suggest that you should
draw up a petition stating the facts, and have it signed by
as many people as possible, and presented to the house of
Commons. lam quite sure the House of Commons never
will understand the measure until it has been examined by
a committee of that house."

ANOTHER COLLIERS' STRIKE.—An aggregate
meeting of the miners of the Charwell, Girdelsomo, and
Adwalton district will be held on Monday next, near the
Gildersome station, for the purpose of considering the no-
t ices from their employers of a reduction of 10 per cent. in
their wages, which notices were issued to the men on Friday
last. Ever since the advance in wages, which was conceded
to the men in January, 1860, some of the employers have
been dissatisfied, alleging that the 10 per cent, then given
was not warranted by the state of the trade; and further,
that they had lost the Leeds market, and could not compete
with the Barnsley masters. The men, in reply to the latter
position of their employers, state that what was then given
to the miners was fully made up for by the increased price
charged to the public, and also by the mixing of large with
inferior coal. The hands further allege that when the strike
in 1860-61 terminated, the masters led them to understand
that their wages were not in future to be on a sliding scale,
but that since that time the coalmasters had been con-
stantly endeavouring to bind them down to a system of day
payment; that the rate of ss. per day had been mentioned
as a fair price for the best hands ; but that no agreement
could be made with respect to the other classes of coal get-
ters. It is also argued by the miners that there is no good
and sufficient reason why a 10 per cent. reduction should
take effect at the present time, either from the want of a
market or any other cause. If the masters insist on a re-
duction, however, a strike appears to be imminent, and if
that evil should occur, it will have the effect of throwing
1,200 men and 600 boys out of employnaent,—Manohister
Guardians