The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-20 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The .31oniteur du Soir explains in the following
terms the general bearing of the principal points of
the Budget of 1866, as just set forth in the report
presented to the Legislative Body :—" The totality
of the supplementary credits asked for by the Go-
vernment to meet the ordinary expenses of the year
1865 amounts to the sum of 7,165,780 fr., divided
as follows among the Ministerial Departments :
Foreign Affaires, 194,000 fr. ; Interior, 1,400,000 fr.;
Finance, Public Debt, and Dotations, 1,299,410 fr. ;
Excise and collection of revenue, 972,300 fr. ; War,
354,699 fr. ; Government of Algiers, 320,000 fr. ;
Marine and Colonies, 2,320,371 fr. ; Public In-
struction, 150,000 fr. ; Agriculture, Commerce,
and Public Works, 155,000 fr. To the extra-
ordinary Budget the augmentations, amounting
in all to 76,353,833 fr., are the following :
Interior, 1,200,000 fr. ; Finances, 7,150,000 fr. ;
War, 35, 645,301 fr. ; Marine and Colonies,
26,937,531 fr. ; Public Instruction, 295,000 fr.; Agri-
culture, Commerce, and Public Works, 4,546,000 fr.;
Emperor's Household and Fine Arts, 500,000 fr.
The committee also proposes to the Chamber to
increase by 600,000 fr. the credit carried to the ex-
traordinary budget of 1865, for aid in the rebuild-
ing of churches and the residences of parish priests.
The sum of 194,000 fr. asked for by the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs is destined for the restoration of the
Church of St. Anne at Jerusalem, and the consular
residence at Alexandria. The credits demanded by
the Minister of the Interior are to be applied prin-
cipally to increase the allowances to foreign refugees,
to the cost of the electric telegraph cable between
France and Algeria ; and lastly, to augment the
chapter for aid to charitable instructions. The only
two credits by which the ordinary expenses of the
Ministry of the Interior are increased are applic-
able to the section of the public debt and the works
for the improvement of the forests. Among the
credits for extraordinary expenses is that relative to
the rebuilding of the Post-office. After an attentive
examination of the question, the committee has come
to the definitive conclusion that the only combina-
tion to be adopted was that proposed by the Govern-
ment—to erect a new building in the square formed
by the Rues de Rivoli, St. Honore, Mondevi, and
Luxembourg. The expenses of the Ministry of
War, for which credits are demanded, have been
partly occasioned by the insurrection which has
broken out in Algeria. The payment of the above-
mentioned credits will be met by means of receipts
arising from different surpluses, by reimbursements
made by the Mexican Government, and by sums
due from railway companies."
BOURSE, May 19.—Notwithstanding that little
business has hitherto been done in various markets,
a better tone has been manifested in the nature of
the transactions, and some disposition shown of an
early recovery from the depression which has pre-
vailed for the past two or three days. At this hour
Thiee per Cents. are quoted at 67f. 50c. ; Mobi-
liers, 768 f. 25c. ; and Italian Loan (5 per Cents.),
65f. 80c. The Railway Share Market is firm, and
the previous rates are well maintained. The mar-
ket closed as follows :

4i- per Cents 95 50
Do. end month —

Italian Loan 65 75
Do. end month 65 75
Ditto Threes —
New Mexican
.
Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes 43f
Home Debt —
Deferred
rAYS.

3 Per Cents. 67 45
Do. end month 67 45
Credit Mobilier

Do. end month ...... 762 50

Bank Shares 3675
Credit Foncier —

Roman

Cash. Acct.
Orleans' B3l 25 832 50
Northern IQ67 50 ... 1065
Lyons and Mediterranean 897 50 ... 895
Southern 6OO ... 597 50
Western 530 50 ... 527 50
Eastern
Sardinian 306 25
Austrian
Lombard 521 25 ... 517 50
North of Spain '252 50 253 75
Saragossa 345 ... 347 50
Ditto to Barcelona —

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Inverness
will entertain the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess
Mary of Cambridge at dinner on Friday next, at Kensing-
ton Palace.

We understand that the Prince de la Tour
d'Auvergne intends to give a ball at Albert-gate House, on
the Ist of June.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Headfort have
left St. George's Hotel.

The Countess of Zetland was in such a precarious
state last night that all hope of her recovery was aban-
doned.

The Earl and Countess of Abergavenny and Lady
Caroline Nevill and Lady Augusta Mostyn have arrived in
Portland-place for the season.
The Countess T. Gattesehi has arrived at Claridge's
Hotel from Italy.

TIIE OPERA IN OLD TIMES. —Among recent
necrology is to be inscribed the death of M. Arthur
Seguin, one of the most celebrated managers in dramatic
literature. In his way the deceased was quite a character,
and lived through an eventful history. He was the first to
introduce French plays into England, under the then exist-
ing restrictions, a part he performed conjointly with MM
Cloup and Pellisier ; and he was afterwards associated with
Laporte during all his trials at her Majesty's Theatre, for
a period extending over fifty years. For fifteen years ho
acted as " diplomatic adviser" of Mr. Mitchell, while
French plays were the fashion at the St. James's Theatre
and many a wound of pride and many an outbreak had he
to heal between artiste and manager. He was the father
of the late vocalists, Edward and William Seguin, the
grandfather of Madame Parepa ; he had seen the outbreak
of the great French Devolution, 1798, and he died at the
ripo age of eighty-four, at the residence of his son-in-law
Mr. Howell, the renowned double bass player. " Requies-
cat in pace."