The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-08 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, APRIL 8.
The Constituttonnel of this morning states that,
according to the last intelligence received, both by
the French Government and the Turkish Ambassa-
dor in Paris, the relations between the Porte and
the Marquis de Moustier are of the most satisfactory
character possible.
The telegraphic congress assembled at Paris,
having occupied itself in fixing the tariffs for the
transmission of despatches conformably with the
uniform tax adopted in a preceding sitting, has, it
appears, determined on the following rates :—A
single despatch of 20 words, coming from whatever
quarter, will be for Prussia, 3fr. ; for Austria, sfr. ,
Spain, 4fr. ; Switzerland, 3fr. ; Italy, 4fr. ; Russia,
llfr. ; Turkey, llfr. ; the Scandinavian countries,
3fr. 50c. and 4fr.
• The two hotels of Humieres and Bentheim, at
the western extremity of the Rue de Lille, have
been pulled down to make room for the Boulevard

St. Germain, which is to end at that point, thus
connecting the Quai d'Orsay in a straight line with
the intersection of the Rues St. Dominique and
Bellechasse. From this latter point the boulevard
will deviate from the straight line in order to meet
another section leading to the Rue de Bac. In its
progress from this point to the other section east of
the Rue Hautefeuille, it will absorb part of the Rue
St. Dominique and the Rue Taranne, as also the
Impasse du Paon and the Rue Larrey.
A partial eclipse of the moon, visible in France,
will occur on the night of Monday, the 10th, be-
ginning two hours and 11 minutes after midnight,
and attaining its maximum at 48 minutes past four
in the morning. At 24 minutes past seven the last
vestige of the earth's shadow will have disappeared
from the disk_of the moon.

The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the
following as the atmospheric state of Europe yes-
terday :—" The north of Spain, France, and Italy,
continue to be under the influence of strong baro-
metrical pressures. Over all these points there is a
perfect calm, and the sky is cloudless. The
barometer is falling, and it rains in the Baltic. The
violeiit squall of wind, which had its centre yester-
day in the north of Sweden, is going towards the
east. The barometer is again falling in Ireland and
the north of England. The sky remains cloudy in
the south of the British Isles ; it seems probable that
a fresh squall will traverse the north of Scotland and
the coasts of Norway." In Paris yesterday the wea-
ther was that of a fine summer's day, with a bright
sun and cloudless sky. The thermometer continues
to ascend, and marked at three in the afternoon 191
above zero Gent. (67 Fahr).
A Calais letter mentions that the works in that
port are being pushed forward with great activity.
The entrance to the dock is being deepened, in order
to admit vessels of a larger tonnage ; this improve-
ment will be probably terminated by the time when
the timber ships arrive from the North. A project
for the enlargement of the dock has also been ap-
proved of by the Minister of Public Works, and the
town of Calais has been authorised to raise a loan
of 1,500,000 fr. to execute the work within three
years. Surveys are .also being made for a railway
from the present terminus to the quay, the con-
struction of which will accelerate the communica-
tions between France and England.
The French Academy yesterday proceeded to the
election of two members to fill the chairs left vacant
by MM. Alfred de Vigny and Ampere. For the
former, on the first ballot, with 31 votes and 16 as
the required majority, M. Autran obtained 13, M.
Camille Doucet, 15, and M.' Jules Janin, 3. On
the second ballot, M. Autran, 14, and M. Camille
Doucet, 17. For M. Am&e'e chair, Bra ballot,