The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-15 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, Nov. 15.
The Moniteur of this morning says :—" The Paris
journals have published details of projected reduc-
tions in the strength of the army, which are com-
pletely erroneous. In order to show how little
foundation there is for this intelligence, it is suffi-
cient to state that, if the Emperor has determined
in principle upon the reduction of the war expendi-
ture, the means by which this reduction will be
accomplished has not yet been decided upon."
The Emperor and the Empress were received on
their arrival at Compiegne by the Prefect of the
Oise, the Sub-Prefect of Compiegne, the mayor of
the town, and the principal authorities. The impe-
rial party proceeded to the palace in carriages con-
ducted by postilions, and escorted by a detachment
of Ceit-Gardes and Dragoons of the Empress.
Dinner took place at seven o'clock in the
Galerie-Neuve. The son of Dr. Conneau
accompanied the Prince Imperial. Yesterday
a grand banquet was given by the Emperor
in the Galerie des Fetes to the authorities of the
town. The artistes of the Vaudeville Theatre are
to perform the Famine Benoitm, nt, the palnoo nn
Friday.
The journals of Algiers state that an attempted
murder had taken place in the open market of that

city. Two Maltese second-hand clothes sellers were
quarrelling, when one of them drew a knife from
his pocket and stabbed the other in the abdomen.
The wounded man is lying in a dangerous state.
Tho assailant was arrested, and did not attempt to
deny his crime. _

"At last," says the Courrier de Marseille, "we
can announce with certainty that the cholera has
completely disappeared from this city and its environs.
The sanitary state is perfect, and the number of
deaths below the ordinary average. Travellers are
returning to us. Yesterday's trains brought a great
number of strangers, chiefly English, on their way
to the thermal stations of the South, and who will
be induced to remain some days with us by reason
of the fine weather.

The Prefect of the Var has just issued an order
rendering attendance at the communal school obli-
gatory for the children inscribed on the roll of
public assistance from the age of six to twelve years.
A telegraphic despatch has been sent by the Pre-
fect of the Loiret to his colleagues at Blois, Tours,
Angers, and Nantes, and to the sub-prefects of
Saumur and Ancenis, announcing that a rise has
taken place in the waters of the Loire, and that the
belief was that it would be about four feet at
Orleans. No flood of any importance had been
signalled either on the Vienne or the Cher.

Several charitable ladies at Colmar (Bas-Rhin)
have recently been the dupes of an ingenious mode
of obtaining money under false pretences, supposed
to be the invention of a soldier belonging to the
88th Regiment, in garrison at that town. The
soldier, real or supposed, accosted some ladies as
they left church, and told them that, having unfor-
tunately had a quarrel with some townsmen, he had
got his bayonet broken. He added in piteous
accents that if he could not obtain 7fr. or Bfr. to
buy a new one, he should be very severely punished
on returning to his barracks. Several ladies, moved
by his distress, gave him the necessary sum, for
which he thanked them profusely, and then hastened
away. Whether this swindler was really a soldier,
or had merely assumed the uniform for the purpose
of accomplishing his fraud, seems not to have been
satisfactorily ascertained.
The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the
following as the atmospheric situation yesterday :
"A collection of strong barometric pressures this
morning occupied Central Europe, the North Sea,
the British Islands, France, and the North of Italy.
The sky was generally clear in those quarters, and
winds in general moderate from between N.E. and
S.E. The gale, of which the centre was on Sunday
morning near St. Petersburg, has diverged a little
towards the East. It produced this morning strong
winds over the Russian Baltic. The wind was strong
from the W. on the coast of Norway. The barometer
is falling in the west of Europe, and especially in
the Bay of Biscay." In Paris yesterday the weather
was exceedingly fine for the season. At three in the
afternoon the thermometer marked 10 Centigrade
(50 Fahrenheit).

The Paine gives the following details of the
proposed reduction in the French army :•-•" The
Infantry of the Guard, a battalion of each of the
seven regiments of Grenadiers and Voltigeurs, be-
sides two companies of the regiment of Gendarmery,
are to be suppressed, so that the three regiments of
Grenadiers and the four of Voltigeurs would consist
of three battalions of eight companies each, and
that the two battalions of Gendarmery would have
only seven companies. In the Infantry of the
Line each of the hundred regiments is to lose
three companies. For the: cavalry the two regi-
ments of Carbiniers would be fused into those of
the Cuirasseurs of the Guard. Each of the fifty
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regiments of the Line (the two of Carbiniers no
longer existing) would be reduced to five squadrons
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