The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-04 00:00:00

FRANCE.

It is said that, with a view to provide for coming
expenses, the Government intend proposing to the Le-
gislative Chamber the re-establishment of the salt tax,
and the imposition of ak tax on railroad revenue.
A rumour has previled in Paris for some days past
that the Emperor of Russia menaces Austria with the
reconstruction of the Kingdom of Poland, out of revenge
for its adherence to the Western Powers, and the plac-
ing a Russian Prince of the Imperial family on the
throne. If such a thing as the re-establishing an inde-
pendent Kingdom of Poland were feasible, the choice
of a sovereign would give rise to new complications, and
perhaps to another war, and it is not so certain the
Poles would be won by the bait, as they must know the
reason for which it is offered to them.

The Legislative Corps met yesterday at two o'clock.
The president of the Assembly, M. Billault, opened the
proceedings with a speech, in which, according to usage,
he claimed the indulgence of his colleagues. He then
announced that M. Baroche had been nominated by the
Emperor as permanent commissioner for the presenta-
tion d all the measures to be brought before the
Assembly in the name of the Government.

The departure of Marshal de St. Arnaud for the East
is fixed, it is said, for the 10th of March. It is affirmed
that he is to be not only Comm:►nder-in-Chic£ of the
army, but Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary, in which capacity he is to succeed
General Baraguay d'Hilliers. He is also to have all th•
political as well as the military direction of the affairs of
the East.

The last of the Russian agents in Paris (the Count de
Tolstoi) has left.
General de Castelbajac left St. Petersburg on the 21st
ult., on his way to France.
Count Branicki, a Polish nobleman of great wealth,
who has long been resident as an émigré in France,
where he possesses extensive property, has been ap-
pointed aide-de-camp to Prince Napoleon, and will ac-
company the Prince to Constantinople. Count Branicki
was formerly a colonel in the cavalry, in the service of
the Emperor of Russia. He is to be raised to the rank
of leiutenant-colonel in the service of France.

You are aware that the Princess Lieven, finding Paris
too hot for her, has taken up her residence at Brussels.
One of her first enterprises there in favour of her master
was to try to gain over the three French exiled generals,
namely, Generals Changarnier, Bedeau, and de Lamori-
ciere. She accordingly sent an intimation to them that
they would be welcome guests at her house. To the
honour of these officers, they simultaneously declined
the invitation, intimating that though they were in en-
mity with the existing ruler of France, they were still
Frenchmen, and French soldiers ; and that they could
not visit any Russians as long as Russia was at war
with France, as the enemies of France would always be
theirs.

The reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg arrived in Paris
on Thursday at half-past four, from Berlin by Brussels.
The Emperor had sent General Count Roguet, oae of
his aides•de-camp, and an orderly officer, to receive his
Royal Highness at the frontier. The railway-train
having stopped a few minutes at Valenciennes, military
honours were rendered to his Royal Highness by a part
of the garrison. Similar honours were rendered to him
on his arrival at the Paris terminus, where his Royal
Highness was received by the Prince de Chimay, the
Grand-Marshal of the Palace, and the Grand Huntsman
of his Majesty. Court carriages were in waiting to take
the Duke and his suite to the Tuileries. Scarcely had
his Royal Highness entered the apartments prepared for
him in the Pavillon Marsan, when he was visited by the
Emperor, who afterwards led in the Empress. In the
evening the Duke dined at the Tuileries, as did Prince
Jerome Napoleon, Prince Napoleon, Princess Mathilde,
Prince and the Princess Murat, M. Firmin Rogier, the
Belgian Minister, and Madame Firmin Rogier, and the
Prince and Princess de Chimay.
The Bourse was heavy yesterday, with little business
doing. The speculators appeared still to doubt of the
determination of Austria to unite with the westOrn
powers in their coercive measures against Russia. The
Three per Cents. opened at 67f., and fell to 66f. 60c.
They closed at 66f. 70c. for the end of the month. The
Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 96f. 25c. ; Orleans
Railway Shares, 1,072 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 860 f. ; Havre,
440 f. ; Great Northern, 730 f. ; Paris and Strasburg,
710 f. ; ditto, New Shares, 565 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 808 f.
780. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 660 f. ; Western. of
France, 575 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 530 f. ; Great Gen.
tral, 432 f. 50c. ; Lyons and Geneva, 445 f. ; Shares of
the Bank of Cr6dit Mobilier, 575 f.