The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-22 00:00:00

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

FRAN CE.

The Council of State held a sitting on Wednesday for
the dispatch of business. Amongst the matters brought
before it were the draught of a decree to approve of the
statutes of the railway company formed at Paris, and
known by the name of the Gra,nd Central of France ;
two decrees to re,ulate the fees of engineers of mines
and of the ponts-et-chaussdes, when called on to act in
departmental, communal, or private affairs ; a decree
to authorise the erection of an hospital at Carvin (Pas:
de-Calais) ; a decree for the erection of an hospital at
Bouig-d'lrd (Maine-et-Loire) ; also a decree for the con-
, cession to a company of the iron mines and foundries of
Aubin (Aveyron). •
The Imperial Council of Public Instruction opened its
session yesterday, M. Fortoul, the Minister of that de-
partment, being in the chair. ' The President delivered
an address, in which., he showed what happy results had
been produced by the measures decided on in preceding
sessions ; he also explained the hearing of several new
projects now in contemplation, and which, lie said, were
calculated to lead to useful reforms in the three degrees
of instruction of the faculties, the colleges, and primary
schools. The general business of the session was then
proceeded to.
The Moniteur publishes a decree from the Emperor
declaring that " the instrictions imposed on the intro-
duction of corn and flour by Art. 3 of the ordonnance of
February 8,182 G, shall cease provisionally to exist with
respect to such articles when imported from the United
Kingdom of Great Britain."

Tlie oniteur publishes the monthly table of the
price of wheat to regulate the import and export dues
for grain and flour, according to the prescriptions now
in force. The average price for the whole of France is
20f. lc. the hectolitre, the highest price in any section
being 24f. 21e. at Mulhouse and Strasbourg, and the
lowest 17f. 91c. at Nantes, Sa,umur, Marans. The
Moniteur, in giving this table, announces that for the
future, owing to the rapidity of communications, it will
be able to publish the returns eight or ten days before
the end of the month, the publication in the Bulletin des
Lois continuing to take place as usual on the Ist of each
month.

The Fury, steam-corvette of the English navy, arrived
at Marseilles on Monday from Malta, with despatches
from Constantinople addressed to the English Govern-
ment.

The Toulonnais newspaper states that the Jena man-
of-war and the steam-frigates Orenoque and Panama,
which are about to be equipped at Toulon, are to join
the ocean squadron.
At the 13ourse yesterday there was but a limited
amount of business transacted in Government securities,
and eventually a decline in prices took place, though not
to any considerable extent. The final quotations were :
—For money —Three per Cents., 78f. 50c. ; Four and a
Half per Cents., 103 f. 15c. For the end of the month
—Tts .hree per Cents., 78f. 30c. ; Four and a Half per
Cen, 102 f. 90c. • Bank Stock, 2,730 f. An advance of
20f. took place in 'Mortgage Bank Shares, which closed
at 745 f. ; those of the Societe Mobiliere remain as already
reported, viz., 830 f. The Railway Share-market has
been dull, and a decline has taken place in the prices of
these securities. Closing prices—Northern 880 f. ; Paris
and Orleans, 1,135 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasbourg, 924 f.
75c. : Paris and Lyons, 935 f. 50c. ; Paris and Rouen,
1,120 f. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 777 f.