The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-28 00:00:00

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

FRAN CE.

Before thB last nomination of five senators, the Senate
was composed of 149 members, viz. : 2 princes of the
Imperial family, 6 cardinals, 6 marshals, and 2 admirals,
all senators by right, and 133 members named direct by
the Emperor. The number of the latter is now 138 ;
the Constitution fixes the number at 150.
The Moniteur publishes a decree depriving twenty
persons of the decoration of the Legion of Honour in
consequence of their having been condemned by the
Tribunal of Correctional Police for theft or other
offences. By another decree the authorisation to wear
the order of Leopold of Belgium is withdrawn from a
person named Lasalle, and a soldier has been deprived
of his military medal for a similar offence.
We find the following in the Moniteur:—" The Go-
vernment has several times called the attention both of
the French and foreign shipping interests to the progress
of our establishment in the Society Islands, and to the
facilities which the port of Tahiti now presents for the
repair and revictualling of vessels in those distant re-
gions. From a report recently transmitted to the
French consul. at Valparaiso, by the captain of a French
schooner, the Adbla, fitted out at Pap6iti, it appears
that there is now at Tahiti a slip for careening, and all
the necessary materials may be purchased at the different
stores at a moderate price, and all the charges for the
operation are fixed at the lowest possible rate. Every
facility is given by the authorities both to French and
foreign vessels, in order to induce them to visit that port.
In the months of January and February, 17 whalers, two
of which were French, and the others English and Ame-
rican, put in there to repair, as well as a number of
merchantmen. The present careening slip will take a
vessel of 300 tons, and in a few months another will be
ready for vessels of 600 tons. The police at Tahiti is
organised in the best possible manner, and desertion
from the vessels is rendered impossible. This fact,
joined to the protection which foreigners meet with
from the authorities, will doubtless attract a great
number of whalers to the spot, and merchants and
shippers will do well to turn their attention to supplying
the place with such stores as such vessels may stand in
need of."

M. Darasse has been appointed French Consul at
Cobija, in Bolivia.

Ai the Bourse yesterday an average amount of busi-
ness was transacted in the Public Securities, and at its
termination a general improvement had taken place in
prices, with the exception of the Three per Cents, for
cash, which had declined sc. The concluding quota-
tions were—For cash, Three per Cents., 77f. 40c. ; Four-
and-a-Half per Cents., 102 f. For the account—Three
per Cents., 77f. 45c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 101
90c. ; Bank Stock, 2,670 f. The final quotations of the
Bank of Credit Fancier remained unchanged, being still
700 f. ; that of the Soci6t6 Mobiliere is now 807 f., in
consequence of an advance of 7f. having taken place.
There was considerable activity in the railway share
market yesterday, and in consequence of the absence of
any unfavourable reports, a further advance in that de-
scription of security again occurred. Closing prices—
Northerns, 897 f. 50c. ; Orleans, I,oBof. ; Paris and
Strasbourg, 912 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 925 f. ; Paris
and Rouen, 1,055 f. • Lyons to the Mediterranean, 734 f.
50c. ; Western of irance, 730 f.