The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-13 00:00:00

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS,

FRANCE.
The Moniteur announces several promotions in
the navy. The centre Admirals Laplace and Des-
fossis, are raised to the rank of Vice-Admirals ;
and the following captains of line-of-battle ships
are created contre Admirals :—Lavaud, Laroque
do Chaufray, Penaud, and Viscount Duquesne.
The following are raised from command of frigates
to first-rate ships :—Labrousse, Fournier, Legros,
Le Gallie Kerisouet, Darrican, Didelot, Lafon,
Ladebat, Rapatel, and Simmouet de Maisonneure.
There are 110 other promotions of minor rank.
There are other signs, too, of activity in the naval
department. Orders have been sent to Brest for
sailors who, discharged within the year, had not
completed four years' service, to join their ships.
Three provincial papers have within the last
week received " warnings" from the Minister of
Police for articles offensive to the Government.

The Debats, noticing the recent fluctuations on
the Paris Bourse, in consequences of the menaces of
Russia, offers the following considerations :
" Although we can fully understand the anxiety of
the public, we should wish to see it give way less readily
to that causeless agitation which at times leads it away,
and produces at the Bourse and in commercial affairs the
most disastrous disorder. How, in fact, can we account
to ourselves for the disorderly movements which more
particularly agitate the financial world? Has the state of
political affairs during the last two days taken a stop which
can justify such great emotion? Can the note of the Alloni-
teur, which announced the departure of the French and
English fleets for the entrance of the Dardanelles be in-
terpreted by any enlightened mind as a menace of war ?
Is it not rather a certain pledge of the pacific intentions
of the two greatest powers of western Europe ? Why
feel such great alarm beforehand, and receive without
reflection hypotheses as if they were facts already accom-
plished. Why not rather consider that in all probability
nothing of importance can be known in Paris before
the 27th of this month at the soonest. The courier who
carries the ultimatum of the Emperor Nicholas, and
which grants eight days to the Divan for its decision, left
St. Petersburgh on the Ist inst., and cannot arrive at
Constantinople until the Bth at the earliest. Admitting,
as may be expected, that he will carry back a refusal,
he will not leave the Turkish capital before the 16th,
and whether he proceeds to the head-quarters of the
Russian army at Reni, at the confluence of the Pruth and
the Danube, in order to give it orders to march, or pro-
ceeds to Odessa, we must reckon at least 11 days from
his departure from Constantinople before, even by tele-
graph dispatch from Lemberg, which is the nearest sta-
tion to the theatre of events, anything can be known
in Paris of the movement of the Russian army. The
dispatch which announced to us the arrival of Prince
Mentschikoff at Odessa on the 24th of May, only reached
Paris on the Ist inst., and that we believe was the most
rapid exchange of communications which had ever taken
place between these two points. All this calculation
will carry us to the 27th, and even then we must sup-
pose that no unforeseen circumstances happen to de-
range it, or rather that circumstances should concur to
hasten the march of events."

A council of ministers was held on Saturday at
St. Cloud, at which the Emperor presided.
A considerable improvement occurred on Satur-
day in business at the Bourse, and the closing
prices show an advance to the extent of and 1
per cent. for the various descriptions of Public Se-
curities :—The Three per Cents. for cash, rose 50c.;
and the Four-and-a Half per Cents., If. ; in the
Three per Cents. for the account, an advance of
90c. took - place ; and in the Four-and-a-Half
per Cents. of 50c. In Bank of France Shares
no change occurred. The final quotations were :
Three per Cents. for cash, 70f. 65c. ; for the
account, 75f. 70c. ; Four - and -a - Half per
Cents., for cash, 100 f. ; for the account,
1001. ; Bank Stock, 2,6401. ; Mortgage Bank
Shares, 740 ; Shares of the Societe Mobiliere, 747 f.
50c. Business underwent a favourable change on
Saturday in the Railway Share Market, being ge-
nerally active, with a decided advance in prices at
the termination. Bordeaux and Cette shares im-
proved 30f. ; Northern, 27f. ; Paris and Lyons,
and Dieppe and Fecamp, each 20f. ; Lyons to the
Mediterranean, 17f. 50c. ; Rouen and Havre', 15f.;
Paris and Strasbourg, 15f. ; and Paris and Rouen
and Westerns, 10f, Closing prices—Northerns,
840 f. ; Orleans, 1,005 f. ; Paris and Strasbourg,
840 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 845 r. ; Paris and Rouen,
950 f. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 677 f. 50e. ;
Westerns, 660 E ; Rouen and Havre, 440 f. ; Bor-
deaux and Cette 600 f. ; Caen and Cherbourg,
590 f. ; Dieppe and Fecamp, 320 f. ; Dijon and
Besancon, 505 f.