The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-21 00:00:00

FRANCE.

) The Moniteur of to-day announces that the
Austerlitz, of 100 guns, left Brest on the 20t.'
inst. for the Baltic.
The Hercule, Duguesclin, and Trident, .have left
Ton len for the same destination.
The Duperre is to leave on the 24th to join the
Baltic fleet, and the remaining vessels w ill leave
very shortly.
Admiral Parseval-Deschen es left Paris, on IViell'
day, for Brest, to take the command of ti to Baltle
squadron.
There is reason to believe that the ixroject of
forming an army of observation on the Rhine is
not abandoned, and that the subject g rives con-
siderable uneasiness to the diplomatic coil is. Froin
the last accounts received from Berlin,, Prussia
seems to have gone entirely over to Russ hi.
It is announced that Marshal de St. Arnaud
to leave Paris for the East on the 4th of April.
By a decision of the Minister of Finance, , the li'
terest on Treasury Bonds is fixed as folio, we, froin,
March 20 :—At 4 per cent. per annum for those 0'
from three to five -months ;at per c ent. Rif
those of from six to eleven months ; and .at 5 per
cent. for those of one y ear.
The subscriptions to the loan, at Paris and in the
departments; up to Saturday, have already- amoun-
ted, says the Moniteur, according to the lists re-
ceived at the Ministry of Finance, to 235 millions.
The following is the definitive compositioln of the
staff of Marshal de St. Arnaud, Comman
Chief of the army of the East :—Aides-de-ea nap
Cols. Trochu and de Waubert de Geniis' Major de
Place, and Captain Boyer. Orderly Officers
Chefs d'escadron Reille, Henry, and de Gram ent,
Duke de Lesparre, chef de bataillon Dutrand de
Villers, Captain de Cuynac, and Captain de
Puysegur.
The fall in corn continues ; the top qualitieshave fallen during the week Bf. or 10f. per sack of
157 kilogrammes,
In the markets round Paris the fall yek3terdaY
was 2f. or 3f. per hectolitre.
The Legislative Body was occupied with a de-
mand that M. de Montalembert should be prose-
cuted for his last letter to M. Dupin. M. de Mon-
talembert thereupon declared that he was an entire
stranger to the publication of that document, and
the Deputies retired to their bureaux to examine
the matter.

—it is said that the whole of the expeditionarY
army of France is to be embarked simultaneously,
between the 19th and 25th, at the ports of Toulon,
Marseilles, and Algiers, and that these divisions
will go directly to Gallipoli, a small Turkish toon
on the Peninsula which forms the European side
It 0.;
the Straits of the Dardanelles and sometimes cane('
the 2eninsula of Gallipoli. is a town of about
17,000 inhabitants, and is celebrated in history as
being the first place in Europe captured by the
Turks. The port is a good one.
It will be gratifying to the people of England to
know that the feeling in France with respect to
.the alliance of the two countries is daily improving,
and it may now be said to be rising to enthusiara.
The inhabitants of Marseilles are already making
arrangements for a grand fete to be given to the
Duke of Cambridge, on his arrival in that city,
where he is to embark for the East. The reception
at Paris will also be everything that could be wished.
All the securities experienced yesterday a further
decline on the Bourse. The Three per Cents.
opened at 65f. 55c., and closed at 65f. 40c. for the
end of the month. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
closed at 92f. 23c.; Orleans Railway Shares, 1308%;