The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-23 00:00:00

bleau on Monday, previous to the departure of
Count de Walewski for London. All the Ministers
returned to Paris yesterday morning.
On Monday the Court of Cassation rejected the
appeal of MM. de Coetlogon, Vermaitre, de Plan-
hol, and Charles Flanden, in the affair of the fo-
reign correspondents ; consequently the decision of
the Court of Rouen is confirmed, which gives the
right to the Prefect of Police to seize and open
letters which have been intrusted to the Post-office.
An Imperial decree reduces the duty on coals
within the restricted zone from 50c. to 30c.
The duty on wrought iron is reduced from 200•
to 18c., and on cast iron from 7c. to 5c., for the
first year, and to 4c. for the second.
The oniteur says :—" The death of the Queen,
of Portugal has prevented the Minister of Brasil
and Madame de Lisboa from accepting the invita-
tion with which they had been honoured for Fon-
tainebleau. The Minister therefore was not present
at the Carrousel, of which we spoke yesterday. It
was by error that he was mentioned among the
persons who surrounded his Majesty."
The Moniteur publishes a very long report from
the Prefect of the Seine on the financial situation
of the department. In this report, which enters,
into very minute details of the various items °1
expenditure and receipts, the Prefect presents the,
budget of 1854, which shows a deficit of 739,5611*
95c., and suggests various modes of establishing an
equilibrium for the future. The receipts for 185:
are estimated at 9,080,369 f. 62c., and the expend''
ture at 9,819,931 f. 57c.
The Emancipation of Brussels, says :—" "°
receive from Paris, through a private source, sone
information of great impoitance. The French Ge',
vernment has resolved to diminish by two-thirds
the import duties in France on foreign iron. The
reduction is to apply to iron of all countries, exeePo
if our information be correct, to that of Belgium'
M. Rogier, the Belgian Minister in Paris, has been
informed of this intention, and has not been able 0,1;
yet to get the effect of it extended, to Belgiult.
The Independance of Brussels, in copying t„n':
paragraph from the Emancipation, says ",,
very much doubt the perfect exactitude of this In'
formation. It is possible that the proposed reduc-
tions may have for object to abolish the differePt
duty in favour of Belgian iron, but it is not pro'
bable that the French Government has any inten-
tion of substituting a differential duty in favour e`
English iron."
The Academy of Sciences has appointed the fol-
lowing commission, charged to present a list of
candidates for the post of perpetual secretary, .ver
cant by the death of M. Arago, viz., MM. Blot'
Mathieu, Duperrey, Poncelet, Poinsot, Chales, an,
Combes (the last-named being the actual presider
of the academy).
The Bourse was feeble yesterday, with but VI,:
business doing, except in railway shares. 1'"
Three per Cents. opened at 73f. 95c., rose to 7v,,•:
fell again to 73f. 80c., and closed at 73f. 90c. for
the end of the month. The Four-and-a-Half Per
Cents. closed at 99f. 70c. ; Orleans Railway Shar_i
1,160 f. ; Rouen, 1,040 f. ; Havre, 490 f. ;
Northern, 861 f. 25c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 8151:f
Paris and Lyons, 902 f. 50c. ; Lyons to the Medi-
terranean, 735 f. ; Western of France, 690 f. ; Bor-
deaux and Cette, 585 f. ; Great Central, 512 f. 50e'
Lyons to Geneva, 500 f. ; Shares of the Bank ()"
Credit Mobilier, 696 f. 25c.