The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-09 00:00:00

mulgating the convention agreed to between France
and the Grand Duchy of Oenburg for the re-
ciprocal guarantee of the property of works of art
and of intellect.
A decree is now under consideration by the
Council of State, for opening to the Minister of the
Interior a supplementary credit of 4,096,873 f., to
indemnify the city of Paris for the losses it sus-

tallied. in 1848.
A letter from Toulon announces that, on the
night of the al inst., 19 political convicts, sen-
tenced to transportation to Cayenne, escaped from
Fort Lamalgue, by breaking a hole in the wall of
their prison. Five of them were retaken at Hyeres,
and a strict search is being made for the remainder.
It appears that the Legitimists and Fusionists
found great hopes on the further complication of
the Eastern question ; and they are confident in
their predictions that a general war will ensue, for
with them the sure result would be a Royalist re-
storation. A good deal of the obstinacy of the
Emperor Nicholas from the very beginning of the
present question is, rightly or wrongly, imputed to
the counsels of the friends of the Fusion, who had
most assuredly never counted on any common ac-
tion between England and France.
It is expected that the Moniteur will shortly
publish an article explaining the actual position of
the Four Powers relative to the Eastern question,
and the means employed by them to produce a de.
finitive and satisfactory arrangement.
It has been stated that the Fusionist party is
already endeavouring to promote its political views.
It is, therefore, believed that the Ministerial jour-
nal, Le Pays, will also contain an article of some
length, and of a more energetic style, on the sub-
ject of tne Fusion, than any that have as yet ap-
peared in it. Owing, it is said, to some indications
of political manoeuvres attributed to that party,
some changes will be made among the functionaries
of the departments. The ceremony of yesterday
at the Luxembourg was not over pleasing to the
Fusionists, who are not sparing of their severity to
M. Dupin; and the Assemblee Nationale, the organ
of the Fusionists, and of the Russian Embassy, is
almost the only paper that has not made any allu-
sion whatever to that ceremony.
The inauguration of the statue of Marshal Ney
took place on Wednesday last, at one o'clock, nearly
on the spot where he was executed in 1815. The
assemblage of troops present was exceedingly large,
and the various corps began to arrive as early as
ten o'clock, so that they had to remain three hours
under arms during an unusually raw and foggy day.
The statue, which is in bronze, and of colossal size,
faces the west, and consequently looks in the same
direction as the marshal did at the moment he was
shot. Three large tribunes were erected for the
day's proceedings, close to the statue, for the per-
sons who had received tickets, and for the various
deputations which attended. The Prince de la
Moscowa and the Duke d'Elchingen, sons of the
deceased, arrived about a quarter before one
o'clock, and were immediately occupied in re-
ceiving the official persons invited to attend.
The ex-King Jerome, and Prince Napoleon, his
son, arrived at one o'clock precisely the for-
mer presiding at the ceremony. Marshals de
Arnaiux, Vaillant, Magnan, and de Castellane,
with a considerable number of general officers, all
in full uniform, were on the principal estrade.
The Archbishop of Paris acted the principal part
in the religious ceremony, which commenced the
proceedings, and which merely consisted of a short
prayer or two. M. Achille Fould, Minister of
State, then read the decree relative to the erection
of the monument; after which, Marshal de St.
Arnaud pronounced an address, in which he passed
a high encomium on the great services of the de-
ceased marshal, and, whilst admitting that he had
committed errors, declared that some men ought to
be judged by their services, and not by their
faults : and that Marshal Ney was one of that
class. M. Dupin, senior, who had been one of
the defenders of the deceased, when tried before
the Chamber of Peers, next spoke, and de-
clared that the execution which had taken place
was nothing but an act of vengeance ; and that
in accomplishing such an act it was the tri-
coloured flag which was immolated to the white
col mrs of the Bourbons. He terminated a rather
violent speech by saying that in striking down
certain men, parties ought to comprehend that they
were striking them to the dust only with a cer-
tainty of seeing them at a later period again stand-
ing erect, in an attitude of command. During
these two speeches it was remarked with surprise
that repeated hisses arose from three or four parts
of the crowd, to the great scandal of the parties
in the tribunes. After the speeches, the deputa-

tions filed off before the statue, the first being that
of the town of Sarrelouis, the birthplace of the de-
ceased, and at present belonging to Prussia. The
troops afterwards pawed before the monument, and
the ceremony terminated. General Brunet-Denou,
deputy, who had been a most intimate friend of
the deceased, was present, and appeared much
affected. It was rumoured about in Paris, aftor
the ceremony, that M. Dupin is to be immediately
named a senator.

A slight re-action took place at the Bourse yes-
terday, caused chiefly by speculators realising the
profits consequent on the rise which took place
during the last two days. The Three per Cents.
opened at 74f. 70c., and closed at '74f. 50c. for
the end of the month. The Four-and-a-Half
per Cents. closed at 101 f. Orleans Railway
Shares, I,lBof. ; Rouen, 1,075 f. ; Havre, 502 f.
50c. ; Great Northern, 880 f. ; Paris and Stras-
burg, 822 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 916 f. 25c. ;
Lyons to the Mediterranean, 770 f. ; Western of
France, 702 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 632 f.
50c. ; Great Central, 523 f. 75c. ; Lyons and Ge-
neva, 522 f. 50e. Shares of the Bank of Credit
Mobilier, 755 f.