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

FRANCE.

The ilioniteur of to-day announces that the
Austerlitz, of 100 guns, left Brest on the 20th
inst. for the Baltic.
The Hercule, Duguesclin, and Trident, have left
Tou ion for the same destination.
The Duperre is to leave on the 24th to join the
Baltic fleet, and the remaining vessels will leave
very shortly.
Admiral Parseval-Deschen es left Paris, on Mon-
day, for Brest, to take the command of the Baltic
squadron.
There is reason to believe that the project of
forming an army of observation on the Rhine is
not abandoned, and that the subject gives con-
siderable uneasiness to the diplomatic corps. From
the last accounts received from Berlin, Prussia
seems to have gone entirely over to Russia.
It is announced that Marshal de St. Arnaud is
to leave Paris for the East on the 4th of April.
By a decision of the Minister of Finance, the in-
terest on Treasury Bonds is fixed as follows, from
March 20 :—At 4 per cent. per annum for those of
from three to five months ;at 4 per cent. for
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 composition of the
staff of Marshal de St. Arnaud, Commander-in-
Chief of the army of the East :—Aides:de-cam. p :
Cols. Trochu and de Waubert de Geniis, Major de
Place, and Captain Boyer. Orderly Officers :
Chefs d'escadron Reille, Henry, and de Gram ont,
Duke de Lesparre, chef de bataillon Durand de
Villers, Captain de Cuynac, and Captain de
Puysegur.
The fall in corn continues ; the top qualities
have fallen during the week Bf. or 10f. per sack of
157 kilogrammes,
In the markets round Paris the fall yesterday
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.

~lt 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 town
on the Peninsula which forms the European side of
the Straits of the Dardanelles and sometimes called
the peninsula of Gallipoli.lt is a town of about
17?000inhabitants, 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 enthusiam.
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. 2c.; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,085 f.;