The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-16 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Moniteur of this (Monday) morning an-
nounces that on the 3d inst. Admirals Hamelin
and Dundas entered the Black Sea with their
fleets.
There is a report that it is intended at one of the
balls of the Tuileries, in the month of February,
to get up two grand quadrilles in character. One,
directed by the Empress, is to be composed of per-
sons representing the guards and vivandieres of
the time of Louis XV. ; and the other, directed
by the Princess Mathilde, of the mousquetaires
and flower-girls of the time of Louis XIV. The
various classes in Paris who live by the displays of
luxury are delighted at the prospect of business
which these grand historical exhibitions hold out
to them, knowing as they do that any example
given by the Tuileries will be more or less fol-
lowed in the inferior strata of society. These
imperirl festivities will therefore be productive of
good to a certain portion of the tradesmen and
workpeople of Paris.
Count Creptowitch, Russian Minister at Brussels,
has arrived in Paris.

The Moniteur contains a notice to the municipalnsin
councillors or members of charitable institutions
the provincial towns, to desist for the future from
making applications to the Emperor and Empress
for subventions, &c., in favour of charitable esta-
blishments. The applications have of late, the
notice declares, become so numerous that, even ill
granting only very trifling sums, the funds appro-
priated by their Majesties to the alleviation of eases
of individual want would be entirely expended.
There exist in the budgets of the ministerial offices
and of the departments, funds in favour of chari-
table institutions, and it is consequently to the
prefects that such applications should be made.
At the present moment, says the Paris corre-
spondent of the. Morning Chronicle, when certain
French journals dwell on the late fusion of the
two branches of the Bourbon family as an event
of great importance, it may not be superflous to
say a word or two relative to the attitude of M.
Thiers with respect to that matter. .1:1 e is, it is-
said, not exactly averse, at the present moment,
to effect a more intimate connection with the pre-
sent Government in France—first, because he is
most decidedly anti-Russian, and in that point is
in accord with the principles which regulate the
policy of the Emperor of the French ; and next,
because,
not having laid aside his ancient dis-
like to M. Guizot and the Duke do Broglie, he
sees without approbation the efforts of the
partyat the head of which these gentlemen
are supposed to stand, to bring about a re-
conciliation hetween the, princes, of the exiled
branches. Wfiat seems, however; to "militate
against the realisation a any wish of this

kind, if entertained by M. Thiers, is that ho would
probably refuse to play any but a first, a directing
part, and. that position he is not likely ever to attain
under the Government of Louis Napoleon, who
has the habit of looking with a vigilant eye to
everything undertaken by his Ministers. M.
Thiers' system, then, seems to be at present to
remain quietly apart from all schemes originating
either with his former political friends or political
opponents, but not to refuse to take part again in
active life should an opportunity present itself.
The funeral obsequies of M. Armand Bertin, the
proprietor of the Journal des _Wats, took place at
12 o'clock, in the church of St. Thomas d'Aquin.
The sacred edifice could scarcely contain the crowd
of persons who flocked there to pay a last tri-
bute of respect to the distinguished man now
lost to political and literary life. Amongst the
persons present were MM. Guizot, Villemain,
Thiers, Dupin, sen., de Royer, Procure or-
General at the Court of Cassation ; Rouher, Vice-
President of the Council of State ; General Ral-
Here and such a crowd of men of letters, ancient
members: of the Chamber of Deputies, members of
the Institute, professors of Sorbonne and of the
College of France, aid other public bodies, has
rarely been witnessed in Pari,:. All the journals
of Paris were represented on the occasion by their
principal writers, and M. Petit, chef de bureau at
the Department of the Press at the Ministry of the
Interior, was also present. The funeral ceremony
was read by the Abbe Libour, cure of the parish
of St. Thomas d'Aquin, after which the funeral
procession moved off to the cemetery of Mont Par-
basso, where the remains of Mme. Bertin, wife of
the deceased, were deposited last year.
There was an extraordinary rise in the price of
public securitirs at the Bourse on Saturday, for
which the speculators could only account by a re-
port that the Emperor of Austria had left Vienna
to meet the Emperor of Russia at Warsaw, with
the hopes inducing him to accept the propositions
agreed to at the Conference of Vienna. The Three
per Cents. opened at '7of. •35c., rose to 72f. 35c.,
and closed at 72f. 10c. for the end of the month ;
being a rise of if. 40c. as compared with the closing
price of yesterday. The Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. closed at 100 f. Orleans Railway Shares,.
1,140 f. ; Rouen, 967 f. 50c. ; Havre, 475 f. ; Great
Northern, 820 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 775 f. ;
Paris and Lyons, 871 f. 25c. ; Lyons to the Medi-
terranean, 700 f. ; Western of France, 625 f. ; Bor-
deaux and Cette, 575 f. ; Great Central, 490 f..;
Lyons and Geneva, 480 f. ; Shares of the Bank of
Credit Mobilier, 687 f. 50e.
The Moniteur publishes the following monthly
debtor and creditor account of the Bank of France,
made up to Thursday last :

-
- DR. Fr. c.
Capital - •
Reserve fund 12,980,750 14
R4serve iminobilibre 4,000,000 ,
Notes to bearer, in circulation
Do. of branch banks 141,496,675 -- -
Do. to order (Post bills)
Bills payable at sight
Account-current of Treasury Creditor.. 48,424,110 48
Various accounts-current 126,316,024 18
Do. branch banks 26,461,242 -- •
Dividends to be paid 2,938,796 25
Discount, interest, and expenses
Re-discounts of the last half-year
Sums received over and above the
value of the protested bills
Sundries 976,108 8

975,015,379 7
201,693,441 94 1