The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-28 00:00:00

FRANCE.

General Lord Ragian and the Hon. Colonel de Rous
arrived in Paris on Saturday night, for the purpose of
coming to an unders•Anding with the French authorities
with respect to the plans to be adopted by the forces of
the two powers in tteir joint expedition to Turkey. On
Sunday Lord Raglan was received by the Emperor in a
private audience, and in the evening he visited the Em-
peror and Empress at the palace of the Tuileries. Lord
Raglan leaves Paris for London on Wednesday morning.
It is understood that the present hurried visit of the
commander-m-chief of the English expeditionary army
will not prevent his again visiting the French capital
along with the Duke of Cambridge, on their way to the
East.

The Abbe Lamennais died yesterday morning, at nine
o'clock. During the last few weeks of his illness, and
when it was evident that his recovery was hopeless,
several of his friends who had not the same opinions,
religious or political, as he had, endeavoured to recon-
cile him to the Church, and exhorted him not to reject
the consolations of religion. Their efforts it appears,
were fruitless ; he refused to listen to their prayers, and
became excited when pressed the more earnestly as his
last moment was rapidly approaching. It must be said
that those who shared his religious and political opinions
used their utmost efforts to prevent any change being
effected in the mind of the dying man, and encouraged
him to depart from the world as he had lived. It is
now stated that so fearful are these friends lest the public
should believe that he had yielded to the pious wishes of
a few, that they purpose drawing up and publishing a
statement showing that he died a Pantheist and a So-
cialist, or to whatever category his opinions belonged—
at all events, that he left the world with the same con-
victions he had entertained for years past.
On Saturday despatches were received by M. de
Hubner, the Austrian Minister in Paris, which are un-
derstood to contain the conditions upon which Austria
is willing to adhere to the Anglo-French alliance with
Turkey. These conditions have, it is said, been sub-
mitted to the two Governments, and are now under
their consideration.

Great preparations aro making for the embarkation of
the French troops at Toulon.
Marshal do St. Arnaud is rather better. He will
certainly be the commander-in-chief of the expedition.
The Emperor received on Sunday, at a private
audience, Mr. Firman Rogier, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plentipotentiary of the King of the Bel-
gians, who placed in his Majesty's hands the insignia of
the grand cordon of the Order of Leopold, which his
Sovereign has conferred on his Imperial Majesty,
with a letter from the King of the Belgians, accom-
panying the decoration. The Minister of Belgium
also presented at the same audience, the reply of
his Sovereign to the letter of his Imperial Majesty in
sending the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour to
the Duke of Brabant, and a letter of thanks from that
Prince to his Imperial Majesty. rho Emperor likewise
received at a private audience the Marquis Pes do
Villamarina, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary ,of the King of Sardinia, who presented a
letter notifying the birth of Prince Thomas Albert Vic-
tor of Savoy, son of the Duke of Genoa. M. Lighten-
felt, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
of the King of Holland, presented to the Emperor at a
private audience a letter from his Sovereign, offering as
a present a carpet of Dutch manufacture.
The Three per Cents, opened at the Bourse yesterday
at 67f. 70c., and fell to 67f. 45c. They rose almost im-
mediately to 67f. 85c., at which they maintained them-
selves firmly. They closed at that price for the end of
the month. There were no political reports afloat to
agitate the speculators. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
closed at 96f. 75c. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,095 f. ;
Rouen, 880 f.; Havre, 445 f.; Great Northern, 752f.50c. ;
Paris and Strasburg, 727 f. 50e. ; ditto, New Shares,
570 f.; Paris and Lyons, 822 f. 50c.; Lyons to the Medi-
terranean, 675 f. ; Western of France, 580 f. ; Bordeaux
and Cette, 535f.•' Great Central, 437 f. 50c. ; Lyons and
Geneva, 450 f. ;Shares of the Bank of Credit Mobilier,
600 f.