The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-16 00:00:00

THE FRENCH EMPIRE.

The Senate met on Thursday ; M. Troplong in
the chair. Several bills, the two principal of which
were that relative to the new organisation of the
savings' banks, and that which concerns the post-
age of Paris letters, were brought up from the
Legislative Body, and referred to the bureau for
examination. The Senate then declared that it
did not oppose the promulgation of the three bills
authorising the buying up by the State of the
jouissance shares of the canal companies. Three
reports were then presented by M. de Thorigny—
one on the bill according a credit of 5,000 f. for the
Academy of Medicine ; the second on the bill re-
lative to the transmission of letters between France
and the French colonies ; and the third on several
bills authorising exchanges of State property with
private individuals. The Senate, after due delibe-
ration, declared that it did not oppose the promul7
gation of these measures. The proceedings then
terminated.

A decree in the Moniteur orders the 80,000
young men, called out as the contingent of 1853,
to be divided amongst the several departments,
according to a table annexed to the decree.
The Moniteur publishes a return of the receipts
of the taxes and indirect revenue for the firet quar-
ter of 1853, which amounted to 199,600,000 f.,
being an increase of 14,334,000 f. on the correspond-
ing period of 1852, and of 20,489,000 f. on that of
1851.

The Minister of the Interior has addressed the
following letter to the Prefects, relative to the
Universal Exhibition of 1855 :

" Paris, April 8..

"Monsieur le Prget, you are aware that, by the de-
cree of the Bth of March last, his Majesty has ordered
that a Universal Exhibition of agricultural and indus-
trial produce shall take place at Paris in May, 1855, and
that to that exhibition is to be joined that which was to
open for our own products on May 1, 1854. It is proper
even as early as the present time to call the attention off,
the persons under your administration to the importance
of this solemn competition, and to the necessity which
exists for them not to neglect anything calculated to
sustain worthily the struggle to which the Government
of the Emperor has invited the producers of all the
countries in the world. I request you, in consequence,
Monsieur le Prefet, to place yourselves immediately in
relations with the Chambers of Agriculture, Manufac-
tures, and Commerce, which are the chief representatives,
as well as the natural organs of these great interests.
You will point out to them, and will call on them to
point out to the principal agriculturists and manufac-
turers in their circumscription, all the advantages which
France must derive from the Universal Exhibition, the
realisation of which the industrial crisis produced by the
political events of 1848 had alone prevented in 1849.
They will exert themselves to the utmost, I am con-
vinced, to enable our country to preserve in 1855, the
eminent rank which it obtained at the universal exhibi-
tion of London. In fixing for the Ist of May, 1855, the
opening of our Universal Exhibition, the Emperor, in his
great solicitude, has been anxious to allow to the French
producers, as well as to those of foreign countries, full
time to prepare for this vast competition, which, if
opened in 1854, would have appeared, not unreasonably,
too close to that of 1851, for which the manufacturers of
all nations had made extraordinary efforts and had imposed
on themselves sacrifices more or less considerable. The
department of foreign affairs has just notified to foreign
governments the Universal Exhibition of 1855. Instruc-
tions and regulations will be hereafter fixed on for the
introduction of the articles sent from other countries,
as well as for the classification of everything ad-
mitted to the Exhibition. I shall take care, Monsieur
le Prefet, to inform you of these instructions, in order
that you may transmit them to our chambers of agricul-
ture, commerce, and manufactures. I will also trans-
mit to you, when the proper moment arrives, the proper
rules and papers for nominating the juries of examina-
tion, and for sending articles to the exhibition. I request
you, Monsieur le Prefect, after having communicated to
the said chambers of agriculture, commerce, and manu-
factures, the present circular, to let me know the result
of the conferences which you will have had with them,
as well as the disposition evinced by our manufacturers
and men of business relative to a solemnity which inte-
rests them so directly. Receive, Monsieur le Prefet,
the assurance of my distinguished consideration.
" F. DE PERSIGNY, Minister of the Interior."

" We can now state as certain," says the Cour-
rier du Nord, " that no itinerary of the journey
of the Emperor in the Nord has yet been decided
on. The only thing nearly positive is, that the
journey will take place in the early paxt of Sep-
tember."

The Government has sent to the Council of State
for examination a bill to accord, as a national re-
compense, to the heirs of Girard, the inventor of
spinning thread by machinery, two pensions of
6,000 f. a-year ; also, a bill to grant to the widow
of M. Eugene Burnouf, the great orientalist, a
pension of 5,000 f. a-year ; and lastly the draft of a
decree concerning the financial administration of
the various colleges throughout France.
The Emperor has just had placed in the Tuileries
the portrait of Pope Pius IX, painted at Rome,
from life, by M. Eugene Goyet.
The Monitcur contains a statement of the receipts
produced by the indirect taxes for the first three
wonths r.-sf 44.- present year, The toil amount for
that period is 199,600,0001., which snows an in-
crease of 20,489,000 f. over the receipts of 1851,
and of 14,334,000 f. over those of 1852, for the same
period.
The Constitutionnel of yesterday has a long
article on the budget, showing the large part as-
signed in the expenditure to works of public utility.
After enumerating the sums appropriated to this
purpose, the Constitutionnel says
All the great works of general utility, such as
rivers, canals, ports, drainages of lands, and more par-
ticularly railways, receive a magnificent dotation. The
idea which guided the Government in the preparation of
the budget is thus clearly shown. The greatest severity
has been exercised with regard to purely administrative
expenses ; the grants for the ministerial departments
have been lessened as much as possible ; the effective
strength of the army has been reduced, but for those
fruitful creations which enrich the country an abundant
and generous provision has been made. This is sound
policy and good government. The sums devoted to
public works are not expenses in the general sense of
the word—they are rather investments, advantageous
for every one—for agriculture, for manufactures, for
commerce, for consumption, and for the treasury itself,
which derives an ample interest for its advances by the,
increase which takes place in the produce of the taxes.'

BANK OF FRANCE.—The following was the situa-
tion of the Bank on Thursday, April 14 :
Ca. Fr. c.
397,452,239 63
99,989,386
146,582 16

Cash in hand
Cash at the branch banks
Overdue bills
Bills becoming due in Paris, of which
45,167,505 f. 08c. are from the branch
118,411,611 33
banks
Bills in the branch banks
Advances on coin and ingots
Do. in the branch banks
Do. on public securities of France 35,734,5.36 10
Do. by the branch banks
Do. on railway shares and bonds 50,701,100
Do. in the branch banks
RenDteos.
of tohe
rtheseer:etaftuendby treaty of
June 30, 1848
10,000,000
Rentes of disposable funds
Hotel and furniture of the Bank
Real property of branch banks 3,674,250
Interest in National Discount Bank
Expenses of administration 854,597 08
Sundries

1,012,249,682 80