The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-20 00:00:00

THE FRENCH EMPIRE.

The
20th. Emperor enters his 46th year to-day the
The Legislative Body sat on Tuesday ; M. Bil-
'milt, the President in the chair. Leave of absence
;vas accorded to Baron Buquet. Eleven bills of
local interest were presented. Seven bills of local
interest were adopted, three relating to new deli-
Initations of communes in Corsica and the Rhone,
and four relative to extraordinary taxes in the
t-Itliin, Lot, Pas-de-Calais, and La Vendee.
41e two bills proposing to accord a pension of
)000fr. a year to each of the widows of Marshals
xixelmans and Oudinot, were adopted. The dis-
cussion on the bill to regulate the promotion of
.Perior officers in the navy was then commenced.
bmisnount de Latour and M. Perret opposed the
12u) and M. Conseil, M. de Cuverville, and General
arcnappe supported it. M. Baroche, the Presi-
dent of the Council of State, having defended the
iasnre, and M. Perret having again addressed
the house, the discussion was adjourned to the
111,,elct day.—Before the public sitting, the members
et in their and bureaux, and named their Presidents
Secretaries for the ensuing month.
The Emperor has conferred the Military Medal
General Count Ornan.o, Governor of the In-
Plides, and on General Lebrun, Due de Plaisance,
'rand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour.
General the Marquis de Castelbajac has, at his
acvn request, been removed from the retired list,
a1!.(1 admitted into the second section (reserve) of
Est General Staff of the army from the Ist January
113 r decrees of the Emperor, the Bank of France
"Z authorised to open branch establishments at
Nancy and Toulon.
14,....an aide-de-camp of Marshal Vaillant arrived at
rre on Saturday, and minutely examined the
of fortifications. "It is hoped from this,"
4alle
Y 8 a Havre journal, "that the fortifications are
aboutla to be destroyed, so as to allow of the en-
rgement of the town."
e municipal council of Limoges, at a late
Ing, voted an address to the Emperor, praying
to honour that place with a visit, and placed
fn
unlimited credit at the disposal of the mayor
the expenses of the reception, in the event of
Majesty acceding to the invitation.
lyi
The
Sultan has just accorded the decoration of
lJidie of the first class to M. Drouyn de Lhuys
and M. Baroche ; of the second class to Count
440ehiocchi ; of the third class to Baron de Chas-
it; Reynaud, and Capt. Rigaud. de Genou-
ttJ) Of the navy ; and of the fourth class to Lieu-
nallta Baehm and de Beaulieu, of the navy • to
p, Rochegude and M. Wells, attaches of
4'4011 embassy ; and to M. Herman Lippus.
the The Moniteur publishes a decree which convokes
4,,.",General Council of the Seine for the 23d of
Statuettes,
; a second decree provides that the marble
etirettes, imported from Italy, shall pay the same
tbLrance duty as other marble goods ; and, by a
d,
the Bank of France is authorised to establish
"!3.ch banks at Nancy and Toulon.
esterday the Corps Legislatif resumed the dis-
4sinn on the Marine Staff Bill. A division took
't*,.,,ee) and the numbers were—For the bill, 188 ;
641nst it, 31.
cpAt the Institute Lord Brougham read a paper on
4a9a and mathematics, accompanied by demon-
-417.0ns and calculations on the board. In the
ih Bence of M. Arago, whose health, though improv-
-47g, doesgnot yet permit his attending, M. Jus-
:ll occupied the chair. In the course of the pro-
ceedings he paid a handsome compliment to M.
al°t, on the sitting being the 50th anniversary of
;'l3 day on which that gentleman first took his seat,
..42 a Member of the Institute. Amongst the per-
''',llB present on the occasion was Marshal Vaillant,
'4le last member elected.
At the Bourse yesterday the market for Govern-
kent Securities was dull, and with a decline on
Monday's prices. In the Three per Cents., both
for cash and the end of the month, the fall was 10c.
bleach, and 15c. in the Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
for account. An improvement of sf. took place in
Sank Stock. The final quotations were :—For
cash, Three per Cents., 80f. 50c. ; Four-and-a-Half
Per Cents., 103 f. 700. For the account :—Three
Per Cents., 80f. 50c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
103 f. 55c.: Bank Stock, 2,735. In the shares of
the
Bank of Credit Foncier an advance took place
3f:, and they closed at 900 f. 50e. Credit Mobi-
ekr improved 6f., and were last done at 939 f. 75c.
improvement noted on Tuesday in the Railway li
re Market has been again maintained, and an
auv
anoe taken place in most of the principal lines.

SPAIN.
Madtid journal, of the 14th, whitth.
tit4Qe regular mail, are like those of the 13th, des-
Itite of interest, as they contain nothing respect-
-4 116 6Ministerial crisis, which had not reached
to let
ter of th le Ministerial
he 15th, by exe disatch,
press from rivate sources.
states that General
the President of the new Cabinet and
AL'
of the for Foreign Affairs, will hold the portfolio
go e Interior until the arrival of M. Ayllon. M.
\ratie
Ivith 8) the Minister of Justice, is also charged
There ",e Portfolio of the Public Works ad interim.
of til -13 no notice in this letter of the resumption
pair sittings of the Cortes, announced by the
The as having been communicated by telegraph.
311ae news was probably incorrect, for whatever
Pro6ll the intentions of the new Ministry, it is not
‘eriai that the Cortes would sit during the Muus-
"lB said that the Ministers had announced their
Olen to abandon the cause of Reform.
the 14th the Three per Cents, closed at 42k.

We ITALY.
De e.„ read in the Patrie :—" If our information
to ~,-"rrect, the Sardinian Government is disposed
44(teede a line of railway from Nice to Turin
Allieb7-iessandria passing by Albenga and Asti,
do oh will give 'fresh facilities to commercial rela-
ztpl between France and Piedmont. It would
herr, however, that the Sardinian Government
ensltate_ to admit this line among those of tkefirst
o
rat.for which it guarantees a minimum f inte-

8t1111) °fficial Journal of the Two Sicilies, of the
toatllientions another shock of earthquake at Melfi,
cli,aulatory and violent, but short, and without any*
The
consequences.
Lav e Same journal announces a miracle said to
O taken place at Bari where one of the thorns
tort-N.4lg to the crown with which our Saviour was
(14vIted, let fall some drops of blood on Good Fri-
cr,:aet.,) in the presence of a numerous concourse
people. A similar miracle is stated to have taken
of te,e at Andria on the same day with another thorn
£lNtti,.e crown, and it is added that this is not the
bee 'ime such a thing has occurred, but that it has
Beveral times observed, the last being in 1842.
to s; • -Victor Lefranc arrived at Turin on the 15th,
eo *"g11 a contract with the Government for the
kitrtiction of the Turin and Savoy Railway.
ofA letter. from Milan of the 13th, in the Opinione
:111/in, states that three more barracks are to be
'e'ed at Milan at the expense of the city ; one
an„ the site of the garden of the Palace Dugnani,
anther at the Tosa gate, and a third opposite to
4e amphitheatre.