The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-12 00:00:00

NORWAY.

The following is the speech read in the name of
the King on closing the fourteenth ordinary Stor-
thin.; of Norway :---
•" Good Gentlemen and Men of Norway,—l regret
that existing political circumstances will not per-
mit this year the coronation of myself and the
Queen, or to close your deliberati,ms in person. The
happy position which I have succeeded in obtaining
fur the united kingdoms during the complications
which ~isturb our part of the world, has enabled
the S:orthing to meet my efforts for the materi .1
development of the country, by granting abundant
credits. While admitting the spirit of patriotism exem-
plified by these credits, 1 should have wished that the
Storthing had at the same time voted to their full extent
the sums demanded by me for the necessary develop-
ment of the state of defence. play Provilence now and
for ever extend its protecting hand over Nontay and its
faithful inhabitants ! Aftez having terminated your
task, you will return to your domestic occupations. I
desire that happiness may attend you, and I remain,
good gentlemen and men of Norway, well affectioned
towards all in general and each in particular with all
royal grace and favour."

FRANCE.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, WEDNESDAY, 6 P.M.
We stated yesterday that the Government of her
Britannic Majesty had charged his Excellency
Lord Cowley to transmit to the Government of the
Emperor its condolences on the occasion of the
death of M.trshal de St. Arnaud. The following is
the translation of the letter addressed by Lord
Cowley to the Minister of Foreign Affairs :
"Monsieur le Ministre—l am desired by her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of S 5 for Foreign Affsirs to tall)
the earliest opportunity of conveyinc, to the Emperor
the expression of the deep regret with which the Queen's
Government have learnt the intelligence of the death of
Marshal Saint Arnaud. Her Majesty's Government
desire to offer to his Imperial Majesty and to the French
people their condolence on an event which has de-
prived the Emperor and France of the services of so
distinguished and brave a general. If anything could
mitigate the sorrows that must be felt by the Govern-
ments and people of France and England upon this occa-
sion, it must be the satisfaction—though a mournful one
—that the Marshal's last moments were preceded and
cheered by the triumph of a victory which will always
be glorious in the military annals of both countries. In
r •questing your Excellency to convey these sentiments
to the knowledge of the Emperor, I trust that I may be
permitted to add the expression of my parsonal regrets
for the loss which the Emperor and the French nation
hive sustained. To know Marshal Saint Arnaud was to
like him, for the courtesy and affability of his private
life were as remarkable as his courage and firmness in
the field. I avail myself of this opportunity, &c.,
" COWLEY."

To the above letter the Moniteur adds :
" Marshal de St. Arnaud, before succumbing under
the malady which he had so long suffered from, wished
to accomplish to the last hour the whole mission of de-
votedness which he had imposed on himself towards the
Emperor and towards France by claiming the glorious
privilege of taking the chief command of the army of
the East. Those who were the witnesses of his long and
severe sufferings alone know what moral force it re-
quired to combat them without for a moment ceasing
the duties of his difficult command, for he did not con-
ceal from himself the gravity of his complaint. He was
more conscious of it than any one, and when his
strength failed him, and the critical moment arrived,
be looked with the serenity of a religious mind to the
termination of the almost superhuman struggle. The
last phrases of his report of 22d September sufficiently
attest this, and the following letters, and the order of
the day which we publish, are a complete testimony of it,
" Ville de Paris, Sept. 12.
" Monsieur le Mardchal—My situation as regards
my health has become serious. Up to this day I
have opposed to the malady with which I am at-
tacked all the efforts of energy in my power, and
I had hoped for a long time that I was sufficiently
habituated to suffering to be able to exercise the
command without revealing to all the violence of the
crises which I was condemned to undergo. But this
struggle has exhausted my strength. I have had the
grief to find lately, and`particularly on the passage, dur-
ing which I saw myself on the point of succumbing, that
the moment was approaching when my courage would
no longer suffice to bear the heavy burden of a command
which requires a vigour that I have lost, and which I
scarcely hope to recover. My conscience makes it a
duty for me to point out to you my situation. I hope
that Providence will permit me to perform to the end
the task I have undertaken, and that I may lead as far
as Sebastopol the army with which I shall to-morrow
land on the coast of the Crimea ; but it will be I feel a
last effort, and I beg you to request the Emperor to
appoint for me a successor.—Accept, &c.,
" A. DE SAINT ARNAUD."
" Head-quarters, Bivouac, on the Sehernaya, Sept. 26.
" Monsieur le Mar6chal —My health is deplorable.
An attack of cholera has just added to the com-
plaint under which I have so long suffered, and I
am now reduced to such a state of weakness that
the command has, I feel, become impossible for
me. In this slistion, and however painful it may be to
me, I make it a duty of honour and of conscience to re-
sign it into the hands of General Canrobert, whom the
special orders of his Majesty designate as my successor.
The annexed order of the day will show you with what
feelings I separate from my soldiers and renounce the
pursuit of the great enterprise the successful commence-
ment of which appears to presage a glorious issue for our
arms.—Accept. &c. " A. DE ST. ARNAUD."
" Head-quarters, Bivouac of Menkendie, Sept. 26.

" S 'idlers—Providence refuses to your chief the satis-
faction of continuing to lead you in the glorious path
wilich is open before you. Overcome by a cruel disease,
with which he has vainly struggled, he re4ards with
profound grief, but he will know how to perform, the
imperious duty which is imposed on him by circum-
stances—that of resigning the command the weight of
which a health for ever destroyed will no longer permit
him to bear. S ildiers, you will pity me; for the mis-
fortune which falls On me is immense, irreparable, and
perhaps unexampled. I res'gn the command to General
Canrobert, whom, in his anxious foresight for this army
and for the great interests which it represents, the Em-
peror has invested with the necessary powers by a sealed
letter which is now before me. It is an alleviation of
my sorrow to have to deposit in such worthy hands the
flag which France has confided to me. You wilt give
your respect and your confidence to that general officer,
whose brilliant military career and striking services
have acquired for him the most honourable notoriety in
the country and in the army. He will fJllow up the
victory of the Alma, and will have the happiness which
I had dreamt of fur myself, and which I envy him, of
leading you to Sebastopol.
" MARSHAL DE ST. ARNAUD."

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When the Berthollet arrived at Marseilles ou the
10th the remains of Marshal St. Arnaud were re-
ceived with all possible honour.
All the ships in the harbour hoisted their flags
half-mast high. '
The Three per Cents. closed yesterday at 76f.
20c. for the end of the month ; the Four-and-a-
Half per Cents. at 93f. 80c. ; and the New Loan,
at 76f. 25c. ; Orleaus Railway Shares, 1,217 f. 50c.;
Rouen, 993 f. 75e. ; Havre, 572 f. 50e. ; Great
Northern, 871 f. 25c. ; Strasburg, 842 f. 50c. ; New
Shares, 660 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 1,040 f. ; yons
and the Medterranean, 842 f. 50c. ; Western of
France, 665 f. ; Bordeauxand Cette, 622 f. 50c. ,
Great Central of France, 520 f. ; Lyons and Gel'
neva, 540 f. ; Bauk of Credit Mobilier, 761 f. 25c.