The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-06 00:00:00

LATEST FOE i]!GN NEWS.

FRANCE.

A council of Ministers was held at St. Cloud on
Tuesday morning.
The funeral of M. Arago took place yesterday.
A brigade of infantry marched with the procession,
and the Emperor was represented at the ceremony
by Marshal Vaillant, Grand Marshal of the Palace.
The Emperor knows well how to do honour to dis-
tinguished merit of every class ; and it was by his
desire that they were there. General Cavaignac,
and the veteran poet Beranger, also attended.
Though it rained incessantly, at least 3,000 persons
followed the funeral procession to the Cemetery of
Pere la Chaise.

In addition to M. Arago, -the Academy of Sci-
ences has just lost another of its members in the
prrson. of M. Auguste St. Hilaire, of the section of
Botany, at the age of 74 years. M. Arago was in
his 69th year when he expired.
Monseigneur Sacconi, the Pope's Nuncio in Ba-
varia, is to succeed Monseigneur Garoboldi as
Apostolic Nuncio at Paris.

In a few days is to take place the inauguration
of a temporary chapel for the celebration of the
orthodox Greek worship. It is on the express ap-
plication of the Ottoman Ambassador at Paris that
the French Government has accorded this autho-
risation to all the Ottoman subjects of that creed.
The Christians of the Church of the East—Molda-
vians, Wallachians, Servians, Bulgarians, &c.—
have spontaneously united together to meet the
expenses of this chapel, and to support a Greek
priest to officiate. Vely Pacha placed his name at
the head of the subscription, and a numerous de-
putation of the Christian subjects of the Sultan
waited on the ambassador, to thank him for the
protection which the Ottoman Government has
vouchsafed to afford to them in the matter. At
the moment when there appears a desire to repre-
sent the Turkish Government hostile to the Chris-
tians, it is impossible to applaud too much the ini-
tiative thus taken at Paris by Vely Pacha, who in
this circumstance has only been the faithful inter-
preter of the sentiments of toleration which dis-
tinguish the Sultan towards his subjects.
The Prefect of the Ariege has addressed a circu-
lar to the sub-prefects, mayors, and commissaries
of police of that department, reminding them of
the regulations concerning cafés, cabarets, and wine
shops, and recommending them to exercise a close
surveillance over such establishments.
The provincial journals give deplorable accounts
of the state of the vintage. It has commenced in
most of the communes of the Maconnais, where,
although here and there the crop of some vineyards
may be pretty fair, the general result is so unsatis-
factory that many growers put their grapes toge-
ther in order to have but one pressing. In many
of the communes round Lyons the whole crop has
been lost, but in the immediate neighbourhood of
that city the crop will produce about a third of
that of ordinary years. In the western and southern
parts of the department the quantity will be a fair
average return. In the communes of the canton
of Villefranche the majority of the owners of vine-
yards have abandoned the crops to the pickers, who
will even scarcely derive wine enough to repay them
for their trouble, and the wine will be of the very
worst quality. At Sancerre, near Bourges, the
crops have also completely failed.
A letter from Cannes (Var) states that the late
change in the weather has been of great service to
the olives, which this year are not at all affected by
the worm. The crop, however, will not in any
part be more than two-thirds of an ordinary one.
The crop of figs is much compromised ; it is very
backward, and the sun has not power enough to
dry the fruit.

There was a further considerable fall in the price
of public securities at the Bourse yesterday, caused
by unfavourable reports from London, and by a
report that the Bank of France had called on the
depositaries of railway shares on loan in that estab-
lishment for additional security. The Three per
Cents. opened at 73f. 25c., and fell to 72f. 30c.
They closed at 72f. 50c. for the end of the month.
The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 99f. 50c. ;
Orleans Railway shares, ex dividend, 1,120 f. ;
Rouen, 995 f. ; Havre, 482 f. 50c. ; Great Northern,
815 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 890 f. ; Paris and
Lyons, 870 f. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 702 f.
50c. ; Western of France, 692 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux
and Cette, 585 f. ; Great Central, 500 f. ; Lyons to
Geneva, 500 f. ; Shares of the Bank of Credit Mo-
bilier, 695 f.