The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-23 00:00:00

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bleau on Monday, previous to the departure of
Count de WaleWski for London. All the Mimaiters
returned to Paris yesterday morning.
On Monday the Court of Cassation rejected the
appeal of MM. de Coetlogon, Vermaitre, de Plan-
hol, and Charles Flanden, in the affair of the fo-
reign correspondents ; consequently the decision of
the Court of Rouen is confirmed, which gives the
right to the Prefect of Police to seize and open
letters which have been intrusted to the Post-office.
An Imperial decree reduces the duty on coals
within the restricted zone from 50c. to 30c.
The duty on wrought iron is reduced from 20c.
to 18c., and on cast iron from 7c. to 5c., for the
first year, and to 4c. for the second.
The Moniteur says :—" The death of the Queen
of Portugal has prevented the Minister of Brazil
and Madame de Lisboa from accepting the invita-
tion with which they had been honoured for Fon-
tainebleau. The Minister therefore was not present
at the Carrousel, of which we spoke yesterday. It
was by error that he was mentioned among the
persons who surrounded his Majesty."
The Moniteur publishes a very long report from
the Prefect of the Seine on the financial situation
of the department. In this report, which enters
into very minute details of the various items of
expenditure and receipts, the Prefect presents tire.
budget Of 1854, which shows a deficit of 739,561 f..
95c., and suggests various modes of establishing an-
equilibrium for the future. The receipts for 1854
,are estimated at 9,080,369 f. 62c., and the expendi-
ture at 9,819,931 f. 57c.
The Emancipation of Brussels, says :—" We
receive from Paris, through a private source, some:
information of great importance. The French Go-
vernment has resolved to diminish by two-thirds
the import duties in France on foreign iron. The
reduction is to apply to iron of all countries, except,
if our information be correct, to that of Belgium.
M. Rogier, the Belgian Minister in Paris, has been.
informed of this intention, and has not been able as
yet to get the effect of it extended, to Belgium."
The Independance of Brussels, in copying this
paragraph from the Emancipation, says :—"
very much doubt the perfect exactitude of this in-
formation. It is possible that the proposed reduc-
tions may have for object to abolish the differential
duty in favour of Belgian iron, but it is not pro-
bable that the French Government has any inten-
tion of substituting a differential duty in favour of
English iron."
The Academy of Sciences has appointed the fon-
lowing commission, charged to present a list of
candidates for the post of perpetual secretary, va,
cant by the death of M. Arago, viz., MM. Biot.,
Mathieu, Duperrey, Poncelet, Poinsot, Chafes, and
Combes (the last-named being the actual president
of the academy).
The Bourse was feeble yesterday, with but little
business doing, except in railway shares. The
Three per Cents. opened at 73f. 95c., rose to 741 F.,
fell again to 73f. 80c., and closed at 73f. 900. for
the end of the month. The Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. closed at 99f. 70c. ; Orleans Railway Share s•
1,160 f. ; Rouen, 1,040 f. ; Havre, 490 f. ; Great
Northern, 861 f. 25c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 815 E. ;
Paris and Lyons, 902 f. 50c. ; Lyons to the Med i-
terranean, 735 f. ; Western of France, 690 f. ; Ba r-
deaux and Cette, 585 f. ; Great Central, 512 f. 500- ;
Lyons to Geneva, 500 f. ; Shares of the Bank of
Cr6dit Mobilier, 696 f. 25c.