The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-05 00:00:00

peror of RUSSIA wished to strike the public mind,
and to give it a high idea of his resources, and
he has succeeded. The version of the Commerce is
more business-like, and more true. It says—
" In a financial point of view the deposit of 5,000,0001. in
the Bank of London has nothing which surprises us. The
details that are given by the Austrian Observer completely
edify us with respect to the immense resources in specie of
the Russian Treasury and banks. The bank of St. Peters-
burgh alone must have had on the Ist of January of the pre-
sent year 11,000,000 silver rubles, or 40,000,000 f. in French
money, in addition to the capital destined to guarantee its
notes of credit. This isolated fact gives us an idea of the
abundance of metallic specie in Russia. To the nominal
causes of this abundance are this year added other causes
which are quite peculiar, such as the excellent produce of
the harvest, and the immense purchases of corn which the
scarcity compelled southern Europe to make, and which
have almost all been paid for in ingots. In a commercial point
of view St. Petersbargh, in continuing to place its capital in
foreign funds, and in rendering to England in her financial
crisis the same service as to us. will afford facilities to Eng-
land, that of providing herself almost exclusively in the
ports of the Baltic and the Black Sea ; and at the end of the
account Russia will only have given her agricultural pro-
ducts in exchange for the stock of the two great States whose
credit is the best established and offers best guarantees."

' The Courrier Francais thus observes on the dif-
ferent manner in which the EMPEROR has conducted
his financial arrangements in France and England:—

"It appears," says that journal, " that the Emperor of
Russia is desirous to propitiate Western Europe by his
financial propaganda.. He no doubt thought that England
would be jealous of the Muscovite present of 50,000,000 f.
lately bestowed on France, if he did not send a present
double that amount, or 112,500,000 f. The Czar, however,
in this instance, naturally applied to the Bank of England,
without recurring to the medium of the Foreign-office.
Lord Palmerston, however friendly disposed towards Russia,
would have indignantly rejected the office of go-between in
such a transaction."

The National sneeringly observes, that the EMPE-
ROR is not the only Sovereign who invests money in
the foreign funds, but what he does openly others
prefer doing in secret.
The Journal des Debates has a long article lauda-
tory of the French policy in Greece, and attacking
of course that of England.
The: Prince of Syracuse, brother of the King of Naples,
arrived on Thursday at Marseilles in the Vesuve steamer,
and put up at the house of M. Stella, Consul-General of
the Two Sicilies. The Prince•left in the evening for Paris.
The price of wheat is rising in every part of
France.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Monday at 78f. 30c. the Five per Cents., 1161. 10c.; the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,235 f.; Rouen, 9461. 25c.; Havre,
670 f. ; Great Northern, 620 f.; Avignon, 7751.; Vierzon,
585 f. ; Bordeaux, 515 f.; Basle, 193 f. 75c.; Dieppe, 332 f.
50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 4281. 75c.; Tours and Nantes,
4221. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 435 f.; Lyons and Avignon,
4501.; Cette, 4431. 75c.
MARSEILLES, Arun. 29.—Marseilles and Avignon, 766 f.
25c.; Northern, 618 f. 75c.; Paris and Lyons, 432 f.; Or-
leans, 1,230 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 4.

Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (ConStituted), PA—
Lyons and Avignon (Constituted), 2%—Northern of France,
lVA—Paris and Lyons, s—Paris and Rouen, 36)4—Rouen
and Havre, 253/4—Sambre and Meuse, VA— West Flanders, 4