The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-06 00:00:00

LATEST _NEWS.

BERLIN, JUNE 6.

Advices from St. Petersburg state that the

Emperor of Russia has empowered the Minister

of Finance to grant passports, without previously
submitting the applications for the same to a
Council of Ministers, to merchants desirous of

forming branch establishments abroad.

Prince Gortschakoff, who had come to Vienna
to present his letters of recall, has again left for

St. Petersburg.

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.

The Emperor returned to Paris to-day. To-
morrow morning be will set out for Orleans and
the Valley of the Loire.

At a Council of MinisterS, held to-day, a new
credit of ten millions, to be applied in the relief of
the sufferers by inundations, was proposed an hour
after the Emperor's arrival.

General Sir Wm. Williams, of Kars, with h's
aides-de-camp, Capt. C. C. Teesdale and Capt.
Henry A. Churchill, arrived this morning at the
Hotel Maurice.

The accounts from the provinces are most dis-
tressing. The Loire and the Loiret have united.
Tours, with many villages of that beautiful district,
s flooded.

The Emperor will probably again go into the
inundated districts, together with the Minister of
Public Works. The Government is using every
exertion.

The railway between Angers and Nantes is
broken. Rain is falling heavily all over France.
A decree of the Emperor, dated Lyons, the 2d,
orders that, in consequence of the inundations at
Avignon and in other localities of the department
of the Vaucluse, the payment of the commercial
bills faing due in those places from the 29th to
the Bth June inclusively shall be prorogued for
eight days, and that protests and other proceed-
ings thereon shall also be suspended for the same
period.
The Moniteur of to-day records the further pro-
gress of the Emperor of the French through the
districts which have been lately inundated, and
says :
The Emperor's visit to the sufferers by the inun-
dations of the Rhone has produced on the inhabi-
tants of these devastated districts an impression
that cannot be described. The Emperor has ap-
peared to them like a second Providence. His
progress takes place amidst tears of gratitude and
public blessings. The love and mutual devotion
between a people and their sovereign were never
displayed in so signal a manner.
The Emperor passed the night at Arles, and left
this morning (June 4), at eight, on his return to
Lyons, through Avignon, Monteliriart, and Va-
lence. Everywhere, on his passage, the grateful
inhabitants had hurried forth to meet his Majesty,
and again saluted him with repeated cries of 'Long
live the-Emperor !'' " Long live the Empress !"
" Long live the Imperial Prince!" "Long live
the friend and benefactor of the people !"
The Emperor arrived at Lyons this evening at
five o'clock. Here his Majesty passed in review
the troops assembled under the command of the
Marshal de Castellano. During the review, the
acclamations of the soldiers and inhabitants were
again heard with fresh enthusiasm.
At eight o'clock the Emperor left Lyons on his
return to ra, is.

Her Majesty the Emprein has subscribed in
favour of the sufferers by the floods, the sum of
20,000 f. in her own name, and of 10,000 f. in the
name of the Imperial Prince. _ _ _

Their Excellencies the Ministers of State and of
the Emperor's Household, of Justice, of Foreign
Affairs, of the Interior, of Finance, of War, of the
Navy and Colonies, of Public Instr❑ction and
Worship, of Agriculture, Trade and :Public Works,
and the President of the Council of State, have
each subscribed I,ooof.
The Government has decided on creating a cen-
tral committee of succour, for the purpose of giving
one sole and uniform direction to the produce
yielded by the public subscriptions, 'both in Paris
departments, in behalf of those who have suffered
from the recent inundations.

A subscription list is opened by the Legislative
Corps in behalf of the sufferers by the floods. The
Count do Morny, the President, in a contributor
of 5,000 f.
THE BOURSE, Juno s.—The following were the
closing quotations :

Cash. fr. e.
li per Cents. 92 50
3 per Cents 73
New Loan 73
Bank Shares 4,100 Roman ...- ....... .. (xd) 87
Credit Mobilier 1,760 Austrian
Belgian Fives — Spanish Tnrees
Piedmontese (5) — game Deb. ...... ...
RAILWATEI—NOB CA.BIZ.
fr. c. fr. 0
Orleans -
Northern l,lOO Strasburg -
Lyons.. ...,... 1,155 New Ditto B6O -
Nlediterranean ......1,655 Grand Central -
Lyons Geneva 730 Taste „ -
Cott° 750 Austrian Cam. ' 870 -

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