The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-10 00:00:00

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MonNING.

The United States Mail steamer, Arago, Capt.
Lines, has arrived off Cowes, from New York to
Hare, with the French and English mails, and
dat6s to the 28th ult.

FRANCE.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY.
The Minister of Marble has received the follow-
ing telegraphic despatch from Vice-Admiral Tre-
houa,rt, commanding in chief the squadron of the
Mediterranean, dated on board the Bretagne,
July 6 :
" The definitive evacuation of the Crimea took place
yestarday. Marshal Pelissier went on board the
Roland, which sailed the same day. The Bretagne,
which has just anchored at Beycos, left Karniesh with
the last vessels which were there, and which will arrive
to-morrow in the Bosphorus."

The. Moniteur• says :—" Several journals in
France and in foreign countries have for some
time past spread and attempted to accredit the
rumour that the Emperor is shortly to proceed to
Arenenberg, and thence to Bregens, to meet the
Emperor of'Austria. This statement has no foun-
dation."

" The Lord Mayor of London," says the Moni-
tettr, "has addressed to the Prefect of the Seine a
fourth sum of 100,000 f. on account of the English
subscription, which now, amounts to more than
600,000 f., and that without including the towns
which have placed themselves in direct communi-
cation with the French authorities."

The Constitutionnel pays the following tribute
to the memory of the late Minister of Public In-
s r 10E011:-.

"M. Fortoal attained his high position by his own
talent and exertions. After beginning his career by the
publication of literary works of signal merit, he devoted
himself to serious studies and attained all the university
honours step by step. As professor of literature at the Fa
culty of Toulouse he greatly distinguished himself as a
lecturer, and was afterwards appointed Dean of the
Faculty of Art, as a well-merited reward for his univer-
sity labours. It was his popularity and superior talent
as a professor that pointed out, M. Fortoul to the choice
of the electors after the revolution of 1848. and the
courage and intelligence displayed by him in the repub-
lican assemblies cannot be forgotten ; he was always to
be found on the side of common sense and justice, and
the noble attitude which he then assumed drew on him
the attention of the Prince who governed France as Pi-e-
-siclent of the Republic. Amid the general blindness of
parties, M. Fortoul was one of the first to perceive where
safety could alone be found, when anarchy seemed so
threatening in the political horizon. On his appointment
to the Ministry of Public Instruction,M. Fortoul soon di--
played administrative talent of a high order. Ina situation
which appeared to be surrounded by so many difficulties
at the outset, as it was in reality, the new minister, by
his justice and firmness, found means of conciliating
things that seemed altogether irreconcilable. The minis-
try of M. Fortoul will furm one of the most honourable
pages of the contemporary history of the university. , As
a professor, author, deputy, and minister, Mr. Fortoul
has run a brilliant career, and, what is still better, a
useful one ; on all these grounds it may be said that the
Minister of Public Instruction carries with him to the
tomb, so prematurely opened, the universal regret of
his countrymen."

BOURSE, July 9, Two o'clock.—The market
continues heavy. Threes are at 71f. 50c. Rail-
way Shares are about the same as yesterday.

AUSTRIA.

A letter from Vienna, in the Constilutionnel,
says :—" The Austrian Bank has just published
its balance-sheet for the past month, from which it
appears that the specie has augmented 4,182,000
florins, so that its stock of specie now amounts to
61 millions.against 368 millions of notes in circu-
lation. The proportion of specie to notes, which
was Ito 6.47 last month, is now Ito 6.02. The
notes in circulation, however, have only dimi-
nished 184,826 florins. It is high time for the
Bank to resume payment in specie, as the number
of forged notes is on the increase, and the tri-
bunals are continually trying persons accused of
forgery. Among the receipts of the Bank for the
month of June is an item of four millions reiin-
bursed by the State on account of the last loan
made by the Bank. It appears however, that the
Scate is still considerably embarrassed, .for„ the
domain of Balanka, in the Banat, valued at, 3.55
trillions, and which was mortgaged to the Bank as
security fur the last loan, has been completely
ceded to that establishment, and a complete staff
of officials have been sent off to administer it."

The Austrian papers are giving giQinipOitance
to the tour of Count Walewski through Germany.
They state that the French Minister for Foreign
Affairs is expected at Vienna on the 12th, and that
he will afterwards visit in succession the capitals
of Wurtemberg, Baden, Prussia, Saxony, and
Bavaria.