The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-23 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY.
The Moniteur contains the following report to
the Emperor from the Minister of State. It is pub-
lished by order of his Majesty
" Sire,—l submit to the examination of your
Majesty the budget of the Civil List for 1857.
Your Majesty will see that after providing for all
services, and leaving a largo margin for extraordi-
nary and unforeseen expenses, this budget will at
least be in equilibrium, provided circumstances
should not as in 1856 force your Majesty to order
large sums to be paid, in addition to the estimates
now made. In fact, the experience of the year which
is about to terminate prescribes to tne the duty of
calling the attention of your Majesty to the neces-
sity of imposing limits to . your munificence. The
estimates of the budget of 1856, adopted by your

Majesty, left at the end of the year a certain sur-
plus, which repeated acts of liberality have now
caused almost entirely to disappear. Several of
these expenses consist in pensions and annual pay
ments, which will be repeated iu 1857 ; and there
would be danger of compromising the equilibrium
which your Majesty has always recommended me
to maintain, in granting too readily the demands
which are daily addressed to you for subventions
and acts of relief of all kinds. It is not -without

—ity to place before your Majesty the list of the
sums which in 1856 have been placed at the charge
of the Civil List for such purposes. That outlay,
great part of which was not foreseen, amounts to
more than 6,300,0001 r. Nothwithstanding those
charges, however, no service has been neglected,
no payment delayed ; all contractors and tradesmen
have been paid with exactitude, and yet the provi-
sional accounts of 1856 still leave a surplus,
though it is true not a very large ono. It is •nly
in order to protect the future, as we have succeeded,
thanks to the prudence of your Majesty, in pre-
serving the past, that I feel myself called on to
persist in recommending your Majesty to res'rain
within prudent limits your acts of munificence.
The accounts of the Civil List for 1853 have been
examined and verified by the commission insti-
tuted by the Imperial decree of the 26th May,
1853 ; and its report was presented to your Ma-
je3ty on the 3d May, 1855. At this moment the
accounts of 1854 are under the examination of that
commission, and those of 1855 will soon be sub-
mitted to it.—l have the honour to be, Sire, 45c.,
" Paris, 17th Dec." " ACHILLE FOULD.
Annexed to the preceding report is the following
detailed account of the donations of the Emperor
during the present year :
Relief distributed by the Emperor to the victims Fr.
of the inundatiobs
Pensions to amputated soldiers
Fourneaux Economiques (cheap eating distri-
buting houses) of Paris
Civil pensions
Stuns distributed by the First Chaplain to reli-
gious institutions
Relief distributed by the Bureau des Secours to
old soldiers, wounded or infirm ; to widows
of workmen killed by accident ; to infirm
workmen out, of employment ; to victims of
fires, storms, and fallings in of earth ; to
artists and schoolmasters ; and to professors
burdeied with large families 900,000
Indemilties for lodgings and allowances to
employes whose salary is less than 2,000 f
of part of the stoppages ordered by the law
cf Bth July, 1852
Societe pour le Patronnage des Jeunes Detenus,
Societe de la Cherite Maternelle, hospital.,
and donations to the towns of Versaille,,
Rainbouillet, . Compiegne, Fontainebleau,
Biarritz, Plombieres, and St. Cloud
Expenses of educating poor children
Purchase of ground and advances for building
houses Boulevard Mazas 1,000,000

... 100,000
... 420,000

92,000

Subvention to a benevolent society, whose ob-
ject is to assist workmen who suffer from high
house rent
Subscriptions to charity balls, etc
Gifts to various officers amputated ; for cau-
tion-money
Loans without conditions, payment of debts
for soldiers, artists, or traders
Relief to the wounded of the army
A.llowances to officers of the Guard for first ex-
penses of equipment
Officers' private clubs and bands
Omnibuses for the camp of Boulogne
Encouragement to the arts
Subscriptions to new publications
Grants to the societies of authors, composers,
literary men, dramatic authors, painters,
musicians, sculptors, and inventors on the
occasion of the Imperial Prince's birth
Grants to charitable institutions on the same
occasion

60,000

96,000

70,000

93,000

Performances given at the theatres ot Paris, do 44,500
Gifts of medals, do 102,500
Gratifications in various palaces, do 136,210
Gratifications to physicians, do 68,000
Gifts of jewellery, do
Relief to fathers and mothers of children born
the 16th March, 1856
Repairs ot the churches of Rueil, St. Jean de
Luz, St. Laurent-en-Gatine, Deline Ecom-

76,000

230,000

moy, &c
Prizes for regattas, orpheone, and agricultural
associations 60,000
Stakes for horse races
Prize for the cultivation of cotton in Algeria 20,000
Donation to the commune of Anglet for plant-
ing the Downs

30,000

Total fr. 6,361,411
BOVRSE, Dec. 22.---The following were the last
quotations
Cash. tr. e. End of Month.
44 per Cents
3 per Cents 66 25 66 50
New Loan —
Bank Shares 4,101 Roman (i d)
Credit 111obilier 1,380 Austrian
Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes..
Piodmontese (5) 9l 50 Home Debt