The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-26 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.
A Council of Ministers was hell yesterday at the
residence of the Minister of Justice.

The AI oniteur publishes decrees containing a
number of promotions and appointments in the
judicial ranks both in France and in Algeria.
Rear-Admiral Lavaud has been named second
in command of the squadron of evolutions ; Rear-
Admiral Jehenne, maritime prefect at Lorien,
vice Admiral Lavaud • and Rear-Admiral Bonard,
Major-General of die Marines at Brest, vice
Admiral Jehenne.

"It is rumoured," says the Debats, "that Baron
de Hubner is expected at Marseilles from Naplc7,
on hii way to Biarritz, to wait on the Emperor."
" Until lately," says the Assenablee .Nationale,
" there was no instance of the Sultan's wearing
foreign decorations. France was the first who
got this practice to be broken through, by induc-
ing the reigning Sultan to accept the Grand Cor-
don of the Legion of Honour. The other powers
are about to follow tho example of France ; and it
was said at Constantinople that on the very day
that Baron de Koller presented to the Sultan the
insignia of the Austrian order of St. Stephen,
Lord de Redcliffo bad requested his Majesty to
accept thorle of the Ocder of the Glrter."
BOURSE, Sept. 25.—The announcement that the
Bank of France had' determined to raise its rate of
discount to 6 per cent. caused stock to be offered,
and Threes were sent down from 69f. 50c. to
69f. sc. The following were the last quotations :

Cash. fr. a. End orrientb.
44 per Cents (xd) 9l 50
3 per Cents 69 68 75

New Loan —
Bank Sharos 4,100 Roman
Credit Moo•.lier 1,ti40 Austrian

Belgian Spanish Threes
Pi wirnontest (5). 9O 59 Home Debt

itAILW A T 3-4011 CASH.

___ _____
in C. fn 0.
(Means .. 1,325 -- Western - 920 --
/qlrthern
LAyons
&to4literranean 1,770 Grand Central
Lyons Geneva 75) Test°
Cotte

The Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol is about to
bid farewell to his parish in Surrey. Since his elevation
to the episcopal bench he has regularly done duty and
preached in his parish church, wearing, however, his
episcopal robes. A. gentleman, who has attended ser-
vice in the bishop's church, says that Mrs. Baring, or
one of her daughters, leads the parish choir with the
seraphine, which they play with great taste and address.
—Bath Chronicle.

Tre Rev. 1). L. Cousins, the curate of St. Augu-tine's,
Bristol, has been presented to the incumbency of Kings-
wood, Gloucestershire.
The Glasgow Times states that two sisters of Sir Wm.
Maxwell, of Monteith, Wigtonshire—viz , Chprlotte and
Georgina—have been received into the Catholic Church
in Palermo.

EXECUTION AT ROUEN.--The murderer Crochu was
executed at 9 o'clock on Monday morning at Rouon.
A rumour of the intended execution was current the
previous evening, and from an early hour in the morn-
ing every street leading to the place from whence a
sight of the scaffold could be ohtaiued was densely
crowded ; even the roofs o the houses were covered.
Crochu, on being informed in the morning of his
approaching fate, received the intelligence with the
greatest composure, saying that he was prepared
,r the news in consequence of the bustle he had heard
in the prison during the night. He refused to hear mass,
saying that ho could not do so with proper attention, and
bigged to be allowed to pray alone. This was refused,
fearing that he might be contemplating suicide, and he
then knelt down and prayed in the presence of the chap-
lain ani the persons who had come to perform the cere-
mony if the last toilette. On leaving the prison he
embraced the sister of charity, and thanked her for the
kindness which she had shown to him during his confine-
ment. To the very last he refused to make any dis-
closure. On reaching the scaffold he appeared weak,
and was assisted up the steps by the executioner and
the chaplain, but he still retained his firmness to the
last. Before being bound to the plank he kissed the
chaplain on both cheeks, said a short prayer, and im-
mediately after all was over.