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

FRANCE.

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

The Moniteur 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 Lorient,
vice Admiral Lavaud • and Rear-Admiral Bonard,
Major-General of the Marines at Brest, vice
Admiral Jehenne.

"It is rumoured," says the Debats, "that Baron
de Hubner is expected at Marseilles from Naples,
on his way to Biarritz, to wait on the Emperor."
" Until lately," says the Assembl6e .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 the 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 Redcliffe had requested his Majesty to
accept those of the Order of the Garter."
BOURSE, Sept. 25.—The announcement that the
Bank of Franco 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. ft. s. End of Month.
41 per Cents (id) 9l 50 —l. —a.
3 per Cents 69 68 75
New Loan -
Bank Shares 4,100 ft3man
Credit Mobilier 1,640 • Austrian

Belgian Fives Spanish Threes
Piithnontese (5) . 9O 50 Home Debt 39

RAILWAYS-FOB CA sn.

. _____
tr.... C.,.. ....... rr. a.
O-/sans .......- ...... 1,325 Western 923
N nthern
kyons
Mediterranean 1,770 Grand Central
Lyons Geneva 750 Teste
Cette 707 50..` Austrian Corn. 835

The Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol is about to
bid farewell to his parish in Surrey. Since his elevation
to the episcopal bench be 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.

Ttie Rev. 11. L. Cousins, the curate of St. Augu•tine'9,
Bristol, has been presented to the incumbency of Kings-
wood, Gloucestersbire.
The Glasgow Times states that two sisters of Sir Wm.
Maxwell, of Monteith, Wigtonshire—Viz , Cherlotte 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 Rouen.
A rumour of the intended execution was current the
preview,' 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 obtained was densely
crowded ; even the roofs of 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
t ,r the news in consequence of the bustle he had heard
in the prison during the night. He refused to hear mass,
saying that he could not do so with proper attention, and
bagged to be allowed to pray alone. This was refused,
:eating that he might be contemplating suicide, and he
then knelt down and prayed in the presence of the chap-
lain an the persons who bad come to perform the cere-
mony of the last toilette. On leaving the prison he
e nnraced the sister of charity, and thanked her for the
kindness which she had shown to him during his confine-
ment./ To the very last be 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.