The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-17 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY.
The Moniteur publishes a report to the Emperor
from Marshal Randon, Minister of War, proposing
the suppression of the two additional companies
which were added to each of the battalions of the
foot chasseurs in 1853, thus reducing them to eight
companies each, which was their strength from
their first creation in 1840 up to the above year.
The officers belonging to these companies will be
successively replaced in the infantry as vacancies
may occur. The change in the battalions now in
Italy and China will not be made until they re•
turn to France. The report is signed by his Ma-
jesty in approval of it.

By an Imperial decree, M. Michel Chevalier,
Councillor of State, has been raised to the dignity
of Senator ; M. Riche, member of the Legislative
Body, is nominated to succeed him in the former
office.

By an Imperial decree Generals of Division
Count de Grouchy, Morin, Count de Monet, and
Mengin Lecreula, have been promoted to the rank
of Grand Officer in the Legion of Honour; and Gene-
rals of Brigade de Marguenat, Sencier, Baro n Am-
bert, and Guiod, to that of Commander.
BOURSE, March 16.—The opening of the market
was buoyant, but the English funds arriving with
a fall of t, the French Rente declined from 68f 15c
to 68f. The Mobilier varied from 745 f to 746 f 25c;
Orleans quoted at 1,395 f; Lyons, 895 f; Northern,
927 f 50c ; Southern, 498 f 75c ; Western, 582 f 50c;
Lombard, 536 f 25c ; Austrian, 502 f 50c. The fol-
lowing arc the last quotations :

41 per Cents. 95 60
Do. end month. —
3 per Cents 6B 3
Do. end month 63
Bank Shares 2805
Credit Mobilier
Do. Account

I Credit Fonder 745
IBelgian 4+ . 99 60
Piedmontess (5) Bl 75
Roman —
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt 43 75

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
New ditto.
835 Lyons and Mediterranean.... 897 50 895
Geneva 73 75 472 50
Southern
Eastern
Sardinia*
Austrian
Lombard ..
Exchangeon London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10c. • money,
25f. 71e. ; three months, paper, 24f. 87ic. ; money, 241' 85c.

Royal, at which the King will be present, accom-
panied by the members of the Provisional Go-
vernments, who will come to Turin for the pur-
pose. At the end of the week his Majesty will,
it is said, leave this capital and make a tour in the
provinces which have voted for annexation. One
of the first acts of the Government as soon as the
annexation shall have been declared will be to open
a loan of 100 millions, one half of which will be
negotiated abroad and the other subscribed for at
home."

Another letter from Turin of the 13th in the
Nord has the following :—" The regiment of cuiras-
siers in garrison left this morning for Genoa,:tvhera
it will remain at the disposal of the ministry. If the
vote of Tuscany is in favour of annexation, this regi-
ment will be ordered to proceed to Florence, and
will enter that city on the day the Tuscan Ministry
receives the acceptance of the King. The bersag-
lieri who were at Chivasso, and a regiment of the
grenadiers from the garrison at Turin, have left to
take up their quarters nearer Emilia. General
Fanti, in prevision of the annexation, has just orga-
nised the army into four corps. Each will be
composed of three divisions, two Piedmontese and
the third of Central Italy."
It may be remembered that some time ago
the Tuscan Government, with M. Ricasoli at its
head, abolished the concordat concluded on the 25th
April, 1851, between the Grand Duke Leopold 11.
and the Holy See. The four Archbishops of Tus-
cany have just published a protest against that act.
They defend the concordat on the ground that it
did well to set aside what are called the Leopoldine
laws, inasmuch as those laws encroach on the
liberty of Catholicism ; and they argue that a con-
vention entered into by two parties cannot be
legally terminated by one alone. The Archbishops,
moreover, take occasion to express surprise that
whilst the liberty to print freely is accorded to all
by law, bishops aro—in virtue of a circular dating
from 1788—interdicted from transmitting to their
flocks the" word of life," not only by means of the
press but even in manuscript.
The King of Sardinia has raised the Marquis
Orso-Serra, Governor of. Chambery, to the dignity
of Senator of the kingdom.
The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa publishes
letter from Bologna, describing in glowing colours
the enthusiasm of the population after the vote.
The whole city was illuminated, from the most
sumptuous palaces to the smallest hovels. The cries
of "Viva l'Annessione ! Viva it Re ! Viva Napoleone
111 !" were incessant. At the theatre the ladies
formed a chain with their scarfs all along the
boxes amid cheers and cries of " Viva l'Unione."
Marquis Pepoli wall loudly applauded. Another
letter states that on the first announcement at
Milan of the vote in favour of annexation, all the
bells of the city were rung by order of the parish
priests.