The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-18 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY.
Lord Clarendon and Lord Cowley arrived yester.
day evening at Paris.
To-day, at 2 o'clock, Lord Clarendon was re•
ceived in a private audience by the Emperor.
Count Buol, the Austrian Plenipotentiary, ar•
rived at Paris during the night.
The Conferences will probably open on Saturday
Baron Manderstrom, the Swedish Minister, ar
rived at Paris to-day from Vienna.
The Emperor, accompanied by several generals
and a numerous staff, yesterday forenoon reviewed
the battalion of Foot Chasseurs of the Guard in the
court of the Tuileries, and distributed a certain
number of crosses and military medals. The regi-
ment wont through several manoeuvres and after-
wards filed off before his Majesty, a number of
the wounded marching at the head, amid loud
cries of " Vice l'Empercur !" At 2 o'clock his Ma-
jesty, accompanied by Generals Korte and Duberne,
and Colonels Fieury, Ney, and de Valabregue, and
escorted by a squadron of the Cent Gardes, pro-
ceeded to St. Cloud and passed in review the Bth and
10th regiments of Cuirassiers, the first about to
keep garrison at Cambray, and the other at
Maubeuge. These troops were drawn up in the
lower park of St. Cloud, and presented a magni-
ficent appearance. His Majesty was received with
great enthusiasm by the two regiments, which went
through several evolutions with the most perfect
precision. After the review the Emperor returned
to Paris, the troops and the spectators shouting
loudly " Vice l'Empereur !"
While the regiment of Gendarmery of the Im-
perial Guard was filing before the Emperor on
Thursday at the end of the review, his Msjesty
remarked in the last platoon two men who had
been wounded, but had not received any decora-
tion, and he called them to him to interrogate them
on the subject. The Emperor then spoke a few
words to one of his aides-de-camp, who went into
the Palace and returned with two military medals,
which his Majesty himself attached to their breasts,
and at the same shook them by the hand. Oa
this incident being noticed by the crowd standing
near, a loud cry of " Vice CEmpereur !" rose on
all sides.
BOURSE, Feb. IG.—Two o'Clock.—The market
has rallied to-day, and the Puente and Railway
Shares have improved. It was announced that
the Credit Mobilier had put 25 millions of francs
at the disposal of the parquet for the liquidation of
the Railway Shares.
Half-past Three.—The market continued buoy-
ant to the close, when the following were the quo-
tations:—

---- -- _
• Cash. fr. e. End of Month.
4i per Cents O5 75 —f. —c.
3 per Cents 73 30 73 95
New Loan 73 30
Bank Shares 3,475 Roman
Credit Mobilier 1,580 Austrian
Belgian Fives. ..... .. 97 Spanish Threes
Piedmontesb (5)

RAILWAYS-NOB CASH.
fr. c.

... _. fr. 0.
Orleans ... 1,255 Western B5O
Northern
Lyons ...... 1,235 New Ditto S2S
Mediterranean 1,3P50 Grand Central 640
Lyons Genova 750 'Poste
Cette2 745 Austrian Com. 9lO

of war if they are captured. Mr. Mason, it is
reported, exhibits some apprehension on the sub-
ject. The correspondence will probably be called
for in a few days."
Advices from Havanna of the 28th ult. report
that two French frigates were in the harbour, but
no English.

SAILING OF THE TRANSIT.-PUBLIC

DINNER AT MILI+'ORU.

On Wednesday a public dinner to commemorate the
departure of the Transit—the first ship leaving Milford
Haven for the Australian colonies—was given at the
Lord Nelson Hotel, Milford, to the captain, the owner,
and the charterer of the vessel. There were present
nearly sixty of the merchants and tradesmen of Mil-
ford and Haverford west, and others interested in the
prosperity of the Haven. Colonel the Hon. R. Fulke
Greville presided —supported by Captain Clarke,
Messrs. Alexander F. Ridgway (of London),
Charles Grierson, Captain Thompson, of the Transit,
Messrs. William Owen Uslayor of Haverfordwes*,
J. A. Field, J. Sales (sheriff of Haverfordwest), James
Owen, &c.
The usual loyal toasts having succeeded the with-
drawal of the cloth,
The CHAIRMAN gave " The ship Transit, the first
ship leaving Milford for Australia—may ber voyage be
prosperous." With this toast he would couple " The
health of Captain Thompson, and long life and prosperity
to him." That occasion was the commencement of a
great future in the history of that county. They met to
celebrate the union of the railway with the ocean. He
felt that that would he another of those invisible but
powerful links which united the industry of England
with the commerce of the world. It was not a ques-
tion of the size and tonnage of ships, or the nature of
the goods they were to transport, but it was that the
gentlemen, under whose discreet and able management
the commencement of a trade between Milford and
our colonies bad been begun--had turned their
attention seriously to Milford. Nature bad
placed almost insurmountable barriers between
Milford and the manufacturing wed commercial towns of
England. There was the ocean flowing lute their har-
bour, ready to bring the traffio of nations there, but
nature had opposed hindrances to its being conveyed
into the interior. They had at length linked themselves
by lines of railway with the manufacturing districts of
England—they had, at length, advanced from steam on
the ocean to steam on the land, and now they could give
not only harbour room to the commerce of the world,
but every facility for conveying it away. (Cheers.)
Captain THOMSON returned thanks.
The CHAIRMAN next proposed, "Milford and Austra-
lia, may commerce unite them, and may their union be
permanent." He begged in connection with the toast
to drink the health of Mr. Ridgway.
Mr. RIDGWAY, in responding, said he was down there
for the purpose of carrying out an object which he bad
long had in viess;and,which if successfully achieved would,
he believed, make Milford Haven the first port in the
world. He had, after close examination of the matter,
formed his opinion that there was no port equal in advan-
tages, for purposes of commerce, to Milford, and he had
resolve], when the proper time arrived, to prove that
by some practical experiment. Circumstances had
brought him into somewhat close proximity with Au;-
tralia, and he was now determined to try whether a trade
with Australia could not be commenced there. He had
brought the first ship there, but whether the project
should be eventually successful or not would depend upon
themselves. There was much ignorance existing even
amongst shipowners and captains as to the capabilities
of the
.port. He had recently conversed with one
shipowner in London who had asked him whether
a large ship could anchor off Milford. Let it be theirs
to dispel that unaccountable ignorance from the minds
of merchants ails] others, and show to the world what
were the advantages of that splendid port. .The great
Duke of Wellington had been launched high up in the
harbour of Milford, together with many others of those
great ships now doing good service for the country in
other seas.
Other toasts followed, which were responded to by
Messrs. Grierson; W. Starbuck, Colonel Greville, &c.—
Haverfordicest Telegraph.