The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-17 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Paris Savings Bank received in the fortnight
ending the 15th instant deposits amounting to
1,044,070 fr., and reimbursed the sum of 588,100 fr.
The total of the payments into the Caisse des
Retraites for the Aged during the same period was
552 ,504 fr.

The weather yesterday in Paris was exceedingly
uncertain, rain having fallen several times. At
3 p.m. the thermometer marked 21 Centigrade
(69 4-5 Fah.)

- The Swiss Federal Council has reduced the charge
of telegrams in the interior of the country from lfr.
to 50c. for 20 words. The new rate is to come in
force the Ist January, 1868.

The Academy of Sciences at its last sitting pro-
ceeded to the election of a member in the section of
Chemistry, in place of M. Pelouze, deceased. M.
IVurtz, the Senior of the Faculty of Medicine, was
nominated by 46 voters to 7.

The Swiss Federal Council bas decided that its
diplomatic representation abroad shall be confined
to four Legations :—France, Italy, Austria, and
Prussia.

Admiral Rigault de Genouilly, Minister of
Marine, intends, it is said, after the vote of the
Budget, to visit the five great military ports of
France, with the view of personally inspecting the
state of the arsenals.
BOURSE, July 16, Two o'clock.—The IA-monthly
settlement is progressing favourably. The market
closed as follows:_.

41- per Cents 99 35
Do. and month
3 por Cents. 69 _
Do. end month 63 95
Credit Mobilier 365
Do. end month 366 25
Credit Fonder
Do. end month 1115 -
RAIL'

Bank 5hare5.........
Italian L0an......... 50
Do. end m0nth...... 50 05
Mexican Loan ......
Do. 80nd5.........
Spanish Threes ...
Home Debt .........
Deferred ............
'AY&

Orleans ................................... For Account. 885
Northern .. ........................ 1170
Lyons and Mediterranean ........... 885
Southern ................................. 555
Western .................................. 665
Eastern ................................... 540
Sardinian ................................ —"—
Austrian ................................. 466 25
Lombard .................................. 381 25
North of Spain ...........
Saragossa ........ ...............
........................ 105
Roman . ..................................

VISIT OF THE BELGIAN VOLUNTEERS
TO 711 E C'IIY.S7AL PALACE.

The Belgian Volunteers this morning assembled
at the usual place and hour, and proceeded to the
Crystal Palace. They received the same friendly
greeting from the public that has attended all their
movements.

On the arrival at the palace a scene of the
greatest interest and excitement prevailed, the
bands performing the national anthems of England
and that of Belgium. The vast concourse of visitors
assembled on the occasion, and the fineness of the
weather, all combined, produced one of the most
splendid sights that can be imagined.
Our foreign visitors seemed in ecstacies with the
splendour of the Palace and grounds, and the ex-
pressions of wonder and surprise were general, and
heard on every side.
The visit to the Crystal Palace seemed to afford
unbounded delight to the Belgians, who, shortly
after their arrival, were to be seen in small clusters
in every part of the Palace and grounds.

C 0 LDBATII- FIELDS HOUSE OF CORRECTION. —By
a majority of
.60 to 48 the Middlesex magistrates
have at length resolved to permit Roman Catholic pri-
soners in the Coldbath-fields louse of Correction to attend
mass. At their previous sessions the justices of the county
decided that there is " no authority for such a proceeding,
and it cannot be allowed." We have already pointed
out in these columns that the resolution was
founded upon an erroneous view of the law. The
Prisons Act of 1865 clearly shows the intention of the
Legislature to be that Romanist prisoners should be allowed
to attend Divine service according to the forms of their
religion. And this opinion is confirmed by the late Attor-
ney-General and the present Solicitor-General, who have
been consulted by the visiting justices of the prison.
Mr. Sergeant Payne, eminent for his zeal in the
cause of Protestantism, moved his brother justices to dis-
regard the weighty legal opinion ; but happily, even at the
Middlesex Sessions, a majority of those who occupy the
bench aro willing to recognisa the authority of Parliament
Tho decision which permits a number of the inmates of
Coldbath-fields Prison to worship God in the only way
sanctioned by their consciences will be accepted by the
public as a tardy homage to the sacred principles of reli-
gious tolerance, common prudence, and common justice.—
Telegraph.