The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-21 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY.

The Emperor yesterday gave a private audience
to M. Corvaia, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary of the Republic of the Equador,
and M. Alberdi, appointed in the same quality by
the Argentine Confederation, who presented to his
Majesty their credentials. M. Marcoleta, the
Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Nica-
ragua, who, in the absence of the Emperor, had
delivered his letters of credence to the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, also had a private audience. The
Emperor afterwards received General Almo nte,
the Mexican Minister.

A journal Says that Prince Jerome is again suffer-
ing from slight indisposition. The statement is
quite unfounded.

The Grand Duke Constantine arrived in Paris
this afternoon at half-past ono o'clock. His Impe-
rial Highness was received at the railway station
by the Russian Ambassador ; H.I.H. and suite was
immediately conducted to the Palace of the
Tuileries. At four o'clock he paid a visit to the
Hotel of the Embassy.

To•morrow at 12 o'clock the Court of Appeal of
the Correctional Police will hear M. de Montalem-
bert's appeal against the sentence which the Em-
peror had by the note in the Moniteur sought
entirely to efface.
The Toulonnais gives some account of the arrival
of the Grand Duke Constantine at Toulon :—" The
Russian squadron on its arrival was received with
a salute from all the vessels in the roadstead. Early
in the afternoon the Grand Duke landed at the
arsenal under a second salute from all the vessels,
and proceeded in an open carriage to the Prefec-
ture. In the evening, there was a grand dinner
given to his Imperial Highness on board the admi-
ral's ship the Bretagne, at which all the principal
civil and military authorities were present. A
salute of 24 guns was fired by the Bretagne on the
arrival of the Prince on board, which was returned
by the Russian line-of-battle ship the Rattvisan.
On the following morning his Imperial Highness
left for Marseilles on board the Advice boat Rurik."
On his arrival there, a letter states, the authorities
went on board to pay their respects, and H.I.H.
entertained them at breakfast, and afterwards left
for Paris.

The Moniteur publishes the official return of the
customs revenue for last month and for the expired
11 months of the present year.. The receipts of
November amounted to 12,627,411 f., being an in-
crease of 270,638 f. as compared with the corre-
sponding month of last year. The amount received
during the 11 months was 167,365,099 f., showing a
decrease as compared with the same period of 1857
of 2,575,106 f. Those items of revenue which have
shown an improvement from the beginning of the
present year to the end of November are French
colonial sugar, 14,591,918 f. ; cocoa, 256,069 f. ;
coffee, 642, 673 f. ; hemp and flax, 413,701 f. ; cochi-
neal,4l,s2of.; raw cotton, 131,922 f. ; coal, 645,007 f. ;
oil, 521,795 f. ; rough salt, 15,096 f. ; raw and spun
silk, 45,303 f. ; sulphur, 47,432 f. ; pepper, 8,478 f.
Those which show the greatest falling off are—fo-
reign sugar, 6,222,153 f. ; cattleand sheep, 100,975 f.;
mahogany, 62,462 f. ; potable liquors, 5,879,079 f. ;
corn, 573,905 f. ; hemp and flax thread, 261,510 f. ;
oleaginous seeds, 311,054 f. ; tallow, 167,082 E ;
indigo, 197,299 f. ; raw wool, 402,840 f. ; rough
castings, 1,669,731 f. ; bar iron, steel, and copper,
and (lead, 575,245 f. ; linen and hempen cloth,
129,520 f. ; gold and silver, 63,003 f. (the amount of
the former was 1,683,898 f., and of the latter,
7,096,188 L) ; sundries, 3,275,744 f." The number
of French vessels which entered the different ports
during the 11 months of the present year was
9,838, measuring 1,496,083 tons, being, as compared
with 1857, a decrease of 378 vessels, and an increase
of 42,776 tons. The number of departures in 1858
was 8,471, measuring 1,288,296 tons, being an in-
crease on the preceding year of 2,072 vessels and
175,000 tons. The number of foreign vessels which
have arrived in the 11 months of the present year
was 12,433, measuring 2,014,553 tons, being a de-
crease, as compared with the corresponding period
of 1857, of 1,373 vessels and 312,649 tons. The
departures gave 9,788 vessels and 1,358,804 tons,
being an increase of 1,561 vessels and 93,106 tons.

BOURSE, Dec. 20.—The market has been very
flat ; capitalists are unwilling to take the lead in
any important movement, so long as nothing is
decided about the newly-projected Bank of Credit.
Threes have been done at 73f. 15c. and 73f. 10c. ;
Mobilier at 975 f. and 970 f. ; Orleans, 1,392 f. 50c.
and 1,390 f. ; Northern, 1,005 f. and 1,002 f. 50c. ;
Lyons, 881 f. 25c. to 878 f. 75c. ; Southern, 587 f.
30c. and 582 f. 50c. ; and Austrian, 640 f. and
635 f. The following were the last quotations
per Cents. .... 96 55 Credit Fonder
Do. end month .. Belgian 4}
3 per Cents
Do. end month 73 5 Roman 93
Bank Shares 3005 Austrian
Credit Mobilier .. 967 50 Spanish Threes
Do. Account 966 25 Home Debt 43 50