The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-12 00:00:00

,312 /1 XI M.

PARIS, Sept. 12.
An imperial decree has been issued ordering the
Customs import duties upon sugar candies in cases
and casks to be levied in future according to the
net weights
The Moniteur of this morning publishes the fol-
lowing statistics relative to the late visitation of
cholera in Paris : —" The disease broke out in Parii
in the early part of July. The greatest number of
deaths never exceeded 150 daily. Towards the end
of July the violence of the epidemic sensibly di-
minished, and since Sept. 1 the average number of
cases which proved fatal has been 15 daily in the
hospitals and 22 daily in the city itself."
A letter from St. Petersburg in the Moniteur,
dated August 31, gives some interesting details re-
specting the construction of railways in the empire :
-" St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Warsaw are
already in communication, and Eastern Prussia and
Berlin can be reached by Gumbinnen and Thorn.
Further south the Russian line joins that of Cra-
cow, and communicates with Austrian and Prussian
Silesia, and before long the southern line, which
goes at present from Odessa to Balta, will run
through Bessarabia, the province which adjoins the
Danubian Principalities, and effect its junction in
Galicia with the Lemberg line. Another central
trunk line, from north to south, is intended to con-
nect the capital, Moscow, Orel, Koursk, Karkew,
Nicolaieff, Sebastopol, and Taganrog, and to place
the Gulf of Finland in communication with the
Crimea. The southern part of this line will fulfil
to the east the same object as that of Odessa-Balta
on the west, that of conveying to the two principal
ports, Taganrog and Odessa, the wheat of the
Ukrain, Pultowa, Ekaterinoslaw, Kherson, and
Podolia. A branch from the Balta line will doubt-
less be carried to the north-cast, towards the central
point of Oriel. In a few weeks the portion from
Moscow to Serpoukoff will be opened for public
traffic, and Koursk will be reached next year.
If Prussia cannot as yet carry her produce unin-
terruptedly from the Baltic to the Black Sea, she has
railways which take it, or will soon do so, to the
frontiers of all her neighbours from the Pruth to the
Niemen. Other interior and cross-lines, such as
those of Riazan and. Nijni-Novgorod are of great
utility; but none seem more worthy of interest
than the two following, intended to form a double
communication between the Caspian and Black
Seas. The first of these, of which only some
twenty leagues are open, is in full activity. It
starts from Tzaritziu, an important town on the
right bank of the Volga, which falls into the Cas-
pian, and terminates at Kalatcheff, a town on the
left bank of the Don, which runs into the sea of
Azoff. The second of these is due to the persever-
ance of the Grand Duke Michael, Governor-Gene-
ral of the Caucasus. A railway is to unite the port
of Poti, on the Black Sea, to Bakou, on the Cas-
pian, passing through Kutais and Tiflis, a large
part of its course being through the valleys of the
Rion and the Kour. For two years six thousand
soldiers have been employed on the works, under
the direction of Mr.- Bailey, an English engineer.
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Important works are in progress at Poti, which will
make it the principal port in that part of the Black
Sea, and a steamboat service between there and
Constantinople is being organised, as well as a car-
riage road between Tiflis and Tauris. the mer-
chandise from Persia and Central Asia will very
likely traverse these Russian routes, and it may be
foreseen the trans-Caucasian railways will absorb
a large portion of the transit between Europe and
Asia."

BOURSE, Sept. 11.—Two o'clock.—The weakness
which existed during the latter part of yesterday's
market has made further progress to-day, and the
decline is heavy on some securities, more especially

on Italian Fives, which have fallen one per cent.—
to 57f. 70c. French Threes were done at 70f. 15c.,
or 17ic. lower ; Mobilier at 680 f., or a loss of 12f.
50c. Comptoir d'Escompte at 925 f., or a fall of sf. ;
Credit Foncier at 1395 f., the same as yesterday.
Notice of the following discounts was posted up--
34,500 f. of French Rente, and 7,500 f. of Italian
Fives. The Railway Market has also shown a
tendency.
Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows :-
4i per Cents — Bank Shares 1615
Do. end month — Italian Loan 5B 10
3 per Cents.
Do. end month 7O 25 Mexican Loan —
Credit Mobilier 678 75 Do. Bonds —
Do. end month ... 682 50 Spanish Threes
Credit Fourier 1390 Home Debt
Do. end month 1397 50 Deferred