The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-12 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY, Nov. 12, 8. A. 3i.
M. Abbatucci, the Minister of Justice, is dead.
The Legislative Body is convoked for the 28th.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
The Emperor has addressed the following letter
to M. Magne, the Minister of Finance, on the pre-
sent monetary crisis :

" Compiegne, 10th.
"Monsieur le Ministre—l see with pain that, without
any apparent or real cause, an attack is made on public
credit by chimerical fears, and by the propagation of
nos-disant remedies for an evil which only exists in the
imagination. In preceding years, the apprehensions
whieh were entertained had, it must be allowed, some
foundation, A succession of bad harvests compelled us
every year to export several hundreds of millions in
specie to pay for the quantity of corn of which we were
deficieat, and nevertheless wo were able to ward off the
crisis and set at nought the gloomy predictions of alarm-
ists by some simple prudential measures, temporarily
adopted by the Bank of France. At present, why can
it not be understood that the same course of conduct,
rendered more easy by the law which allows the
rate of discount to be raised, must still more suffice to
preserve to the Bank the specie of which it stands in
need, since we are in a more favourable position than
lutt year, the harvest having been abundant and the
metallic reserve of the Bank being more considerable ?
I request you therefore to loudly contradict the absurd
projects
which are attributed to the Government, and
the propagation of which so readily creates alarm. It is
not without some degree of pride that we may affirm
that France is the country of Europe in which public
credit is founded on the widest and most solid bases.
The remarkable report which you have just addressed to
me is a proof of the fact. Restore courage to those who
are alarmed in vain, and assure them that I are decided
on not employing the empirical means to which recourse
is not had except in cases happily so rare and when
catastrophes beyond human fores'ght fall on the country.
Whereupon, I pray God to have you in his holy keep-
ing. "NalsoLlON2'

The Moniteur contains decrees, one repealing
the decree of 22d Sept. last prohibiting the export
of corn, flour, potatoes, pulse, and chestnuts ; and
the other repealing that of the 26th Oct., 1854,
which prohibits distillation from corn or any other
farinaceous substance fit for food. The decrees
prohibiting distillation from rice and foreign corn
are also repealed.
The Court of Assizes of the Aisne, in the second
part of its sitting of Monday, and in the first part
of that of yesterday, was cccupied in receiving evi-
dence respecting the various robberies alleged
to have been committed by the different pri
souera, but it was of little interest. Huget
and Lemaire related all the particulars re-
specting the robberies in which they had been con-
cerned, and they showed some zeal in accusing
their fellow-prisoners, and especially this elder
Villet, of having taken part iu them. The last-
mentioned prioner, as on previous days, defended
himself with great energy, and no little skill ; but
his manner was again most insolent. It was stated
that when iu the royal guard he was condemned
by court-martial to be shot for some crime, but
tt:at ho e;caped by the breaking out of the Revo-
lution of 1830. He declared that the statement
was fare, and inquiries were ordered to be made
on the subject. As to Lemaire, though he is re-
markably calm at the trial, he is said to have fits
of fury in his cell, and in one of them on the night
of Sunday he attempted to suffocate himself by
thrusting his blouse down his throat.
BOURSE, Nov. 11.—The market has shown
great steadiness, notwithstanding the Bank of
France has raised its rate of discount, any effect
having been counteracted by a rise of
on the
English Comols, and by favourable news from
New York. Threes have been done at from 66f. I
70c. to 66t. 85c.; Mobilier, 760 c. to 767 f. 50c.;

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Austrian, 6611. .25c. to 662 f. 500.; Orleans, 1,267 f.
50c. to 1,272 f, 50e.; Lyons, 705 f. to 800 f.• and
Southern, 527 f. 50c. to 530 c. The market continued
firm to the close, when the following were tho
last quotations :

Cash. fr. End of Month.
t per Cents .., ...... 90 40 —fr. --I.
i per Cent^ 66 GO G 7
Bank Slim oi "1930 Credit Foncier 5lO
Credit Mobilier 767 50 Roman
Do. Account 770 Austrian
Belgian 4 (x. 1)...... Spanish Threes__ --
Piesimontese (5) 9O Home Debt
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RAILWAYS—YOB, CASIL
fr. c. fr c.
Orleans' 1270 Midi
Northern - Western
New Ditto
Lyons and Med BO9 Grand Central
New Ditto... .. ..... 788 i— Sardinian -
Geneva 585 Austrian Cora. ...... 651;