The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-12 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Emperor, letters from Biarritz state, was
present at a bull fight on Sunday last, but the Em-
press did not leave the villa, as the day was the
anniversary of her sister's death. The Emperor
was accompanied by Mme. de La Bedoyere and
another lady of the Court, Marshal Niel, Count
Walewski, and Gen. Ney. The bulls were fine
animals, and gave the favourite matadore, El Zato,
many opportunities of displaying his address, which
was several times applauded by the Emperor.
M. Antonio Flores has presented to the Minister
of Foreign Affairs letters which accredit him as
Charge d'Affaires of the Republic of the Equator
at Paris. M. Torres Caicedo has also presented his
credentials as Charge d'Affaires of Venezuela.
The following is the note addressed by the French
Government to Count de Massagnac, Charge
d'Affaires of France at Berne, on the subject of the
late disturbance at Ville-la-Grand;--

" Paris, 26th Aug., 1861.

" I announced to you by a telegraphic despatch
of the 21st of this month the grave incident which
occurred in the evening of the 18th in the French
Tillage of Ville la Grand, contiguous to the canton
of Geneva.

" The reports of the Prefect of the Haute Savoie
and of the Procureur-General of Chambery, of which
I annex copies, and the despatches of our Consul at
Geneva, will make known to you how the events
occurred, and will permit you to araw up in precise
terms the demands which you will have to address
immediately to the Federal Council.
" As you will see from these different documents,
it appears :-1. That the Swiss gendarmes and
gardes raised the pretension of imposing a tax on
public games established on French territory. 2.
That a person named Longet, who simply pointed
eut the flagrant illegality of this pretension, was
violently struck by a garde champetre in a Swiss
inn, situated on the other side of the frontier, and
was afterwards arrested, as was also his father, who
hastened to demand that he should be given up. 3.
That the inhabitants of the village of Ville la Grand,
moved by an arrest for which there was so little
justification, went to the inn in which were de-
tained the two Long ets, father and son, to obtain
theirrelease, were not only driven back by the Swiss
gendarmes, but pursued on the French territory.
Some stones having been thrown at the gendarmes,
they fired without any previous summons, and
three of the inhabitants of Ville la Grand were
wounded, one in the very gravest manner.
"On the whole, Sir, the first cause of the de-
plorable incident of which I have noticed the
principal features must be ascribed to an abusive
pretension of the Swiss agents, constituting a
violation of French territory, and an encroach-
ment on our sovereign rights. The events which
followed were only the consequences of it, and
if the inhabitants of Ville-la Grand made demon-
strations easy to understand in presence of the
ill treatment inflicted on Longet junior, and the
detention of that young man and his father,
nothing can justify the Swiss gendarmes for
having crossed the frontier, and having, without
being able to invoke any necessity of making use
of their arms, and at all events without previous
summons, fired on people who had no means of
defending themselves. The Emperor's Government
takes pleasure in not doubting the disposition of
the Federal Council to accord it the satisfaction
it has the right to expect in such a grave affair,
and which in its eyes can only consist in the severe
punishment of all the agents who took part in the
violation of our territory, and in the grant of a
sufficient and equitable indemnity to the French
subjects who were wounded by the Swiss gen-
darmes. You will be kind enough to present offi-
cially to the President of the Federal Council a
copy of the present despatch and of the annexed
documents.— Accept, &c. " THOUVENEL."
The Council of State of Geneva replied at great
length in a statement, dated Sept. 4, and addressed
to the Swiss Federal Council at Berne. The docu-
ment, which is of unusual length, brings forward
the same facts that we have already given when
analysing the statement emanating from the autho-
rities at Geneva.

BOURSE, Sept. 11.—The market has been rather
more buoyant, and a fair amount of business has
been done at improved quotations. Threes, for the
Account, are now at 69f 15e. Railways firm.
The following are the last quotations:-
4,4! per per Cents ... 96 60 Credit Foncier ll7O
Do. end month.... 96 70 Belgian 4}
3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 15 ! Roman
Bank Shares 2930 j Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 762 50 , Spanish Threes —
Do. Account 762 50 Home Debt .. 47 50