The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-21 00:00:00

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FRANCE.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

A Ccatucil of Ministers, at which the Emperor
presided, was held yesterday,morning at Fontaine-
bleau. In the afternoon, their Majesties, accom-
panied by the King of Bavaria, the Grand Duchess
of Baden, the Duchess of Hamilton, and the other
guests at the palace, took a Strive in the forest in
chars a banes. In the evening, all the Court assem-
bled in the garden, and were present at a night
fete. A number of moraeaux were sung by the ar-
tistes and chorus of the opera, who were placed in
the summer house which stands in the centre of the
large piece of water, whilst boats ornamented with
Venetian lanterns rowed about in every direction.
Fireworks, principally consisting of pieces which
ran along the surface of the water, terminated the
evening, which was favoured by delightful weather.
It is said that a conference will la,. held in Paris,
composed of Representatives of the various Powers
who have signed treaties of commerce with Persia,
in order to agree to an arrangement which will
apply to all the consular agents in Peasia. The
conference will take place during the stay of the
Persian Ambassador in Paris.

A letter from Berlin, of the 17th inst., in the
Constitutionnel, says :
"It is very certain that the autograph letter
from the Emperor of the French to the King of
Prussia has exercised great influence on the late
occasion with respect to Neuchatel. - Hitherto,
Count de Hatzfeld could only consent generally to
the project of mediation, but he was anxious to
obtain the preservation of the original wording of
Art. 7, and the re-establishment of the article rela-
tive to the revision of the constitution. On these
conditions alone he was authorised to give up the
indemnity of a million. It is precisely to these
conditions that the letter from the Emperor of the
French related. It stated that the project of me-
diation was the maximum of what France had been
able to obtain, and that any further modification
of the treaty already accepted by Switzerland
might be attended with the most serious conse-
quences, as England supported Switzerland in her
opposition. The letter, morever, remarked that,
with the guarantee of all, the great powers, it was
not necessary to change the wording of Art. 7, the
proposed mediation of the powers having the same
object as the Prussian wording, namely, to gua-
rantee the church property in Neufchatel. It lastly
declared that to add an article relative to the revi-
sion of the constitution would be impossible with-
out risking the failure of all attempt at conciliation.
Count de Hatzfeld consequently received orders to
sign the treaty purely and simply. The Sin r, who
at first was opposed to any pecuniary indemnity,
and only demanded one in the hope of making
Switzerland agree to other concessions on his aban-
doning it, ordered Count de Hatzfeld to strike out
the clause about the payment of a million."
BOURSE, May 20.—The following were the laat
quotations :

Eud of Month.
91fr. 30

Cash. fr. c.
46 per Cents
3 per Cents 69
Bank Shares 4,500
Credit Mobilier 1,270 Roman
Do. Account 1,275 Austrian
Belgian 41
Piedmontese (5) 9O 50 Home Debt
RAILWAYS—FOR CASH.
fr. c.
Orleans
Northern

fr c
Western
Strasburg
New Ditto
Grand Central -
Sardinian . 552,1-
Austrian Cum. 700 -

Lyons 1 ,1824
Mediterrar ean 1,930.—

Geneva I
Midi -

RUSSIA.

A letter from St. Petersburg of the 12th says
that the birth of an Imperial Prince (already an-
nounced by telegraph) was made known to the in-
habitants of that city by the firing of 301 guns
from the ramparts of the fortress. The newly-
born Prince has of course received the title of
Grand Duke and Imperial Highness. As already
stated he is the fifth son and sixth child of the
Emperor and Empress ; the eldest son of their
Majesties is now nearly 14 years of age. General
Bethancourt, aide-de-camp of the Emperor, has
been charged- to convey the news of the birth to
the Empress Dowager, and Colonel Samsonoff,
arother aide-de-camp, to the Court of Darmstadt.
In consequence of the birth, the Court has given
up the six days' mourning which, it had ordered
for the Duchess of Saxony, and the Duchess
of Gloucester. The Emperor, on the occasion
of the residence of the Dowager Empress
at Nice, has granted decorations to several Sat di-
nian dignitaries—the grand cross of St. Alexander
Newski, in diamonds, to Count de Cavour, and the
same, without diamonds, to General La Marmora;
the order of St. Anne, of the first class, to Cheva-
lier Paleneapa, Minister of Public Works, and that
of the White Eagle to Count Nigra, minister of
the King's household. Count Esterhazy, minister
of Austria, having obtained leave of absence, had
had his final audience of the Emperor.
According to another letter fr om St. Petersburg,
in the .Nord of Bruss-1., the Russian troops in the
Caucasus had advanced into the very heart of the
Tchetchnia, and General Baron Nicolai had carried,
after a brilliant assault, the entrenchments thrown
up by the Circassians betweed the rivers Amala and
Yaryk, and known as the gales of Guetemir. The
mountaineers sent by Schamyl to d.efend the posi-
tion bad, it is added, been put to flight.