The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-22 00:00:00

FRANCE.

ROUEN, Sept. 22.

The Paris correspondence of the AID nal de Rouen
asserts that the French Minister of War is prepar-
ing to send 80,000 soldiers to their homes.

NIORT, Sept. 22.

At a banquet given by the Agricultural Society
of this town General Allard proposed a toast
to the Emperor, whose high wisdom and firmness,
he declared, had saved France from anarchy at home
and imminent war abroad.

A communication from Florence in the Temps
says :—" The existing Ministry asks no better than
to remain in office and continue its reparative'
role, and teach the public thought to cease to dwell
on Rome. Every one believes it is sincere when
it asserts that the dream of the Eternal city as the
capital is commencing to fade away, and will do
so more and more. Permit me to make a slight
digression on this subject. You know that here
immense works have been undertaken since 1865.
The old walls are being pulled down ; they dated
from Arnolfo di Zapo ; from 1290 to 1330, and
were raised at the same time as the cathedral, and
the Companile de Giotto which Dante saw begun.
The city is going to be extended northwards be-
tween the banks of the rivulets, Africo and Mug-
none, small tributaries of the Arno, coming from
the hills of Fiesole. Grand quarters are being
constructed in that direction, and twenty other
important improvements in the capital are going on.
Florence is spreading out and making preparations
for 600 or 800 thousand inhabitants. Down to
this year these matters progressed very slowly,
as the municipality doubted that Florence would
continue to be the seat of Government, and there-
fore avoided the expense. At present it seems to
hesitate no longer, and presses on its operations.
In two years, markets, new streets, places, squares,
all will be finished. Many persons have remarked
this state of things and argue thus : When Count
de Cambray-Digney was only Syndic here he de-
layed the works; since he is Minister he urges
them f(!rwalr\drh:atthies fsaocetvisidtehnetreore `?'_'Whyvery,clear'
.'this,
that . .
both the Count and General Menabrea have at
present only a majority of 19 in the Parliament,
but if they took up the question of Rome they
would have 300 votes against them.' Therefore is
it that they are quite resolved to adhere to the pre-
the following :
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" The Holy Father lately paid an unexpected visit
to the military hospital near San Spirito at Sassia.
He was received by the lour chaplains attached to
the establishment, and by the Directors Pagani and
Pelagalla. His Holiness went through the diffe-
rent wards and conversed for more than an hour
in the most kindly manner with the patients, who
were happy and consoled in hearing his gentle lan-
guage. The Pope exhorted them to patience and
Christian resignation. the Minister of War
having arrived with some officers shortly after had
the honour to accompany his Holiness in his visit.
The Holy Father expressed his satisfaction at the
state in which he found everything, and, before
leaving, gave his:apostolical blessing to the patients,
the persons attached to the service of the sick, in-
cluding the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de
Paul, and to the soldiers' daughters instructed by
them in an adjoining
school."
A letter from Bale, in the Industriel Alsacien,
says :—" In many of the Swiss Cantons the for-
malities preceding marriage are so onerous that a
legitinAata union is often inaccessible to modest
purses. The sad moral consequences produced by
such a state of legislation, the abrogation of which
is demanded by all enlightened minds, may easily
be imagined. The Constituent assembly of Zurich
has just taken a resolution on this subject which
does honour to the liberal spirit which presides
over the deliberations of that body. After having
voted by an immense majority the introduction of
the optional civil ceremony it has abolished all
taxes hitherto imposed on those who wish to be
united; the latter in future will only have to pay
some trifling fees. The intervention of function-
aries and ecclesiastics in the celebration of the rite
is to be gratuitous."
BOURSE, Sept. 21.—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :

4 per Cent. lOO 10
End of month
3 per Cent
End of month 6B 9211
Credit Mobilier 272
End of month 276 25
Credit Foncier l4OO
End of month —

Bank Shares 3]25
Italian Loan
End of month —
blexica,n Loan
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred 32
Cash
Orleans ........................ 900
Northern ........................................ 1165
Lyons and Mediterr.a.n"e.a..n. ............... 947
Southern.... 5BO
Western ............ ................. 533
Eastern ...................................... 568
Sardinian ....... ........................ 42
Austrian ................................... ; . 543
Lombard ......................................... 402
North of Spain ..........
52
Saragossa, .................................... 72
Roman ............. 391

RAILWAY

An armed party, numbering about sixty persons,
some of whom were mounted, and headed by a sup-
posed American leader dressed in green uniform,
attacked the residence of Mr. John B. Justice, of
Mount Justice-house, near Millstreet, count of
Cork, about half-past eleven o'clock on Monday
night, and carried off all the arms they co ad find.

'The first college for yeung girls at Cronstadt
has just been inaugurated, the governor, mayor,
and a large number of the inhabitr,nts being pre-
sent. Seventy-three pupils were admitted on the
first day. These establishments of public instruc-
tion aro becoming more and more numerous in
Russia, and enjoy an excellent reputatio n. Tte
selection of the ladies who direct them is always
made with great care.