The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-27 00:00:00

tract was given to the owner of the ship Suzanne
at 15 francs 461 centimes the ton."
We have since received the Paris papers of
Saturday, from which the following are ex-
tracts :

STOCK EXCHANGE, QUARTER TO Two O'CLOCK.—
Five per Cents. lend of month, —f. —c. ; Threes
78f. 70e.
The Mom' teur publishes the following Report to the
IKing dated 23d inst. from the President of the Coun-
cil :—" Sire, It is of importance to the dignity of the
throne of your Majesty, and to the authority of our
institutions, that the men who have rendered emi.•
neat services to the King and the country, should
remain bound by their position as well as by their
duty to your Majesty, and that you may, on occasions
when you think it fitting, call them towards you, and
avail yourself of the light of their experience. This object
is endeavoured to be obtained in all well ordered
states by the formation of a Privy Council, which,
without taking any part in the administration of
public affairs, or in the action or responsibility of the
King's Government, may be rallied round the Crown,
whenever it requires the advice of men of honoured
names, and nothing is more suited to promote the
interests, as it is to the dignity of the State,
than to insure to men who have served it well

in its most important affairs a position respond-
ing to the rank they have filled, and to which
the King may recal them. To be unmindful of past
services is ill becoming a great nation, and a wise
Government. They do honour to themselves by ho-
nouring with impartiality merit and devotedness in
their servants. The cruel experience in times past
imposed upon the King and upon France has excited,
under these grave considerations, the solicitude of
your Majesty's Ministers. The measure I have the
honour to propose appears to them a natural and use-
ful consequence of the law on the Regency. If the
King deigns to approve of it, I shall intreat his autho-
rity for presenting to the Chambers, in the course of
the ensuing session, such financial measures as may
be necessary for carrying it into execution.
" Marshal Due de DALMATIE."
This is followed by a Royal Ordonnance, in these
terms :

" Louis Philippe, King of the French.—To all
to whom these presents shall come, greeting. On the
report of our President of the Council of Ministers
and Minister Secretary of State of the War Depart-
ment, we have ordained and do ordain as follows :
"Art. 1. Those who have rendered to the State, in
high public functions, eminent services, may receive
from us the title and rank of Ministers of State.

" Art. 2. No one can be appointed a Minister of
State who has not been a Minister Secretary of State
—Chancellor of France—President of the Chamber of
Peers—President of the Chamber of Deputies—Mar-
shal of France—Admiral—Ambassador—Grand
Chancellor of the Legion of Honour—First President
of the Court of Cassation—Procureur-General at the
Court of Cassation—First President of the Court ofAc-
counts—Procureur-General of the Court of Accounts
—Vice President of the Council of State—Governor
of the Invalides—Governor-General or Commander-
in-Chief of an army—Superior Commandant of the
National Guards of the Seine—First President of the
Cour Royale of Paris, or Procureur -General of the
Cour Royale of Paris.

"Art. 3. When we shall think fit to as3emble a
Privy Council round our person, it shall be formed of
—First, Princes of our family, having attained their
majority in age ; secondly, Ministers Secretaries of
State in office; thirdly, such Ministers of State as we
shall call upon by special summons.
"Art. 4. Our President of the Council of Ministers
and our Keeper of the Seals, are charged with the
execution of this Ordonnance.
" LOUIS PHILIPPE.

(Countersigned) " Marshal Duc de DALMATIE."
The Chamber of Commerce of Nantes has sent two
delegates to Paris, with an address to the Minister of
Agriculture and Commerce on the sugar question, ex-
pressing in terms equally positive as those of the ad-
dress from the Chamber of Bordeaux, on the impossi-
bility of a co-existence of home-made and colonial
sugar, and insisting upon the suppression of the first
with an indemnity.
The Madrid Patriota of the 17th, a Ministerial
organ, mentions the departure of General Seoane
for the head-quarters of the Regent, and states that
he was to be replaced as Captain-General of Ma-
drid by General Ferraz, but does not say that Ge-
neral Seoane has been appointed to succeed Van
Halen at Barcelona, although this is assumed by the
other journals. The Patriota gives the number of
troops in Catalonia at 40,000, and adds that the Re-
gent is doing everything possible not only to main-
tain order, but also to cast into oblivion the un-
happy scenes of which Catalonia has been witness.
The Eco del Comercio repeats the rumour of
the intended dissolution of the Cortes, and
mentions one that all the Government agents
whose zeal in the approaching elections cannot
be relied on are to be dismissed from office, under
a pretext that they were connected with the rebels
of Barcelona, and that the dissolution was resolved
upon by the Regent without consulting his Minis-
ters, who are to be dismissed on his return to the
capital. The bare mention of such a rumour showed
the virulence of the hostility of the Opposition press
of Madrid to the Regent.
It is stated from Barcelona, Dec. 17, that the Mu-
nicipal Elections were to take place on the following
dap
the St. Petersburgh Gazette specifically contradicts
all the reports disseminated in France as to French
prisoners having been detained in Siberia, and only
lately made their way back into their own country.
This article has been brought forth by the accounts
given in the French journals of the return of a man
named Simon Mayer to the department of the Moselle.
Palm, DEC. 24.—The accounts from Barcelona
are of the 17th. The Regent was to make his entry
on the following day, and to set out four days after-
wards for Madrid, whither he would go by way of
Valencia. He had already engaged two diligences
for himself and his suite.

It was said that Espartero, before he left Barce-
lona, would grant an amnesty to the persons who are
still confined in that citadel.

The municipal elections were to take place on the
18th. In a preparatory meeting M. Gobert had re-
signed the office of first Constitutional Alcade, this
choice not being agreeable to the Government; and it
seems Van Haien has found no better means to hinder

the election of M. Gobert than to have him arrested,
on the pretext that he had figured in a club of ill-
disposed persons. The whole city is indignant at this
arrest.—Le Commerce, Dec. 24.

BOURSE-PARIS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23.
First Highest I.owest Last
Price. Pries Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 118 90... 119 05... 118 85... 118 95
Four per Cents. 101 ... 101 ... 101 ... 101
Threes 7B 6g... 78 70... 78 60.. 78 70
Bank of France 3310 ...3320 ...3310 ...3320
Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1050 ..105() ...1050 ...1050
Belgian Bank
1841 1075 ...1080 ...1075 ...1080
Belgian Fives, 1840 lo3k ... 104 ... 103 i ... 103 k
Spanish Active. .
Passive 3i ... 4 ... 3i 4
Neapolitan ..... 106 35... 106 35... 106 35... 106 35
Roman
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