FRANCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XIV, Issue 602, 24 October 1855, Page 2

FRANCE.

Paris, Wednesday evening, June 20th. The Paris funds were done to-day at the Bourse at 98f. 60c. ; the 3 per cents., at 68f. 25c.

The Emperor of the French is convalescent. In reference to his illness it is said by an English paper, "His Majesty Louis Napoleon has so opened himself to suspicions of stockjobbing, that it is not extraordinary that even his sudden and sharp illness on Sunday should have excited the sinister suggestion that his friends requested him to be a malade imaginaire for a day or two. For, no doubt, the funds went down, and went up again (after Pelissier's message of the 16th) with marvellous suddenness — a suddenness that, well managed, might have made many a fortune."

Submarine Petaeds atKebtsch. — The Moniteur contains a despatch from Admiral Bruat, dated June 1, in which, describing the advance through the passage of Cape St. Paul, he says—" A great many ships had been sunk in the pass. Scattered by the currents and the melting of the ice, these ships were so many reefs, the approach to which was not revealed by soundings, and of the position of which we were entirely ignorant. The enemy had also laid here and there, at the bottom, some infernal machines, like those we have found in the arsenal at Kertsch, where we have been able to examine them at our leisure. A triple wire, cased in gutta percha, connected these machines with an electric apparatus placed in the St. Paul battery. In this manner it would have been easy, as soon bb our ships got entangled in the pass, to cause these submarine petards to explode instantaneously under their sides, the effect of which explosion must be decisive, provided it were to take place at the precise moment." At the Paris Exhibition, the average receipts per diem on the one franc day is 10,000 francs at the Industrial, and 4,000 francs at the Fine Arta Eihition.

The Times' Vienna correspondent states, that the right to construct a railroad across the isthmus of Suez has been granted to a French company.