12 OCTOBER 1861, Page 9

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FRANCE.

Rims, Oct. 11. TnE Honiteur of to-day publishes a decree, according to which all cargoes of grain, flour, rice, potatoes, and dry vegetables are exempted, until September, 1862, from interior navigation dues collected for the State on rivers or canals not conceded to public companies. By the same decree, foreign vessels will enjoy the same privileges as French ships. The Moniteur also publishes a decree appointing Rear-Admiral Jnrieu Likgraviere to the command of the naval division which France will send to Mexico, and nominating the commanders of five ships of the expedition,

Prince Jerome and Princess Clotilde arrived at Brest on the 7th October. They had left Newfoundland on the 30th September, making a seven days' run thence to Brittany.