The number of shares applied for in the new Bank,
Le Credit Indus- trie', we learn, amounted to 163,899; there were 75,700 to be divided among the public ; for every 100 asked for, forty-six will be granted; the applications from a single Paris firm amounted to the whole number of shares issued.
A correspondent recounts the late strange scene on the Paris Bourse- " The number of licensed stockbrokers in Paris is sixty ; the office is pur- chasable, at the present moment for about 80,000/. ; there are also un- licensed stockbrokers, who charge half-brokerage ; last Friday the privileged sixty laid an information against their irregular brethren, and the same night a descent was made on the offices of twenty coulissiers,' as they are called, and their books and papers were seized; however, on Satutday, an order came direct from the Emperor during the Bourse to suspend all hostile operations ; then occurred a most curious scene; at the time the funds were going down and the licensed brokers were selling largely, the coulissiers, partly from gratitude, partly out of opposition, paraded round the sacred effete in which the privileged buy and sell, and bought funds right famously to the shouts of Vive rEmpereur.' "The coulissiers' or unlicensed brokers are no longer allowed by the po- lice to talk in a loud tone of voice at the Bourse ; they consequently carry on their business by signs." Yesterday the Paris Bourse opened one hour earlier, at noon, and con- tinued open, as usual, until three o'clock. These new hours are adopted as a permanent rule.
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