POSTSCRIPT.
"Paris, Thursday, December 15111. "I have no special news of importance to bring under your notice this week. The remarkable firmness with which the rise of 2 per cent in the French Funds is maintained, is of course the subject of conversa- tion, and shares the honours with the Lemoine trial and the duel between the Marquis de Lauriston and Marquis de Gallifet. The only disturb- ing influence to the animation of business is the news of your projected expenditure of ten millions on fortifications, and the report that the French Government has ordered ten thousand tons of iron in England for the construction of iron-plated vessels, &c. It is also thought that new undertakings to be brought forward early next year—such as a new Russian Loan, another Brazilian Railway, &c.—will prevent the English Funds from reaching a very high figure, and may have a depressing tendency here. The Emperor's reply to the Austrian Ambassador had a good effect yesterday on the Bourse.' The ifoniteur of yesterday published an article explaining the law on the press, the wisdom and necessity of which, it says, has been proved by eight years' exercise. The latest official statement respecting the health of Prince Jerome Bonaparte is that it is improving. We hear, however, privately that he is dying.
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