The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-17 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Duo. 16.—The market continues heavy,
and prices have again slightly declined. Threes
are now at 66f. 20c., and Mobilier at 926 f. 25c.
Railway Mullet quiet, and with little variation in

quotations up the present
tinned heavy to the close,
41 per Cents .. 93 50
Do. end month....
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 25
Credit Mobilierw
Do. end month 920 --
Bank Shares 3587 60
Credit k oncier 1227 50
Roman

time. The market con-
and left off as follows :

Italian Loan 65 46
Do. end month 65 65
Ditto Threes ..
New Mexican .... 50 50
Russian

Austrian

Spanish Threes.... 45 25
Rome Debt ..... .

Deferred
RAIL Alf,.

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern ........
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard ..........
North of Spain ........
Saragossa..
Ditto to Barcelona

Cash. Amount.
850 .. 850
992 60 932 50
872 50 .. 876 25
580 .. 552 50
513 75 .. 515
492 50 .. 492 50
310 .. 310 --
428 75 .. 431 25
505 505
366 25 366 25
428 75 .. 425
.. 190

AN ACTION FOR LIBEL.

(From the Bulkier.)
In May last we received a letter from an architect de-
scribing the evil condition of a fishmonger's yard iato which
the window of his office opened. Knowing the writer, and
considering it to be a duty to endeavour to remedy the state
of things therein described, the letter, after much considera-
tion, was inserted, No name was mentioned, the locality
was merely hinted at, and wo did r.ot ourselves know to
whet premises the letter referred. The occupier of a supper-
house and shell-fish shop, however, in the neighbourhood
indicated, brought an action for damages against the pub-
lisher of this journal, and the cause was tried last week at
Westminster.

The plaintiff, being examined, denied the correctness of
othffeinsttahteemmeonntsth following
published,
thed,andsvauidbihicisatibounsitno the extentesshadfal o
fallen
of £54. A boy in his employ gave similar evidence so far
as related to the state of the yard. The local inspector of
nuisances said he had never seen unything in the yard more
than would bo there iu the usual course of business. In
1852, he continued, there had been a complaint, and the
plaintiff was summoned to Bow-street in reference to his
copper, when it was arranged that there should be a hood
to it. There had also been a complaint since: The medi-
cal officer of health said that, Bill4B the summons at Bow-
street, he had received complaints of the yard from Craig's-
court, and he had visited the place on those occasions.
Except the tffitzvia from the bhellfish, he never ex-
perienced anything that would warrant him in giving
notice to the vestry of a nuisance to be removed. On the
part of the defendent, the architect who wrote the letter
swore distinctly and positively to the truth of every word of
it. He had complained at the vestry-house of the
nuisance.
He had been
had suffered reat unabinconvenile to open his window for the smell, and
gence from the state of the yard.
Another architect, who had occapied part of the same
lihouse, his assi
house stanthis , a fourth gentleman who had formerly
ved in the , clerk, and the housekeeper, confirmed
various portions of the first witness's testimony.
The editor of
furth the paperanceer
of s deposed that it had long been
anitary improvement, and
the
that the letter, vouched for by a e
etiown correspondent, was
told the jury that, 1111-
eJyuwd
defendant had proved the
letter, they must find a
insertedt
ri th
of sailmglerpetehicyoecfoshontipaeiptefaujmiobunelsinetttihcsgearitonßuthanthrdele:d;
vieeBTracihtichet for the plaintiff. He further, after beating testimony
thatrilethoeuld not permit the
to the excellent character of thd
on the conduct of a fellow-man.
paper, laid down the
coeductor of a " powerful
organ"of
any extraordinarysuchst at,.. m aedsno
ttchtrra
tei
fin
tieetiwas,ng
insertion
Thus a statesman might sell his
her armies, or a judge her liberti country, a general betray
es; but the conductors of
powerful organs were to admit no word of warning or expo.
sure. There may have been pialifrin_
hearers was
returned with a vet,
g terms in the Chief
Justice's address, though we die nut hear them ; but the
wEi5 what we have stated ;
In the interest of social improvement and the public
dieta u d impressionit.ol the jury,
tjhuer 3,
plaintiff—damages,
leftft e°ruahbri si
brief
450
we feel it to be a duty to record Wre thus briefly the facts
press as a public safeguard,
ot the health,
trial, n
leaving
thevin g o u interestr reader
e aocif
etrh
teo
They will ask them:elves which set of witnesses had the
least reason for disingenuousnessdiaw their own inferenors.
and they will doubtless
reflect on what the doctrine of the Chief Justice would lead
to if it could be enforced.
The counsel for the plaintiff, whose general knowledge,
by the way, seemed to be like a joint stock company he
alluded to, "limited," pretended to be indignant that
" this Mr Editor" should seek to
exposer
sanitary defects
and dangers, and obtain improvements when there were an
Act of Parliament and local boards of health purposely to
regulate such matters. We take the liberty of telling" thi
Mr Barrister, that when the very aot of parliament to which
he referred was brought as a bill into the House of Com-
mons, the government
Showed the necessity of passing it
by reference to the investigations made and the statements
as to the sanitary condition of the people published by this
very journal. Moreover, that the advantages resulting,
spite of thetbstructions offered by the ignorant, the preju-
diced, and the interested, !rem the efforts made in these
pages with that end in view, have been thankfully recog-
nised from time to time all over the kingdom.
With strong
conviction of the enormous importance of
the subject, and abundant evidence that our well-meant en
deavours have rot been without avail' we are not likely to
be deterred from pursuing the course in which we have now
so:loug, and with some personal sacrificeelaboured earnestly
however humbly. We are not the first who have been
made to suffer for disinterested efforts in the service of the

The Areutz Zeitung atates that Prince Henry
VII. of Reuss, formerly Secretary to the Prussian
Embassy in Paris, and afterwards Prussian Minister
at Cassel, has been ramed Minister Plenipotentiary
at the Curia of Bavaria.

TILE LETTER H.—sic Jame; Scarlett, when at
the bar, had to cross-examine a witness whose evidence it
was thought si ould be very damaging unless he could be
bothered a little, and his only vulnerable point was said to
be self-esteem. The witness presented himself in the box—
a portly, over-dressed person, and Scarlett took him in hand.
"Mr John Tomkins, I believe ?"—"Yes." "You are a
stockbroker ?"—" I ham." Scarlett regarded him atten-
tively for a few moments, and then said, "And a very fine,
well-dressed ham you are, sir." The shout of laughter
which followed completely disconcerted the witness, and
the counsel's point was gained,