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

FRANCE.

Bounsz, D:c. 10.—The market has been more
buoyant, and the business done has been at an im-
provement. Threes, for the Account, are now at
66f. 200., and Mobilier at 943 f. 75c. Railway
Market firm, with higher quotations on some of the
lines. The market became rather weaker towards
the close, and left off as follows :
ft per Cents .. 93 50
Do. end month....
3 per Cents .. 66
Do. end month.... 66 10
Credit Mobilier.... 937 60
Do. end month.... 935
Bank Shares 3530
Credit Fonoier 1240
Roman
RIM

Italian Loan 65 70
Do. end month 65 75
Ditto Threes ..
New Mexican .... 501
Russian
A.ustrian
Spanish Threes 45 50
Home Debt
Deferral
rim.
Cash. Account.
Orleans ....... ~..,.... 860 867 50
Northern .... lOOO .. 997 50
Lyons and Mediterranean 872 60 .. 876 25
Southern - 687 50 .. 595
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa 422 60 .. 425
Ditto to Barcelona

PENTONVILLE PRISON.—The appointment of
Governor of Pentonville Prison having become vacant by
the absconding of Captain Craig, the same has been con-
ferred on Mr John C. 11. Bones, Deputy-Governor of Ports.
mouth Convict Prison. C Aptain C. B. La Trouche bas
been appointed to succeed Mr Bones at Portsmouth Prison.

IN " MRS. LIRRIPER," says the Saturday Review,
another character has been added to the long list of Mr.
Dickens' creations whose names are household words among
all sorts and conditions of people in Great Britain and Aus-
tralia, and the United States, and wherever else humour
that is so essentiallyEnglsih can hope to be appreciated, If
Mrs. Lirriper is less familiarly and frequently alluded to
than Sairey Gamp, or Sam Weller, or Mr Micawber, it can
only be because she accidentally lacks a more elaborate set-
ting, and not from any want of distinctness or individuality
in her own character. Her shrewdness and thriftiness, her
prejudices, her simplicity, her real good-heartiness, veiled
as it is by vigorous sarcasms against Miss Wozenham or
the Wandering Christians, or servants, and above every.
thing, her coufused volubility of speech, all make Mrs Lir-
riper a real person in the reader's mind. Her name calls up
a human being, and not a mere parcel of droll sayings or
eccentricities of manner, The twelve pages in which, last
Christmas, MrDickens made her a famitiar friend to so many
thousands of people, are perhaps the most illimitable of his
Performances.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day,
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COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr Commissioner GJulborn.)
IN RE C. A. BUCK.
(Judgment—Commitment under the penal clauses.)

His Honour to-day gave judgment on the question of
order of discharge. The baukrui t was described as of
Albert-street, Victoria-square, Pimlico. He had previously
lived at a great number of places in London, &c., and at
several places in New Z..aland. He now owes £2,100 debts,
contracted within two years, and produced no assets. He
was opposed on behalf of a Mr Fox, who had, upon the
bankrupt's false representations, let him have furniture of
the value of £320, with which he furnished a house, and on
the faith of his apparent respectability, got credit from
a great number of tradesmen to a large amount,
and he then got rid of the furniture, obtaining an advance
of 1;200 from a loan and reversionary society,

His Honour said that he considered that this was a case
in which he ought to exercise the power -vested in the
Court of ordering an imprisonment under the penal clause.
He went through a long history of the transaction, and
said that this was one et those cases now frequently before
the Court. The bankrupt was a mere adventurer—a kind
of personage without any means, and plundering every
person who was credulous enough to give him credit.
He considered that the goods had been obtained from Mr
Fox without the bankrupt having any reasonable prospect of
being able to pay, and also that the bankrupt had been
guilty of reckless and extravagant expenditure, and had
brought himself within the 169th section ; but the mere
suspension of the order of discharge would probably be no
punishment, as the creditors might not be in a position to
place the bankrupt in prism except at great expense. He
(his Honour) therefore would deal with the case the same as
though the case was before him in the Crown Court, and a
man had been guilty of fraud as that disclosed here. Aa
the bankrupt had been in prison for two months, he would
sentence him to a further imprisonment for four months in
Newgate or Whitecross•street prison, and the warrant
would now issue.