The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-31 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Lyons journals give a king account of a grand
cavalcade which took plP.oe in that city on Monday,
and which, notwittstanding the cold and windy
weather, attraoced a vast number of spectators. The
principal ;Jar in the procession carried a statue
representing the Industry of Lyons, surrounded by
(t display of rich silks and velvets, and four statues
of children each holding some instrument employed
in their manufacture. Other ears represented the
Army, Navy, and Agriculture, and Typography.
On this last was a printing•press, with which work-
men struck offend sold to the crowd, for the benefit
of the poor, a cantata in honour of Lyons, written
for the occasion by a poetical compositor named
Vingtrinier. The car of the Orpheons held flags
bearing the names of the different societies, and in
the midst of them were personages representing
Apollo and Orpheus, who seemed to suffer terribly
from the cold. The persons in historical costumes
were well dressed, and so numerous that the proces-
sion was *.,early an hour passing any given point.
The alnount of the collection for the benefit of the
prJor was nearly 30,000 f.

BOURSE, March 30.—But little change has taken
place in the tone of the market, and the near ap •
proach of the settlement stilt acts as a bar to any
fresh operation of consequence. Threes, for the
Account, have up to the present time alternated be-
tween 65f. 80c. and 65f. 90. Mobilier shows a slight
improvement, being now at 1,046 f. 25c. Little
animation in the Railway Market, but with prices
pretty well maintained. The market closed as fol.
lows :

41 per Cents. 93 10
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 65 80
Credit Mobilior 1042 50
Do, end month 1042 50
Bank Shares 3295
Credit Fonder 1275
Roman

Italian Loan . 65
Do. end month.... 67 65
New ditto —
Do. end month —
Russian

Austrian
Spanish Threes 5l 50
Home Debt .. —
Deferred

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans %. 999 25 .. 998 75
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean
N ew ditto
Southern
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian
Austrian
Lon.bard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

950 - .. 950 -
900 - - -
658 75 .. 657 50
522 50 .. 525 -
477 50 .. 477 50
368 75 367 50
410 - .. 410 -
547 50 .. 547 50
483 75 .. 487 50
583 75 .. 585 -
276 50 ---

THE SHEFFIELD CALAMITY.

The following important correspondence has
passed between Sir G. Grey, the Secretary for Home
Affairs, and the directors of the Sheffield Water-
works :

Whitehall, 28th March, 1864.
Sir, —I am directed by Secretary Sir G. Grey to transmit
to you a copy of a letter which he has this day received
from Mr, Raw Anson, C,E.. and to remind you of the very
aertuus t ssponsibility whir.h tbs Sheffield Waterworks Com-
pany will incur if, after the failure of the Bradfield reser-
voir, and with a knowledge of the opinion expressed by emir
nent engineers, as well as by the coroner's jury, as to the
errors committed in its construction, the company continue
to construct the reservoir at the Agden embankment on the
same plan, and without adopting proper measures for pre-
venting similar consequences to those which are alleged to
have produced the catastrophe at the Bradfield reservoir,
attended by such a fearful loss of life as well as destruction
of property,---I am, sir, your obedient servant,

IL. WADDINGTON.
To the Chairman of the Sheffield Waterworks
Company, Sheffield.

(Copy.)
, BRADFIELD RESERVOIR FAILURE, SHEFFIELD.
London, 28th March 1864.
To the Right Hon. Sir G. Grey, Bart., M.P., her Majesty's

Principal Secretary of State forHomeAffairs:

Sir,—On the 25th inst I visited and inspected the works
in progress at the Agden embankment now in course of
construction near to the site of Bradfield failure. All that
is objectionable in subsoil, in design, in material, and in
execution at Bradfield is equally objectionable at the Agden
embankment, but notwithstanding the verdict of the jury
on the 24th, the works were being actively prosecuted on
the 25th inst. I beg to recommend that the attention of the
Sheffield Waterworks Company be officially directed to the
opinion of the jury, viz —" That, in our opinion, there has
not been that engineering skill and attention in the con-
struction of the works which their magnitude and import-
ance demanded." Cast-iron pipes are laid through and be-
neath the made portion of the embankment at its deepest
part. These pipes ought to be removed and placed in a
tunnel or culvert formed securely on one side of the
reservoir in solid ground. The material now put into the
embankment is largely mixed with rubble stone, so as to
make the mass of the embankment porous. The stratified
and open-jointed seams of rocks within the water area of
the reservoir are being bared, and, in fact, everything ob-
jectionable at the Bradfield embankment, which has failed, is
now in course of repetition at the Agden embankment. I
beg to recommend that these facts and Opinions be officially
laid before the company and the local municipal authorities
of Sheffield.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) ROBERT RAWLINSON.

Waterworks-office, Sheffield,
9th March, 1864.
To the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., M.P., her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Home Affairs.
Sir,-1 have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your communication of the 28th inst., enclosing a copy of
a rer art from Mr. Rawlinson, which I have laid before the
board of directors of the Sheffield Waterworks. I have to
inform you that the verdict of the coroner's jury on some
of the sufferers from the late disaster at Sheffield was de-
livered on Thursday evening, the 24th inst. The following
day, being Good Friday, the board did not meet. On
Saturday, the 25th inst„ the board met, and their first
business was to give instructions to stop the work at Agden
to which your letter refers, and it will not be proceeded
with until the directors have the best possible advice as to
the future construction of the reservoir.---I have the honour
to remain, sir, your most obedient servant,

W. SMITII,
Chairman of the Waterworks Company.

" DON QUIXOTE,' by Victorien Sardon, is ra -
pidly preparing at the Gymnase.
COOL.-A Danish officer has taken on himself
the mission of studying the deviations, according to dis-
tance, of the rifles of the Prussians. He goes every day to
the advanced posts, provided with a glass, and makes a
memorandum of his observations. The day before yester-
day a German rifleman perceived this officer on th© look-
out at the distance of about 600 metres. The soldier, in-
stinctively obedient to military discipline, respectfully made
a salute, and then proceeded to attempt to lodge a ball in
the officer's body. The latter rejoiced at the opportunity of
making a fresh observation, and whilst the soldier placed
himself against a tree in order to take a steadier aim, the
officer raised his glass to watch his movements. " That is
all right," said he; :," the muzzle is just on a line with my
breast—we shall see." The trigger was pulled, and the
Dane quietly wrote down, " At the distance of about 600
yards the deviation of a ball from a rifled musket is about
one metre."

THE NEW CLERK OF ASSIZE ON THE WESTERN
CIRCUIT.—Mr. Thomas Edward Chitty, of the
Northern Circuit, has been appointed clerk of assize on the
Western Circuit, in succession to Mr. Sidney Gurney (son
of the late Baron Gurney, and brother of the Recorder of
Loudon), whose recent premature death at Dorchester when
on circuit, is so generally regretted. Mr. Chitty is a graduate
of Oriel College, Oxford, and is a brother of Mr, J. W.
Chitty, who is well known as a cricketer at Eton and an
oarsman at Oxford—the umpire for many years in the Ox-
ford and Cambridge boat-race.