The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-15 00:00:00

satin.

THE BRAZILS.
BUENOS AYRES, MAY 14.

Exchange, 501; ounces, 2S 70 ; wet salted ox
hides, 391; dry American, 391; tallow, 141; lum-
ber, 34 to 40, advancing; flour, 71; refined eugar, 21,

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FRANCE.

BOURSE, Jane lb.—The market still continues
heavy, but Rents has not suffdred a further decline,
Threes being unvaried at 66f. 85c. Mobilier has
slightly receded, and is now at 1,075 f. Railway
Market also heavy, and with a trifling fall on some
of the lines. The market closed es follows :

per,Cents. ..... 93 40
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 9.)
Credit Mobilier 1078 75
Do. end nionth 1081 25
Bank Shares 3380
Credit Fancier 1240
Roman
RAILS

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

Italian Loan 7O 05
Do. end month 7O 10
Ditto Threes 42 50
Now Mexican
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes 5O 60
florae Dubt .. -
Deferred
rA.YB.
Cash. Account.

867 50 .. 86.5 -
990 - .. 990 --
857 50 .. 862 50

646 25 .. 646 25
501 25
465 .. 465
366 25 .. 363
408 75 .. 407 50
525 .. 532 So
441 25 .. 442 50
567 50 .. 568 75
250 257 50

ITALY.

A Tarin letter of the 11th contains the fellow-
ng

" M. Mordini, in a recent sitting of the Chamber
of Deputies, expressed his surprise that the fetes of
the Statuto should have passed without the Minister
of War taking advantage of the occasion to obtain
from the King the pardon of the soldiers under sen-
tence for the affair of Aspronionte. The Minister of
War, remaining inflexible, observed that it would
not be wise to base the policy of the Government on
sentimentalism. Notwithstanding the little hope
left by the language of General Della Rovere, peti•
tions are in course of signature praying the King to
pardon those soldiers, who, though undoubtedly
guilty of desertion, acted under the impulse of a
mistaken patriotism. I was assured yesterday that
the project of selling the State railways to the Lom-
bard company is meeting with fresh difficulties,
and the sale is now considered unlikely before next
Session. I am unable to say whether this report
is well founded or not; I only know that it is
generally accredited. While awaiting the financial
discussion, the chambcr is occupied with the subj,ct
of the office for deciding disputed administrative
affairs. The questio❑ was discussed yesterday by
M. Cordova and M. Mamiami, both eloquent men.
The first was opposed to the suppression of the office,
while the second is a warm partisan of that reform.
Those two deputies examined the question tho-
roughly, and said every thing that could be said on
such a subject. This fact will not, however, prevent
about twenty other speakers from repeating in an
imperfect manner all that has been thus said, and
from envenoming the debate for a week at least.
The length of the discussions and the number of dull
speeches are a great obstacle to the regular working
of the representative form of gov'ernment in this
country. Good sense, political spirit, moderation,
and propriety are not wanting, but the deputies are
too fond of speaking, and of speaking at great
length. The principal inconvenience of these eternal
discussions is that useful and almost indispensable
bills are postponed almost indefinitively. Thus the
one for an amalgamation between the Tuscan and
National Banks, and for creating a Bank of Italy,
with a capital of 100,000,000 fr., will not be dis-
cussed this year."

REMINISCENCES OF THE OPERA. By Benjamin
Lumley, 20 years' director of Her Majesty's Theatre. 1 Vol.
—" Behind the scenes! What a magical attraction there is
in the words! As a revelation from this unknown world

the Reminiscences of a Twenty Years' Management of the
Opera could not fail to command attention, even if they
comprised a period less interesting in itself and in its in-
fluence on the position of musical art in the country than
that which is covered by Mr Lumley's narrative. Our
space does not allow us to follow Mr Lumley in his many
anecdotes of artist life, or in his criticisms en the celebrated
artists who have from time to time peopled his stage- His
judgmentsfair
andstt. i strike
candid."—Saturday
da.s„—nostatounrldyadyrsßereivmieiwna.
THE NEW NOVEL, MATTIE : A Stray." By the
discriminating, but emi-
nentlyauthor of "No Church," " Owen : a Wait,"
&c.—" The
story of Mattie Gray (says the .Tolstr Bull) is one fully
worthy of the author's high reputation. The interest is
well sustained throughout the tale, and the descriptive pas-
sages are given with unusual power. As we are unwilling
to reveal the plot of what bids fair to be one of the most
popular novels of the season, we advise our readers to pro-
cure for themselves these interesting volumes; and while
they are amused, as they cannot fail to be by the tale, they
may possibly reflect whether other strays, now despised in
the lower stratum of society, might not turn out as esti-
mable characters as Mattie Gray."
ANTIQUITY OF MAN.—The question of the anti-
quity of our race still engages the attention of
geologists, and new facts are daily brought to light tending
to show that man was coeval with the large ruminants that
once peopled the centre of Europe, and sr6 now only to be
found in tropical climates or in the extreme north. In a
recent paper addressed to the Academy of Sciences, MM.
Garrigon and Martin describe the excavations effected
under their superintendence in the cavern of Espa-
lungue, also called the Grotto of Izeste, situated at
about a kilometre's distance from the village pf
Arudy, in the Lower Pyrenees. It is sunk in the
grey fossiliferous limestone which seems to belong to
the lower cretaceous beds. The mouth of the cavern,
situated at an altitude of 30 metres -above the bottom of the
valley, is lofty and spacious, and is turned towards the
N.N.E. ; the cavern is a sort of passage, 200 metres in
length. Although the ground at the entrance of the cavern
appears to have been disturbed, this is not the case with the
floor of the innermost recess, which f,,rms a sort of hall,
Here the explorers found the fossil bones of the rein-
deer, of a large kind:of horse, and another much; smaller
one of the Bos Primigenius, and another of a smaller breed,
Ursus Arctos, of a large and smaller bird, Ste. A single
human bone, the fifth left metatarsian (or of the foot) was
found, covered with the same crust as the others, and
marked with three deep furrows like those observed
on the other bones, Besides these, a vast quantity of
flint impliments were discovered in the tame bed to-
gether with bones carved into different shapes, but
presenting a curious pecu!arity. Tho bones found else-
where bear witness to the existence of a certain degree
of civilisation, since they are fashioned into barbed spear-
heads, needles with eyes, &0., and aro moreover polished.
But those found at Eepalungue seem to pertain to a much
remoter and less civilised period. In a mass of 209 kilo-
grammes of bones brought to light, only one polished
implement was found ; the others offering traces of work
by human hands are carved. but not polished. Hence the
Espalungue period must be considered much antericr to
that of Bruniquel and the Dordogne.

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A ROMAN CATHOLIC FLOATING REFORMATORY
IN TIIE MERSEY.—Yesterday the old man of war ship
Clarence, of 3,000 tons burthen, was t Awed into the Mersey,
from Plymouth, which place she left on Friday evening.
The Clarence will be set apart for th4reception of juvenile
delinquents of the Roman Catholic faith. There are now
two floating reformatories in the Mersey, the Clarence and
the Akbar, both of which are old war ships.