The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-18 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

LONDON, June 18.—Wind this day at noon—South.
West; fresh breeze and find weather.

CLYDE, June 17.—Wind S.—Arrived—Jamaica, from
Jamaica—Renfrew, from St John's, N,B.—Clydesdale,
from Montreal.

OFF FALMOUTH, June 17.—Arrived—Sedulous, fro:
Porto Rico for Hull.

PLYMOUTH, June 17.—Wind W,—Arrived—Jane Boyd
from Quebec.

CARDIFF, June 17. Wind S.W.—Sailed—Star Queen,
for Shanghai--Alma, for the Cape of Good Hope—Hannah
White, for Gibraltar.
NEWPORT, June 17.—Wind S.—Sailed—A. Barker, for
Jamaica.

SWANSEA., June 17.—Wind S.—Sailed—Violet, for
Newfoundland.

OFF TILE EDDYSTONE, June 17.—Arrived—Harkawa,
3nl Sydney.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH,)
GRAVESEND, Siturday Morning.

Arrived, June 17.—C...rJline, and Catberina Agatho, from
orkoping ; Apperud, from Galloway; Accra, from Lagos ;
Zanobia, from Dantz:c ; klinne, from Aarhuus ; Ellida,
from Dram; Helena, from Jamaica; Haabet, Skerid, and
Kristine Maria, from Thisted ; Carl Eleventh, from Gotten-
burg; Costa Rica, from Jamaica; Oak, from Riga; Eliza-
beth Wright, from Rostock.

Arrived, June 18.—Julie and Sophia, from Aalborg
Amant, from Nestved. .

Sailed.—Fingal, steamer, for Dantzic; Stadt Dordrecht,
steamer, for Dordt.

DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Anchored.—Salvador, for St. Michael's; British Mer-
chant, for Cape of Good Hope ; Belize Packet for Belize;
Eliza, for Colombo ' • Alphington, for Algoa Bay; Elizabeth
Helena, for Buenos Ayres—all from London,
Sailed.—H.M.S, Assurance, for River.

A call of £4 10s. per share has been made upon
the new shares issued to the English and Irish Bank
proprietors by the directors of the European Bank,
for completing the amalgamation of the two under•
takings, and equalising the amount paid on all
shares. The call is not required before the 31st of
August next, but no transfer of shares will be re-
gistered until after the call is paid.
The fourth ordinary general meeting of the
Alliance Bank will be held at the London Tavern
on the 22d July next to receive the report of the
directors and to declare a dividend.

" Several journals," says the France, " have
announced that the steam transport Ariege had
touched on a bank on the coast of Africa, and was
in a dangerous situation. That statement is in.
correct. The vessel, when between Auzew and
Oran, sprang a leak, but it was soon stopped, and
she has since arrived at Toulon in company with
the Gomer steam-frigate."
A subscription has been opened for the erection
of a statue to the painter Greuae at Tournus (Saone-
et-Loire), his birthplace. This artist, who died in
1805, reckons among his best known works the
" Accoreee de Village," the " Jenne Fille pleurant
son Oiseau," the " Cruche Cassee," and the "Male-
diction Paternelle." The whole of these have been
frequently reproduced by engraving.

floe extensive flour-mills of M. de Chabrillant
at St. \Tallier (Drome) were burnt to the ground
three nights since. The firemen were only able to
save the dwelling-house. The loss, estimated at
180,000 fr., is covered by insurance.
The Journal de la Savoie mentions as a proof of
the solicitude of the Government for the annexed
country, that the Minister of Agriculture and Com-
merce has granted a credit of 15,000 fr. for the re-
paration of the roads destroyed by the inundation
of the 11th irst.

Count Pepod, the Italian Minister at St.
Petersburgh, arrived in Paris yesterday and pro
ceeded immediately to Fontainebleau.
M. Marinovitcb, President of the Servian Senate,
who has been for a short time in Paris, left last
evening for Belgrade.
The steam corvette, Talisman, left Toulon the
evening before last, having on board M. do Tailenay,
French Consul• General Charge d'Affaires at Tangier, who
returns to his post.

A widow netted Leroy has just died at Marbais,
in the province of Namur, at the age of 105. She had
never suffered any illness, and retained her faculties to the
last.

Meyerbeer leaves to each of his daughters an in-
come of 15,000 thalers (56,0001,) a-year, and one of 25,000
thalers (93,000 f.) to his widow.

The marriage of M. Worms, of the Theatre-
Francais, with Mdlle. Brernond, of the Vaudeville, took
place yesterday at the tnairie of the 2d arrondissement.

An Imperial decres in the 11.1nniteur approves of
a provisional convention entered into on the I4th
inst. between M. Belie, Minister of Public Works, and
MM. Daniell, Daniell, jun., de Boudard, Mangles, Fletcher,
and Turck, for the concession, without subvention or gua-
rantee of interest, of a branch line running from the Orleans
railway to Chalons-sur•Marne, where it will join that from
Paris to Strasburg.

By an Imperial decision, General Cassaignolles
is appointed to the command of the cavalry division at the
Camp of Chalons, in the place of General Prince de la
Moskowa, prevented by illness.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY ELECTION.—We are in-
formed that a requisition is in course of signature, headed
by the names of Lord Robert Cecil and Mr Seymour Fitz-
gerald, requesting Mr Gathorne Hardy to allow himself
to be put in nominaticn at the general election for the
University of Oxford. A correspondent further informs
us that at a meeting yesterday a committee was formed and
a secretary appointed. Mr Hardy has not, we believe,
received any formal notice of the movement, and the diffi-
culty in his position no doubt is that he would not like to
stand in the way of Sir Stafford Northcote, if Mr. Glad-
stone should retire, as is now confidently expected.—John
Bull, Second Edition.

ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM A PRISON VAN.—
On Thursday night, on the arrival of the prison van
at Newgate which conveyed there the prisoners who were
committed for trial at Bow-street Police-court, having been
charged with post-office robberies, it was found that an at•
tempt had been made by the prisoners to make their escape.
The sergeant of the van, upon taking the prisoners out of
it, saw that Richard Walker had his c -iat unbuttoned, and
there was an appearance about the other prisoners--Henry
Parker and Henry Robert Rixon, the post-office carrier—
which excited his suspicions. After he got the prisoners
into the gaol he looked into the van, and found that a
panel near where Walker had been sitting had a large hole
at the bottom of it. The prisoners were then searched, but
nothing was found upon either of them by which the
orifice could have been made; and it was suggested that
it had been passed through the opening into the street. But
upon the prison van reaching the stableyard of the
.B divi-
sion, King-street, 'Westminster, an iron bar was found at
the bottom of the van. The supposition then arose that the
bar had been placed on the ridge of the vanand bad escaped
from that place, and that it had been removed from the
cell in which Walker was locked up at Bow•street. This
he had concealed under his coat when he entered the van,
DESPATCH OF THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC
MAILS —The Royal Mail Company's steamship Atrato,
Capt. Woolley, sailed yesterday
West Indies, the Pacific,
with the fortnightly mails
for the British and Foreign
California, Central America, &e. She took out 65 passen-
gers, and on freight, English gold, £30,000 i - English silver
£300; jewellery, £1,352; and French jewellery, £1,442 ;
also a full cargo of French and English merchandise.
THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT AND THE
CHESAPEAKE AFFAIR.--We stated some time past that the
Confederate Government had sent a commissioner to
Halifax for the purpose of investigating the facts in the
case of the seizure of the United States merchant steamer
Chesapeake, and we gave at some length the principles
of international law upon which the Government was
prepared to assume the responsibility of the act and base
a claim for the restitution of the vessel. We are now
able to add that, upon the report of its commissioner, the
Confederate Government, placed in full possession of the
facts, has decided that these principles are not applicable
to the Chesapeake, and so far from forming the basis of
a future demand against the British Government, the act
of the captors is distinctly and formally disavowed. The
judicial authorities of the colony have, we believe, been
unofficially informed of this conclusion. The position
assumed by the Confederate Government we understand
to be this. While it maintains, and will continue to main-
tain, the right and the duty of (way citizen of the Con-
federate States, and every foreigner enlisted la their
service, to wage warefare openly or by stratagem upon the
vessels of the enemy on their high seas,
or not, it will afford no countenance or encouragement,
whether armed
whether direct or indirect, to any attempts.on the part
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neutral subjects, or within mutual jurisdictioas. to organise
expeditions for the purpose of carrying on hostilities against
the United States.—lniez.
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a Brussels house :—" Bibliographic des CE uvrages
relatifs a I'Amour, aux Femmes, au Mariage ; contentant
les titres detailles de ces ouvrages, les noms des auteurs,
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few copies have been printed for the use of those professed
biblionianiacs who collect literary curiosities. The pub-
lisher, Gay, only a short time since was driven from Paris
on account of a catalogue of the private library of Marie
Antoinette, which he had issued oontrary to the wishes of
the Emperer,