The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-21 00:00:00

war.

FRANCE.

M. Davillier, president of the Paris Chamber of
Commerce, has had the honour of presenting to the
Emperor a volume containing official statistics of
the trade and manufactures of Paris, drawn up by
himself and M. Deniere, president of the Tribunal
of Commerce. The Emperor complimented M.
Davillier on the execution of the work.

A Paris letter, in the Gironde of Bordeaux, says :
—" M. Emile 011ivier has been charged, it is said,
by the French Government to go and defend before
the Council of State of Turin the interests of the
French Treasury in a rather serious question arising
out of the cession of Nice and Savoy. He has
already left for the Italian capital.'

BOURSE, Jane 20.—The market has ben heavy
and prices are rather lower than on Saturday.
Threes, fur the Account, are now at 661 r. sc. Aln-

biller have receded to 1,067 f. 500. In Railway
Shares little doing, and some of the lines show a
slight decline. The market closed as follows :

41 per Cents .. 93 25 • Italian Loan 69
Do. ead month.... Do. end month —
3 per Cents
Do. end month.... 66 10 New Mexican .... 56
Credit Mobilier.... 1067 50 Russian.
Uo. end m0nth....1067 50 Austrian .. B3
Bank Shares 3395 , Spanish Threes.... 50i
Credit 1, oncier 1240 Eiome Debt ......
Roman

IL

'AYB.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern
14ons and Nedii crransan 875 881 25
New ditto
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian ..
Austrian
Loushtrd
North of Spain
Saragossa..
Ditto to Barcelona ..

650 -

.. 651 25

500 - .. - -
465 - .. 465 -
366 25 .. 367 50
406 25 .. 410 -
527 50 .. 530 -
438 75 .. 440

670 6tiB 75

Elegant Extracts
~from " Manhattan,"

GRANT.S ACHIEVEMENTS,

Grant could have marched to his present position without
losing a man, lie had only to keep away from Lee's forti-
fications, Instead of this, he attacked Lee's defences, was
s$ hipped—fell back; attacks again, is whipped—retreats;
and yet it is sate to say that in killed, wounded, prisoners,
stragglers, and deserters Grant as now--while in M'Clel-
lan's old tracks—less men by 100,000 of the original force
that crossed the Rapidan now nearly four weeks ago.

PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S LAST OEM OP A LETTER
Closes thus:—" It is impossible for me to attend. I ap-
prove, nevertheless, whatever may tend to strengthen and
sustain General Grant and the noble armies now under his
direction. My previous high estimate of General Grant has
been maintained and heightened by what has occurred in
the remarkable campaign he is now conducting; while the
magnitude and difficulty of the task before him does not
prove less than I expected, He and his brave soldiers are
now in the midst of their great trial, and I trust that, at
your meeting, you will so shape your good words that they
may turn to men and guns moving to his and their sup-
port.—Yours truly, "A. LINCOLN."

A CHILD CONVICTING ITS OWN FATHER OF MURDERING

ITS MOTHER.
Mr. Hunter, a neighbour of mine, who killed his wife
some months ago, has had a fair trial, and has been found
guilty of murder in the second degree. This sends him to
hard labour for life. He is a man of some property. The
jury could not agree for three days. The judge declared he
would not discharge the jurymen until they did agree.
Then they compromised on a verdict. He was convicted
upon the evidence of his only son, a boy 12 years old. The
little fellow stuck to tho truth, and he never wavered in his
account of "killing mother."

TIIE " WORLD'S" OPINION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN !
The World to-day speaks of Mr Lincoln without gloves.
It was suppressed by his order. This extract is better than
any correspondent can or dare write. It is clear and con-
cise Mr Lincoln is intrinsically a weak candidate. As
a raan his instincts are vulgar, his education narrow, his
manners a cross between boor and buffoon. As a states-
man, he is incapable, vacillating, a time-server, without
either wise comprehension of the present, or sagacious fore-
cast of the future. As an administrator, he selects the un-
fittest instruments for the most important functions, and
after the clearest demonstrations of their incapacity, he
has not decision of clrtracter to replace them by men of
energy and ability. His Secretary of State is shallow and
pretentious; his Secretary of War, wrong-headed and im-
petuous ; his Secretary of Na%y, a noodle ; his Attorney
General, a granny ; and his Secretary of the Treasury has
so little of the just pride of a statesman, that he has held
on to a place in an administration whose imbecility he
despises, and many of whose prominent acts he openly
condemns."

SUICIDE OF A PRlSONER.—Yesterday morning
the officials of the House of Detention discovered that a
prisoner nPmed Emil Herlick, a German, had committed
suicide in his cell luring the night. He was committed on
Friday last by Mr Selfe on the charge of stealing a carpet
bag and its contents, value £3, and on the warder opening
his cell yesterday morning, about half-past seven o'clock,
the prisoner was found hanging from the ventilator by
means of the straps of his hammock. He was at once cut
down, and the body being still warm means were taken,
but without success, to restore animation. There was
nothing in the man's manner to lead to the supposition that
he meditated self-destruction. A ooroner'orirqueat will of
course be held upou the bcdy.