The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-29 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BouRSE, July 28.—The market has been ex-
tremely heavy, with but little business doing.
Threes, for the Account, have ranged from 65f. 95e.
to 66f. sc. Mobilier have been offered, and have
slightly declined. The Raiiway Share Market hat.
been dull, but prices have btten pretty well main-
tained. The market closed as follows :-
41, per Cents .. 94
Do. end month....
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 05
Credit Mobilier 982 50
Do. end month 982 50
Bank Shares 3380
Credit 1 oncior 1205
Roman -
RA IL

Italian Loan 63
Do. end month 6B
Ditto Threes —56 a
New Mexican .•
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes 5O 50
50
Rome
ome Debt
250
Deferred
WAYS.
Account.
Cash.
872 50 871 25
977 50
N5O --
a 890 -- ••

Orleant!
Northern
Lyous and Medi( orranea_ _
Newditto — ..
Southern 637 50 .. 633 75
Western
Eastern
.......... 335
Sari.linivh .......... 350 .
Auatrivn
Larrb.:ir(l .............. O'-,1 50 a • 528 75
.. 437 50
North of Spain ........ 4,:.3,4 7
Saragossa .............. oAS 70 • . 527 50
Ditto to Darcelona ... • 7 . • ,--,

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43

'LER MAJESTY,

OSBORNE, July
The Judge Advocate-General had an audience of
the Queen yesterday.
His Serene Highness Prince Leiningen and her
Royal Highness Princess Leiningen dined with her
Majesty and the Royal family.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived frog
London, and had an audience of the-Queen.
The Queen held a Council to-day, which was
at'
tended by Earl Granville, Viscount Palmerston, Sit
George Grey,
and the Right Honourab:e W.
Gladstone.
Mr. Arthur Helps, the Clerk of the Council,
attended.
At the Council Parliament was ordered to ba
prorogued from this day (Friday) to Thursday', the

July 28

h
lat of October.
Earl GranvilAe and Lord Palmerston had a
ences of the Queen.

II the

foundation-stone of a cross,
The Prince of Wale; is expected to
f the
modical officers who fell in the Crimes, on gee
next, at Netley Hospital. Pew'
V.-le Earl and Countess Russell will leave iit
broke Lodge to-morrow for a few days, on a I''''.-
to Lord Harry Vane. A f will
The' Earl and Countess of Erroll an'. af„ni
in memory 0
day
have arrived at Stains Castle, Aberdeenshire/ "'"

Grafton-street.
The Countess of Essex gave birth to 6 A on
(3
e;
Wednesday last, at Cassiobury Park, Hertforcisb'rng
Lord and Lady Londesborough will 135 aralus
the visitors at Cowes during the regatta vi'eek. „vs
Lordship's yacht, the Albatine, has been at '
for some days.

0
its.
vrii)
THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND TIU Ar r
PRUSSIA,—It is announced tc-day that the P-°
tbe
1, have an interview with the King of Pril°i4 13

second f ortnfirgohmt inv lch
Accounts NAPOLEON lII.'S HF.ALTH AND POPULARITI'.:
ball thcre:72
agreatly benefited by wraetpe :se. s e nTt
w,.hoinsihgheatsltabigausollear le vli%
and he attended, figuring in 8 sergeant13dritl
with a soldiers'bouncingdelighted. Country lass ' and a
for a partner,
of Voltigeurs forTHE
odual y's rcilih.B cheered
TrleH'dia.E.hßi m.iLha esAhmfeuelune fetwrtahelreesseanrialectiler:l; 10
, i memory of King Louis Bonaparte, father ofia
.eimperer, was celebrated yesterday in the church of Se Lou
(Seine-et-Oise). Marshal Vaillant, Minister a the Sul;
e arrondissement,
was present with the functionaries. of
the
and a deputation of soldiers of the
I
EinDpiErre.UTATION TO SIR CHARLES
Wednesday, Lord Shaftesbury, the filoY0(1;-°tly
naird, Rev. 11. Venn, secretary of the Church Alissi°llarag
f Pl'
Society, and Mr Thomson, lately a member °f thereidadr f
Government, Waited on Sir C. Wood for the P0.5d0 :o
hearing explanations on the subject of grants p.
lil
presidency
w
private, and particularly missionary schools in the ye-ibeset
Presidency.unN
attended
tehwe rpurbli ehyse
ii\,hpialrev eoEfb
deewnalradt
paymenteHl y
foroi wa trarerodeda, uc e d i 0 .
r'-c- .
Wood
Public Instruction *
for Bombay. The deputatioinPise.ixrePc:tu.:°::cl..f
theeaselves as entirely satisfied with the explenatien'
efiforded.
~,_An
PUTTING Too FINE A POINT UPON IT: '-- 1,.0
ingenious shopkeeper at Vichy has put a sign t°,l':
establishment, " The Three Theological -Virtues," 11`,e,":
trated by medallions representing Faith, Hope, and Char:
personified by portraits of the Emperor, the Prince Dar
rial, and the -Empress.
THE NORWEGIAN WAR SHIPS.—The 1-0
tiee rlgt
Sverre, and St. Olaf, the two frigates of the Norwegian t
th
te
which anchored in Leith Roads for several days,
lef
Frith on Monday evening. The corvette Ellida had
12°
departed on Tuesday evening.—Scotsman.
THE YELVEETON CASE.--A minute of refereobe
ce
to oath has been lodged by Mrs Yelverton, t
practical result of which is to prevent the to
beisgs
made final in Scotland until the parties to the suitdial,
been examined on oath. Their evidence given in Ireland
is considered most important.
THE TOM TIT, the TOAD, THE SNAIL, Illg
SPIDER, AND THE BEE.—I used to see toads ire'
queretly sitting under the landing board, and only iteceaDatildi
dwdp:.eeisarvt clehovohuvhweresi.
ars, eo:
bill,dnfi theyo:lhened o 1
landing
wie
teher
apparentlyfob
thesethereeesw
h ieuglywhich
"seekingh he
visitorsha ds
beinguwehkoe md
into
theyna laid
do
j2O pi
sena hie
1,
jaws. The tom. tit, also, is a dangerous little eneraY• ,8
l) liancrienoi
inquiring
tahge
afterbees otnhea
health
tdha YO, f tape
snapped
catchesinmates ;
upa watcher bee comes out to reconnoitre, Brgi, el°
ybyheethe the
nwhiicak
web,ed h ybpaotetrhi tee.
occasional
brush weardisposes of this peril. The snail attracted hi ',„
warmth occasionally creeps in. The bees succesiv"
attack him, but find their stings blunted and brokea by the.,
shell as shot is by our ironsides. Failing to ivjure or rc)i.
move the intruder they have recourse to a plan Whicil in
-
catesi. more than instinct. They cover him uP with; pro'
epee:its, a kind of gum which they use for stopping up erc„.l,cteed
not cnly does he die for want of air, but he is prey'
Q„, or
from giving forth off3nsive odour by the air-tight ca"-
shroud.—The Times Beemaster. ill
The spider' soli:1:i
A STYRIAN LANDSCAPE.—A pilgrimage-look 0
church shone white upon a hill, and is the distanhcegto
the west rose the rocky barrier of the Caldron wonting hug
stony mass in particular, the Raducha, representing
0,
this direction the last bulwark of the Alps; eastward nes.
lay the plains of Hungary, and then the Carpathi'eut
heavyAftartmhehloerissuesrelwye
eleven two
o' c l o c o'clock. .
7at night before we reached it—all down a widening
expanding till it was almost a plain, and a cluster of atteir,
peaks on the backward horizon alone remained of the te on
tain world. The day was pleasant, with a fresh aul'ilio
feel iu the air. Gardens, gay with dahlias and c,.. the
pasetaerttehdeyfotre
eCki l, I iiitta
lbw:ea:11
asters, orchards laden with plums, corn plots wit' 0
harvest all gathered, low hills covered with we ticl
crowned with small white churches by the dozen'
~a. A
stretching into hezy, sueshiny distance on either YAW"' e-
river flowing broadly in the centre, and bearing intsTl:
ruble timber-logs, to be formed lower down into rafts fort ',,--ie;
navigation of the Save and Danube—such was 'h.
Syrian landscape. This was to be our last drive, 0 te,
previous afternoon had seen our last walk, and ".-6
chatted over all our Dolomite adventures. BY of
o'clock the valley had become quite a plain, an exps%
Indian corn, though still bordered by hills. Villages tlleic-,:e
ened, and twice or thrice a tract of blackened tirave'4
showed that one had been destroyed by fire. Then 6 1°,,,%
low cloud of dust masked a high road in the distance, °-
chateaux, in a sort of dishevelled grandeur, lifted their tilt;
rets here and there. Luddenly we were in the broad roast
itself, not more interesting than that of Barnet in tire'es:a
yore ; but unlike that of Barnet, for where an avenuee tlYol,c-b,
off to a mansion, a great golden crucifix was fixed, he, r'o
man's testimony to his religion; while further on thr:o
lofty statues, in marble, of sainted ecclesiastics mar dt'r,
limit of his estate, and shone faroverthe landscape. So OP c
were seenlounging about the inns andvillages—an unpl, eefseitt
suggestion of crowded quarters at Chili, which appea ea
1,4
last in the distance, glimmering aver trees and back.eil
,•;,
castle ruins on a hill. And there—there are the long lecij
lines of the rail I Ob, how different in their miltheraiti of
rigidity from the soaring, sweeping, tossing, broken liel°Boa
mountain and hill, and the trembling lines of Jain'
end
dream that had been our delight so long I--The Pah#
Mountatns. A fter
THE CONDEMNED CONVICT PARgER.---- at:
sentence of death had been passed upon Parigitiee,
the Nottingham assizes he manifested a perfect indict ti; to
expressing himself somewhat confidently that lie ,ol
receive a reprieve, but complained that his counsel
dei'trial
urns-examine the witnesses sufficiently. Since threwit-
the gaol chaplain, the Rev. W, Howard, has been lin , <deo(
ting in his exertions to bring the wretched man to ale000
penitence for the awful crime he had corarnitted•
to
f' I bat
ll;
reads his Bible with much attention, and appears
awful position. He asked the chaplain if he eon° elao
him in getting up a petition to Sir George Grey' freluci the
inhabitants of Fiskerton (the place of the tragedy ) and
neighbourhood, where he was well known, but was 10°' "N.
by that functionary such a proceeding was out of lii6. Pi, tor
vince, recommending the prisoner to write to his sel7l'pee
on the eutject. The execution will, it is un.derstoodl to
place on Wedneslay, the 10th of August, in front °
county gaol at Nottingham.
-arh I'o4
HE CROPS IN SOUTH WALES.--The f ei
prospects iu South Wales are upon the whole
i°ll to
promising character, and it is expected the crone will
i, ire
fully equal to last year. In many districts the was
) full ear, and the early sown barley and oats are in al°_ jays
quired, and there is a
state, The little rain that has fallen during the lot fewis
re..
' has done a vast amount of .good, although react niere,t., of
keep owing to the drought. The greater park of the htl,hee
to 0"
been secured in good condition, but the crops we
light. • ketig
COPPER ORE SALE.—At the Swansea tic ,
,be
general complaint of the
the
ettao
on the 26th the following. were the average; o1r2: 6 1
copper ore sales :—British produce, 91,--do. Price, Xice,
,l 9
--standard, £llO 5,. Foreign produce, 22—dn• Pr. ._,, 80a
foreign reached 16—average price, £ll ss—aver°e. „Ail
19s—standard, £lOl Is.;,The aye! age
British
.
dard, £lOO 4s. The total sales were 019 tons;
62 tons foreign, produce of Bri,tele.sistv,