The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-23 00:00:00

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BRITISH MINES.
jeambrian Consol. Gold 1 id
ulltrord Amalgamated 30 82
Devon G. Con.. (Tavist ; 1 580 600
East Bassett (Mogan). 30 68 70
East Clogau Gold Ltd.
East Caradon ....... 2.14.6 276 286
East Cairn Brea..
E. WI Russel (Tavistk , 8.13.0 5 66
IGam.BzSt.Aubyn(Gwen 581 5 7
—!Great South Tolgus l7s 2 24
!61. Wheal Vor (II =Aston 40 27 29 286
;Grenville 6.16. c 7 76
I Ilemd's-Foot 8.12 48 40
ilingston Downs 4.18.0 4;
!Lady Bertha
Margaret (tiny Lelant 96 8 10
—llarke Valley..
4 Ilyndy Iron Ore (Lim ; 26 1* j d
New Seton lof 75 85
• North Downs 3 16
N.Wh'i Bassetallo4an 3.1.0 26 3
North Wheat Crotty 2.6.9 3 31
Par Consols (6t. Blarey
Providence (Uny Lelnt. 10.0.7 41 42
South earadon(St.Cleer 11 480 500
S. earn Brea (Illogan)..
'F.Wheal Fran. (Illowan 18.18.9 426 474
Stray Park 30.17.6 28 30
Planar SilvA Lead Min -
Fin Crort V 18 19
West Basset (Illogan) l6 9 10
1V C, radon (Liskeard` 9 12 14
West Seton
Wheel Basset (Illogan) 54 92 95
Wheal Buller (Itedruth) 10 20 25
Wheal Kitty (E.Lelant) 2.0.8
WhealLudcctt
Wheal lslaryAnn ( len ) 8 14 16
Wheal Oeton 5B. 210 215
Wheal Tretawney (Lis ) 7 19 21
Wheal Union 4 14 2

PREFERENCE SHARES.
Great Western Orig. 4} per cent pf.. 964
Great Western, Birmingham gua. stock, 70
PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCK&
Great Eastern 46 per cent. pf., 026-
London, Chatham &c . 6 tier cent. 2d '7ll
Nerth British (Edin., Perth, and Dundee) 4 per cent., 78

LINES LEASED It FIXED RENTALS.
Chester and Holyhead,
Ditto, 5 per cent., 111
London and Chatham, 4i per Cent.,
Ditto, Corn. Fund sto,lic, 5 per cent., 9711 8

FORM. N RAILWAYS.
Bahia and San Francisco klirn.) gua. 7 per cent., 16
Recite and San Francisca (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 16
San Paulo gua. 7 per cent.,:—
Ditto, (all), 18k

FOREIGN MINES.
Cape Copper, lim., 1( II
Port Philip,

BANKS.
Afbriaonall,
Alliance (ism.). 611 1i 604
sdiMiisterMan's (lim.), 130 5
Ditto, new, 543 33/4
Anglo Austrian, 75 1
Anglo-Italian, Ifni. 51
Bank of British Columbia, 103 I'
Brazilian and Portuguese. lira.. 125 China, 645 5
Chartered tier. of India, London, and
Consolidated Bank, lim., 11
European Bank, lira., 14
Imperial Bank (lim.). 353 5
Imperial Bank of aina, India:And Japan, lim., 63 1
London and Brazilian aim.), 473 8
London and County, 74
London Joint Stock, 483 93
London and South-Western, 225 1
Merchant Bank, inn,, 285
Mercantile and Exchange, lirn., 17f: 18
Ditto. new, 141
Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 25 5
South Eastern, lim., 10 01
Standard of British South Africa (lime), 283
Union of Australia, 521 3;
Union of London, 521 f 5 2

DOCKS.
London and St. Katharine, 70
Southampton, 6

MISCELLANEOUS.
Commercial Union, Insurance, Si
Contract Corporation, lim., 31
Credit Mold& r, ii
Egyptian Com. and Trading, lim., 3a
Fore-street Warehouse, lim.,
Gen.'Credit and Finance of London, 11m., ei iii
Hudson's Bay, 16i
Imperil Mercantile Credit A sso., lim., Eta
International Financial ~ociety, lim., 9a i
International Land Credit. lira., 51
Joint Stock Discount, Jim.. 7
London Financial Association, lim., 2ii
London General Omnibus Company, 3_
M :dras Irrigation and Canal, 41
National Discount Company, lim., 14
Rio de Janeiro City improvements, lim.. 25
Smith, Knight, i.nd Co., lim.,
Societe Finar:ciere d'i,;gypte, lirn., 5
Telegralli Construe. and Maintenance, lim.:3;
Thames and Musey Maxine (InAtran.Ce),llm., 71

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HER MAJESTY,

OSBORNE, August 22.
The Queen and royal family walked and drove
in the grounds to-day.
The Lord Chancellor has left Osborne.

Foreign Courts.

PARIS, Aug. 21.

A grand fto was give❑ yesterday, at Versailles,
in honour of the King of Spain. The entertain,
rnent given on this occasion by the Emperor was
divided into two parts, and lasted from five in the
evening till long past midnight. The princ'pal in-
terest in the first part was concentrated in the
superb fountains in the park, which were seen to
much advantage. The Emperor and Empress,
with their royal guest, arrived at half past five
from Trianon, riding in an open caleahe, and fol-
lowed by a numerous cavalcade. Atter visiting the
various fountains and jets their Majesties terminated
their ride by making a tour of the Neptune basin.
The number of spectators was so great that the
horses could scarcely advance, and every whore their
Majesties were received with the greatest enthusi-
asm. 'hey returned to the palace at six o'clock.

At nine o'clock their Majesties entered the thea-
tre of the palace, where a ballet and comedy called
"PsycLe," by Corneille and Moliere, was performed.
The King of Spain conducted the Empress, and
by the side of the Emperor walked his son, the
Prince Imperial. As soon as the imperial and royal
visitors appeared the orchestra played the royal
Spanish march, and the performance commenced.
Their Majesties retired at eleven.
Then nommeneed the nightfete, which consisted
of the illumination of the fountains and jets, and
of the gardens themselves. Thousands of globe-
shaped and orange-coloured lamps were suspended
on the t nes and spread a most brilliant light, whilst
from the sculptured vases bright flames arose, and
the fountains, as they played, were made resplen-
dent by the electric light. There was also a splen-
did display of fireworks, which, with Bengal lights,
rendered the whole of the large palace as clear to
the eye as at daylight. The top of the building
was illuminated also, and as the company turned to
witness this new spectacle the Emperor and the
Prince. Imperial appeared on the balcony, and were
saluted most cordially. The whole of the Court
occupied the windows of the Mirror Gallery. Some
time afterwards their Majesties entered the gardens
and witnessed the concluding effects of the Llurni"
nation amongst the visitors, to whom the Emperor
had kindly thrown open the reserved gardens. A
supper was served at midnight in the Mirror Gal-
lery, and afterwards the Emperor again appeared
on the balcony of the palace, and was received with
hearty demonstrations. At one o'clock their 111,jes-
ties left Versailles for St. Cloud.

The Phare de la Loire confidently announces that
the Count d'Eu, eldest eon of the Duke do Nemours,
will shortly proceed to Brazil to marry the daugh-
ter of the Emperor Don Pedro. As his Majesty
has no male heir his son-in-law will one day be
called upon to wear the Imperial Crown. The
Count of Flanders had also been spoken of as the
bridegroom of the princess.
. .

The death of the Princess Czartorisk, daughter
of Queen Christina, is announced.

Among the foreign officers who joined the cortege
of the Emperor and the King of Spain at the
review at the Champ do Mars weze—Yver Pasha,
general in the service of Turkey ; M. de Seebach,
son of the Saxon Minister at the French Court, and
Mr S. Noel de Lesser, of the Royal Sussex Artil-
lery, in her British Mt jesty's service, and brother
of the consul general for Saxony. These officers
had also the honour to be presented to the King of
Spain at the diplomatic reception held by his Ma.
jesty on the previous day at the hotel of the Spanish
Embassy.

His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and
the Countess Apponyi left Chandos House yesterday for
Woburn Abbey, on a visit to the Earl and Countess
Russell.
The Duke of Somerset and the Junior Lords of
the Admiralty, Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick Greyand Rear-
Admiral Hon. James R. Drummond, are expected to re-
turn to the Admiralty on Thursday, from their late tour of
inspection.
The Earl of Strafford has arrived at WrDtham
Park, from a short visit to Paris.
The Earl and Countess Russell will entertain a
succession of visitors at Woburn Abbey, Beds, during the
week.

Viscount Palmerston will leave Cambridge Howe
this morning for Tiverton. Viscountess Palmerston will
remain in town.

A marriage is arranged to take place between
Edith, daughter of Lord and Lady Charles Kerr, and Mr
William P. Preston Consett, of Brawith Hall, Think, son
of the Rev. John d'Arcy Preston, of Askham Bryon Hall,
Yorkshire.

Sir George and Lady Shee have left town for
Scarborough.

HERBACEOUS BORDERS.--Let any
one imagine a
gravel walk, with a broad border of herbaceous
plants, diverse in kind, on each side of it, and surely he
will allow that there must be much of interest in such an
assemblage. Such assemblages have been, and we trust
are and ever will be. Four places of interest for this kind
of thing in time gone by may be mentioned—the Comte
do Vandes's garden at Bayswater ; Mr It. Barclay's gar-
den at Bury-hill ; Lady Olivia Sparrow's garden at Bromp-
ton, near Huntingdon; and Mrs Marryatt's garden at
Wimbledon. Those cultivators who are enthusiastic about
their bedding -out plants and bedding-cut displays would
contend that they can at any time and all times surpass us in
the amount of floral display which they can produce. If by
floral display they mean blazes and masses, and clouds and
sheets of ono colour, or of some assemblage of a few gay
colours, I suppose we must assent; but if we interpret the
term '.' floral display" as diversity of colour, diversity of
form, diversity in what is called inflorescence, or the mode
in which the flowers of a plant are disposed on it, diversity
of stature, diversity of foliage, diversity of odour, diversity
of times of day in which the different kinds open or close
their flowers, and other diversities, I cannot think we have
aught to fear in comparing our favourites with theirs. On
knowledge grounds, too, we beat them. We have more of
geography, more of geology, more considerations of climate
and the atmospheric conditions of the countries whence our
various kinds have come. and more to learn of what I shall
call tue personal appetites of our many individual kinds,
and more of legend which in the flative countries of the
plants appertains to them, and happily has been brought
over with them, than they have in their many plants of few
kinds.—Bibberd's Gardeners' Magazine.
'1 HE EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE IN THE HOUSE
Or DETENTION.—Dr Lankester held an inquest yesterday
in the House of Detention on the body of Henrietta Leb,
a Hungarian, who committed suicide in a very determined
manner. The deceased was brought up at the Clerkenwell
Police Court, on Tuesday, the 9Lh inst., charged with
stealing a piece of meat, and while in the cells she twice
attempted to commit suicide. The magistrate remanded
her, in order that she might be seen by the chaplain.
While in the prison she desired to be put to some out-door
work in preference to needlework. She was accordingly
put to cleaning on the top gallery, and while doing so she
suddenly left her work, and before she could be stopped
by the warders, squeezed herself through an aperture be-
tween the lift and the floor, and fell to the bottom, a dis-
tance of about 40 feet. She was immediately picked up
and examined by Dr. Smiled, the prison surgeon, who
found her skull fractured in a frightful manner. A warder
saw the deceased put her hand out, but thought she was
cleaning the bottom of the lift. The inquiry lasted a long
time, and the jury returned a verdict of " Suicide while in
a state of unsound mind."

THE MURDER NEAR TAUNTON.—A communica-
tion was received yesterday at the Somerset
County Gaol, Taunton, from Sir George Grey, respiting
John Mien. who lay under sentence of death for the mur-
der of his wife at Hatch Beauchamp, on the 4th May last.
The respite appears to have been the spontaneous act of
the Government, probably with the concurrence of the
judge who tried the case, Mr T. Chambers, Q.C., who is
reported to have expressed his surprise at the verdict, though
he concurred in it ; inasmuch as, although a memorial
signed by upwards of five hundred of the clergy, gentry,
and principal inhabitants of Taunton and neighbourhood
had been forwarded to London on Saturday, it could not
have been presented when the respite was despatched.
has been generally felt that the strong provocatim which
the prisoner received rendered this a case in which ;the
clemency of the Crown could be properly exercised. The
memorial was supported by the Bishop of Bath and Wells,
who also wrote to the Secretary of State, and by the High
Sheriff of the county, by whom the memorial was to have
been presented, The respite was commuutcated to the
prisoner immediately that it was received.