The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-06 00:00:00

FRANCE.

At the ball on Wednesday night at the Tuileries
the Emperor is reported to have said to the group
of Marshals and Generals with whom he was con-
versing, "It appears that they have begun to
exchange cannon shots in the North ; let them go
on, gentlemen—let them go on ; it is no affair of
ours, our policy should be non-intervention ;" and
those whom he addressed seemed to agree with him.
The motive for the inaction of the English and
French Governments is said to be the assurance
given that the war will be strictly local.
The Italian Minister of the Interior has just pre-
sented to the Chamber of Deputies at Turin a bill
for extending the law of public safety to the whole
kingdom.
At the request of the communal council of
Vienna, the direction of the Imperial Opera of
that city is having a metallic curtain manufac-
tured, for the purpose of separating the audience
part of the theatre from the stage, in case a fire
should break out.
The Hon. Charles A. Murray, H.B.M. Minister
at the Court of Saxony, gave a ball at Dresden on
the Ist, in honour of the birth of an heir to their
R.H. the Prince and Princess of Wales, The King
and the Princes and Princesses of the Royal Family
honoured the fete with their presence; it was at-
tended by the members of the Corps Diplomatique
and the elite of the German and foreign society in
Dresden. His Majesty opened the ball with Mrs.
Murray, and it was kept up with great spirit until
four in the morning.
The Vienna Gazette denies the assertion made by
several journals, that Austria is about to send fresh

troops into Holstein.
The quinquennial prize of 1,000 thalers in gold,
founded in 1844, for the best work on the history of
Germany, has been this year awarded to M.
Haeusser, for his history of that country since the
death of Frederick the Great.
The robbery of the Duke of Brunswick's diamonds
has become complicated by a new incident. Since
the jewels were taken from Shaw's person, they
have remained in custody at the Correctional Police.
After the condemnation of the guilty party, the
Duke applied for the property, but could not obtain
possession of it, in consequence of an opposition
having been lodged in the name of the reigning
Duke, who claims a great part of the jewels as
belonging to the Crown of Brunswick.
BOURSE, Feb. s.—The market has undergone a
complete change, and to dullness has succeeded
great buoyancy, an improvement to be mainly attri-
buted to the arrival of the English funds with an
advance of t. Threes, for the Account, are now at
66f. 40c. Mobilier have reached 1,000 f., at which
they are firm. Railway Shares in demand, and
generally quoted higher. -The market continued
firm to the close, and left off as follows : •
4t per Cents. .. 95 3() Italian Loan 6B 05
Do. end month.... Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 so Do. end month....
Credit Mobilier 997 50 Russian
,_ .^
Do, end month 1010 50 Austrian.. —
Bank Shams 3300 Spanieh Threes.... 50
Credit } oncier Home Debt
Roman
BSILWATI3.
Cash.
905
942 50 .. 947 50

Account.

Orleans
Northern►
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 932 50 .. 931 25
1S ditto_

••••• • •

Southern ...... 652 50 .. 655
Western
Eastern
Sardinian ...... 378 75 .. 377 50
Austrian
Lotrbard
North of Spain -
Saragossa 572 50 .. 571 25
Ditto to Barcelona

ANECDOTE OF THE POET ROGERS, as related by
Charles Dickens—in reference to Mrs. Carlyle and
Mrs. Procter.—" You know, I dare say, that, foe a year or
so before his death, he wandered and lost himself, like one
of the Children in the Wood, grown up there and grown
down again. He had Mrs. Procter and Mrs. Carlyle to
breakfast with him, one morning—only those two. Bath
excessively talkative, very quick and c'ever, and bent on
entertaining him. "When Mrs. Carlyle had flashed and
shone before him for about three-quariersof an hour on one
subject, he turned his poor old eyes on Mrs. Procter, and,
pointing to the brilliant discourser with his poor old finger,
said (indignantly), 'Who is she ?' Upon this, Mrs. Proc-
ter, cutting in, delivered—(it is her own story)—a neat ora-
tion on the life and writings of Carlyle, and enlightened him
in her happiest and airiest manner ; all of which he heard,
staring in the dreariest silence, and then said (indignantly
as before), " And who are you ?'
Three of the steamers conTrising the AD lo-
Three
steam squadron—viz., the Pekin, China, and Tien-
tsin—have passed through the Straits of Sunda, en route to
England. Captain Sherard Osborn was on Ward the Tien-
tsin.