The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-22 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

LREUTER'S TELLGRAMS.j

HEALTH OF HIS HOLINESS.

MARSEILLES, MARCH 21.

Letters from Rome to the 19th inst. state that
the Pope has been better since the operation upon
the tumour on his leg. The fever had disappeared,
and his Holiness had received the French Ambas-
sador, with whom he had a long conversation.
The Archduke Maximilian was expected at
Rome.

TURIN, MARCH 22.

The Opinione 'of to-day says—" Yesterday the
English steamer Valetta touched at Caprera, and
embarked Garibaldi and six other persons. It is
believed that Garibaldi proceeds to England, where
be has been expected for some days."

SEVILLE, MARCH 18.

The espousal of the Infanta Donna Maria Isabel
of Orleans and Bourbon with her cousin, the Count
of Paris, will take place on the 19th inst., in the
palace of San Telme with great solemnity. The
ceremony wlll be performed by the Cardinal Arch-
bishop of Seville, and will be followed by the rati-
fication of the marriage articles.

The President of the Rudiencia of Seville will act
as Chief Notary of the Kingdom, representing the
Minister of Grace and Justice.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
ALEXANDRIA, MARCH 21.
The Euxine left at 4 p.m. yesterday with the
Marseilles portion of the above mails.
The Ripon, with the heavy portion of the mails,
sailed at 6 a.m. this day for Southampton.
The Rangoon brought the mails to Suez, arriving
there on the 17th inst. (two days early).

FRANCE.

PARIS, AlAnca, 22.

The Moniteur of this morning, again referring to
the affair of Cardinal Bonald, says :—" Upon the
11th March Cardinal Bonald addressed a letter to
the clergy of his diocese stating that the .211oniteur
had been misled by false information, and that he
had only learned the pretended dissatisfaction of
the Pope from that journal. We reply that the
information in the 11foniteur was official. Explana-
tions were requested by the French Ambassador on
the 23d of February, and were given the same day
by Cardinal Antouelli. It was not, aowever, until
the 9:h March that the latter conveyed the expres-
sion of his Holiness's censure of the indiscreet pub-
lication by Cardinal Bonald.
BOURSE, March 21.—The market has been heavy,
but up to the present time the variation in prices
has not been material, Threes, for the Account,
being now at 66f. Mobilier have receded to 1,040 f.
In Railway Shares little or nothing doing. The
market closed as follows :

41 per Cents .. 93 25
Do. end month....

3 per Cents
Do. end month 66

Credit Mobilier....loso
On. end month.... 1048 75
Bank Shares ..3295

Italian Loan 67 75
Do. end month 67 90
New ditto —
Do. end mouth —
Russian
A ust

;rian ..

thredit loneier

1265

Roman -

Spanish Threes 61 25
dome Debt .. lv*
Deferred
✓AYe.

ZAIL

Orleans ...
Northern

New ditto

Caen. Account.
1005 .. 103 .....
955 .. 960 --

t.yone and Mediterranean 933 75 936 25
New ditto
Southern 653 75 .. 656 25
Western
.E Astern
Sardinian
Austrian
Gorr bard
North of Spain ..... 486 25 .. 486 25
Saragossa 6BO 681 25
Ditto to Barcelona

Haymarket Theatre.

4

The "School for Scandal" was played at this theatre
last night. The house was crowded in every part, and
every point in this brilliant play was heartily enjoyed and
loudly applauded. Sir Peter Teazle was represented by
Mr. Chippendale, Sir Benjamin Backbite by Mr. Buck-
stone, Charles Surface by Mr. Farren, Joseph Surface by
Mr. Howe, and Crabtree by Mr. Compton, in the spirit of
genuine comedy—the rest of the characters were respect-
ably portrayed. Tho farce of 4( Lend Me Five Shillings,"
in which !4r. Bupkstone is unequalled for riotous, over-
diwing humour, forms an agreeable addition to the comedy.

FRENCH LITERATURE.

Monsieur Bourgeois gave the sees nd lecture Of 1
his present course on Friday, the 107 h lest., at tt
Ladies' College, Kensington-square. Having in his
former lecture treated of the first period of La. Fon-
taine's literary career, which terminated with the
disgrace of Fouquet, M. Bourgeois now passed in
review the second period. He to'd of his friend
ship with Racine, Boileau, end Moliere ; how the
four friends were in the habit of meeting three or
four times a week at Boileau's house, and of the
influence this connection had both on his literary
and moral character. A great deal has been said
about La Fontaine's eccentricities, and M. Bourgeois
related several anecdotes exemplifying these pecu-
liarities, at the same time that they served as an
analysis of his character. La Fontaine was not
happy, or would not content himself in his own
home. He lived at Paris : his wife lived at Chateau-
Thierry. His courtly friends who frequented the
Chateau de Veux thought little of such trifles, but
in compliance with the representations of Racine
and his new friends he resolved to visit his wife,
and put his domestic relations on a more respectable
footing. He accordingly left Paris for Chateau-
hierry, and when he arrived there went direct to
the house of his wife. The servant, who did not
know him, replied to his inquiries that Madame La
Fontaine was gone to churcn, and would not return
for some time. La Fontaine adjourned to the house
of a friend, spent the evening there, forgot the
object of his mission, and returned next day to
Paris. His friends eagerly asked atter his wife.
"I have not seen her," replied La Fontaine," she
was at church." Though successful authorship i❑
those days achieved celebrity,it did not entail pecu-
niary gain. La Fontaine was so far from being in
affluence, that his friends were glad to procure him
an appointment in the household of the Dowager
Duchess of Orleans. This lady died soon after,
when Madame de la Sabliere, so celebrated for her
beauty and her wit, invited La Fontaine to take up
his abode in her house. Here he lived for twenty
years, and it was: during this period that he
composed his fables, which he had been asked
to write kr the use of the Dauphin. La
Fontaine achieved his highest fame as a fabulist

—a word which before his time did not exist in the
French language. Monsieur Bourgeois analysed
several of these fables, and pointed out with great
critical acumen their literary beauties, and the
dramatic art displayed ia their composltien. To
La Fontaine's eyes the realm of the lower animals
exhibited the same passions that he found brought
into action amongst
.men, and under the guise of
an apologue he censured the vices and ridiculed
the follies of his own species. "La Fontaine," said
Monsieur Bourgeon, "caught, so to speak, the
moral physiognomy of the lower animate, unveiling
those links of connection so humbling to our pride,
which exist between them and us. Mid was a power
in wnich La Fontaine stood unrivalled until the
present day, when the pencil of L indseer has done
for dumb animals what the pen of La Fontaine had
already achieved. So closely akin is the excellence
displayed by these two great men that we may de-
scribe Landseer as the La Fontaine of painting, and
La Fontaine as the Landseer of poetry. To the brief
sketch which our prescribed space allows us to give
of tla4s lecture, we shall only add that Monsieur
Bourgeois is another proof of how moral courage
and perseverance cAn triumph over physical diffi-
culties, and he is at the same time an evidence of
the Divine goodness, that makes compensation for
imposed privations. M. Bourgeois is blind, but he is
gifted with a prodigious memory, and delivered
without pause or hesitation a lecture of two hours'
length, replete with information, aided merely by
some notes, taken in what the French call ecriture
en pointe, and which he deciphers by the sense of
touch.

. The IMPERIAL PRINCE has been made a sergeant
of the first Regiment of Grenadiers.
BATTERSEA PARK AND CHELSEA HOSPITAL
GROUNDS.— Ile public money expended in the
purchase and formation of Battersea Park amounts, accord-
ing tea Parliamentary return, to £15,008 9a. 3d. This
charge was defrayed from balances of former grants of Par-
liament, and receipts derived from rents, interest on par-
chase-mtney, and sales of old materials. Respecting Chel-
sea Hospital grounds, £4,158 of the original Parliamentary
vote of £1,426 4s. has been expended.
THE CASE OF PIRACY BY CONFEDERATES.—At
the Liverpool Police-office on Saturday, before Mr.
Raffles, Warren Quincey, alias Wilson, George M'Murdock,
alias Kelly, and John Taverner, alias Clements, the three
men charged with having piratically seized the American
schooner Joseph L. Gerity, in November last, whilst on a
voyage from Matamoras for INt-ov York, were again brought
up. The case was first before the court on the 24th
February. Evidence was then gone into, and the case
was remanded, and twice again urnande3 on two sub-
sequent occasions. Mr. Squarey, as the representative of
the United States Government, asked tne mag;strates
to put in force the provisions of an act of Parliaroent
founded on a treaty between this country and the United
States by committing the man to prison. It would then
become necessary for the American Government to apply
to one of the Secretaries of State that they might he sent
to America. Mr. Raffles still thought it a case of piracy,

but in a grave case of that kind, wnich might be followed
by serious consequences to those men, he did not like the
responsibility of giving a decision without obtaining the
opinion of the highest court of justice. For that reason he
had made up his mind to remand the prisoners, so as to
give them an opportunity, if they saw fit, of applying to a
full court in London. He would remand thH case for seven
days, and should than adjourn it sine die. That would give
the men an oppor unity of having the opinion of a superior
court, and if it was against them they would be committed.
The prisoners were then put down, the case being remanded
for a week.

THE RECENT ESCAPE FROM THE WAKEFIELD
HOUSE OF CORRECTION.—We recently gave an ac-
count of the escape, on the evening of the 2d of March, of
a female convict, named Mary Ellen Renshaw, from the
Wakefield House of Correction. On March 7, Renshaw
was captured at Leeds, and on Friday, at the House of
Correction, Wakefield, Mary Ann Abson, late a matron at
the prison, was charged with aiding her in her escape. Mary
Ellen Renshaw was the first witness. She said that in No-
vember she asked Abson about a scarf shawl that had been
taken from the hospital, and said that it was hers, though
it was not ; and Abson said that she had taken it, but she
(Renshaw) was not to say anything about it. After that
Abson brought her bacon, tea, sugar, and cheese, and used
to let her out of the cell at night. The matron suggested
an escape to her, and at last ahe (Renshaw) urged her to
let her out, but Abson fond she dared not. Renshaw said
that Abson had done worse things. Ultimately, Abson
promised to let her out; and, on the day of her Escape,
Renshaw gave Abson a gold ding, and promised to give
her some money when she got ow:, Abson brought her
a crinoline, a silk dress, a plaided scan shawl, and a pair
of boots and a bonnet, and let her out of the cell, took
her into the matron's room to look at herself in the glass,
and went with her a few yards towards the gate. Sho
also told her that if the gatekeeper hesitated to let he,r
out she was to tell him to go down to Mr, Ulyatt's, the
deputy governor. Mr. Shepherd, the governor at the
prison, said that on February 9 he gave the prisoner, who
was night watchwoinan, notice to leave on the 4th March,
and hor last night of dw y was the 3d March. She wished
to stay as day matron, but he told her she was inefficient
John Hudson, night porter, said that about half-past eight
on the night of the 2d instant he allowed a woman who was
wearing a plum-coloured dress, bonnet, &c., to pass out
He took her for a visitor. Evidence in corroboration of
Renshaw's statement was given by several persons, and
then, after an address from Mr. Barratt, who said there
was. not corroboration sufficient, the prisoner iv as committed
fur trial at the Pontefract sessions, but admitted to bail.
HORRID MURDER.—On Tuesday afternoon a lad,
about 12 years of age, named James Paton, was found lying
on the Stirling and Allea road near Tullibody-bridge,
frightfully wounded and speechless, and next day he ex-
pired of his injuries, which had clearly been the result of
personal violence committed upon him. Thomas Arnot, a
surfaceman employed on the road, was apprehended on
Wednesday evening, and lodged in Alloa prison, charged
with the outrage. On being examined bele:o the Sheriff he
made a full acknowledgment of his guilt. llia statement is
that he was at work on the road, repairing the footpath and
cleaning the run channel, when the boy came up leading a
horse by the head, and brought his cart over the place which
he had just finished. Arnot felt so enraged at this that,
without speaking a word, he raised the shovel which was in
his hand, and knocked the boy down with a blow on the
back from it. He then with the edge of the sh 'Neel struck
him two or three times on the head as he lay, and leaving
him lying on the roadside, gathered up his tools and went
home. Arnot says he has ao rJcellectien of having seen the
boy before, but adds that ho was so enraged at the time that
if the boy had been a giant he believes he would have served
him in the same way. The prisoner, who is said to be
eccentric, if not embecile, and who was usually thought an
inoffensive person, told his wife and others all about the
affair wenn he went home, expressing some remorse of con-
science for the deed. On being apprehended he quoted to
the °fillers the proverb th tt thos., who r--re born to be
hanged would never be brows—d." Ho is a native of Per;
shire, and is 56 years of tie, and has three daughters
. Mown up,