The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-01 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Aug. 31.—The English Funds have
again declined t. The reponse de primes (option)
has been made at 66f. 30c. for the 3 per Cents.
That stock, for the account, remains unvaried at
HP. 350 Mobilier et 1,0061. 25c. Thilway Alarket
quiet, but firm. The following are the closing
prices :-
4t per Ceuta .. 94 75
Do. end month....
3 per Ceuta
Do. end month 66 35
Credit Mobilier 1005
Do. end month 1005
Bank Shares 3390
Credit koncior 1215
Roman —

Italian Loan 67 60
Do. end month 67 56
Ditto Threes ..
New Mexican .... 56
Russian
E...ustrian .. — --
Spanish Threes 49 75
Home Debt
Deferred

BAIL WAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans , B9O .. 887 50
Northern

Lyons and Mediterranean 916 25 .. 920
Southern
Western
Eastern ....
_ _ _

Sardinian .. 350 347 50
Austrian
Lombard

North of Spain
Saragossa.. .. 487 50 .. 481 25
Ditto to Barcelona .... 202 50 .. 205

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Departure of their Royal Highnesses the
Duke and Princess Mary of Cambridge for
Germany. _ _

Their Royal Highnesses and suite left last night by the
8.30 p.m mail train of the London, Chatham, and Dover
Railway from ictoria station for Dover, where they em-
barked immediately for Calais on board the London,
Chatham, and Dover Company's special mail packet the
Wave. Their Royal Highnesses ware received at Victoria
and Dover by the principal officers of the railway company.
The train ran for the first day on the Admiralty Pier at
Dover, alongside the mail packet. We understand that
both the morning and evening mail trains of the London,
Chatham, and Dover Railway Company will in future
land and embark the mails and passengers and their bag-
gage to and from the trains and mail packets at the Admi-
ralty Pier, thus entirely superseding the use of small beats
and saving the transit to and from the packet and railway.
This will be a greabboon to travellers on dark and boisterous
nights, and save them the expense of cab or omnibus hire,
and the well-known exactions of that almost now defunct
body of plunderers, the Dover town porters.

Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Marie
of Russia, his Excellency Count Strogonoff, and Countess
Tolstoy, have left Claridge's Hotel for Torquay,
His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador has left
Bryanston-square for Edinburgh. Madame Mumma and
daughters have arrived at Paris cn route to Germany.

His Excellency Count Szielen has left Claridge's
Hotel for Paris.

The EArl and Countess of Lichfield are about to
receive a succession of visitors at their seat, Shugborough,
Staffordshire.

The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, accompanied by
Lord George Hamilton, have left Chesterfield Houso to
join the Countess at Tunbridge Wells.
The Countess of Dalkeith will leave town to-day
for Scotland.

The Countess of Jersey arrived in Berkeley-square
yesterday from Osterley Park. Her ladyship will shortly
leave town for Brighton.
The Countess Craven and the Ladies Craven have
returned to Ashdowne Park, Berks, from a tour of visits.
Viscountess Stratford de Radcliffe has arrived at
Oxon Heath, Tunbridge, Kent, on a visit to Sir William
and Lady Geary.

Lord and Lady Forester, who arrived in London
a few days since from the Continent, left town yesterday
for their scat, Willey Park, Salop.
THE DUKE OF HAMILTON.—The Bulletin de Lois
publishes a decree, maintaining and confirming in favour of
William Alexander Louis Stephen. Duke of Hamilton, the
hereditary title of Duke de Ohatellerault, created by Henry
II , King of France, in favour of James Hamilton, Earl of
Arran.

MAP AND CENSUS 1861.—A1l of us have a lively
recollection of an inquisitorial government paper being left
at our residences in April, 1861, requiring our christian
and surname, profession, and age; from which even the
fair sex were not exempt. The collection we imagined was
for the weal of the State, but are now agreeably surprised
at the same being placed before us in a personally interest-
ing form. This manipulation of otherwise dry figures has
been brought out in the form of a map of England, that
shows on the railways the various towns, with the popula-
tion according to the last census;. the counties are tinted
and their names prominently oulouied, so that the ready
student, or the interested rustic, instantly traces his native
place, the rail by which it is reached, and the number of
the human family there located. In addition, we observe
against each place the name of the agent of Messrs norni-
rnan, who have caused this map of such wide-spread utility
to be prepared, and exhibited for public view at the varical
railway atatious throughout the kixisclota.

LITERATURE.

Son and Heir. A Novel. Three Vols. Huret

and Blackett.

If this is a first work, it promises well for the
future excellence of its author. The story is
ingeniously conceived and powerfully told. It
is not a sensational novel, and yet it is
likely to awaken in the minds of its readers
sensations of interest, as well as of um.
pathy and sorrow far deeper and keener than
are usually aroused by the Revels aspiring to that
reputation. The story turns upon an, act of sub-
lime self-sacrifice on the part of the hero—a
sacrifice mitigated by no alluring inducements.
No public demonstrations of sympathy, no friendly
applause or admiration reward him, even his own
" self-approving hour" is dimmed by perplexity I
Everard Chalcote, the hero of this tale of trial, the
" Son" whose filial affections are the source cf
poignant sfffiction, the " Heir" whose inheritance
is grief and desolation—is the only child of
Sir Hugh Chalcote, of Chalcote Place, But.
" Unstable as water," Sir Hugh, with his
kind heart and generous impulses, fatally
errs in the most important crisis of his life—
he " sows the wind" and the " whirlwind" is reaped
not by his hand, but by that of his ill-fated heir,
While Sir Hugh, who "means well," is always in-
tending to do right, Everard, his son, we are told,
" does his duty without thinking of it, and lives a
noble life without knowing it." Here is a fuller
portrait of—