The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-30 00:00:00

FRANCE.

THE SUBSCRIPTION TO THE NEW LOAN.
PARIS, JAN, 30.

The official report of the subscription to the
new loan has been issued. It appears that 542,061
persons-134,105 of whom reside in Paris—have
subscribed for 219,321,536 francs of rente. The
irreducible subscriptions for 6 francs rente amount
to 2,409,366 francs. Persons having subscribed for
sums of from 10 to 120 francs will have 6 francs
rente allotted them. For subscribers for other
amounts the allotment will be at the rate of sf. 21e.
for every hundred francs subscribed.
The report further states that the resources which
the loan will provide for the Treasury will more
than suffice for the public service, and will enable
the Government dating from to-day to suspend the
faculty, granted to subscribers, of paying in ad-
vance the instalments of the loan not yet due.

The report slys in conclusion—" The eagerness of
the country to respond to the appeal is a fresh proof
of its confidence in the Government of the Em-
peror, and of the security felt by everybody in the
credit of France.

The Moniteur of this morning says that the asser-
tion that the Bank of France had opened negotia-
tions with the Bank of Vienna for a loan of 50
millions in bullion is completely inaccurate.
BOURSE, Jan. 29.—The market has been inani-
mate, but without any material change in prices.
For the Account, Threes are unvaried at 66fr. 40c.
Mobilier are also unchanged. Railway shares
quiet, but firm. The market closed as follows :-
41 per Cents .. 95
Do. end month....

Do. end month 68 46
New ditto —
Do. end month —
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes —
Rome Debt
Deferred
Roman -
VATS.
Cash. Account.

:3_ per Cents - 66 45

DO. end month.... 66 35

Credit Mobilier.... 101 G 25
Do. end month.... 1017 50

Bank Shares 3275

Credit Fancier 1225
Italian Loan 6B 65

RAIL-

Orleans ...
Northern
New ditto
Lyong and Mediterranean 932 50 935
New ditto BB6 25 -

991 25 .. 990 -
947 50 .. 947 50

Santhern
Westorn

Eastern
Sardinian

Austrian

Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa .. 572 50 .. 570
Ditto to Barcelona .... 300 .. 300

THE DANISH QUESTION,

We believe that the Governments of Russia,
France, and Sweden have signified their willing-
ness to assent to the proposal which has been
recently put forward by the English Government
for the joint recognition of the integrity of the
Kingdom of Denmark. The same proposition was
also submitted to the two great German Powers.
We hear that, at Berlin, its acceptance has been
made a Cabinet question.—Morning Pest.

PICrURESQUE LONDON.—Do you know Camden-
town ? A sweet spot; the home par excellence of
the commercial clerk of from 30s. a week to two fifty a year,
an estimable, responsible, hard-working man. I have a word
or two, not about the man, but about the houses. Houses
all built to meet the requirements of the clerkly world ; they
even look as if they had been manufactured of dingy blotting-
paper, and are so fragile that they could be " taken out" with
an eraser. Thoroughly respectable though : none of your
low lodgings, or anything of that sort I House! nice parlour
wire blind in window ; very shiny, sticky, gummy furniture,
chairs with American cloth Feats, which stick to your
trousers; vase with everlasting flowers, and two china
dogs on mantelpiece; very bad, cheap print of three
chorister boys (oh, the difference between the sweet youths
and the real dirty-nosed choir-boy of a country church I) on
the wall; little mat by the door. Nice drawing-room, all
in white maple wood and cane bottoms, with white muslin
curtains and a crumb -cloth over the carpet, quite warm and
comfortable ; a black beetly kitchen where Maria Jane cooks
everything with coal garnish and soot sauce ; and bedrooms
which are well described as" airy." I vow that I hate Cam-
den and regard him with loathing. All his terraces —Bayham
and Jeffrey, and Brecknock—his " road" and his " villas,"
his "square," which is horribly pretentious and uncom-
fortable. Ho looks so horribly prim and pharasaical, he
looks so unlike real hospitality—so unlike oysters for supper,
or a cigar and a glass of grog ; he looks so like a hate of
mixed biscuits, and a glass of sherry at 27s the dozen—so
like two formal little dinners in the year, when Jones the
greengrocer empties the oyster-sauce down your neck, and a
mild evening party with very weak negus, no flirting, and
the drawing-room door under the hostess's bed. I often
wonder how jolly Charles Dibdin, the sing-writer, who is
buried in the graveyard here, can rest in _such precincts, end
wonder that he does not start up and scare the respectable
humbugs living round him with a " Yo-ho I" chorus
London 'Society.