The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-23 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Nov. 22.—The market has been more
buoyant, and the business done has been at an ads
vance. Threes, for the Account, are now at 65f. 15c.,
and Mobilier at 905 f, RAilway Market firm, with
an improvement on some of the lines, The market
became lose, firm before the close, and left off as
follows :-
41 per Cents 92
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 65 05
Credit Mobilier 905
Do. end month 903 75
Bank Shares 3495
Credit } oncier 1190
Roman

Italian Loan 65 40
Do. end month 65 45
Ditto Threes ..
New Mexican .... 73 25
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes —
Home Debt
Deferred

BAIL WAYS.

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern OOO • •
Western

Cash. Account.
840 .. 842 50
986 25 .. 983 7b
BSI 25 .. 887 60
585 .. 583 75
500 .. 505

Eastern ..

450 .. 478 75

Sardinian
Austrian

312 50 .. 307 50
445 - 447 50

Lombard
North of Spain . ... 375 .. 375 25
Saragossa 425 .. 425
Ditto to Barcelona

THE CAPE MAIL

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 22.

The mail steamer Cambrian arrived here this
evening with the above mail and 61 passengers. She
left the Cape on the 21st, St. Helena on the 29th
ult., and Ascension on the 2d inst.
The Governor was in the Free State engaged in
settling the boundary line between that country
and Basutoland. The utmost quiet prevailed in
Kaffirland. Krell was settling down upon the lands
allotted to him. The despatch from the Home Go-
vernment upsetting the previous arrangements
made for the settlement of Trankeian territory had,
however, caused much dissatisfaction on the fron-
tier. Some of the Kaffir leaders were raising a
report that the English Government, frightened of
Krell, had restored some of his country to keep him
quiet, but when a fitting opportunity arrived he
would retake the whole.

A fierce engagement had taken place between
the Dmas and the Namaquas, the former tribe
seeking to recover a large number of cattle stolen
by the latter from the celebrated traveller Anders-
sen. The DAMSIS were victorious, but Anderssen
never recovered his property. He received a bullet
in the leg which shattered the bone, and was carried
to a missionary station, where he was left. John
Faiiburn, the founder of the press of South Africa,
died at Wynberg o❑ Oct. 5. Bath, the geologist,
died at Cape Town on Oct. 20.
Trade had improved, but the business done was
below the average of the season. The first of the
season's clip of wool ha i come in. It was expected
that the clip would be large and the quality good.
The continued dry weather had affected the oafs
and barley, the yield of which was not so large as
anticipated.
The wheat crop would be good. Money was
plentiful, and readily obtainable at 6 per cent.
The Cope Copper Mining Company continued its
operations in Namaqualand, Some largo ship-
ments of ore had recently been made.

Strong south-Lasterly gales had prevailed along
the coast a few da3 s before the Cambrian left, which
resulted in the loss of the bat quo Ballarat in Algoa
Bay, and the brig Devonia in Mossel Bay.

Valorous and the barque Urania came
into collision off Cape Raceif. Both vessels were
damaged.

The Bishop of Cape Town had convened another
diocesan synod for next January. Lay delegates
were invited to attend.

The Cape Postmaster•Gleneral was ordered to
make good the defalcations of the receiving-clerk,
lately discovered.
The Norman arrived out in Table Bay on Sept.
22, and the Saxon On Oe. 8. The Eastern Pro-
vince B a Sept. 25, and was to
leavearrived
Table
at u
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Bay
c
three
ga
days y
after the Cambrian. It
was generally expected that she would reach Eng-
land before the Cambrian.

National Rifle Association.— Official Trial
of Rifles,

Yesterday was the day fixed by the council of the National
Rifle Association for the periodical competition of small
bore rifles manufactured by various firms, in order to
ascertain the best description of weapon to shoot for the
Queen's prize at the next annual prize contest of the associ-
ation at Wimbledon. At each previous competition held
at Woolwich for this purpose, the proceedings have been far
from harmonious, and disputes of some kind or another
have invariably taken place between the rival gunmakers
and the association. The present meeting appears to have
been no exception to the rule, the result being that no
competition has, in fact, taken place, the firing being
Rigby
entirely
of Dublin, and it remains
of that gentleman will be
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finally adopted, or the protest of Mr Henry, of Edin-
burgh, against the irregularity, if not the injustice of the
proceedings, taken into consideration. It appears that
the two gentlemen named were the only gunmakers who
entered for the present competition in accordance with the
printed
_regulations. Mr Henry duly forwarded his six
rifles, as required, on Monday last, when they were inspected
and said to be ineligible, as the bore was not of the size
required by the second rule. About 11 o'clock yesterday
morning the members of the association and others interested
in the proceedings assembled at the Royal Arsenal practice
range, where every arrangement was made for the firing,
which on this occasion was limited by the rules to the 1,000
yards range, the firing at 500 yards being dispensed with,
Amongst those present were the Earl of Aberdeen, Earl
Ducie, Capt. St John Mildmay, secretary; Lieut.-Colonel
Raiford, Captain Ross, Captain Page, &c.
At the commencement of the proceedings Mr Henry
handed to Captain Mildmay a written protest against the
decision of tbe council respecting his rifles—the chief points
urged being that the rifles objected to were 4501 in bore
(the second rule requiring that the bore should be 451),
and that this infinitesimal difference, being but a thousandth
part of an inch, could be obviated, and the rifles altered to
the required gauge within two hours. Also, that if he
(Mr Henry) was debarred from the competition for this
slight non-compliance with the rules, the objection applied
with still greater force to Mr Rigby, who was in contra-
vention of the two rules, inasmuch that his rifles had not
been forwarded to the council until some time after eleven
o'clock on Monday, the 21st instant, and that such
rifles, although made and shaped, were not finished,
and consequently, not in accordance with the rule,
The protest was received, but the decision of the council not
being reversed, Mr Henry was clearly out of court. He was
repeatedly requested to take part in the firing, but declined
to do so unless he entered the contest with the same ad-
vantages as Mr Rigby, by the reversal of the council's decie
sion. Mr P.igby then fired off his three rifles, 30 shots with
each rifle, at the 1,000 yards range, eight trial shots being
allowed, Sergeant Gray, It A., master of the practice
range, acted as marker; and the diagrams were taken by
means of powerful telescopes. As the firing was not com-
pleted, the state of the diagrams was of course looked
forward to with little interest. It may however Le stated
that there was, from some cause or another, a marked
difference between the shooting of Mr Rigby at 1,000 yards
in February last and on the present occasion. Mr Rigby's
diagrams in February were almost within a decimal equal
to those of Mr Whitworth, the successful competitor, but
they were now far below the mark of really good firing,
Much regret was expressed at the molt of the council's
decision, which precluded the competition of Mr Henry,
and several practical gentlemen stated that to prevent any
such mishap in future it was highly essential that tLe
council should supply each intended competitor with the
test upon which they regulated the bore of the weapon,

THE CONFEDERATE CRUISER SHENANDOAH (SEA
KING).—A report that the Shenandoah, Lieut. Waddell,
has been lust on the Desert Islands, in the vicinity of
Made;ra, is discredited by the Confederate agents in this
country. When last heard of she was at sea, and far from
the Desert Islands,