The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-19 00:00:00

BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS.

The Vectis, with the above mail, arrived et
Marseilles at 1 a.m. this day. The mails were to
leave fur London at 11.30 a.m.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FEB. 19.

An Imperial decree has been issued appointing a
committee to draw up the regulations in connexion
with the Supt. Bill which has been submitted to
the Corps Legislatif.
M. Corta, member of the Corps Legislatif,
embarked yesterday for Mexico. He has been
entrusted with a mission, and will be invested with
authority over all financial functionaries and agents.

On the occasion of the death of the Duchess of
Parma, an application was made to the Cardinal
Archbishop of Paris to obtain the celebration of a
solemn funeral service at Notre-Dame. The reply
of Mgr. Darhoy was as follows :
"Monsieur,—You have done me the honour of
expressing the desire that a funeral service should
be celebrated at Notre-Dame on the occasion of the
death of the Duchess of Parma, as was done, you
believe, on the deaths of Charles X. and the
Dauphin. It is hardly necessary for me to re-
mark that the question is not to obtain the per-
formance of a low mass, or an ordinary service.
All Catholics may demand such prayers from
their cures, and all cures may celebrate such
masses without my special permission, as is done
every day. If, therefore, I am consu ted in
the present instance, the reason is that the
service contemplated would be one of a parti-
cular character, and it is that peculiar character,
rendering my intervention necessary, which deprives
me of the power of acceding to the request made,
rhe precedents which you allege do not exist, or
rather are of quite an opposite nature. No service
was celebrated at Notre-Dame on the death of
Charles X.; the noble and devoted Mgr. tie Qeelen,
who was then 'Archbishop of Paris, even wrote to
all his cures that no such service was to be cele-
brated in any parish of his diocese. A request has
been made to me,' says the circular of the 17th of
N eitember, 1836, and will no doubt be addressed
to the cures of the different parishes, to allow
solemn services to be performed for the repose
of the soul of the deceased King. lam thus
under the necessity of tracing out for those
cures a line of conduct which will shield them
from all reproach. Ido not fear to take upon
myself the entire responsibility of such a coarse, in
order to exonerate them complete! v!—After stating
the reasons for his decision Mgr. Qeeten continues :
These considerations may serve you to persuade
those persons dematcling solemn services for Charles
X. not to persevere in their request. I trust that
not one of those persons will fail to be satisfied with
your reply when you declare thst you ace only the
organ of the chief pastor.' Allow me, sir, to use at
present the same language, and to hope that you
will not refuse to look upon it as simply what I
intend it to be, and what the friends of Mgr. de
gielen saw in his words—the prudence and senti-
ments of a bishop who feels his responsibility but
does not shrink from it, who knows his duty and
fulfils it.—Accept, &c.,

" t G., Archbishop of Paris."

BOURSE, Feb. 18.—Sales from realisation have
acted on the market du►i.ug the morning, and
Threes, for the Account, have receded to 66f. 60c.
Mobilier have improved to I,oBofr. A fair amount
of business has been done in Railway Shares, bui
prices up to the present show but trifling variattnn
from those of yesterday. The market closed as
follows :

41 per Cents

Italian Loan 6B 25
Jo. end month 6B 15
Sew ditto
Do. end month —
Russian
A. us tria.n
-;panish Threes., 51 50
P.bt

end ntonth• •• •
per Cents
Do. end month 66 65

Credit M0bi1ier....1076 25
Do. end m0nth....1083 76
Bank Shares 3285
t;rotit. Hander 1300

Roman
BALL

Deferred

Orleann
kTorthern

Otstt.
1010 .. 1006 25
960 960

New ditto
uyou. wart .!1 edi turraueaL 942 50 .. 942 50
New ditto .. 895 „
S aithern
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian 383 75 „ 382 50
Austrian

Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa 5(15 .. 592 25
Ditto to Barcelona' 302 50 .. 305

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
BtiESLAU, FEB. 18.

Advices received hare from Poland stale inat, ou
being informed that the Russian Colonel Bent-
kowski was marching against him, the insurgent
leader Bosak sent a detachment to the forest of I,z •
for the purpose of making a divers►on, Alter a short
engagement the Russians retreated to Baranow. In
the meantime Bosak proceeded by forced m arches
towards the town of Konskie, attacked the Russian
garrison on the E3fh inst., and drove them out of
the town. The Russians were then attacked by the
detae.ments under Kurowski and Rudow,ki, and
lost their military chess, 11 baggage waggons, 200
muskets, and 32 prisoners, while 87 were left dead
on the field.

The station-master of the railway terminus in
this town has been arrested by the Prussian autho-
rities, and sent to Btrlin to appear before the

Supreme Court.
Aimost all the guards of the Warsaw and Vienna
Railway have been arrested.

Destruction by Fire of Boymans' Museum,

Rotterdam:

(FROM A CORILE SPONDENT.)
ROTTERDAM, Feb. 17.

The Boymans' Museum, ooniaining one of the
most valuable collections of paintings, sculpture, and
Japanese treasures in the kingdom, Was last night
consumed by fire. A few of the smaller paintings
have been saved, but the most valuable portion of
the collection has been destroyed. The fire it seems
was occasioned through the carelessness of the
workmen engaged in repairing a portion of the
building. By this fire Rotterdam loses one of its
leading attractions. The collection was left to the
city by the late William boymans, but has since
been considerably increased by purchases made by
the municipality. Most of the paintings were of
great value, and as they were all by ,deceased mas-
ters th© loss is irreparable.

On Wednesday, while Mr. Charles Dick, brewer,
Edinburgii, engaged in superintending the ale
vats in his brewery, be misse his footing and fell into a
vat containing boiling liquor. Two men' who were close at
hand succeeded in getting Mr. Dick speedily of the
vat, but the skin was scalded off the whole of his body,
and he was otherwise very severely injured. The unfor-
tunate gentleman, after suffering intense agony far about
four hours, died.
THE PRINCE REGENT AND TE DANDIES.— rhe
Prince Regent at the dandy' ep oh was already an
old man, though he did not wish to have it generally
known H . had flung away his manhood after his youth.
He had neither nerves nor stomach now to play his old part
of Buck and BI od. The swaggering muscular graceless
ness of his younger days could not be acted over again. He
was left with a shattered constitution, a ruined figitre, an
utilovely fame, to hide beneath an auburn wig the grey
hairs which no one respected. He owed some fti-vouf to
the set of men Burr unding him, why for his sake made
debility the vogue, and unmanliness de rfgueur. . The
dandies. were Tor some titne succes.ful in their worthless
endeavours. They established quite 'an apotheosis of
effeminacy. The world of fashion bowed low* adoration
of the clothes horse.—Once,a Week.