The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-13 00:00:00

per cent.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Feb. 12.—The market remains firm, but
with little change in quotations. Threes, for the
Account, and Mobilier are now both unvaried at
yesterday's prices-66f. 50c. and 1,122 f. 50c. Rail-
way Market quiet, but firm. The market improved

towards the close, and left
41 per Cents. 95 20
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 60
Credit Mobilier...,lo3l 25
Do. end month 1038 75
Bank Shares 3287 50
Credit Foncier
Roman —

off as follows :

' Italian Loan 67 90
Do. end month 6B 15
New ditto —
Do. end month —
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes —
Rome Debt .. —
Deferred
PAYS.

RAIL'

Orleans
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean
New ditto
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

Cf;sh. Account.
1000 .. 998 75
951 25 .. 955

937 50 :. 935 -

667 665 -
617 50 .. -
481 25 .. 480 -
380 - - -
400 - 405 -
520 - 520 -
495 - .. 492 50
577 50 .. 578 75
298 75 .. 305 -

THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND.

(From a Supplement to the Gazette of last night.)

List of Casualties that occurred to the Officers, Seamen,
and Marines of the Waikato Flotilla, employed in the
attack on Rasgariri, November 20th, 1863.
KILLED.
Her Majesty's ship Curacoa—Mr. Thomas Watkins,
midshipman, gunshot wound in head—William Tidy, A. 8.,
gunshot wound in head—James Woods, quartermaster,
gunshot wound in head.
Her Majesty's Ship Harder—Frederick Osborne, 2d cap-
tain fore-top, gunshot wound in neck, and David Downer,
private, Royal Marines, gunshot wound in chest.

WOUNDED.
Her Majesty's Ship Eclipse—Richard Charles Mayne,
Esq.. commander, deep and extensive flesh gunshot wound
of left hip, severe, doing well—Henry Oldfield, stoker,
gunshot flesh wounds, left shoulder, left forearm, and upper
arm, and right knee, very severe, doing well.
Her Majesty's Ship Mranda—E. Downest Panter
Downes, Esq., lieutenant, deep gunshot flesh wound, right
shoulder, severe, doing well—George Andrews, A. 8.,
cutlass flesh wound, right leg, accidental, slight, doing
well—Thomas Galling, leading seaman, gunshot deep flesh
wound, right leg, severe, doing well.
Her Majesty's Ship Curacoa—Henry APC• Alexander,
Esq., lieutenant, gunshot scalp and deep wound, through
right axilla, very severe, progressing favourably—Charles
Frederick Hotham, Esq., lieutenant, gunshot flesh
wound right leg, lower half, severe, doing w3ll—
Hayles, ordinary seaman, gunshot deep flesh
wound, right thigh, severe, doing well—Walter Robin-
son, ordinary seaman, gunshot flesh wound, left leg,
moderately severe, doing well—Tom Dallis, A. 8., gun-
shot flesh wound, right shoulder, moderately severe,
doing well—Richard Stevenson, boy, Ist class, gunshot
wound in abdomen, mortal, since dead (November, 1863.)
Dated at Rangariri, the 30th November, 1863.
RICHARD PICKEN, M.D.,

Surgeon 11.M.5, Curacon.
In consideration of the distinguished conduct of the
officers and seamen, the following naval promotions have
taken place :
To be Captain—Commander Richard Charles Mayne.
To be Commanders—Lieutenant Edward Downes Panter
Downes end Lieutenant Henry M'Clintock Alexander.
To be Lieutenant—Acting Lieutenant Robert Frederick
Haremick.
To be Surgeon—Mr. Adam Brunton Messer, M.D.,
Assistant-Surgeon.
In consideration also of the services detailed in the above
despatches, the Board of Admiralty have directed the
names of the undermentioned officers to be favourably
noted :—Capt. Francis William Sullivan, who has already
been promoted for distinguished service in Now Zealand—
Commander Henry B. Phillimore—Lieutenant Charles
Frederick Hotham—Acting Lieutenant Frederick John
Easther—Duncan Hasten, Assistant• Surgeon—
Frank Elrington lladson, Cecil George Foljainbe, Sydney
Augustus Rowan Hamilton, Midshipmen—and William
Fox, ordinary seamen.

SHANSPERE'S SELF-POSSESSION AS AN ACTOR.—
Shakspere, it is said [by whom ?], was acting the
past of a king in one of his own tragedies, and in the course
of the evening was standing near the royal box. Queen
Elizabeth, who occupied it, wishing to test the actor, and,
if possible, to make him depart from his dignity as a sove-
reign, gave orders to her courtiers not to interfere, and at
the moment of his proximity, dropped a handkerchief upon
the stage. The mimic monarch, nothing daunted by the
stratagem, picked it up, and handing it to her Majesty,
merely interrupted his speech by exclaiming, with a regal

But ere Ibis be done,
Take up our sister's handkerchief.