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

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

ITALY.

TURIN, Nov. 23,

The Onicial Gazette continues to publish lists of
the numerous municipalities which have offered to
pay the land tax in advance.

The debate on the Financial Bills will commence
in the Senate on Thursday next.

SPAIN.

MADRID, Nov. 22 (Evening.)
The general electiona are proceeding very

quietly.
The Government has a considerable majority in
the electoral committees of Madrid.

FRANCEQ

BOURSE, Nov. 22.—The market has been more
buoyant, and the business done has been at an ado
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 less firm before the close, and left off as

follows :-
4t per Cents .. 92
Do. end month....
3 per Cents
Do. end month..., 65 05
Credit Mobilier 905
Do. end month 903 75
Bank Shares 3195
Credit Foncier ll9O
Roman

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

AALLWAYB.

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern OOO • .
Western

Cash. Account.
840 ~ 842 50
986 25 .. 983 7b
881 25 .. 887 50
585 583 75
500 .. 505

Eastern
Sardinian 0000 ~.
Austrian

4SO - .. 478 75
312 50 307 50
445 - .. 447 50

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

THE CAPE MAIL

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 22.

The mail steamer Cambrian arrived hero 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 Lffir leaders were raising a
report that the English Government, frightened of
Kreli, 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 Natuaquas, the former tribe
seeking to recover a large number of cattle stolen
by the latter from the celebrated traveller Anders.
sen. The Damas 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
Fairburn, the founder of the press of South Africa,
died at Wynberg on Oct. 5. Bain, the geologist,
died at Cape Town on Oct. 20.
Trado had improved, but the business done was
below the average of the season. The first of the
season's clip of wool hal come in. It was expected
that the clip would be large and the quality good.
The continued dry weather had affected the oath
and barley, the yield of which was not so large as
an ticipated.
The wheat crop would be good. Money was
plentiful, and read►ly obtainable at 6 per cent.
The Cape Copper Mining Company continued its
operations in Namaqualand. Some large ship.
ments of ore had recently been made.
Strong south-easterly gales had prevailed along
the coast a few da3 s before the Cambrian left, which
resulted in the loss of the bai qua Ballarat in Algoa
Bay, and the brig Devonia in Mossel Bay.
H.M.S. Valorous and the barque Urania came
into collision off Cape Itaceif. 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 Postmaater.General 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 00.. 8. The Eastern Pro-
vince arrived at Algoa Bay.on Sept. 25, and was to
leave Table Bay three days after the Cambrian. It
was generally expected that she would reach Eng-
land before the Cambrian.

National Rifie 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 fur
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
entirely confined to Mr Rigby, of Dublin, and it remains
to be seen whether the rifle of that gentleman will be
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
riff s, 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
Halford, Captain Ross, Captain Page, &c.
' At the commencement of the proceedings Mr Henry
handed to Captain Mildmay a written protest against the
decision of the council respeeting his rifles—the chief points
urged being that the rifles objected to were 4507] in bore
(the second rule requiring that the bore should be 451),
and that this infinitesmal 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
baing 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 oounoil's deoi-
sion. Mr Rigby then fired off his three rifles, 30 shots with
each rifle, at tho 1,000 yards range, eight trial shots being
allowed. Sergeant Gray, 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 ilia diagrams was of course looked
forward to with little interest. It way however he stated
that there wes, from some cause or another, a marked
difference between the shooting of Mr Rigby at 1,003 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 result 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 the
council should supply each intended competitor with the
test upon which they regulated the bore of the weapon,

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