The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-13 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Oct. 12.—The market has been heavy,
and prices have declined. Threes, for the Account,
are now at 65f. 300. Mobilier has also receded,
and have been as low as 892 f. 50e. lt%ilway Shares
rather offered. The market closed as follows :

41 per Cents. 92 20
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 65 15
Credit Mobilier BB2 50
Do. end month BBO
Bank Shares —
Credit Foncier ll7O
Roman 7l

Italian Loan
Do. end month 65 15
Ditto Threes .. --
New Mexican 50 25
Russian
Austrian ..
Spanish Threes —
From° Debt
Deferred

BAIL WAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans 0000000 1...&•••• 835 .. 835 --
Northern 9BO .. 977 50
Lyons and Mediterranean 885 .. 890
Southern 605 60:5
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa.. 470 .. 467 50
Ditto to Barcelona 200 _

The Franco-Italian Convention.

VIENNA, OCt. 9.

A despatch dated the 4th inst., forwarded by M.
Drouyn de Lhuys to the Duke de Grammont, the
French Ambassador at the Austrian Court, is said
to have been communicated a few days ago to
Count Rechberg.

The despatch contains the official notification of
the Convention lately concluded between France and
Italy, and is believed to be to the following effect :
M. Drouyn de Lhuys very courteously, but also
very briefly, states that no necessity exists to for-
ward a special notification of the conctusion of the
Convention to foreign Powers. Irritability upon the
part of the Cabinet of Vienna at the proceedings of
the FrenchGovernmentisthe less to be pre-supposed,
as such a feeling between two friendly Cabinets
only appear intelligible when the course pursued
by one affects any interest of the other. The text
of the Convention has now been published, from
which it is apparent that no Austrian interest is
affected thereby. The French Cabinet would rather
hope that upon closer examination of the text of the
Convention the Austrian Government would be of
opiaion that the step thus inaugurated by France
deserved the thanks of Austria and of the whole of
Europe, being mainly calculated to set aside an ob-
stacle by which European peace is permanently and
seriously threatened, and by this means to lighten
the heavy burdens weighiwg upon all the great
Powers.

The Alleged Wreck of Her Majesty's Ship

Bulldog•

(From the Western liforning News,)

The arrival of news of the wreck of the Bulldog,
first made public in the second edition of the TVestern
Morning News of yesterday, has caused great pain
and anxiety in this neighbourhood, where relatives
and friends of several of the vessel's officers and
crew reside. A letter arrived at Plymouth by the
West India mail announced the total wreck of the
vessel and loss of all her crew, with the exception of
seven persons. The letter was writ cen in a hurried
manner from the deck of the Duncan, flag-ship at
Halifax, just in time to save the mail. It gives nc
further particulars.
A variety of rumours are in circulation relative
to the credibility of this loss of the crew or of the
vessel. The following is a statement cf all the facts
at present known :—The letter referred to above
was written by a ship's steward who was sent out
from Plymouth as a supernumerary in the Bulldog
to join another ship on the North America and West
India station, and is addressed to his father. It is
headed " H.M.S. Duncan, Halifax, Sept. 29," and
the following paragraph is extracted in which the
writer most explicitly stated the wreck and loss of
life. "ye thought the mail bags would not close till
to-morrow, but they are going to close them in ten
minutes. I was transferred from the Bulldog to
the Galatea in Bermuda for passage here, and very
lucky I may think myself, for she is wrecked, and
all except seven perished. If she had been an hour
later going into Bermuda, I should have remained in
her; for the Galatea was under weigh when we
came in; but, however, I thank God I was not
allowed to remain in her to share the fate of the
poor unfortunate crew." Another letter from the
Duncan, brought by this mail, to a certain extent
confirms the loss of the Bulldog, while at the same
time it throws a doubt on the loss of the crew. The
writer, a quartermaster, named Withecombe, was
drafted from the Canopus, receiving ship at Devon-
port, on board the Bulldog. He writes to his
mother. The letter is dated H.M,S. Duncan, Sept.
23. In it the writer says—" We arrived at Ber-
muda forty-three days from Plymouth. At Bermuda
see found the yellow fever raging violently and were
consequently taken out at once, and sent in the Gala-
tea to Halifax. We left the Delight screw gunboat,
which we had brought out at Bermuda. I expect
that you have heard that the Bulldog has been con
the stumps,' but don't be alarmed, we are all safe.
We are anxiously awaiting for the arrival of the
gunboats Steady and Cygnet, which we expect to be
drafted into." A theory has been suggested that
this writer refers to the crew of the Bulldog being
taken out of her and sent on to Halifax, but this ie
improbable, and, indeed, is known to be erroneous.
as a letter has been received by the wife of an
officer in Plymouth, dated Sept. 9 (four days after
the arrival) at sea under orders for Jamaica.
Another solution of the writer's meaning suggested
is that an accident has heppened to the vessel,
but that all the crew are saved. The probability
of this suggestion depends upon whether the writer
was one of the crew of the Bulldog, or went out as a
supernumerary. The latter appears to be most pro-
bable, as he speaks of being drafted to gunboats--a
circumstance which could not happen immediately in
the case of the crew of the Bulldog whether she
were wrecked or not. If, therefore, he was a super-
numerary, the question arises whether, in his saying
" we are all safe," he does not refer to the supernu-
meraries, and takes the same view of having had a
narrow escape, which he is desirous of communicat-
ing to his friends, as does the ship's steward. In
that case the second letter would fully corroborate
the first. A naval officer in Devonport has received
a letter from the Duncan by this mail, in which no
mention is made of the loss of the Bulldog.

THE NEW ROUTE THROUGH ST. SAMES'S•PARIi.
—The new road from the Houses of Parliament to
Buckingham palace, along the Birdcage-walk now in course
of formation under the direction of the Commissioners of
Woods and Forrests, is advancing rapidly towards comple-
tion. The portion set apart for a carriage thoroughfare, to
be added to the old causeway, is already finished, and on
Monday last as as rendered accessible to the pfu-sage of
vehicles. The other alley, under the shade of the trees, re-
served for the use of equestrians, is iu a very forward state
of preparation. The stonework fa. the fixing of the iron
fence is laid throughout the length of the route, and a con-
siderable extent of sails has been placed in position.
A DISGUSTING Eximmos.—At the Peterbfield
fair on Thursday was offered for public eshihition
a being in human shape, of stature tall and stout, wearing
only the semi-savage garb around his middle, and encircled
by a leather belt, styled an American Indian and "vermin
killer." A sort of box was then brought forward (locked)
containing live rats, upon which the cannibal-like counte-
nancet till the in edozen
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of the "vermin killer" brightened up with excited
delight, and upon the lid being raised ho seized the rat in
his hand, and, placing its head between his teeth, with a
sickening crash of the skull, instantly killed it, and devoured
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