The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-13 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Emperor, on the occasion of the death of M.
Mocquat d, addressed two telegraphic despatches,
one to M. Amde3 Mocquard, and the other to M.
Raimbeaux, son
-in-law of deceased. The former
was as follows :—.‘ I
was about to leave for Paris,
to bid adieu to your father, when the melancholy
news reached me. My grief is equal to your own,"
The otter was in these terms :—" I am in the deep-
est eviction at the death of your father-in-law, He
was my friend. His loss i 3 as painful to me as to
you. My friendship is assured to his children."

The Siide alludes to the approaching termination
of the House of Commons in England, and re-
marks that Mr. Gladstone represents one of the
principal centres of Conservative ideas—the Uni-
versity of Oxford. The writer then speaks as
follows of that statesman's political position ;
" The Chancellor of the Exchequer has long ceased
to be in good odour with the aristocratic party;
the latter wculd feel great satisfaction if Mr.
Gladstone should fail in bis candidateship, and they
have therefore already set to work to attain that
result. There is great doubt whether that party
will succeed in leading away the majority.
Oae of the most influential electors of Oxford
has just written a letter to the papers, in
which he declares that neither he nor his
friends will join in the crusade undertaken against
Mr Gladstone. It is his last speech in favour of
electoral reform that has subjected him to those
precocious hostilities. In spite of the opposition of
the Times and other papers, and notwithstanding
the hostility of the governing classes, disguised
ender an air of indifference, that grand idea of a
radical reform in the electoral system of England
is gaining ground. Last week a Reform meeting
took place at Bradford, at which Mr Forster, Mr
Baines, M.P., Sir F. Crossley, M.P., and Mr
Stansfeld, M.P., successively spoke. It is worthy
of note that men whose whole fortunes are engaged,
like Mr Crossley, in manufactures, and who ems
ploy a great number of worktatru, should be the
warmest partisans of enlarged electoral rights,
whilst the landed proprietors should prove
the most determined adversaries of such a move-
meat. An observation of Mr Forster is also worthy
of notice. Who,' he said, ' prevented England from
entering on an impious war in favour of slavery ?
It certainly was not the aristocracy, neither was it
the middle classes—it was the people.' In fact,
of all the English papers the Daily News and the
Morning Star are the only ones that have con-
stantly remained faithful to the principle of son-
intervention—the Globe, after long hesitation, only
declared in favour of that principle within the
months; the Standard, Herald;
Telegraph, and the
acza7ylled for the recognition
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of the Confederate States; the Times has accredited
to them a correspondent who is charged to exalt
their affairs in the eyes of Europe, and to make
them gain a victory at the departure of every
packet; the good sense of the people and the courage-
ous patience of the English workmen was necessary
to prevent a rupture between the English and the
Americana—a rupture disastrous for the whole
humanlo race, to
thewhich
classes who pretend to
n epossess
sens e the
of
politics and of Governs
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ment blindly impelled the country. Those classes,
that they can retain the
monopoly of power; below them a fresh class has
st whethere highf t
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mistaken
arisen. In England, as is France and in Germany,
the people are perfectly enlightened as to their in-
terests; they know that violence is a bad counsellor,
and that moderation and firmness alone lead to suc-
gthlveesotuhser side the Channel will
the certainty that the
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popular that h at
class fa cotn
soon know how to obtain the legitimate part
which belongs to it in the direction of public
affairs."

The National Gazette of Berlin states that the
Saxon troops on retiring from Holstein will proceed
home via Hanover. This will be a roundabout way,
but a deep feeling of rancour has, it is said, induced
the Saxon Government not to march its soldiers
over any part of the Prussian territory.
BOURSE, Deo. 12.—The market has been rather
heavy, and prices are slightly lower, Threes, for
the Account, being now at 66f., and Mobilier 930 f.
Railway Market dull. The market became a shade
firmer towards the close, and left off as follows :-
41 per Cent 5......, 94 80 Italian Loan 65 70
Do. end month.... Do. end month 65 70
3 per Cents . . .... 66 Ditto Threes ..
Do. end month.... 66 05 New Mexican .... 50i
Credit Mobilier.... 932 50 Russian
Do. end month.... 932 50 Austrian
Bank Shares...... Spanish Threes 45 75
Credit Foncier 4...1235 Home Debt
Roman .......... 72 Deferred

71A IL IVA Yti.
Cash. Account.
Orleans ........ 855 855
Northern
.......... 997 50 .. 996 25
Lyons and Mediterranean 875 " BKst7s`z
Southern .......... 685 75
Western ............. 510 .. 516 25
Eastern ................ 490 .. 491 25
Lon.bard .........
Sardinian ............. 317 50 .. 317 50
Austrian ............ ..... 412 50 .. 442 50
North of Spain ......... 508 75 .. 507 50
372 60 .. 371 25
Saragossa ......... 50 .. 428 75
Ditto to 13arcelona. ..19° --
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24th September, a large
HALET—As the Alexander, belonging
to this place, was steaming about in Davis's Straits, on the
whale, of about 12 tuns, was ob.
served not far distant from her. Boats were immediately
put out, and the crews succeeded in securing the animal.
When the crew came to fi nase the fish they were astonished
to find embedded in its body, two or three inches beneath
the skin, a large piece of a harpoon, about 18in. long. On
one side of it were engraved the words, "Traveller, Peter-
head, and on the other " 1838," This vessel was lost about,
eight years ago in the Cumberland Straits when prosecuting
the whale fishery there, and it is therefore clear that the
harpoon must have remained in the animal for that time at
least.—Dundee Courier,

The Spanish Government has determined upon
reinforcing the Pacific squadron by the ironclad frigate
Numancia, just finished in France, which is completely
fitted out, and has already started for her destination,