The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-18 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, June 17.—The market continues heavy,
and the limited amount of business done in Rente
has been at slight decline. Threes, for the Account,
are now at 66fr. 100. Mohilier has also receded,
the present quotations being 1,067 f. 50c. In Rail-
way Shares little doing, and the variation in prices
not material. The market became rather firmer
towards the close, and left off as follows :

41 per Cents. 93 50
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 15
Credit M0bi1i0r...,1032 50
Do. end month 1082 50
Bank Shares 3390
Credit konmer 1'240
Roman
RA

Italian Loan 69 90
Do. end month 69 90
Ditto Threes 42 75
Mexican 56 75
Russian

Austrian

Spanish Threes 51 25
Elome Debt ..
Deferred
vaxa.

Cash. Account.
Orleans ***
Northern
Lyons and ileditcrranean 870 875
New ditto
SJuthern
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa..
Ditto to Barcelona .

G5l 25 .. 651 25

505 - -
465 - 470 -
363 75 36.5 -
410 - ~ 411 25
627 50 .. 628 75
438 75 .. 440 -
665 573 75
282 50 .. 257 50

MR. JUSTICE &TEE, according to the Law Times
of this day, presides at the annual dinner of the " Law
clerks' Society." The claims of this association to the
respect and regards of the profession are very great. It is a
noble endeavour of our most trusted and trustworthy ser-
vants to make provision for themselves and their families in
the days of sickness and old age, and when death has de-
prived the wife and the child of their natural protector. It
is unnecessary to enlarge upon the merits of the Law Clerks
—they are known by experience to all of our readers. Those
of them who cannot be present in perscn may express their
approval by sending a subscription.

SOCIETY OF ARTS' CONVERSAZIONE.—A very
large gathering of the members of this society and
their friends, amongst whom the proportion of ladies was
very considerable, took pace at the South Kensington
Museum on Thursday evening. The company was r( -
ceived by the chairman of the council, Mr William Hawes,
The bands of the Coldstream Guards and the Royal Artillery
played during the evening, and Madlle Adrienne Presehel
performed upon the pianoforte in the room known as the
National Gallery.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE
ENSUING WEEK.—Monday—Asiatic, at 3. Tues-
day—Horticultural, at 3, Conifers,' Mr Murray—Statis-
tical, at 8, Statistics of Aberdeen,' Col. Sykes—' Crime in
Russia,' Mr Michell—Ethnological, at B,' Prehistoric Cave-
dwellers of Southern France,' Mr. Christy—' Supposed
Infecundity of Human Hybrids or Crosses,' Mr Crawfurd.
Wednesday—Society of Literature, at 41—Qeological, at
8, Fossoliferous Rocks, Forfarshire,' Mr Powrie—
' Reptiliferous Rocks and Footprint-bearing Strata, N.E.
Scotland,' Professor Harkness—' Bone and Cave Deposits
of Reindeer Period, South of France,' Mr Evans—' Silu-
rian Rocks and Granite of the Donetz,' Professor Helmer-
sen—' Supposed Deposit of Boulder Clay, North Devon,'
Mr Maw—' Former Existence of Glaciers in South of Scot-
land,' Mr Young—' Formation and Preservation of Lakes
by Ice-action,' Mr Belt—' Geology of Hobart, Tasmania,'
Mr Winkle. —Atheneum.

ALEXANDRA PARK.—This place of recreation
practically opens for the season on the 22d inst.,
with a flower show, at which prizes to the amount of £7OO
will be given by the company. The bands of the Grenadiers
and 2nd Life Guards will be in attendance, and frequent
trains will run from Farringdon-street and King's-cross to
Wood-green station, but a hundred yards from the flower
show. Arrangements are being made for holding a great
fair in the month of July, and the Chalets a Boutiques are
now being put up cluse to the site of the flower show. The
cricket ground is nearly complete, and the two cricket pa-
vilions are finished. The National Archery Association of
England will hold their meeting on the 6th, 7th, and Sth of
July, when prizes to the amount of £5OO will be shot for.
There will be a monster gathering of Foresters on the 11th
July, and a grand review of the cadets of the metropolis in
the same month.
CLOSING OF THE LONDON TLIEATRES,—The pre-
sent summer will be noticeable for a more general
closing of the West-end theatres than has taken place for
many seasons past. The Princess's, Olympic, Adelphi,
and St. James's will next month be the only principal
theatres open. The Lyceum closes on Saturday next ; the
Strand Theatre will on the same night terminate its season
in order to allow certain advantageous alterations to be
made in the theatre; the last night of Astley's is Monday
next, when Mr. E. T. Smith takes his benefit; and the
Haymarket will close its doors till September on Wednes-
day, July 6th, when Mr. Buckatone makes his annuul
appeal to the grateful recollections of his old admirers.—
Era.

A CURIOUS METHOD OF REDUCING THE INTENSE
HEADACHE experienced by fever patients has been
lately pointed out by M. Guyon: It consists simply in
pressure exerted over the integument covering the temporal
arteries. It was discovered quite accidentally in feeling
the temples, rather than the wrist, in order to ascertain
the frequency of the pulse. Whilst the physician com-
pressed the vessel, the patient exclaimed, " Comme•vous
me soulagez; and thus indicated the result produced by
diminishing the supply of blood to the surface of the
cranium. M. Guyon does not consider that any serious
results of an irjurious nature follow compression of the
" temporals," inasmuch es the blood finds channels in the
various other branches of the " external carotidsl"..

WHERE'S THE JEST i—The:Charivari publishes a
woodcut representing the stage of a theatre, on which three
jockeys appear in energetic attitudes, singing—
" Jamais, jamais en Franco
L'Anglais ne gagnera I"
Below is published a notice that the opera of " Charles
VI." is to be speedily reproduced, with new costumes and
other appropriate adjuncts,