The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-27 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Union records that rumours are again afloat
in Paris of a new Minister being created, who shall
have under his control the post-office, the railways
and the telegraphic lines.
A NEW SOLT OF AUTOGEAPIL—The last number
of the Autographe—(a weekly newspaper published
in Paris and containing nothing but autographs, ur,
to speak more properly, lithographs)—exhibits the
signature of a personage who created some sensation
a fortnight ago. We. mean Vermouth, the famous
hove of M. Delamare. A friend of M. de Ville-
messant bethought himself of presenting to the noble
animal a small board covered with clay, which
enabled the coequeror of the English to stretch forth
its fa)t and so to impress on it its signature, which
the Autographe now reproduces, having previously
declared that Vermouth is not a thing, but a glory
THE GREENBACKS OF ALEXANDItE DUMAS,--
In order to complete the 2,0e0 fr.sucs which he re-
quires to purchase Mane's life-boat, Atexandre

llamas has hit upon the tollovving process !—He has

cut out several sheets of paper in a great number 01
k pares, mad upon eActi of them with that same

hand from which Ctinae OtIL so many attractive and

amusing works, he traced those simple words—
" In the name of None and of mysef, thanks—A
Dumas." M. C. Prather distributes those au:o.

graphs, which can be procured for 10 centimes (Id).
This, as every body can see, is equally simple but
ingenious. But there are very few men who could
raise the wind by such means.
In the midst of the negotiations engoged in at
Kissi:igen and Carlsbad hz:tween the Northern
Powers, says the Union, the =nor Slates of Ger-
many have expressed their wish to stand aloof.

The sovereigns and princes who have repaired to
Kissing,en have done an act of courtesy, but did not
take any part in the deliberations held by the Em-
perors of Russia and Austria, the King of Prussia,
and their Ministers. This reserved attitude of Ger-
many is considered a result of the interview of M.
de Beust at the Tuileries. Everybody knows that
the Saxon Minister is, at the present moment, the
representative of the German Diet at the London
Conference. The minor Slates of Germany have,
it is said, manifested their intention of departing
from that reserved attitude solely in the case When
the French Government itself should interfere in
the complication, which threaten to happen be.
tween the Great German Powers and England.
Moreover, the Cabinet of the Tuileries has not
ceased to declare at London, as well as at Berlin,
at Vienna, and at CJpenhegen, that if war should
burst between England and the German Powers
on the Danish question, France would preserve a
strict neutralay, and watch the march of events.
A certain number of French diplomatists, with-
out any cfficial title, have been sent to Carlsbad,
where is alto our ambassador at Carlsbad, the Duke
de Gramont. The French Government is very
anxious to be well acquainted with everything
which is said or done in that town.

A new Jewish Synagogue, recently erected on the
site of the Silt Oranbry at Lyons, was inaugurated

the day before yesterday. Among the persons
present on tie occasion were M. Vaisse, Senator,
Prefect of the department. The interim. of the
building is of great splendour, and the curtain which
conceals the tabernacle containing the tables of the
law was purelpised and presented by the Jewish
ladies of the city at a cost of 15,000 f.
BOURSE, June 25.—The market, which at first
declined, again rallied on the arrival of the English
funds with higher prices, bat Threes, for the Ac-
count, show no improvement on previous prices,
b.ing now unvaried at 65fr. 70c. Mohilier have
advanced to 1,027 f. 50e.

railway Snares have also
n'Arket closed as follows :
[Lilian L0an..... 69 80
Do. end month.... 69 70
Ditto Threes...... 43 75
Now Mexican .... 65
Russial. ........
Anstrian ........ 82
iputii,h Three, ..
I force Debt • 50
Deferred ........ 45i
RAIL WAYS.
Cash. Account.
Oilcan .. . 867 50 .. B,le-'5, ---,?;
Northern
Lyons and l'h,ditcrranean 872 50 .. Oi ')
New ditto —
Southern 645 .. 645
Western
Eastern
.......... 460 . • 460
Sardinian .. tf.• •••• ;361 25 .. 360
Austrian
Lombard .......... 520 .. 517 50
North of Spain ........ 430 .. 432 59
Saragossa 566 25 .. 565
Ditto to Barcelona - .. 255

slightly recovered. The

41 per Cents. 93 35
De end month.„.
3 per Cents
Do. end month 6i 75

)relit Mobilior 1025
no. end month... 1030
Bank Sbareo 3355
Ccidit, anc79r 1230

Roman

PAYMENT OF POLICE FOR SPECIAL SERVICE.—
There are ratepayers who are apt to "consider too
curiously" as to parochial expenditure, and in so doing
give themselves needless anxiety. Some of these may
query to themselves, " whose money is it that pays the
policemen who aro always' to be seen at the Houses of
Parliament and other public buildings, as well as in theatres
and many private establishments?" Such economists may
rest assured that those special services of the police are all
charged to the institutions that receive them, the respective
payments being placed to the debit of the metropolitan police
fund. The Admiralty is the largest customer for police
supervision : that department paid £33,015 for such
service, and the War-office—for policemen at Aldershot
and other stations—paid £lO,OOO. For their attend-
ance at the Treasury Offices and Houses of Parliament,
£857 was paid ; at the Royal Mint, £l6O ; and at
the Record Office, £419. The Geological, Science and Art
Museums of the Board of Trade cost for police guardian-
ship, £2,646; the British Museum, £730; and the two
National Galleries—at Trafalgar-square and South Ken-
sington—cost £1,005 for the protection of their priceless
treasures. The inland Revenue Office paid £1,283, mainly
for the services of the police at Somerset House ; and a
similar F11:11 was paid by the trustees of Greenwich Hos-
pt. al Public companies, including such as the Crystal
Palace and Railway Companies, together with private in-
dividuals, contribute an aggregate of £5,514 towards the
expense of the police; and the Theatres paid £503,
(:(1331hr5'S ,M;i7;tgA

PRANCE AND JAPAN,

The Moniteur of yesterday contnins the fellow
ing

The following arrangement has been concluded
between the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the
Ambassadors of Japan.
His Majesty the Emperor of the French and his
Majesty the Emperor of Japan, desiring to consoli•
date by marks of mutual confidence the relations of
friendship and of commerce which exist between
the two countries, have resolved to eettle by common
accord and by special arrangement the dTieulties
which have arisen between their governments since
the year 1862.

In consequence his Excellency M. Drouyn de
Lhnys, Minister Secretary of State for the Deplrt-
tnent of Foreign Afflirs of his Majesty the Emperor
of the French ; and their Excellencies Ikeda Tdi
knugo no Kanai, Kawats.ou Idzau no Kami, Kawada
Sagami no Ambassadors of his Majesty the
Tycoon, authorised to that Effect, have agreed
upo7.-1 the following articles :
Art. 1. In reparation of the act of hostility com-
mitted in the month of July, 1863, against the ship
Kien Cheng of the Imperial navy, upon which shots
were fired in the province or Nagato, the Japanese
Govet nment undertakes to pay into the bends of
the Fr,nCh at Yeddo, three months after the return
of their Excellencies the ambassadors of the Tycoon
to Japan, an indemnity of 140,000 Mexican piastres,
of which 100,000 piastres will be paid by the Go-
vernment itself, and 40,000 piastres by the authori-
ties of the province of Nagato.
Art. 2. Tae Japanese Government also undertake
to put an tni, within three months after the return
to Japan of t%eir Excellencies the ambassadors
of the Tycoon, to the hindrances which French
ships that wish to pass the strait of Simonosaki
meet with at present, and to keep that passage free
at all times by recurring, if access try, to the em-
ployment of force, and by acting, if need be, in con-
cart with the commandment of the French naval
division.

Art. 3. It is agreed between the two Govern-
meets that, in order to promote the regular develop-
ment of commercial exchange between France and
Japan, the tariff reductions recently accorded by the
Government of his Majesty the Tycoon to foreign
commerce shall be maintained in favour of the
articles imported by French merchants, or under
the French flag, during the entire duration of the
treaty concluded at Yeddo between the two coun-
tries on the 9th, October, 1858. In cmsequence,
while tact treaty remains in force, the Japanese
customs shall admit free the following articles, in-
tended for the preparation and package of tea—tin
' foil, solder, matting, rattans, oils for painting, in-
digo, gypsum, pans, and baskets. It will simply
impose a duty of 5 per cent. ad valorem upon wines
and spirits, white sugar, iron and tin, machinery
and detached pieces of machinery, linen tissues,
clocks, watches, watch chains, glass, medicines; and
a duty of 6 per cent. upon plate glass, mirrors,
porcelain, jewellery, perfumery, soaps, arms, cut-
lery, books, engravings, and drawings.
Art. 4. This arrangement will be considered as
forming an integral part of the treaty of the 9th
October, 1858, between France and Japan, and it
will be immediately put in execution without it
being necessary to submit it to the ratification of
the respective sovereigns.

In witness whereof the undermentioned pleni-
potentiaries have signed and sealed the present

rrh ng ement.

Done in Paris, in duplicate, the twentieth day of
the month of June, of the year eighteen hundred
and sixty-four,

DROUYN DE LHUYS.
IKEDA TDIKOUGO NO KAMI.
KAIYATSOU IDZOU NO KAMI.
KAWADA SAGAMI NO KAMI.

In addition to the above arrangement the Japa-
nese ambassadors, charged by the Tycoon to offer
to the government of the Emperor reparation for
the attack of which a French officer (Lieutenant
Camus) was victim in Japan, have engaged to pay
as an indemrdly a sum of 35,000 dollars, or 192,500 f.,
to bo handed to the family of that officer. This
payment was immediately cff,eted. Tne envoys of
the Tycoon at the same time declared that their
Government would take all necessary measures fear
detecting ar.cl punishing the murderers of Lieut.
Camus,

The Independance nage says that the Japanese
ambassadors were to have visited England, Holland,
and Switzerland, but that, owing to political modi-
fications in their government, they hastily concluded
their negotiations with France, in order to return
home at once. It is said, however, that another
embassy is to be sent to Europe at the commence.
ment of next year.
Courtesy of the Orleans Family.

A statement appeared some days back in the
London TVeekly Register (a Roman Catholic paper)
to the effect that Bishop Grant, who was the cele-
brant at the marriage of the Count de Paris, had
been treated by the family with great discourtesy.
That statement, which was copied into the Jlionde
of Paris, and commented upon in the same spirit,
produced a certain sensation both among L?gitinaists
and Orleaniste. Finding that the article of the
London paper was reproduced in a French journal,
which did not express 51 ny doubt of its accuracy,
General Count Dumas has addressed the following
letter to the Monde :

Sir,—lf the Abbe Guelle, Chaplain to the Queen Marie
Adelaide, were not detained in attendance on the Duke de
Montpensier, who has been dangerously ill, he would have
given a contradiction to the misstatements in the 1.17 eekly
Register, which you copied into your paper of yesterday,
In his absence I feel bound to do so, as I am the person
who was charged by her Majesty with the arrange-
ments for tho marriage of the Count de Paris. You say
that the Catholic Bishop of Southwark, who performed the
marriage ceremony, had reason to complain of the treat-
ment he received. I deny this in the most distinct manner,
and, to corroborate my Quasi, I refer you to Monseigneur
Grant himself. He well tell you with what respect and
affection he has been treated on every occasi,)n by the Queen,
and by every member of the family. As for the facts on
which you found that strange assertion, there is not a single
one which is not absolutely contrary to the truth.
In the hospitality offered to the guests at Claremont there
was no distinction to make between Catholic children
and Protestant, for the simple r.-ason that the Royal
Family had not invited children, to add,' as you express
it, " to the splendour of the ceremony," and consequently,
some could not have been cared for and others neglected,
The Protestant Dean of St. Paul's had not to say grace
at the table of the Ro3 al guests, as he was not present, not
having been included in the number of English personages
invited.

If Monseigneur Grant did not take part in the repast
which followed the nuptial benediction, the reason is, that
he preferred, as he did last year, on the occasion of the
marriage of the Duke de Chartres, and in conformity to
ecclesiastical usage, not coming to Claremont for a marriage
feast. But Monseigneur Grant, as well se all the priests
who assisted him, was received by the Abbe Guelle in the
name of th- Queen, and a collation was specially prepared
for him, at his own convenience, and in the place and at
the hour which he himself had fixed upon.
And as for what you say, sir, with respect to the anti-
Catholic tendencies of the House of Orleans, I again refer
you to the venerable Bishop of Southwark. He, lam con-
vinced, will tell you that there is not a Catholic family in
hie diocese who performs all the duties of our religion with
more exactness and piety than all the members of the
Orleans family.

I rely on your impartiality, Sir, for the insertion of the
present letter in your next number; and I pray you :o
receive the assurance of niy distinguished consideration.

General Count C. D 1-31 AS.

PREPAIIATIONS FOIL WAlL—Orders have been
received at the Stores at Pimlico, anl the Arsenal at Wool-
wich, to prepare, and hold in readiness for immediate use,
the neceesary articles of clothing and warlike equipment
for a force of 30,000 men.-- Visited Service Ga:cttc.
THE WATERWITCII.—It, is stated that tho Water-
witch, captured by the Confederates in Ossabaw Sound on
the 3d
,June, has arrived at Savannah.
INSIDE A MEWS IN LONDON.—I arrived at the
mews in question at the appointed time. It
was situated in a very quiet and respectable neighbour-
hood, and was in itself a very orderly-looking place.
Why do grooms take such pride in the windows of their
sleeping-rooms ? Every other window that I looked
at was fenced in with a mimic five-barred gate, and
palings painted white and the five-barred gate green. No
doubt, these are but expressions of the country taste of the
country bred lads who come up to town to seek their for-
tunes, and sink down into the cunning grootnn one meets
with at the corers of streets in Nbly Fair, plotting treason
agsinst their matters with the corn-chandler,— Once a
Week,

PRIIiCESS'S THEATRE.

ME MONASTERY OF ST. JUST.

The natural desire to witness the accomplished
Stella Colas in a part other than that of Juliet, and
the high expectations raised by the announcement
of the production of a new version of M. Casimir
Delavigne's play, " Don 'Juan d'Autriche," drew
together on Saturday evening ono of the most bril-
liant and crowded audiences that ever assembled
within the walls of the Princess's Theatre. In "Louis
XL" Delavigue drew the portrait of a tiger and fox
combined, end made the character ridiculous as
well as detestable l-y its union of bigotry and
wickedness, cruelty and cowardice. In the present
drama ho has not dealt so harshly with royalty,
though :a the character of Philip the Second of
Spain he has drawn a masterly portrait of a soul
moved and swayed by the fiercest selfishness and
brutality. This, the central character of his pic-
ture, is drawn and coloured in with all that
artistic knowledge of the power of light and shade,

and of the most sudden and violent contrasts in

which the modern French dramatists aro so potent.
Mr. John Oxenford has en!irled his verbion " The
Monastery of St. Just,'' and reduced the original
five acts to three, chit fly by cutting down the
dialogue in those pars where the refoine is not
upon the stage; and he has altered the termination
of the drama in such a way as to make it end
happily, if not powerfully, in the English fashion.
The plot of the play, briefly told, is as follows:
JIM Juan, a natural son of Charles V., who is
ignorant of his parentage, is rather in the way of his
brother, Philip IL, now King of Spain; and is
;.n love with and beloved by one Donna Florinda
(Stella Co:as). Unfortunately Donna Florinda be-
lieves herself to be a Jewess, and the Jews are beieg
exterminated by the fanatical Spaniards, but this
obstacle would not delay her union with Juan, it
she Led not inspired a p.ssio❑ in the breast of her
Monarch, Philip IL The King consigns Juan to a
monastery, while he sends the lady to the inquisi-
tion, that he may have the credit of saving her from
torture and death. Dsm Qeexade, a faithtul friend
and tutor of Juan's, finding that the name of the
monastery has been left blank in the royal order,
fills in the name of the Monastery of St. Just. Here
it is that Emperor Charles the Fifth has retired
after his active life. Juan meets his father

in the monastery, and the old and eccentric king,
after causing the monks to spread a report of his
death, suddenly rouses himself to help his natural
son out of the difficulty. By getting himself elected
prior of the monastery he is able to release Juan,
. _

in defiance of Philip's royal order; and in the third
act, when there seems no way of saving Donna
Florinda from the attacks of Philip, although she
has denounced herself as a Jewess, he appears in
his monastic robes, makes a statement which seems

to prove that she is not a Jewess, but only a Jew's
adopted child, gives her to Juan, orders the two
brothers to become friends, and everybody to live
happily ever afterwards.

We cannot help thinking the second act greatly
confuses the action of the piece, and its entire omis-
sion w:.uld, in fact, not be a great loss were it not
by that means we should lose the opportunity of
seeing Aldlle, Stella Colas as the novice Pablo, a
mischief loving little fellow, who loves the abbot's
oranges, notwithstanding strict orders to the
contrary. But the great feature of the play
was the embodiment of the part of Donna Flo-
rinda by the same talented artiste. Her con-
ception cf the part of the persecuted Jewess was
marked by the greatest intensity and pathos.
Her great anu grandest effort was the expression
of hurror at the declaration of his passion by the
remorseless King. Tne feeling of love, scorn, and
terror were powerfully represented, and these com-
bined with the tenderness and grace of the other
portions of the part rendered it e. performance
quite worthy of her exquisite performance of
Juliet. It proved that she possesses a
talent not confined to one particular " line,"
but that in both tragedy and comedy she
is «pally charmirg and highly effective. Mr
Vining's King Philip was also a very admirable
performance, and Mr Nelson, as Dan Juan, certainly
acquitted himself to the greatest satisfaction of the
audience. Mr H. Marston as the retired monarch,
Charles the Fifth, and Mr J. W. as the aged
c:anosellor, both acted with great effect ; and Mrs
H. Marston as the Gouvernante gave us one of those

lifelike portraitures for which she is so remarkable.
Tne play, which was a perfect SUCCESS, has been
mounted in the brat manner, and such was the
enthusiasm of the audier co at the beauty of the
interior of the Monastery of St, Just, that the artist
had to bow his acknowledgments before silence
could be restored.

The Ministerial Explanations this Evening.

The scene presented in the lobbies of both houses
of Par Helmut this morning was ono of great
curiosity ; the cause being the great importance
attached to the statement of Earl Russell in the
House of Lords, and Lord Pamerston in the House
of Commons, of the course the Government in-
tend to pursue in consequence of the nonsuc-
cess that has attended the deliberation of the
Conference on the Dane-German question. in
compliance with orders, the police in charge of the
building open the doers of the House at six o'clock.
As usual, that practice was observed this morn-
ing, and as early as 7 a.m. persons having secured
member's orders for the stranger's gallery this eve n-
ing, began to assemble in the " Waiting Room," a
kind of cellar on the basement, beneath the stairs
leading to the gallery. The persons in charge of
the place compassionately gave the " early birds"
the pleasure of a good coal fire, otherwise their
long and weary wait, until a quarter before four
o'clock p,m., would have been almost impossible.
Those, however, who had attended at that
early hour in a short time after secured
the service of a person to cccupy the place for them
till a few minutes before tour, and in this way
many of the commissionaires and other unem-
ployed persons were engaged at very rernu-
neretive rates. At eleven o'clock the room was•
declared quite full, and after that hour the cande.
dates for adn3ission had to take up their seats in the
Sculpture C )rridor in the order in which they
arrived, as in that manner they would pass
into the gallery. Here, again, men and boys
were eng.iged to sit until four o'clock, and at two
o'clock the accommodation here presented was
nearly all oceupitd. Many of those who had not
been successful in obtaining engagements as
"sitters' exacted exorbitant fees for convey-
ing refreshments to those who had; and thus
laughing and joking was carried on as loud as w
considered parliamentary. The prices paid to the
patient waiters avereged frem half a sovereign to
half a crown.

A telegraphic despatch from Corfu announces
that the King of the Ilellenes left the lonian Islands yes.
terday morning, accompanied by Viscount Arnelot, Prinee
Gazarine, and Mr. Rumbold, the French, Russian, and
English Charges d'Affaires, who have attended his
Majesty during his journey.

The Flandre-Maritime, states that the King of
the Belgians and the Duke and Duchess of Brabant and
their children intend to make a rather long stay this season
at Ostend. Preparations are being made for their recep-
tion at the old Palace in the nue- Lsnguo.
EXECUTION IN •FRANCE.—Frangois DuNrcz,
known by the name of the Petit Sorcier, who had
been condemned to death for murder, underwent the sen-
tence of the law the day before yesterday at Valenciennes.
Since his trial he has been confined in the prison of Douai
It was only at six o'clock in the morning that Duwes was
informed that hi.. application for pardon had been re-
jected, and that he must pri,pare to die in a few hours.
Ho heard the announcement without much emotion,
and then received the last consolations of reli
glen-
• from the chaplain of the prison. lie was
afterwards taken under an escort of gendarmes to the rail-
w,iy station, and conveyed to the prison at Valenciennes.
Immediately after his aft ival he went through the ceremony
of the toilette, and was placed in a cart and conveyed to the
place of execution, escorted by a large; body of gendarmery,
to preserve order and protect him from the immense crowd
which had assembled from all parts of the country round.
On reaching the scaffold he ascended the steps with firm
nests, and delivered himitlf into the hands of the execu-
tioners. The next moment all was eve:.

The Gazette des Etrangers states that the in-
surance offices interested in the case of La Fomerais have
deeicled on paying in full to rho two children of Mcne. dc
Pauw the amount of the insutances (ire. ted he,.
['ha two young girl; will therefore re uive betwt;eu the::
the stun of 500,(Mf,

firtiNT

HER, MAJESTY,

-WINDSOR CASTLE, June 25.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse, attended by Madlle. do Granny and
Captain von Westerweller, went to Marlborough
House yesterday afterncon on a visit to their Royal
Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales.

Their Th)yal Highnesses Prince 1,,,ep01d and
Princess Beatrice drove out in a carriage and four.
The Qiern, accompanied by their .119yal HigL-
ne!.ses Prince Allred, Princess Helene, and Princtss
Louise, drove in the grounds this mcrni:lg.
His Royal HighreA t rine& Alfred left the C4ol°
early this morning for Portsmouth, auk net d by
Major Cowell, to embark on board her Mi,j€s;3i3
ship Ricoon, which will proceed immeditite:y to
the north of Norway.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of -Wales, with
the infant princo, Atert Victor, arrived at the
Castle this afternoon on a visit to the Queen.
The M,:rchioness of Carmarthen and Lord Harris
atterd.,d the princess.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Louis of Hesse
accompanied the Princess of Wal.s from London.
Their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena and
Princess Louise honoured Mr. G. H. Thomas with
nn inspection of his picture of the "Royal Mar-
riage:" on Friday last.

Mr. J. Barrett had the honour of showing his
picture of a " Drawirg.room at St. James's Palace"
to her M,jeAy and th© Royal family on Tuesday
last at Windsor Castle.

The Juage-Advocate- General had an audierca
of the Queen.

JUNE 26,

Their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena and
Princess Louise went to London last evening, and
honoured the performance of Her Majesty'sTheatre,
Haymarket, with their presence, attended by LAY
Caroline Barrington and Lieutenant-Colonel the
Hon. D. de Res.

The Princes returned to 'Windsor Castle at

night.

Their Royal 1-lighntsirs the Prince of Wales and
Prince Louid of Hesse, attended
.by Lieutenant-
Colonel Keppel and Captain von liresterweiler,
arrived nt the Castle at half-past seven o'clock last
evening.

Lord Stanley of AT.deriey and the Rev, C.
Kingsley also arrived.

Lord Stanley of Alderley had an audience of the
Queen.

The Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales,
the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Priectss
Helena, Princess Louise, and Princess Beatrice,
with the ladies and gentleman in waiting, attended
divine service this morning in the private chapel.
The Rev. C. Kingsley efficiated.