The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-09 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

C ()BURG.

COBURG, JULY 9, 9 A M.
Baron Stockmar died last night.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
WARSAW, JULY 7.
A Russian patrol is said to have taken from a
traveller near Radomsk a large portion of the bonds
and Imperials abstracted from the Treasury of
Warsaw by order of the National Government.

BROMBERG, JULY 9.

Two small detachments of Russian troops have
been forced to take refuge upon Prussian territory
near Podwicz and Slupce.

POSEN, JULY 9.

Intelligence received here from. Warsaw states
that four Italians captured simultaneously with
other insurgents, and condemned to death by court-
martial, have had their sentences commuted by the
Grand Duke Constantine to transportation, and
will be sent out of the country by the earliest oppor-
tunity.

RUSSIA.
BERLIN, JULY 9.

Private letters from St. Petersburg, dated the
7th inst., received here, state that the Council of
the Empire will be reinforced by the addition of the
marshals, of the nobility, and the burgomasters of
St. Petersburg and Moscow.

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SPAIN.
MADRID, JULY 8,

It is asserted that on the proposition of Senor
Sierra, the reform in the tariffs introduced by Senor
Saltiverria will be annulled.

GREECE.

ATHENS, Jun 6.

The National Assembly has obtained the simul-
taneous removal of the troops of the two parties

from Athens.

The City is again restored to tranquillity.

FRANCE.

PARIS, JULY 9.

The rumour that the Emperor intends going to
Cherbourg to hold a review of the fleet is without
any foundation.

The Moniteur of this morning publishes several
appointments in the department of the Marine.

BOURSE, July B.—. The market has been rather
dull, but prices, which at the commencement of
business slightly receded, have again recovered, and
Threes, for the Account, are now unvaried at 68f.
60c. The Compagnie Immobiliire is now amalga-
mated with that of the Ports de Marseille, 21
shares of the former being required for one of the
new Company. The Railway Share Market has
been heavy, and some few of the lines at present
show a slight decline. The market closed as fol-
lows :

it per Cents. 96 90
Do. end month 97 10
3 per Cents
Do. end month 6B 60
Credit Mobilier 1190

Italian Loan 72 10
Do. end month 2 20
NT e w ditto .......
Do, end month 72 50
Russian

Do. end month 1188 75
Bank Shares 3400
Credit k oneier ..., 1335

Austrian —
Spanish Threes. „ —
Home Debt

BA ILWAYB.
Cash. Account.
Orleans lO2O .. 1016
Northern
New, ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1032 50 .. 1030
Geneva 467 50 .. 470
Southern 667 50 .. 667 50
Western
Eastern ... ,
Sardinian
Austrian
Lon- NH
North of Spain .
Saragossa .... 696 25 .. 696 25
Ditto to Barcelona .. • • 367 50 ..

THE BACK DOOR.—An incident occurred on the
arrival of the Prince at Mercers'-hall yesterday,
causing some amusement among the authorities at the mo-
ment Some time before half-past 12 o'clock, when the
Prince was expected, the Master and Wardens of the cora-
puny, with the Court of Assistants, all wearing the official
robes, and presenting rather an imp sing appearance,
had assembled at the entrance to the hall in Cheap-
side, with the ]audible intention of giving his Royal
Highness a reception befitting his exalted rank, and there
they awaited his arrival. There is an obscure entrance to
the hall from Ironmonger-lane, which is used on ordinary
occasions—that in Cheapside being available only on
high festivals—and it et) happened that the Prince was
driven down the lane to the side-door unperceived. On
alighting there his Royal Highness was received by a very
respectable old woman connected with the establish-
ment, and who happened to be waiting for some one
else. To this good woman the Prince was extremely
polite, and she in turn after her own manner was not the
less so, though considerably disconcerted at the moment by
an honour so unexpected. His Royal Highness, so greeted,
proceeded up stairs, followed by the gentlemen of his suite,
and had nearly reached the hall before the Mercers con-
gregated at the Cheapside entrance heard of his arrival,
and, it is needless to state, did what they could to repair
the mistake the moment they discovered it. The authori-
tiesair
at the hall felt serne shame that a guard of honour
from the Honourable Artillery Company, which they had
expected, and for which they had applied, was not in at-
tendance on the auspicious occasion. This civic force,
perhaps the oldest Volunteer regiment in the -kingdom—
certainly in the city of London—dating back its origin, as it
does, some centuries, is understood to claim as a right, in
preference to any Volunteer corps of the present day, and
even to regiments of the line, the privilege of acting as a
body guard to any member of the royal family within the
limits of the city. The corps has usually had for its com-
mander, in an honorary capacity at least, a member of the
reigning family, His Royal Highness the late Prince
Consort stood in that relation to the regiment, so did the
late Duke of Sussex, and it is understood that the men
composing it, about 900 strong, are desirous of enlisting
the Prince of Wales as their chief. The band of the regi-
ment was in attendance yesterday at the reception of his
Royal Highness, but how the corps fore went so favourable
an opportunity
A
s it
wofass: a showing
policemenngthe
their loyalty is at present a
mystery.
guarded the entrance
to the hall.
A GONDOLA.—It is very hot. BY-and-by, at
sunset, the sea will be of a deep purple, the sky
of an intense azure, but both are now as sheets of burnished
gold> But lam as cool as a cucumber inside the gondola.
The windows are slightly drawn on one aside and hot as is
the sun, a cool breeze comes stealing through. Ala I that
breeze, how well I remember it a week afterwards at Milan,
howling in the agonies of the toothache. The cabin of the
gondola is a little black chamber with a high-coved ceiling.
It is panelled with rich carved work. There is room in it
for three persons to sit at ease on the soft black leather
cushions trimmed with black lambswool ; but I desire no
company. There are a couple of mirrors in carved ebony
frames, garnished with gilt bosses. The door is a wonder of
carved work. There are arm-rests. and leg-rests, and every
by the pendant portion of
enticement to be lazy. The transverse bench has a raised
and sloping back, like an arm-chair, but the space between
that and the tilt is covered only
which extends from stern to
the black awning, which you can lift at will, to converse
with the gondolier. In me instance oely is the sable rule
departed from. The carpet,
stern, is of a lively polychromatic pattern. In winter-time,
of course, the cabin door is shut, the curtains are drawn, a
false panel is inserted iu the back, and all things are made
the
snug and comfortable. In summer, black awning
forms the most delightful of sun-shades. But
why is it black ? Tell tee Venetian antiqua-
rians. Tell ma chatty correspondents of Notes and
Queries. I was always given to understand that
black absorbed heat, and that white was the only
wear for hot climates. I stretched out my arm
and touched the roof of the cabin, but it was cool. Do they
put saturated felt, or wet cloths, between it and theawning?
Many travellers, on their first arrival in this enchanted
town, and in their eager impatience to drink in its beauties,
rush from the cabin, and sit or stand in the open, in the fore
part of the boat, drinking up the glorious perspective which
surrounds them. That I think is a mistake. Ihe windows,
the open doorway, form picture. frames, and in thoseframes
are set, in gentle succession, all the marvellous pictures the
world has been wondering at for centuries. There is the
Grimani Palace, there the Vendramin, there the Dogma,
there Santa Maria della Salute; there, by Jove I there's the
Rialto, which is not unlike the Burlington Arcade on
arches. " Signor Antonio, many a time and oft—" but
Signor Antonio politely asks me whether we shall turn
back, and I say
him yea, and bid him land ins at the Mole,
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