The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-30 00:00:00

FRANCE.

Le Moniteur of yesterday morning announces
that his Majesty the King of Denmark having been
informed by telegram of the resolutio;i of the English
Guvernment on the subject of the candidature of
Prince William to the throne of Greece, has ex-
pressed to the English ambassador at Copenhagen
his personal satisfaction his Majesty will experi-
ence upon learning that this candidature has been
seriously placed before the Greek people and ac-
cepted.
Le Constituttonnel of this morning mentions that,
at the Imperial mass, at the Palace of the Tuileries,
each person present received his palm at the rails
of the sanctuary.

Le Siecle asks, in regard to the idea of a Con-
gress in reference to Poland—will it be carried out ?
Adding, with a frank avowal of bewilderment—" It
is still an enigma
Le Pays remarks that its Egyptian correspon-
dents speak of the magnificent preparations making
at Alexandria for the reception of his Imperial
Majesty the Sultan. The representatives, it adds,
of all the powers had, according to the last advices,
assembled in council at the residence of M. Tartu,
the French Consul-General, in order to arrange the
steps to be taken in feasting Abdul-aziz.
BOURSE, March 28.—The market has been rather
heavy, and the business done shows a slight decline
on yesterday's closing quotations, Threes, for the
Account, being now at 69f. 55c. The Railway
Share Market has also been feeble, and some few of
the lines are lower. The market rallied towards
the close, and left off as follows : _

4t per Cents. 96 25 Bank Shares 3380 --
Do. end mouth.... Credit louder —
'3 per Cents
Do. end month.... 69 70 Do. end month — --
Nrew 3 per Cents .. Russian
Do. end month, ... Austrian ..
Credit Mobiher.... 1320 Spani,,h. Threes 52 25
Do. end m0nth...,1323 75 Home Debt

RA ILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans..... ll2O .. 1130
Northern ....
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1215 .. 1220
Geneva ..
Southern
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian 427 50 .. 427 50
Austrian
1..0n.b 3rd
North of Spain
Saragossa 730 .. 735
Ditto to Barcelona

The astronomical world, who for some time have
eyed Sirius with suspicion, were delighted about a year ago
by the announcement that Alvan Clarke had inaugurated—
so to speak—his monster refractor of 181 inches aperture,
by the discovery of a faint companion, which till then had
baffled the mightiest instrumental means brought to bear
upon it. With wonderful hardihood M. Goldschmidt, who
possesses a 4i inch glass (4G French lines, to be exact),
essayed to look for it I He has seen it, and discovered five
more companions I and these so close as to be quite im-
mersed in the dazzling brightness of the primary. After
having announced to the French Academy this almost im-
possible discovery, M. Goldschmidt proceeds :—" The first
star, without doubt a companion, is south of the one disco-
vered by Alvan Clarke, and I estimate its angle of position
at 95 deg. to 97 deg. This is pretty visible by fits, and
seems a little farther cff than the one first discovered. The
next one is on the prolongation of the line joining Sirius
and Clarke's, and is the faintest possible." (The angle of
position of Clarke's, as given by Bond, is 85 deg. 15 min.,
and its distance 10 min. 37 sec, "To the east of Sirius
and of the first star, is another on the same parallel as the
latter; another companion has an angle of position of 170
deg., and another of 25 deg. to 30 deg." M. Goldschmidt
concludes by stating, on the authority of M. Radau, that
the first star corresponds in position, in a remarkable man-
ner, to the hypothetical satellite of M. Auwers. Those
who have observed Sirius, as seen in the latitudes, will ap-
preciate best this discovery of Goldschmidt's, which, in-
indeed, is above all praise, and is full of encouragement to
those who possess but small instruments. It will be recol-
lected that M. Goldschmidt is the holder of the Astrono-
mical Society's gold medal, awarded to him for the disco-
yelp of 13 asteroids, nine of which were detected with an
ordinary sea-side glass,—Mt Reacter,

MISS BRADDON and MR. FULLOM.—We can
quite understand that Miss Braddon is not a copyist
from Mr. Fullom. The numerous parallels recently cited
serve only to show how in the production of a kitchen lite-
rature, destitute alike of thought and fancy, the very inci-
dents used are common to the tribute of dealers in such
fiction. They simply aro as the scraps of glass in the
kaleidoscope. We can hardly doubt that a swarm of wri-
ters for the hawkers, for the London Journals, for the Rey-
nolds's Miscellanies, for the Family Heralds, &c., could
come forward and divide Miss Bradden's stories among
themselves, all claiming original right in the wretched
scraps out of which she has shaken a pattern that she flat-
ters herself—as many other honest peopleflatter themselves
over their own commonplace, whether in conversation or in
literature—is "entirely sod thoroughly original." To the
compounding of "sensation novels" out of such stuff as we
find in " Lady Audley's Secret or Aurora Floyd " there
goes no genius of any sort. For the production of this sort
of kitchen literature little more is wanted than the cacoethes
scribendi, a coarse mind, avoidance of all contact with
good literature, and a full dietary of unwholesome reading.
—Examiner.

We (Observer) are authorised to state that, after
the return of the Prince of Wales from Sandring-
ham in April, arrangements will be made, of which due
notice will be give, for the presentation to his royal high-
ness of addresses from corporations and other publi,, bodies.
The presentations of the addresses will be subject to regu•
lations similar to those which are observed on the presenta-
tion of addresses to her Majesty at a levee.
THE CASE OF COLONEL WAUGH.—CoI. William
Petre Waugh, who was connected with the Eastern
Banking Company, is still confined in Whitecross-street
prison. He was captured on a capias on Tuesday, and taken
to e lock-up house, where he remained until Thursday
evening, and was then removed to prison. The arrest was
for £3OO, and immediately afterwards a detainer for £50,000
was lodged at the suit of the official liquidator of the Great
Eastern Banking Company. At present no steps have been
taken, and nothing is known of the intention of Cot Waugh
with respect to his release. It is probable that he may be
quartered for some time to come in Whitecross•street
prison.
THE NEW TOBACCO DUTIES.—On Saturday the
new Act on Tobacco Duties, which came into opera-
tion on Friday, when it received the Royal assent, was
printed. There are 16 sections in the act. The new duties
are—on manufactured cigars, ss. a lb. Cavendish or negro-
head, 4s. a lb. Snuff varies from 3s. 9d. to 4s. 6d. a lb.,
according to the moisture contained in the same. Other
manufactured tobacco, 4s a lb. On manufactured tobacco
containing. 10 or more of moisture in every 100 lb., the duty
of 3s. a lb; and containing less than the quantity 3s. 6d.
a lb. On every pound of cavendish and neg ohead manu-
factured in bond on the entry for home, the duty of Cus-
toms to be 4s. Cavendish and negrohead to be sold enclosed
and labelled, and before delivery the vendor is to obliterate
the label, so as to ren&r the same incapable of being again
used, under a penalty of £2O, All manufactured tobacco
(other than cavendish or negrohead) containing prohibited
ingredients is to be forfeited, and a penalty of £lOO may be
levied.

With the embankment that is to support our new
Thames Way in actual progress, we may ask, what
is to become of a beautiful architectural relic of the Stuart
period that still exists ? Few men who know anything
about old London, and very few who pass up and down the
river, are ignorant of the existence of the Water-Gate, ori-
ginally built for the famous York House of George Villiers,
Duke of Buckingham, that still stands at the foot of Buck-
ingham-street. Is this structure to be enclosed in the higher
level of the embankment and have a little pond of ifs own,
or puddle, as we might father say ? Is it to be buried in or
pulled down for old materials ? Would it not be better to
remove and re erect it in some locality where its original
use as a water•gate may be fulfilled again ? Why not set
it up again at Hampton Court? it would be in tolerable
keeping with the buildings there if so placed. This gate
has been commonly attributed to Inigo Jones, but it ap-
pears, from a book in the Scane Library, that Nicholas
Stone designed it, built it, and himself carved the right hand
lion (west) on its front, while " Mr. Kearne, a Jarman, his
brother by marrying his sister, aid ye Shee Lion."—
Athenaeon.

ri,IIJURY.—A surgeon pr,_ctising in Manchester
was tound guilty, at the Liverpool assizes, en
Saturday, of perjury, commitb d under circumstances
which must be familiar to a large proportion of our readers.
The jury added to their verdict a strong recommendation to
mercy, and the learned Judge, acting upon that represen-
tation, sentenced the prisoner to three months' imprison-
ment. His Lordship, in passing sentence, expressed hi-
concurrence in the verdict, and remarked that it was " a
national misfortune" that a person occupying the position
which a medical man holds in society should be convicted of
such an offence. "I find," said Mr. Baron Martin, "that
in tailuay cases medical men frequently are examined as to
the probable extent of injuries received iu cafes of accident,
and the nature of their evidence has cast a doubt upon all
such testimony, and such will be the result with this case."
This trial was followed by that of Welby and Potter, the
men charged with having committed the great bank rob.
bery in Manchester. They were both foutai guilty, end
80n1QE,C0 "404 to 20 years' penal servitude,