The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-08 00:00:00

FRANCE.

DISSOLUTION OF THE CORPS LEGISLATIF,
PARIS, MAY 8.

An Imperial decree published to-day dissolves
the Corps Legislatif, and fixes the 31st May and
Ist June for the general election of deputies through-
France. The elections in Corsica are to take place
on the 7th June.

The Corps Legislatif terminated its sittings yes-
terday, after having voted all the Government bills.
The Bake de Morny, President of the Chamber,
delivered a speech thanking the CorpsLegislatif for
the support it had afforded to the Government. He
said,—" rhe Emperor is gradually developing the
institutions of the country. In the period which
will now follow, the new Chamber witl, in its wis-
dom and devotion, be able to maintain harmon)
between the great public powers, and will assure
the future of the dynasty and the welfare of
France." In conclusion, M. de Morny wished re-
election to ali. His speech was received with much
applause.

MM. Drouyn de Lhuys, Reveil, Moonier, Sizer-
sane, Meequird, Mentgue, and Germiny, ana
Generals W.idner, Morey, and Monge have been
nominated to the rank of Senators.

HE CONS rii U cIONNEL ON THE POLISH

QUES nos.

The Consettionnel of to-day publishes an article
signed by M. Paul Limayrao statin.4 that a perfect
Accord prevails among the three Powers OD thE
Polish question,
Tne %rticte maintains that the reply of Russia i,
by no mans a refusal, as she acknowledges that the
Polish question is an European one, and agrees to
enter into ❑egociations. Tne agreement of Europe
in this request, continues M. Limayrac, is, there-

fore, henceforth an established fact, and everything
permits the hope that in some dip'omatic form no(
yet agreed upon, it will perhaps be possible to pro-
tect the legitimate interests of Poland which are
bound up with the interests of civilisation ann
peace.

" Following the example of France," says to-
day's Conatitutionnel," of England, and of Austria,
the Governments of Sweden, of Spain, and of Italy
have addressed requisition to St. Petersburg in
favour of Poland." Never has there been manifested
in behalf of that affiLcted nationality, we may con-
fidently assert, a more affecting or a more im-
pressive unanimity.

L' Opinzon Nationale comments with eager satis-
faction upon the fact, also, that there is but one
opinion uttered by the whole of the English press
in regard to the treatment of the Polish people, and
that one opinion sternly condemnatory of the Rus-
sian Government.

" The answers from Russia," says Le Siecle," have
given no one satisfaction. The English journals, in
particular, show an irritation, in regard to these
answers, every day becoming more and more ani-
mated.'

The same remark in regard to the opinions of the
English journals in respect to the treatment of
Polrind by Ruesia, is expressed in other words by
Le Pays—that paper adding that the public organs
or Germany, though they display more moderation,
nevertheless do not appear to be, i❑ truth, one atom
more satisfied with the tone and the drift of the de
~patches of Prince Gorischakoff.
BOURSE, May 7.—Tue market has been rather
heavy, and the business done shows a slight decline.
l'nree, for Account, are now at 69f. 60c. Railw a)
Shares rather offered, and several of the lines are
quoted tower. The market closed as follows:

11 per Cents. . 97 10
.),i end tilonth
per Cents
it,. end tnunth... , 69 65
redn °biller l4lB 20
'II. end up on h.. . 1422 60
tinnk Stnireo —
rola N oneler

/ Italian Loan 72 30
• Do. end month 72 30
e w ditto ......
)u. end mouth —
R op.sian
Austrian
Sistn,ll Throe•, 52 50
Dome Debt •
wAYs.

SAIL

Orlettnei

Cash. Account.
101,5 .. 1011 25

Northern
New ditto - .. __ __
Lyons and Mediterranean 1072 50 .. 1077 50
Geneva.. 465 .. 470
,!,outhern
iNeAorn
Easi,e,rn ...,
Sardinian
Austnan
I,on.burd
North of Spain
Saragossa 760 .. 760
Ditto to Barcelona

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(firMllat

HER MAJESTY.

Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Prince
Alfred, and Princess Helena, attended by Madlle.
de Grancy and Lieut.. Colonel du Plat, went over to
Portsmouth dockyard.

Lord Stanley of Alderley arrived at Osborne and
had an audience of the Queen.
Sir C. Lyell also arrived.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by
he Countess of Macclesfield and M ior Teesdale,
rode on horseback yesterday morning.
The Duke of Cambridge visited his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales, at Marlborough House.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, attended by the Countess of Macclesfield
and Major Teesdale, honoured the performance at
the Ha.), market Theatre last evening with their pre-
sence.

Mr. M.rshall Wood was honoured by a sit ing
'roln her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, for
he purpose of executing her royal highness's bust.

ARRIVAL OF TEE PRINCB OF ORANGE.—Tne
Prince of Orange, travelling u der the title of Count van
Buren, arrived in London yesterday. His royal highness
is staying at the Palace Hotel.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
nonoured Maria M trchioness of Ailesbury with his
company at dinner last evening. Among the company pre-
sent to meet his royal highness were the Duke and Duchess
of Manchester, the Earl and Countess of Dalkeith, the Earl
and Countess of Bessborough, the Earl of Wilton, the Earl
and Countess of Chesterfield, the Countess of Malmesbury,
Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Viscount Newport,
Viscount Canterbury, Lord and Lady Charles Bruce, Hon.
Colonel and Mrs. Macdonald, Hon Mr. Grosvenor, and
Dr. Quin,

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam.
bridge and Princess Mary returned to their residence at St.
James's Palace on the 14th inst., from Cambridge Cottage,
Kew, for the season.

His Exceilency the Prussian Ambassador and
he Countess Bernstoff entertained at dinner last
evening, at Prussia House, Carlton-house-terrace, his Ex-
cellency the Bavarian Minister, bis Excellency the Italian
Alinister,the Earl and Countess Russell and Lady Georgiana
dustell, the Bishop of London and Mrs. Tait, the Right
Ho . Sir Hamilton and Lady Seymour, the Right Hon. W.
F. and Mrs. Cowper, Mr. Mackay, &e. A select circle
assempled after dinner.

It is rumoured that Earl Spencer, Groom of the
Stole to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales,
has resigned his post in the prince's household on account
of his recent indisposition. It is said that the earl is desir-
ous of seeking a more genial climate for the benefit of his
health.

Tne Countess de Grey will have an evening party
on the 15th inst. at the family mansion in Carlton-garden.
We understand that the Earl of Harrowby,
K.G., is selected to be the Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire
in the room of the late Lord Hatherton.
.._

The Countess of Clonmel, Lady Maria Scott, and
General Lord Downes have returned to Farrance's Hotel,
from Torquay, Devon.
The Eart and Countess of Bradford and Miss
Moncreiffe have arrived in Belgravia-square for the season.
Countess Russell's reception, which was to have
taken place to-night, is unavoidably postponed. Her lady-
ship's Friday evening receptions will be discontinued
during the present month.
Lord Killeen and family have arrrived at the
Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood.
Mr. and Lady Margaret Beaumont enter-
at dinner last evening the Marquis and Marchioness de
Cador?, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, Lady
alolesworth, Earl Granville, Viscount and Viscountess
ijastlerosse, Mr. Chichester Fortescue and Countess Weide-
gri.ve, Sir Anthony ana Lady de Rothschild, Lord Loncles-
afrough, Mr. Wood, and Mr. Tomline.
Mr. Warner, M.P , and Mrs. Warner entertaked
iained at diuner, on Wednesday last, the RAO and Countess
Lanesborough and Miss Butler, Viscount Raynham,
M.P., the Right Hon. Charles Villiers, M.P., Mr. and
Lady Anae Sherson, the High'. Hon airs. Edmund Phipps,
roe Hon. Mrs. Abbot, the Hon. Arthur limnaird, M.P.,
S.r John Shelley, Bart., M.P., Sir John and Lady Kirk-
land, Mr, Gibbs, C. 8., Colonel and Mrs. Learmouth, &c.
Miss Stabbach will give her grand concert of the
season on Tuesday next, the 12th inst., at the Hanover-
square Rooms, Madame Arabella Goddard and other cele-
mated performers taking- part with the beneficiere in the
eetertainment.

CHARLES DICKENS AND FANNY KEMBLE.-
- David Copperfield" endowed with new life by Mr.
harles Dickens, the long series of Shaksperian plays illus-
trated by all the power and all the humour of Mrs. Kemble,
attract an assemblage of large and br,lliant audiences, who
are not to be satisfied with the " sensations" of the popular
drama. Their audiences belong to a far higher or more
cultivated class than the majority of playgoers, and retain
that old truth, which was not lost even among the profit-
gate wits of the days of Charles 11., that Ivatrionic art is in-
tended for some other purpose than to preface two or three
triking pictures. M Levassor, who we are glad to see
will shurtly be among us, gives an entertainment of a lighter
sort, but it so far belongs to the same category as Mr.
Dickens's and Mrs. Kemble's readings, that it exhibits the
actors art unassisted by accessories.
JAsMIN, whose chef cheuvre is the charming
Idyll Franonette, compares the Provencal language
to one of those grand old elms of the promenade of Agen,
which, having in a storm lost some of its branches, the local
authorities send men to dig it out ; but ere long the pick-
axes became unhafted, the men grew tired, the tree was
forsaken; and when the summer cams again, the men re-
joiced that its roots had been so numerous and so strongly
planted. So have the seasons passed over the language of
the south, doomed to death, as it were, by savants, still it
blossoms and spreads the more, and will, in this its era of
revival, only the more increase its influence and attract
attention to its poet sons.—Craig's Handbook of the Modern
_Provencal.

THE FOUNDER OF GUY'S HOSPITAL.--Thomas
Guy's wealth was enormous ; and at one time he
had promised to marry his maid, the only servant he kept.
Guy, being a notorious miser, he had ordered the pavement
betore his door to be mended up to a particular spot. The
girl, observing a broken stone beyond this point, told the
wot kmen to mend it also. "Tell Mr. Guy," she said, " I
bade y uto do it, and he will not be angry." The mar-
riage was to have taken place two days afterwards, and the
girl reasonably presumed she might exercise this little piece
of authority. But ate soon discovered her mistake. Guy
was so angry at the additional xpense in which she had in-
volved him that he broke off the match. Yet he built three
wards on the north side of St. Thomas's Hospi al ; endowed
here with a hundred pounds a year for eleven years; and
i.,terwards built aed endowed the hospital which bears his
name, at a cost of £219,000.

MR. EDWIN JAMBS IN AMERICA —The trial of
It•dsey, the murderer of the diamond merchant,
Sigisuiund Feltner, two years ago, was commenced some
weeks since Two beautiful women, Miss Aibertina Flaunt
and her sister, Mrs. Marx, were concerned in it. The girl
killed herself the night she was arrested. The sister tried
to do it the second night but tailed. She then turned beggar
in toe city. Then she went off to California covered with
jewels ond costly dresses. Radsey was arrested a few weeks
agO. After the murder he was seen with the old man's
cane. He accounted for it by sa) ing that he had loaned
the merchant 10 dots. on it. This was his defence. He
did not know until yesterday that the coroner found 250
dols. in gold in the pockets of his victim that had escaped
Radsey when he killed him. Edwin James, the g-eat lion
Er.listi lawyer, is engaged for the defence. He has now
all the principal criminal cases. By the way, he works
cheap. It came out that he defended Lewis (who was hung
last week at Trenton) for his watch! James good naturedly
gave it to the wife of Lewis. I suppose reputation is what
James wants more than money. He can make more money
in one night at the faro bank of Jack Morrissey than he
can make in defending all our poor murderers. As a
general rule the lawyers of our courts do not like Edwin
James. He is too smart for them.
IHE INTERNATIONAL DuG SIIOW.—An intima-
tion has been rec, ived by the directors of the Agricultural

Hall that the Prince and Princ ss of %Vales intend honour.
ing the forthcoming dog show with a visit. The number
of entries already reaches 1,500, and it is expected that be-
fore Monday, which is the last day for entering animals,
they will approximate to nearly 2,000.
MIRE IN DRURY-LANE.---Last night, at a late
hour, a fire happened in the extensive premises be-
longing to Mr. Head, linendraper and silk mercer, Black-
moor-street, Drury lane. In a very brief space of time
the brigade engines from various stations attended, urrier
the command of Capt. Shaw, Mr. Foreman Fogo, of the
13 district, Engineers Perryer, Flinn, Medcalt, and others.
The Duke of Sutherland, Lord Richard Grosvenor, James
Stuart Wortley, and others connected with tne higher circles,
accompanied Captain Shaw to the scene of danger, and no
oue was backward in rendering assistance on the trying
occasion. By halt-past one o'clock this moaning the fire
wax extinguished, but the loss of property was considerable.

OSBORNE, May 7.
The Queen, with Princess Louise and Princess
Beatrice, drove out yesterday.
The Dowager Countess of Mount-Edgcumbe and
Lord C. Fitzroy were in attendance.