The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-10 00:00:00

FRANCE,

BOURSE, Jane 9.—But little change has taken
place in the tone of the market, and prices remain
about the same. nrees, for the Account, are now
at 69fr. 371 c. Italian Loan has slightly improved.
been much dealt in, and
43 rather weak. Closing

Railway Shares have not
the market is on the who
prices as follow :-
4t per Cents. 97 25
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 30
Credit Mobilier 1265
Do. end month 1245
Bank Shares —
Credit Foncier

Italian Loan 73 05
Do. end month 73 10
New ditto 74
Do. end month 74 10
Russian
Austrian
Spani,h Threes 53 50
Home Debt .. 5l 75

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans . 997 50 .. 997 50
Northern
New ditto — • • --
Lyons and Mediterranean 1042 50 .. 1047 50
Geneva 443 75 445
Southern
Western

Eastern
Sardinian ..
Austrian

498 75 .. 501 25
422 50 420
465 - .. 462 50

Lon•hard
North of Spain
Saragossa .... 712 50 .. 717 50
Ditto to Barcelona .... 383 75 .. 385

THE CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND

AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

(RETITER'S TELEGRAMS.)

The following telegram has been received at Mr.
Reuter's office from the Peninsular .and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company :
MARSEILLES, June 10th.
The Valetta, with the above mails, arrived here
at 4 a.m. this day.
Tae mails leave for London at 11 a.m.

THE WEST AFRICAN MAIL.

LIVERPOOL, MAY 9.

The steamer Armenian arrived here this even-
ing with the above mail, one box of diamonds, 307
ounces of golddust, 800 sovereigns, and 2,500 dole.
in specie, and 29 passengers.
Her dates are—Benin, April 23 ; Fernando Po,
28th; Cameroons, 30th; Old Calabar, May 2; Brass
River, 4th ; New Calabar, 7th ; Bonny, 7th ; Lagos,
11th ; Accra, 12th ; Cape Coast Castle, 14th ; Sierra
Leone, 21st ; Bathurst, 25th ; Teneriffe, June 1 ;
Madeira, 2d.

Fernando Po was healthy, and trade had much
improved. No reduction had taken place in the
prices cf oil. Trade was stopped at Accra owing to
the expected attack upon Cape Coast Castle by the
Ashantees. Five soldiers from her Mhjesty's ships
Dart and Dove were drowned at Accra on May 13
while attempting to land in canoes.
Private despatches state that the coast generally
was fearfully unhealthy, but this is not confirmed
by the Armenian's despatch.

A SPECIMEN OF MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY.—
A Protestant clergyman, one Rev. William
Dampier is thus described by Miss Thackeray in her " Story
of Elizabeth :''—" He was a big, commonplace young man,
straight-minded and tender-hearted. with immense energy
and great god spirits. He believed in himself; indeed, he
tried so heartily and conscientiously to do what was right,
that he could not help knowing, more or less, that he was a
good fellow. And then he had a happy knack of seeing
one side of a question, and having once determined that so
and so was the thing to be done, he could do so and so
without one doubt or compunction. He belonged to the
school of athletic Christianity. I heard some one once say
that there are some of that sort who would almost,
make out cockfighting to be a religious ceremony. William
Dampier did not go so far as this, but he heartily believed
that nothing was wrong which was done with a Christian
and manly spirit. He rode across country, he smoked
pipes, he went out shooting, he played billiards and cricket,
he rowed up and down the river in his boat, and he was
charming with all the grumbling old men and women in
his parish ; he preached capital sermons, short, brisk, well-
considered. He enjoyed life and all is good things with a
grateful temper, and made most people happy about him."
A MARK FOB GENERAL CONTEMPT.—Bismark
—Fun.

A VERITABLE JIM CROW !—" Oh, my dear
E--! I have seen Jim Crow—the veritable James;
all the contortions, and springs, and flings, and kicks, and
capers you have been beguiled into accepting as indicative
of him are spurious, faint, feeble, impotent—in a word, pale
northern productions of that ineffable black conception. It
is impossible for words to describe the things these people
did with their bodies, and, above all, with their faces, the
whites of their eyes, and the whites of their teeth, and cer-
tain outlines which either naturally and by the grace of
heaven, or by the practice of some peculiar artistic der:
terity, they bring into prominent and most ludicrous dis-
play. The languishing elegance of some, the painstaking
laboriousness of others; above ali, the feats of a certain
enthusiastic banjo-player, who seemed to me to thump his
instrument with every part of his body at once, at last so
utterly overcame any attempt at decorous gravity on my
part that I was obliged to secede; and, considering what
the atmosphere was that we inhaled during the exhibition,
it is only wonderful to me that we were not made ill by the
double effort not to laugh, and, if possible, not to breathe."
Fanny Kemble's Journal.
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QUEEN'S THEATRE, EDINBURGH.—Mr. Herman n
Vezin, late of the Princess's and Lyceum Theatres,
and Mrs. Charles Young (now Mrs. Vezin), late of the
Haymarhet and Sadler's Wells Theatres, after having ful-
filled a successful engagement in Glasgow, performed before
a crowded and fashionable audience in Edinburgh
en Monday night. The Scotsman of yesterday says :
—The dramatic version of Miss Braddon's novel,
" Lady Audley's Secret," which has been so popular
in London, was produced at the Queen's Theatre. It was
preceded by the well-worn farce of "Box and Cox," in which
Mr. Andrews (whose abilities as a burlesque actor were well
tested during a lengthened engagement at the Operetta-
House last season, and gained for him a large measure of
popularity) amused the audience, and worked them up into
good humour, by his clever by-play in the part of Cox, the
hatter. " Lady Audley's Secret" introduced two actors of
c msiderable merit to the Edinburgh public in Mr. Hermann
Vezin and Mrs. Charles Young. The story has been some-
what altered to suit the exigencies of the stage, but its main
outlines are preserved, and its leading incidents effectively
grouped together in the play. In the first act, we have
George Talboys (Mr. E. D. Lyons) landing in England
after his toilsome career of three years at the Australian
diggings, on his way to share his wealth with the wife
whom he deserted in anger, He is suddenly plunged into
despair by reading, in the chambers of his friend Robert
Audley, the announcement of bis wife's death—she having
in the interval married Robert's uncle, and sent the an-
nouncement to the papers to prevent his searching for her.
Th-n comes the visit of the two friends to Audley
Court, the recognition of Lady Audley (Mrs, Young) by
Talboys, and their interview, in which she upbraids him
with his desertion of her, and angiily repudiates his charge
of unfaithfulness. Mrs Young's acting in this scene was
full of womanly pathos, so much so as to exclude for the
time being the idea of Lady Audley's own error, and to
kindle a thorough sympathy for her, and implicit belief in
the justice of her cause. In the second act, however—be-
tween which and the first twelve months are assumed to
have elapsed—we have Lady Audley goaded to desperation
by the hostility of Robert, and endeavouring to remove the
traces of one error by a series of crimes. In this altered
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with remarkable skill and fidelity. Mr. Vezin personated
the cool and unswerving Robert Audley in a careful and
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by which, in the closing scenes especially, such a charac-
ter might have been deprived of its identity in less able
hands,