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

FRANCE.

BOURSE, June 9.—But little change has taken
place in the tone of the market, and prices remain
about the same. Threes, for the Account, are now
at 691 r. 371 c. Italian Loan has slightly improved.
Railway Shares have not been much dealt in, and
the market is on the whole rather weak, Closing
prices as follow :

Italian Loan 73 05
Do. end month 73 10
e w ditto
Do. end month.... 74 10
Russian
Austrian .. —
Spanith Threes 53 50
Home Debt .. 5l 75
RAILWAYS•

it 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

011eiCI • • • a

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern
New ditto ..
Lyons and Mediterranean 1042 50 .. 1047 50
Genoa..
Southern
Western
Eastena
Sardinian
Austrian
LOlVbard - 575 .. 575
North of Spain
Saragossa.
Ditto to Barcelona 383 75 .. 385

THE CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND
AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

(REUTER'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.
Tne 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 golddnst, 800 sovereigns, and 2,500 dols.
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 Majesty'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 Elizibeth :"—" He was a big, commonplace young man,
straight-minded and tender-hearted. with immense energy
and great go ,d 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 wi,h all the grumbling old men and women in
his parish ; he preached capital sermons, short, brisk, well-
considered. He enjoyed life and all ins good things with a
grateful temper, and made most people happy about him."
A MARK FOR 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
rsorthern 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 dex-
terity, they bring into prominent and most ludicrous dis-
play. The languishing elegance of some, the painstaking
laboriousness of others ; above all, 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.
QUEEN'S THEATRE, EDINBURGH.--Mr. Hermann
Artziu, 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
on 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
considerable 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 aro 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 i 3 suddenly plunged into
despair by reading, in the chambers of his friend Robert
Audley, the announcement of his 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.
Thcn 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 big desertion of her, and angrily 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
mood--no longer the injured and defiant, but the resolute
and guilty woman—Lsdy Audley, though commanding
L sympathy less, still exercises a fascination over the speieta-
L tor, and Mrs. Young, in this the most difficult plisse of the
character, was not less successful, She possesses a stately
fig-ura and expressive countenance, admirably suited to such
a part, and its pathos and its passion were alike represented
with remarkable skill and fidelity. Mr. Vezin personated
the cool and unswerving Robert Audley in a careful and
by which, in the closing scenes especially, such a judicious manner, Ivitb. almost none of that stage mannerism
charac-
ter might have been deprived of its identity in less able
hands,

AMERICA.
(ItEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

(Per City of Baltimore.)
NEW YORK, May 30 (Morning).
A prisoner at the Old Capitol Prison, Washing-
on, has been shot dead while looking out of window

by the guard on duty. The prisoner was charged

with having furnished military appliances to the

Confederates at Richmond. He is said to have been
a British subject.

It is officially stated that the length of coast
blockaded by the Federal squadron, from Alexan-
dria, Virginia, to the Rio Grande, is 3,500 miles.
Tbere are 189 openings in this line of coast.
General Grant's army attacking Vicksburg is said
to number 60,000 men.

Great dissatisfaction is expressed by the Southern

generals with Pemberton's military operations
against Grant, and the Richmond Whig says it is

rumoured that General Johnston has taken his

sword frlm Pemberton, and placed him under

arrest.

The Petersburg Express of the 23d considers the

situation at Vicksburg extremely critical, and says
the destruction of the bridge across the Big Black
River not only isolates Vicksburg from communica-
tion with all other parts of the Confederacy, but
opens to the enemy the rich and much desired
Yazoo country. The Express fears that Pemberton,
with scarcely any field artillery and his army greatly

reduced, cannot long hold out unless Johnston
speedily concentrates his forces and relieves the be-

leaguered city.
The Richmond Examtner says that an attack on
Vicksburg can nowhere be made with a force equal
to the garrison. On no side can more than 8,000
men be deployed in line for an assault. The cha-
racter of the ground renders approaches difficult,
while heat and the country malaria during six
months of the year would make its siege at present

one of the most murderous on record. Only trea-

chery or cowardice could explain the capture of
Vicksburg by sudden assault, and its fall by any
other means seems daily less probable.
The Richmond Sentinel says that Johnston, who
is outside Vicksburg, is preparing to fall on Grant's
flank or rear, and thus raise the siege by a battle.
For this grand struggle both sides seem reinforcing.

The Sentinel looks hopefully on the situation.
Colonel Jones, with the Bth Pennsylvania Regi-
ment, has made an expedition from Newbern and
attacked the Confederates in their entrenchments at

Gum Swamp, capturing their artillery, 200 pri.

soners, and destroying their works. The Confede-
rates, however, rallied, and following up the Fede-
ral rear harrassed the Union troops considerably
until they gained their own lines. The Confederate
fire then became very severe, and Colonel Jones was
killed behind his breastworks

The schooner Sea Bird, of Philadelphia, whilst
aground at the mouth of Neuse River, North Caro-
lina, was captured and burnt by the Confederates.
They put off in small boats from the shore, and took
prisoners the captain and crew of the schooner.
It has been ascertained at Beaufort that nearly
a mi'lion dollars' worth of supplies have reached
the Confederates through the sutlars of the Federal
army, who opened wholesale houses at points where
the Federals had no military jurisdiction, and to
which the Confederates obtain?d free access.

The Federals have made an expedition from West
Point, Virginia, into the neighbouring counties,
sacking the grain warehouses and burning the mills,
and capturing horses, cattle, and sheep. They took
from the farmers everything that could be of use to
the Federal army, and destroyed their agricultural
implements.

The Richmond Examiner thinks the present mu•

ment most propitious for the Southern army to gain
a victory, which shall signify something more than
repulsing the enemy, for defensive operations will
never secure the acknowledgment of their indepen-
dence or end the war. The Northerners will fight
40 years so long as war means dispatching men and
money to a distance, and as long as they fail to see
the columns of an invading army blackening their
fields, lit by the flames of their houses and towns.
From the first the only reasonable hope of the Con-
federacy has been the transfer of hostilities to the
enemy's country. If that cannot he done the pro-
gress of invasion, however slow, must after a time
overwhelm the South. No treaty of peace is pos-
sible unless signed ou Northern soil; and if the
Southern armies can ever go there at all the time
is now at hand.

The New York Herald thinks the treatment of
Generals Siegel and Francis Meagher, by the War
Department, in refusing to give them active com-
mands is shameful, and attributes Know-nothing
proclivities to the Secretary for War. It is stated
that General Meagher is about to visit Europe.
The Free South, a Northern journal, printed at
Port Royal, says that Gen. Paxton has ordered ra-
tions for negroes to be altogether discontinued, ex-
cept in cases where to do eo would be inhuman.

The distribution of rations fostered the idea enter.

tained by the negroes that the Government was
bound to support them. The transition from slavery
to freedom appeared to them only a change of mas-

ters, the difference being that the new master was
more easily imposed upon than the old one. The
Free South hopes that when the negroes have had
an opportunity of raising their own subsistence,
and run short through laziness or neglect, they
will be taught by the pangs of hunger a lesson

that will not be lost. Their former condition as
slaves gives them no claim on the United States.
On the contrary, they owe the Northern Govern-
ment a debt of gratitude for favours conferred, and
the sooner the idea of philanthropists that it is the
duty of the Government to give them free support
is abandoned the better it will be for both whites
and blacks in the Southern depal anent.
The Commercial Advertiser says :—" All the
prisoners taken in the battles on the Rappahannock
have been exchanged, and it appears that the num•
ber captured by us is just half that captured by the
enemy. The South claims to present e, list in excess
of 8,000, while ours is little more than 4,000. This
is understood to be the condition of the exchange
arranged between the Northern and Southern com-
missioners., The rebel papers boast of the fact, ►:nd
the rebel authorities intimate that they should now
dictate some terms regarding the exchange of pri-
soners in future, which would lead to bloody re-
taliation if not complied with."
The New York limes says that Governor Sey-
mour's letter to the Vailandigham meeting is posted
in all parts of New York. After violently de-
nouncing the letter, the Times :says :
" There are thousands ignorant or base enough
to be influenced by it, bat if the patriotic feeling of
millions in New York State is raised, the New York
rebels will be swept like chaff before the wind. The
governor may do much mischief, but he must stop
very far short of the revolutionary violence he has
intimated in his letter, or he will confront a public
spirit it will be hardly safe to grapple with. The
human soul never had a more inflexible purpose
than that now held by the people of New York
State, to sustain the war until the rebellion is
crushed. Any man attempting to divert that de-
termination by pretext or device will be ground to

powder."
The Commercial Advertiser, noting the changes
of population caused by the invasion of the
Northern armies throughout the South, says that
similar changes are taking place in the Northern
States. Strangers are arriving in unprecedented
numbers. So many emigrants never landed at New
York in one day as on Monday last (the 25th), the
aggregate being over 3,500. During the season
probably 50,000 emigrant have sought the Ameri-
can shores, four-fifths of them having landed at
New York.

DISI'ATCH OF THE BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE
mAns.—Southampton, Tuesday.—The Royal Mail
Company's steamship Magdalena, Capt. Woolward, sailed
hence to-day, at three p.m., with the mails for Lisbon,
eahia, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Monte Video, Buenos
Ayres, Sze. She took out 73 passengers and on freight for
Rio £209,900, of which amount £200,000 in sovereigns is
for the Bank of Brazil, and £7,400 in Lar silver for the
Minister of Finance; for Bahia, £4,000 in sovereigns; for
1t nt~ Video, go d coin £226; for Buenos Ayres, gold coin
£1,600; and for Lisbon £9,893 in sovereigns, of which
amount £6,000 is consigned to the Union Bank. The
Magdalena also took out a very full cargo of French and
English merchandise.

Fr4_,
Nip tko

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLF,, June 9.
Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by their
Royal Highnesses Princess Helena and Princess
Beatrice, and attended by the Marchioness of Ely,
Lady A. Bruce, Lord Talbot de Malahide, Lieut.-
General the Hon:C. Grey, and Major-General the
Hon. A. Hood, went to London to-day by special
train on the Great -Western RailwNy. Her Majesty
was met at the station by his Royal Higbee6E4
Prince Alfred, attended by Mijar Co yell, and pro-
ceeded thence to the Horticultural Gardens, the
Equerries attending on horseback.
Her Majesty was received at the entrance in
Exhibition-road by the Duke of Buccleuch, Presi-
dent; Sir W. Dilke, Vice-President; and the coun-
cil and secretaries of the Society, who had the
honour of being presented to her Majesty.
Her Majesty proceeded up the centre walk of
the gardens to the spot where the Great Exhibition
Memorial is erected, surmounted by the statue of
the Prince Consort, which is to be formally inaugu-
rated to-morrow by his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales, accompanied by the Princess of Wales and
other members of the Royal family.

Her Majesty was met here by Mr. Durham, the
sculptor, by whom the statue was executed, Alder-
man Challis, the chairman, and Mr. Godwin, the
secretary of the Memorial Committee, who had also
the honour of being presented to her Majesty.
Her Majesty made a lengthened inspection of the
Memorial, visiting every spot whence a fresh view
might be obtained, and frequently expressed how
much she was pleased with it, and the gratification
it had afforded her to see its success. Her Majesty
also marked her interest in the progress of the gar-
dens by afterwards spending a consiierable time in
the conservatory and adjoining terraces, with
which she declared herself much satisfied.

Her Majesty then returned by the Eastern Ar-
cade to her carriage in Exhibition-road, and drove
to Marlborough-house to visit the Prince and Prin-
cess of NV ales.

There were also present in the gardens, to meet
her Majesty, the Earl Granville, K.G., Viscount
Sydney, G.C.8., the members of the Works Com-
mittee, Mr. Kelk, the contractor for the Exhibition
Building, Mr. Foley, Mr. Westmacott, and others.
The Prince of Orange paid a visit to her Majesty
at Marlborough-House.
The Queen returned to Windsor at two o'clock.
Lord Methuen and Captain Sir W. Hoste have
succeeded Lord Talbot de Malahide and Colonel the
Hon. A. Liddell as Lord and Groom in Waiting.