The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-20 00:00:00

FRANCE.

THE BOURSE, July 18,—Under the influence of
the prevalent uncertainty as to the nature of Prince
Gortschakoff's reply, t he market has been heavy to-
day, and prices have generally declined. Threes,
for the Account, have been offered at 68f. 50c. Mo-
bilier have declined to 1,163 f. 75c. Railway Shares
have also slightly declined. The market closed as
follows :

it per Cents. 97 25 Italian Loan 7l 95
Do end month.... Do. end month —
.1 per Cents
Do. end month..., 68 45 Do. end month...,
Credit Mobilier.... 1158 75 Russian -
Do. end m0nth....1156 25 Austrian ..
Bank Shares '3420 Spani,h Threes. „ ..
Credit I, oneier ...,1315 Home Debt

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, July 18.

His Royal Highness Prince Arthur arrived at
Osborne on Thursday, attended by Major Elphin-
stone, end left again yesterday on a tour.
The Hon. Beatrice Byng has left Osborne.
JULY 19.

The Queen, Princess Helena, and Princess
Louise, attended Div flo service at Osborne this
morning. The Rev. G. Prothero officiated.
The ladies and gentlemen in waiting were also
present.

The Dowager Countess of Mount-Edgeumbe has
arrived as lady in waiting.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

On Saturday the Prince and Princess of Wales
rode in a pony phaeton• to Clifden. Their Royal
Highnesses were attended by Lieut.-General
linollya, Captain Grey, and the Marchioness of
Carmarthen. The royal party re: urned to Windsor
by water, and landed in the Home Park, close by
Albert-bridge, where carriages were in waiting to
convey them to Frogmoro.
Yesterday (Sunday) morning, their Royal High-
nesses attended divine service at the parish church,
St, John. The lessons for the day and prayers wer.
read by the Rev. Henry John E lison, vicar of
Windsor ; and an admirable and impressive sermon
from the 24th chapter of Deuteronomy, Bth and 9th
verses—" Take heed in the plague of leprosy," &c.,
was preached by the Rev. T. Rooke.

This morning, at ten o'clock, their Royal High-
nesses the Prince and Princess of \Vales will take
their departure from Frogmore, and proceed to
Osborne on a visit to her Majesty.

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Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and Princess Mary honoured Lord and Lady Rokeby
by their presence at dinner, on Saturday evening, at Mon-
tagu House, Portman-square,

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge re-
ceived the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary
and a select circle at dinner, last evening, at Gloucester
House.

Prince MestchErski has arrived at the Clarendon
Hotel, from Brussels.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland in-
tend to leave Brighton to-morrow for Syon House, isle-
worth, where the noble duke and duchess intend to stay a
few weeks, and then go to Alnwick Castle for the autumn.
The Duke and Duchess di Fiano have arrived at
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Paris.

The Duchess de Sotomayor and family have
arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Madrid.

The Marchioness (Frances Anne) of Londonderry
left 11,1derness House, Park lane, on Friday, for Wynyard
Park, Durham, an,;, after a short visit to Seaham Hall, will
go to Garron Tower, her ladyship's seat in the north of
Ireland.

The Earl and Countess Grey left town on Friday
for the season. They have gone to Tiowick Hall, Northum-
berland.

The Earl Vane left town on Thursday to meet his
yacht at Southampton, and then cruise to the westward.
The countess left the same day for her seat in Wales.

The Countess of Porzarlington has left town on
a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough at Blen-
heim. The noble earl is visiting the German Spas.

Count Francois Coudenhove has arrived at the
Clarendon Hotel from the Continent.

The friends of the Earl of Dunmore will be
pleased to hear that his lordship's leg is not broken, as re-
ported, He only received a blow from a croquet ball.
Oa Saturday night Viscountess Palmerston bad
an assembly at Cambridge House, Piccadilly, when most of
the leading fashionables in town were present.

Lord and Lady Belhaven left town at the close
of the past week for Wishaw House, their scat in Lanark-
shire.

SERIOUS ILLNESS OF LORD CLYDE.—We regret
to hear that Field-Marshal Lord Clyde lies alarm-
ingly ill at the residence of General Eyre, Chatham, and
that his medical attendants give no hope whatever of his
recovery. Ilis lordship hes been suffering froraindisposition
for some time past, but it was only during the past week
that his illness assumed that character as to occasion any
alarm among his friends. In answer to inquiries yesterday
evening, it was stated that his lordship was becoming gra-
dually weaker, although still in possession of all his faculties.
DEATH OF MAJOR-GENERAL FAIRER.—TI e
above gallant and distinguished gallant officer died at his
residence in Park-place, IL.gent's-park, on Thursday last,
at the advanced age of 85 years

The Emperor Napoleon will go into mourning for
a fortnight on account of the death of the Duke of Hamilton.
THE PROROGATION OFPARLIAMENT.—The minis-
terial fish dinner is fixed for Saturday next, at the
Trafalgar, Greenwich. The last vote in supply was only
taken on Friday night. The Appropriation Act will be in-
troduced to-morrow (Monday), and it is still expected that
Parliament will be prorogued on Tuesday, the 28th instant.
—Observer.

Dr. Wylde has been appointed to replace Pro-
fessor Taylor, as Gresham Professor of Music. ,
How Warburton set the fashion of disusing
copes.—"lt happened in my time, sir," said the
verger of the cathedral. " Did you ever hear of Dr. War •
burton, sir ? A very hot man he was, sir; we never could
please him in putting on his robe. The stiff high collar
used to ruffle his full.bottomed wig ; till, one day, ho threw
the robe off in a great passion, and said he would never
wear it again ; and he never did ; and the other gentlemen
soon left off theirs too."— Watson's Life of Dr. Warburton.
COLOUR NOT SHAPE !—A copy, vouched for as
one of the original fifty, of Wedgwood's reproduc-
tion of the Portland Vase, was sold at Messrs. Christie,
Manson and Wood's one day last week for 27 guineas,
Another copy, in no respect superior, having been sold in
the same rooms a few years ago for nearly 200 guineas. On
the same day, and in the same sale, a tete-a-tete service of
Sevres china of the famous Bose du Berri ground, beautiful
only in that colour, and otherwise quite worthless as a work
of art, sold for about 300 guineas.
THE STATUE OF STONEWALL JACKSON to be pre-
sented, from England, to the State of Virginia.—
Mr. Foley, it appears, has undertaken to make the work for
£l,OOO, and the work is proposed to be seven feet in height,
on a pedestal of granite, designed by Mr. Foley, to bear the
name of the General and dedication from England on one
side ; on the other, General Lee's order of the day announc-
ing the death of Jackson.
RAPIDITY WITH WHICH THE MANUFACTURE
OF COTTON GOODS INCREASED DURING THE LAST
CENTURY.— On the accession of George the Third, in 1760,
the value of cotton fabrics annually manufactured in Eng-
land was estimated at about £200,000—whereas the worth
of the cotton goods produced by English looms, in 1860,
exceeded £52,000,000. In i 772, British calicoes were made
to the number of 50,000 pieces—in 1816, the number had
grown to 100,000. So late as the year 1750, the cotton
manufacture employed only 20,000 British workers, a num
ber raised no higher than 80,000 in the first year of the
present century. With the introduction of steam as the
motive power applied to the spindles, began the rapid
growth of production and trade. In 1853 Great Britain
found work for 10,000 steam looms—and last year she had
in operation 399,992 steam looms, driven with a power of
274,000 horses, and employing 451,600 wor kpeople in 2,887
factories, that contained 30,387,457 spindles.
RIDICULOUS CONFUSION IN THE MOUSE OF
COMMONS.—The hon. and learned member for
Westminster (Sir De Lacy Evans), who his fought many
brilliant battles in Spain, and who invaded the Crimea
without loss of life or limb, measured his full length on the
floor of the House of Commons, the other evening, in a
very distressing and undignified manner. The hon. and
gallant gentleman was passing in front of the Treasury
Bench, when his spurs got entangled, some way or other,
in the long legs of the Right lion. F. Peel, the Financial
Secretary to the Treasury, and the result was that he lost
his balance and sprawled over the feet of the whole cabinet I
Lord Palmerston most fortunately minaged to get his legs
out of the way in time, and escaped disaster, but Mr. 'Milner
Gibson and the Chancellor of the Exchequer were sadly
spurred, although they good•naturedly picked up the mem.
ber for Westminster and set him upright. Mr. Frederick
Peel rubbed his shins, as well he might—an operation
which occasioned no small amount of amusement to the
occupants of the Treasury Bench opposite. For the future,
it is clear that Sir De Lacy must either abandon the use ()-
spurs in the House of Commons, or Mr. Frederick Perri
must keep his legs out of the way. Tho former, we need
scarcely say, is far more easy of accomplishment than the
latter.—Court Journal,

AMERICAN MAIL STEAMERS DUE TINS WEEK..-

There are three American steamers, carrying
due at Liverpool this week, viz., City of Baltimore, North
American, and China, The City of Baltimore, which
was to leave New York on the 11th July, may be ex-
pected to reach Queenstown in the course of to•morrow
(Tuesday); the North American, with dates from Qlebec
to the 11th inst., may be looked for at Greencastle on
Tuesday night; and the Cunard boat China, with dates
from New York to the 15th inst., may be expected tc
reach Queenstown on Friday night or Saturday morning
next. As it is quite possible, h waver, that the City 01
Baltimore may call off Cape Race, we shall, should the
wires be working to that point, have a clear week's later
hews thus by the Cunard boat Canada,