The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-11 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, April 10.—The market has undergone a
sudden change, and Stock has been offered to-day,
causing a retrograde movement in prices. Threes,
for the Account, are now at 69f. 90e. 01 her Secu-
rities have also declined. The Railway Share
Market has been heavy, and some of the lines are
.ower. The market closed as follows :
Italian Loan 72 75
Do. end month 72 50
New ditto
Do. end month 73 50
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes 52 50
Home Debt 50

It per Cents .. 96 85
Do. end month....
3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 85
Credit Mobilier 1427 60
Do. end month 1427 50
Bank Shares 3380
Credit Fonder 1505
RA ILI

rAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans lOl3 73 .. 1015
Northern 1045 .. 1050
New. ditto — ..
Lyons and Mediterranean 1210 -- ..
1210
Geneva 426 25 .. 432 50
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa 760 .. 755
Ditto to Barcelona

THE WEST AFRICAN MAILS.

LIVERPOOL, APRIL 11.

The mail steamship Athenian, with the above
mails, arrived here this morning. She brings 33
passengers, 880 ounces of gold dust, and 15 lumps
in specie.

Her dates are—Benin, Feb. 24; Fernando Po,
28; Cameroons, March 2 ; Old Calabar, 3 ; Brass
River,
7 ; Nun, 7 ; Bonny, 7 ; Lagos, 10 ; Accia,
12; Cape Coast Castle, 14; Cape Palmas, 16; Sierra
Leone, 21; Bathurst, 25 ;
Teneriffe, 31 ; Madeira,
April 2.

The trade in the rivers WLIS very dull, but a good
season was expected. The yellow fever had en-
tirely disappeared.
At Lagos trade was
dull on account of internal
wars. The King of Dahomey was threatening
Lagos with a large army.
A steamer had been captured off Sierra Leone on
the 26th of January, and 532 slaves were found on
board.

FEARFUL SCENE IN AN INDIAN COURT OF JUS-
TICE.-.—The Times of India supplies the follow-
ing details of the tragedy
briefly mentioned in our
Indian news of Monday "On the 25th ultimo,
a horribly tragical occurrence took place at Rae-
pore, the particulars of which are as follows :
At 10 o'clock in the forenoon of that day a powerfully-made
man of the Brinjaree caste presented a petition to Lieut.
Faber, the assistant commissioner, who directed him to file
his plaint in court at 4
p.m. At the hour named the man re-
turned, and presented his plaint,
in which he preferred a
charge of assault, by which he stated he had sustained loss
of character, and felt himself seriously aggrieved. Lieut,
Faber gave an order that the case should be investigated by
the Tehseeldar of Droog, and returned his petition to the
complainant; but the latter earnestly begged that the case
might be tried by Lieut. Faber himself, who however, re-
fused to do so, when the man declined to receive back
his petition. On this the Nisi K'iwan, or ver-
nacular reader, directed the complainant to leave
the court. Finding that entreaties were of no
avail, the man left the court, but soon afterwards returned ;
and notwithstanding the presence of numerous policemen,
peons, and others, he managed, without being noticed, to
walk close up to the Misl Khwan, whom he deliberately
stabbed twice with a dagger which he had concealed about
his person. After this, he made an attempt to stab Lieute-
nant Faber, but in doing so, fortunately missed his aim,
and fell, He, however, soon recovered himself, and
jumping up, flourished his dagger in a most frantic manner.
The crowd of persons at the time assembled in the court
house cleared out as quickly as they could; but before
they could get away he stabbed one of them, who,
like himself, came there with a petition. Lieu-
tenant Faber and Messrs. Wrottesley and Do Lang
followed him, calling out to the crowd to disarm him ; but
all to no purpose, as everyone was panic-stricken at the
furious conduct of the assassin. A Madras sepoy charged
him with his bayonet, but the Bunjaree warded off the blow
with his dagger, and felled the sepoy to the earth. One of
the policemen hereupon struck him a blow on the head with
a stick, when the fellow, after ripping open the side of ano-
ther policeman who happened to come in his way,
stabbed himself twice in the stomach. At this juncture
orders were issued to shoot him down, and a bullet was
sent through his body which wounded the spine. This
placed him completely hors de combat, and on Lieutenant
Faber asking him what had induced him to act in the
manner he had done, he replied that the Niel Khwan
had received a bribe of two thousand rupees from the
opposite party to prevent justice being meted out
to him. This was all that could be elicited from him, as he
was then in a sinking state, and died within an hour of re-
ceiving the fatal wound. The policeman whose side was
ripped open is considered to be out of danger; but the Misl
Khwan, and the other man whom he stabbed, are mortally
wounded and dying, if, indeed, they bo not already dead."
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY or JEWELLERY, &C.
Yesterday morning information was received by the
police of a most extensive robbery, by b rglary, in the City.
The premises in question are those occupied by Mrs. Gow-
land, and are situated No. 5, Leadenhall-street, where the
business of a jeweller is carried on. The burglars entered
by forcing the front door, and being undisturbed they
made the best of their time, and carried off a large quantity
of property, including 78 ladies' gold rings, 28 gold guard
1
rings, 64 gentlemen's gold rings, 70 gold Albert chains,
gold guard chains, 70 gold seals set with various stones,s, 30
gold Albert keys, and 50 watch keys of different descriptions;
and beyond this several other articles and some money were
stolen. A reward of £lOO has been offered.

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, April 10.

The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High-
ness the Princess Helena, walked and drove in the
grounds this morning.
Her Royal Highness Princess Louis of Hesse
and the infant princess continue to make most
satisfactory progress.

Frances Ann, Marchioness of Londonderry, has
arrived at Holderness House, Park-lane, from Wynyard
Park, Stockton-on-Tees, foa the seascu.
The Duke of Newcastle intends to return to town
on Monday from Clumber Park, Notts.

The Marquis of Hastings has arrivcd at Long's
Hotel,

The Earl of Dartmouth has arrived in Paris from
London on his way to Italy,

The Earl and Countess of Stamford and Warring-
ton have been entertaining a select party at dinner each day
during the Newmarket Meeting.
The Countess of Clonmel and the Ladies Scott
have arrived at Farrance's Hotel, for the season, from
Bishop's Court, Ireland.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston return to
town on Monday next, and not to-day, as was expected.

Lord Courtenay has returned to town from New-
market,

The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer
is going on favourably, nothing but a discoloration of the
face showing any effects of his recent a2cident. He left
town yesterday with Mrs. and Miss Gladstone, on a visit
to the Duchess (Dwager) of Sutherland, at Cliefden,
Bucks. Mrs. Gladstone has issued cards for a reception on
Wednesday, the 22d inst.

We are requested to state that in consequence of
recent domestic affliction the Lord Chancellor will not hold
his usual Levee on the first day of Easter term.

DEATH OF LORD SANDYS.—The Right Hon.
Arthur Marcus Cecil Hill, Lord Sandys, better
known to many of our readers as Lord Marcus Hill, died
yesterday. He had been indisposed during the last five
weeks. The deceased peer was the third son of Arthur,
second Marquis of Downshire, and succeeded to the Barony
of Sandys on the death of his brother, General Lord Sandys,
in 1861. He was born Jan. 28, 1798, so that he had only
attained his 65th year. The late peer married April 12,
1837, Louisa, youngest daughter of Mr. Joseph Blake, by
whom he leaves a large family. Lord Sandys, prior to his
elevation to the House of Lords, was a member of the
House of Commons and a very zealous and active supporter
of the Liberal parry, being for some years one of the active
whippers in to that political body. The deceased lord gra-
duated at the University of Edinburgh, and was created a
D.C. L. of Oxford in 1834. In 1816 he was made an attache
to the British Embassy at Madrid, and afterwards acted as
précis-writer in the Foreign-office. Subsequently he was
attached to the British Legations at Verona and Paris in
1822 and 1823. In 1824 he was under-secretary Of Lega-
tion at Florence, and served several diplomatic appointments
till 1827, when he was sent to St. Petersburg, and was ap-
pointed to the Embassy at Constantinople in 1830 as secre-
tary, but declined the office. He was M.P. for Newry
from 1832 to 1835, and latterly represented Evesham in the
Commons. The late lord was comptroller of the Queen's
household from June to September, 1841, and from July,
1846, to July, 1847, and was treasurer of the royal house-
hold from the latter date to February, 1852. Since his ac-
cession to the Barony of Sandys he has taken but a minor
position in politics. The late lord's eldest daughter is mar-
ried to Sir Edmund Filmer, Bart., M.P.
The Right Hon. Lord De Saumarez, son of the
celebrated Lord De Saumarez, died at Cheltenham on Thurs-
day in his 74th year.

DISCOVERY OF AN ORATORIO BY SCFIUBERT.—A
letter from Vienna states that much excitement hus
been created there among the musical public in consequc-nce
of the first performance of an oratorio entitled " Lazarus,"
and composed by Schubert. It is a work not only inedited,
but unknown up to the present day, and everybody is
astonished at the grand character and the beauties of the
work.
THE GHOST LAID.—A correspondent of the
Times makes what certainly appears to be a very
unnecessary exposure of the " dodge" whereby Professor
Pepper produces his now celebrated Polytechnic ghost.
The poor ghost is henceforth a mystery no more, and must
be relegated to the limbo wherein repose the remains of the
Cock-lane ghost, Mr. Forster, and other detected humbugs.
The plan adopted is just that which say sheet of plate-
glass in a shop window might have suggested to a passer-
by on seeing his image reflected from the flat surface of the
glass. When the curtain rises at the Polytechnic behind
Mr. Pepper, it discloses an inner apartment apparently open
to the audience, but really divided from them by a large
sheet of plate glass. The audience in the darkened theatre
cannot detect the glass, but they can see the ghostly figure
which is projected upon it by means of the lime-light and
from an arrangement which is really in front of the glass.
Mr Egg, the late eminent Academician, was a
wealthy man, and wealth makes an artist slow and
fastidious. He painted little, but what he did was excellent
in its tragic gravity. He was not a colourist, yet about the
colour of his pictures there was a sombre depth that suited
them; and the tone, though sombre and tragic, was never
hard, coarse, or flimsy. We remember the little dark yel
low man, so like a Jew, was busy and absorbed at the Man-
chester Exhibition, and humorous and pleasant in the
luxurious and picturesque rooms of his own house.
Although an amateur comedian of great talent, Mr. Egg's
genius in art was almost too saturnine and melancholy.
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE
ENSUING WEEK.—Monday—Geographical, at
81—
"Frobisher Straits proved to be a Bay,' Captain Hall;
" Visit to Red River," Dr. Rae, Tuesday—Royal Insti-
tution, at 3--" Animal Mechanics," Professor Marshall ;
Actuaries, at 41—Council ; Syro-Egyptian, at 7—Anniver-
sary ; Ethnological, at 8—" Antiquity of Man," Mr. Craw-
furd ; Statistical, at 8; Engineers, at 8—" Structures in
the Sea," Mr. Miller ; " Scinde Railway," Mr. Bruton.
Wednesday—Horticultural, at I—Azalea and Ros© Show ;
Meteorological, at 7—Council ; Society of Arts, at 8—
"Auto-Typography," Mr. Wallis; Society of Literature,
at 81--" Ancient Ruins, Missolonghi," Mr, Colnaghi.
Thursday—Royal Institution, at 3—" Relations of Geology
with Allied Sciences," Professor Ansted ; Numismatic, at
7; Linnean, at 8 ; Chemical, at 8—" Derivatives of
Naphthylamine," Messrs. Perkin and Church ; Royal, at
81; Antiquaries, at 81. Friday—Philological, at 8 ;
Royal Institution, at 8—" Culture of Fish," Mr. Buck-
land. Saturday—Royal Institution, at 3---" Science of
Language," Professor Muller.—Athencum.
THE GUNBOAT ALEXANDRA.—Since Thursday
afternoon nothing has taken place of a public nature
relative to the Government seizure of the screw steamer
Alexandra. Previous to having been boarded by the custom-
house officers the vessel had been masted, and her spars
were up. Up to Thursday afternoon no further steps were
taken by the authorities beyond keeping the vessel under
surveillance, and the processes of fitting were pursued as if
nothing had taken place, and some progress was made with
the fitting of her engines. About 4 o'clock on Thursday,
however, the Custom-house authorities gave instructions
that the work should be stopped, that the workmen should
leave the vessel, and that sloe should be given up to them,
To this some demur was made by th e workmen, who did not
relish the idea of being sent on shore. Mr. Miller, however,
being at hand, was appealed to. On his request the men at
once came on shore, and the Custom-house officers were left
in possession of the vessel, and yesterday afternoon two of
them might be seen traversing the deck in the undisputed
sovereignty of possession. It is said that the Government
authorities have called upon the builders to prove that the
Alexandra is not intended for a Confederate :gun-boat ; but
of this rumour there is no confirmation.
A ROMANTIC LOVE MATCII.—A correspondent
of one of our contemporaries, writing from Rome,
under date the 30th ult., s,.ys :—A little romance has been
enacted here lately. Some two years back a Yorkshire
baronet, Sir B-- and his family spent the winter
in the Eternal City, and one of the young ladies made the
acquaintance of a young French lieutenant, and they be-
came mutually attached. As her parents naturally ob-
jected to their union, Miss G-- returned to England with
her family at the close of the season here. After this long
lapse of time, both continuing in the same mind, Miss G—
reached the mature age of 21, and she sat, watch in hand,
counting the minutes till the hour should arrive at which
she was stated to have been born. The moment being
come, she at once started, free from parental control, for
Civita Vecchia direct, where her young lover met her, and
she placed herself under the care of our consul there until
. preliminaries should be arrangsd. Now, however, arose a
serious difficulty; the colonel of his regim w
ent ould not
hear of a marriage taking place, since, according to an ex-
cellent law of the Code Napoleon, no officer can marry an
entirely portionless bride, the exact amount of dowry being
fixed by this inevitable law. The spirited young lady at
once wrote home word of the quandary in which she found
theor
herself, and her father, evidently a philosopher,
made
best of the matter by enclosing to her £1,500, a trifle me
than the sum named in the imperial edict. •

SERVED HIM RIGIIT.—A short time ago a ticket-
of-leave-man, named llibbert, W4S convicted by the
Nottingham magistrate of using threatening language to
Mr. Hindley, a clerk in the employ of the Nottingham Gas
Company, and was bound ovir to keep the peace. Thu
Secretary of State ordered the man to be again apprehended,
and on Wednesday last he was sent back to Millbank to
complete the remainder of his sentence, which does not ex-
pire till July next,

Prophecies for the City and Suburban and
Metropolitan Handicaps.

We quote the following from the various sporting papers
of this day :

OBSERVER-77i6 Field.

CITY AND SUBURBAN,—If I take Adventurer, Glenochty
colt, Summerside, and Gardener to beat the field, I fancy I
shall not be far wide of the judge's return.
METROPOLITAN.—The winner, I think, will be found in
this lot, viz., Harlequin, Bedouin, Sappho, and the best of
William Day's lot.

Bell's Life.

CITY AND SUBURBAN.—We shall take Adventurer and
the Glenochty colt from the front rank, and Summerside,
Gardener, and Buckenham from the outsiders, to furnish
the winner of this well-constructed handicap.
METROPOLIT AN.—Golden Pledge is the only one for
which we have the slightest fancy, and should he figure in
the fray it is our belief he will make both Harlequin and
Bedouin make haste to get home.
AUGUR—Sporting Life,

CITY AND SUBURBAN.—I may thus early select Bucken-
ham, Gardener, Adventurer, and Argonaut, my chief de-
pendence being placed on the first and last mentioned.
METILOPOLITAN.—I may at once state that on the prin-
ciple of adhering to public form, I see no two so well wor-
thy of confidence in the Metropolitan as Bedouin and
Asteroid.