The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-24 00:00:00

of luxury, such as jewelry, fine s,
ladies' dresses, lace, gloves, hosiery, driii
various other articles for which the Parisians are
celebrated. The shopke.epers are likewise doing a
good business, in consequence of the numerous balls
given by the public functionaries, and the at rival
of foreigners. The manufacture* of wax candles
were never so busily employed es at present. In
some establishments the bands ate employed by
night as well as by day. It splints by official re—
turns tliat the export of wa►x curdles has increased
considerably within the last three years. In 180
the wax candles exported amounted to 1,49.3,3:0
kilogrammes ; in 1861 to 1,858,519 kilogrammes ;
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first necessity among the French. Merchants trad-
ing with foreign countries find cocoa an important
article of exchange for French produce, as well as
an excellent freight on a return voyage. The manu-
facturers of chocolate, who employed only 53 steam
engines in 1852, increased that number to 151 ma-
, chines, of 703 horse power, in the year 1859. That
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power may be calculated as equivalent to the labour
of 15,000 men ; but since 1859 the consumption of
chocolate in France has considerably increased, in
consequence of the reduction of the import duty on
cocoa, and the great decrease in the price of sugar.
The manufacture of chymical produce is likewise
increasing in Paris. Operatives employed in the
preparation of eaouchouc and gutta-percha are fre-
quently employed until a late hour of the night,
and have still work enough on hand for the
rest of the winter. The approach of spring re-
vives the demand for iron chairs and other articles
for the decoration of gardens. Seedsmen, for the
same reason, are preparing to execute orders not
only for home consumption but for export, of which
the latter amounted in the year 1862 to 11,500,0001.
in value. Zinc in sheets rose last week in Paris to
601., being an increase of 61. as compared with the
preceding week. Lead is quoted at 65f. ; English
copper, 225 f. the 100 kilogrammes; Chilian copper,
216 f. 25c, These metals are firm at Marseilles, and
without any change at Havre.
While trade is comparatively prosperous in Paris,
the accounts from the cotton manufacturing districts
in the Seine Inferieure are disheartening. A letter
in the Opinion Nationale from Rouen states that
the Cauchois weavers are subsisting on the leaves
of the rape plant. In one parish, St. Vivien at
Rouen, there are 1,170 families in a state of utter
destitution. These 1,170 families have pawned fur-
niture and clothing to the amount of 100,0001. Ac-
counts from Bischwiller in the Bas-Rhin state that
while all engaged in the cotton trade in that depart-
ment are suffering the woollen manufacturers are
prosperous. A meeting of the cotton manufacturers
of the Haut Rhin was held at Mulhausen last week,
at which it was resolved to diminish the hours of
labour in each mill in consequence of the large
stock of goods on hand. The woollen cloths ex-
ported from Bischwiller, which in the month of
January, 1862, amounted to 56,167 kilogrammes,
increased in the month of January last to 73,496
kilogrammes, being an increase of nearly one-third.

Prince and Princess of Wales' Annuities BilL

The following are the provisions of the above bill,
intituled " A Bill to enable her Majesty to provide
for the establishment of his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales and her Royal Highness the
Princess Alexandra of Denmark, and to settle cer-
tain Annuities on her Royal Highness :
Most Gracious Sovereign,—We your Majesty's most
dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament as-
sembled,laying taken into consideration your Majesty's
most gracious Message that your Majesty has agreed to a
marriage proposed between his Royal Highness Albert Ed-
ward Prince of Wales and herßoyal Highness the Princess
Alexandra Caroline Maria Charlotte Louisa Julia of Den-
mark, do most humbly beseech your Majesty that it may be
enacted ; and be it enacted by the queen's most Excellent
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Par-
liament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as
follows : _ _

1. It shall be lawful fur her Majesty, in order to provide
for the establishment of his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales and her said Royal Highness the Princesb Alexan-
dra, by letters patent under the Great Seal of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to grant to his said
Royal Highness or to such persons as her Majesty may
think it to name in the said letters patent in trust for his
said Royal Highness, an annuity of Forty Thousand Pounds,
to commence from the day of the marriage of his said Royal
Highness with her said Royal Highness, and to continue
during the joint lives of her Majesty and his said Roya
Highness, to be paid quarterly on the sth day of January,
the sth
_day of April, the sth day of July, and the 10th
day of October in every year, the first payment to be
made on such of the said quarterly days as next hap-
pens after the said marriage, of such portion of the said
annuity as may have accrued between the date of the said
marriage and the said quarterly day, and a proportionate
part to be payable for the period from the last quarterly day
of payment to the day of the determination of the annuity.

2, It shall be lawful for her Majesty, by letters patent,
under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland to grant unto her Royal Highness the said
Princess Alexandra, or to such persons as her Majesty may
think fit to name in such letters patent, in trust far her
Royal Highness, for her sole and separate use, but without
any power of anticipation, an annuity of ten thousand
pounds, to commence from the date of the marriage of her
said Royal Highness with his Royal Highness, and to be
payable during the continuance of that marriage on the
quarterly days aforesaid, the first payment to be made on
such of the said quarterly days as happens next after the
said marriage, of such portion of the said annuity as may
have accrued between the date of such marriage and such
quarterly day, and a proportionate part to be payable for
the period from the last quarterly day of payment to the
day of the determination thereof.

3. It shall be lawful for her Majesty, by letters patent
under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, to grant unto her said Royal Highness,
in case of her surviving his said Royal Highness, or to such
persons as her Majesty may think fit to name in the said
letters patent, in trust for her said Royal Highness, in the
event of her so surviving, an annuity of thirty thousand
pounds, to commence from the day of the death of his said
Royal Highness, and to ccntinue from thenceforth during
the life of her said Royal Highness, and to bo payable on
the quarterly days aforesaid, the first payment to be made
on such of the said quarterly days as happens next after the
death of his Royal Highness, of such portion of the said
annuity as may have accrued between the date of the said
death and the said quarterly day, and a proportionate part
thereof to be payable for the period from tho last quarterly
day of payment to the day of the determination thereof,
4. The annuities granted by this act shall be charged on
and payable out of the consolidated Fund of the United
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rected to be paid out of the said Fund by former Acts of
Parliament, but with Preference to all other payments
which may hereafter be charged on the said Fund.

RUNNING MATCH AGAINST TIME.--The third
match of Deerfoot against time took place yester-
day at the West London Cricket Ground, Brompton, in
the presence of a large assemblage of persons, among
whom the greatest interest was excited. Deerfoot on this
occasion was backed to run eleven miles and a half in
one hour. The stake on the contest yesterday was for
£5O a side, and to complete the distance the cir-
cuit of the course had to be made forty-six times.
The time appointed for the start was half-past four
o'clock, and Mr. E. Smith having been chosen referee,
the signal was given, and he started off at a rattling pace,
accompanied by Jones of Islington, doing the first quarter
of a mile in one minute. The first with completed in 4 nil:.
43 seconds, when Jones retired, and W. Richards,int
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Welshman, filled his office. Two miles wereof
run
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minutes 10 seconds, and the eleven miles and a half cora-
nntdh mileand was completed in 46 minutes 35 seconds, and ten
in 51 minutes 5
poted in 59 minutes 44 seconds.
Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre-
vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usual
kinds. liorniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore, always
good mike, Sold in packets by 2,280 agents