The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-19 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Aug. 18.—The market has been much
more buoyant, and a fair amount of business has
been done at improved quotations. Threes, for the
Account, are now at 67f. 80c. The Railway
Share Market has been also more animated, and
prices are generally higher. The market closed
as follows :

It per Cents. gGBO
Do. end month
3 per Cents ...••• 67 65
Do. end month 67 66
Credit Mobilier 1107 50
Do. end month 1107 50
Bank Shares 3385
Credit k oncier 12b0

Italian Loan 72 60
Do. end month 72 45
Now ditto
Do. end month 72 70
Russian
Austrian
Spanieh Threes 52 50
Home Debt

RAILWAyB.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 1022 50 .. 1015
Northern . ...
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1025 .. 1026 25
Geneva 492 50 .. 492 50
Southern 697 60 .. 702 50
Western
Eastern .... 497 50 .. 497 50
Sardinian ......... . 416 25 .. 415
Austrian 427 50 .. 428 75
Lorr. bard
North of Spain
Saragossa 685 .. 685
Ditto to Barcelona

THE FRENCH CATHOLICS AT LIVERPOOL.—The
Emperor's fete day Was celebrated at the Catholic
pro-cathedral church, Copperas-hill, on Sunday morning,
by a solemn high meas. There we:o present the French
consul and several of the leading French residents n the
tawn. The sermon was preached by the' Very Hey. Pro-
vost Cookson, V.G., who, previous to the delivery of his
discourse, remarked that in France it was customary in ail
Catholic churches, on the Feast of the Assumption, to pray
to God that he would bless the Emperor and the Prince
Imperial. This year his Excellency the French consul had
requested that the custom might be observed in Liverpool,
and accordingly, at tithe close of the service a solemn Te
Deum would be sung. Much depended on the French na-
tion—and this year the Catholic Church had especial cause
to thank that nation on account of the expedition which
the Emperor had sent to Mexico to put down the factions
which existed in that country, and for the purpose of re-
storing law and order. The Catholic institutions there had
been frequently exposed to violence, and the bishops and
clergy had been in great danger of being expelled from the
country by the factions that had, one after another, ruled
there ; and it viq s, therefore, a great blessing that the
French nation had generously undertaken to put an end
to ouch a state of things. He, therefore, asked them to
unite, heart and soul, with his excellency the French con-
sul in thanking God for the blessings that had been vouch-
safed to the French nation, and to beg a continuation of
them. At the close of the service a solemn Te Deum was
accordingly sung,
in thanksgiving for blessings bestowed
on the French nation during the past year.--Lirerpeol Post,
" KEEP YOUR TEMPER !" is easier said than done,
according to the Saturdayßeview, a facetious writer
in which observes :—A
philosopher, living with a proper
system of final causes ever before his eyes, is naturally in.
different to the little disappointments of weather, friend-
ship, or meals. Still we have met with philosopher; of
lofty mien and stoical complexion, who would fall into
transports of fury over cold shaving-water or a bad hand
at cards. We have known men who would declaim by the
hour, in all the raptures of a self-complacent transcenden-
talism, about the mystic significance of the universe, about
the inscrutable destiny of the human soul, about the
nothingness of time and the ineffable splendours of eternity,
and yet who vrould use very bad language over an ill-fittivg,
coat, a fractional fall in Consols, or even an underdone
potato.