The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-23 00:00:00

FRANCE.

TELE BOURSE, July 22.—The market continues in
the same depressed state. At the opening, Threes,
for the Account, were offered at 67f. 60c., but are
now at 67f. 70c. Mobilier have again declined,
and are now at 1,092 f. The Railway Share Mar-
ket is tolerably firm. The market has been exces-
sively agitated towards the close, and prices have
fallen. The following are the last quotations :

It per Cents 96 50 Italian Loan 7l 10
Do. end month.... Do. end month 7l 05
3 per Cents
Do. end month.... 67 20 Do. end month 7l 50
Credit Mobilier....lo6o Russian
Do, end m0nth....1060 Austrian
Bank Shares 3415 Spanish Threes.... 53 50
Credit k oneier ...,1262 50 Home Debt
RA IL

AYS.
Cash. Account.
1010 .. 1000 ---
980 .. 980

Orleans ...
Northern
New. ditto — .., --
Lyons and Mediterranean 1005 .. 1007 50
Geneva..
Southern
Western
Eastern ... ,
Sardinian
Austrian
I..orr.b.ird
North of Spain
Saragossa 682 60 .. 667 50
Ditto to Barcelona

SPAIN,
MADRID, JULY 22.

The Ministerial journals express sympathy with
the Confederate States of America.

POLAND.

The 7%Tord publishes the following special tele-
gram from Warsaw, dated 20th of July :—" The
Revolutionary Committee of Warsaw, having found
its orders relating to the Kovno and Warsaw
line of railroad disobeyed, or not executed, has no-
tified to the superintendent of the line, a French-
man, that, as he had done all in his power to pre-
vent the execution of the measures enjoined, he
had been tried by the Committee and sentenced
to death. But, being a foreigner, he had been
allowed four days' respite, at the end of which, if
he had not resigned his functions, the sentence
would be inflicted. As the threats of the committee
are never made in vain, the Superintendent has re-
signed, and is replaced by another—also a French-
man—who applied for his post on account of the
advantages connected with it ; but it is feared he
will meet the same fate as his predecessor.'
ROME.

The Journal de Rome of the 18th states that on
that day a solemn service had been celebrated, by
order of the Pope, in the Church of S. Andrea
della Valle, for the soul of Victor Oudinot, Duke
of Reggio, " who, as General-in-Chief of the French
army, conquered the revolutionary hordes banded
together at Rome against religion and civilization,'
regained peace and liberty to the citizens, and
restored the eternal city to the hands of the Sove-
reign Pontiff, Pius IX. His Holiness was repre-
sented at the service by Cardinal Pacca, his Grand
Chamberlain, accompanied by Cardinal Merode,
Monsignor Talbot, and other dignitaries.

Hudson's Bay Monopoly and its Proposed
Renewal.

By the extinction of the East India Company all
monopolies, sovereignties, and exclusive privileges
have been withdrawn from private companies, ex-
cept that of the Hudson's Bay, which the present
Government is about renewing, unless prevented by
Parliament, the public, and Canada. The Govern-
ment of Lord Derby, when in power, would not
renew the company's lease in the Pacific, but esta-
blished there the flourishing colony of British Colum-
bia, and intended withdrawing from the company
the vast and fertile districts between Canada and it,
forming them into new colonies. It was reserved
for a Liberal Administration, professing the
principles of Adam Smith, to propose to renew
what, according to the Hudson's Bay Company's
prospectus, will give them territories exceed-
ing in extent more than half of Europe,
with the most fertile lands,doubie the size of France.
Mr. Fortescue, in reply to Mr. Wyld, stating they
did so, agreeing with the opinion of the law officers
of the crown (the opposite of that of Lord Brougham
and their pedecessore), and that Canada did not com-
plain. Now, Canada was scarcely aware of the sale
of the Hudson's Bay Company's stock to the Inter-
national Financial Society—a branch of the Credit
Mobilier Company of Paris, Lord Taunton in the
Lords opposing the sale as transferring these vast
powers to Americans and foreigners. Canada did
think that any British Government would consent
to barter away the rights of the crown, the
people, and her own claims to the country in ques
tion, while Mr. Fortescue knew very well that, in
1858,Canada deputed Chief Justice Draper to come to
England, and declare her opinions against the rights
and exclusive privileges of the Hudson's Bay Com-
pany demanding a portion of this territory as her
Own, and the opening of the rest as new colonies,
with equal rights to all, and exclusive privileges to
none. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, the Colonial
Secretary, being of the same opinion, which the
Liberal Duke of Newcastle, one of the free trade
school of the late Sir Robert Peel, does not approve
of by attempting to renew the lease—or make a
grant of, the greatest and most baneful monopoly
that ever existed—that has proved an incubus to
the improvement of British America.
On behalf of the crown, the people, and Canada,
we have raised our voice agaicst any such renewal
or grant, knowing that it is illegal, unjust, and
unconstitutional—knowing that it may cause great
commotion and trouble in Canada, and probably
lead to severance of those districts from British
connexion as the Red River inhabitants, to get
clear of the reign of the company, wished to be
annexed to the United Statcs,if not joined to Canada,
or formed into a new colony. We implore the
Colonial Office to pause before they renew this
gigantic monopoly, the granting of which will be
the only strain on Lord Palmerston's Government,
differing so much from the principles of free trade,
professed and hitherto carried out by the Premier.
Our Chambers of Commerce, Boards of Trade, and
the public should at once petition against so gross
an injustice.— Cork, Reporter.

ROYAL COLOSSEUM, REGENT'S - PARK. Mr.
David Fisher, with his most amusing entertainment,
entitled •' Facts and Fancies," causes the theatre at this
establishment to be crowded nightly; and amongst the
many other attractions of this favourite place of amusement
the characteristic chansonettes of Madllo. Johanna Clauseen
are received with great favour.

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, July 22.
The Queen and royal family walked and drove
in the grounds this morming.

Foreign Courts.
PARIS, July 21.
A Council of Ministers was held yesterday at
St. Cloud, the Empress presiding.
The Count de Morny, who has been at Trouvilie
for a week past, arrived in Paris yesterday morn-
ing, and went to St. Cloud in the course of the
day.

Count de Kisseleff, Russian Ambassador at Rome,
arrived at Marseilles the clay before yesterday by
the Vesuvio steamer from Civita Vecchia.

Their Serene Highnesses Prince and Princess
Edward of Saxe-Weimar will entertain a distinguished
circle at the Duke of Richmond's late residence, near Good-
wood, during the ensuing week, for the races.
The Prince Serge Obolensky has arrived at
Claridge's Hotel from Germany.

The Prince and Princess Bandini have left
Claridge's Hotel for Paris.

The Duchess of Manchester had a select evening
party yesterday, at her residence in Stanhope-street.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne and
family are at present staying at Spa, in Belgium. The
noble marquis, who repaired there for the benefit of the
waters, has derived great advantage from them. In all
probability the noble marquis and marchioness will return
home early in the ensuing month.

Tile Earl de Grey, Secretary of State for War,
left Carlton-gardens yesterday for Osborne, un a visit to her
Majesty.

The Earl and Countess of Yarborough leave
town early next week for Brocklesby Hall, Lincolnshire.

The Countess (Dowager) of Morton and Lady
Alice Douglas leave town at the close of the week to visit
the Hon. Mr. and Lady Gertrude Rolle in Devonshire,
before leaving for Scotland for the autumn.

The Count de Giorgi has arrived at Fenton's
hotel from Verona.

Lord George and Lady Adeliza Manners intend
to leave Cheverley Park, Newmarket, at the end of the
month for Windsor, where his lordship's regiment is sta-
tioned on duty.

Lady Charles Wellesley and family left town on
Tuesday for Conholt Park, Hants, for the autumn.

Lord Londesborough has left Thomas's Hotel,
Berkeley-square, to attend the regatta at Hull.
The Count and Countess Nostelz have left Mau-
rigy's Hotel for St. Petersburg.

Lord and Lady Clermont have arrived at Cla-
ridge's Hotel for Ireland.

The Hon. Mrs. Vanneck and the Countess Anna
de Gersdorff have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square,
for the Isle of Wight.
Lady Macdonald Lockhart and the Misses Mac-
donald Lockhart have left Farrance's Hotel for Leo Castle,
Lanarkshire N B
. .

The Right Hon. Sir Robert and Lady Emily Peel
entertained a select circle at dinner last evening, at their
house in Whitehall-gardens. .
The young Marquis of Hastings, whose coming
of age at Donington Perk, next week, is to be
celebrated with the greatest magnificence, directed his
steward to invite all the labourers employed in his mines
to the interesting ceremony. "At a rough calculation,"
remarked the man of business," it will coat £lO,OOO to bring
them up." "It it costs double," responded the youthful
heir, " they shall come."
Well-informed persons (says the Court Journal)
pretend to know that Lord Darby has the intention
of proposing Lord Grey as his successor in the leadership
of the Conservative party. May the day be far distant, say
we, when the country loses the services of Lord Derby I And
so say all true and loyal Englisbmen.
Horace NV alpole, who loved mischief, never dicl
a more mischievous act (says the Saturday _Review)
than when he recorded, for the torment of posterity, the
alleged remark of his quondam friend Gray, " that if any
man were to form a book of what he had seen and heard
himself, it must, in whatever hands, prove a useful and
entertaining one,"

The Dramatic College Fancy Fair at the Crystal
Palace, on the 25th and 27th of July, promises to be a
great success. Among the novelties of the occasion, Mr.
and Mrs. Howard Paul have had presented to them a slice
of the Prince of Wales's wedding cake. This is to be
divided into small portions, and sold as souvenirs of the
fete at the stall over which Mrs. Paul will preside.

NATAL FORCES OF RUSSIA.—The Europe of
Frankfort gives the following as the naval forces of Russia :
—She has in the Baltic, Amoor River, White, Caspian, and
Black Seas and Lake Aral, 122 vessels, nine being ships of
the line and 13 frigates ; the whole mounting 2,246 guns,
and are manned by 355 officers, 453 sub-officers, and 20,485
seamen.

THE KITCHEN AND REFRESHMENT-ROOMS OF
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—The select committee
have just agreed to a fourth report, in which they say they
have agreed that the wines and spirits shall be provided by
wine merchants approved of by the committee, and in com-
pensation for the consequent loss to the keeper of the re-
freshment-rooms, they have applied for an increased allow-
ance from the commissioners of the fee fund. To facilitate
and improve the attendance they propose to increase the
width of the room, and recommend that smaller dining..
tables should be introduced into the room. With respect
to the future management of the rooms, it is proposed that
the folldwing charge for dinners shall be charged next ses-
sion; Cold meat, including table, &c., 2s. 6d. each; and
hot meats, including table, &c,, 3s. each, For dinners with
fish, entrees, &c., a written notice of at least half an hour
must be given, the price for which will be regulated by a
printed tariff. This, they hope, will obviate the confusion
and discontent which the present system necessarily in-
volves. Mr. Barry states that the proposed alterations in
the rooms can be completed before February next, pro-
vided that the necessary orders are given at once.
THE ASSISTANT MESSENGERS IN THE BANK-
RUPTCY COURT.--A petition to Parliament is in
the hands of an hon. member, praying that the assistant
messengers of the Court of Bankruptcy may be placed on
a similar footing with the service officers of the Insolvency
Court, who were deprived of their situations by the aboli-
tion of that court. The assistants in the Bankruptcy Court
having no provision made for them by the new Bankruptcy
Act, although their duties were very onerous, having the
charge of a vast amount of property and fre-
quently managing large estates for months for the
benefit of the creditors, and also recovering a
considerable amount of property which had been concealed,
they pray that, as kOW they will be but casually employed,
they should be allowed £4O a year each, with the usual
allowance when en duty ; and taking into consideration the
20 per cent. deducted formerly, charged by the messengers
for "risk" in employing assistants, but now not charged,
as the messengers, whose salaries are now fixed, scarcely
ever take posession, wou d only entail a charge of about
£l,OOO a year on the funds of the court, the equivalent
being a much greater benefit by avoiding forced sales.
ALLEGED MURDER OF A MAN IN LEATHER-
LANE.—Yesterday morning a man was found lying
in Leather-lane by Police-constable Smith, 209 G, and was
taken by him at once to the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's_
inn-road, where the house surgeon pronounced him dead.
From what has come to the knowledge of the police there
can be no doubt but that the unfortunate man was knocked
down by one or two men, who at once decamped, Inquiries
were instituted by Inspector Allen, of the G division, and
it was ascertained that the unfortunate man is named Wil-
liam Housdon, aged 40, a working man, residing at 33,
College-street, Camden-town. It would appear that the
men suspected were seen to attack the deceased, and to
knock him down, and although ha la) on the pavement in-
sensible, no one attempted to assist him, nor were the police
informed of the facts until after they had returned from
conveying the man to the workhouse. Information hasbeen
forwarded to the different police-stations, with the descrip-
tion of the supposed. murderers ; but, up to the time we
write, they have managed to evade being apprehended. The
deceased is represented as having been a vary steady man,
and has left a wife and family to deplore his untimely
loss.

THE SEWING MACHINE AND TUE DRESS-
MAKERS' TRUE FRIEND.—The merest mention of
the moneysaving to any country by the sewing machine
suffices to show the absurdity of any resistance to its use.
In the United States, five years since, the annual money-
value of the necessary sewing which could be done by the
machine was estimated at £58,000,000. On the clothing of
men and boys the saving at that time made in the city of
New York alone was a million and a half (not dollars, but
pounds sterling) annually—and Massachusetts saved as
much on her great manufacture of shoes and boots. Be-
sides creating new branches of manufacture, the machine
had revolutionised forty already existing. This is not an
invention which can be opposed or neglected. One of the
industrial branches which it is clearly destined to revolu-
tionise is that of making ladies' dresses; and it seems to
me that Mary Ann Walkley's dying bequest to society,
and to every one of us in it, is the duty of seeing the con-
dition of the dressmaker ameliorated by the due application
of this most effectual means.—Once a Week.

NATIONAL LIFEBOAr INSTITIITION.---A gentle-
man under the initials of A. 8., residing in Cheltenham, has
presented £3OO to this institution, to enable it to establish
a lifeboat on the coast in memory of his deceased wile,
after whom the boat is to be named.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The Alacrity, 6, screw despatch-vessel, Comman-
der J. K. E. Baird, arrived at Spithead on Tues-
day from the Mediterranean, having left Gibraltar
on the evening of the Bth inst. She received orders
soon after arrival to proceed round to Sheerness to
pay out cf commission.

The floating batteries £tna, 200-horse power,
and Thunderbolt, 16, 200-horse power, which have
been stationed in the Thames for several months
past to protect the passage of the river during the
distnan!ling of the batteries et Shornmead and Coal-
house Point, have been withdrawn from the posi-
tion they have hitherto occupied, and are now
stationed at the entrance to Clwtham harbour
where they are to be kept fully manned and
equipped, with all their armament, shot, shell, &c.,
on board, to assist in the protection of the entrances
to the Thames and Medway. Toe reconstruction

of the two forts on the Kent and Essex shores of
the Thames is to be immediately proceeded with.
Her Majesty's steam storeship Dee, Master
Commander Raymond, recently commissioned, after
thorough repairs, was yesterday inspected by the
Commodore Superintendent, Sir Frederick Nichol-
son, C. 8., at Woolwich, when the crew were
mustered, and put through the usual course of exer-
cise. The Commodore expressed his approval of
their t:ptitude and clean appearance.
Two hundred tons of armour-plates are now be-
ing delivered at Portsmoath Dockyard by vessels
from France, the manufacturers being Messrs.
Patio, Gaudet, and Co., the makers of the armour-
plates for the frigate La Gloire, and other iron-clads
in the French Ireperial Marine. 100 tons are of
41in., and have been purchased by our Admiralty at
£45 per ton. The remaining 100 tons are of
51in., the price being £5O per ton. Like all other
French plates which have been supplied to the
English Government, these from Petin, Gaudet,
and Cu. have a very rough, blistered, and un-
finished appearance; but this may not detract at
all from their cohesiveness or shot-resisting power.
They are, however, such plates as the Admiralty
would not receive on any terms from English manu-
facturers. The latter, indeed, are loud in their com-
plaints, and have been now for some time past, of
the restrictions the Admiralty place upon them in
compelling them to give their plates such a perfectly
even surface, and to bestow upon them such an im-
mense amount of "trimming and polishing. They
say that the plate is ruined in its defensive quality
as ships' armour, and that they therefore do not
compete with the French makers on equal terms.
In the previous trials of plates at Portsmouth, fur-
nished by Messrs. Petin, Gaudet, and Co., and M.
Cchencking, of Toulon, the plates themselves,
although roughly manufactured, showed an extra-
ordinary degree of resisting power to the 681 b solid
shot at 200 yards range, and the metal of which
they were composed was evidently of a very supe-
rior quality.