The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-21 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, April 21.
Le &cole, we observe, announces to-day the death,
at Vesoul, of M. Noirot, formerly representative of
the people in the Constituent Assembly.
Le l'ays contradicts the rumour that H.I.H. the
Prince Napoleon will take his departure this even-
ing en route for Egypt.

In describing the races which took place on the
preceding day at the Bois de Boulogne, Le Consts-
tutzonnel mentions, in regard to the appearance
there of their Majesties among the gay company
present, that the Empress walked for some time,
leaning on the arm of Prince Joachim Murat, while
the Emperor strolled, arm in arm, first of all with
his aidecamp, General Leboauf, and afterwards with
M. the Duke de Morny.

L' Opinion Nationale briefly remarks upon th.-
fact of his Majesty the Emperor having just com-
pleted the fifty-fifth year of his age: of which—it
might have been worth while to add—the last
fourteen have been passed by his Majesty, more
or less in supreme power, as Head of the French
Government.

BOURSE, April 20.—The market up to the present
time has shown a strong downward tendency.
Threes, for the Account, which opened at 69f. 50c.,
arc now weak at 69fr. 40c. Speculators appear
averse to enter on any material operations. Mobilier
Sharea have also declined. The Railway Share
Market has shown rather more firmness than the
Renter but some of the lines show a slight decline.
The market continued heavy to the close as fol-
lows :

It per Cents .. 69 90 Italian Loan 7l 65
Do. end month.... Do. end month 7l 25
3 per Cents
Do. end month.... 69 35 Do. end month.... 72 5o
Credit NTobilier.... 1400 Russian
Do. end nimith.... 1395 Austrian
Bank Shares 3380 Spanish Threes 52 50
Credit Foncier ....1500 Home Debt

TOUrt C 4 Tat
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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, April 20.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of -Wales and
Prince Alfred went to London this morning, at-
tended by Capt. Grey and Major Cowell.
The Judge Advocate• General had an audience of
the Queen.
The Archbishop of York and the Right Hon. W.
and Mrs. Gladstone returned to London to-day.

The Prince Witzengorff, Baron von Lindon, and
Count Erckert have left the Brunswiok Hotel, Jermyn-
street, on their return to Berlin.

The Earl and Countess of Winchilsea have
arrived at the St. George's Hotel.

Viscount and Viscountess Castlerosse have re-
turned to their residence in Eaton•place from Malvern
Wells, Worcestershire.

Lady Chelmsford's ball is unavoidably postponed
from Monday, May 4, to Thursday, May 7.

The Hon. H. Foley, M.P., has arrived at the St
George's Hotel.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Glad-
stone returned to town yesterday from Windsor Castle.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO LORD MASSAREENE.—
Lord Massareene has met with an accident at Antrim
Castle which will most probably terminate fatally. On
4aturday morning, as ho was standing on a high embank-
ment tying a young tree to a stake, the stake broke, and he
was precipitated a great depth on some stones. He sus-
tained injuries to the spine, resulting in paralysis of the
lower half of the body, a broken leg, and a disabled foot.
The latest accounts state that his recovery is hopeless.
Several eminent surgeons from Dublin are attending him.

REPRESENTATION OF THE RADNOR BOROUGHS.
—There is at present but one candidate to fill the
vacancy caused by the decease of Sir G. C. Lewis, though
several names have been mentioned, among which are
those of Mr. Harcourt, Mr. R. B. Mynors, and Mr. Richard
Green Price, whose uncle represented the constituency for
nearly half a century. Mr. Price issued his address yes-
terday in reply :o a requisition from the burgesses of the
borough of Knighton, in the course of which he says :
" My political opinions are, I bedeve, well known to you,
as I have on more than one occasion proposed your late
worthy and lamented representative, when I publicly ex-
pressed myself on the leading topics of the day. At the pre-
sent juncture of political affairs there does not seem to be
any leading question which agitates the public mind ; and
as far as my opinions may be at present important to you, I
declare myself a supporter of Lotd Palmerston's Govern-
ment, and especially of his foreign policy, Should I have
the honour of being returned as your repre:.entative, my
votes will be those of a Liberal Conservative; and, with
respect to all matters which effect your local interests, I
trust you do not need the assurance that these shall ever
have my constant and unremitting attention."
REPRESENTATION OF EAST SOMERSET.—Sir W.

Miles, Bart., who entered Parliament in 1818, and
who has represented East Somerset since HU does not
propose to offer himself for re-election. In an address

issued by Sir Arthur Hallam Elton, of Clevedon Court,
announcing his intention to come forward, he says :—",My
political opinions are known to you ; they are liberal but not
democratic. lam therefore prepared to give my conscien-
tious support to the present government, which rests on a
wide basis, and is the safest and most efficient that can be
formed."

ROYAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.—TI•e
quarterly court of the governors of this institution
was yesterday held at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St.
James's, Admiral Lord Colchester in the chair. There
were also present Admiral Sir H. Leake, M.P., Admiral
Richards, Sir Joseph Douglas, Captains Fittoek, Barrett,
Howes, Westbrooke, and many other distinguished officers.
The report stated that the income for the past quarter, in-
cluding £92 17k. 7d., the balance in hand at the end of the
past year was £553 153.; the interest on the funded pro-
perty of the institution, viz , £36,916 14s. sd. stock £491
4s. 3d.; annual subscriptions, &c., £1,152 16s. 10d. A
legacy of £lOO, but which has not yet been paid into the
society's bankers, was also announced as the bequest of the
late Sir T. Holbrook. The report having been adopted,
some alterations were made in the society's bye-laws, after
which the petitions of the applicants for relief were taken
into consideration, when nearly £5OO was voted towards
that object, and the proceedings terminated in the usual
manner.

THE ALEXANDRA.-LIVERPOOL, April 20.—This
vessel has been exchequered, and we understand
that Messrs. Fawcett, Preston, and Co., her owners, and
Messrs Miller, her builders, will probably in a few days be
summoned before thu local magistrates on the charge of
designing to infringe the Foreign Enlistment Act. Messrs.
Fletcher and Hall, solicitors for the dt fendants, having
applied to the Mayor of Liverpool for an inspection of the
depositiors, were informed by the Town-clerk that he was
instructed by Mr. Waddington, of the Home-office, that the
law officers of the Crown advised that the application ought
not to be complied with.

PIRACY OFF THE IRISH COAST.—A despatch from
Wexford, dated April 16, says that the schooner Laurel.
Capt. Mullen, bound from Liverpool to Wexford, when off
Eagle Island, was forcibly boarded by 13 boats, the united
crews of which numbered 64 men, who immediately took
charge of the vessel, saying that their families were starving.
Capt. Mullen offered them money, but they refused to take
it, and added that they only wanted provisions. They broke
open the hatches, and on discovering the cargo consisted of
maize, they began eating the raw corn. When they had
somewhat appeased their hunger, they loaded the boats, and
carried off about 15 tons of corn,

CHAR FISHING ON -WINDERMERE.—Many an
angler will be glad to learn that the char season
offers the brightest prospect it has done for s-.veral years
back, and the experienced anglers have already been most
successful, landing their two dozen a day ; and the fish
much finer in condition and larger than for many seasons
past. Nor have some of the novices been unfortunate, for
they even have taken their dozen a day each. On Monday
three of the panniers came into the village with twenty fine
fish each, and on Friday and Saturday, last week, hey did
more. From etree cause or other, probably the splendid
spring weather, we are enjoying theta world-renowned fish,
which have risen to the surface of the lake nearly a month
earlier than usual.—Westmoreland Gazette.
PAINFUL SCENE ON THE ktIVER.—On Saturday
afternoon, several children were playing on the
side of the river in front of the Archbishop of Canterbury's
Palace, when one of them, a little boy named Batten, about
three years of age, fell in, and the water being a% the spring
tide height and the current running strong at the time, he
was carried out into seven feet of water and sank. At
length his head came to the surface, and a sailor named H.
Evans, although suffering from illness, pulled off his coat,
and dashed into the river. After much trouble he suc-
ceeded in rescuing the boy. Upon reaching the shore the
sailor was loudly applauded by the bystanders.
CHARGING ENTAILED ESTATES FOR RAILWAYS.
----Ye-t erday au important report from a select committee of
the House of Lords was printed, with the evidence taken, on
charging of entailed estates for railways According to the
present law landholders purchase shares, and in many in-
stances land is increased in value by railways. It is now
proposed that a short act should be passed to enable the
holders of entailed estates to charge the same for making
railways, and thereby increase the value of the property.
A Paris letter in the lndependance of Brussels
says :---" M. Mommsen, the well-known German
historian, the author of a ' History of Rome,' which is re-
garded as the beet hitherto published, is at present in Paris,
and has been received in the most flattering manner by all
the notabilities in literature and science The object of M.
Momwsen's visit is to make researches in the Imperial
Library. The Emperor has expressed a wish to see the
German historian, who has brought his • History of Rome'
down to the time of Julius Csesar, whose reign and the age
of Augustus are to be the subjects of his fourth a olume,"
THE INTENDED DUEL IN BELGIUM.—It was ru-
moured during the last two days in Paris that M.
Francieque Sarcey, the theatrical critic of the Opinion
_Nationale, and M. de Villemessant, proprietor of the Figaro,
were about to fight a duel in Belgium, in consequence of an
article inserted in the Figat o. From an article in that jour-
nal of this morning, it appears that M. de Villemessant was
the challenger, under the following circumstances :—the
Figaro having for a length of time published articles ridi-
culing M. Sarcey, t net gentleman retorted in the journal in
which he writes, and on Saturday last M. de Villemessan
at
rejoined in very sharp language. He afterwards sent a
friend to M. Sarcey to demand satisfaction. That gentle-
man declared that on principle he was opposed to duelling,
bu'; that in this inst ‘nee he had been so ill-treated that he
should depart from his rule to bring the attacks to a close,
and ho even named his seconds. Afterwards, however,
probably counselled by his friends, he changed his intention,
for the reasons assigned in the following letter addressed to
M. de Villemestant's seconds:— . _ _

.4 April 15.

" I refuse to grant M. do Vlllemessant the satisfaction be
demands, for the simple reason that I do not owe him any.
The editor-in•chief of the Figaro has fur three years past
been constantly assailing me with insults, to which I have
replied only by silence. He now thinks proper, in order to
extricate himself from the position in which recent circum-
stances have placed him, to consider himself insulted by an
article published a fortnight ago, and to which he repheo
in terms violent beyond all measure, especially as compared
with the language I had used. If there is any person
offended in this matter it is myself; but I am determined
not to assume that character. I further declare that I have
firmly re olved to repel all further aggression on the part of
NI. de Villemessant, either by all the means authorised by
the right of legitimate defence, or by recourse to the tri-
bunals, according to the nature of the attacks made on me,
" FRANCISQLTE SARCEIC,"