The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-07 00:00:00

YARNA.

The report of Mr. M'Candlish, the chief engineer,
states that the works on this line were progressing
most satisfactorily ; that, although the surveys were
only commenced in April and the works in June last
year, the earthworks had been completed ready for
the ballasting and rails upon about 85 kilometres
(53 miles) at the Varna end, and 60 kilometres (37
miles) at the Rustchuk end of the line. The whole
force of labour was now employed upon the earth-
works on the central portion of the line, about 80
kilometres (50 miles) in length, and these would be
completed, with very slight exceptions, before the
ensuing winter. The masonry was well advanced,
and the bridges and culverts were nearly completed.
All the station buildings along the line have been
commenced, and many of them completed, and all
would, he hoped, be roofed in before the winter.
On about 33 kilometres at each end of the line, or
66 kilometres (40 miles) in all, the rails had been
laid. Ile had no doubt that on 80 miles of the line
the rails would
.be laid before the winter, leaving
only about 59 miles to be laid. during next yeas'•
The Turkish Government had lately received from

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their commissioner so favourable a report upon the
progress of the works that they had agreed to
return at once to the company the whole amount of
the caution money left in their hands, and which,
according to the terms of the concession, was only
repayable by instalments. The Government was
making arrangements with Messrs. Peto, Betts, and
Crampton for the immediate commencement of the
works of the harbour at Varna. He trusted, there-
fore, that by the time the railway was opened for
traffic sufficient harbour accommodation would be
provided, and he had no doubt whatever that the
whole line would be completely finished and ready
for traffic before the winter of next year.

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and a further sum of xil4o4:willgiotilbtaerd.in 1861
upon this portion of the system-i'. itialblOrWaOregate ex-
penditure on the oldnetworlaoL'bee.Bl,lB64Zl6,939,B26.
Of the £1,149,242 expended upon the old network in 1864,
£320,582 was laid out on lines previously in operation, and
£828,660 on lines of the old network still in course of con-
struction. The total receipts on capital account in respect
to the Aubin mines and ironworks to the close of 1864
were £685,911, and the total outlay to the same date was
£675,752. Tho receipts on capital account to the close of
last year in respect to the new network were £20,906,076,
made up thus :—Obligations of the old Great Central,
£2,359,174 ; obligation of the Paris and Orsay, £159,720 ;
obligations attributed in exchange for the shares of the
Great Central and the Paris and Orsay, £3,555,517 ; fourth
loan, X 1,847,000 ; fifth loan, £2,971,597 ; sixth loan,
£3,551,042 ; seventh loan, £1,271,215 ; eighth loan,
£3,508,179; and ninth loan (partly negotiated),'£l,BB2,632.
The outlay made on the network to {he close of 1864 may
be summatsed thus :—Amount paid for the Great Central,
£5,722,178 ; amount paid for the Parisand Orsay, £214,970;
payments by the company for works on new lines (after
giving credit for State conventions to the amount of
X 2,264,140), X 9,990,686; service of interest on the capital
engaged in the network (after giving credit for profits de-
rived from the lines in working to the amount of £866,013),
£1,532,852 ; and contributive share of the company in
the cost of the Pyrenees network, £280,000 ; total,
£20,740,685. It will be seen that a heavy item in the ex-
penditure on capital account for the new network was in-
terest paid out of capital. By a convention concluded with
the State in 1859 the company undertook to make good
the interest and redemption service of the obligations de-
voted to the new network, after giving credit for the profits
actually acquired upon that part of its system; and it will
be seen that the responsibility thus assumed involved in
1859, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, and 1864, a very considerable
outlay. The annual charge of the obligations, interest,
and redemption combined, is calculated at 5.75 per cent.
per annum ; and after the Ist of January, 1865, this charge
is to be sustained for the greater part of the new lines out
of the revenue of the old network, less, however, a State
guarantee of 4.65 per cent., reducing the burden to FlO
per cent.,
which will further be materially minimized by
actual profits acquired. The total arnolnt (If capital raised
to the close of 1864 for the old network, the Aubin works,
and the new network combined, was £39,601,937, of which
only about £12,000,000 had been obtained from shares (the
nominal share capital figures in the accounts f0r£12,000,000,
although £12,210,248 had been actually paid up to the
close of last year). The amount derived from obligations
was thus £27,391,689. The English theory in respect to
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ronraen-third
debentures. The obligation, however, is such a favourite
ttb°hheerorworywhoealdpepears to be reversed, and shares take the place of
channel of investment in France that it has gradually
become a kind of preference share, as well as a do-

The Charge of Perjury against Madame

Valentin.

At the Guildhall police-court, yesterday, Mine. Louise
Pierrette Valentin appeared on remand before Mr. Alder-
man Finnis to answer a charge of perjury.
Mr. Ribton was counsel for the prosecution ; and Mr.
Leverson conducted the defence.
The case against the defendant consisted, it will bo re-
membered, in her statement that she first came to London
on the 27th September, whereas it was alleged that she
came on the Bth September.
M. Jean Ignace was now examined, and he said—l am a
mason, or builder, but I have sold my business. I carried
it on in Paris, where I now reside. I came with my cousin
to London, and arrived here yesterday. I was in London
before about a year ago ; it was in the month of September,
1864 ; that was the first time that I had been in London.
We started on the 7th of September from Paris, and arrived
on the Bth in London. We came via Dieppe. The witness
went on to say that he travelled in the same carriage with
the defendant, and stopped at the Hotel de Vile de Franco,
and saw hOr there several times. Remained seven days in
London, and returned to Paris on the 14th September.
A Cousin of this witness gave similar testimony.
Mr. Levorson, for the defence, said that the evidence of
a double voyage, on which the charge of perjury was
founded, had been concocted to take them by surprise, but
he would bring forward evidence which would clearly
show that Madame Valentin was in Paris during the
whole of the first half of September, 1864, and that neither
she;nor the other witnesses could have lodged at the Hotel
de Ville de Franco, as it was shut up to all lodgers up
to the 12th or 14th of the same month, in consequence
of a fire.

Mr. Leverson then called M. Jules Bourcier, who said—
I reside at Paris. lam an ex-mayor, and also an ex French
consul. On the 31st August or the beginning of September,
I was called upon officially to appear before the chamber
of the French advocate—it was for the purpose of giving
some evidence to the President—and, therefore, as I saw
the defendant almost daily for some days afterwards, when
she called to visit my wife, it was impressed on my me-
mory. At the latter end of September she called and bid
aclieu, as eho was going to London. She had not done so
before.

Mrs. Eulalie Katzenstoin said—l am tho wife of Fidelle

Katzenstein, who keeps the Hotel de Ville de France, 38,

Dean-street, Soho. On the 3d September a fire took place
at a timber-yard next door to our hotel. Some of the
timber was brought into the house from the back ware-
house. All the back of the house was damaged, and the
painters were at work for some time,
,both inside and out.
Whilst the hotel was in this condition we were not able to
receive any guests in the rooms, as we were all in disorder.
Eugenie Coulane gave evidence as to her going on a
visit to the last witness in the early part of September,
1864, and corroborated her evidence as to the state of the
house.

Mr. Ribton said that he had a right to recall his witnesses
as they had not been examined on the point as to the state
of the house.

Mr. Leverson objected on the ground that Mr. Ribton
had closed his case, and said that his witnesses fixed their
date by a fire the same as the other witnesses fixed theirs
by letters.
Mr. Martin—With respect to the re-examination of the
witnesses for the prosecution, I must say that there has
been a communication with them.

Mr. Leverson—Yes, I saw Mr. Hall go over to them,
and I accuse Mr. Hall with tampering with witnesses, with
perjury, forgery, and robbery.
Mr. Ribton—l must submit to you, sir, not to allow such
infamous language to be used by Mr. Leverson towards a
professional gentleman of far greater respectability than,
himself.
Mr. Leverson—l never committed forgery.

Mr. Leverson here asked Mr. Ribton a question.

Mr. Ribton (in answer)—l shall not answer any ques-
tion you ask; you have conducted yourself in such a way
that I do not think you are entitled to it.

Alderman Finnis—l do not think tha7t I can do any-
thingdiscussion it was agreed that Madame Valen-
eL:e but send this case for trial.
tinAsfhtmoruls°dnibe admitted to bail, herself in £lOO, and one
surety of X5O.

Mr. Leverson then applied to the court to impound a
certain document put in evidence, and order Mr. Hall into
custody for forgery.
Mr. Alderman Finnis declined to take this step, and said
it would be better for Mr. Laverson to pursue the regular
course.

Mr. Hall said he had no objection to the document in
question remaining in the hands of the court, and if Mr.
Leverson thought proper to give him into custody he would
remain, in order that he might have the opportunity of
doing so.
Mr. Leverson then said ho would charge Mr. Hall with
having fraudulently uttered, put off, and altered a docu-
ment for the purposes of the prosecution in that court ; but
it did not appear that the charge was made.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DIIE.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Sept. 18.
Ditto, via Marseilles Sept. 12.
Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet ...... Oct. 4.
Ditto, by French packet Sept. 22.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Sept. 21.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton—Sept. 18.
Ditto, via Marseilles Sept. 12.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton Sept. 10.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton....
Sep iB.
Ditto, via Marseilles l2.
India (Bombay), via Southampton. Sept. 10.
Ditto, via Marseilles Sept. 4.
Mauritius, via Southampton Sept, 10.
Ditto, via Marseilles Sept. 4.
Newfoundland • Sept. Ise
Portugal . .. Sept. 4.
UnitedDt tfiot, abteysprainvdatßre sihtlipshtoNoLritshboAnni.
erica,
by
Bd.

tish packet ........................ ........... Sept. 7.
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp.

toll ........................................

Ditto, via Cork
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Sept. 8.
West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe Sept. 10.
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba,
and Mexico.
Sept. 13
Bahamas, via New York. Sept. 13
Bermuda, ditto
Sept. 27.
Cuba and Rodeo Sept. 28.

ABD-EL-KADER.—A Paris correspondent of the
Se'inaphore of Marseilles relates the following anec-
dote of Abd-el-Kader :—" During his recent stay in Paris
the Emir went to Versailles to see the paintings represent-
ing the war in Africa. When passing before that repre-
senting the capture of his Smala, one of the persons of his
suite constantly placed himself so as to provent the Emir
from seeing what was likely to excite painful feelings.
Abd-el-Kader begged the person in question to cease this
mano3uvre, which he did not understand. The person
then stood back, and the Emir, at once discovering the
cause of the interference, turned to his suit and said, Ah
gentlemen, if I had had painters in Africa, I should have
had my pictures too."