The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-18 00:00:00

PRANCE.

The Toulonnais says The Imperial yacht
Reine-Hortense, nw being armed, ifi shortly to
leave Toulon for the north to be at the disposal of
the Minister of Marine, who will embark in her to
be present at the great maritime fetes. -The frigate
Thomis has left for Brest. The steam transport
Rhone, with from 200 to 300 marines and about 40

officers on: board, has also left for Mexico, via
Algiers, where she will take about 1,000 military
passengers."

The number of authorisations granted to French
subjects to wear foreign decorations during the first
six months of 1865, was 177, thus distributed :
England, 1 ; Austria, 2 ; Bavaria, 1 ; Belgium, 1 ;
Denmark, 4 ; Spain, 40 ; Roman States, 54 ; Italy,
23 ; Mecklenburg Schwerin, 1 ; Mexico, 12 ; Prus-
sia, 2 ; Holland, 3 ; Persia, 2 ; Portugal, 4 ; Russia,
5 ; Sweden, 2 ; Turkey., 12 ; Tunis, 8.
The Moniteur says :—The central committee of
the international exhibition of Oporto, informed of
the kindness with which the French Government

has met its wishes in placing at its disposal specimens
of the produce of the Imperial manufactures of
Sevres, the Gobelins, acid Beauvais, has immediately

met to express officially to the French Consul at
'Oporto their gratitude for this precious mark of
sympathy, which it received, in common with the
Portuguese press, with most lively satisfaction.
The labourers employed by the propeietors of
flower-gardens and nursery-grounds in the neigh-
bourhood of Paris have discovered that their pay of
80f or 90f per month, or 2f. 65c. per day is insuffi-
cient. They have therefore demanded from their
employers-Ist to reduce their day's work to 12
hours ; 2d. To fix the rate of wages at from 3f. 50c.

to 4f. per day ; 3d. To raise to4oc. the pay for each
supplementary hour. It appears from a letter ad-
dressed by the delegates to the Sicle that five
masters have adhered to those new conditions.

" There is a rumour," says the Presse, "of the
approaching conversion of the Six per Cent. Mexi-
can Loan of 1864 into bonds of the same kind as
those issued for the nominal loan of 500 millions of
francs. The conditions of the conversion are said
4beaeridnigfference would
60fr. interest
forto b7esf ther. of giving Mexican
endTh .
be made up by the prices given at each drawing and
the other advantages connected with the last loan.
The amount of that of 1861 remaining in the hands
of the French Government unrealised represents a
sum of 54 millions of francs."

The number of ports in France now served by
railways is :—ln the Channel, 18 ; Atlantic, 16 ;
Mediterranean, 13 ; making a total of 47. The
ports to be served by lines already conceded are :
In the Channel, 2 ; Atlantic, 7 ; Mediterranean,
2 ; or eleven in all. There are besides 26 ports not
to be served by railways, which, without counting
Corsica and other islands, give 84 as the number of
the principal ports of France.

BOURSE, July 17.—The market opened much
weaker than on Saturday, owing to the allusion
made by the Moniteur to the slight indisposition of
the Prince Imperial—Threes, for the Account,
having retrograded 20c., and Cr&lit Mobilier shares
20f. The market nevertheless remains very firm at
these reduced prices, and has even advanced on
them, the Mobilier shares attaining 731 f. 25c., and
the Threes 67f. 50c. Italian Five per Cents. are at
64f. 90c. Tile Bourse closed on a very bad market.
Credit Mobilier shares particularly affected. After
attaining 738 f. 75c. they fell at the close to 716 f.
25c., realising a fall for the day of 28f. 75c. :

4} per Cents 97
Do. end month —

Ditto Threes —
Mexican Loan 47 50

3 per Cents. 67 45
Do. end month 67 40
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3580
Credit Fonder 1257 50
Italian Loan 64 95
Do. end month 64 85

Do, Bonds 320
Russian —
Austrian
Rome
Threes
Rome Debt —
Deferred
Roman — --

It4ULII

WAYS.

Orleans
Northern
837 50 ... 832 50
... 1045
Lyons and Mediterranean...,. 845 ••• 847 50
Southern
"'565
Western
_.... 532 50
Eastern
Sardinian •
•••
285
...
420
Austrian
Lombard 486 25 ... 485
175 ... 172 50
North of Spain
... 325
_____ ...... Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona — ...

A letter from Berne states that a duel with pistols
has lately been fought near that city between two Poles;
M. Kurczyna and M. Guttry, member of the Prussian
Chamber of Deputies, in which the former was severely
wounded, and has since died, all attempts to extract the
ball having proved fruitless.

WIFE MURDER IN LIVERPOOL-011 Saturday
night a painter named Harriman Burns, living with
his wife and children in Prince Edwin-street, Everton,

murdered his wife by stabbing her with a penknife in the
left shoulder. Burns, who had been drinking heavily of
late, had occasionally suffered from delirium tremens. On
Saturday evening ho went out for a walk with a man
named Dickenson, and returned home about nine o'clock,
and sat down by the fire with the deceased woman and
her son Robert. They had been sitting for some time,
when all of a sudden Burns jumped up, rushed at his wife,
and commenced to stab her in the neck and shoulder. lie
was at once seized by Dickenson. The poor woman foil
to the floor, cried out " Oh dear," and immediately expired.
On being taken into custody, and accused of stabbing his
wife, he coolly said, "I did it." He appeared quite calm
and collected. The prisoner was brought before the
Liverpool magistrates yesterday, and was remanded for,
seven days.