The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-17 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, June 16.—1 t would be difficult to ac-
count for the utter stagnation which continues to
prevail in the various markets for stocks and
shares ; and since the opening of the week the quo-
tations of the principal securities have failed to
realise the rates previously current. Threes,
for the Account, are now done at 67f. 47c. (with
coupon detached), and Mobilier Shares at 725 f. 50c.
Transactions in the Stock of the Italian Loan have
taken place at 66f. 62ic. Mexican Loan (Old)
has been done at better rates, and is now quoted at
45i. The New Stock remains without change at
320. The market closed as follows :

41- per Cents 95 60 Ditto Threes 4O
Do. end month — New Mexican
3 per Cents. 66 50 Do. Bonds 317 50
Do. end month 66 40 Russian —
Credit Mobilier ... 740 Austrian
Do. end month ... 735 Spanish Threes
Bank Shares 3650 Homa Debt
Credit Foncier 1270 Defe:Ted
Italian Loan 66 55 Roman
Do. end month .66 55

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Acct.
Orleans
Northern 1065 ... 1065
Lyons and Mediterranean B3l 25 ... 831 25
Southern 575 ... 572 50
Western 523 75

Eastern
Sardinian . 3OO 300
Austrian

Lombard 4BO ... 482 50
North of Spain lBB 75 187 50
Saragossa

Ditto to Barcelona l6O ...

RUSSIA.

On the 9th of June (says the St. Petersburg
Gazette), the number of sick in the hospitals of St.
Petersburg was 3,987. On that day 332 new patients
were admitted, and 235 left cured ; 96 died ; there
still remain 3,984 under treatment.
The Post du Nord publishes the following details
of the commerce of Odessa :

" Up to the end of April mere than 10,000,000
of pouds of agricultural produce were exported from
Odessa ; 433 foreign and trading vessels entered the
port, and 232 coasting vessels ; 400 trading ships
and 335 coasting vessels sailed from Odessa ; mer-
chandise to the value of 8,000,000 roubles was ex-
ported, and articles to the value of 3,750,000 sliver
roubles imported."

The Cronstadt Gazette publishes the following :
" On the night of the 12th June Aide-de-Camp
General Novosselsky, Commander-in-Chief of the
port of Cronstadt, hoisted his flag, which indicated
that the fleet in the roadstead was to form into divi-
sions. It will form three squadrons. The first will
consist of ironclads, under Rear-Admiral Likhat-
chew, who will hoist his flag on board the Rurik.
This squadron will consist of the ironclad frigate
Sebastopol, the floating batteriesPrcvenetz and Ne-
tronm6nia, the double-towered Smertch, and the
monitors Vestchoun, Roldoun, Latnik, Ou-
ragan, Bronenossetz, Tifon, Edinorog, Stre-
letz, Lava, and Peroun, the frigates Rurik
and 'Vladimir, the screw corvette Griden, the
steam clipper Jakhont, the steamer Ilmen, and the
screw steamar Koldountchik. All these vessels will
go through a series of evolutions.
" The second squadron, under Rear-Admiral
Lessowsky, will consist of the screw frigates
Alexandre-Gewsky and Oleg, the screw corvette
Vitiaz, and steam clipper Almaz. These four
vessels are preparing for a review.

" The third squadron will consist of the steam-
fri gate Gromoboi, the screw corvette Batan, the
sailing yacht Cadet, and two screw steamers,
which will be under the orders of Rear-Admiral
Rimsky-Korsakow, in command of the Marines.
=The screw frigate Amiral-General will be at the
disposal of Rear-Admiral Possiet, in the suite
of the Emperor. The screw ship of the line, 111
guns, Emperor Nicholas 1., employed for gun prac-
tice, accompanied by the screw gunboat Zabiaka,
will proceed to Revel for the usual practice off the
island of Karloss. The screw frigate Perevoet, the
screw corvette Askold, the clipper Izoumroud, and
the screw gunboat Sobol, will enter port to prepare
for a cruise. The screw frigate Dmitry-Donskoi,
recently arrived from the Atlantic, will remain in
the roadstead. The steam clipper Jemtchoug will
act as guardship in the main roadstead. The steam
frigate Smely will proceed to Helsingfors, and the
screw gunboat Gornostai will remain in port for
repairs.

PRISONERS FOR DEBT.—A return ordered on the
20th of March, showing the number of persons in
actual custody in the prisons of England for debt, or for
contempt, by reason of non-payment of money, gives a list
of 96 such prisoners in Whitecross-streot Prison. Three of
them aro persons who were removed hither from the
Queen's Prison in the Borough-road when that ceased to
be a debtors' prison. One of these was committed in 1843,
another in 1847 ; the third, who was committed in 1861,
was bailed out of custody in September, 1861, under the
Insolvent Debtors' Act, but remanded into custody at his
own request by the Bankruptcy Court in November. The
country prisons send a list of 316 prisoners, one committed
in 1862, two in 1863, a few in 1864, but the mass in 1865.
A MATRIMONIAL LOTTERY.—In the Highland
parish of Abernethy, a young man proposes to open
a lottery under the following conditions:—All widows and
maidens who have not attained the age of 32 are invited to
buy of him a ticket at the price of 103. After 300 tickets
are sold at this figure the drawing will take place. There
will be only one prize, and it will be the right of the fortu-
nate lady who wins it to claim the young gentleman for
her husband, and partake with him the comforts to be de-
rived from the £l5O produced by the lottery.—Banffshire
ikurnat.