The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-27 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENIN-0, -SEPTEMBER 27, lEEE.

business must give to the depressed trade of Canada,
and the improvement in the crops have added to the
general cheerfulness. The Canadians now feel
safer and more assured since the English Govern-
ment have pronounced unmistakably in their
favour. The Confederation is as yet a question of
the future, but there is good reason to hope that
the intercolonial differences may be reconciled and
all disputes settled before long. When that is fairly
brought about the colonies will each and all gain in
strength, and the great tide of civilisation will roll
westward over the rich plains now lying idle and
profitless.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(DEUTEII'S TELEGRAMS.)

ROME.

ROME, SEPT. 26.

The official Giornale di Roma declares to be
apocryphal the circular of Mgr. de Merode, pub-
lished by the Italian journals, ordering the Ponti-
fical troops to respect the band of Fuoco, as not
engaged in brigandage but defending the cause of
the ex-King Francis 11.

NEW ZEALAND.

MELBOURNE, AUGUST 26.,
(By Overland Telegraph from Galle).

Advices received here from New Zealand announce
that General Cameron has resigned the command
and returned to England by the present mail.
William Thompson has petitioned the Queen to
send a commission to investigate the wrongs of the
Maories.

More murders have been committed by natives.

[A portion of the above telegram has been
omitted, having been rendered unintelligible in
course of transmission.]

CHINA AND THE NE THE RL AND S .
(By Direct Overland Telegraph.)
SHANGHAI AUGUST 21.
The Treaty of Commerce with the Netherlands
has been ratified.

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, Sept. 20.

At the opening of the International Exhibition at
Oporto on the 18th inst., the King replied as follows
to the address of Senor Antonio Braga, president of
the central committee of the undertaking :

" Among you, illustrious Portuguese, none may
doubt of our progress, none may fear that it is slow
and indefinite. Nations fall from their splendour
by the errors of men or natural calamities. But it
is also certain that they rise gloriously to the reso-
nant voice of patriotism and liberty. And with the
same rapidity with which they were cast down are
they impelled towards prosperity, if with good faith
and firm steps they enter upon the path of reforms,
the sole course by which the moral and physical re-
generation of peoples can be effected. This move-
ment once commenced becomes a necessity of such
magnitude and urgency that a benefit remains cir-
cumscribed by the area traced out by its author.
This Portugal, after a long period of misfortune,
which caused her to lose the prestige of her past
greatness, has now, Providence be thanked, entered
upon a new epoch of efforts and enterprises, which,
encouraged and fortified by peace and liberty, will
assure to her, in a brief future, the place which she
once occupied among the most cultivated and fortu-
nate nations. The first International Exhibition
which took place in the capital of the commercial
world was followed by that of Paris. And such is
the power and influence of the progress of humanity,
that in little more than 10 years a city of the second
order in a country hitherto considered to be a cen-
tury behind most nations gathers to her bay, for
your honour, the manufactures of both worlds and
the wonders of art and intelligence. This spectacle
is, then, a great glory for Portugal and a well-
founded hope for the future. Arduous was the
session of my honoured grandfather in implanting
the liberal institutions we now enjoy ; and arduous
also the task of my august brother, evangelising and
exalting among us the sublime idea of the supre-
macy and glorification of labour. Such facts can-
not be forgotten, and your allusion to them at once
affects and gratifies me. Invited by you to assume
the presidency of the Crystal Palace, and later to
give an impetus, as you express it, to the develop-
ment of the Exhibition, I acceded with the greatest
pleasure, recognising all the importance of it.
The spirit of the age, the example of my brother,
and the love I bear to my country and my subjects,
will lead me to embrace and second with all my en-
deavours this generous and highly-civilising idea,
whose realisation will give to our country much
higher consideration among foreign nations, and
will increase our own self-respect, thus raising
public spirit to the height from which naturally and
spontaneously spring patriotic actions. This con-
test of labour, this truly national festival, is so
striking a proof that we are advancing on the path of
progress, it opens up to the national industry so
many improvements, and promises such various
advantages to the country, that I feel real pride that
this great event should take place as a happy pre-
sage at the commencement of my reign. My
honoured father, the enlightened President of the
Exhibition, accepted and undertook, in the same
manner, so pleasing a charge. His august name,
as you well presumed, immediately secured the pub-
lic sympathy for this great work. The mast dis-
tinguished artists, and the most intelligent and in-
dustrious nations, hastened to respond to our invi-
tation. No nation, however powerful and ad-
vanced, disdained to come and take their place
among the laborious Portuguese. Honour to them
for this, as it is to us a motive of gratitude. To the
wishes you express for my happiness, that of my be-
loved consort, the prince, my august father, the
Infante Dom Augusto, and the royal family, I re-
spond with the most fervent wishes for the great-
ness and welfare of the country which has been our
cradle."

The official Diaro da Lisboa announces that the
King has decided that the baptism of the newly-
born Infanta shall take place on the morning of the
27th inst., in the Chapel of the Royal Palace.

the E. or N.E. blow over England, France, and
Italy. The sky is generally clear over that portion
of Europe. At the North-East and South-West of
this region there exists two lines of gales or storms.
At Haparanda the barometer has fallen to 757
millimetres, and the winds have veered to the S.W.
In Spain the sky is generally cloudy or rainy." In
Paris yesterday the sky was resplendent, but the
heat was as great as ever in the afternoon, though
the morning and evening were a little fresher. At
two p.m. the thermometer stood at 25-3 Centigrade
(77 6-10 Fahr.)
The military tribunal of Paris has just tried a
musician of the 2d Regiment of Chasseurs named
Tilmaut, aged 43, charged with having, at Chartres,
on the 9th May last, caused the death of a woman
named Matouzet, with whom he had cohabited for
several years. The evidence given on the trial
showed that the prisoner, who had always been a
good soldier, became acquainted with the woman in
1862, while she was in the service of the keeper of
the canteen of his regiment. Theii acquaintance
lasted, with slight interruptions, caused by the pri-
soner's extreme jealousy, till 1863, when the woman,
having learned that he was in the Hospital,
sent him word that she would have no more to
do with him. On Tilmant's rejoining his regi-
ment, however, he terrified her into receiving
his visits by threatening to murder her, and at
last did so by shooting her with a pistol, inflicting
a wound of which she died six days later. Immedi-
ately after committing this crime he discharged a
pistol into his own mouth, but the ball only broke
his jaw. In his defence the prisoner said he had
acted under the influence of ungovernable jealousy,
and that he greatly regretted that he had failed in
the attempt on his own life. The tribunal found
the prisoner guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced
him to ten years' hard labour.
The Court of Assizes of the Seine has just tried
a Dutchman named Theeuwissen, a printer by trade,
aged 43, charged with bigamy, he having married
a young woman named Discours, at Marseilles
in 1864, while his first wife was still
living at Brussels. It appeared from the
evidence that the prisoner, who is a native of
Breda, in Holland, was first married at Brussels
in 1846 to a Belgian woman named Hazings,
with whom he lived till 1859, and had four children
by her, all now living. In that year he deserted his
family, came to Paris, and found employment in the
printing-office of M. Lahure, who some time after-
wards
discharged him, on learning that he had aban-
doned his wife and children. The prisoner then
went to Marseilles, and was engaged by a printer as
machine man at Bfr. a day. He there became
acquainted with the young woman Discours, and
married her in August, 1864, although she had an
illegitimate child. In October he left Marseilles
and came to Paris, followed by his second wife, who,
on learning that he had another wife living,
denounced him to the police and he was arrested.
The two marriages having been clearly proved,
the prisoner stated in his defence that he thought
his first wife was dead, as he had written to her four
times from Marseilles and received no answer. Evi-
dence was however produced which left little doubt
that the prisoner knew the woman to be still alive ;
the jury therefore found him guilty, but with ex-
tenuating circumstances, and the Court sentenced
him to five years' imprisonment.
A young woman named Apollonie Fort has just
appeared before the Correctional Tribunal of Paris
in opposition to a judgment pronounced against her
by default in Feb., 1864, on a charge of swindling,
in complicity with a young actress named Besnier.
It appears that Mlle. Besnier was engaged to perform
at the Delassements-Comiques in 1863, that she oc-
cupied an expensive apartment in the Rue Ponthieu,
and lived there in high style until November in
the year above mentioned, when she captivated a
Wallachian boyard, and left Paris in his company
without paying any of the tradesmen who had given
her credit. The latter accordingly lodged a com-
plaint with the police against her and two of her
servants, one of whom was Apollonie Fort, charging
them with swindling, by obtaining goods under false
pretences. The accused was tried by default in
Feb., 1864, when Mlle. Besnier was condemned to
18 months' imprisonment and Apollonie to 12 months'
as her accomplice. The latter now opposed this
judgment, and as the evidence against her proved
that her participation in her mistress's frauds was
less than had been supposed, the tribunal reduced
her punishment to three months' imprisonment.
A melancholy occurrence has just taken place at
Bourtkie (Aveyron). AM. Breil was out shooting
when he mistook a young man who was sitting be-
hind a hedge for a badger and shot him dead.
M. Paul Vinel, banker of Sables-d'Olonne
(Vendee), has committed suicide. The motives are
unknown.

The Patrie describes some recent improvements
in artillery :—" It is now admitted (it says) that
the progress made in artillery during the last ten
years originated in France. After the Emperor's
new howitzer, came rifled ordnance, which is also
due to his Majesty's persevering efforts. This great
invention was promptly adopted by all Europe.
England was one of the first Powers to give a
favourable reception to rifled cannon ; but, as with
ironclad vessels, a great diversity of system soon
arose. The English Government, in the presence
of conflicting opinions, made numerous experiments,
and some years ago appointed a committee to exa-
mine and test all the different modes of rifling em-
ployed for heavy ordnance. This commission, after
carefully studying the new cannons invented in
England, acknowledged that the French gun had a
deservedly high repute throughout the world, and
expressed the wish to examine and test that also.
The English Government acceded to the demand,
and a cannon rifled on tha French system was made
and tried. The members of the commission, having
to limit their experiments to the mode of rifling,
fixed uniform conditions for the weight and form of
the projectiles, and also for the charge of powder.
The guns submitted to experiment were all muzzle-
loaders. The labours of the commission have ex-
tendedover three years, and the result is embodied
in a very voluminous and most interesting report,
which has just been submitted to the Secretary for
War, and which states that the cannon rifled after
the French system is in every respect superior to the
others. We are happy to record this signal testi-
mony to its excellence. The report in question,
drawn up with great care and impartiality, accom:
panied by all the tabular statements of the firing, is
to be laid before Parliament."

The improvement which we noticed yesterday in
the health of M. de Gr ammont-Caderousse, and
which had given his friends a hope of his ultimate
recovery, was but transient. The young duke ex-
pired yesterday morning.
The Courrier du Gard says that three persons had
been attacked by cholera at St. Giles (Gard), but
that sanitary measures had been taken, and there
were great hopes that the malady would not
spread.

BOURSE, Sept. 26.—Two o'clock.—Very little
business has been done since the opening. Threes,
for the Account, have declined 10e., their present
quotation being 68f. 30c. Credit Mobilier Shares
are at 827 f. 50c. The Stock of the Italian Loan
continues weak at 65f. 65c., showing a decline of
20c. Comptoir d'Escompte Shares have declined
7f. 50c., viz., to 992 f. 50c. There is a demand for
Mexican at 521., and the New City Bonds at 471 f.
25c. Three o'Clock.—The market closed at the
following quotations :

4 per Cents 96 25
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 6B 321
Do. end month 6B 32*
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3595
Credit Foneier —
Italian Loan 65 55
Do. end month 65 70
RAIL'

Ditto Threes —
Roman 75
Mexican Loan 52
Do. Bonds 338 75
Russian -
Austrian
Spanish Threes 44 25
Home Debt —
Deferred

iYAYS.
Cash. Acct.
... ... 845
—.— ... 1087 50
... 872 50
... 563 75
... 547 50
... 533 75
... 245 -
- ... 410 -
- ... 456 25
... 212 50
312 50

Orleans
Northern •
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
Western •
Eastern
Sardinian ...
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
AQUAII

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