The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-05 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, DEC. 4.—The market, without show-
ing much animation as regards the amount of busi-
ness done, has been firm, and the closing price of
the previous day well maintained, Threes, for the
Account, being now at 70f. 65c. Mobilier have
been done at 1,125 f. Little doing in Railway
Shares, and consequently but slight variation in
prices. More doing in foreign than in French lines.
The market closed as follows :

4t per Cents. .. 97 85 Bank Shares 3400
Do. end month.... Credit Fonder 1345
3 per Cents
Do. end month 7O 55 Italian Loan 7l 10
New 3 per Cents .. Russian
td

Do. end month.... Austrian
Credit Mobilier..., 1110 Spitniph Threes —
Do. end month...llllo -- Home Debt
ILA IL

rAYS.

Orleans

_
Northern ....
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1151 25 .. 1152 50
Geneva
Southern

Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lon.bard

North of Spain - .. 522 60
Saragossa 650 .. 650
Ditto to Barcelona

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, DEC. 2.

The Emperor of Russia is likely to pass the
remainder of this 'month in Moscow, where extra-
ordinarypreparations have been made for preventing
excesses or disturbances. A few days ago a squad-
ron of Lancers of the Guard, which is stationed in
St. Petersburg, mutinied. All the privates and
non commisssoned officers are now in chains
and in prison, and they will soon be brought
before a court-martial, which is to be formed of
members of the Staff of the Imperial Guard.
vi-ttuy (lc Ine u.nnes •=-
protested against the immoderate levy of recruits
in the kingdom. Between the years 1831 and
1856, 11,000 men were raised in the circle of
Pioszkow, and of that number no more than 400
have ever returned. Things are going on badly
in the Danubian Principalities, and it is here be-
lieved that Prince Uouza will soon get into
serious difficulties. There is a deficit of 16,000,000
piastres, although the revenue is near.y four times
as large as it was a few years ago, and the people,
therefore, justly complain of the unthriftiness of
their rulers. In a few days Prince Yypsilanti and
his young wife—nee Sin—will leave this city for
Athens.

The Modenese Brigade, of which it has recently
so often been the question, is now composed of
3,300 men. During two whole years this brigade
has been living at the expense of the subjects of
his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, and it is not
yet known when it will be sent out of the country.
When they are on their way back to Berlin the
Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia will pass a
fortnight in this city.

AMERICA.

LONDONDERRY, DEC. 4.

The Canadian screw steamer Nova Scotitm, Capt.
Ballantine, from Quebec on the 22d ult., has arrived
here. Her political news has been anticipated.

Tons. Guns.
Carondelet .. 512 .. 13*
Cincinnati .. „.. 512 .. 13*
Cairo .. 512 .. 13*
Cash. Account. Baron de Kalb .. .. 512 .. 13*
1055 .. 1055
Benton .. • - ;. 1,000 .. 16*

Essex .. 1,000 7*
Pittsburg 512 13*
Mound City .. - 612 .. 13*
Lexington .. 500 .. 7*
Louisville .. 468 .. 13*

EARL ELM ELL.—The noble Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs has been confined to Pembroke Lcdge,
Richmond-park, during the week, by a severo cold. It was
in consequence of indisposition that his lordship was absent
from the Cabinet Council on Tuesday last.

MORE GAROTTlNG.—Yesterday morning, between
12 and 1 o'clock, Mr. George Leader, a theatrical employes
was going to his residence at Paddington, when, in passing
through a narrow thoroughfare called Manor-lane, he was
accosted by a woman, who importuned him for drink. Mr.
Leader passed on, the woman following up behind, when,
on reaching the end of the lane, he was suddenly confronted
by a man wearing a white smock• frock. He was at the
same time seized round the throat from behind and thrown
to the ground, the woman kneeling upon his throat, while
the man rifled his pockets. They then gave hurt a blow on
the head which stunned him. On recovering he managed
to get to the police-station, and several officers went in pur-
suit of his assailants. It was near the same spot that Mr.
Shalders, the comedian, was garotted, dying subsequently
from the effects. Yesterday morning Michael Garretty,
residing in Webber-street; Lambeth, expired, from the effect
him by garotters in the St.
George's-road, Southwark, on Saturday night. A young
woman, named Jane Stokes, living in Belvedere-road, has,
it is said, just expired from injuries sustained in passing
through Stamford-street.
THE INSECURE STATE OF THE METROPOLIS.—At
a meeting of the vestry of St. George's, Hanover••aquare,
yesterday, the vestry clerk read the memorial adopted by
the vestry of Paddington, calling the attention of the Home
Secretary to the alarming increase of garotting in the me-
tropolis, asking the sanction of that vestry to the memorial.
The general opinion of the meeting. seemed to be that the
memorial was not strong enough, and that the ticket of
leave system was not sufficiently condemned. It was re-
solved to agreed to the Paddington memorial, and to draw
up a second memorial to the Home Secretary, praying that
convicts under sentence should be no longer pampered with
such liberal diets, and in all other respects treated better
than paupers, that the ticket of leave system should be abo •
lished, and the sentences should be fully carried out.
THREE PERSONS DROWNED. A lamentable
accident occurred in the neighbourhood of Auchinleck on
the afternoon of Sunday last. It appears that a young man
named John Williamson, a miner, from Govan, and Mar-
garet Diniffie, housekeeper to the Rev. Mr. Wallace, Ca-
tholic priest at Old Cumnock, were at tea at her uncle's
house at Commondyke. They left this house about half-
past six o'clock, accompanied by Jean Diniffie, Margaret's
cousin, and some others, for the purpose of calling at a
sister's house, within a distance of 100 yards. Between the
two houses there was an old quarry, and, as it was covered
Kith ice, they ventured on it to slide across, when, melan-
choly to relate, they all, to the number of five, fell in, and
only two got out alive. The unfortunate sufferers were
John Williamson and the two cousins, Margaret and Jean
Diniffie. Upwards of an hour elapsed ere the bodies were
recovered. 'Williamson and Margaret Diniffie were betrothed
and were to have been married at the newyear. This melan-
choly event has caused a great sensation in the usually quiet
neighbourhood.

OVER FORTY FIVE.—The other day a rough-
looking customer appeared before one of the Military Com-
missioners and said, Mr. Commissioner, I am over 45.
How old are you ?—I don't know how old 1 am, but I am
over 45. In what year did you make your first appearance
in this mundane sphere ?—I don't know what you mean,
but lam over 45. When were you born ?—I don't know
but lam over 45. How am Ito know you are over age ?
I don't know and I don't care, but lam over 45. When
were you 45 ?—I don't know, but I know I am over 45.
You must give some proof that you are over age.—l have
been in this country 33 years ; lam over 45. That does
not prove you are too old to be draughted.—l don't care; I
know lam over 45. I shall not erase your name until you
prove your age.—l tell you I have been in this country 33
years, and I went a sparking before I came here ; I am over
45. Will you swear to it ?—Yes, I'm over 45 ; —if
ain't over 45. Woll, I will exempt you.—l don't care
whether you do or not ; I am a foreigner—besides I have a
wooden leg ; and he went stumping into the street, swear-
ing oaths not called for by the Commissioner.--New York
Tribune.

NATIONALS SONG.--The spirit of the world was
young when music was made the handmaid of religion ; and
it still affords a glimpse of that antiquity to know that deeds
of heroism and valour were sanctified in song, and that,
music completed the glory of the inauguration and the fes-
tival. Whether at the Olympic, Pythian, Nemean, and
Isthmian games, or at the victories of Romulus, 750 years
before Christ, when the army, horse and foot, followed the
robbed of thetehlsdpatirtfihitrasottf
chariot of the conqueror, hymning their gods in songs of
their country ; or whether at the marriage feast or the fune-
ral prayer, the charm of music still predominates,---inter•
weaves itself with the fate and circumstances of man, and
creeps into his heart like a sunbird seeking for a home. It
is this power which rouses a rude peasantry from the leth-
argy of serfdom to repossess themselves of liberties long lost,
under the impulse of their national melodies. The effect
produced on the Swiss soldiers, when ire the service of the
French, by an ancient air of the " Ranz des Vaches," was
so powerful that it was forbidden to be played, so forcibly
did it remind the men of the mountainous homes which
they had left, and of the hearts which were beating and
weeping for them. National song, of all other, holds a
powerful sway over the minds of those in whom it awakens
thoughts of fatherland and freedom. What would be the
poetry of any nation, or any age, if
its song ? What would be left of the Scottish character if
the ballads of the Caledonian bards were swept away ? if the
the fingersbattlefi
Lonsnetacimnse
swept them ? The song that cheered the shepherd boy
harps of the minstrels perished with the
of his native
whil ) tending his sheep, comes back to him in the hour of
on and danger ; and even upon
oppressi
P woods
sand moorst
haensdt :
and the
ra;rthcoaliwsiuld
breezy freshness of the heather fans his cheek Isack,
'
again as he
marches with a firm step and a nervous arm to win his
liberty or die. It is said thq he who
\N rites the songs of a
nation may at the same time predict ' its
er history, for patriot-
ism has ever burned the bright
flame, and the human breast when music fanned the
devotion when the soul of s has ever throbbed with a holier
stripga,.....zoaro,6
~ _ song was stirring in the heart
*liirginNO and Bay Leaves."

Lig _ERATTIRE.

MR. AINSWORTH'S NEW STORY.

The following brilliant portraitures are taken
from the first instalment of the new historical
Romance just commenced by Mr. Ainsworth in the
December number of Bentley's Miscellany. " Car-.
dinal Pole"—is the title of it—" or the DiAys at
Philip and Mary." Here is the nolelitA's skctcy
of the HCro of the harrative—