The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-06 00:00:00

FRANCE,

BOURSE, Feb. 4.—The market has been more
animated to-day, and prices seem inclined to im-
prove. Threes, for the Account, opened at 67f.
171 c., and are now at 67f. 20c. Mobilier have
been in demand and show rather higher quotations.
The Railway Share Market is firm. The Market
closed as follows :

4 per Cents 95
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 67 10
Do. end month 67 25
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Dank Shares 3540
Credit Foneier 1275
Roman —

Italian Loan 65 25
Do. end month 65 50
Ditto Threes —
.NewDiexican

Russian 9-
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Acct.
Orleans
Northern lOlO ... 1015
Lyons and Mediterranean.:.: 945 ... 950
Southern 5BO ... 580
Western 540 ... 540
Eastern
Sardinian 306 25 306 25
Austrian
Lombard 553 75 555

North of Spain 342 50 ... 342 50
Saragossa 405 ~. 402 50
Ditto to Barcelona 177 50 ...

THE AMERICANIVAn.—On the whole the situation
of the Confederates has become rapidly worse within
the last three months. The appointment of Gen. Joseph
Johnston to the command of Hood's army can scarce re-
store the Confederates what they have lost in the west, and
it is, if actual, a confession of error on the part of Presi-
dent Davis, which shows the strength of the opposition to
his rule evoked by the recent misfortunes of the South.
Lee cannot be everywhere, and cannot do everything.
If the Northern papers can be trusted, the Confederates
have at last abandoned pride and principle so far
as to arm a portion of their negroes ; and 200,000 of
those sable auxiliaries are said to be undergoing instruc-
tion just at the very moment that the North begins to ex-
perience the utmost difficulty in obtaining recruits. Up in
the clouds, over all the tumult of marching, the clang of
arms, and the din of battles, are heard seraphic voices, sing-
ing of peace and goodwill ; and gold goes up and down like
mercury in a barometer as the news of missions and their
failures agitate the stock exchanges of the North. Presi-
dent Davis cannot consent to reunion ; President Lincoln
cannot offer him any other condition ; but a truce may be
patched up on the base of common aggression against sup-
posed foreign enemies, with the understanding that the
great domestic difference may be left for final adjustment
to a victorious future.—Army and Navy Gazette.

EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY IN PARIS.—An ex-
traordinary robbery was committed at one of the
last performances of "Linda di Chamouni" at the Italian
Opera, Paris. The Empress was present on the night in
question. A box within three or four of the one occupied
by the Empress attracted the attention of the house, from
the peculiar magnificence of the costume worn by a foreign
lady, who, accompanied by her husband, had entered
it at the commencement of the first act. The lady's
dress bespoke an Eastern origin, but the peculiar form
and exquisite workmanship of her diamond earrings
excited great admiration. Her husband quitted her for
a few moments between one of the acts. A low
knock at the door of the box attracted the lady's
notice; a most gentleman-like person presented himself,
bearing a message from her Majesty, expressive of
her groat admiration of the ear-rings worn by the
lady, and hor extreme curiosity to be allowed to
look at one for a few seconds. The lady somewhat
astonished complied instantly with the soi-disant equerry's
request, and a few seconds afterwards, on her husband's
return, related the circumstances. To him the story
seemed improbable, and on inquiry from one of her
Majesty's suite he ascertained it to be the device of a
robber ; but too late. The next morning the husband
started early to give all the details to the Prefect of Police,
when about half an hour after he had left his hotel, a person
from the Prefecture asked to see the lady, and producing a
letter from M. le Prefet, explaining the necessity of at once
depositing the remaining ear-ring in the hands of the
police, in order to facilitate the search for the one abstracted
•n the previous night. The lady acceded to the demand
of the detective with less hesitation than to the polito
equerry, and Cartouche's rival possessed a pair of rare
diamond pendeloqua instead of one. A closely fitting dark
dress, tightly buttoned to the throat and a huge beard hav-
ing transformed the quondam equerry, got up in an even-
ing dress of faultless perfection, into an active police agent.
NEWSPAPER STATISTICS.—From the "Newspaper
Press Directory" for 1865 we extract the following
on the present position of the Newspaper Press :—" There
aro now published in the United Kingdom 1,271 news-
papers, distributed as follows :—England, 944 ; Wales, 41;
Scotland, 140; Ireland, 132; British Isles, 14. Of these.there
are-48 daily papers published in England, lin Wales, 11
in Scotland, 12 in Ireland, and 1 in the British Isles. On re-
ference to the edition of this useful Directory for 1856, we find
the following interesting facts, viz., that in that year there
wero published in the United Kingdom 799 journals. Of
these 37 were issued daily, viz., 15 in London, 10 in the
provinces, 7 in Scotland, and 5 in Ireland; but in 1865
there are now established and circulated 1,271 papers,
of which no less than 73 are issued daily, showing that the
press of the country has largely extended in the interval,
and the daily issues 73 against 37 in 1856. The magazines
now in course of publication, including the quarterly
reviews, number 554 ; of these 208 are of a decidedly reli-
gious character, and by which the Church of England,
Wesleyans, Methodists, Baptists, Independents, and other
Christian communities are duly represented.
INTELLIGIBLE, AND, WE PRESUME, CHARAC-
TERISTIC.—The following advertisement is from
a Wilmington paper :—" I want it distinctly under-
stood that no goods will be delivered by me without the
money, It is useless to ask credit, for I'll be —if I give
it. MCoumicii."

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAYS-INN-ROAD.--The
number of patients relieved at this hospital during the
week ending Vet.. 4 was 3,238, of which 1,039 were new
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