The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-06 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Sept. s.—The market has maintained
its firmness, notwithstanding the arrival of the Eng-
lish Consols with a decline of Threes, for the
40c. Railway Shares
cet closed as follows :
Bank Shares 3200
Credit Fonder 1245
Piedmontesc Fives 71 60
Italian Loan 7l 50
Roman —
Austrian
Spanish Threes —
Home Debt

Account, are now at 69
quiet, but firm The mar]
4t per Cents .. 98 25
Do. end month....
3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 40
New 3 per Cents
Do. end month....
Credit Mobilier 927 50
Do. end month 935

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans lO5O 1047 50
Northern
New ditto

Lyons and Mediterranean 1145 .. 1150
Geneva 370 370
Southern
Western
Eastern

Sardinian
Austrian
Lon.bard

370 - :. 370 -
482 60 .. 482 50
610 - .. 611 25

CENTRAL AFRlCA.—Undeterred by the fate of
Park, Laing, and other travellers, the renowned lion killer,
M. Jules Gerard, is, we hear, projecting an expedition into
Central Africa. The object of the explorers is to find a
favourable place to establish an independent settlement be-
tween Sierra Leone and the sources of the Niger, for the
purpose of promoting the intercourse and extending the
relations between Europe and Africa. The explorers also
contemplate an attempt to reach Algiers from Timbuctoo.
For this purpose they will start from the African coast at a
point between the Senegal and Sierra Leone in next Octo-
ber, and in the first instance will make for Timbo, and
thence through Sego and Jenneh will push on to Timbuc-
too. The expedition is not yet thoroughly organised, as
M. Jules Gerard wishes to associate with himself as com-
rades an experienced mining engineer and a skilful natu-
ralist, Messrs. Roberts, Lubbock, and co. have been ap-
pointed bankers to the African Exploration, and
to fandwoirll d
a scheme whose objects re-
ceive subscriptions from
aarneyapterosnoones
swchieontfic and phrlan-
thropic.
THEATRICAL MIGRATION. Messrs. Frank
Towers:Pitt, Harmer, and Miss Nelly Wood, of the Royal
Victoria Theatre, will depart in a few days for Australia,
where they have connected themselves with a commercial
speculation for three years.—Era.
THE JURY SYSTEM.—To-morrow and the two
following Sundays the jury lists will bo placed on all
church and chapel doors, with a notification as to when
objections are to be heard. Within the last seven days of
the present month justices are to hold petty sessions, and
to hear claims of exemption. Persons 60 years of age and
upwards can be excused by ascertaining whether their names
are in the lists, and attending the petty sessions to have the
same removed, otherwise they will be liable to serve for the
next 12 months. By the new Jury Act, by which persons
can be summoned by letters prepaid, chemists and manag-
ing clerks to solicitors and proctors are not required to
serve as jurors; and as the lists of the various counties
will now be exhibited, all persons should look to the same,
in order that a correct return may be made to the sheriffs of
the respective counties.

THE CONDEMNED CRIMINALS AT KIRKDALE.—
Wm. Robert Taylor, the Manchester murderer, will be
banged next Saturday, at Kirkdale, near Liverpool. The
execution will take place at 12 o'clock at noon, and with
Taylor will also be hanged—unless a respite is granted
them, and that is improbable—the men Burke and Ward,
who murdered a policeman named Jump at Ashton-under-
Lyne, on the 28th of June last. Since his condemnation
Taylor has not paid very much attention to the chaplain
of the Kirkdale gaol, who has been most earnest in his
endeavours to bring the criminal to view aright the awful
position in which he is placed. For the first few days
after his committal, Taylor busied himself in drawing up a
petition for presentation to the authorities in London, and
has endeavoured on several occasions to get it forwarded
to the metropolis, though each attempt has been un-
successful. As the time for his execution draws near his
sullen and morose manner seems softened, and he is more
attentive to the claims of religion ; yet still there is no
remorse—at least to all appearances ; and no humiliation
exhibited by him, while he manifests no pity for those whom
he has so deeply wronged. His fiendish spirit of revenge
seems to animate him to the last, and we doubt not that
what he said was true, namely, that he would commit the
same act again under similar circumstances. Mr. Wright,
the prison philanthropist, has visited Taylor ; but his mini-
strations to such a man are almost labour in vain. He has
not yet confessed how the children were murdered, and in-
timates that he does not intend to do so. With regard to
Burke and Ward, their conduct is far name becoming their
position. They are extremely penitent, and are making
the most of the time allotted to them in this life to make
their peace with heaven. Burke is a Roman Catholic, and
has been consequently attended by the Rev. Mr. Gibson, a
priest of this religion. A petition is being set on foot to
have the lives of Burke and Ward spared; and at the
Dunkinfield petty session, on Thursday, Mr. Roberts solici-
tor, of Manchester, made an application to the magistrates
to sign the petition, but the magistrates refused to do so.
The wives of Burke and Ward have visited their husbands
(luring the week. The interviews with their wives seemed
greatly to console the prisoners.