The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-31 00:00:00

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connected with the St. Giles Workhouse." This
is one of the strongest censures that has been given
for some time, and doubtless the effect of it will be
to enforce more attention on the part of workhouse
officials generally. The jury also appended to their
verdict a resolution which very properly complained
of many union matters relating to the management
of the sick at St. Giles's. The state of the ward in
which the deceased was confined was very faulty ;
it is deficient in lighting, ventilation,• and proper
accommodation, and the jury record their opinion
of its demerits when they say that it ought to be
closed. The dietary is also not of a proper cha-
racter, and the patients are allowed to go without
food from four o'clock in the afternoon until
eight o'clock the next morning. It sounds to
sense that this is a barbarous custom, and
doubtless many weak patients sink from exhaustion
during the lapse of these sixteen hours. The ques-
tion of paid nurses is again alluded to by the jury,
and it is to be hoped that this oft-reiterated com-
plaint of pauper nurses will at last take effect, and
be

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA,

Last evening Verdi's Il Trovatore was given quite
as successfully as it was given (and almost with the
same identical cast) last season, when we took oc-
casion to comment at considerable length upon the
performance. Anything like an elaborate criticism
upon the performance here, therefore, is purposely
abstained from, amounting, as that would necessarily
do, to a mere repetition. Herr Wachtel again
astonished his hearers with that wondrous
C above the line—ringing like a silver clarion
through the Di quella pira. An encore was
won by this rarely-gifted tenor in the dungeon
song, Ah the la morte : the like honour being, as a
matter of course, accorded to the delicious It Balen,
surely the loveliest air ever awarded by preference
to the barytone ! Signor Graziani last night was,
as hitherto, the baritone, Madlle Fricci being the
soprano, Signor Tagliafico resuming"the part of Fer-
rando. There was one notable de'burctante, moreover
seeing that the Siebel in " Faust" of Tuesday night
was last evening the Azucena in "11 Trovatore."
Madlle. Honore's success in Siebel can hardly be
said to have been renewed by her impersonation and
rendering of Azucena. To-morrow evening Ros-
sini's immortal " Guiglielmo Tell" is set down as
the attraction.

received with the attention it merits. One thing
is certain, that until due heed is paid to this subject
the poor will not find their condition ameliorated.
It is satisfactory to notice that the jury begged to
express their thanks to Sir THOMAS HENRY, the
chief magistrate at Bow-street, "for the prompt at-
tion he paid to the information he received of
RICHARD GIBSON'S illness, without which the pre-
sent inquiry would not have been held." This is
true, and the worthy magistrate is entitled to the
acknowledgments of all those who take any interest
in the welfare of the hosts of the distressed who
crowd our unions, and undergo such dreadful misery
in their sad experience of the charity of Poor Law
officials of all kinds.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE, of the preceding year, when the profits rose to 19
• millions, the shares have considerably declined.
(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) Railway Shares are inactive, and prices have not
undergone much change. The market improved
towards the close, and prices were firm. The fol-
lowing are the last quotas
4} per Cents 96 80
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 67 55
Do. end month 67 35
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3520
Credit Foncier 1290
Roman —

TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, March 22.

lions :

According to the Levant Herald of to-day, Mr.
Laing's project has been the subject of several
further Ministerial meetings during the week, the
result of which has been some slight additional mo-
dification of its details. There made, we believe it
may now be safely stated that the scheme has passed
through its final stage of negotiation, and awaits
little more than the formal sanction of the Sultan to
place all doubt as to its acceptance at the end.
There is to be a sinking-fund of 1 per cent. This
concession—which, of course, reduces by one-half
the " economy at first promised by the authors of
the project—has been made in deference to a fear,
as to the difficulty of carrying out the operation on
terms so unfavourable for holders of the to-be-con-
verted stock as those originally proposed. The
" gain" to the Porte is thus narrowed to about
£240,000 a year, against which is to be placed the
obligation of absolute punctuality in payment of
the new dividends, the greater part of which will
also be drained out of the country into the pockets
of foreign holders.
On the other hand, the public debt of the coun-
try will certainly be regularised, and the Porte will
obtain—strongest present argument of all—an ac-
commodation of £5,000,000, to be raised by the
issue of new 5 per cent. stock to that amount,
beyond the total required for the conversion of the
existing home debt. It is evident, therefore, that
when the time comes for a careful criticism of this
new reissue there will be much to be said both for
and against it.

Italian Loan 65 10
Do. end month 65 20
Ditto Threes —
New Mexican
Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt

Deferred
-
STAYS.

RAIL'

Cash. Acct.
Orleans
Northern 1043 75 1042 50
Lyons and Mediterranean. 975 ... 972 50
Southern 587 50 ... 587 50
Western 552 50 ... 555
Eastern
Sardinian 302 50 302 50
Austrian — ... 435
Lombard 540 ... 541 25
North of Spain 3Ol 25 ... 298 75
Saragossa 377 50 ... 377 50
Ditto to Barcelona l6O

THE BOMBAY MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 31.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Pera, Captain Jamieson, with the heavy Bombay
mails, has arrived. She brings 147 passengers, 22
packages of specie value £36,473, also 17 packages
of valuables, and a general cargo, including 941
bales of cotton and 385 bales of raw silk.
From St. Vincent to Finisterre the Pera experi-
enced strong N.E. gales and heavy head sea; across
the Bay and up the Channel fine weather.
Her Majesty's ships Procris and Racoon were at
Gibraltar ; at Malta, the Victoria, Revenge, Phoebe,
Royal Oak, Resistance, Enterprise, Magicienne,
and Firefly. The Gibraltar and Cossack sailed
from Malta on the 20th for Athens; the Caradoc
and French frigate Perdrise were at Alexandria.

GIBRALTAR, March 25.

The Austrian frigate Dandolo saluted the garri-
son with 21 guns, and the Austrian Consul with 9
guns. The compliment was returned from the
saluting battery.
Exchanges during the week have been quoted :
On London, 90 days' date, 49i ; Paris, sf. 24c. to
25c. ; Marseilles, 8 days' sight, sf. 17c. ; Genoa,
sf. 26c. ; Madrid, 8 days' sight, 11 to dis. ; Cadiz,
31 to dis. ; and Malaga, Ito 1 dis.
The following British vessels have arrived here
since the 18th inst. :—Steamer Cadiz, 8 days from
London ; steamer Ceylon, 41 days from South-
ampton ; steamer Meander, 8 days from Liverpool ;
steamer Tarifa, 7 days from Liverpool ; schooner
Flying Fish, 14 days from Cardiff ; schooner Excel,
12 days from Milford ; brigantine Gwain Maid, 10
days from Milford; steamer Wyvern, 7 days from
Cardiff ; bark Paragon, 12 days from Cardiff ; brig
Atkinson, 23 days from Newcastle ; cutter Pride,
27 days from Liverpool ; bark Highland Brigade,
16 days from Newport ; brig Seaton, 12 days from
Cardiff ; and schooner Dreadnought, 9 days from
Liverpool. _ _ _

In the meantime, we may add that, for every 100
of the existing consolides of all four issues, it is pro-
posed to give 120 of the new stock ; for every 100
mumbazes, 143 of the new ; and for every 100 of
the various derghis, 100. Holders who shall not
exchange their present bonds within four months
will receive 10 per cent. less than their rates. Of
the 30,000,000 liras, as stated in our last, required
to carry out the conversion, £4,000,000 will be
offered in Europe at once, and £7,000,000 hereafter
in amounts spreading over the two years—the
balance being kept for issue in Turkey. The new
bonds will be £lOO each, and the interest will be
payable half-yearly in Constantinople, London,
Paris, and Frankfort or Amsterdam.
The Gibralter Chronicle says:—" The last ac-
counts from Melilla describe some difficulties
between the Spanish garrison and the Moors. The
Moorish Bashaw in the vicinity of the fortress had
prohibited the Moors of the interior from entering
Melilla, and had posted men at the different ap-
proaches to the garrison for the purpose of carrying
out his orders. The Spanish commander at Melilla
had, in retaliation, warned off all the Moorish fish-
ing-boats from the shore in the neighbourhood of
Melilla, and expelled the Moorish cattle from the
pastures of the Spanish territory adjoining the for-
tress. He also appears to have made a sortie upon
the Moorish territory for the purpose of cutting
down some trees and prickly pear plantations, and
destroying some fences. The Moors, irritated by
these acts, would, it was thought, retaliate by
attacking the Spanish patrolling parties, which had
consequently been reinforced.
It seems probable that the cause of the restrictions
placed by the Moorish Bashaw on the intercourse
between Melilla and the interior is to protect the
Sultan's revenue. The people of Riff, no doubt,
are free-traders in the widest meaning of the term,
and would altogether object to such an institution
as a Custom-house. The Sultan, on the other
hand, who has had some experience of the hand-
some revenue to be derived from duties on imports
and exports, would strongly object to unrestricted
trade between Melilla and his subjects of Riff, and
hence probably originated the order preventing their
visits to the Spanish fortress.
We observe by a Cadiz paper that the Queen of
Spain is about to make a present to the Sultan of
Morocco of a battery of four rifled cannon, with
their ammunition and field equipment. The guns
were cast at the Savilte foundry. They are to be
conveyed to Tangier by a vessel of war, and will
proceed thence to Mequinez in charge of a Spanish
captain and a lieutenant of artillery, who are com-
missioned to deliver them to the Sultan.