The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-07 00:00:00

THE Mil% LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1865.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 7.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Syria, Captain Parish, with the heavy portion of
the above mails, arrived here this morning. She
brings 60 passengers, £1,438 in specie, and a general
cargo, including 1,218 bales of silk, to the value of
£99,000.

Throughout the voyage the Syria experienced
Lead winds and a heavy sea.

The British war vessels Racoon, Liffey, and
Procris, and the Italian frigate Principe Umberto,
were at Gibraltar. ILILS. Victoria was cruising off
St. Elmo.

Tranquillity had been restored among the railway
labourers at Reinosa, but 40 men who refused
to work, notwithstanding the offers of payment, are
to be expelled the country ; and two companies of
the military are to remain at Reinosa until they
have left the province.
Gibraltar exchange, 90 days, 49 11-16ths ; Mar-
seilles, eight days, sfr. 14c. ; Madrid, 11 dis. ;
premium on sfr. pieces, 11 per cent. ; freights un-
changed.

FRANCE.
PARIS, MARCH 7.
M. de Montholon has been appointed French

ambassador at Washington.

M. Dano has been appointed French Minister in

Mexico.

A short notice, published in the Moniteur of this
morning, directs attention to the principal points of
the bill for primary education, which was sent to

,he Council of State after the discussion of the im

portant questions raised by the report of M. Duruy.

In conclusion, the article says that the bill does not
rest on the basis set forth by the Minister of Public

Instruction.

It was necessary that the report should be pub-
lished as the expression of a personal opinion, and
on account of the importance of the information
which it contains.

The Civil Tribunal has just tried an action
brought against MM. Brandus and Dufour, M.
Charton, lithographic printer, and M. Martinel,

music-seller, by M. Bentayoud, composer and pro-
prietor of a patent for the reproduction of music,
reduced by the photographic process, in the form of

cartes de visite, with the notes on one side and the
composer's portrait on the other. M. Bentayoud's
counsel stated that his client obtained a patent for
his process in 1863, and had already published
several pieces of music with portraits, when the de-
fendants brought out some of Meyerbeer's composi-

tions in precisely the same style, and thus infringed
his patent, for which he sought compensation. The
defendants' counsel maintained, on the contrary, that
the process in question could not be made the object
of a patent, and moreover that it was known and
had been practised at least two years before the
plaintiff's patent was obtained. These facts having
been proved to the satisfaction of the Tribunal, it

rejected the plaintiff's demand, and condemned him
to pay 300 fr. damages to MI. Brandus and Dufour,
and 100 fr. to each of the other defendants.

The Correctional Tribunal tried, the day before
yesterday, a gardener and his wife named Levas-
seur, charged with having cruelly illtreated a little
girl eight years old, the daughter of the husband
by his first wife. It appeared from the evidence of
numerous witnesses adduced that from the time. of
Levasseur's second marriage, two years since, the
poor child had been cruelly beaten almost every
day, and half-starved besides. In January last the
police were informed by some of the prisoners' neigh-
bours that nothing had been seen of the child for
about three weeks. A commissary of police accordingly
went to the prisoners' lodgings, and found the child
shut up in a dark closet, in a shocking state of filth,
with scarcely any clothing, her body ,covered all over
with scars and bruises, and in a state of extreme
emaciation. The father and stepmother, who them-
selves were well clothed and fed, were immediately,
arrested, and the poor child was sent to the hospital
for sick children, but there is too much reason to
think that she will not recover from the consequences
of the ill-treatment she had endured. The two pri-
soners pretended that the girl was very mischievous,
and that it was necessary to punish her. The Court,
however, thinking that no misconduct of a child
could justify such cruelty, declared the charge
proved against both prisoners, and condemned the
father to 15 months' imprisonment, the stepmother
to the same punishment for a year, and each to pay
a fine of 16f.
The Courrier du Bas-Rhin announces the death
at Langenthal, canton of Berne, of Joseph Jost,
aged 84, formerly a drummer in a Swiss regiment
under Louis XVI. In 1792, when the Palace of
the Tuileries was taken by the people, the little
drummer, then 12 years old, was amongst the few
Swiss soldiers who escaped the massacre.
4, There appears to be some truth," says a Paris
correspondent of the Inde'pendance Beige, " in the
report of the discovery of a manuscript of Louis
XIV., the subject of which La Vie de Cesar,'
only there is some difference of opinion as to the
details. One version of the story goes that five
chapters written by that monarch have been found
among a collection of autograph letters of Mme. de
Maintenon, entitled Lettres aux Princes.' A work
is now spoken of as having been found in the
Bibliotheque Imperiale—uamely, a translation of
Suetonius,' by Louis XIV., and which must have
gone through the press. It may be added that one
of my colleagues speaks of the discovery at the office
of the Minister of War of an edition of the Com-
mentaries of Cpcsar, in the same reign, of which
only ten copies had been struck off."
BOURSE, March 6.—The market is active, and
prices have slightly advanced. Threes, for the
Account, are now at 67fr. 80c. Mobilier variable,
and have been done at 880 f. Railway Shares are
quiet, without any material change. The following
are the last quotations :-
4i per Cents 96 75
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 67 80
Do. end month —
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3510
Crsdit Foncier 1270
Roman —

Italian Loan 65 10
Do. end month —
Ditto Threes —
New Mexican
Russian 9O -
Austrian
Spanish Threes -
Home Debt -
Deferred -
raYs.
Cash.
Orleans
Northern lOl5
Lyons and Mediterranean 947 50 ...
Southern 575
Western 542 50 ...
Eastern
Sardinian 305
Austrian
Lombard 546 25 ...
North of Spain 305

RAIL'

Acct.

375 - •••

Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona —.- •••

A private letter from Paris states that at a masked
ball the other night, three men personating Julius
Ca3sar, Charlemagne, and Napoleon I. respectively, were
walking arm in arm amidst roars of laughter. Omar was
dressed like an ancient Roman Exquisite, and scratched
his head with his fingers. When the crowd interrupted
their movements the great Roman rebuked them with
humorous gravity by saying, ,c Happy the people who
understand and obey us ; woe to those who disregard and

oppose us."
FIVE COAST-GUARDSMEN DROWNED.—On Satur-
day afternoon the coast-guardsmen belonging to
the Warborrow station, about 13 miles west of St. Alban's
Head, were returning in their galley with a cargo of stores
from Weymouth, when the vessel was struck by a heavy
sea at Lulworth, and went down at once. Theonecurrence
had been witnessed from Lulworth, and a boat was imme-
diately sent off, but on arriving at the spot only a few
light articles forming part of the stores were picked up,
The wind and sea were so unfavourable at the time that
the Lulworth boat could not effect a re-landing at the
point of its departure, and was obliged to be taken to
Mupes. The names of the unfortunate men who perished
are Baker, Hickey, Chope, Dumas, and Parnell, and all of
them, with the exception of the last-named, had seen years
of service in the coast-guard. Several children are left for
the moment unproyided for by the sad cccurrexice.