The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-04 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

PRUSSIA.

BADEN, SEPT. 4.

The King of Prussia will leave on the Gth instant
for Darmstadt, where he will have an interview on
the same day with her Majesty Queen Victoria,
who is expected to arrive in that city on the pre-
vious day.

FRANCE.

PARIS, SEPT. 4

An Imperial decree has been issued annulling the
resolutions adopted by the Council-General of the
Seine and Marne, as having exceeded the limit of

Leir powers.

The resolutions in question expressed the wish
kat the law should afford to the Councils-General
le power of deciding contested departmental elec-

tions, and suggested to the Government whether it
would not be advisable to give the Councils-General
the right of nominating their presidents, vice-presi-
dents, and secretaries.
A despatch received here from Rome announces
the death, of Joseph Bonarparte, Prince of Musig-

nano.

The express train from Paris to Bordeaux on
Saturday evening ran off the rail near Angouleme.
No serious accident resulted.
BOURSE, Sept 2.—Two o'clock.—The settlement
of railway companies, foreign funds, and of various
stocks is taking place to-day. There itq no remune-,-
ration for capital employed in carrying over ; there
is little or,no• report, which generally-is replaced by
more or less de'port. Prices are again much higher
than yesterthy, but the fluctuations are great and
sudden ; they vary with different conditions ob-
tained for the carrying over. These conditions have
varied from par to 2f. deport on Mobiliers Shares,
from 3fr. to 2fr. 50e. deport on North of Spain
Shares ; whereas on Spanish Mobilier there is 2fr.
50c. report, lir. 25c. to Ifr. 50c. on Lombard Shares,
and 22c. Italian Fives. Threes, after reaching 69fr.
45c., are now 69fr. 35c. for Account, with a further
advanced of 20c. Credit Mobilier, 8351 r. The
tours de compensation is fixed as follows :—ltalian
Fives, 66fr. 10c. ; Mexican, 50fr. ; Bank of France,
3,580 ; Credit Foncier, 1,350 fr. ; Credit Mobilier,
835 fr. ; Spanish Mobilier, 522 fr. 50c. ; Lyons,
880 fr. ; Lombard, 472 fr. 50c., &c. The telegram
from London gives I per cent. rise on Consols.
Three o'clock.—The settlement over, numerous
sales affected the market and caused a heavy decline
on the highest prices. The closing quotations are
as follows :

4 per Cents 99
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 69 20
Do. end month 69 20
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3570
Credit Foncier 1340
Italian Loan 66 10
Do. end month 66 50
TRAIL N

Ditto Threes —
Mexican Loan 49 50
Do. Bonds —
Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Homo Debt —
Deferred
Roman —

Acct.

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian .
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

- 855 -
- 1090 -

- - ... 878 75
- - ... 570 -

550 -

532 50

... 255 -
-
- 415 -

470 -
- 225 -

- ... 330

225

The ~ Social Evil."

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A Parson versus the " Social Evil" writes thus
to the Reader :--

•
Is anything, he asks, to come of all the late talk
about regulating the " social evil," or is it quite
left to itself now that infanticide has cropped out
as the sensation topic of the recess ? There was I
at Plymouth, a week or two ago, with two lads of
fifteen and sixteen ; and we could not take an even-
ing stroll on the Hove, to enjoy the calm beauty of
the Sound, the soft summer air, the water without.
a ripple, the restless little steamers got quiet at last,
Drake's island sleeping under dark Mount Edg-
combe, and the "leviathans afloat" just within the
faintly-marked line of the breakwater, without,
being pestered by buxom damsels of all ages, and
greeted with idiotic choruses of the " Slap bang"
description.
My boys are as undemonstrative a pair as you
could have found in all the " Three:Towns," no-
thing " loud" about theAt,o,f, airy kind: Perhaps
the eldest may have haa'a cigar in his mouth ;
boys will do it, though they did not in my day ;
but surely that ought not to have subjected us
to a persecution from which not their quiet ways,
nor even my grave face and dress, could save us.
As things are managed all over England, I sup-
pose the Plymouth girls were right in emulating
the activity shown by every other class. But
what I ask is, cannot things be better managed?
Two years ago I was in Paris at the Fete Napo-
leon. Every night a friend and I left the main
strength of our party in the Faubourg St. llonor6,
and walked across to our students' lodging in the
Quartier Latin. Yet we were never once " soli-
cited." Two years earlier, several of us were at
Cherbourg (where we saw them building this
Flandre, by the way) ; we walked out everywhere,
and at all hours, but the never saw anything to
offend the eye or ear of the most prudish. Why,
then, could not my boys and I take a turn on the

Hove without being scandalised by the coarse gam-
bols of Sal and her partner for the evening, and
challenged to do _ likewise by fthe still unattached
members of the roving sisterhood? Many say this law-
lessness in such matters is somethingin the breed. An
Irishman of my acquaintance is always quoting the
Flemish women, brought over in Plantagenet
times, and established under Episcopal patronage
in Southwark—they called them the Bishop of
Winchester's geese—to prove how weak the pure
Teuton has always been in this direction. But
surely his argument cuts the other way. There
are, we know, plenty of " geese in pens " in
every town in France to be had for the seeking.
France differs from us in an enviable absence of
the wandering fowl who go noisily about our
streets, attacking all passers-by. She has kept,
while we have lost, the mediaeval usage, based
on Roman custom. Sureiy it would be better
for the poor geese themselves, infinitely better for
us and our sons, if they were decently housed, in-
stead of being suffered thus to roam on the loose.
I know the whole question of regulation is one of
extreme difficulty ; I do not pretend to enter into
it. I only plead viryinibus ptierisque for our sons
and daughters, who surely cannot see without danger
what they now can scarcely help seeing. At present
the difference between an. English lad who goes
about with his eyes open and a lad bred up a lycje
is just this, that the latter may escape, till man-
hood brings wisdom, the dangerous " knowledge
of good and evil," and all that it leads to ; while
the former cannot. It is almost as if we acted
on the principle, Adeo in teneris adsuescere multuni
est—a very good maxim in its way, but one of which
I, the father of six sons, question the applicability
in the present instance.
I make no apology for writing to you on this
subject. It is false delicacy which keeps men of
my cloth from facing a question which is one of the
'most important social questions of the day. As I
write, the crowd parading under my hotel windows
is behaving in a way which in Paris you could not
match, except in the Jardin, or some such ques-
tionable, or rather unquestionable place.
Fortunately, my boys are asleep. , I leave the
matter in yoUr hands ; and am, Sir, your faithful
servant, the writer signing himself
A SOMERSETSIIIRE RECTOR.

The Btigian journals publish the programme of
the National life-match which is to commence on the 24th
inst., and closes on the 3d October. It will be held as usual
at the National establishment on the. Chauscie de Louvain
at Brussels. There will be 35 targets, and the value of
the prizes (which are to be distributed WI the 22d October)
amounts to about 7e,ooofr.