The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-27 00:00:00

CENTRAL AMERICA.

NEW YORK, MARCH 16.
Advices received here from Jamaica, dated the
7th inst., state that it is rumoured that the troops
at Spanish Town have been ordered to Honduras,
where difficulties were anticipated, in consequence
of Maximilian's alleged intention to annex Hon-
duras.

Chili and Peru are quiet. Columbia has declared
war against Equador.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MAncII 27.
Letters received here announce that the insurgents
in Upper Egypt have been defeated.
The Monde has received a first warning on ac-
count of the false intelligence it recently published
in reference to the alleged interview between M. de
Sartiges and the Pope. •

BOURSE, March 25.—The market is not so firm as
yesterday. Threes, for the Account, are now at
67f. 32c. Italian Loan 64f. 75c. Mobilier have
been done at 870 f. Railway Shares are somewhat
inactive, but prices are for the most part pretty well
sustained. The market closed as follows :-
4 per Cents 66 50 Italian Loan 64 70
Do. end month — Do. end month 64 75
3 per Cents. 67 35 Ditto Threes —
Do. end month 67 35 New Mexican
Credit Mobilier ... 870 Russian 9O
Do. end month ... 875 Austrian
Bank Shares 3520 Spanish Threes ... 46
Crtdit Foncier 1290 Home Debt —
Roman 74 Deferred

WAYS.

Cash. Acct.
Orleans
Northern 1025 ... 1023 75
Lyons and Mediterranean 977 50 ... 980
Southern 583 75 ... 582 50
Western 545 ... 546 25
Eastern
Sardinian 3OO ... 301 25
Austrian
Lombard 540 ... 540
North of Spain 303 75 ... 303 75
Saragossa 375 ... 375
Ditto to Barcelona — ... —.

SPIRITUAL SEANCES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—lt appears that the controversy between Mr. Cole-
man and Mr. Addison has created quite a furore in spiritual
circles. Mr. Coleman would wish the public to infer that
he believes the Davenport Brothers receive material aid
from the spirits of immortality, and that Mr. Addison must
be in like favour with these ethereal beings, so as to enable
him to do what he has done (for Mr. Coleman agrees that
Mr. Addison has accomplished quite as extraordinary feats
as the Wonderful Brothers). This relationship Mr. Addi-
son strongly denies, and asserts that he receives no material
aid except from his own strong muscles. We perfectly
agree with Mr. Addison, and shall, on Wednesday evening,
the bth of April, give a rope-tying tournament and dark
seance at the Horns Assembly Rooms, Kennington, which
we invite both Mr. Addison and Mr. Coleman to attend,
and shall bo most happy to be tied up by either of these
gentlemen according to the recognised Davenport rules.
We have not the least fear that we shall be able to extri-
cate ourselves, and will show to the public how this mar-
vellous illusion is accomplished, so that,they may in future
judge for themselves who to believe—Mr. Coleman or Mr.
Addison.

We are, sir, your obedient servant;
STACEY AND KELLY.
12, Brook-street, Lambeth, March 27, 1865.

EXECUTION AT LANCASTER.--Stephen Burke,
upon whom sentence of death was passed at the late
Lancashire Assizes for the murder of his wife, at Preston,
on January 30, was hanged at Lancaster Castle, at noon on
Saturday. On Friday he was visited by five of his children
—the sixth, au infant, is at the Preston workhouse—four
of his brother; and a nephew. The interview was of a
most affecting character. Burke traced his crime to
nothing but drink, and, in a letter he has written, he ad-
vises all his relatives never to touch intoxicating liquors

gain.

THE CELEBRATED CHESTNUT-TREE OF THE
TUILERIES that bursts into leaf before its neigh-
bours, and generally enters an appearance by the Ist of
March, is a laggard this year. Crowds stare up at it bald
crown in disappointment. The tradition which has given
the people faith in the precocity of this tree dates—neither
from the birth of the King of Rome, nor from Napoleon's
return from Elba. The date is the 201 h of March, 1746.
A celebrated painter was accused of having assassinated
his rival at the Royal Academy on that day. The painter's
name was Joseph Vien. He proved before the tribunal of
the Chatelet that at the moment of the murder he was
standing, gossiping with the Duchess de Roncevaux, under
a chestnut-tree. He said he could identify the tree, for it
was the only one in leaf. " This alibi," we are told, saved
Vien's head ; and from that time the people have watched
the precocious tree. It has seldom failed ; but the cold of
the present year Itas been too much for it.—Athenalon.

FRANCE AND ITALY,

TURIN, March 22.
The Unita Italiana publishes the following letter
from Mazzini

" Friends,—The popular instinct has revealed a
danger to the Piedmontese provinces of Italy. This
danger is well founded. There exists in the Mini-
stry of Foreign Affairs a scroll of eight pages of
English cartridge-paper, bound with blue silk. This
scroll contains a secret protocol appended to the
Convention of the 15th September, 1864. The
protocol states as follows :—‘ The Italian Govern-
ment undertakes to abstain from any enterprise
upon Venetia, and to energetically resist any
such enterprise that might be attempted by
the party of action or others. If unforeseen
events, more powerful than the obligations under-
taken, should give either Rome or Venice to
Italy, a rectification of frontiers will take place
between France and Italy, commencing from
the River Sesia, which would be considered
as the frontier of France.' The protocol bears
the signature of the Minister Visconti Venosta, and
and another person. None will require, I presume,
that I should reveal the source of my certain infor-
mation. But I ask Italians to recollect that I re-
vealed a year before the cession of Savoy and Nice,
and that I transmitted to the Unites Italiana the
substance of the Convention of the 15th of Sep..
tember before it was even so much as suspected in
Italy.

" By a nation educated like England to liberty,
such a protocol—and it has not been destroyed by
the present Ministry—would incur a charge of high
treason and death on the gallows for the men who
did it. Opposed as lam to the penalty of death, I
only see one reply worthy of Italy, and particularly
of the little country at the foot of the Alps, and
that is to tell the foreign Emperor :—'Sire, you are
mistaken. We shall have Venice, and you shall
not have Piedmont.'—Yours,

" 13th March, 1865."

" GUISEPPE MAZZIN

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(From the Illustrated London News)
The will of Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville,
Esq., of Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, was proved
in the London Court on the Ist inst., by the execu-
tors, W. Henry Greville, Esq. (his brother) ; Capt.
the Hon. Francis Egerton ; and Harvie Morton
Farquhar, Esq., of Brackley House, Northampton-
shire. The personalty was sworn under £25,000.
The testator was the eldest son of Charles Greville,
Esq., and Charlotte, daughter of the third Duke of
Portland, K.G., and was formerly Clerk of the
Privy Council, from 1821 to 1859. He died, in
January last, at the age of 71, having executed his
will in 1863. Among other bequests, he has left to
the Earl of Clarendon his Emperor's cup, won at
Ascot Races, 1846, by his horse Alarm. To George
Payne, Esq., of John-street, Berkeley-square, he
leaves all the shares he jointly held with him in race-
horses and thoroughbred racing stock ; and to Chas.
Mills, Esq„ of Camelford House, some other like
shares. A few other legacies aro left to personal
friends ; and his brothers Algernon and Wm. Henry
Greville, are appointed residuary legatees. To his
valet he has left £l,OOO ; to his coachman, £2OO ;
and to his groom, £l,OOO.

The will of Edward Ward Walter Raleigh, Esq.,
late of Pall-mall, a retired officer of the Bengal
Medical Staff, and an honorary Fellow of the Col-
lege of Surgeons, London, was proved in the prin-
cipal registry under £140,000 personalty. The
executors and trustees nominated are Sir Edward
Cholmeley Dering, Bart., -M.P., his nephew, and
Charles Vine, Esq., of Queen's-gardens, Hyde-park
(his nephew's uncle). The testator died in January
last, having executed his will in April, 1864. He
has bequeathed to his sister, Mrs. Caroline Ames-
bury (widow of Joseph Amesbury, Esq.), and to
her children, the sum of £20,000, free of duty.
There are legacies to other of his relatives. He
directs his property to be invested in freehold landed
estates in England, and to pay therefrom to his
nephew, Edward Walter Raleigh, son of his late
brother, Major Frederick Raleigh, an annuity of
£5OO, the remainder to accumulate and be laid out
iu the improvement of and in adding to the said
landed estates, for the benefit of the male issue of
his said nephew ; and in failure of such issue, then
to his nephew, Walter Raleigh Amesbury, the eldest
son of his said sister.

The will of Mrs. Mary Wright, widow, formerly
of Mauldeth Hall, Lancaster, and late of Tunbridge
Wells, was proved in London under £60,000 per-
sonalty—the executors and trustees being her
cousin, Henry Houldsworth, of Oak Hill, Lancaster ;
William Henry Houldsworth (his son), and Philip
Richard Falkner, Esq., of Newlrk-on-Trent. The
will is dated September, 1854. To her daughter,
Mrs. Mary Hooper, she leaves the interest of
£lO,OOO for life, and appoints her two children, the
testatrix's grandson and granddaughter, residuary
legatees. Legacies are bequeathed to others of her
own family, and those of her late husband ; to the
Rev. Theophilus Bennett, M.A., of Whittington,
and W. Richardson, M.D., of Tunbridge Wells,
each £5OO ; to the Irish Society Missions to Coig-
nes, £5O ; to the Church Missionary Society and
Manchester Infirmary, £2OO each.

AN AMERICAN BALL-ROOM, as giaphically de-
scribed byMr. A. G. Sala :—There are two delightful
characteristics in all American social gatherings of a sala-
tory nature. Everybody dances, and all the ladies can talk.
There are no gentlemen qui font tapisserie, or perform the
part of wall-flowers,' lounging against wainscots or door-
jambs, ogling the dancersand irritating the belles who want
partners... Under penalty of ostracism, they must all plunge
into the mazy, and foot it. They foot it trippingly. Danc-
ing here is dancing indeed. There are as many reverences
dropped in a quadrille as in the Minuet de la Cour—that
noblest and most delightful of dances to those who have
seen Taglioni as the gentleman, and Fanny Ellster as the
lady. The chief fiddler calls out the names of the figures,
and claps his hands, and calls out ' Address'=--whatever
that may mean—quite in the defunct Yorkshire Stingo
style. When the gentlemen—l ani speaking of the hops,
—dance, they jump ; when the ladies. revolve, they make
cheeses. You find no line-of-battle-ship matrons laid up
in ordinary, so to speak, on settees, covered with the dock-
yard paint of the toilet-table, befanned, bejewelled, and
speechless. You find no desolate spinsters partnerless,
glowering through their eye-glasses balefully, and nosing
the atmosphere with supercilious snuff. The matron's foot
it as trippingly as their daughters. The spinsters find
partners. In a country where none are fat, all dance. In-
dulgence in the poetry of motion would not seem to be
tabooed by any professional etiquette. Clergymen on active
service, and not being Shakers, adjure the light fantastic
toe ; but, as almost every educated person in America who
has not been in dry goods, or in stockjobbing, or taught
school, or done lawyer's work, or kept agrog-shop, has been
at some period or another a clergyman of some denomina-
tion, I will not go so far as to say that the cloth aro
wholly strangers to the allurements of the mazy. As to
the military, they are fanatics ;in their ttddicted-
ness to the dance—to say nothing of that distin-
guished Union general in Louisiana who has been a danc-
ing master. The legal profession would all seem to be dis-
ciples of Sir Christopher Hatton ; and it is a very beauti-
ful and edifying spectacle to see a judge of the United
States in a swallow-tailed coat and a moustache quite
Napoleonically spiked, advancing in the cavalier seul. I said
that all the ladies can talk. A flow of sharp, shrewd, in-
telligent, and, as a rule, well-chosen and correct language,
is the shining attainment of all American ladies, from the
school-girl upwards. And the school girls themselves talk
with an ease and volubility that would astonish the super-
intendents of many ladies' colleges at home. There is no
hesitation, no blushing, no stammering, no twiddling of
the fingers, no plucking at bouquets, or nervous unhem-
ming of handkerchiefs. The vapid inanities that pass be-
tween partners at an English ball would be here scouted.
To be shy is to be unpatriotic. The American young lady
goes straight to the point, and has a great deal to say upon
it. How is your health ? How long have you been in
the country ? Do you like it ? Have you had a good
time ? What do you think of the action of the nation in
the present struggle ? Are you not struck with admiration
at the deeds of valour performed by the nation's armies ?
Have you read Longfellow's " Wayside Inn ?" When is
Tennyson's "Boadicea" to appear? Was not England con-
vulsed with enthusiasm at the apparition of the Rev. Ward
Beecher ? Don't you think the room wants oxygen ? Are
not the monitors triumphs of mechanical construction ?
Have you been to Niagara ?' These aro a few of the queries
she rattles out. You are at first delighted, then amazed,
and at last puzzled; for the intelligent and well-read young
lady continually addresses you as ' Sir,' and every now and
then she asks you a question so naive,
so artlessly ignorant,
that you pause to inquire of yourself whether she can be
more than six years old.
MR. FOLEY'S STATUE OF BURKE is said -to be
nearly completed.