The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-25 00:00:00

FRANCE.

A Toulon letter of the 18th says :—" Yesterday
began badly, in a sanitary point of view, and ended
worse. A number of students of the Faculty of
Medicine of Montpellier arrived in the morning,
and behaved nobly. On arriving in a town
ravaged by the epidemic at a moment when half
the inhabitants had fled, and the authorities were
overwhelmed with the duties so suddenly thrown
on them, these young men, regardless of all
personal considerations, instantly began at-
tending the sick, and most of them had not even
breakfasted or found lodgings at 8 in the evening.
In presence of a sanitary bulletin so alarming, the
inhabitants acted admirably. At Bin the evening
the whole town seemed as. in flames ; thousands of
fires were burning in the streets to destroy the pes-
tilential miasmata, and fireworks were discharged
in great numbers. A salutary reaction took place
in the mind of the inhabitants, who burnt their last
faggots to prevent .the spread of the epidemic.
Yesterday the position was no longer tenable ; the
director of the Pompes-Funebres, being taken by
surprise, was unable to supply sufficient coffins
and gravediggers for the interments. At last re-
course was had to the convicts, who were sent
in gangs, working two hours each, to dig a com-
mon grave for all the bodies sent from the hos-
pitals. The hearses were traversing the city all
through the night, as it was impossible to make
all the interments by day. This morning (Monday)
half the shops are closed. The pestilence has,
however, somewhat subsided ; the mayor and
sub-prefect have visited all the hospitals and the
quarters which have most suffered in order to keep
up the spirits of the people and to distribute relief.
The municipal administration shrinks from no sacri-
fice to combat the epidemic. The Viscountess de
Chabinnes, accompanied by her husband Vice-Ad-
miral Chabannes, the Maritime Prefect, and by the
Major-General, with his aides-de-camp, visited the
cholera patients at the Naval Hospital this morning,
and their presence produced a great moral effect.
Indeed all the authorities, civil, naval, and military,
conduct themselves in a manner to win the affec-
tions of the population." A decided change for the
better has taken place since the above was written,
as the number of cholera deaths in Toulon, which
was 76 on the 17th, had declined to 50 on the
19th. The last news from La Seyne is also more
favourable. The Toulonnais says that Monday was
the day fixed for the session of the Council-General,
but as only two members were present, no sitting
was held."

BOURSE, Sept. 22.—Two o'Clock.—The market
opened on improved quotations, but shortly after-
wards relapsed. Threes are quoted at 68f. 40c.,
with a decline of 71c. Italian Fives, after doing at
66f. 10c., have fallen to 65f. 95c. Credit Mobilier
Shares have declined 2f. 50e., viz., to 822 f. 50c., and
Spanish Mobiliers to par. The Shares of the
Comptoir d'Escompte are quoted at 1,000 f., in con-
sequence, it is said, of profitable affairs just under-
taken at Biarritz. Immobiliere Shares are also in
great request, and show an advance of 10f., the
quotations being 531 f. 25c. Three o'Clock.---Little
business has been done, ar
as follows :

id the last quotations were

ti per Cents
Do. end month

Ditto Threes —
Roman 75
Mexican Loan 5l 75
Do. Bonds 335
Russian .—

3 per Cents. _ 68 35
._ .

D. end month 6B 421
Credit Mobilier

Do. end mouth 822 50
Bank Shares —
Credit Foneier 1330
Italian Loan —

Austrian
Spanish Throes
Homo Debt —
Deferred

Do. end month 65 95

NAYS.
Cash. Acct.
... 845 -
- ... 1087 50
... 871 50
... 566 25

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

...-.."' "."... •••

- - ... 535 -
... 246 25
- - ... 412 50
- - ... 457 50
- - ... 212 50
- - ... 312 50

- - ... 220 -

THE COMMAND IN NEW ZEALAND.--We under-
stand that General Cameron has resigned the New
Zealand command, and it is very probable that he will ar-
rive in this country by the next mail, or the next but one.
By whom his place will be filled up, or whether it will be
filled up at all, we cannot tell. If the troops aro to be
brought home no general officer is needed in New Zealand.
On General Cameron's departure the command would
devolve on Brigadier-General Carey, under the superin-
tendence of General Chute, at Melbourne. If we have to
send out another General we can only assure Mr. Weld
and our New Zealand friends that we can find no man
with a higher reputation than General Cameron possessed
when he was selected to do battle forkthem. We sincerely
hope that investigation will show that the shortcomings
and confusion which have taken place are not attributable
to him.—Army and Navy Gazette.
THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE PUDDLERS AND THE
INCOME-TAX.—As was predicted at the time the
North Staffordshire puddlers and shinglers were on strike,
the extraordinary wages they were proved to earn when
at work frequently amounting in the case of men of the
latter class to 20s. a day, have brought upon them the un-
welcome attentions of the Board of Inland Revenue. A
large number of men have this year been assessed to the
income-tax, and the anaj-erity have paid it with a pretty
good grace, but two of the shinglers in the employ of Earl
Granville at Hanley persistently refused to pay, and sjoy
were accordingly apprehended. This bold stop on the
part of the District Commissioners caused considerable ex-
citement at the works, but the defaulters, rather than
undergo a sojourn in Stafford Gaol, paid the tax at the last
moment, and heavy expenses besides. The Board of Inland
Revenue has given the strictest orders to enforce payment
in every case.
EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN DOWNING-STREET.—A
subsequent deputation which waited upon Mr. Baring, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Labouchere, the
President of the Board of Trade, presented one of the most
extraordinary scenes ever witnessed in s Downing-street
office. 'We prefer to present it in the words of Mr. Prentice,
for he was a spectator of, and a participant in it. "Mr J. B.
Smith began the conference in a modest and respectful but
perfectly firm manner. . . . Mr. John Brooks, the
Boroughreeve of Manchester, followed, and stated, un-
moved, many instances of serious depression in the pro-
perty of men of his own class ; but when he came to give
a detail of the distresses of the working classes, and to de-
scribe one particular family, the members of which, after a
life of economy and industry, had been compelled to pawn
articles of furniture and clothes, one after another, till no-
thing was loft but bare walls and empty cupboards, his feel-
ings completely overcame him, convulsive sobs choked his
utterance, and ho was obliged to pause till he recovered
from his deep emotion. The tears rolled down the cheeks
of Joseph Sturge, John Benjamin Smith strove in
vain to conceal his feelings, there was scarcely a tear-
less eye•in the multitude, and the ministers looked
with perfect astonishment at a scene so unusual to
statesmen and courtiers. . Joseph Sturge

made a powerful appeal to the ministers, placing the
whole question upon the eternal principles of justice and
morality, which, he said, were shamefully outraged by a
tax on the food of the people. The conference, if such it
could be called, where unpalatable truths were forced upon
the attention of unwilling. ears, was appropriately closed by
some bold and really eloquent remarks from Mr. Cobden,
who told the ministers that their decision would become P.
matter of history, and would stamp their character either
as representatives merely of class interests, or the promoters
of enlightened commercial policy.' "—llrGileltrist's We of
Cokien.