The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-12 00:00:00

FRANCE.

Bo URSE, June 11.—The market continues heavy,
but prices have been maintained at about the
closing rates of yesterday, Threes, for the Ac-
count, being now at 68f 80c. The Railway Share
Market quiet, but with trifling variations. The
market closed as follows
4t per per Cents 97 10
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 6B 85
New 3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 75
Credit Mobilier..., 8.59
Do. end month B5l 25
RAILWAYS.

Bank Shares 31G0
Credit Foncier 1670
Piedmontese Fives 73
Italian Loan 72 70
Roman
Austrian
SpaniA Threes 52
Rome Debt

Cash. Account.
Orleans 1292 60 .. 1295
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1112 60 .. 1113 75
Geneva 367 50 ..
Southern 856 25 .. 852 50
Western.
Eastern ... , ..... 8.,
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 6lB 75 .. 618 75

THE CAPTURE OF THE STEAMSHIP

CIRCAS,SIAN.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—We beg to enclose a copy of an extract
from the steamship Circassian's logbook, showing
how she was taken by the Americans, and shall
feel obliged by your publishing it in your valuable
paper.—l am, Sir, yours truly,
(Per procuration of Z. C. Pearson and Co.),
THOMAS P. JOHNSON.
Hull, June 10.

COPY OP THE LOG OF THE BRITISH STEAMSHIP
CIRCASSIAN, FROM BORDEAUX FOR HAYANNAH.
" Sunday, May 4, 1862,10 a.m.—The ship arrived
midway between Matanzas and Havannah. At
10 30 a.m. we were met by the American war
steamer Somerset. She hailed us, and requested us
heave to, so that she might send a boat on board to
overhaul us, but of this we took no notice, being
bound for Havannah, with a general cargo for that
port, the same being British and French property.
In consequence of our refusal she immediately fired
a blank shot across our stern, which at an interval
of two minutes, or somewhat less, was followed by
a round shot across our stern, and immediately
afterwards by two shells in seccession,, one% of
which carried away the whole of t 6 fore rigging
on the port side, also striking the bunted the fore-
sail and splitting the sail, a splinter from the shell
at the same time wounding one of the crew on the
arm. Finding that we were only risking the safety
of the ship and the lives of the crew, we hove to,
when they despatched a boat on board of us, de-
manding all papers connected with the ship and
cargo, which were immediately handed to them.
After examining the ship's papers and the hold, and
broaching the ship's cargo, they took a copy of the
manifest and list of the drew ; these were sent on
board the Somerset to the captain, the boat return-
ing soon afterwards with the first lieutenant de-
manding bills of lading, manifest of cargo, ship's
articles, and French clearance, the bill of health
from Bordeaux, the bill of health from St.Thomas's,
both being signed by the Spanish consuls, which he
took on board the Somerset to the captain. Shortly
afterward. the first lieutenant returned with several
officers and men, a number of marines, and engineer's
staff, and they finally took charge of the steamship
Circassian in the name of the President of the
United States, without assigning any reason for so
doing. Immediately the marines came on board
they were drawn up in front of the saloon door, and
loaded their rifles and fixed bayonets in the faces of
the captain and officers of the steamer Circassian,
the English ensign being hauled down, and the
American ensign hoisted in its place, and tlikwhole
'of the crew of the Somerset, at once coraniencini
cheering vociferously, which they kept up for several
minutes. 1 p.m.—Captain Arthur (Acting Master
from the Somerset), with a number of men, came
on board and took charge, and sent a hawser on
board the Somerset, which vessel then took us in
tow, steering for Key West, where we arrived at
4 30 p.m. of the following day, the ship touching
the ground as she came in, the shock being dis-
tinctly felt. Soon after the ship was taken in tow
the crew were mustered by the first lieutenant, and
about half of the seamen and firemen, with the
chief and second engineers, were sent on board the
Somerset.
"8 a.m. of the sth of May.—The two engineers,
with the boatswain, were sent back to the ship. 1
p.m.—Seven more men and the third and fourth
officers, with the third engineer and boilermaker,
were sent on board the Somerset. 6 p.m.—The
third officer and third engineer were sent back again.
" May 6, 10 30 a.m.—The whole of the crew of
the Circassian were sent back on board from the
Samerset, and the American ensign hauled down
from the peak of the Circassian, and the English
ensign hoisted in its place, but the ship still under
seizure by the American authorities, Capt. Hunter
having frequently requested permission to go on
shore to see the English and French Consuls, but
was each time refused. Since the ship struck yes-
terday we find her to be making a good deal of water.
" Note.—The English ensign was hoisted on the
first appearance of the American steamer and kept
flying until compelled to haul it down, the ship
steering at the time south-west by west, half west,
with Morro Lighthouse right ahead, by good obser-
vations that morning.
" EDWARD HUNTER, Commander.
• " Wu. C. K. JOHN, Chief Officer." •

COPY OF PROTEST SENT, PER FIRST LIEUTENANT, TO
TAE CAPTAIN OF THE SOMERSET, BY CAPTAIN HUN-
TER ON THE SEIZURE OF THE STEAMSHIP CIRCAS-
SIAN. _ _ _

" Steamship Circassian, May 4, 1862.

" Sir,—l beg to protest against the seizure of the
steamship Circassian, under my command, now on
the high seas on a voyage from Bordeaux to
Havannah, with a general cargo of merchandise,
the same being English and French property.
You assign no reason for this, in my opinion, ille-
gal act.
" The expenses against the American Govern-
ment for the seizure of my steamer will necessarily
be enormous.

" I again beg to distinctly inform you that we
are bound to a foreign port, and are British owned.
" I have the honour to be, sir,
" Your most obedient servant,
" EDWARD HUNTER."

A PERSON OF (NO) CONSEQUENCE.-4 believe I
am the best-tempered man that ever lived. I know lam
the most patient and long-suffering. My inner conscious-
ness reveals to me that any less eminently endowed with
amiable qualities would have given way, years ago, either
to transports of anger, or settled down into a brooding or
confirmed misanthrope, tried and tempted as 1 have been.
I will state my case in the fewest words I can. My father
was the youngest son of a younger:son,twho never would—
or, I believe, could—do anything for his own suppert. I
was born to the family gift, and so thorough a gentleman
that by no possible exertion could I have procured myself
one day's sustenance. I inherited something under three
hundred a year, which the world called eight, and my
creditors believed to be two. I had some reasonably good
connections, none of wbons cared to hear about, or recog-
nise me ; a tolerable share of good looks, and a disposition
which, for gentleness and sweetness, I never knew matched.
It was my impression that, wits these gifts and graces, a
man might float down the stream of life (I never wanted to
breast the current) pleasantly, not giving himself any espe-
cial calling, nor taxing his energies for any peculiar craft.
I could " live," in fact—and, if I only knew how, live
pleasantly. Young as I was, and with no very wide expe-
rience of the world, I discovered that, though society has
its especial caresses and favours for great celebrities, yet its
most permanent favourites are, so to say, very ordinary corn-
mou-place- people, with nothing brilliant or remarkable
about them; just as, in'our daily food, the staple should be
something as devoid of taste as possible, so, in our daily in-
tercourse, we ought to have certain persons without any
flavour of peculiar excellence, or any spice of special ability,
people, in a word, who would be to our intellectual wants
what the ordinary twopenny loaf is to our hunger. " I
will be this," said I to myself; " I will be in that category
of the useful things which outlive all caprice and stiYvv:
all changes of fashion," and I did become so, and with i
c,op,siclergde Pucceses—Zickenea " thf Year Rounci,,,