The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-29 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

Exchange on London, 251 251. Coffee—Good first, 6,800
to 7,000 reis. Shipments since the departure of the last
mail, 93,838 bags, of which 31,590 were for the Channel.
Sales, 160,000. bags; stock, 130,000. Freights for the
Channel, 471 50.

BAHIA, Dec. 13.
Exchange on London, 261 27. Cotton, 17,000 to 17,200
reis. Sugar, browns, 2,000 to 2,300 reis.
PERNAMBUCO, Dec. 16.

Exchange on London, 28 281. Sugar, whites, 4,600 to
4,700 rein; browns, 2,000 to 2,400 refs. Cotton, 16,200
to 16,300.
The Estramadura arrived at Pernambuco on the 13th.
LISBON, Dec. 28.
The Royal Mail Company's steamer Duro, from the
Brazils, arrived here to-day.

LISBON, Dec. 28.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Douro
has arrived from the Brazils, and will sail at noon to-day
for Southampton, with 66 passengers, 285 bags of coffee,
1,981 bales of cotton, /30 rolls of tobacco, and 251 packages
of sundries. Specie, £39,950. The Oneida, with the out-
ward mails of the 9th December, sailed from St. Vincent
on the evening of the 21st inst.

INDIA.
(BY DIRECT OVERLAND TELEGRAPH.)
BOMBAY, Dec. 22, 4 p.m.

Manchester goods firm and advancing. Cotton ad-
vancing—dhollerah 440 r. Shipments of cotton during
the week, 35,000 bales, _ _

, .
Exchange on London, 2s. 11d.
Government Securities Four per Cents., 88-1 ; Five per
Cents., 103 ; Five-and-a-Half per Cents., 108-1-.
Freights, 355.
The latest London date is the 7th of December.
CALCUTTA, Dec. 21.
Seven pound shirtings, 7r. 14a. Exchange on London,
2s. lid. Freights, 455.
The rate of discount has been raised 1 per cent.

FRANCE.
A Council of Ministers was held yesterday at the

Tuileries, the Emperor presiding.
On the occasion of the late visit of the Emperor
and Empress to the Tribunal of Commerce, his
Majesty, on arriving at the grand vestibule, where
the members of the council were assembled, con-

ferred on M. Berthier, President of the Tribunal,
the cross of Officer of the Legion of Honour, and on
M. Basset, one of the judges, that of Knight ; 21so
when visiting the hall reserved for the sittings of the
Council of Prud'hommes, his Majesty expressed his
sense of the services rendered by that body, and also
conferred the cross of Knight on M. Thierry, a mas-

ter, and on M. Boulon, a workman, each of whom
had been in functions as members for 18 years.
Business commenced yesterday in the new tribunal,

M. Berthier first pronouncing an inaugural address
The Emperor has just decided that General 01
Division Count de la Rue shall preserve his func-

tions as permanent inspector-general of gendarmery.
The honourable Senator is President of the Coin-

mittee of that arm, but being 70 years of age, he
was liable to the effects of the decree which relieves
definitively from active service the generals of divi-
sion, senators, who have attained that limit. The
Emperor makes for General de la Rue a flattering
exception. By that officer's functions of inspector-
general all the reports of the Gendarmery of the
Empire are centred in his hands, and he is also in
direct communication with the Sovereign. His post
is, therefore, a ministry of police on a small scale.
By an Imperial decree, issued at the instance of
the Minister of the Emperor's Household and Fine
Arts, M. Robert Fleury, member of the Institute
and Director of the School of Fine Arts, is ap-
pointed Director of the Imperial Academy of France
at Rome, for six years, in the place of M. Schnetz,
whose mission has expired. By another decree M.
Guillaume, member of the Institute, and professor
at the School of Fine Arts, is appointed Director of
that establishment for five years, in the place of M.
Robert Fleury. _ _

The Moniteur publishes an Imperial decree de
daring of public utility the construction of a rail
way from Vassy to St. Dizier, and sanctioning a
provisional convention signed on the 23d inst. be-
tween the Minister of Public Works, on the one
part, and Baron A. de Rothschild, MM. Danelle,
du Chaulaire, Cornuel, and Guyard, on the other,
granting the concession of the said line. The decree
also approves of the treaty signed on the 24th April
last, between the above-named parties and the
Eastern Railway Company, for the execution and
working of the said line, on condition that the com-
pany shall keep a separate account of the working
expenses and receipts of the line. The shares are
not to be negotiable until two-fifths of their amount
shall have been paid up.
It may be remembered that the Civil Tribunal
of Modena was some time since called on to try a
suit instituted by the Prince de Crony-Chanel, who
claims the title of Marquis d'Este as a direct de-
scendant of the Arpads of Hungary, who were
invested with that title. The ex-Duke of Modena
opposed the claim, but denied the competence of
the ordinary tribunals to entertain the question.
'e Royal Court of Appeal of Modena has, how-
ever, just given a judgment rejecting the pretensions
of the ex-Duke and affirming the competence of the
Civil Tribunal. Francis d'Este, abandoning a sys-
tem which could not be sustained, has just appealed
to the Court of Cassation against the decision given
in favour of the Prince de Crouy-Chanel, and by
so doing has consequently recognised the jurisdic-
tion of the ordinary judges.
The Roman Archaeological Academy has just
held its first sitting for the present season, M. Sal-
vator Betti presiding. M. Visconti, the perpetual
secretary, announced the death of Mgr. Cavedoni,
corresponding member at Modena, and briefly re-
capitulated that prelate's extensive labours. He
then stated that the new excavations made in the
Palatine Mount, under the direction of Baron Bal-
dins, Minister of Public Works, for the purpose of
discovering further remains of the Emperor's
Palace, had been crowned with success. A suite
of rooms had been cleared, in which were many
well-preserved frescoes and bas-reliefs. There bad
also been found a bust of Britannicus of the best
epoch, a fine statue seated, without the head,
numerous fragments of bas-reliefs, and marble
columns. The excavations at Ostia had also been
resumed, and had brought to light several inscrip-
tions of the good epoch of the Roman Empire, and
atlu, a mosaic sai
inc a tomb o n thea well-preserved mosaic. In the excavations made
by Mgr. Guidi, in his vineyards near the baths of
C la
ra ca
ht found had b
ee
n
discovered
,ippia
Appian
l\resem-
blingray.
It ropre3ents a human
size, reclining on a bed,• •
and pointing to an in-
scription in Greek of " Know
thyself
!" That
sentence in the foreign language would seem to in-
dicate that the mosaic belongs to the time of the
Antonini's. In the same neighbourhood, near the
villa Quintilli, a fine statue of a woman without the
head had also been found.
Galignani says we have often had occasion to
mention Dr. Demarquay's important communica-
tions to the Academy of Sciences on the therapeutic
effects of various gaseous substances. The special
researches he has for many years pursued in this
line impart peculiar interest to the work he has just
published, entitled—" Essai de Pneumatologie
Medic,ale," in which we find the following facts con-
cerning nitrogen, which, it should be remembered,