The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-22 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Senate met yesterday, M. Troplong in the
chair. The Marquis de Boissy gave notice that at
the next sitting, on the occasion of a petition rela-
tive to the circulation of carriages in Paris, he would
ask the Government Commissioners if there was no
intention to take measures to put an end to the
great commercial perturbation which was afflicting
the capital, and the noise of which produced a sen-
sation throughout the whole of France. On a peti-
tion from an ex-sub-officer who had served
in Africa, praying to have a medal established
for the war in Algeria, some conversation en-
sued, the committee proposing the order of the
day. The Marquis de Boissy supported the
prayer of the petition, whilst M. Monceaux, the
Government-Commissioner, argued that no petition
could be taken into consideration on such a subject,
the Emperor alone being the judge of the propriety
of acting in the manner prayed for. In the end,
the order of the day was pronounced. On another
petition praying that a sum of money should be
accorded to young priests for their expenses of in-
stallation, the committee proposed the order of the
day, whilst the Archbishop recommended to have
the matter referred to the Minister of Public Wor-
ship, at least for certain points mentioned. M.
Rouland having recommended to leave the Govern-
ment to act of its own accord in the case, the Arch-
bishop acquiesced, and the order of the day was pro-
nounced. The other petitions were not of any
general interest.
BOURSE, June 21.—The markets to-day have
again exhibited no symptoms of an early return to
buoyancy, but the transactions that have taken place
have generally been conducted at yesterday's closing
quotations—the only change to notice being an up-
ward movement in the Stock of the Mexican Loan
(New), which has now reached 328 fr. 75c. The
following were the closing quotations :

4-} per Cents 95 30
Do. end month

Ditto Throes —
New Mexican
Do. Bonds 335
Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes 44 25
Home Debt
Deferred
Roman

3 per Cents. 66 40
Do. end month 66 35
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3600
Credit Fonder 1255

Italian Loan 66 75
Do. end month 66 65
RAIL'

UYS.

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
Western
Easteru
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona l5O

Cash. Acct.
815 ... 815
1065 1067 50
841 25 ... 838 75
578 75 ... 578 75
525 ... 525
503 75 ... 505 --
308 75 ... 305
415 ... 415
987 50 486 25
175 ... 180
325 ... 320

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, June 22.

The Lower llouse of the Reichsrath voted yes-
terday the proposals of the Financial Committee,
granting the credit of 13 millions of florins imme-
diately required by the Government to pay the
interest of the Public Debt, due in July next.
It was resolved at the same time not to grant any
further credit to the Government until the Budgets
for 1865 and 1866 shall have been voted by the
Reichsrath, in conformity with the Constitution.

Montrose Rifle Gathering.

AloyrnosE, June 21.

The Montrose rifle gathering, the first of the
Scottish Volunteer shooting competitions, and still
one of the most popular for the excellence of the
marksmen who enter for the prizes, commenced its
proceedings on Tuesday. The weather was all that
could be desired, and a number of the finest shots in
Scotland were on the ground. The chief feature in
the proceedings was the contest for the " Scotland's
Cup," carried off, it may be remembered, on the
first occasion of the gathering, by Mr. Edward Ross.
Since then the shooting has greatly improved, and
the principal scores in the present contest are said to
be the highest ever made in a public competition.
The conditions of the contest for the Cup were seven
shots at each of the following ranges :-700, 800,
and 900 yards. Annexed are the highest scores :
Sergeant Forbes, Gth Aberdeenshire, 28, 27, 26 ;
total, 81. Mr. Edward Ross, London Scottish, 27,
27, 23 ; total, 77. The Hon. Captain Arbuthnott,
Kincardineshire, Captain Morison, Peterhead, and
Captain Fordyce, sth Aberdeenshire, made 74 each;
the Earl of Aberdeen and Mr. Grant Peterkin,
Cambridge, following with 73 each. All these crack
shots, with the exception of Captain Arbuthnott
(Henry), used the Whitworth rifle.
In a competition for a challenge cup among eight
of the best marksmen present, at 800, 900, and
1,000 yards, Mr. Edward Ross stood first with a
score of 74. Forbes, the gainer of " Scotland's
Cup," is a brickmaker in the little village of Ellon,
to the north of Aberdeen, and was one of the Scot-
tish eight who shot for and won the Elcho Shield at
Wimbledon last year. His score to-day was com-
posed of 18 bull's-eyes and three centres.
The prizes are to be presented to-morrow by Lord
Dalhousie.

A NEW BOMBSHELL—The Cumberland Pacquet,
says Mr. Thew, of the Whitehaven and Furness
Railway, has recently turned his attention to the construc-
tion of those fearful implements of warfare, bombshells.
" He has succeeded in working out an idea which has been
pronounced by all who have seen the models, including
several gentlemen in this locality whose professions con-
stitute them judges in such matters, 'as being eminently
well adapted to the object in view. The new projectile
consists of a perfectly globular shell—the shape to which
Government has shown preference—containing a second,
smaller shell, of the same form ; this, again, contains a
third shell, which in its turn contains a fourth. The idea
may be most popularly explained by supposing one pill box
enclosed in another ; this, again by a third ; and lastly, a
fourth. The inner shells are about a quarter of an inch
thick, and the outer is about an inch thick. Tho sizes
aro so arranged that between each shell there is a Blear
chamber all round of about an inch. The smaller shell
and the several chambers are filled with gunpowder by a
very ingenious Contrivance of the inventor's, and the whole
would be then closed up by the ordinary fuse. The enor-
mous quantity of splinters which would be scattered about
on the explosion of such a shell must be evident, and its
destructive powers aro something fearful to contemplate.

FUNERAL OF A BEE.---A correspondent of the
Glasgow Herald transmits the following On
Sunday morning last I had the pleasure of witnessing a
most interesting ceremony, which I desire to record for
the benefit of your readers. Whilst walking with a friend
in a garden near Falkirk, wo observed two bees issuing
from one of the hives, bearing betwixt them the body of a
defunct comrade, with which they flew for a distance of ten
yards. We followed them closely, and noted the care with
which they selected a convenient hole at the sido of the
gravel walk—the tenderness with which they committed
the body, head downwards, to tho earth—and the solici-
tude with which they afterwards pushed against it two little
stones, doubtless in memoriam.' Their task being ended,
they paused for about a minute, perhaps to drop over the
grave of their friend a sympathising tear, and then they
Sam Way.