The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-14 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Court of Assizes of Morbihan has just tried
a man named Belz, charged with having, on 20th
August last, at Auray, committed the crime of
manslaughter on the person of an old man named
Gravier. It appeared from the evidence that the pri-
soner and his brother were drinking at a wineshop
on the day above mentioned, in company with a
young man named Gravier, when a quarrel ensued,
and on leaving the brothers Belz both assaulted
Gravier, but were compelled to desist by the by-
standers. Gravier's father, who lived close by,
having heard what was passing, came to his son's
assistance, and was immediately attacked by the
prisoner, who knocked him down, and struck him
repeatedly while on the ground. The old man,
however, managed to get up, but was again seized
by the prisoner, who pushed him back several paces
until they reached a well, into which Gravier fell
headforemost, and when taken out was quite dead.
As the evidence did not satisfactorily prove that
Belz had intentionally pushed Gravier into the well,
the jury found him guilty of inflicting injuries which
caused death without intending it, and the Court
sentenced him to six years' imprisonment.
BOURSE, Dec. 13.—The market opened on higher
quotations, but has since relapsed, and in many
cases to slightly lower rates than those of yester-
day's close. English Consols show more firmness,
with a rise of per cent. French Three per Cents.,
after opening at 69f. 122 c., are now doing at 69f.
2}c.—a decline of 21c. Italian Fives are quoted at
65f. 35c., a slight fall, and Credit Mobilier Shares
are at 888 f. 75c., with a decline of sf. Cab Com-
pany continue in demand at 84f. 50e., with a fur-
ther rise of 2f. Three o'clock.—The Bourse has
closed on the following quotations :

41 per Cents 97 25
Do. end month —
3 per Cents.
Do. end month 69
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3790
Credit Fonder 1330
Italian Loan 65 25
Do. end month 65 35
RAIL'

Roman
Ottoman Fives 43 65
Mexican Loan 4B 50
Do. Bonds 333 75
Russian -
Austrian
Spanish Throes
Home Debt
Deferred

PAYS.
Cash. Acit.
▪ 837 50
• 1138 75
... 845 -
- 573 75
548 75
520 -
- 215
427 50
425 -
- 165
195

Orleans
Northern

Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian ,
Austrian
Lombard

North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

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THE DEATH OF THE KING OF THE
BELGIANS.

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Pan's, Wednesday.

Immediately upon the decease of the late King
of the Belgians the Duke of Brabant forwarded
the following telegram to the Emperor Napoleon :
" Laeken, Dec. 10, 1865.

" I have the grief of announcing to your Majesty
the death of the King, my father. We thank your
Majesty and the Empress with all our hearts for
the sympathy you have felt with the long sufferings
of my beloved father."
The Emperor replied :

" Compiegne, Dec. 10, 1865.

" The Empress and I have just learnt the death
of the King, your father, with the sincerest regret.
By his sagacity and his high intelligence he had
placed himself in the first rank of the Sovereigns
of Europe. He had always shown me so much
friendship that I deeply regret his loss. I do not
doubt that your Royal Highness will follow so
noble an example upon the throne, and I shall
always be happy to testify my friendship towards
you. " NAPOLEON."

In consequence of the death of the King of the
Belgians the Imperial Court will go into mourning
for 21 days from Saturday, the 16th inst.
BRUSSELS, Wednesday.

The Senate has been convoked for Friday next.

Yesterday evening the mortal remains of the late
King were transported to Brussels. The crowd on
the route of the procession was enormous.
The Court will go into mourning for six months
from the day of the King's decease.

At the funeral of the King of the Belgians
Queen Victoria will be represented by Lord Sydney,
and five generals of the English army will also be

present.

Prince Alfred will accompany the Prince of Wales.
The Duke of Bassano will represent the Emperor
of the French.

The Duke of Baden will send his brother, and it
is stated that the Russian Duke Constantine will
also be presented at the obsequies.
Most of the high personages coming to Brussels
will lodge at the Palace.

Nearly all the Sovereigns of Europe have ad-
dressed their condolence to the Duke de Brabant
in sympathising and affectionate terms.
The official programme of the ceremonial to be
observed at the funeral of the late King has just
appeared. It is as follows :
" The obsequies of his Majesty Leopold I. will
be celebrated on Saturday, the 16th December, at
11 o'clock in the forenoon. Towards 10 a.m. the
civic guard of the capital and of the adjacent com-
munes, and the regular troops, will take up the
positions which shall be respectively assigned to
them. At half-past 10 the Council of Ministers,
the Legislative Chambers, and the Courts and Tri-
bunals, will meet at the Palace; the other authori-
ties and deputations will assume the places allotted
to them in the procession. After the funeral ser-
vice the procession will proceed towards Laeken,
following the Rue Royale, the Rue des Palais, the
Avenue de la Reine, and the Rue de l'Eglise. A
salvo of 101 guns will notify the departure of the
procession. The line will be kept by the civic guard
and the regular troops.
" The following order will be observed :—A. de-
tachment of mounted gendarmery, a corps of
cavalry, the cavalry of the Belgian civil guard, a
corps of cavalry, a corps of infantry of the line,
the military school, the artillery of the civic guard,
a corps of infantry of the civic guard, the wounded
of September, deputations from the legions of the
civic guard of the kingdom and from the
regiments of the regular army with the flag of the
corps, each deputation consisting of the commandant,
an officer from each rank, and the escort of the flag ;
the general staff of the army and officers unattached,
the general staff of the civic guard and officers un-
attached, the courts and tribunals, the Legislative
Chambers, the Ministers of State, and the Council
of Ministers.

" The funeral car, surrounded by the dignitaries
and officers of the late King's household. The cords
of the pall will be borne by the Presidents of the
Senate and the Chamber of Representatives, the
Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Justice, the
Lieutenant-General Inspector of the Civic Guard of
the Kingdom, and the Lieutenant Generals com-
manding territorial divisions.
" The car will be followed by the officiating
clergy, the King, the royal family, the foreign
princes, the representatives of foreign Powers, the
civil authorities and functionaries, and ministers of
worship. A corps of cavalry will close the proces-
sion.

" Twenty-four sub-officers, half taken from the
civic guard and half from the regular army, will
carry the coffin on arrival at the church of Laeken.
At the moment the procession reaches the place of
burial military honours will be rendered to the
royal corpse by detachments of the civic guard and
line. A gun will be fired every five minutes during
the progress of the procession. All flags and stan-
dards will be dressed with crape, the drums will be
covered with black cloth, and no bands will play
during the march of the procession."

BERLIN, Wednesday.

The Crown Prince of Prussia will leave for
Brussels to-morrow evening, to be present at the
funeral of the late King of the Belgians.

Major-General Von Loe, aide-de-camp of the
King, and Lieut. Von Diskau, will also proceed to
Brussels upon an extraordinary mission.

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Wednesday.

His Serene Highness Prince Christian of Schles-
wig-Holstein left the Castle to-day for the Conti-
nent, attended by Count de Rantzau.
Lieut.-Colonel Du Plat attended the prince to
Dover.

Her Royal Highness Princess Louise went to paY
a visit of condolence to Queen Marie Amelie at
Claremont to-day.

The Hon. Mrs. Bruce attended lux royal high-

ness.

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The Frince of Wales.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieut.-Colonel
Keppcl, arrived at Marlborough House last night
from Sandringham.

Arrival of the King and Queen of Portugal.
His Majesty King Louis 1., King of Portugal,
with his consort, Pia, daughter of King victor
Emmanuel, and attended by a limited suite, left
Paris at 11.15 a.m. yesterday, and arrived at Folke-
stone at 6.30 p.m. in the Albert Edward steam-
boat, Captain Jenkins, South-Eastern Railway
service, after a voyage of one hour and threo-
quarters from Boulogne. Capt. Boxer, harbour-
master, superintended the landing, and their Ma-
jesties were received on shore by Mr. J. B. Knight,
traffic manager of the South-Eastern Company,
and Mr. S. Teulon, director, and everything was
carried out with entire success. .As soon as the
boat was moored, the Portuguese and the Brazilian
Ministers went on board to pay their respects, and
to escort their Majesties on shore. Their Majesties,
on landing, were at once attended by Mr. Knight,
who conducted them to the refreshment-room, and,
after a brief rest, to the station platform, which was
covered with crimson cloth.

Their Majesties at once entered a royal saloon
carriage, followed by the Ministers and members
of their suite, and the royal servants were accom-
modated in a saloon and three first-class carriages.
Mr. Teulon, Mr. Knight, and Mr. Walker also ac-
companied the train, having with them a portable
telegraphic apparatus, for communication along the
line if required. At 7 o'clock the train departed for
London, amidst the cheers of a large crowd of per-
sons surrounding the station, and their Majesties
arrived in town about 9 o'clock.

Their -Majesties, on leaving the train, entered one
of the Queen's carriages, and drove to Claridge's
Hotel, where they pass the night, and proceed to
Windsor to-day (Thursday) to visit Queen Victoria.
It is the intention of the King of Portugal, Av°
believe, to proceed to Brussels in a day or two, to
attend the funeral of King Leopold.
Departure of Prince Christian.

Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein left Lon-
don for the Continent yesterday, by the 12.20 p.in•
train from Charing-cross Station. His highness
was accompanied to Dover by Count Rantzau, and
by Lieutenant-Colonel Du Plat, her Majesty's
Equerry.
The train arrived on the Admiralty Pier, Dover,
at 3.15 p.m., when the prince alighted and embarked
at once on board the Vivid (Commander Sulivan),
Government paddle-yacht (specially ordered), and
proceeded to Calais on his way to Berlin. The
prince was received at Dover by Captain Bruce,
R.N., the Admiralty Superintendent, Sir Luke
Smithett, Mr. Way, &c.
Mr. J. P. Knight, of the South-Eastern Railway,
travelled with the train from London to Dover.

The day being fine, a large number of the inha-
bitants of Dover were present on the pier to have a
glance at the prince as he embarked.

TFIE COURT.—The departure of her Majesty the
Queen and the Royal Family for Osborne, which was to
have taken place at the end of this week, has been deferred
for a day or two, although the necessary arrangements for
the removal of the Court from Windsor has been cow'
menced.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales arrived
in town yesterday, and will accompany the King of Portu-
gal to Brussels, in order to attend the funeral of the King
of the Belgians on Saturday.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and Princess Mary, attended by Lady Geraldine
Somerset and Colonel Purves, are expected to arrive at
their residence at St. James's Palace to-morrow or Satur-
day, from Germany.
His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury and
family are placed in mourning by the death of Sir Johu
Easthope, Bart. The hon. baronet married the widow of
his grace's brother, Major Longley.

His Excellency the French Ambassador has re-
turned to the French Embassy, Albert-gate, from visiting
Viscount and Viscountess Holmesdale, at Linton Parl,
Kent.

The Earl and Countess of "Wilton are entertain-
ing% select party at Egerton Lodge, Melton Alowbray.
The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke's party, at
Wimp°le Hall, will separate on Saturday.
The Earl of Sandwich has returned to town from
visiting Viscount and Viscountess Sidney at Frognall
Lodge, Kent.
Harriet, Dowager Countess of Ellesmere, and
the Lady Blanche Egerton have returned to Bridgewater
House from visiting Viscount and Viscountess Sydney 8t
Frognall, Kent.
Viscountess Dungannon and Miss Letitia D'ArcY
Irvine have arrived at Russell's Hotel, Dover-street.

Lord Brougham leaves his residence in Grafton-
street in a day or two for his villa at Cannes for the
winter.

Lord and Lady Tredegar, after a week's mg"
deuce in London, have roturned to Tredegar Park, lion"
mouthshire.

THE LATE GALES.—On Tuesday the brig Har-
mony, belonging to South Shields, was towed into
the Tyne by the Rapid and Robin Hood steam tugs, water'
logged and a derelict. She had been picked up off the
Dogger Bank by Whitby smacksmen, abandoned. All her
boats were gone, and she was full of water up to the deck'
The brig is timber laden. She left Dantzic on the 27th
Nov., and passed Elsinore on the 30th. The vessel had 8'
crew of nine hands when she left England for the Baltic.
It is hoped that as they appear to have taken to the boats
they may have been picked up by some passing vessel;
Two Tyne ships are missing—one a collier which wile
from the Tyne a fortnight ago in a leaky state, and the
other a ship coming from the Black Sea, which left C°ll-
- above three months since, and of which latter
mentioned vessel nothing further has been heard. _

MINERAL OIL AT TROWBRIDGE.—Our;:corro"
spondent writes that, in consequence of the ground
sinking under the steam boilers of Brown and Palmer, cloth
manufacturers of Trowbridge, sinking excavations were
i
made to a depth of 20ft., where the earth was discovered
to be on fire. Further investigations led to the discoved
of the same kind of unctuous clay as that found in Yorkshire'
The Trowbridge clay has been submitted to a test,
and a fine clear mineral oil extracted therefrom. l'''l,,, 1
fire from the boiler-holes seems to have communicate.
with the oily clay, and this accounts for the rapid sinking
of the earth.—Bristol Times. _

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