The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-31 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, May 30.—A considerable change has
taken place in the aspect of the Bourse to-day, the
firmness and activity remarkable during the past
few days having given way to a feeling of languor
which has caused an adverse movement in nearly
all the principal Securities. The importance of
yesterday's intelligence from Mexico also appears to
have been more fully realised in monetary circles—
the Stock of the Old Loan having receded to 474,
and that of the New to 327 f. Threes, for the Ac-
count, have been 67f. 25c., and Italian Loan at
66f. 15c. Transactions in the Shares of the Credit
Mobilier have taken place at 761 f. 25c. The market
closed as follows :

421 per Cents 95 50
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 67 50
Do. end month 67 221
Credit Mobilier 762 50
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3500 —.
Credit Fonder 1285
Italian Loan 66 10
Do. end month 66 15
BAIL'

Ditto Threes —
New Mexican
Do. New
Russian — --
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt

Deferred
Roman 76

Orleans
Northern .
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian

Cash. Acct.
830 ... 830
... 1068 75 ... 1065
... 891 25 ... 891 25
~.. 595 ... 593 75
~.. 527 50 ... 525
506 25 505

305 -

... 302 50

Austrian
Lombard 490 490
North of Spain 227 50 230
Saragossa 322 50 322 50
Ditto to Barcelona 155 ~. 150

T URKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, May 22.

The submission of the Taurus chiefs turns out to
have been a feint, either to gain time for measures
of resistance, or to delay the proposed expedition
till the sweltering heats of July and August should
have rendered any effective operations impossible.
The two Derebeys who were to have come to the
capital a month ago to tender their subjection and
receive investiture from the Porte, have made no
sign of doing so, and information from the neigh-
bouring pashalic of Adama, making it clear that
nothing of the kind was really intended, the Go-
vernment has lost no time in sending off the first
detachments of the expeditionary force on the scale
originally proposed. On Friday last Dervish Pasha
and Djerided Effendi, respectively the Commander-
in-Chief of the force and the Imperial Commissioner
to be attached to it, had their audience of the Sul-
tan, and sailed the following afternoon for Alex-
andretta on board a screw liner, accompanied
by a couple of heavy frigates and two corvettes,
carrying the quota of troops furnished to the expe-
dition by the army of the capital. Another frigate
has at the same time been telegraphed to proceed
from Alexandria to Candia to embark two bat-
talions from the garrison of that island. With the
detachments to be supplied from Aleppo the whole
" regular" strength of the force will thus be raised
to 15,000 men, exclusive of 2,000 Bashi-bazouks
furnished from Erzingham. With such a force it
can hardly be doubted that a month or six weeks'
campaign will bring the recalcritant Derebeys effec-
tually to their senses.

Abd-el-Kader continues to be the object of the
most flattering attention on the part of the Sultan
and the Government generally. On Wednesday
last the Grand Vizier personally carried to hirp the
decoration of the'first class of the Oswaine, with
the large star in brillian's. This is the very highest
class of the order, which is itself the highest in
Turkey, and, besides the Sultan himself, is only
worn by two or three of the chief dignitaries of the
Empire.
During the past ten days the Emir has paid re-
peated visits to all the legations, except those of
Austria and Spain, as also the local agency of the
Pope. These three Governments are, it is said,
the only ones iu Europe which does not express
gratitude for his protecting services to the Christians
during the Damascus massacres, and he accordingly
113 W repays their neglect in kind. He is remain
here for another six weeks, when he will proceedto
Paris in accordance with the invitation of the
Emperor. _ _ _

A negotiation is spoken of between Mr. Laing
and the Ottoman Societe Generale, which is likely
to result in the latter taking part in the forthcoming
conversion of the home debt. Though the Ottoman
bank is a large constituent of the Societe its antago-
nism to the measure is said not to be shared by the
chief local members of the latter Company, whose
estimate of the scheme, it is alleged, differs widely
from that expressed in the pamphlet put
forth by the Paris and London boards of the bank.
The adherence of the Societe to the measure would-
effectually insure at least its local success.

Surfet Pasha, the new ambassador to Paris, pro-
ceeds to his post by the Kustendjee mail of Thursday
next.

Sir Henry Bulwer's trip to the Suez Canal has,
it seems, convinced him that as a mere matter of
construction the work is quite practicable, but at the
same time his opinion as to the political impolicy,
if not actual peril, of permitting M. Lesseps to carry
out his little game in the collateral—but really most
important—matters of the fresh water canals and
the belts of territory claimed by the Compagnie
Universelle has deepened into a conviction
that for the sake of the Porte and of
all other interests concerned—except those of
M. Lesseps, and those whose work he is doing--
prompt and resolute action should be taken, Such

has been the result of Sir Henry's apparently " idle"
winter in Egypt.
The Porte, it is said, has not heard his views and
the grounds of them without anxiety, all the more
that they entirely tally with the reports of Osman
Pasha, the special commissioner of the Divan on the
spot. The French Government, having learned that
the Turkish and Egyptian members of the commis-
sion named to report on the issues raised by the Em-
peror's late award are likely to be craccord against
the nominee of the company, now wishes to add a
delegate of its own, so as to equalise the arbitrative
influence, or, in plainer words, by gaining over
either of the two Mussulman commissioners, to
have the whole matter decided " legitimately" in
the French sense. But to this both our own Go-
vernment and the Porte are naturally enough
opposed ; and as K Drouyn de Lhuys, on his
part insists, on carrying the point, the slight cloud
of a " difficulty" on the subject is visibly gathering
on the horizon. It is not unlikely therefore that
the Suez Canal " questson" will again be cropping
up in a somewhat more definite form than what it
has recently occupied before the public.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

EAST SURREY'.

Mr. 11. W. Peek, of Wimbledon-house, and Mr.
W. Brodrick, of Peper Harow, who are candidates
for the representation of the eastern division of the
county of Surrey, have issued their addresses to the
electors. Mr. Peek, in his circular to the 9,913
voters on the register, says :
"My political preferences are in favour of such a mode-
rately Conservative policy as would aim to consolidate our
institutions, and from time to time adapt them to the vary-
ing circumstances of the age, rather than to introduce sud-
den or violent changes—at the present time, as I think, not
only undesirable to the interest of any class of my country-
men, but fraught with danger to the welfare or liberties of
all. Late experience as to the practical working of Ame-
rican institutions, on the one hand, and the repressive
policy of many European States on the other, will not have
been without a due influence upon Englishmen, jealous of
and valuing their position and character. It is not within
the compass of an address to go far into the many subjects of
the day. On the more prominent I may be permitted to say
that the ballot does not commend itself to my judgment; that
in the absence of ..any well-considered scheme—such, for
instance, as the better administration of the ecclesiastical
property of the country—l could not support the uncondi-
tional abolition of church rates, nor could be a party by
lowering the franchise to swamp the middle class of elec-
tors, which embraces so large a proportion of theintelligent
industry of the country, and which has ever shown itself
thoroughly worthy of its political privileges. The unpro-
ductive expenditure of the country is very heavy ; and
though cordially agreeing in the opinion that the mainte-
nance of an ample military and naval force in the highest
state of efficiency is, considering the extent and circum-
stances of her Majesty's dominions, true economy, I shall
at all times welcome and support judicious retrenchment."

Mr. Brodrick, in offering himself to the electors
in conjunction with Mr. Peek, remarks :--
"I solicit your suffrages as a firm supporter of that con-
stitution under which England has enjoyed so large a share
of freedom, prosperity, and happiness. At the same time, I
am not insensible to the fact that, like all other human in-
stitutions, it is susceptible of improvements, provided the
changes made in it are judiciously planned and not of a
sweeping character, so that the original flame of the fabric
should be, as far as possible, preserved. On this ground I
shall offer an uncompromising opposition to any attempts
which may be made tosubstitute asystem of secret for open
voting—the old and constitutional method of eliciting the
sense of the constituencies. If returned as your represen-
tative, I am willing to support such alterations in our re-
presentative system as would extend without lowering the
franchise. A member of the Church of England by convic-
tion, and feeling strongly that she is emphatically the
Church of the poor, I can be a party to no scheme for the
settlement of the church rate question which does not pro-
vide lot the due celebration of public worship, and for
the preservation of the venerable fabrics which have
been bequeathed to us by the munificent piety of our
forefathers. I should, however, give my hearty support
to any well-considered measure for the adjustment of a con-
troversy the prolongation of which I regard as an evil. I
am in favour of the exercise of as rigid an economy, with
respect to the national finances, as is consistent with due
provision being made for the maintenance of the national
defences and for the support of the honour of our country.
I am, therefore, opposed to all demonstrations which tend
to embroil us with foreign Powers when British interests
are not at stake and British honour has not to be vindicated.
Whenever the circumstances of the Empire admit of a re-
duction being made in the present rate of indirect taxation,
I think that a careful revision of the malt-tax should be,
upon the principles of free trade, among the first of thoso
points to which the attention of the Legislature should bo
directed. Looking to the exceptional burdens which are
imposed upon many parishes forming a part or in the
neighbourhood of the metropolis, by the operation of the
present poor-law system, I should be prepared to support
such modifications in it as would spread exceptional taxa-
tion over a wider area than at present. As there are many
fields of action common to individuals differing in religious
creeds and in political opinions I shall always be ready,
while holding my own views firmly and conscientiously, to
co-operate with those who may differ from me on minor
points in every movement for the social and religious ame-
lioration of the condition of the people."