The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-18 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Toulonnais says :—" The Imperial yacht
Reine-Hortense, now being armed, is shortly to
leave Toulon for the north to be at the disposal of
the Minister of Marine, who will embark in her to
be present at the great maritime fetes. The frigate
Thomis has left for Brest. The steam transport
Rhone, with from 200 to 300 marines and about 40
officers on: board, has also left for Mexico, via
Algiers, where she will take about 1,000 military
passengers."
The number of authorisations granted to French
subjects to wear foreign decorations during the first
six months of 1865, was 177, thus distributed :
England, 1 ; Austria, 2 ; Bavaria, 1 ; Belgium, 1 ;
Denmark, 4 ; Spain, 40 ; Roman States, 54 ; Italy,
23 ; Mecklenburg Schwerin, 1 ; Mexico, 12 ; Prus-
sia, 2 ; Holland, 3 ; Persia, 2 ; Portugal, 4 ; Russia,
5 ; Sweden, 2 ; Turkey, 12 ; Tunis, 8.
The Moniteur says :—The central committee of
the international exhibition of Oporto, informed of
the kindness with which the French Government
has met its wishes in placing at its disposal specimens
of the produce of the Imperial manufactures of
Sevres, the Gobelins, and Beauvais, has immediately
met to express officially to the French Consul at
Oporto their gratitude for this precious mark of
sympathy, which it received, in common with the
Portuguese press, with most lively satisfaction.
The labourers employed by the propeietors of
flower-gardens and nursery-grounds in the neigh-
bourhood of Paris have discovered that their pay of
80f or 90f per month, or 2f. 65e. per day is insuffi-
cient. They have therefore demanded from their
employers-Ist to reduce their day's work to 12
hours ; 2d. To fix the rate of wages at from 3f. 50c.
to 4f. per day ; 3d. To raise to4oc. the pay for each
supplementary hour. It appears from a letter ad-
dressed by the delegates to the Siecle that five
masters have adhered to those new conditions.
" There is a rumour," says the Presse, "of the
approaching conversion of the Six per Cent. Mexi-
can Loan of 1864 into bonds of the same kind as
those issued for the nominal loan of 500 millions of
francs. The conditions of the conversion are said
to be the giving of two bonds bearing 60fr. interest
for 75fr. of Mexican rente. The difference would
be made up by the prices given at each drawing and
the other advantages connected with the last loan.
The amount of that of 1864 remaining in the hands
of the French Government unrealised represents a
sum of 54 millions of francs."

The number of ports in France now served by
railways is :—ln the Channel, 18 ; Atlantic, 16 ;
Mediterranean, 13 ; making a total of 47. The
ports to be served by lines already conceded are
In the Channel, 2 ; Atlantic, 7 ; Mediterranean,
2 ; or eleven in all. There are besides 26 ports not
to be served by railways, which, without counting
Corsica and other islands, give 84 as the number of
the principal ports of France.
BOURSE, July 17.--The market opened much
weaker than on Saturday, owing to the allusion
made by the Moniteur to the slight indisposition of
the Prince Imperial—Threes, for the Account,
having retrograded 20c., and Crddit Mobilier shares
20f. The market nevertheless remains very firm at
these. reduced prices, and has even advanced on
them, the Mobilier shares attaining 731 f. 25c., and
the Threes 67f. 50c. Italian Five per Cents. are at
64f. 90c. The Bourse closed on a very bad market.
Credit Mobilier shares particularly affected. After
attaining 738 f. 75c. they fell at the close to 716 f.
25c., realising a fall for f
per Cents —

he day of 28f. 75c.:

Do. and month

Ditto Threes —
Mexican Loan 47 50
Do. Bonds 320
Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred
Roman

3 per Cents. 67 45
Do. end month 67 40

Credit Mobilier ... 720

Do. end month 716 25
Bank Shares 3580

Credit Foncier 1257 50
Italian Loan 64 95
Do. end month 64 85

WAYS.
Cash. Amt.
Orleans
Northern — ... 1045
Lyons and Mediterranean 845 ... 847 50
Southern — _ ... 565
Western — ... 532 50
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 486 25 ... 485
North of Spain 175 ... 172 50
Saragossa — .., 325
Ditto to Barcelona — •.•

RAIL

A letter from Berne states that a duel with pistols
has lately been fought near that city between two Poles,
31. Kurczyna and M. Guttry, member of the Prussian
Chamber of Deputies, in which the former was severely
wounded, and has since died, all attempts to extract the
ball having proved fruitless.

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WIFE MURDER IN LIVERPOOL.—On Saturday
night a painter named Harriman Burns, living with
his wife and children in Prince Edwin-street, Everton,
murdered his wife by stabbing her with a penknife in the
left shoulder. Burns, who had been drinking heavily of
late, had occasionally suffered from delirium tremens. On
Saturday evening he went out for a walk with a man
named Dickenson, and returned home about nine o'clock,
and sat down by the fire with the deceased woman and
her son Robert. They, had been sitting for some time,
when all of a sudden Burns jumped up, rushed at his wife,
and commenced to stab her in the neck and shoulder. He
was at once seized by Dickenson. The poor woman fell
to the floor, cried out " Oh dear," and immediately expired.
On being taken into custody, and accused of stabbing his
wife, he coolly said, " I did it." Ho appeared quite calm
and collected. Tho prisoner was brought before the
Liverpool magistrates yesterday, and was remanded for
oven days.