The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-07 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, MARcn 7.
M. de Montholon has been appointed French
ambassador at Washington.

M. Dano has been appointed French Minister in

Mexico.

A short notice, published in the Moniteur of this
morning, directs attention to the principal points of
the bill for primary education, which was sent to
the Council of State after the discussion of the im-
portant questions raised by the report of M. Duruy.
In conclusion, the article says that the bill does not
rest on the basis set forth by the Minister of Public
Instruction.

It was necessary that the report should be pub-
lished as the expression of a personal opinion, and
on account of the importance of the information
which it contains.

The Civil Tribunal has just tried an action
brought against MM. Brandus and Dufour, M.
Charton, lithographic printer, and M. Martinel,
music-seller, by M. Bentayoud, composer and pro-
prietor of a patent for the reproduction of music,
reduced by the photographic process, in the form of
cartes de visite, with the notes on one side and the
composer's portrait on the other. M. Bentayoud's
counsel stated that his client obtained a patent for
his process in 1863, and had already published
several pieces of music with portraits, when the de-
fendants brought out some of Meyerbeer's composi-
tions in precisely the same style, and thus infringed
his patent, for which he sought compensation. The
defendants' counsel maintained, on the contrary, that
the process in question could not be made the object
of a patent, and moreover that it was known and
had been practised at least two years before the
plaintiff's patent was obtained. These facts having
been proved to the satisfaction of the Tribunal, it
rejected the plaintiff's demand, and condemned him
to pay 300 fr. damages to MM. Brandus and Dufour,
and 100 fr. to each of the other defendants.

The Correctional Tribunal tried, the day before
yesterday, a gardener and his wife named Levas-
seur, charged with having cruelly illtreated a little
girl eight years old, the daughter of the husband
by his first wife. It appeared from the evidence of
numerous witnesses adduced that from the time of
Levasseur's second marriage, two years since, the
poor child had been cruelly beaten almost every
day, and half-starved besides. In January last the
police were informed by some of the prisoners' neigh-
bours that nothing had been seen of the child for
about three weeks. A commissary of police accordingly
went to the prisoners' lodgings, and found the child
shut up in a dark closet, in a shocking state of filth,
with scarcely any clothing, her body covered all over
with scars and bruises, and in a state of extreme
emaciation. The father and stepmother, who them-
selves were well clothed and fed, were immediately
arrested, and the poor child was sent to the hospital
for sick children, but there is too much reason to
think that she will not recover from the consequences
of the ill-treatment she had endured. The two pri-
soners pretended that the girl was very mischievous,
and that it was necessary to punish her. The Court,
however, thinking that no raisconductof a child
could justify such cruelty, declared the charge
proved against
months' prisoners, and condemned the
father ' imprisonment, the stepmother
to the er
samea 1 to
punishment for a year, and each to pay
a fine of 16f.

The Courrier du Bas-Rhin announces the death
at Langenthal, canton of Berne, of Joseph Jost,
aged 84, formerly a drummer in a Swiss regiment
under Louis XVI. In 1792, when the Palace of
the Tuileries was taken by the people, the little
drummer, then 12 years old, was amongst the few
Swiss soldiers who escaped the massacre.
t, There appears to be some truth," says a Paris
correspondent of the Independance Belge, " in the
report of the discovery of a manuscript of Louis
XIV., the subject
_of which is La Vie de Cesar,'
only there is some difference of opinion as to the
details. One version of the story goes that five
chapters written by that monarch have been found
among a collection of autograph letters of Mme. de
Maintenon, entitled Lettres aux Princes.' A work
is now spoken of as having been found in the
Bibliotheque Imperiale—namely, a translation of
Suetonius,' by Louis XIV., and which must have
gone through the press. It may be added that one
of my colleagues speaks of the discovery at the office
of the Minister of War of an edition of the Com-
mentaries of Caesar, in the same reign, of which
only ten copies had been struck off."
BOURSE, March G.—The market is active, and
prices have slightly advanced. Threes, for the
Account, are now at 67fr. 80c. Mobilier variable,
and have been done at 880 f. Railway Shares are
quiet, without any material change. The following
are the last quotations :-
4i per Cents 96 75
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 67 80
Do. end month —
Credit Mobilier 890
Do. end mouth .„
Bank Shares 3510 _
C r 9dit Fonder I27Q

Italian Loan 65 10
Do. end month —
Ditto Threes —
New Mexican
Russian OO
Austrian
Spanish Threes
'gout() Debt
Deferred
.'AXO.
Cash.
Orleans
Northern lOl5 --
Lyons and Mediterranean..„, 947 50
Southern 575
Western
Eastern
Sardinian BO5 —• "'" --
Austrian
Lombard 546 25
North of Spain.. 305
Saragossa 375 ..•

Roman

Acct.

Ditto to Barcelona '''

A private letter from Paris states that at a masked
ball the other night, three men personating Julius
Caesar, Charlemagne, and Napoleon I. respectively, were
walking arm in arm amidst roars of laughter. Caesar was
dressed like an ancient Roman Rlcquisite, and scratched
his head with his fingers. When the crowd interrupted
their movements the great Roman rebuked them with
humorous gravity by saying, 6‘ Happy the people who
understand and obey us ; woe to those who disregard and
oppose us."
FIVE COAST-GUAItDS)IEN DROWNED.-011 Satur-
day afternoon the coast-guardsmen belonging to
the Warborrow station, about 13 miles west of St. Alban's
Head; were returning in their galley with a cargo of stores
from Weymouth, when the vessel was struck by a heavy
sea at Lulworth, and went down at once. The occurrence
had been witnessed from Lulworth, and a boat was imme-
diately sent off, but on arriving at the spot only a few
light articles forming pact of the stores were picked up,
The wind and sea were so unfavourable at the time that
the Lulworth boat could not effect a re-landing at the
point of its departure, and was obliged to be taken to
Mupes. The names of the unfortunate men who perished
are Baker, Hickey, Chope, Dumas, and Parnell, and all of
them, with the exception of the last-named, had seen years
of service in the coast-guard. Several children are left for
the moment unpkovided for by the se4 40=r0110.