The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-26 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Journal des Fabricans de Sucre has the fol-
lowing :—" The number of manufactories now at
work in France is 293 against 183 of last year, and
the quantity made is 10,740,515 kilogrammes, in-
stead of 2,755,400. The year 1862 must be gone
back to, in order to find a month of September at
all approaching this last in respect of production,
and even that month fell short, as it only produced
7,245,667 kilos. from a very good crop. The average
of production in September, 1862, was 280 sacks for
each manufactory ; that of the same month this year
is 360, or nearly 30 per cent. additional. We do
not wish to draw any comparison with the two
years before the present, as there was then a
scarcity, whilst this is one of abundance, which will
give a wide extension to the trade in beetroot sugar.
Being personally desirous of witnessing the results
of the harvest, we have spent several days in visit-
ing various parts of the department of the Nord.
The whole country is beetroot, pulp, sugar, and
fuel; the roads are encumbered with the produce.
In a word, the result of the present campaign will
be most satisfactory"
The Tribunal of Commerce has just given judg-
ment in an action brought by M. Massue, director
of the Grand Theatre Parisian, against M. Duprez,
the tenor, to recover damages under the following
circumstances :—ln July, 1865, M. Duprez wishing
to establish a popular opera, and present to the pub-
lic his own musical works, especially his opera of
" Jeanne d'Arc," made an arrangement with M.

Massue for the use of his theatre for seven months.
M. Duprez was to pay all the performers, and the
profits were to be divided equally between the con-
tracting parties. The performances, however, having
been interrupted by the indisposition of one of the
artistes, M. Alassue now demanded 7,000 fr. from
M. Duprez as compensation for his loss, on the
ground that the latter had not taken proper care
to secure an efficient company, M. Duprez main-
tained, on the contrary, that the performances were
suspended through no fault of his, and that he could
not be held responsible. The tribunal, taking the
latter view of the case, rejected M. Massue's de-
mand, and condemned him to pay all costs.
The Tribunal of Correctional Police yesterday
tried a man named Fleury, aged 27, calling himself
an architect, on numerous charges of swindling, by
obtaining money under false pretences. It appeared
from the evidence that defendant wished to establish
an advertising journal, entitled the Tambour, and
in order to find subscribers for the same he adopted
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the strange expedient of publishing an advertisement
in the Siècle announcing that a young and beautiful
lady named Mlle. C _, possessing a fortune of two
millions of francs, wished to enter the holy state of
matrimony with an honourable man and that the pos-
session of fortune on his part was to her a matter of
perfect indifference. The defendant received no less
than 1,500 answers to this from persons of all ranks,
among whom were marquises and counts, jour-
nalists and notaries, coopers, cooks, labourers, &c.,
most of them accompanied by a photograph of the
writer. To all the applicants the defendant replied
that he could not place them on his list unless they
subscribed to his journal, and this a great number
of them did without hesitation. The defendant
himself acknowledged that he had received as much
as 1,400 fr. As only one number of the journal
appeared, and nothing more was heard of the ima-
ginary lady of fortune, the candidates for her hand

denounced the defendant to the police, and ho was
arrested. Many of them appeared as witnesses be-
fore the Tribunal, and as their evidence was con-
clusive the Tribunal declared the charge proved,
and condemned the defendant to two months' im-
prisonment.

As an omnibus plying between Paris and Choisy-
le-Roi was yesterday morning passing along the
Quai d'Austerlitz, it overturned owing to the break-

ing of an axle-tree. Thirteen out of twenty pas-

sengers received slight contusions ; but a M. T-
of Grenelle, and the driver were more seriously,
though not dangerously, injured.

BOURSE, Oct. 25.—Two o'Clock.—The first
despatch from London announced a fall in Consols
of I per cent., and the second a further fall of 1.
This retrograde movement is attributed to an appre-
hension very generally entertained that the Bank
of England may increase the rate of discount to *
per cent. at its weekly meeting to-morrow. The
effect here has been an almost general decline in the
quotations of the principal Securities, and Threes,
for the Account, have lost 12i c., the quotation being
68f. Italian Fives have declined 15c., to 65f. 45c.
Credit Mobilier Shares have fallen 7f. 50e., and are
quoted 885 f. Foreign railway shares have also been
affected, more particularly Lombard, Roman,North
of Spain, and Victor Emmanuel. Three o'Clock.—
, The market closed as follows:

41 per Cents 96 10
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 6B 02i
Do. end month 6B
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3700
Credit Fonder —
Italian Loan 65 GO
Do. end mouth GS 50
RAHN

Ditto Threes ...
Roman
Mexican Loan 4B 25
Do. Bonds 3lB 75
Russian - _
Austrian
Spanish Throes
Dome Debt
Deferred