The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-01 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONEO.N, FRIDAY EVEAING, DECEMBER 1, lEEE.

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

FRANCE.

On the occasion of the first performance of the
"Africaine" at Berlin, the Queen of Prussia sent
Mme. Meyerbeer a valuable vase, accompanied by
a gracious autograph letter. Queen Augusta has
always been a fervent admirer of Meyerbeer. The
widow of the illustrious maestro has made presents
to the principal artists who sang in the " Africaine"
in the Prussian capital.
Dr. Barth, celebrated for the great journey he
made ten years ago into the interior of Afric has
just died suddenly at Berlin.
The Civil Tribuual of the Seine has just given
judgment in an action brought by MM. Gerard and
Co., against M. Choudens, both music publishers,
of Paris, to recover damages for an infringement of
their copyright in the " Joyeuses Commeres de
Windsor," an opera by Nicolai, originally published
at Berlin with a German libretto by Mosenthal.
The counsel for the plaintiffs stated that his clients
had purchased from MM. Bote and Bock of Berlin,
to whom Nicolai and Mosenthal had sold their
opera, the right of publishing a French edition of
the work in question, the libretto of which had been
translated from German into French by M. Danglas.
The defendant had also published the music of the
opera with words by M. Jules Barbier, and this,
they alleged, was an infringement of their rights,
for which they were entitled to compensation. The
defendants' counsel argued, on the other hand, that
as Nicolai died in 1849, the copyright of the music
expired in 1863, and that his client was entitled to
publish it with a libretto taken, like Mosenthal's,
from Shakspere's "Merry Wives of Windsor." lie
maintained that though Mosenthal was still living,
and his copyright of the libretto still existed, that
fact could not prolong the copyright of the music
beyond the term fixed by the law of 1793. The
Avocat-General declared that the copyright of the
music had undoubtedly expired, and that any per-
son had a right to adapt fresh words to it from
Shakspere's comedy ; consequently, the plaintiffs'
claims could not be maintained. The Tribunal
taking the same view of the case, gave judgment
for the defendant with costs.

The demands for admission to the Universal Ex-
hibition of 1867 in France alone received by M.
Leplay, Commissary-General, amounted to upwards
of 15,000 at the end of October.

A correspondent of the Temps states that the
peculiar character of the insanity of Dr. Jobert de
Lamballe, the eminent surgeon, is an almost total
loss of memory. What he says one minute he has
entirely forgotten the next. Several times in the
course of a day he will tell his attendants to get his
carriage ready, as he has important calls to make.
When informed that the carriage is waiting, he will
hastily go out, but before he has taken ten steps he
forgets all about his intended visits and returns to
his room. The general opinion of Dr. de Lamballe's
medical attendants is that his insanity belongs to a
category which experience has hitherto proved to
be incurable. It is said that Dr. Nelaton will suc-
ceed him as surgeon to the Imperial family.
The Journal de Falaise announces that an appli-
cation for the concession of a railway from that place
to Conde, by Pont d'Ouilly, with a branch to the
line from Caen to Flers, has just been made to the
Prefect of Calvados by M. Granier de Cassignac,
as representative of a powerful company.
A letter from Fleury-sur-Andello (Eure) says that
at the end of last week a troop of wolves came down
at night on the flocks of M. Hardi, a farmer at
Coquetot, and in spite of the dogs, who resisted
bravely, scattered the sheep in all directions. On
the following morning the shepherd found that 12
of them had been slaughtered, and several others,
severely mangled, have since died.
An Imperial decree makes the following appoint-
ments in the Legion of Honour, for services rendered
during the cholera :—To the rank of officer, Dr.
Japhet, chief physician of the navy and sanitary
practitioner at Smyrna. To that of Knight, M.
Horteloup, attached as medical attendant to the
mission sent to Egypt ; M. Verguin, in a similar
position on board the packets of the Messageries-
Imperiales ; M. Gery, medical man at Sollis-Pont
(Var) ; M. Gayal, student of the Faculty of Mont-
pellier, sent on a mission to Toulon and to the Grand
C ombe.
The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the
following as the atmospheric situation yesterday :
" The tempest in the Channel was spreading on
Tuesday evening to all the French coasts. At six
o'clock the wind was violent in :the French ports,
and the sea, furious at Havre and Rochefort, was
running high at Lorient, at the angle of the Bay of
Biscay, and on the coasts of Provence. At that
time the barometer marked 747.5 millimetres at
Paris, and the centre of depression was between
London and Havre. This morning the gale was di-
minishing in violence, its centre continuing to march
towards the east, and approaching the Helder. The
sea is still rough at Boulogne, on the coasts of Pro-
vence, and in the Bay of Biscay. The winds are
fresh in the Channel. On Tuesday evening there
was an aurora borealis in Lapland." In Paris yes-
terday the sky was tolerably clear and the tempe-
rature seasonable. ~A.t three the thermometer marked
10.8 Cent. (51 2-5 Fahr).
BOURSE, Nov. 30.—Two o'Clock.—The reponse
des primes (option) has just taken place at the fol-
lowing rates :—Three per Cents. 68f. 55c. ; Italian
Fives 64f. 95c. ; Credit Mobilier, 867 fr. 50c. ; Spa-
nish Mobilier, 453 f. 75c. ; Lombards, 408 f. 75c. ;
Immobiliere, 536 f. 25c. No sooner was the opera-
tion of fixing the prices accomplished than sales
caused Rente to retrograde 74c.—to 68f. 47ie.
French and Spanish Mobilier show a decline of
2f. 50c. Very little business doing in the Railway
department. Lombard Shares have advanced 3f.
75c., whilst North of Spain have declined 5f., and
Saragossa 3f. 75c. The weekly return of the Bank
of France shows a further increase of nearly 4I
millions of francs in the bullion account, and a de-
crease of 47 millions in the portefeuille. Three
o'clock.—The market became buoyant towards the
close, and left off at the following improved quota-

tions:--
4 Cents —
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. —
Do. end month CB 50
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month 875
Bank Shares
Credit Foncier 1320
Italian Loan —
Do. end month 65

Roman
Ottoman Fives 44
Mexican Loan 49

Do. Bonds 332 50
Russian -
Austrian
Spanish Threes 43
Home Debt
Deferred

Acct.
... 822
... 1098 -
- ... 826 -
- ... 566
. ... 538
_ ... 516 - -
-.— ... 207 -
- ... 418
_ ... 411
_ ... 162
- ... 192

RAILWAYS.
Cash.

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

_ ___ ... 150 -

London and Provincial Turkish Bath Co

(Limited. )

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

76, Jermyn-street, S.W., London, Nov. 30, 1865.
Six,—The half-yearly meeting of the London and Pro-
vincial Turkish Bath Co. (Limited) took place this day at
two o'clock, at No. 76, Jermyn-street—S. E. Rolland, Esq.,
in the chair.

The report showed that the income of the company
during the past six months had very much exceeded that of
the corresponding period of last year, and a dividend at
the rate of 6 per cent. per annum was declared.
In addition to this dividend, a sum equal to 5 per cent.
per annum has been paid to the original shareholders for
the time prior to the commencement of the working of the
company. The increase during the past six months, and
especially that of the past two months, warrants the anti-
cipation of a higher dividend in the future.
A proposal was then submitted and approved for the
reconstruction of the hotel, and for increased accommoda-
tion for bathers.

A voto of thanks to tho chairman terminated tho pro-
ceedings.
I have tho honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,

J. O'NELL, Secretary.

The Hon. George Stafford Jermngham, her
Majesty's Minister at Peru, and Mrs. Jerningham, have
left Maurigy's Hotel on a visit to Mrs. Fitzherbert,
Swinuerton Park, Staffordshire.