The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-07 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Jan. 6.—The market has been buoyant,
with a fair amount of business doing, at improved
quotations. Threes, for the Account, are now at
66f. 95c. Mobilier, which are quoted ex div., 52f.,
have been at 965 f., showing a slight advance,
Railway Shares have been rather in demand, and
many of the lines are somewhat higher. The fol-
lowing other Securities are also quoted ex. div. :
Austrian Railways, 12f. 50c. ; Madrid to Saragossa,
15f. ; North of Spain, 15f. ; Northern, 25f. ;
Southern, 20f. ; Transatlantic Company, 12f. 50c. ;
Suez, 10f. ; Immobiliere, 12f 50c. The market
closed as follows :

41 per Cents 94 10
Do. end month — ___.

Italian Loan 64 40
Do. end month 64 70
Ditto Threes 64 25
New Mexican
Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred

3 per Cents. 66 80
Do. end month 66 85
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3460

Credit Foncier 1267 50
Roman

WAYS.

RAILV

Cash. Acct.
Orleans B9O ... 877 50
Northern 9BO ... 987 50
Lyons and Mediterranean 9lO ••• 910
Southern 5BO ... 580 --
Western 530 ... 592 50
Eastern
Sardinian 306 25 ... 302 50
Austrian — ... 437 50
Lombard 525 ... 525
North of Spain 362 50 ... 362 50
a Saragossa .... 422 50 ... 425
Ditto to Barcelona -.- 111/ ..." ..".

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THE TURKISH PRESS LAW,

CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 28.
The following is a summary of the new ordi-
nance concerning the press in Turkey :
Article 1 provides—That no journal whatever
shall be published in the empire without the pre-
viously-had authorisation of the Government.

Art. 2. That in the case of a native the demand
for this shall be addressed to the Minister of In-
struction ; and in that of a foreigner, to the Minis-
ter of Foreign Affairs.
Art. 3. That such authorisation shall only be
granted to natives of at least 30 years of age, and
in the full enjoyment of their civil rights, and to
foreigners who shall submit themselves absolutely
to Turkish jurisdiction for all the purposes of this
law.

Art. 4. That application for it shall be accom-
panied by a written declaration, signed by the
responsible conductor of the intended paper, indicat-
ing all its conditions of publication, &c. ; that a
copy of the journal, if in the provinces, shall be
sent to the local governor, if in the capital, to the
Bureau de la Presse ; and that every number of the
paper shall bear at its bottom the printed name of
the manager or proprietor.
Art. 5. That on the occasion of every transfer of
the paper to a new proprietor, the incoming owner
must obtain a new authorization.

Art. 6. That existing journals need not obtain
such authorisation, and are released from all
" warnings" they may hitherto have received ; they
are, however, in all other respects to be subjected
to the provisions of this new law.
Art. 7. That the signing manager shall be re-
sponsible for everything in the paper by whomsoever
written.

Art. 8. That all communications received from
the Bureau de la Presse by the local provincial
authorities must be inserted gratis, as also must the
answer of any person mentioned in any article
published by the paper addressed,--the length bf
space occupied by such answer not to be more than
double the length of the article which may have
provoked it.
Art. 9 Prohibits the entrance into the Empire
of any foreign publications hostile to the Turkish
Government.

These nine Articles constitute what are termed
the " general provisions" of the law, and the re-
maining 26 comprise its " penal provisions," which
though inconveniently vague are, it will be seen,
both comprehensive and severe.
Art. 10 Provides that every publication issued
without authorisation shall be subject in the person
of its conductor to a fine of 10 liras (9/.) for each
number so published, and the paper itself shall be

suppressed.
Art. 11 Prescribes a fine of 10 liras for every

violation of Art. 4.

Art. 12 inflicts a fine of from 2 to 10 liras for
every refusal to publish the communications re-
ferred to in Art. 8, besides leaving the editor
liable to whatever judicial proceedings the incrimi-
nated article may justify.
Art. 13 pronounces liable to punishment (what
not stated) any one who may through the press
provoke the commission of any offence which is
recognised by the penal code as a " crime" or
" misdemeanour" (delit) : the offending journal
shall also be suppressed by the discretionary action
of the authorities.
Art-. 14 punishes every offence against " public
morality," good manners, or any one of the re-
ligions or creeds professed in the Empire, with a
fine of from 1 to 25 liras, or with imprisonment
of from a week to three weeks.
Art. 15 inflicts a fine of from 25 to 100 liras,
or imprisonment of from six months to three
years, for offences against the person or autho-
rity of the Sultan, or against the members of the
Imperial family.
Art. 16 punishes offences against the Ministers of

the Porte or against its vassal princes with a price
of from 50 to 100 liras, or with imprisonment of
from 1 to 12 months.
Art. 17 protects "friendly and allied sovereigns"
against attack by a penalty of imprisonment of from
3 months to 3 years, or a fine of from 15 to 100

Art. 18 declares every imputation on the " honour
or consideration" of the person or body against
whom or which an allegation is made to be a " de-
famation," and every "outrageous expression, term
of contempt, or invective which insinuates the im-
putation of any fact," to be an " insult."
Art. 19 punishes either " defamation" or " injury',
against the tribunals or other constituted bodies of
the State with an imprisonment of from 15 days to
a year, or with a fine of from 2 to 50 liras.
Art. 20 visits the same offence against any agent
of the public authority with from 10 days to 10
months' imprisonment, or a fine of from 1 to 40
liras.

Art. 21 protects ambassadors, ministers, and other
diplomatic agents from " defamation" by a penalty
of from 8 days to .8 months' imprisonment, or by a
fine of from 1 to 30 liras.
Art. 22 forbids defamation of private persons
under peril of a fine of from 50 pias to 15 liras, or
of incarceration for 5 days or 5 months.
Art. 23 threatens the most absolute application
of these penalties in case of offence against persons
and depositaries of the public authority for facts
purely personal, unless the imputed facts can be
proved. This conditional immunity, however, is
still to be " without prejudice to penalties pro-
nounced against every insult addressed to these
persons. [Whatever this may mean, for the word-
ing of this article is most clumsy and unprecise.]
Art. 24 protects the parties mentioned in Arts.
30 and 21 from " insult" under penalty of impri-
sonment of from five days to five months, or a fine
of from 56 pias to 15 liras.
Art. 25 punishes the same offence committed
against private individuals, with ,incarceration for-
from two days to two months, or with a fine of from
30 pias to 5 liras.
' Art. 26 forbids' the publication or reproduction,
" intentionally and in bad faith," of false news, and
of fabricated or falsified documents, under a penalty
of from one month's to one year's imprisonment, or
a fine of from 10 to 50 liras.
Art. 27 punishes offences under Arts. 15, 16, 17,
and 21 by administrative suspension for one month.
Art. 28 compels publication by the condemned
journal of all judgments pronounced against it as
also payment by it of the cost of such publication,
also in one or more other papers besides.
Art. 29 provides for the suspension or total sup-
pression of any paper which may have been con-
demned thrice within two years.
Art. 30 permits the continued publication of a
journal during the imprisonment of its editor, only
by some other 0-ant who submits to the law.
Art. 31 declares that press prosecutions shall take
place, except in the case of the Sultan or the impe-
rial family—when they are to be official—at the in-
stance of the aggrieved party.
Art. 32 creates a prescription of six months, from
the date of the 6ffending article, within which the
prosecution must take place.
Art. 33 provides for the doubling of the previous
penalties in case of repetition of the offence.
Art. 34 appoints a commission of five persons
(all employe's of the Porte) to decide on alleged
offences under Arts. 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, and 21, on
whose report the Grand Council is to pronounce the
penalty. Offences against the other artices are to
be dealt with by the police.
Art. 35, and last, declares that this new law shall
come into operation on January 1, 1865.

THE COLLIERY ACCIDENT AT WIGAN.—The ear-
nest and laborious exertions of the men engaged in remov-
ing the bricks and ashes which had fallen on the eight
sinkers whose sudden entombment at the Douglas Bank
Colliery we reported on Thursday, were successful on
Wednesday evening in rescuing three of the men alive and
in recovering the bodies of the remaining five. Thehoppit
in which the men were descending would appear to have
been lowered into the falling brickwork, which, striking
the bucket, threw it on its side, thus affording those who
were able to keep their places a protection from the mass of
rubbish which soon lay upon them. Death in nearly all
cases seemed to have resulted from suffocation, as but few
bruises were to be noti‘d The bodies were removed
to the Martland Mill-briZrTnn to await the coroner's
inquiry.

The Austrian Police in England.

The authenticity of the following narrative is
guaranteed by the gentleman who communicates

" In the middle of November a young Jewish
lady, E. S., came to London on her way to New
York, and proceeded to Bucker's Hotel, Christopher-
street, Finsbury-square. Her father, a commercial
man from Galicia, who had carried on business as
commission agent for 20 years in Vienna, and had
failed, had preceded her to New York in the month
of September. The lover of his daughter, formerly
an Austrian officer, was also in the American capital,
and the young woman's journey was taken in order
that their marriage might be celebrated. She wished
her younger sister to accompany her, but the latter
was unable to leave Vienna in consequence of the
difficulty of obtaining a passport. As the delay was
so long continued, E. S. telegraphed to her sister
that she should proceed without her if she did not
come soon. A telegram which came in reply said—
'l am coming to London. I shall start on Decem-
ber 11.' This telegram was false. It had not come
from the sister, but from the Austrian police.
" The subjoined details are necessary in explana-
tion of this trick. The lover of E. S. during his
stay at Vienna, by the wish of an officer of his
acquaintance, M., introduced him to the family of
his intended bride. M. sought the further acquaint-
ance of the family, and was a frequent guest. In
the last days of November, after E. S. had already
departed, and whilst her father was already in
America, M. reported to his superior officers that
there was a deficiency in his accounts, and stated
that he had lost the money at play. Immediately
afterwards the remaining members of the S. family
were arrested and kept in confinement for 14 days.
During this imprisonment the telegram from London
arrived, and the answer already mentioned was re-
turned by the police. E. S. knew nothing of all
this, but daily awaited the arrival of her sister at the
railway station. On the 16th of December two men
came to Bucker's Hotel and desired to speak to the
young lady. They declared that they had been sent
by her lover in New York to conduct her thither.
This story was a little too lame for a cute child of
Israel, and many questions put by her to them made
the untruth too clear. These gentlemen then un-
masked themselves as Austrian police, took away
the passport by which E. S. wished to show that she
was properly accredited, and also the keys of her
boxes, which they routed over in vain, and then de-
clared that the lady must accompany them to Aus-
tria. Naturally E. S. refused to go with the chief
police commissioner, as he called himself. The lat-
ter, however, had obtained an arrest warrant from
the Sheriff of Middlesex, after taking an affidavit
that the lady owed X., whose agent he was, the
sum of 10,000 gulden. By means of this unheard-
of proceeding the catchpoles of the Vienna police
succeeded in lodging the unfortunate young
lady, who is little more than nineteen years
of age, in the debtors' prison at Whitecross-
street, where she has already been incarcerated
for nearly three weeks. Possessing thousands
at a distance, she was compelled, through the
brutality exercised, towards her, to give the rings
'rom her fingers to procure necessaries, as she at

the first expected to receive her passage money from

her father. We doubt not in the least that Miss
E. S., whose case has been confided to one of the

best attorneys of London by a zealous friend, will
soon be set at liberty. Supposing that the above
narrative is completely correct, (and its authenticity
is guaranteed), but one opinion can be passed on
the conduct of the Austrian police, namely, that
with highly improper means, on the most frivolous
reports, they have persecuted a lone young woman
with entirely unnecessary torments, even on the free
soil of England, and have challenged public opinion
by a highly obstinate proceeding. The Vienna
police must surely have lost their heads when, by
the abuse of English regulations, they sought by
their agents to find the money which an officer had
made away with, and, according to accurate reports,
had lost at play, in the boxes of a poor girl,
wherein, as the result showed, scarcely the shadow
of a trace was to be found. The Vienna police
have already departed, so as to promptly obtain
their laurels, because by delay these might become
changed into chaff."—Bender's Londoner Anzeiger.

Christmas Lectures at the Royal Institution.

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The fifth lecture of Dr. Frankland's Christmas
course was on the manufacture anti properties of
foal gas. Having shown how coal *jay be cltieel
in the bowl of a tobacco pipe and a gas light pro-
duced by that simple process, Tie proceeded to
describe how gas is manufactured on a large scale for
the-lighting of towns. In this description he re-
ferred to a series of large diagrams exhibiting the
various processes through which the gas has to pass.
In the first place the coal is introduced into long
iron or earthenware retorts, intensely heated, which
are then immediately closed, and the products of the
distillation of the coal are conveyed throught up-
right tubes into a large horizontal vessel called the
hydraulic main, in which a great portion of the
tarry matter carried away by the heated gas is de-
posited. The gas then passes through a series of
perpendicular pipes that are kept cool, called con-
densers, in which the gas deposits a further quan-
tity of condensed vapour. The gas next passes, by
a continuous process into vessels called " scrubbers,"
where it is exposed to contact with a large surface
of water, which absorbs nearly all the ammonia con-
tained in the gas. From the scrubbers it is passed
through purifiers, to abstract the sulphurated hydro-
gen. The purifiers as now generally used consist
of vessels containing a number of perforated trays
one above the other, over which are strewed rust of
iron. The gas on being thus brought into contact
with the iron rust, the oxygen of the latter seizes on
the sulphur, and-concretes it into a sulphur com-
pound of iron. On exposure to the air the iron be-
comes oxydised, and the same material may be
used as a purifying agent over and over again. The
gas when thus purified passes into the gasholder,
whence it is distributed through the mains and pipes
to all parts of the town. The purified gas, Dr.
Frankland stated, contains no sulphur ; but in
making that assertion he was more complimentary to
the gas companies than is warranted by a strict exa-
mination of the facts. The Metropolis Gas Act,
which recognises the difficulty of extracting all the
sulphur from gas, by permitting 20 grains df sul-
phur to remain in every 100 cubic feet of purified
gas ; and that quantity, which when burnt is suffi-
cient to impart an offensive odour to many thousand
feet of air, is generally exceeded in the gas supplied
by the London companies. The purified gas, Dr.
Frankland observed, consists of olefiant gas, fire
damp, hydrogen, carbonic oxide, and a small por-
tion of carbonic acid. The flames of the first four
gasses were exhibited, and the brilliant effect of
what is called carburetting the gas was shown by
passing hydrogen gas, which of itself gives little
light, through liquid hydrocarbons, such aS naphtha,
when the flame became brilliantly luminous. This
plan has been for some time past tried in the
street lamps in the City, but there are difficulties
attending bringing it into practical operation which
have prevented it from being successful. From the
fact that gas and other flames are usually burned in
atmospheric air, the former are called combustibles,
and the latter the supporters of combustion ; • but
Dr. Frankland showed that the conditions may be
reversed, and that, by introducing a jet of air into
a glass vessel containing coal gas, the air seemed to
be ignited, and the gas becomes the supporter of
combustion. The general subject of the manufac-
ture of coal was illustrated by numerous other inci-
denial experiments, and towards the conclusion of
the lecture Dr Frankland described the recent ap-
plication of the explosive force of coal gas as a
motive power. He exhibited and explained the
action of Lenoir's gas-engine, whith is actuated in
that manner, and he said he should put it in opera-
tion in the next lecture.

ALARMING FIRE AT HOLLOWAY.—ShortIy before
five o'clock yesterday morning a very alarming fire broke
out on the premises belonging to the Great Northern Rail-
way Company, situate near the Holloway station. Before
the arrival of the engines the tool-house was in a blaze and
the flames were attacking the pallisading adjoining the
timber-yard, but eventually the fire was extinguished and
the timber-yard saved. Owing to the strong gale of wind
at the time it took the conductor of the escape ten minutes
to reach the fire.