The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-23 00:00:00

FRANCE.

We take the following from La Patric :—" The
King and Queen of Portugal and the young Prince
Royal are expected at Compiegne on the Bth De-
cember, where they will remain till the 14th. It is
presumed that after their sojourn at Compiegne
their Portuguese Majesties will stay some time at
Paris, where they will inhabit the Pavilion Marsan.
The King, Dom Lniz, and the Queen are accompa-
nied by- a suite of 10 persons. The Portuguese
Minister at Paris, the Viscountess de Paiva, and
the whole of the Legation,will proceed to Cornpiegno
to receive their Majesties. The Empress has in-
vited to meet them the Prince of Hohenzollern-
Sigmaringen and the Princess his wife, who is a
sister of the King Dom Luiz."
A double murder was committed three nights
since at Tour d'Aigles (Vaucluse) on the persons of
a man and his wife named Arniaud, both about 80
years of age. As the aged couple were not seen at
the usual hour the next morning, the neighbours
went to ascertain the cause, and found them both
lying dead in their kitchen, each with a cord drawn
tight round the neck, and the skull fractured by
blows with some blunt instrument. As the house
had evidently been ransacked, robbery must have
been the motive of the crimes, in which more than
one person appears to have been concerned.
M. Laurent Pichat, editor of the Phare de la
Loire, and M.. Evariste Mangin, gerant of the
same journal, appeared two days back before the
Correctional Tribunal of Nantes, accused of exciting
to contempt of the Government and of turning the
Catholic religion into derision. The court, declar-
ing the charges proved, condemned the former to
three months' imprisonment and I,ooof. fine, and
the latter to one month and 500 f. fine.

At an industrial exhibition recently hell atVienne
(Isere), a variety of artificial legs, constructed on
an entirely new principle, were exposed to view.
The jurymcn, whose duty it was to decide on the
comparative merits of the instruments, were much
perplexed ; at last they bethought them of assem-
bling half a dozen Crimean and Mexican anzputes
and starting them over a half-mile course equipped
with the rival legs. The prize is stated to have been
won by an invalide, both of whose natural legs had
been taken off at the knee, who nevertheless went
over the distance in nine minutes.

The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the
following as the atmospheric situation yesterday :
" The gale wnich was raging on Monday morning
in the Channel has taken an easterly direction, and
this morning is in the Baltic. The barometer has
fallen at St. Petersburg to 744 millimetres, and the
wind there is strong from the S.W. On the coasts
of the Channel a gale was blowing with great force
from S.W., notably at Boulogne ; it was likewise
strong at Havre and at Lorient. This new tempest
has its centre in the North-West of Ireland. The
barometer there has fallen to 730 millimetres at
Greencastle. Foul weather is spreading over all
Spain as far as Gibraltar. The sky is overcast and
rainy over Western Europe, from Tarifato Corunna,
Brest, London, and Skudernoer."—ln Paris yester-
day the weather was an alternation of rain and wind,
S.W., with a temperature exceedingly mild for the
time of year. At three in the afternoon the ther-
mometer marked 12-5 Centigrade (54 1-2 Fahren-
heit).
An alarming incident occurred two days back on
the Lyons railway, between the Joigny and Laroche
stations, by the flooring of the carriage reserved for
ladies taking fire from sparks from the locomotive.
Fortunately signals made from the window were
observed by the guard, and the train being stopped
the occupants alighted. The guard then invited the
male passengers to assist him in tilting the burning
carriage over the embankment, but a sufficient
number not having offered their aid, he was
forced to attach it to the engine and take it on to
the Laroche station.

A communication from Toulon states that the
steam frigate Panama has received orders to remain
in that port to carry back the Duke de Magenta to
Algeria. it is thought that the marshal's family,
who accompanied him to France, will pass the
winter in Paris.

A fire broke out three nights back at Bagneres-
de-Bigorre, in the Place Lafayette, and two houses,
one belonging to M. Lafforgue and the other to M.
Courtade, were soon enveloped in flames. During
six hours the most energetic efforts were made by
the fire brigade, assisted by the authorities and the
whole population, to isolate the burning mass. The
object was at last attained, but the two buildings

in question were totally destroyed. The loss is said
to be considerable.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Commerce, and
Public Works, has just published the official returns
of the gross receipts of all the French railways for
the first nine months of the present year, which,
for both the old and new networks, amount to
410,484,611 f., showing an increase, as compared
with the same period of last year, of 23,934,031 f.

The Minister of War has decided that the exer-
cises of the Ecole Normale de Tir at the camp of
Chalons shall commence on Dec. 15 for officers, and
on Jan. 15 for sub-officers and corporals. The
course will be closed on May 25. Each corps of
infantry is to send either two sub-officers or a sub-
officer and a corporal.

The Tribunal of Correctional Police has just tried
M. Millaud, proprietor and responsible editor of the
Petit Journal, on a charge of having founded a lot-
tery without authorisation, and announced it in the
public press. M. Lespes, who writes in Petit Journal
under the pseudonym of Tirnotinie Trimm, was
charged as an accomplice, in having written and
published articles recommending the said lottery to
the attention of the public. The lottery consisted in
offering for sale, at 35fr. each, one-tenth shares
of Mexican bonds issued at 340 fr. each, but to
be paid off at 500 fr., when drawn by lot. Each
of those tenths was entitled to interest repre-
sented to be equal to 8 per cent., and also to a
tenth part of any prize that might fall to the
bond at the half-yearly drawings. The Public
Prosecutor maintained that this arrangement was
an unauthorised lottery, prohibited by the law of
21st May, 1836. The counsel for the defendants
maintained that the combination imagined by M.
Millaud was not a lottery within the meaning
of the law any more than was the loan itself,
and that it was not more illegal to sell a bond to
ten persons than to one. The Tribunal, however,
took the same view of the law as the public pro-
secutor, and declared that the combination incri-
minated was nothing but a lottery, which the loan
was not, as the prizes offered to the bondholders
were not its principal object; it therefore declared
the charge fully established, and sentenced Millaud
to pay a fine of 100 f., and Lespes one of 50f. It
also ordered the confiscation of all the papers seized
connected with the lottery, and condemned the two
defendants conjointly to pay all the costs of the
prosecution.

BounsE, Nov. 22.—Two o'Clock.—The market
shows much more animation to-day. Three per
Cent. Stock has advanced 10c., viz., to 68f. 65c.,
and Italian Stock is demanded at 65f. 7ic., with an
improvement of 'lie. Credit Mobiliers have an ad-
vance of sf. Spanish Mobilier if. 25c. Immo-
biliere Shares 3f. 75c. Transatlantic 2f. 50c. In
the Railway Department Northern Shares have an
advance of lf. 25c., and Lyons 2f. 50c. Lombards
have also recovered, and are now doing at 393 f.
75c., an augmentation of 101. Orleans and Sara-
gossa Shares have retrograded If. 25c. Consols
are telegraphed from London with a rise of -A- per
cent. New Ottoman 5 per Cent. Stock has been in
great demand at 43f. 10c
cent. Three o'Clock.—T.

the following quotations :

41 per Cents _ 97

Ito. end month —

, with an advance of per
'he market has closed on

3 per Cents. 6B 65
Do. end month 62 50

Credit Mobilier BBO
Do. end month 877 50
Bank Shares 3740

Ditto Threes —
Roman 73
Mexican Loan 49 50
Do. Bonds 328 75
Russian -
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred

Credit Foncier 1330
Italian Loan 65 05

Do. end month 65 05

Acct.
... 821 25
... 1100 -
- ... 825

568 75

- - 537 50
- - ... 518 75
- - '207 50
- - 410 -
- 395 -
- - ... 178 75
- ... 100 -
100 -