The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-15 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Dec. 14.—Notwithstanding that English
Consols are telegraphed with an advance of per
cent., the market is dull, with little business doing.
Quotations, however, show very little variation.
Rente and Credit ➢Tobilier maintain yesterday's
prices. Italian Fives are the only value in demand
—this Stock has au advance of 20c., and is quoted
at 65f. 55c. The weekly return of the Bank of
France shows a decrease in bullion of nearly 4 mil-
lions of francs, and an increase in the portefeuille of
nearly 12 millions. Three o'clock.—The market
became buoyant towards the end, and closed on the
following quotations :-
41 per Cents 97 30
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 69 05
Do. end month 69 '24
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month 890
Bank Shares 3790
Credit Foncier 1330
Italian Loan 65 25
Do. end month 65 65
RAIL'S

Roman
Ottoman Fives 43 75
Mexican Loan 4B 50
Do. Bonds 333 75
Russian -
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred

WAYS.
Cash.

Acut.
... 840 -
- ... 1137 50
847 50
571. 25
- ... 545 -
- 520

Orleans
Northern

- - ... 428 75

- - ... 425 -
- - ... 166 25
- - ... 196 25

Pontifical Decree for the Suppression of
Brigandage.

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ROME, Dec. 9.

The following decree, stating the measures to be
adopted for the suppression of brigandage in the
Pontifical provinces, has been issued by Luigi Peri-
coli, the Apostolic Delegate of Frosinone :
" For the more efficacious and prompt suppres-
sion of brigandage now infesting the provinces of
Velletri and Frosinone, his Holiness, after consulta-
tion with the Council of State and the Council of
Ministers, has ordered us, in a despatch from the
Ministry of the Interior, to publish the following
extraordinary measures :
" Art. 1. A mixed commission of three military
officers and three civilians is instituted in the town
of Frosinone for the trial of all offences referring to
brigandage that may occur in the two provinces.
" 2. The mode of process will be speedy and
summary, and the sentences will be subject to no
appeal or revision. In the case of capital punish-
ment, however, the Pontifical Government will be
consulted before- execution of the sentence.

" 3. In the case of procedure by default, a single
intimation will suffice, granting the offender a period
of ten days in which to present himself. If absent
on the appointed time, the cause will be tried with-
out any other formality, and the summons and sen-
tence will be posted up on the door of the court of
the commission and in the public places of Velletri
and Frosinone. Should the accused afterwards fall
into the hands of justice, he will be examined, and,
being unable to offer sufficient ground for his ac-
quittal, will be dealt with according to the terms of
the sentence already passed. In the opposite case
the commission will deliver a new judgment, treat-
ing the first as if it had not been pronounced.
"4. A assemblage of even three armed brigands
will be considered as a band, the members of which
are liable to the penalty of death by shooting.
" 5. Any armed brigand not belonging to a band
will be sentenced to the galleys for life.
" 6. The supporters and abettors of brigandage,
who may furnish arms or munitions, money, provi-
sions, clothing, or other matters, or may have
given intelligence of the stations and movements of
the Pontifical forces ; and whoever voluntarily by
his own act, or by other means, shall in any way
favour the brigands, will be arrested as accomplices,
and as such punished with lesser grades of sentence
I than those indicated in Arts. 4 and 5. The parents

and descendants, including the wives and other re-
latives to the fourth degree of affinity with the bri-
gands, will be liable to minor penalties, where it may
be a question of acts committed against personal
security.

"7. Brigands and their accomplices will not
enjoy the benefit of 103a1 immunity ; and the penal-
ties above mentioned will he applicable to foreigners,
notwithstanding the stipulations of Art. 3 and 5 of
the regulation concerning offences and penalties.
" 8. A reward of 500 crowns will be paid for the
capture of a brigand, and 1,000 crowns for the chief
of a band. These rewards are only due to the force
that may have arrested or killed a brigand ; and
where the arrest may take place in consequence of
information, the person furnishing such information
will be entitled to a fifth of the reward.
" 9. The lives of those brigands will be spared
who shall deliver themselves up to the Pontifical
authorities within 15 days from the present date.
If before promulgation of the present decree they
had committed offences not liable to capital punish-
ment, the same will be dealt with by sentences
lesser by from one to three degrees than those usually
given. If neither before nor after being engaged in
brigandage they have committed no other crime,
they will be handed over to the police magistrate.
" 10. All laws not contrary to the extraordinary
measures announced in the present edict will remain

in force.

Given at the Apostolic Palace of Frosinone
December 7, 1865.
" The Apostolic Delegate,
" LUIGI PERICOLL"

MARKETS—This Day.

11 A.RK-LANE.

The supply of English wheat on sale hero to-day was
moderate. For most qualities the trade ruled quiet ; never-
theless Monday's prices were supported.
With foreign wheat the market was fairly supplied.
Nearly all descriptions were in but moderate request, at
Monday's currency.
Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, at late rates
The supply of barley on sale was tolerably large. The
best malting samples were firm in price ; otherwise the
barley trade ruled quiet.
_ _ _

Malt sold slowly at late prices.
There was a large supply of oats on the stands. There
was a steady demand for most qualities, at Monday's prices.
Beans and peas changed hands at fully late rates.
Flour was in fair average request, at full prices.

SHIP ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch 1350 2590 1310 1380 1080
Irish -
Foreign 9830 4970 68,040 440 sks.
1420 bids.

A. 4
atin Circular

HER, MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Thursday.

His Royal Highness Prince Arthur arrived at
the Castle this morning, attended by Major Elphin-
stone.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales also ar-
rived at a little before two o'clock, attended by
Lieut.-Colonel Keppel.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the royal family,
went to the royal mausoleum at Frogmore, and re-
mained for some time ; after which, by her Majesty's
command, the mausoleum was opened for the mem-
bers of her Majesty's household, and some of the
royal tradespeople in Windsor, to visit it and testify
their respect for the memory of the lamented Prince
Consort.

The Queen has remained in complete retirement
at the Castle.

The Prince of Wales.

The Prince of Wales visited their • Majesties the
King and Queen of Portugal at Claridge's Hotel
yesterday morning.
His royal highness, attended by Lieut.-Colonel
Keppel, after Wards went to Windsor Castle on a
visit to the Queen.

The prince returned to Marlborough House in
she afternoon.

The King and Queen of Portugal.

It is peculiarly unfortunate that their Majesties
the King and Queen of Portugal should have arrived
in England at such an inopportune moment. The
death of the King of the Belgians and the relation-
ship of the King will necessarily preclude him and
his consort from mixing in society.

Their Majesties arrived late in the evening of
Wednesday at Claridge's Hotel, and his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, who was totally un-
acquainted with their intended visit to London,
immediately after learning of the arrival of his
illustrious relatives, visited their Majesties. The
Prince of Wales remained until nearly one o'clock
on Thursday morning. The King and Queen were
greatly disappointed at finding that yesterday was
the anniversary of the death of Prince Albert, the
consort of the Queen. Out of respect to the feel-
ings of the Queen, and, indeed, knowing her desire
to be secluded on such a memorable occasion, the
King and Queen of Portugal abandoned all
thought of visiting the Queen at Windsor.
Yesterday morning the King and Queen of
Portugal received Prince de Joinville. His
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales also visited
the King and Queen early in the forenoon at Cla-
ridge's Hotel. After dejetner with their suite, in-
cluding Madame de Sousa Coutinho, lady of honour;
Count Valle de Reis, equerry to the Queen ; and
Major de Sousa Folque, the King's aide-de-camp,
their Majesties left town in order to pay a visit to
the ex-Queen of the French and the royal family at
Claremont. Their Majesties took luncheon with
the Queen Amelia and friends at Claremont, and
returned to Claridge's Hotel shortly after five
o'clock.

Yesterday evening their Majesties dined alone
and remained at Claridge's.

The King and Queen left London at an early
hour this morning for Folkestone, on their way to
Paris. The King will leave Paris this evening on his
way to Brussels, in order to be present at the obse-
quies of the late King of the Belgians.
Yesterday his Royal Highness the Duke de Ne-
mours called upon his Majesty at Claridge's Hotel ;
and amongst the other visitors were the Earl of
Clarendon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ;
Count Maffei, First Secretary of the Italian Lega-
tion ; his Excellency the American Minister from
the United States to Portugal, and Mrs. O'Sulivan ;
his Excellency M. Andrada, Brazilian Minister, and
Madame Andrada ; M. and Madame Sarmcnto ;
Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, &c.

ANNIVERSARY OF THE PRINCE CONSORT'S DEATII
AT WlNDSOR.—Yesterday was the fourth anniver-
sary of the Prince Consort's death, and the occasion was
observed at Windsor with the usual solemnity by her Ma-
jesty and the members of the royal family. In the morn-
ing her Majesty and such of the members of the royal circle
as were at the Castle repaired to the mausoleum of the
Prince Consort in the grounds of Frogmore Lodge. The
interior of this place of sepulture had been previously pre-
pared for the Queen's reception. A solemn service, at
which the Very Rev. Gerald Wellesley, dean of Windsor,
officiated, was performed in the chamber beneath the
dome wherein lies the temporary stone sarcophagus con-
taining the body of the Prince Consort. Her Majesty and
the members of the royal family were much affected by the
solemn ceremony, and having strewn the sarcophagus
with chaplets of immortelles, laurustines, and chrysanthe-
mums, retired from the mausoleum shortly after 11 o'clock.
By her Majesty's command, the domestics of the royal
household, and the Castle tradespeople and their families,
were permitted to visit the mausoleum between the hours
of 12 and four o'clock.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will
leave town to-day for Brussels, accompanied bY
Prince Arthur. Their royal highnesses will be attended
by Lieutenant-Colonel Teesdale and Major Elphinstone,
R.E. They will proceed by the morning train to Brussels
by way of Dover and Ostend. Prince Alfred will also
probably be present at the funeral of the King of the Bel-
glans. Viscount Sydney, Lord Chamberlain, the lion.
Sir Edward Cust, &c., leave town to day to attend the
funeral.

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Lady Marian Alford leaves England to-day for
Mentone, in the south of France, where Lord Brownlovt
has taken a house for the winter.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—Mr. F. B. Chatterton,
joint lessee of the national theatre, announces hip
annual benefit for Monday evening, when will be per-
formed, in addition to the new drama of " Galway go
Bragh," the tragedy of " Othello," with Mr. Phelps as the
Moor and Mr. James Anderson as lago. The skill, good
taste, and spirited enterprise by which the management
of Drury-lane is now characterised, give Mr. Chattertoll
an irresistible claim upon the gratitude of play-goers, 8111„
entitle him to a brimming bumper on the night of 11'"'
benefit.
ST. JAMES'S HALL.—Mr. Frederick Burgess, Oa
manager of the original troupe of Christy Minstrels, no
nightly attracting crowded audiences at the St. Jamee'e
Hall, takes a complimentary benefit on Monday and Tnets;
day evenings, next week, on which occasion the "trove
'
come out more than ordinarily strong. We are to
not only new songs and new dances, but the represents;
tion, for the first time, of an original Ethiopian sketch of
the most laughable description, entitled "The Power 0k
Music, showing the influence of music on an and°.
culler'd individual," and supported by the unapproachable
comic pair, Moore and Crocker. There are various other
attractions in the programme, but the well-known urbardtir
of Mr. Burgess would be quite sufficient to insure bit°
bumper on the occasion of his benefit.
DISEASED MEAT AND DISEASED CATTLE.—WithiI:
the present week a large quantity of diseased bsel:
n
quite unfit for human food, being the flesh of cattle O;
had had the rinderpest, has been seized by the authoritleo
at Hartlepool and burnt. Several cattle at the same t°,ww,
affected with the plague have been killed by order of L't.
government inspector (Mr. Peele), and their bodies burilf,
Altogether about 15 animals have been so disposed
The animals, as well as the beef, had been received hi t/r
local butchers from the neighbourhood of York.
CATCH OF HERRINGS.—Weymouth, Dorset,
1,00
nesday.—Since Sunday last the weather hasof
more winterly in this locality than the preceding Pr.tties
the month, and during the last three days large que°liity
of fresh herrings have been caught in the bay, of a clue ted
and size rarely found in the neighbourhood. It is 00;0_ 4
that at one cast alone there was over 50,000 fish in the l'oeet
which was found to be too small to contain them, as °ewitt;
was drawn ashore. Early yesterday morning the beaci'lleil.
strewn with a large number of fish that had been vvt'
ashore during the night, and numbers of the working ertbos
soon made themselves busy in gathering the fish, ansnd
supplying themselves with food for some time to come,
erg
as the price of butchers' meat is at the present tinie.it'lea,
high, this rare opportunity will be all the more appreinclo_bt of
doubtless, as meat must now be a great luxury to
.st in
the poorer classes. It is a singular coincidence to°,
"ber.
December, 1847, there was a very large quantity _
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to washed ashore here, which the farmers ca rindsrted
0,10
to manure the land with, there being more than the
could carry away while they were good for food.
rather
During the last few days there has been_o,oool
more activity in the market for Foreign and C „
Prod
there has Sugars Produce.
havebeena
fair welldem aa tn
demand,
full
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coffee stai
higher rates have been obtained at the puat
about
of fruit and spices. Rice has been dull_has Per-
previous values, while a better demandt_
ea
vailed for tallow, and quotations for both pros
and forward delivery are well maintained.