The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-26 00:00:00

PRANCE.

BOURSE, July 25.—The tone of the market is
much firmer. Transactions took place on yester-
day's closing prices. The Mexican Loan is better,
and is now quoted 46i. No advance, as some ex-
pected, in the rate of discount of the Bank of Eng-
land has been announced. Consols remain unvaried
at 90. A little after two o'clock a great demand
took place for Stocks and Shares, in consequence of
the reported success of the City of Paris Loan,
which opened to-day. The whole amount of 250
millions having been already subscribed, the Old
Obligations (1855-1860) continue in great demand
at 420 f. The closing prices of the other securities
are as follows :

4 per Cents 97 50
Do. end month
3 per Cents. 67 70
Do. end month 67 65
Credit Mobilier 750
Do. end month 743 75
Bank Shares 3590

Ditto Threes —
Mexican Loan 46 50
Do. Bonds —
Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred
Roman

Credit Fonder 1255
Italian Loan 65

Do. end month 64 97
RAIL

WAYS.
Cash. Amt.
... 831 25
... 1042 50
... 846 25
... 562 50
538 75
517 50
277 50
... 412 50
... 480
197 50
... 325

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

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THE LATE JOHN STANYAN BIGG, Author of
" Night and the Soul," and other Poems—an accom-
plished writer, who recently died so very prema-
turely at the age of thirty-six, leaving a young wife
and three children of tender years wholly unpro-
vided for, has—in the mere remembrance of him,
of his fate, and of his gifts—awakened much
sympathy of late in behalf of his bereaved
family. A generous advocacy of the claims of
that family has but just now been put forth in
the columns of the Courier de l'Europ. e—we trust and
we will believe not ineffectually—by the Chevelier de
Chatelain, who recalls to remembrance the fact that during
the late Stanyan Bigg's lifetime hisslaims for a pension as
an ingenious but impoverished writer, were, as far back as
1858, supported by the then Lord Chancellor (Napier) and
Attorney-General (Whiteside) of Ireland, by Sir Bulwer
Lytton, Judge Crampton, George Gilfillan, and other per-
sons of great intellectual distinction.

THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE EXETER HOTEL.
—Yesterday afternoon Mr. Langham held an in-
quest in the board-room of Charing-cross Hospital on the
body of George Henry Fendall, aged 21, who lost his
life by the falling of a portion of the oanamental work
on the cornice of the Exeter Hotel, in the Strand. Mr.
Henry Pym said that he was an architect and surveyor.
On Friday afternoon, about 5 o'clock, he was in the
Strand on the same side as Exeter Hall, going towards
tho City, when he saw a reflection as of something
coming down from the top of the building. The de-
ceased was on the pavement, and he was coming towards
him. He was thrown down, and he heard a heavy sub-
stance fall. Thinking that the parapet was falling, in-
stead of proceeding towards the deceased he ran on one
side. He noticed a number of people rush to tho man,
and ho beckoned to them to get out of the way. The
gutter of the roof was almost horizontal, and he noticed
a man thereon with a large pineapple ornamental figure,
and the man was swinging to and fro, so that he held
up his arms for him to get back. He saw the ornament
fall to the ground, striking in its descent the head of
the deceased. Andrew O'Connell, of 15, Blandford-mews,
labourer, said that on Friday last he was employed on
the top of the Exeter-hall hotel repairing the roof. The
ornaments had been there for some time, and were being
repaired, as a portion of the bottom had been worn away.
Ho was at work in the gutter. He could not work in-
side, and wanting to pass the Party wall he passed out-
side, and took hold of a man named Morrissy. As he
was coming back the vase gave way and fell into the
street. Another part fell upon his breast, and then rolled
upon his thighs. The pausing behind the vase was the
cause of the figure falling. Mr. Warner was foreman clerk
of the works, and when he went on the job he did not ap-
prehend any danger. The accident was owing entirely to
his trying the second time to pass the figure. He was at
the time of the accident outside the parapet. He did not
know that by going round and getting through the win-
dow of one room, and getting out of another, the accident
might have been avoided. Ile used cemeni to repair the
ornaments. The base of the vase still remained in the
gutter; none of the foundation had given way. The weight
of the part which had fallen, he should say, was about
121bs. Mr. Willis, solicitor, of New Inn, Strand, who
attended on behalf of the mother and relatives, cross-ex-
amined the witnesses, but nothing material was elicited
Mr. Travers, the resident house surgeon of Charing-cross
Hospital, proved that the injuries Pendell had received to
the skull were the cause of death. Henry Ambrogi, of
Drury-lane, said that the figures on the -top of the hotel
were made of Portland cement. When he affixed the figures
he had to pass out of one window and enter another. They
were never intended for the weight of a man to swing upon
them. Mr. Jonathan Warner, the foreman of the works,
said he was sent to examine the figures by the request of
Mr. Haxell, and he reported them to be secure. He should
have considered the vases were quite secure, even if a storm
or hurricane had been raging. The figures had stood in
their positions for fifteen years, and he never apprehended
the least danger ; in fact, there would have been none had
it not been for the man pressing himself between the party
wall and the figure, the distance between the two being 16
inches. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.
Mr. Isaacson, solicitor, informed the Court that Mr. Hazel!,
without any recommendation of the jury, intended, for
the safety of the public, to remove the whole of the
figures.

A GOOD EXAMPLE.—An interesting meeting was
held at Dundee a few days ago for the purpose of
presenting a testimonial to Mr. W. D. Latto, editor of the
Dundee People's Journal, in acknowledgment of his zealous
and valuable co-operation in assisting to collect upwards
of £BOO, through the medium of that newspaper, to defray
the cost of two life-boats to be stationed on the Scotch
coast. The testimonial presented to Mr. Latto by the
National Life-boat Institution consisted of a beautiful
model of the People's Journal life-boat No. 1, about to be
stationed at Peterhead, N. 8., a beautiful silver tablet bear-
ing a suitable inscription, the thanks of the institution,
illuminated on vellum, and enclosed in a gilt frame, and a
fine large photograph, also in a gilt frame, and suitably in-
scribed, of a life-boat with its crew proceeding through a
stormy sea to rescue the crew of a wrecked vessel seen in
the distance. Mr. Francis Monson presided on the occa-
sion, and he was supported by some of the principal resi-
dents in Dundee.