The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-06 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Oct. s.—Two o'Clock.—The market is
weak and hesitating, owing to the Bank of France
having raised its rate of discount from 3 to 4 per
cent., and the English Cousols coming with a fall
of 4 per cent. ; nevertheless quotations do not show
any sensible depreciation. Threes, for the Account,
bring 68f. 35c.—a decline of sc. Lombards and
Austrian Railway Shares have declined 7f. 50c.
On the other hand, Italian Fives have advanced
15c., to 65f. 15c., and Credit Mobilier Shares show
an improvement of 3f. 75c., the quotation being
868 f. 75c. The weekly return of the Bank of
France shows a decrease in the stock of bullion of
21,765,786 f. 400., and an increase in the porte-
feuille of upwards of 68 million 3. Three o'Clock.—
The market was more depressed towards the end,
and closed at the following lower quotations :
ti per Cents 96 70

rio: and month —

Ditto Threes —
Roman —
Mexican Loan bl
Do. Bonds 325 --
Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred

3,per Cents.

D. end month 6B 25

Credit Mobilier 860
Do. end month B6l 25
Bank Shares 3595

Credit Foncier 1322 50
Italian Loan 64 90
Do. end month 65

VIAL
Cash. Acct.
... 840
••• ... 1092 50
... 860 -
- ... 563 75
... 343 7.i
535 -
- 231 25
406 25
436 25
205
- 287 50

Orleans ,

Northern .

Lyons and Mediterranean.

SOuthern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

212 50

The Suez Canal Company.

PARIS, Oct. 6.
A general meeting of the shareholders in the
Suez Canal Company took place yesterday.
M. de Lesseps stated that the company still held
an available capital of 180 millions francs. The
small canal for navigation would even next year
have an amount of traffic lucrative to the company
and useful to commerce. The great canal would,
he said, be terminated in 1868.

The report was unanimously approved by the
meeting.

Canterbury Hall.

Bewildered audiences continue to be attracted to "Ko-ko-
ri-ko," the most resplendent and the most mysterious of all
the " Ghost Illusions" practised at that home of modern
magic, the Canterbury Hall. The scenic effects are daz-
zling in their brilliancy, and the optical surprises are now
accomplished with greater precision than ever. Is it the
pictorial display that attracts ? Has it been the cooling
influence of the waterfalls on the past summer evenings ?
Has "Ko-ko-ri-ko" perennial interest because an undaunted
British public is determined to find out its plot, and punish
the offender ? We confess to the hopeless endeavour to
comprehend the dark allusions which orally accompany
the brilliant pictures. Is Mr. W. Randall a Fenian, we
asked ourselves, that he keeps so perpetually asking the
audience "Why wasn't I a Chinese ?" It could not be in
emulation of the Chinese giant, Chang, because Mr.
Randall was persistently putting the question long
before that celestial's arrival. We noted every look,
word, and feature of the Ko-ko-ri-Kans, and
helplessly failed to discover what they were driving at,
and now resign the task to the friends of the legitimate
drama. But it is not becalm the destiny of the various
characters is hazy that their action is not extremely lively.
A mortal hatred seems to have sprung up between the
Ko-ko-ri-kan represented by Mr. Randall (who makes
up a sort of mixture of Confucius and Henry the Eighth)
and the Ko-ko-Ri-Kau depicted by Mrs. Randall, who ap-
pears as a young gentleman of the Giaour or Corsican
type. A broadsword combat is the result, without any
result. The British navy is still adequately represented
by five young ladies, who pass a severe competitive exa-
mination in hornpipes; and Britannia shows her good
taste and appreciation by presiding, shield and trident
accompanying, at the final tableau—a gorgeous scene of fire-
works and illuminations. The appearance and disappear-
ance of the dramatis persona in the magic mirror continues
to excite universal surprise. The entertainments are
agreeably diversified with Mr. Alexander's ventriloquial
performance, the dancing of the d'Aubans, and the nigger
eccentricities of Messrs. Duriah and Davies. The sisters
Dash wood have also joined. Songs and part-songs are
also sung by Mr. Henshaw, Mr. Elton Williams, Mr.
Stuart, Mr. Nolan, Mr. Kimberley, Signor Tivoli, Mr. St.
Albyn, &c., Miss Hayes, Miss Mclnnis, and Miss Metz.
Offenbach, the inexhaustible, asserts his supremacy here,
as at the Oxford, and " No. 66," the last operatic selection
out, carries everything before it, Miss Russell and Mr. St.
Albyn winning unbounded applause.

The inaugural lecture of the Oriental Section at
King's College, London, was delivered yesterday by Pro-
fessor John Cutler. The subject was—" On the Study of
the English, Roman, Hindu, and Mohammedan Systems,"
with especial regard to their salient points of agreement
and difference.

ROYAL SOUTH BUCKS AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
—The 33d ploughing match of this society took
place yesterday at Salt-hill. The entries and the general
attendance were unusually numerous, and the field, with
its long row of drinking-booths, wandering minstrels, gipsy
fortune-tellers, was more like a fair or a country race-course
than an ordinary agricuPural meeting. In the show of roots
there was a close competition, and the exhibition of garden
produce was of extraordinary excellence. The members
and supporters of the society dined together at the Wind-
mill, the High Sheriff of the County, Mr. N. G. Lambert,
in the chair. Mr. Du Pre, M.P., Sir IL Montgomery, Mr.
G. Gyll, Mr. C. J. Palmer, Mr. R. H. Saye, Mr. B. Gyll, the
Rev. C. A. Hall, the Rev. W. B. Marriott, Mr. Trumpet,
Mr. C. B. Barrett, secretary to the society, and mlny
others of the leading gentry and farmers of the district
were present.

STABBING NEAR CHESTERFIELD.—At the Chester-
field County Police-court yesterday, before Mr.
G. Heathcote, John Charlesworth was charged with stab-
bing John Turton, near Chesterfield. It appeared that the
prosecutor was returning from Clay-cross to North Wing-
field about one o'clock on the morning of the Ist inst., in
company with a man named Bennett, when about half-way
they overtook the prisoner and entered into conversation
with him. Among other things the prosecutor alluded to a
young woman with whom the prisoner formerly kept com-
pany. He flew into a rage, struck the prosecutor to the
earth, and drew a knife and stabbed him in the shoulder.
Bennett at once ran to the prosecutor's assistance and got
him away. They ran up the road, and the prisoner fol-
lowed them. He overtook them, and they knotted stones
in their handkerchiefs and kept him at bay. Police-con-
stable Bacon apprehended the prisoner the next day, and
it came out in evidence that the knife referred to had been
drawn on several occasions before. Tho prisoner was
committed for trial at Derby Quarter Sessions.
BREAKFAST 14.VERAGE. —Homce.ipach lc prutitioners, and
the medics prJlessiou genera.ly, re_ommehd cucoa a.. be 11.4
t e most healthful of al, bev.rages. When the doctrine of
homoeopathy was fi .rt introduces into this country, there
were to be obtained no preparations ot cocoa either attrac-
tive to the taste or accepts. le to the stomach ; the net was
either suo2iied in the crude state, or so ui,skiitul y manu-
=tared as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, ot London,
lioniceopathic chemist, was induced in the year 1839 to tarn
his attention to this subje t, and at length suc.:ceded, with
the tv.sistance of ela!iorate machinery, in being the that to
produce an article pure in its composition, aid so refitted by
the pert et trituration it !e..eives in the process it passe
hrough, .8 to be mos. acceptable to the delicate rtomach.
For general use Epps' cocoa is distill. uislitd us an invigo-
rating, grateful breakfast beverage, with a delLious aroma
Dr. Hassall in his work, "rood and its Adulteratiuns,"
say. Cocoa contains a great variety of importan nutritive
p ineiples; every ingredient necessary to the growth and
sustenance of the budy." Agate, "As a nutritive, cocoa
stands very.much higher than either coffee or tea." Direc •
[ions:—Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a breakfast CUD,
tilled up with boiling water or milk. Secured in tin-lined
i-lb, sad I.b. labeled packets, and zold It 16. 6d. pet
a by grocers, Viatectimal, sad gUtvailtu.