The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-01 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Feb. 28.—The market, on account of the
liquidation, is somewhat heavy, and there is a small
reduction in quotations. Threes, for the Account,
are now at 67fr. 60c. Mobilier are not quoted.
In Railway Shares not much doing, and prices re-
main about the same. The market closed as fol-

lows :--

41- per Cents 97
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 67 55
Do. end month 67 50
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3500
Credit Fonder 1277 50
Roman 74

Italian Loan 64 70
Do. end month 64 50
Ditto Threes —
Now Mexican
Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Rome Debt —
Deferred
AYS.

BAIL'

Cash. Acct.
Orleans
Northern lOl3 75 ... 1013 75
Lyons and Mediterranean 945 ... 945
Southern 585 ... 581 25
_ . _

Western 540 ...
Eastern
Sardinian 306 25 ... 306 25
Austrian
Lombard 545 ... 545
North of Spain .327 50 ... 332 50
Saragossa 395 ...
Ditto to Barcelona 176 25 ...

EGYPT.
ALEXANDRIA, Feb. 18

Sir Henry Bulwer left Cairo this morning, on a
visit to Suez. His health is very much improved,
and it is probable he may visit the works of the
Suez Canal Company and Port Said.
H. E. Nubar Pasha subscribed on the 15th inst.
a concession in favour of M. Lebon, to supply the
city of Cairo with gas. The contract stipulates that
the works shall be finished on or before the 15th
February, 1866.
The City of Damascus is enjoying a period of
tranquillity and prosperity, which could hardly have
been anticipated so soon after the frightful events
of which it has been the theatre. The Christian
quarter, notwithstanding the enormous wages de-
manded by all kinds of workmen, is fast rebuilding.
The Governor of Damascus, Alihammund Rachidi
Pasha, had a few months ago the happy idea of
widening all the bazaars of the city, by compelling
all the merchants to give back to the street the
space that their shops had unlawfully over-reached,
at some period anterior to the memory of man.
This measure, which at first occasioned some
murmuring was carried by the people themselves
with great alacrity, as soon as they became
aware of the benefit that would result from it
for them, and now the measure may be said
to be completely carried. Mahomed Rachidi Pacha
has carried, with equal rapidity and success, many
other improvements.
The Turkish troops allied with the Druses have
made a successful expedition in the Hansan, and
taken possession of a tract of country which had
been long in the power of the turbulent Arabs. By
some mistake two or, some say, four Christian vil-
lages have shared the fate of the rebels, and have
been
plundered if not destroyed.
The cotton market advanced on Saturday and
Monday from 37 to 40 dollars for fair open, tele-
grams having been received from Liverpool quoting
an advance of 2d. per lb.
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Exchange on London, at 8 months, 961 to
Freight to Liverpool, 0. per lb.

THE LATE CARDENTAL WtsEmAN.—The Catholic'
Metropolitan Chapter will probably meet in the
course of a few days to make choice of three names to be
forwarded to Rome with a view to the appointment of a
successor to the late Cardinal Wiseman. These names
having been first submitted to the English Catholic
Bishops, who pronounce their opinion upon them, will then
be transmitted to the Holy See. Meanwhile theldiocess
is being administered by a vicar-capitular nominated by
the chapter, whose choice has fallen upon Canon O'Neal, of
St. John's Wood.
ERRATUM.—In the notice given yesterday of the
Commercial Almanack, the price should been mentioned as
Eighteenpence, instead of being given, as it was by a mis-
print, as gightpence.