The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-27 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Money easier. Gold, 147. Exchange on Lon-
don, 1591, on Paris 355. Stocks slightly firmer :
New York Centrals, 97.4- ; Illinois, 1361 ; Erie, 92;
Five-Twenties, 102 k. Cotton steady : Middling
Upland, 52. Flour quiet ; wheat tending down-
wards ; corn dull ; provisions heavy ; coffee quiet ;
sugar steady ; molasses quiet. Petroleum steady :
crude, 39i ; refined, 62i. _

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NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 10.
Cotton very dull. Middling Upland, 50c. to 52c.

MEXICO.
NEW YORK, Nov. 18.
Brownsville papers of the 17th announce the
capture of Monteroy by the Republicans under
Pons. The siege of Matamoras continued.
1,800 Republicans under Pendro Mendot had
reinforced Cerdo before Matamoras, having pre-
viously surprised and utterly destroyed an important
garrison of 100 men, including a number of French
troops.

Matamoras papers assert that the Republicans had
offered the Federals at Brownsville four hours to
plunder Matamoras if they would assisr, them.
Large French forces were landing at Bagdad,
against which city the Republican forces under
Canales were marching.

Captain Sinclair, of the Republican forces, for-
merly a lieutenant on board the Alabama, had cap-
tured an Imperial transport and delivered her to
the Federal authorities at Brownsville, who put a
guard on board the gunboat and passed her up from
Bagdad to Matamoras.

Influential persons arrived at New Orleans from
ilatamoras, on the 17th, express no fear of the
capture of the city, which was well supplied and
fortified.

In reply to a protest of the Mexican Republican
Consul at San Francisco, General M'Dowell has
stated that the prohibition of the exportation of
arms to Mexico by sea as well as by land is intended
by his late order.

Advices from Vera Cruz to the 7th inst. state
that Juarez was in Texas en route for Padras
Negras, and also that the Federal troops in Texas
were moving towards the river as if contemplating
some hostile movement.

The Imperialists had captured three Federal
soldiers in the Republican camp near Matamoras.
They were court-martialled, and it was supposed
they would be shot.
Lower California had declared allegiance to the
Imperial Government.

The New Orleans Times corroborates the rumours
of naval and military preparations, and the stoppage
of the sales of Government stores, and thinks that
unless the French withdraw from Mexico before
Christmas there will be Federal intervention in
favour of Juarez.
The Commercial Advertiser asserts that the Go-
vernment will shortly offer to fund all compound
interest bearing legal tender notes at par, with the
accrued interest into 5-20 Bonds at fixed prices.
Toronto despatches state that the precautionary
measures taken by the Government had restored
confidence.

The Persia has been released from quarantine,
after 24 hours' detention.

CANADA.

TORONTO, Nov. 17.

The Globe approves the precautionary measures
of the Government against the Fenians, but de-
clares that the movements of the latter cause no
popular apprehension.

Mr. Darcey M'Gee has denounced the Fenians
as thieves and plunderers.

INDIA.

BOMBAY, Nov. 18.

The Treaty of Peace with Bhootan was signed
on the 11th. Full apology is made to the British
Government, and all the Doom are ceded. The
prisoners are also given up, and free trade is esta-
blished between British India and Bhootan.

CHINA.
(By Telegraph from Gallo.)
CANTON, OCt. 28.
Grey shirtings and twist higher. Exchange on
London, 4s. 52d.
SHANGHAI, Oct. 21.
Tea and silk firm. Exchange on London, 6s. 3d.

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, Nov. 26.

The Chamber of Deputies has unanimouslypassed
a bill removing the restrictions upon the wine trade
of the Douro.

Great storms of wind and rain have been pre-
valent in Portugal, and the banks of the Tagus are
flooded.

SWEDEN.

STOCKHOLM, Nov. 26 (Evening.)

A body of 4,000 troops has arrived in this city
in order to prevent any disturbance of public order.
M. Lindbach, the clergyman chargvi with ba!";Ting

poisoned five persons, has committed suicide by
hanging himself in prison.

FRANCE.

A Montpellier journal announces that a young
lady of twenty, Mlle. Antonia Cellarier, the daughter
of a naval officer who died in the colonies, has just
obtained the diploma of bachelier-es-lettres in that
town, after passing a brilliant examination. Among
twenty candidates the young lady held the first
place for her translation from the Latin, and the
fourth for her essay written in that language.
Mlle. Cellarier is the fourth young woman that has
obtained a similar diploma within the last year or
two, the other three having their examinations at
Lyons, Bordeaux, and Algiers.

CRIME IN FRANCE.—The Court of Assizes of the
Herault, sitting at Montpellier, has just tried an
Italian, named Paccini, aged 27, a native of Pistoja,
charged with having, on the 2d October, committed
the crime of manslaughter on the person of another
Italian named Pardini. It appeared from the evi-
dence that both of the men, who are contractors for
building and other works, for some time exercised
their calling at Cette, and that great animosity existed
between them owing to trade rivalry. On the evening
of the day abovementioned, an altercation arose be-
tween Pardini's wife and a woman named Fricon,
with whom Paccini cohabited. Pardini interfered
and endeavoured to pacify the woman, and while he
was thus engaged the prisoner Paccini, without
saying a word, suddenly stabbed him in the groin,
inflicting a wound which terminated fatally. As
the crime was proved by the evidence of several
witnesses, the jury at once brought in a verdict of
guilty, but with extenuating circumstances, and the
Court sentenced the prisoner to 15 years' hard
labour ; also to pay Pardini's widow a sum of
3,000 f. as damages.
A young man named Bellefontaine, aged 24, and
recently a grocer's shopman, has just been tried at
the Court of Assizes of Rouen for an attempted
murder. At the commencement of the year 1864
the accused entered the service of a tradesman
named Grandin, at Coudebec-sur-Seine, and shortly
after became on terms of criminal intimacy with his
master's wife. The suspicions of Grandin were soon
excited, and he at length surprised Bellefontaine and
his mistress embracing each other. On finding them-
selves discovered they fell on their knees and implored
his pardon. Grandin made the prisoner as well as
the woman an write acknowledgment of culpability,
and then dismissed Bellefontaine, who promised to
leave the neighbourhood. This, however, he did not
do, but immediately commenced a secret correspon-
dence with Mme. Grandin, and endeavoured to per-
suade her to abandon her husband and children and
elope with him. She refused, and the accused, find-
ing that his efforts were unsuccessful, obtained a
meeting with her, and, after repeating his proposal,
with a like result, inflicted a wound in her throat
with a razor, and then endeavoured to commit
suicide himself. They, however, both recovered
from their injuries. Bellefontaine was in a great
measure inspired by interest in trying to induce
the woman to fly with him, as he was aware
that one day she would possess a fortune
of 60,0001 r. in her own right. A further proof
that he was not sincere in his passion was that at
the very moment when he was trying to persuade
her to leave her husband he had proposed marriage
to a young woman at Petit-Quevilly. The jury
returned a verdict of guilty, with extenuating cir-
cumstances, and the Court sentenced him to fifteen
years' hard labour.
Fcur Arabs, one condemned for a murder com-
mitted two years back, and three others for the
murder and robbery of a woman in May last, last
week underwent the extreme penalty of the law on
the guillotine at Aumale, in the province of Algiers.
A large number of persons were present, and the
execution appeared to make a great impression on
the native population.
BOURSE, Nov. 25.—Two o'Clock.—The opening
took place on higher quotations, but a retrograde
movement has since set in. Threes, which at first
were worth 68f. 75c. for the Account, are now doing
at 68f. 65c., or tic. lower than at yesterday's close.
Italian Fives are quoted at 64f. 70c., or 15c. lower.
Credit Mobilier Shares show a decline of 3f. 75c.,
Spanish Mobilier of 2f. 50c., Lyons and Northern
Railway Shares If. 25c., Saragossa 3f. 75c. Lom-
bard Shares are again offered with a lose of 6f. 25c.
—at 395 f. Comptoir d'Escompte, Austrian, and
Southern are firm without variation. Three o'clock.

---The market left off as
4 per Cents 97 10
Do. old month —
3 per Cents.
Do. end month UB 60
Credit Mobilier

Do. -end month 875
Bank Shares 3780
Credit Foncier 1325
Italian Loan 64 60
Do. end month 64 80
RAIL

'ollows :
Roman 73 50
Ottoman Fives -
Mexican Loan 49 75
Do. Bonds 328 75
Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean ,
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian .
Austrian
Lombard

VAYS.
Cash. Acct.
~.• ... 821 25
... 1098 75
..•• 827 50

... 540 -

-- - ... 210 --
- - ... 412 50

- .395 -

North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

170 -
207 50

157 50

The Claque in Paris,

Every theatre in Paris has its own claque, and
every claque has its own leader, who is practically
as much a leader as the leader of the orchestra, and
who is professionally designated le chef de la claque.
The management deal with the chef only, who em-
ploys his own assistants, and is responsible for
them. These assistants are continually changed
and badly paid, and vigorous measures are
adopted to secure their diligence and punctuality.
The chef, who is permanent, makes a large income,
and his cabriolet at the stage door indicates the posi-
tion he has acquired in the theatre. His sources
of income are numerous and elastic. He is paid a
regular salary by the manager, and in addition he
levies black mail on the artistes. Every artiste
must pay him. No pay, no applause ; and as
the actor cannot live without applause, pay is
inevitable. The usual mode is to enter
into a contract for a month. The minimum
fee for a month, from the poorest and most obscure
person in the theatre, may be set down at 50 francs.
The maximum has no limit. It mounts according
to the ambition or the means of the actor. As
much as 500 franes have been known to be paid for
a single night's applause. The ordinary month's
contract does not cover all occasions. When a new
play is brought out, or a stock play is reproduced,
each of the actors is personally waited on for instruc-
tions as to the particular passages at which they de-
sire applause, and fees are charged accordingly.
So completely is the claque reduced to a system, that
the chef is admitted to the last rehearsal of every
new piece, in order that he may arrange and orga-
nise, in concert with the company, all the points for
which his services are required. There is a tariff for
special demonstrations, over and above the ordinary
course of applause during the performance. A re-
ception, for example, which is the technical term for
applause on the entrée of a performer, is five francs;
and so in proportion for calls, encores, and other
marked displays of hired support.—The Reader.

MAROONS.—" Barclay's Dictionary" says :—" A
name given to those negroes who, on the conquest
of Jamaica in the time of Cromwell, deserted their Spanish
masters, and betook themselves to the mountains, and
maintained themselves in independence. This was after-
wards confirmed to them by treaty, and a distinct portion
of land allowed them for their residence ; but on the occa-
sion of a revolt the greater part of them were destroyed
and transported. Slaves who run away from their owners,
and live in the bush, are usually, now, called maroons."
" Walker's Dictionary" says ;—" A name given to free
blacks living on the mountains in the West Indies.—To
put sailors ashore on a desolate isle for some crime.--A
brownish crimson; of a claret colour.
The New York papers say that the Hon. Caleb
Cushing's contemplated trip to Europe has been postponed
until spring. He will then go professionally for the
United States Treasury Department, in relation to large
quantities of libelled Confederate States cotton, unless the
English Government should sooner conclude to admit the
American claims in the premises. It is said that one of
Caleb Cushing's recent retaining fees was $20,000,