The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-14 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, March 13.—There ht.s been rather more
buoyancy apparent in the market, and a fair amount

of business has been transacted at an improvement
on the closing rates of the previous day. Sellers
have been somewhat less urgent, and purchasers
have shown a greater inclination to operate. Threes,
for the Account, which opened at 69f 70c, are now
at 69f SOc. The Railway Share Market has been
also firmer, and some few of the lines show better
quotations.

The following are the closing quotations :-
4i per per Cents ... 97 75, Credit Fonder 1485
1)o. end month.... 97 95 Belgian 41 —
3 per Cents ...... 69 75 Piedmonte6d 11Fiv 6B
T)o. end month.... 69 75 ; Roman —
Bank Shares ...... 3100 —lAustrian
Credit Mobilier.... 767 50 Spanish Threes slk
Do. Account — —1 Home Debt .. 4B

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans 1372 50 .. 1373 75
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1087 50 .. 1087 50
Geneva 368 .. 360
Southern a 761 25 .. 758 75
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 541 25 .. 542 50

AN ENGLISH SHIP BOARDED BY THE

SUM ER.

The captain of the Liverpool barque Richibucto,
gives an account of the boarding of his ship by the
Sumter, on the 27th December. He says Im-
mediately after hoisting our colours, the steamer
hauled down the English ensign and ran up the
Southern Confederate flag, a flag that I had never
seen, and did not know what to think of it, but kept
on my course, though he had fired two guns while
under English colours. At twelve o'clock lie
ranged up on the weather quarter, and commanded
me to heave to. What for ? said I. Haul:
your mainsail up, mid another. What do you
want ? said I. Back your mainyard, said
the first speaker, in a rage ; I want to send a
boat on board. Well, thought I, I will
gain some information respecting the block-
ading squadron in the Gulf, so I threw the main-
topsail to the mast, and be sent a boat alongside
with an officer (an overgrown boy) and six men,
all armed with cutlasses and pistols, the officer
with a ten-inch revolver in his girdle. 1 asked
what he wanted, and what right they had to stop
me on the high seas in such a piratical manner,
using the British flue• as a decoy, and then hoisting
a flag that we di'Zi not recognise. He said they
only wanted news,—if any battles had been fought,
and whether the British Government had recog-
nised their independence; and could I spare him a
newspaper? and would I be kind enough to let him
see the ship's papers ? So I showed him the bill of
health. " That will do," said he; and I gave him
twe or three old newspapers, but could get no in-
formation respecting the Gulf ports or any other.
The boat's crew seemed to be all English but one.
They told my sailors that they had nothing to do
but eat, sleep, and drink; but they were tired of
such work, and wished their own Government
Iwould interfere to put a stop to it.

GALLAN2 RESCUE.

A gentleman resident at Pakefield, Suffolk, thus
describes a gallant rescue accomplished by the
fishermen of that village a few days ago :—" The
brig Adonis, of Colchester, 150 tons, William Lay,
master and part owner, left Shields on Sunday
afternoon, with a crew of six men and a cargo of
coal, the master's wife being also on board. On
the Wednesday following the ship was off Lowe-
stoft, but the state of the weather did not allow of
her being brought into the Roads, and towards
evening the master stood away to sea. Between 3
and 4 o'clock next morning the ship struck on the
the south end of the Newcombe Sand, and filled.
directly. No lights had been seen during the night.
The master and his wife were washed overboard
and the crew took to the rigging. One torch was
lighted, which burnt only for about a minute, and
no other signal could be made, as all the fires were
quenched. The night was dark, with heavy rain
and a gale from the south-west. About the time,
stated the two men on the usual watch at the Peke-.
field Lifeboat station saw the flicker of a light fora a
few seconds, but as it was not repeated, and they
had no other guide, the boat was not launched Day-
break showed them the hull and mast's of the
brig, but they could not distinguish rAny of the
men. The Yarmouth passenger-steamer than came
up and stopped at the wreck, though she could
give no help. The men of Kessingland, who were
to the southward, and could better see what was on
the vessel, launched their boat. She was, however,
cast on the teach by the heavy sea. Seeing this,
18 Pakefield beachmen at once put off in their yawl,
the Clara, and spoke with the captain of the steamer,
who told them there were men on the wreck. They
then rowed direct to the spot, and at great risk so
placed the boat that the men could drop into *her
from the rigging. While this was going on the
captain of the steamer laid by, then took the boat
in tow as far as the Pakefield beach, and sup-
plied the men with a bottle of spirits. In
the meantime others of the beachmen took the
Pakefield lifeboat down to the water's edge in readi-
ness for launching, under the impression that there
was too much sea on for the yawl to reach the
wreck. The whole of the crew of six men were
thus rescued and brought on shore, after being ex-
posed to -a sea which broke completely over them
for nearly four hours. They were taken to the Nit-
lege, and their wants attended to most kindlp 'JL
should be added that the case of these brave boffit,-.
men has been submitted by Captain Joachim. F-W"
to the consideration of the National Lifeboat:insti-
tution for a reward.

WYCOMBE ELECTION.—Mr. Carapttell Sleigh,
who had announced his intention of booed:dug a candidate,
has retired.

WORKING MEN'S COLLEGE, GREAT ORMOND-
STREET, QUEEN-SQUARE.—The new term commences ott
the 17th inst. The fee to each class averages 6d. per week•
Lectures, free: to members, will be delivered during the
term by the Principal (the Rev, F. D. Maurice, M.A.),
J. R. Seeley, Esq., M.A., Thomas Hughes, Esq. (author
of "Tom Brown's School Days"), F. J. Furnivall, Es'
Vernon Lushington, Esq., and other teachers.

At the annual meeting yesterday of the Van
Diemen's Land Company, the directors' report, which did
not recommend any dividend, was adopted. Owing to the
depression in the prices of agricultural produce, the remit'
tances from the colony during .111 11.ip*e been only £l,7o°'
It is hoped, if there be no extraaiii4rfeicienses, that there
will be a small dividend during the peeye4tsyear. A share'
holder remarked that, if there is not a reasonable prospect of
success, the undertaking should be wound up 4 After soul°
discussion the meeting was adjourned till June, to enable
the directors to present the accounts up to the end of 1861'
We are informed that there are now at least°
50,000 barrels of oil awaiting transport over the Atlanto
and Great Western Railway.

A piece of wood was lately found by Mr. Ste'
phens, Coastguard officer at Lambay, on which were writ"
ten in pencil the following words :—" Jan. 12, 1862.'
Ship Ellin, of Bristol, sinking. God have mercy on our
souls." The fragment of wood, supposed to have float"
from a wreck to the island, has been left at the Daily fi'o'
press office in Dublin.

The court-martial on Captain Robertson still
drags on. It seemed drawing to a close when the prisoner
reviewed the evidence adduced against him ; but after the'
fresh evidence was brought forward against him, which ha
meets by counter evidence. It was arranged on Wedner
day that when all his witnesses have been examined be
to speak again in his own defence, after which the prosenir
tor, Col. Brownrigg, will have the last word.
The Poles in Paris lately conceived the idea of
making a national demonstration in front of the Russian
embassy in the Faubourg St. Honore. The Government'
getting wind of the project, had as many as 50 Poles ay
rested, and sent in their names to ,Count Paul de liisselefft
together with all the information which the police had ob-
tained about them. Most of these prisoners were speedili
released, with a caution to be more circumspect in future ;
but I believe three or four still remain in custody.
receonft
A correspondent refers to a paragraph copied
from a Cape paper to the effect that the Bishop of col.
Town had presented, or was about to present, the BishoP
Canterbury, robnu ryt
the
for
Romans.heresy cam'°..a
hist e
lordship's Archbishop
correspondent points out that this report carries its Os"
refutation on the face of it. " The Bishop of Cape Town
Natal
ld
to the
being a metropolitan bishop, has no function to Prer4:h
anybody. One of his suffragans could come into the Ar':
bishop's Court, if at all, only as an appellant from the Hof
tence of the Bishop of Cape Town. And the BishoP
Cape Town would certainly wait for presentment, Nae:
if duly made, he could not, I apprehend, ignore before is
I.
molly taking up the case in any way."—London Guartlial
ANOTHER SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO A LADY, F11191%t
MACIIINERY.-A melancholy accident has occurred s
Acklam, near Mallon. A threshing machine was at woric,
e,
and Miss Charlotte Boulton, the daughter of Mr. f•
Boulton, of Acklam Lodge, the occupier of the farm, w.rici
standing near, looking at the machine. It seems the srl,i,„
carried her dress too near the tumbling shaft, which (11.'0
her in, and whirled her round and round repeatedly. Wbeto
the machine was stopped, it was found that, in addition
other serious injuries, both the young lady's legs W
foer
e
broken. The case is a most dreadful one, and results 1:10,
was the case at Burythorpe) from a neglect of covering cry
tumbling shaft, Miss Boulton is said to be in a
critical state.

EXPORT OF COTTON GOODS TO INDIA.--It
pears by a Parliamentary return issued yesterday that '",,
value of British manufactured cottons and cotton Yar';
exported from the United Kingdom tD the British E 35
Indies within the last seven years has been as follows'"--
In the year 1855, £6,458,086 ;
'£6 684,835 ; 18571
186°,
£6,933,850; 1858, £11,358,6;6; 1859, £14,713,812'
£12,425,736; 1861, L 11,618,350. The quantities of cotter'
imported from the British East Indies within the sagte
period has been :-1,296,243 cwt. in 1555; 1,611,577 evv:t..
in 1856, 2,235,162 cwt. in 1857, 1 185 023 cwt. in 18)8r,
1,717,240 cwt. in 1859, 1,822,689 'cwt.' in 1860, 3,2g5,004:
cwt. 1861,