The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-21 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, JULY 21.
The Empress and the Prince Imperial arrived at
Fontainebleau at seven o'clock yesterday evening.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, July 20.----The market is better than at
the opening. Threes are at 67f. 50e. for the Ac-
count, and Mobilier shares 726 f. 25c. Information
taken from the most competent authority leads to
the denial cf the most credited of the Bourse
rumours concerning the Comptoir d'Escompte, that
of the doubling the number of the shares of this
Company. These shares continue in good demand,
and have advanced to 945 f. This rise may be attri-
buted to extensive purchases made by a well known
speculator. The Bank of France returns show a
decrease of near six million francs in the encaisse
maallique, which now amounts to 493,997,271 f. 55c
The market closes with higher quotations :-
41- per Cents 96 75 Ditto Threes
Mexican L
Do. end monthoan 47
3 per Cents. 67 GO Do. Bonds
Do. end month 67 55 Russian
Credit Mobilier ... 735 Austrian
Do. end month ... 730 Spanish Threes
Bank Shares 3580 Home Debt
Credit Foncier — Deferred
Italian Loan 64 70 Roman ,
Do. end month 64 75
RAILWAYS.
- - Cash.

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian .

Acct.
835 '-
- 1045 -
- 846 25
... 565

... 516 25
... 280 -

Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

... 415 -

- - 478 75
- 183 75
825 -

GREECE.
ATHENS, Jutr 13.
The Chamber has just terminated its verification
of the elections, and is consequently now definitively
constituted. The elections have all been confirmed,
some of them after long and violent debates, but
the discussions and depositions made before the sec-
tions of the Chamber by the persons interested have
only tended to confirm the fact that the elections
have everywhere passed off very satisfactorily, and
that the Government has employed no reprehensible
means to influence the electors. Certain unimpor-
tant illegalities, and a few isolated acts of violence,
which are, moreover, inevitable during elections,
have been the only facts which have transpired.
Nevertheless the contest has been very severe in
certain districts, but this is only to be attributed
to violent passions, and the irritation of the various
parties. These parties are not yet clearly defined,
but the Ministry now appear certain of a majority
of 30 votes, which may still be increased after the
Ministerial changes which Will take place upon the
King's return. The
_Ministers of the Interior and
Marine have failed to be re-elected, and the Minister
of War did not even solicit the. suffrages of the
electors. Constitutionally speaking, however, his
presence in the Cabinet is useless, because it forms
no addition to the Parliamentary strength of the
Ministry. It is therefore more than probable that
the portfolios entrusted to these three Ministers
will shortly become vaomit ; and it is already stated
that negotiations have been opened by the President
of the Council with the view of inducing some mem-
bers of the Opposition Coalition, which would thus
be considerably weakened, to enter the Ministry.
An understanding is also spoken of between the
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Opposition have already been manifested during the
verification of the elections.
The people are much disturbed at the daily ex-
tension of the cholera in Turkey. The ravages
made by this malady in Greece in 1854 and 1855
are still within the memory of all. The Govern-
ment have hastened to take every precaution
rendered necessary by the circumstances. All
arrivals from Turkey are Aubmitted to a vigorous
quarantine.

Deprecating (as it seems to us quite unnecesarily)
any blame that might, he think, be imputed to
him for having ventured thus inth print, although
himself no higher in the social scale than a humble
serving man—the writer of these pages reminds his
readers among other things, through, his Preface,
that " A little library might readily be formed of
the works of those poor men and girls who have
written books whilst filling very humble stations."
Adding, in evidence of this fact, the following
pleasantly anecdotal retrospect of a purely literary
character :
"One of tho earliest instances is that of Stephen Duck,
the Wiltshire thresher, who sang the praises of Queen
Anne, and received for his pains a pension and a cottage at
Windsor. Affliction overtook Stephen, and, in despair,
the poor fellow committed suicide. Phillis Wheatley was a
female slave at Boston about the middle of the last cen-
tury. She wrote a volume of verses which passed through
several verse; and her publication assisted in obtaining
bar freedom. James Ripley was hostler of the Red Lion,
at Barnet, in Dr. Johnson's days. He penned a volume of
essays which met with the approval of the groat lexico-
grapher, and the portrait of this servant of the stable was
I handsomely engraved. Anne Yearsley was a milkwoman
at Bristol. This servant's poems passed through four edi-
tion; and on her subscription list are the names of the
principal personages of Gloucester, Somerset, Devon, and
Wiltshire. Later still, Samuel Drew, the shoemaker and
metaphysician of St. Austell, wrote some of his most pro-
found pieces upon a humble pair of bellows during the
spare moments of his daily toil. The casa of Robert
Bloomfield is almost too well known to be mentioned hero
but his bootmaker's card, issued from Bell-alley long before
he was known as a poet, affords a parallel instance to
Drew's."

Not—let it be :at once understood—that Robert
Awde affects for one moment to be another Robert
Bloomfield. But simply that he conceives himself
to be no more debarred from, let us say—
" Tuning his merry throat
Unto the blackbird's note"—
by the fact of his wearing a gold-laced band or a
cockade, or a pair of worsted aiguielletes—than was
Jean Jacques Rousseau, who—(let us remind him)
more illustrious than any he has above named—also
wore the livery of a serving man! Or than Robert
Dodsley, who did the like in his day before he be-
came a bookseller! Or than honest Edward Capern,
who in our own day, has long trudged about Bide-
ford in Her Majesty's Livery as a Postman, metri-
cally cultivating letters while in the very act of de-
livering them. Such as it is, the book here published
by Mr. llotten of Piccadilly—that intelligent and
systematic publisher of very curious books, indeed,
of various character—this little volume of Robert
Awde's is well worthy of a respectful examination,
an examination at any rate the very opposite of
either the superficial or the supercilious.

Hints on Hats. By Henry Melton. One Vol., pp

102. J. C. Rotten.

Another of Mr. Hotten's whimsical little books—
books, one by one, as they come to us over his
counter, intensely sui generis. As a fitting frontis-
piece, the present volume has an equestrian effigy
fo Count Alfred D'Orsay, that preux chevalier
armed cap-a-pie, neither in chain mail nor in
burnished plate, but in cravat, coat, waistcoat,
amilodnechclinounldeYhrv:'imagined, such as
trousers,exquisite
D'Orsay's handsome form and face alone could
have set off to so much advantage ! As to the author
anyinquiryH.R.H.to audacious street-
Henry Melton here announcing himself on his
very title-page to be " Hatter to his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales." One thing only is still
wanting to complete the excellence of this pleasant
little gossipping volume about Hats (" adapted,"
as the writer says facetiously, " to the Heads of the
People ") one thing only is yet wanting to complete
the excellence of it as an anecdotal collection of
" Hints about Hats "—namely, the throwing out
by Henry Melton (in his capacity as Hatter to His
Royal Highness), the throwing out by him at last
of some felicitous suggestion of a covering for the
male human-head, such as shall be at once com-
fortable and picturesque, a hat that shall at once
and for ever put an extinguisher on the old un-
sightly chimney-pot.

Can you Forgive Her? By Anthony Trollope.
No. XIX. Chapman and Hall.

So near are we to the end of this serial story of
Mr. Anthony Trollope's, that within the present
number John Grey, of Nethercoats, has been re-
accepted by Alice Vavasour,
in a very yea-nay
manner, and (of all cheerful places for a love scene)
in a churchyard ! Within this number, too, Burgo
Fitzgerald, beggared at the gambling-table, is
proffered help at his direst need by (of all
people in the world) Mr. Palliser. Lady Glencora's
probable, or let us say now more confidently her
approaching maternity, lends the one only remain-
ing charm of interest to the narrative. The
fault of the book appears to us to be this—that there
is immense preparation for intensely impassioned
scenes that, time after time, as the events prove,
come to just absolutely nothing ! That double-
dyed, vulgar-minded, callous-hearted scoundrel,
George Vavasour, for example, one expects, -all
through the book to see see break his neck or
get kicked into the middle of next week by
Somebody, by Anybody, it matters not whom.
And yet the wretch is, after all, allowed to sneak
away into safe obscurity wholly unpunished. So
is it with regard to Burgo's recklessness and Lady
Glencora's threatened liaison with him, as well as
with reference to other characters and other inci-
dents in this latest story of Mr. Trollope's—im-
mense preparation there is, we repeat, and compa-
ratively speaking no result. The mountain of the
book is every now and then portentously in labour,
and is every now and then bringing forth some
ridiculous mouse of an incident.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO TIIE DAUGIITER OF THE
BELGIAN MINISTER.--.--AD accident, which has re-
sulted in very distressing consequences, occurred in the
vicinity of Windsor on Wednesday evening. Captain
Brand and Mrs. Brand (the daughter of his Excellency M.
Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister) were driving in the
neighbourhood of the town, when the horse ran away, and,
while the captain was trying to restrain the animal, the
reins broke, and all control over it was lost. Tho captain
attempted to quit the carriage in order to stop tho horse,
but in doing so fell and' received some injury. The fright,
and consequent shock to the system, which Mrs. Brand re-
ceived through the accident caused a most serious illness,
which has brought on a premature confinement, and left the
lady in such a critical state as to cause the greatest alarm
to her friends. The unfortunate lady, who was yesterday
afternoon said to be in a very alarming condition, now lies
at Captaip)3raud's residence in tl4 Cloisters, under the care
of Dr. ram of London and Dr. =ion of Windsor.