The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-30 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Jan. 29.—The market has been ani-
mated as far as regards the amount of business
transacted, but without any further improvement
in prices. Threes, for the Account, are now at
71f. 25c. Railways also pretty firm.
The following are the last quotations:—
ft per per Cents ... 99 80 Credit Fancier 1270
Do. end month.... 99 90; Belgian 4t
3 per Cents
Do. end month 7l 25 Roman
Bank Shares 3000 Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 750 Spanish Threes .—
Do. Account .. 752 50 , Rome Debt .. 47

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
0 rlean4 1347 50 .. 1350
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1087 50 .. 1090

Geneva
Southern
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian
Austrian
Lowbard 536 25 .. 537 50
AUSTRIA.

The Ost-Deutsche Post, under the heading " The
Throne of Mexico," publishes a long article refuting
the rumour that the Archduke Maximilian of
Austria had accepted the offer of the Crown of
Mexico. After stating that when the Crown of
Belgium was offered to the Archduke Charles of
Austria it was declined, the article concludes as
follows :—" What Napoleon 111. is aiming at is
quite clear to us. lie wishes to found a Throne,
as his uncle did, to place his brothers or generals
on it. Napoleon is at liberty to make with the
blood of his soldiers a kingdom out of the old
empire of Montezuma; but to wish to employ an
Austrian Archduke for such a purpose is, in our
opinion, an insult to Austria. From what has ap-
peared in the papers we believe there is some foun-
dation for the report, and that some such step has
been attempted by France with the Court of
Vienna. The whole affair, in our opinion, is a
Napoleonist manoeuvre, the aim of which is plain
enough. On the banks of the Oregon, in a country
washed by the Pacific Ocean, an indemnity is to be
offered for the territory of the Mincio and for
the Queen of the Adriatic. Instead of the
slopes of the Alps, the Cordilleras are to be the
Austrian frontier. Instead of the Quadrilateral,
she is to have the plain of Anahuac and Mexico, its
capital ! A sea for a sea, ports for ports, about
40,000 square miles for 400, eight millions of sub-
jects for scarcely three ! What a magnificent ex-
change ! . . . There is only one point which
to us is incomprehensible. Was it ever seriously
believed at the Tuileries that Austria would accept
the offer ? Or anticipating a refusal, was it made
with a perfidious object ? It is the very case for
exclaiming—' Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.' "

Mr. Francis Holl, the well-known engraver, has
received permission from the Queen to publish a limited
number of copies from the plate of the portrait of the late
lamented Prince Consort which Mr. Roll had the honour
to execute for her Majesty. This engraving is a private
plate, bearing the Royal arms.
AWFUL CASE OF SUDDEN DEATIL-011 Monday
night, about 20 minutes to 10, considerable excitement was
caused in Cavendish-street, New North-road, Hoxton, by
an alarm that a man had dropped down dead. It appears
that the deceased, a fine and'apparently hearty youn. man,
about 26 years of age, was proceeding along the New
North-road, when he was accosted by an "unfortunate,"
and was proceeding with her to a house in the above street,
when, arriving at the place in question, his companion was
alarmed by a heavy fall, and on turning round she saw him
lying on the ground. Medical aid was sent for, and every
means used to restore the 3 oung man to consciousness. On
the arrival of two medical gentlemen they at onco pro-
nounced life to be extinct, and the body was removed to
Robert-street police, station. On searching his pockets a
bag containing some silver was found, with an address, by
which he has eillCe Ineh identified,

TILE BRAZIL MAIL.

LISBON, JAN. 29.

The Royal Mail steamship Tyne, from the Brazils,
has arrived here. She was to leave Lisbon for
Southampton at 12 30 to-day, with 45 passengers,
£14,000 in specie, 450 rolls of tobacco, and 146
packages of Sundries.

RIO JANEIRO, Jan. B.—Exchange on London,
258 to 251. Coffee, good first, 6.650 reis. Ship-
ments since the departure of the last steamer,
42,158 bags, including 28,658 for the Channel.
Stock, 320,000 bags. Freights for the Channel,
50s. to 655.

At Bahia, exchange on London was quoted 25'4
to 26. Sugar 2.400 to 2.500 reis.

Exchange on London at Pernambuco, 251 to 26.
Sugar, whites, 3.500 to 3.700 ; brown, 1.600 reis.
Cotton, 9.300 to 9,500 reis.

ARRIVAL OF MESSRS. MASON AND

SLID.ELL.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY.

The liberated Confederate Commissioners to Eng-
land and France, Messrs. Mason and Slidell, accom-
panied by their secretaries, Messrs. M'Farland and
Eustis, arrived here this morning on board the
Royal Mail Company's steamship La Plata, Capt.
C. G. Weller. A more literal restoration of the
status quo could scarcely have been effected, so far
as the four passengers themselves are concerned, as
by a singular coincidence they have came to Eng-
land in the very steamship in which they would
have made the Atlantic voyage a couple of months
ago but for their forcible abduction from the Trent
(in which vessel they were proceeding from Ha-
vannah to St. Thomas to meet the homeward
steamer La Plata) by Captain Wilkes, of the San
Jacinto. Nine weeks ago this morning—on Wed-
nesday, the 27th of November—the Plata, arrived in
our docks about 11 o'clock,, bringing the tidings of
Captain Wilkes' outrage upon the British flag, and
within an hour or so of the same hour to-day the
Plata again arrives bringing the captured Confede-
rates to our shores.

It appears from the statement of a gentleman
who has accompanied them home that Messrs.
Mason and Slidell left Fort Warren, at Boston,
where they had been confined,On the Ist of January,
the first intimation of their release being conveyed
to them by the arrival of a tipstaff to tell them to
go out of their prison. Mr. Slidell asked him for
his papers, to show his authority for the course
he was taking. The tipstaff replied that he had
none, on which Mr. Slidell declined to leave,
but he at length yielded to the solicitations of
Colonel Dymock, the commandant of the fortress,
who begged him to go, as he knew the man, and
that no papers could be produced. The four pri-
soners were taken from Fort Warren in charge of the
tipstaff and six marines, without any officer, and
conveyed 40 miles in a small steamtug to Cape Sable,
where they were transferred to her Majesty's gun-
boat Rinaldo, Captain Hewitt, which was lying off
to receive them. The Rinaldo bore up for Halifax
for four days, and was then driven by the violence
of the storm that was raging to Bermuda. They all
landed at Bermuda, and remained there one day.
Admiral Milne ordered the Rinaldo to take them on
to St. Thomas to catch the mail steamer for Eng-
land, offering the Commissioners, however, if they
preferred it, to send them on in her Majesty's ship
Racer, but they expressed themselves well satisfied
with the Rinaldo, and accordingly proceeded in her.
She left Bermuda on the 10th inst., and arrived at
St. Thomas on the 14th, about two hours before the
Plata sailed for this port.
The health of the prisoners has not suffered in
any way by their confinement in Fort Warren,
although they describe both the prison and the
treatment they received as being very bad. Cap-
tain Hewitt, of the Rinaldo, did everything in his
power to testify the kindly feelings of the British
Government towards the prisoners, and to promote
their comfort on board his ship; and they speak in
the same manner of the behaviour and conduct of
all the British officers, both of the naval and mer-
chant service, with whom they have come in contact.
Mr. Slidell left here by the 11 30 a.m. train for
London ; whence he proceeds to Paris, where Mrs.
Slidell and family are awaiting his arrival. Mr.
Mason followed by the 3 o'clock train, a telegram
having been received from Captain Pegrim, who is
in London, that he would wait there to meet him.
There was a considerable crowd of persons col-
lected on the dock quay when the Plata came along-
side, as, indeed, there always is on the arrival of a
West India mail steamer, and the number was
undoubtedly increased as the news spread that
Mason and Slidell were on board, curiosity to see
the four men whose case has figured so prominently
before the world during the last two months, and
who are said to have cost this country a million
sterling a-piece, having drawn some people to the
spot. There was, however, not the least attempt to
get up any sort of demongVation on the part of the
spectators ; not a cheer was raised, and when the
released prisoners left the Plata they passed on
shore, and to their hotel, just as ordinary pas-
sengers. _

Some of the officers of the Nashville waited upon
Messrs. Mason and Slidell, to pay their respects,
immediately on the arrival of the Plata.

THE TUSCARORA AND THE .NASII-

VILLE.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY.

The Tuscarora left her moorings again about 8
o'clock this morning, and steamed down the river,
but with what intentions as to the future remains
as close a secret as all her previous movements have
been. She has brought up in Yarmouth Roads,
where she lay up to a late hour this afternoon, and
some provisions have, it is stated, been sent down
to her. An official despatch from Portsmouth was
put on board her this morning by her Majesty's
ship Sprightly on her way to this port.
Her Majesty's screw frigate Shannon arrived
from Portsmouth yesterday morning, and has
taken up a position just within Ca.!shot Castle
at the entrance of the Southampton Water. The
object of her being stationed at this spot has not
been allowed publicly to transpire.
There are sundry rumours in circulation, but
they cannot be traced to any solid foundation,
that both the Tuscarora and the Nashville have
been ordered away, and that the latter vessel will
leave, probably, on Thursday.l

SALMON POACHING IN CIIMBERLAN D.—CARLISLE,
Tuesday.—The inquest on the body of Edward Atkinson,
water-watcher, who was killed at Brocklewath, Cumber-
land, in a fatal encounter with poachers on the 15th inst.,
was resumed to-day before Mr. Carrick, the coroner, and a
highly respectable jury. Some additional medical evidence
was taken as to the state of the health of Bowman, the other
watcher. It was stated that he was now rapidly recovering,
although it was at one time apprehended that his wounds,
like Atkinson's, would prove fatal. A heavy knotted club
was produced, which was found near the scene of the fray;
and the medical man who had attended Bowman said that
file serious injuries on his head and shoulders might have
been caused by that. The evidence having been concluded,
the coroner addressed the jury, pointing out to them in the
course of his observations the distinction between wilful
murder and manslaughter. It appeared to be admitted on
the part of the prosecution that the deceased in apprehend-
ing the man, who was fishing in the river, was performing
en unlawful act; and the illegal imprisbnment of a man's
person had been held to reduce killing with the sword to
manslaughter. But if that fact would reduce the crime to
manslaughter, would the same extenuating circumstances
extend to the other men, who were identified as William
Robinson and Earl, who went to the rescue of the old man
and were not being arrested themselves ? The coroner,
after referring to the deadly character of the weapons used,
and other points, left the case to the jury. The jury con-
sulted for half an hour, after which they delivered a verdict
of " Manslaughter" against Wm. Robinson and Hugh Earl.
The coroner thereupon liberated the old man Robinson, so
far as he was concerned, but ho was detained by the police
to be brought before the magistrates along with his son and
Earl and the farmer Milburn.

NOVEL POCKET PISTOL.—A pistol with four
barrels, and weighing but 91 ounces, and of American con-
ception, is now being multiplied- by the celebrated gun
makere, Messrs. Tipping and Lawden, of Birmingham, for
Great Britain and the colonies. "It is fired by a revolving
disc in the hammer, and so unerring is its action lhat only
two cartridges— powder, cap, and ball in one—missed fire."
Its range is something beyond belief, and as much as 400
yards has been said to have been attained. half of this
distance would, however, be remarkable ; but as the whole
of the official reports concur in placing it in the very fore'
most rank of its class, and comparing it in its power to
rifles of not a very
ite capabilities} Ar 9 not mrrated,
early date, there can be little,doubt that