The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APIIL 20, 1870.

SHARE LIAT.

RAILWAYS-ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS.

Closing Business
Paid. • Name. Quotations. done.
St Bristol and Exeter lOO 77 79 79 1
St Caledonian ' 100 751 76 741
St Cambrian lOO 15 20
20 Cornwall all 21 31
St Dublin and Belfast Junction 100 . . . .
St Dun, Prtb, and Aber. Jnnc 100 70 72
20 East London all 4 6
20 Do
20 1)o
St Glasgow and S.Western 100 111 113
St Great Eastern lOO 371 391 411 1
St Do East Anglian, No. 2 100 61 71
St Great North of Scotland 100 13 16
St Great Northern 100 119 120 1221
St Do . A 100 126 127
St Do B 100 126 128
St Gt. So. and West(lreland) 100 98 100
St Great Western - Consolid 100 71 711 721 411
St Do South Wales 100 68 70
St Do West Midland—Oxford 100 44 45
St Do do Newport 100 36 38
St Lancashire and Yorkshire 100 1254 1274 14311
St Lond, Bright'n, and S.Coast 100 43 431 47461
St Lond, Chatham, and Dover 100 144 154
St Do Metrop Extension A 100 9 11
St London and North Western 100 1261 1274 1281
St Loudon and South Western 100 881 891 921 31
St Manch, Shef, and Lincolnsh 100 51 511 53 21
•
St Do New. issued at £5O dis 3O ...
St Metropolitan lOO 791 80 781
St Do Preferred... lOO
St Do Deferred 100 . . . .
10 Do Redeemable
St Metropolitan District 100 37 38 381
St Midland 100 1241 125 1241
St Do Birmingham and Derbyloo 92 94
St North British. lOO 31 35 351
St Do Edin, Perth, and Dunde 100 13 15
St North Eastern—Berwick lOO 1261 1271 1361 1
St Do Leeds 100 841 851
St Do York
St Do Stockton and Darlingta 100 178 180 1824
St North London 100 120 122 120
10 'Do New, 1868 6l 14 1/
St North Staffordshire 100 59 61
St North and So. West. J unct 100 102 105
St Rhymnoy lOO 52 54
St Shropshire Union 100 62 63
St South Devon 100 46 48
St South Eastern 100 764 771 784
St Do Preferred ...100 1091 1101
St Do Deferred... lOO 41 411
St Staines, Wok'ham, dt Wok'g. all 121 131
St Taff Vale
10 Do 0 6 3 6
St Waterford and Cent. Ireland 100
0 Waterloo and Whitehall

ANOTHER PARIS TRAGEDY.

A deadly encounter took place on Monday night in
Paris, at a house in the Rue du Cardinal Fesch. A
stranger rushed at a banker, named Espir, as he was
going out, and dealt him a blow over the head with a
loaded cane. Espir stepped back, drew a sword-stick,
and ran the assailant through the body. Both are dan-
gerously, it is believed mortally wounded,

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
THE DUCHESSE DE BERRY.

The Times is uncertain whether the chequered life of
the late Duchess de Berry may be said to constitute a
bright page in the annals of Royalty. Her education had
been shamefully neglected at her grandfather's Court, but
1;110 strove to make up for her deficiencies by devoting
p in of her time during her married life and widowhood in
France to the improvement of her mind, giving signs of
excellence in the cultivation of the fine arts. Though not
gifted with any extraordinary beauty, there was something
hi her inborn elcgance, and in her pale and melancholy
countenance, which cast a spell on the courtier crowd
of the French Royal household, while her graceful affa-
bility won her golden opinions among the multitude. The
unit two years of her dreadful domestic bereavement
were spent in the strictest monrning and seclusion ; but
upon her reappearance in the world the interestawakened
by her calamity, .and the hopes centred on her offspring
by the party then dominant, raised her to the highest
popularity, and made her the brightest ornament of a
court over which otherwise hung the gloom of age and
loneliness. It was only when the blundering game
of Royalty was lost, when • Charles X. paid the
penalty of his infatuation in a land of exile, that
the young Duchess, whose affections had in the meantime
been elsewhere engaged, and who had contracted new
ties, still clung to her Royal estate and to her dynastic
interests with sufficient earnestness to take the lead in
political partisanship, and risk everything in an enter-
prise the failure of which was not certainlyowing to want
of courage and perseverance on her part. Among the
members of the five dethroned Bourbon branches, French,
Spanish, or Italian, she was the one who consciously
survived her greatness for the longest. period, for
her only son, who is now past the meridian of life,
was still a mere child on the expulsion of his family.
Perhaps the Neapolitan Princess was too clear-sighted to
harbour the illusions in which the French Legitimist
party so long indulged. Perhaps, also, she had had
enough of Court life and Royal greatness, and she had
found in retirement the peace and contentment which are
apt to pine and wither in the shadow of a throne. Happy
would it be for all hopeless Royalty if it could learn the
same resignation and self-denial.

THE VOLUNTEER REVIFW.
The Standard says that regarded simply as a holiday,
as the means of drawing five and twenty thousand men
from their occupations, often confined and monotonous,
and giving them a glorious taste of fresh air on the breezy
downs of the south coast, the Easter Monday Review was
a great success. It contained sufficient employment to
be really enjoyable to men of active minds and active bodies.
This feeling aids largely in inducing the Vbaunteers who join
the Easter Mondayßeview to go through the exertion and
fatigue that the day demands, for it is really no light
task. Many of the men are engaged for nearly twenty-
four hours at a stretch. We should be glad if we could
confine our remarks to the composition of the force on
the Brighton Downs ; but we are compelled to draw
attention to the way in which it was handled. We pass
over the general plan of the action, probably as good as
could be contrived under the constraint of the circum-
stances, and arrive at the method of its execution.
The volunteers have absolutely no tactical training ;
it is impossible, therefore, that they can intelli-
gently command regiments or brigades in the field.
They are trying to run before they can walk.
Our secial correspondent agrees with others in saying
that their company drill is evidently at fault, and yet
they are acting in brigades under their own officers. We
Offer them a piece of wholesome, though perhaps unpala-
table, advice. Let them learn company drill thoroughly,
and afterwards, but not till afterwards, battalion drill by
single battalions. Let the officers attend the instruction
which the new garrison instructors will give in tactics,
and learn what is the meaning of the movements taught
at drill ; and when this is thoroughly understood it will be
time enough to think of movements on a more extended
scale.