The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-12 00:00:00

rency.

The Minister proposed, further, the conversion
of Church property in rural parishes to be
applied to augmenting the incomes of
priests who received less than 800 lire. Signor
Sella concluded by laying before the House a bill
for establishing the equilibrium of the Budget in
the above manner, and providing for the wants of
Troasury, together with ether bills increasing
the liberty of banks in general, and establishing
saving banks of various kinds.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

MARSEILLES, March 12.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Ceylon an ived at 6.40 this morning. The mails
leave for London at 10.55.

AMERICA.

(Per French Atlantic Cable.)

WASHINGTON, March 11.

The House of Representatives passed to-day
Mr. Logan's Bill reducing the list of army officers
by 33 per cent.

NEW YORK, March 11.

The missing steamer Smidt, from Bremen, is
now off Sandy Hook.

The steamship Cambria (of the Anchor line)
arrived out to-dy.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
CLOSING PRICES.

Gold closed at 1131 ; the highest quotation dur-
ing the day was 114; the lowest, 1121,

Sterling Exchange on London lOBl.
5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 llll.
" 1885 llOl.
" 1867 llO.
10-40 44
Illinois l4ok.
Erie
Cotton—Mid. upland 2l4e.
Petroleum—Standard White 27c.
Flour, extra state, $4.70e. to $5.30c. Corn, old
mixed, sl.4c.
EVENING

The gold market is excited and irregular ; the
latest ciosing price was ll2k, and the closing sales
of bonds show a decline of 4.
According to Messrs. Moffatt Davidis and Co.'s
report, the receipts of cotton at all ports for the
week have been 67,000 bales, and since the Ist of
September 2,267,000 bales. Shipments to England,
50,000 bales; to France, 9,000 ; and to the Conti-
nent 17,000 bales; and since the Ist of Septem-
ber, 1,300,000 bales. Stock, 560,000 bales. Mid-
dling upland, 10k cost and freight per steamer.

The death Is announced of Moraieur Bore!, who
sustained a prominent part in the construction of the Suez
Canal locomotives.

The Gibraltar Chronicle gives an account of an ex-
traordinary landslip which occurred on the morning of the
21st ult., on the eastern side of the Rock between the
Devil's Tower and Catalan Bay, rendering the road to the
latter place extremely dangerous and almost impassable.
High boulders of rock became detached, and fell down the
slope, some of them into the sea. All traffic by land was
stopped, and communication with the village wa4 carried
on by boats. The slip is attributed to the heavty rains
which have fallen in Gibraltar lately.

A FATAL MISTAKE.—A man, named George
Rodger, a pensioner, called on Wednesday at the house of
a married sister in Glasgow. He was the worse for liquor,
and his sister having occasion to go out for a short time,
he went to the press in search of drink, and finding a bottle
containing some two ounces of vitriol, he, in mistake,
swallowed the contents. He immediately rushed into a
neighbour's house, crying out in agony that he was either
poisoned or on fire. Water was given him, and Dr. Chal-
mers was sent for, who prescribed the usual antidotes,
but the man died the following night.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY-.AII

inquest has been held on the body of Maria Colbey, aged
21, a young lady who came from Brighton to London for
change of air, having been unwell and depressed for some
time. On the 6th instant she disappeared from her friends
at Isleworth,'and her body was afterwards found in the
Thames near Kew Bridge. The sister of the deceased
deposed that her sister, though quite sound and strong in
body, had a peculiar hallucination that everyone shunned
her, on account of an imaginary smell attached to her.
She had said that sle w4s going to take an opportunity of
de itroying herself. The-jury returned a verdict dsuicit;',
while of =sound mind.

The Vatican announces that the petition from the
Catholics of Great Britain praying the Pope and Council
to declare S. Joseph Patron of the Universal Church has
been expedited to Rome. It forms a roll of about 700
yards in length, and contains between one and two hu-a-
dred thousand signatures. Petitions are continually
coming in from all parts of the country. They will be
formed into another roll, and will be forwarded to Rome
At the end of the month.

Nature states that Professor Unger, of Vienna, a
well-known botanist, has been found murdered in his bed at
Graz; and no trace of the murderer has yet been discovered.
A priest has taken this opportunity to assert from the pulpit
at ()illy, Styril, that the body of the late philosopher had
Rrobably been destroyed by the devil himself, who had just
&hes upon his soul!

A memorial has been presented to the Metro-
politan magistrates, by the London auxiliary of the
United Kingdom Alliance, asking them to refuse all new
licenses this year, as well as the renewal of those, in cases
where the houses have been complained of. The grounds
of the memorial are the excessive number of houses now
existing, and the misery, pauperism, and crime engender&
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