The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-28 00:00:00

rH E SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28 1870

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Closing Mainers
Share News. Paid. Price done
10 Agra Limited, A all. 111 125
10 ' Do B lO 45
50 Albion l5 10 8
00 Alliance, Limited
20 Anglo Austrian
20 Auglo-Egyptian, lim all 215 25 21
20 Anglo-Hungarian 8 id 11)
20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 3 2
40 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columbia all 15 16
2U Do issued at 2 pm.... , 5 35 25
25 Bank of Egypt
20 Bank of Otago, lim
25 Bank of South Australia all 321 331
50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 37 39
10 Bank of New Zealand all 15 16
SO British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, and China all 181 19
25 Chartered Mere. of India.
London,' and China all 32 33 326 5
20 City lO 11 115
100 Colonial 25 41 43
10 Consolidated, lim.
50 Delhi and London, lim
50 East London, lim 5
20 English and Anr—icau, lint 10
20 English Bank of fib° de Ja-
neiro. lim
20 English, :.• cottish, and Aus-
tralian Chartered
281 Hong Emig and Shanghai
Bank Corporation all 37 Nil
281 Do new lll 45 35
100 Imperial, lim 2O 3 2
20 Imperial Ottoman -le 21 3 14
'25 lonian all 2 / 22
25 Do now 5 6 3
_ ~.

10 4 'iP

Lnd Mortgage of India., lim 4 31 31
,00 Do sp. c. Dobs.lB6l, 30 all 76 , 76 50
00 London Bank of Mexico
and South America, lira. 20 5 4
iOO London and Brazilian, lim. 45 15 7'.9
20 Do new 71 4 41
LOO London &River Plate. lim. 40 11 13
25 Do new 10 11 2 p
20 Landon Chart. of Australia all 231 2il
20 London and County 2O 491 501 501 491
60 Do new. iss at 20 p.m, 16 pd ll ... • •
London Joint Stock 3ll 32i 311

London and South African al
100 London &S.-Western, lieu, 20 13 11
50 London & Venezuela lira 121 ... •••
100 London and Westminster 20 80 61 571
100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pra 2O
100 Merchant, lira 25 61 54
10 Metropolitan, lira all 71 7i
00 Midland, 1ira..... 2O Id I
5 National of Australia
25 National of Liverpool, lira l5 3(1 IP
00 National Provine. of Ened 42 ••• •••
411
10 Do
50 National.. 3O ... • •
20 New South Wales all 41 4
20 North-Western
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 46 44 44
50 Provine. Bank. Corpo., lim. 10 61 51
30 Provincial of Ireland 25 85 87 864
10 Do new. all ... ...
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, um 25 Y 4 13 • '
100 Do issued at 6 pm. •10 8 6
25 Union of Australia all 46 4 i
100 Union of Ireland, tun
50 Union of London l5 351 361 36 1

TELEGRAPH COMPANIES.

11) Anglo-American 'lei. iim all 101 19i I'll
10 Anglo Mediter T01.,1fm.... 10 -4 421 201
st Atlantic Teleg,raph lO 15 17
st Do. 8 per cent. lOO 45 5)
at B. and I. Magnetic Tel., Hui. 100 180 1;0
st Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 262 267
10 Do. New 8 12 Up
25 Indo-European Tel., Jim all 23 25
5 Lond. Provincial Tel. lim all 3 4
1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent all . ..
10 Mediterra. Exteu. Tel., lim all 9 10 91
25 Reuter's Telegram all 80 85
20 Societe Transatlant., lim all 18 181
st Submarine Telegraph
1 Do. Scrip all 11 1/
5 U. Kingdom Tel. Co., lim all 7 8
5 Do. 10 per cent. Pret all i i :-,1

MISCELLANEOUS.

10 Auglo-Mexican Mint all 141 11
25 Australian Agricultural
25 Australian Mort. Land and

Finance, lim.
10 Baugarah Tea Estates, lim 3 5,1
10 Berlin Water Works, Inn all 11{ 15}
10 Do. New all

Bolekow Vaughan, lim. 3O 15 2
Bombay Gas, lim.
Do. New 4 pr jp
British American Land 44 1,5 17
British Indian Tea, lim all 1 2
British Ship Owners
Canada Company all 63 t 5
Canadian Loan and Invest-

went, lim 2i .. ...
20 Ceylon Company, lim.
20 Do. A shares
10 City Discount, lim fi
25 City of London Real Pro-

_
Party, Urn 9 6 5
30 City of Milan Improv. 11m all 4 5
25 City of Moscow blas, inn all
50 City Offices, lim 25 22 21
50 Colonial, lim.
Do.
50 Commercial Union (Assur) 5 2 21
10 Company of African Mer- _

- chants, lira.
20 Continental Union Gas, lira all 261 271
25 Copper Miners of England,
pref. 71 per cent.

PARIS CORRESPONDENCE.

TnunsDAY.

M. 011ivier has issued an address to the justices of the
peace which has produced a very favourable effect. The
Minister reminds those functionaries that they can only
efficiently discharge their duties as conciliators and as popu-
lar judges if their impartiality is altogether above
suspicion. Consequently he interdicts them from taking
any part in the elections for the various elective councils.
They must not, he says, become the coadjutors or the
solicitors of the men to whom they have to award
justice. He will, therefore, consider that any judge who
becomes a candidate for the General, District, or Municipal
Gauncil in his canton as having sent in his resignation.
This decisive step has given the public some confidence in
the sincerity of the First Minister's proposed desire to
separate the administration of justice from the influences
of the political arena.
The Parliamentary Initiative Committee held yesterday
their second sitting. They decided on several modifica-
tions, end had under discussion the proposal of M.
Boutciller, that the head of the State should no longer
nominate the presidents of the SociOtes de Secours Mittreis.
The iascrticn of official notices in provincial journals
was also brought into consideration. To-day's suasion
was more interesting. The subject was the motion of
MM. Picard, Favre, Gambetta, and Gr,,vy for the repeal cf
arti le 291 of the Penal code, by which no meeting of mere
than twenty persons can be held on fixed days
without the consent of the Government. M. Gambetta
was the advocate of the repealers, and spoke strongly
against the law. M. Mapuir has given notice of a measure
of some interest to the commercial world. He proposes
that the members of the Chambers of Commerce should be
elected, not only by merchants of recognised position,
but by all licensed dealers.
The debate in the Chambers yesterday was very ani-
mated. Beginning with a passage at arms between M.
011ivier and M. Gambetta, it continued with a somewhat
angry discussion of the Extraordinary Budget of the City
of Paris, and wound up with the speech of M. Kolb Ber-
nard on the Treaty of Commerce. The Debats declares
that the debate can only have one result. The Treaty
. will not be denounced. All the world, it says, is well
aware that it is impossible to retrace the steps
which have been taken. Even granting that
the interests now suffering have suffered from
free trade, they would not be restored by a return
to protection, while fresh interests of great importance
have sprung up and are involved in the maintenance of
the existing system. The most troublesome part
of the matter at present is the question of the
decrees of January 10. These decrees, says the Debats,
may be constitutional, but they are none the less inoppor-
tune, and as a retrograde step towards protection, they
have been especially unfortunate at a time when all
parties agreed that the statu quo should be maintained
until after the inquiry. What is to be done ?
The Chamber disapproves of the transaction, but is cer-
tainly not inclined to overthrow the Cabinet on the ques-
tion. The Government can hardly be expected to issue a
counter decree. It has been suggested that the decrees
shall be regarded as merely a temporary expedient in
waiting for the decision of the chamber.
The 3farseillaise has published a letter from M. Ulric de
Fonville, in which he gives an emphatic denial to the
statement that he uttered the words imputed to him in a
pharmacien's shop at Auteuil—" He has killed my friend,
but he received a famous slap in the face." He expresses
his astonishment that such a statement should be made
without the name of the person who overheard the remark
being subjoined to it.
The Journal des _Mats says that the inquiry into the
Auteuil affair has been continued without intermission
from the twelfth of the month, before M. d'Ours, the Pre-
sident of the Chamber. The investigation does not
proceed so rapidly as was at first anticipated.
The magistrate appears to have great difficulty
in forming a correct idea of the circumstances of the
transaction in the midst of which Prince Pierre com-
mitted his double crime, because the only two witnesses
of the affair offer contradictory evidence. On the 12th of
January, M. Bergognie, as substitute for the public
prosecutor, made his accusation against the Prince on the
double charge of voluntary and attempted homicide. After
the President had interrogated the Prince, the hearing of
witnesses was commenced and has since been continued.
The magistrate has summoned all those persons who had
heard accounts of the affair ! from the Prince, or from

M. Fonville, and other witnesses have testified to the
habits and characters of the accused and of his victim.
On the 15th of January, the President, and M. Bergogni6,
went to Auteuil and arranged that a plan should be made
of the room in which the fatal occurrence took place.
Marchamtants, the architect, was commissioned to perform
this task, and also to draw a special plan, according to the
version of the Prince, which should indicate the move-
ments of the different per Sons and the arrangement of the
furniture at the time of the occurrence. He has also
made another sketch in conformity with M. Fonvilie's
statement. Up to the present time fifty witnesses have
been beard, but the inquiry being conducted in secret, it
is impossible to form any idea of its progress, or of the
nature of its intelligence.
Some attempts have been made to extend the conces-
sions made by the new law relating to the press. The
Constitutionne/ proposes that the number of offences
should be limited to two attacks on the Emperor and
direct provocation of insurrection.
The suppression of the electoral oath is also in contem-
plation. It is objected to because it limits universal suf-
frage to the partisans of the Empire.