The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-10 00:00:00

FIANCE.

PARIS, Jan. 10.
A Ministerial decree, dated yesterday, orders
that pig-iron shall continue to be admitted into
France under the rules laid down for temporary
importation. Moulded cast iron, however, shall
only be admitted with the same privileges if in-
tended for the manufacture of cast iron articles.
Iron, as well as other metals, is in such cases only
to be sent to foundries specially authorised for this
kind of manufacture.

The decree further orders that importers of iron
made by charcoal cannot re-export articles of coke-
iron with the same privileges.
Credits for these temporary altnissions will be
opened to importers only at the instance of the
Consulting Committee on Arts and Manufactures.
Another decree of yesterday's date orders that
after the lapse of four months cotton tissues, whd-
ther pure or mixed, shall no longer be admitted into
France under the regulations laid down for tempo-

rary importation.
BOURSE, Jan. B.—Three o'clock—The market
~:losed as follows :

4 ver Cent.
End of month— —

Bank Shares 2840
fled Fan vivec 56 60
Austrian Fives
--
Ottoman Loan
Do. Debt 45 35
Spanish Threes 261
Home Debt —
Deferred ......

per Cent
End of mouth_ 73 45
`relit 3lobilier ~ 207 50
Transatlantic 220

Crodit Foncier 1722 50
Paris Gas 1640

RAILWA'

Cash_
Orleans - PS7
Western
Northern
Strasburg .. 590
nyons and Mediterranean
Southern__ 5991
' '3
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 525
North of Spain 4G
Saragossa
Roman 4l

TILE EXECUTION AT KIRKDALE.

THIS DAY.

On Saturday a reply was received from Mr.
Bruce, the Home Secretary, refusing a reprieve in
the case of John Gregson, condemned to death for
the murder of his wife at Wigan. The execution,
therefore took place at eight o'clock this morning
within the prison enclosure, this being the first
execution under the new system which has taken
place at Liverpool. All the arrangements were
completed o❑ Saturday. The prisoner, though an
exceedingly ignorant man, appeared to be fully
impressed with the gravity of the crime, and to
appreciate the exhortations and instruction of the
Rev. Mr. Pigott, the chaplain, who has been very
frequent in his attendance upon him.

The Secretary of State for War has most loyally
fulfilled his engagement to the Mayor of Rochester,
the High Constable of Chatham, and the deputa-
tions they headed from their respective towns, that,
as early as it could be done, the gunpowder in the
great magazines at Upnor Castle, considered to be
a standing menace to the adjacent towns as well as
to the Government establishments, should be re-
moved. This week the last cargo of powder to be
conveyed from Upnor to Purfleet has been taken
on board a vessel for transport. There will now
be only the deteriorated powder to be taken away
from Upnor, and then the buildings there will be
quite harmless, instead of constantly imperilling the
safety of 60,000 people. In peace there will be in
future no dangerous accumulation of explosives any-
where at Chatham.
MONUMENTS ERECTED IN 1869.—Memorials of
acts and men may, like the arts which have produced
them, be either of a peaceful or a warlike kind, whilst
those of a political character occupy as it were a middle
space between the two. Omitting here a list of what has
been done in these respects in our own country during the
past year, we find monuments erected to Humboldt, Goethe,
Mercator, and Schinckel ; to Humboldt, both at Berlin and
in New York, on the hundredth anniversary of the
great savant's birthday, the 14th September; to Goethe,
at Munich, on the 28th of August, the 120th anniversary
of the poet's birthday; to Gerhat d Kauffmann (Mercator),
the geographer, at Duisburg on the Rhino ; and to Schino-
kel, the Berlin architect, who laboured and taught so suc-
cessfully in his native city. A subscription for a monu-
ment to George Peabody has been opened in New York.
Amongst the political memorials we notice one erected at
the Hague to commemorate the achievement of Dutch in-
dependence in 1818, and the column of the (Ecumenical
Council, 80 feet high, the foundations of which were laid
but the other day. Of works intended to immortalise the
deeds of arms, two carry us back to the wars of the First
Napoleon ; they are those of General Leclerc at Pontoise,
and of Henry, Count von Stein, the enthusiastic and
patriotic fannor of the smouldering flame of German liberty
at the time when the Imperial eagles of France swept
omnipotent from Metz to Moscow. But the monuments
commemorating more recent events are those erected
iirconnection with the Prusso-Austrian war of 1.6 G ; near
Kiss3ngen a handsome design marks the spot where 100
men fell in fratricidal fight en the 10th July of tint year;
at Aix la Chapelle, Drake's mould of a warrior group is
ready for the casting ; and at Berlin an important memo-
rial—important at least in its height, which will exceed
160 feet -is about to swell the number of the many [nonu-
nion's which already adorn that city.—The Architect.

The very extensive Distillery now being erected
at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of
Irish whisky, by Messls. DLTNVILLE & Co., who have gained
a world-wide celebrity for their fine old Irish whisky, is to be
called "Tile Royal Irish Distillery."

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