The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-10 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, Feb. 10,

The Constitutionnel of to-day criticises severely
the article on the subventions said to have been
paid by Prussia to the French press, and which
recently appeared in the North German Gazette. It
says :—" It is impossible that Count Bismarck
could have inspired the article referred to, since he
it was who asserted in open Parliament that he
had never paid a single thaler to subsidise the
French press.
" The article in the North German Gazette can-
not well be regarded as the expression of a political
thought, but merely as the result of a diseased
imagination."

BOURSE, Feb. 9.—Three o'clock.—The marke
closed as follows :

Bank Shares ...,, 3035
ItaFan Loan
End of month..,
Mexican Loan 24 25
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes 32 ___
Home Debt
Deferred
3. Cash
Orleans , ... 9479
Northern ... /185
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern.... 6161
Western
Eastern
• •
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 4921
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman 49

4i per Cont.
End of month --
3 por Cent
End of month 7l 17i
Credit Mobilier
End of month 293 75
Credit Fonder 1592 50
End of month —

RAILWA'

AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 10.

The Inman Royal Mail steamship City of Lon-
don, from New York at 9 a.m. on the 31st ult.,
arrived here at 3.30 a.m. to-day. She having
landed m,;10 ...2 elssengers, proceeded iiiwicai.cely
for Liverpool. All well. No specie.

OINIEWARD INDIA AND CHINA (HEAVY
MAILS.

GIBRALTAR, Feb. 9.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Pera, from Alexandria, arrived here at 10 p.m. to-
day, and leaves at 1 a.m. to-morrow for Southamp-
ton, where she may be looked for about the night
of the 14th inst. All well.

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TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 9.
It is reported that Mustapha Fagil Pasha will be
called to the post of Minister of Finance,

CAPE MAIL.
_ Pumounr, Feb. 12.

The outward Cape Mail steamer Dane has not
yet arrived from Soithampton, A. large mail,
consisting of 03 sacks, is waiting her arrival,

NAVAL AND MILI7ARY INTELLIGENCE.

The Hercules, 14, screw (armoured, iran) frigate,
Capt. Lord Gilford, has received orders to proceed
from Spithead to Lisbon, to join the Channel fleet
there, under the command of Admirals Sir T. Sy-
monds and Ryder. If any repetition of her six hours'
continuous steaming trial is desired by the authori-
ties, it will therefore have to be made after her return
from her cruise with the fleet. The amount of
coal burnt during her six hours' trial between the
Isle of Wight and Portland on the sch instant was
at the rate of 2.8101 b par indicatel horse power.
With regard to the deficiency of steam supplied by
the boilers on the trial on the sth instant, noticed
in our report of the trial which appeared on the Bth
inst., this was entirely owing to one of those acci-
dents that will occasionally occur—a pin out of place
in the present case, connected with the working of
the feed pump, and which caused water to be pumped
into the boilers at about 40 instead of, as it should
have been, at 100 degrees of heat—and could not
reflect blame in the slightest degree upon the
machinery of the ship, or its makers, Messrs. John
Penn and Son.

The Helicon, 2, paddle, despatch vessel, Com-
mander E. Field, having completed the alterations
to her rudder and male good trifling defects, has
been undocked at Portsmouth, and is completing
her preparations for immediate sailing to rejoin the
Channel fleet alongside the railway jetty of the
dockyard.

Her Majesty's screw troopship Orontes, Captain
H. Phelphs, recently commissioned at Portsmouth
for troop-carrying service, steamed out of the har-
bour yesterday for a trial of ber machinery, and
afterwards returned to the harbour to complete her
preparations for the reception of troops. The
trial was but a brief one, owing to the roughness of
the weather.

The Scorpion, 4, turret-sloop, Captain Brooker,
is detained at Portsmouth by having the running-in
gear of her turret-guns doubled upon the power
with which they were originally fitted, the latter
having been found inefficient.

LADVERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Ointment. - Old age and
ycuth aro alike succumbing to the destructive diarrhoea,
which has rarely been so prevalent and so fatal as it is at
present. In all cases of dysentery and diarrhoea in which
Holloway's Ointment has been well rubbed upon the ab-
domen two or three times a day decided relief has been at
once obtained; and a perseverance in the same safe treat-
ment, aided by the application of warm bran poultices, has
established a cure. A. milk diet and farinaceous food
should be adhered to throughout tho attack. Solid
substances, fruits, and vegetables, should be studiously
shunned until the more distressing and alarming symp-
toms have been dissipated by the diligent imizactigia of this
rodro44iTe and cooling Qiiatuaout.