The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-06 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, Feb. 6.

A Ministerial order, issued yesterday by M.
Magne, the Minister of Finance; announces that all
holders of Mexican bonds will receive an instal-
ment of sf. 82c. in Rentes and 3f. 50c. in cash upon
each bond, and also on each debenture issued by
the Mexican Government, and bearing 6 per cent.
interest, an instalment of 3f. 88c. in Rentes and 2f.
40c. in cash. The exact date when and the amounts
which will be paid for the definitive settlement of
the claims will be fixed subsequently. Those per-
sons entitled to participate will receive a special
warrant, issued to bearer, and discountable in the
market.

The Senate, in yesterday's sitting, passed almost
unanimously to the order of the day over the motion
relative to the manner in -which the law on the
liberty of the press 11.1 s been carried out.
BOURSE, Feb. s.—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows
4i per Cent.
End of month... ftal'an Loan
3 per Cent
End of month 7l 021 Mexican Loan ... 24 25
Credit Mobilier
End of month... 295 Spanish Threos
Credit Foncier ...1572 50 Home Debt —

End of month,.. I Deferred —
RAILWAYS. Cash
Orleans
Northern llB5
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 570
Western
Eastern .. 575
Sardinian • 50.
Austrian
Lombard 4:321
North of Spain
Saragossa
. Roman 47

GREECE.

ATHENS, Feb. 5.

After the failure. of the Zaimi's Cabinet they King
summoned M. Valeritis, who was the Minister of
Finance in the Bulgaris Ministry. M. Valeritis
was, however, equally unsuccessful, and, in conse-
quence of the Ministerial crisis, the foreign repre-
sentatives have granted a further postponement of
eight days for the Greek reply to the protocol of
the Conference.

BOMBAY MAIL.

SUEZ, Feb. G.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Salsette, from Bombay 23d January, arrived here

at 9 p.m. yesterday.

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, Feb. 5.

According to Mr. Adam Moffatt's report the
weeks' receipts of cotton at American ports amounts
to 68,000 bales. Total from the Ist of September,
and taken by American steamers direct, 1,650,000
bales. Shipments to England 16,000 bales ; to
France, 2,000 ; and to the Continent, 3,000 bales ;
since the Ist September, 700,000 bales. Stock,
400,000. Market active and dearer. Middling
upland, 11 13-16, cost and freight per steamer.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

UNPROVOKED ASSAULT.—Barnett Smith, a tailor of No.
64, King-street, Regent-street, was charged before Mr.
Knox with being drunk and assaulting Edmund Woods, a
silversmith, of No. 23, Portland-street, Oxford-street.

The; complainant said that about two o'clock, this
morning he was coming down Regent-street, when the
prisoner, who was with some others, stepped up to him
and struck him a severe blow in the mouth. As the pri-
soner was with others he locked him up, but had he been
by himself ho would have contented himself by giving the
prisoner a good hiding.
Mr. Knox said at the request of the complainant he
would reduce the fine to 40s.

The complainant expressed himself quite satisfied with
he decision.

WESTMINSTER.
ROBBERY BY A BROTHER.—LIoyd Price, a man about 30
years of age, was charged with stealing a sealskin cloak
value 20 guineas, from his sister.
Mrs. Byrne, of 14, Charles-street, Chelsea, said that th•
prisoner was her brother, and recently came from Man-
chester and stayed with her. On the 14th ult. the valuable
sealskin cloak produced was in her bedroom. Prisoner
had been there that day, and went to the next room to her
bedroom, and suddenly left the house. In five minutes
after she went into her bedroom and missed the oloak.
She never saw him afterwards until last night when in
custody.
lie was fully committed for trial.

THAMES.
STEALING TEA IN TILE LONDON Doc K.— George Col-
linson, aged 36, a labourer, was brought before Mr. Paget
charged with stealing 21bs. of tea, the property of the
London and St. Katherine Dock Company.
Yesterday afternoon the prisoner was seen to leave the
warehouse, No. 8, in the London Dock, where a large
amount of tea is deposited. He was followed to the gate
and stopped. Inspector Spencer, of the Dock police,
asked him if he had anything about him liable to duty, or
anything that did not belong to him. The prisoner re-
plied in the negative. Inspector Spencer said I must re-
duce the size of your legs, and then pulled off the prisoner's
stockings, in which he found 2lbs. of black tea quite Olean.
The prisoner said he picked up the tea.
Mr. Paget sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for a
mouth and kept to hard labour.

FATAL ACCIDENT. —After the marriage of Mr.
W. Horsfield, the son of Mr. Jarvis Horsfield, of the firm
of J. and L. Horsfield, ironfounders, Leeds, on Thursday
last, a number of the workmen proceeded to firo off a
quantity of gunpowder which they rammed into a largo
iron "nut." The force of the explosion sent the "nut',
with great force against the head of one of the workmen,
named Frank Boshell, fracturing his skull, and causing
his death. Tho deceased has left a wife and two children
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