The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-20 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BoußsE, November 19.—The market has been
buoyant, and a good business has been transacted
at an improvement on the closing rates of Satur-
day. Threes, for the Account, are now at 70f
121 c. Mobilier, 765 f ; Orleans, 1,387 f 50c ;
Northern, 990 f ; Mediterranean, 912 f 50c ; Austrian,
547 f ; Lombard, 487 f 50c. The following are the
last quotations :-
41 per per-Cents ... 95 85 , Credit Fonder 915
Do end month.... 96 10 Belgian 41
3 per Cents
Do. end month 7O 25' Roman
Bank Shares 2980 Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 768 75 Spanish Threes 4Bl
Do. Account — —1 Home Debt

lutionary committee. The men were to have been I
tried for high treason, but after the preliminary
examination had been made the judges declared that
the charge could not possibly be upheld. " After
this," says the correspondent, " it is to be expected
the prisoners will be set at liberty." As the "bail"
system is not known in this country, it rarely hap-
pens that a person who is accused of an offence or
crime is allowed to enjoy his liberty until his trial
comes on.

The fortresses of Verona, Lagnano, Mantua,
and Peschiera are now almost as strong as they
can possibly be made, but there is reason to
believe that they have very few rifle guns. The
Austrian troops on the Po and Mincio are now
moving into their winter quarters.
There is no truth in the report that the Grand

uke of Tuscany has " indirectly" received an in-
vitation from the Emperor Napoleon to go to Paris.
Baron Hubner had an audience of the Emperor
yesterday, but it is not yet known whether he will
take office.

The Second Chamber at Cassel, in the Electorate
of Hesse, yesterday declared that it should insist on
the restoration of the Constitution of. 1831. Only
five members out of 48 were in favour of the Con-
stitution of 1852.

Baron Rothschild is said to have won four-fifths
of the:great prize-300,000fl.—in the State Lottery.

LITERATURE.

Daunton Manor House. 2 vols. Hurst and

Blackett.

There .are three stories in this book, one of the
inhabitants of Daunton Manor, and the other two
are tales that are written by the young ladies of
of the Manor House to entertain their friends, and
also to serve as a charitable purpose, afterwards to
make up a volume publishing by a French lady for
the purpose of defraying the expenses of her
daughter's education. Of these the latter is
by far the most pleasing, it is a simple
village tale called, " All's well that ends
well.' The chief ' person mentioned is a
smart little widow called Mrs. Pritchard, who is
most amusing in her various manauvres. Having
failed to secure the object of her first plans, she is
at last obliged to put up with old Dr. Dodds, who
proves a very suitable match for her. The clergy-
man's family is interestingly described, and Alice
is a gentle gracious young girl, and a fit inmate for
a country parsonage. Arthur is a very unfortunate
hero, and he was placed in a most cruel position
by the extraordinary and inconsiderate conduct of
his father. When this wretched man at last died
it was a positive relief to all parties concerned.
The first tale, called " The Guardian," is well
written, bat not at all a pleasing style of story.
The idea of father and son being in love with the
same person is not at all a nice notion, and, alto-
gether the arrangements are not so agreeable to
the reader. Aunt Ryan is quite a contrast to the
others, and her straightforward plans are quite an
advantage, after the dawdling and the vacillating
of the others. The family of Mr. Holborough is a
very pleasing one, and there is much to entertain
in what we see of them. There is every variety in
the composed Ada and vivacious Ella, the sprightly
sportive Katie Dalton, and the solemn Madame
Dupre. Charles and George Holborough, Henry
Dalton, and Captain Bryanston also afford some
striking contrasts, and with one thing and another
there is ample scopelfor some hours agreeable en-
tertainment in these two volumes, as from their
several styles of narrative, and for the adroitness
withwhich some of the persons are described, there
is much to amuse and not a little to interest.

My Nile's Pinmoney ; or, The Marriage in Ex-
tremes. By M. E. Nelson. Saunders and Otley.
This is a very curious page in literary history,
and well deserves perusal. It is described in a
graphic manner, and the wits of the day seem to
live again before us as we dwell on that strange
scene in Windsor Cottage. The old comic poet is
indeed a remarkable devotee at the altar of Hymen,
and adverse as such a proceeding is to one's tastes
and repugnant to one's principles, there is some-
thing melancholy and affecting in the manner in
which he addresses her. The subjoined passage in
whichWycherly makes answer to a royal messenger
who comes to offer him in the King's name the
Order of the Bath, provided he furnishes him with
the antiquity of his family and the nobility of his
extraction, is very eloquent and dignified :
" I am the son of my works, sir, and if I am tainted with
the vice of pride, that vice is at least good, as it regards
what is of some real value. In short, I have no wish to
resemble my ancestors, and I have nothing in common
with that nobility which runs in the spine and the hump,
the respectable froth of whose grandfathers might make a
sort of popularity. No 1 I venerate and I admire the vir-
tues of my fathers, and .1 shall for ever retain a tender and
profound admiration for the Wycherley who saved the life
of his king on the battlefield of Browhill ; and for that an-
eester who fed the peasants of his county during the civil
wars of the red and white roses. There, sir royal messenger,
is what I have to tell you; thank his Majesty's Minister
for me ; take to the King himself the expression of my
gratitude, of my devotion, and of my fidelity. Besides that,
assure his Majesty that the poor Wycherley is quite ready
to rejoin the shades of his illustrious and magnapimous
protectors of former times, to take with him to the tomb his
gratitude and loyalty. Tell him—tell him, above all—that
any last desire, and my last prayers, shall be for the glory
and the independence of Great Britain, for the prosperity
of the United Kingdom, and for the happiness and welfare
of the Prince in particular, that England has called to the
throne of Elizabeth, of Charles 11., and William ••

The Emigrant's Daughter, A Novel, Historic and
Moral. By M. E. E. Nelson. Saunders and

Otley.
This is a very interesting little sketch of an
episode in the reign of Catherine 11. of Russia, and
it affords glimpses of. Russian life that are well
worthy of regard. There is something very im-
pressive in the character of the great Empress
here described, and the young maiden who ar-
rives a homeless refugee to her Court, attracts
greatly by her beauty and misfortunes. As an
evidence of the style one cannot do better than
peruse the following account of the private room
of the Empress, called

THE BATT
ENGLAND

pE 0.

THE

BANKS OF
FOR GOLD.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—For the last twelve years I have been en-
deavouring in various publications to open the eyes
of the public to the impolicy of the Act 0f,1844, and
to the inconsistency of advocating free trade in

commodities whilst imposing restrictions by law
on the medium for exchanging and circulating those
commodities.

The contest, however, now going on between
the Banks of England and France for gold, the basis
of our monetary system, and in which all our debts,
bills, and bank notes are payable, must surely make
the incalculable evils of the law patent to all. The
Bank of France is not buying our gold at a loss,
as is generally 'supposed, but with a considerable
profit, owing to the restriction imposed on the Bank
of England by the Act of 1844.
That act prevents the Bank from issuing more
notes than their equivalent value in gold deposited,
with the exception of the fixed and never varying
amount of £14,000,000 against securities.
The Bank of France has no other restriction on
its issue of notes than that to which the liability to
convertibility imposes, and may safely issue, as
experience proves, two notes against the value of
one deposited in gold. Hence against a deposit of
£lOO of gold the Bank of France can issue £2OO
in notes, and when their rate of discount is 41, per
cent., as at present, they may realise a profit of
about 4 per cent., allowing -} per cent. for cost of
transport, &c.
Whilst the Bank of England, being allowed only
to issue £lOO of notes for £lOO of gold, gains
nothing.

Nor is this the extent of the mischief, for the
higher the Bank of France can maintain its rate of
discount the larger will be their profit, and the
greater their power of drawing our gold from us ;
as when their rate is 3-1 per cent. they make a
profit of 3 per cent., and when at 41 of 4 per cent,,
and so on as their rate advances.
The point at issue between the two banks is not
so much which of them can attract the most money
by raising the rate of discount, as which can
attract for the present crisis the most gold, the

basis of their paper money ; and in such EI contest

the Bank of ELgland, with its restrictions, has no
chance of competing with the Bank of France, free
and unfettered, except by its own discretion.
One mode of alleviating the present monetary
pressure and preventing a panic is the suspension
of the Act of 1844, with the view of enabling the
Bank of England to bid on equal-terms for gold
with the Bank of France.
Another is the remedy suggested in the petition
at foot, by which 20,000,000 of sovereigns may be
set at liberty for exportation ; a petition recom-
mended by me, in Oct. 1857, as a means of avert-
ing the apprehended panic of Nov., 1857.
These alleviating measures I would again sub-
mit to the consideration of the public, and especially
to the members of Chambers of Commerce, whose
particular duty it is to attend to the interest of the
commercial community.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,

HAMER STANSFELD.
The Grange, Burley, near Otley, 15 th Nov., 1860.

" TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAIBSTI.

" We, the undersigned bankers, merchants, and other
liege subjects of the realm, considering that the present
foreign drain of gold most seriously deranges the domestic
currency of the country, thereby paralysing trade, throw-
ing the industrious classes out of employment, depreciating
property, and increasing unnecessarily the burdens of the
war, most humbly pray that your Majesty will be graci-
ously pleased, with a view to counteract these evils, by
Order in Council, to empower the Bank of England, until
the sense of Parliament can be taken, to issue one pound
notes to serve as substitutes for sovereigns whenever the
Bank minimum rate of discount shall exceed five per cent.
on depositing Government Stocks for two-thirds and gold
for the remaining one-third of the amount of such issues as
a guarantee for the convertibility of the notes, and on pay-
ing interest at the rate of four per cent. to the Exchequer
for the benefit of the State, on the two-thirds of which they
would have the beneficial use, or on such other terms as to
your Majesty shall seem fit.
" And your petitioners will ever pray, 43c."

TIIE ANNEXATION OP TIIIII3.RIA AND

THE MARCHES.

It was not to be expected that the annexation to
Sardinia, by vote of the population, of Umbria and
the Marches would be allowed to pass unnoticed by
the Papal Government. Cardinal Antonelli has
addressed to the Foreign Ministers resident in Rome
the following circular note, dated from the Vatican,
Nov. 4, 1860. With some offence to the English
language, the following is a literal translation of
its long-winded periods :

" There was recently taken, as ground of complaint
and protest on the part of the Government of the Holy See,
the violent invasion made, in several other provinces of the
Pontifical States (subsequently to that already effected in
Romagna, by a neighbouring Government which, domi-
nated by the extravagant ambition of extending its reign
over all Italy with the spoils of the other legitimate sove-
reignties, undertook and still pursues the fulfilment of its
wicked design, ignoring and despising every right, like he
who allows no obstacle to his unbridled temper of usurpation.
Having possessed itself of the above-named provinces—
that is to say, of the Marches, of Umbria, and.of a part of
the Patriomio—by means of the most hostile violence and
of a war carried on after the manner of monstrous piracies,
the Piedmontese Government now fills up the measure of
its violation of the Pontifical Sovereignty with the out-
rageous abuse—already practised by it in the territory pre-
viously usurped—by means of the exploration of the so-called
national will, pretending to create in this manner a valid
element to legitimise the extension of dominion it has
usurped in defiance of the rights of others. It is unneces-
sary here to note the fraudulent and ignoble artifices by
which it is customary to prepare and regulate the pretended
appeal to the popular will, so that that must justly be de•
scribed as the product of a real pressure which it is dared to
extol as the result of a free manifestation of the wishes of the
people. The thing is notoriously demonstrated, and more-
over it is not the manner of the abusive vote that it is now
interesting to make observations upon or to bring into relief.
That which is important is loudly to censure and reprove
the great abuse and disorder by which it is sought to intro-
duce an eminently revolutionary principle, destructive of
the rights of the legitimate sovereign. Whatever may
be, on such a point, the ideas of a Government which
in strict alliance with revolutions, lends itself to them
as their promoter and conductor, the principle it is pre-
tended to establish receives full condemnation from the
immutable laws of justice, from the general maxims of the
rights of nations, from the fundamental reasons of social
and civil order, and from the feeling of all well-regulated
nations. And truly, if so strange a principle be laid down,
what sovereignty, however strong in it s good right, could
ever deem itself secure from the danger of being arbitrarily,
and from one moment to another, shaken and destroyed r
To what fatal uncertainties would not Governments remain
constantly exposed, and, with them, the whole of civilized
society, under the influence of a principle so fruitful, by its
nature, of agitations, perturbations, and disorders calculated
to lead to general confusion? It is on the ground,
therefore, of such very grave considerations that the
Pontifical Government finds itself compelled to protest
against the abuse committed, and which continues to be
committed by the usurping Government with the pretended
appeal to the vote of the populations to decide on the fate
of their sovereign, an abuse equivalent to tie introduction
of a principle with ignores and ♦ilifies all things; tram-
ples upon the rights and prerogatives of legitimately consti.
tuted sovereignties ; deforms and subverts the law which,
on the basis of solemn treaties and of international convert•
tions, regulates the government of States ; tends to over-
turn the invariable and' eternal maxims of justice ; esta.
Wishes the monstrous right of usurpations, and insinuates
into society a gene of fatal uneasiness and turbulence.
The sentiments of high reprobation with which the
other Governments have pronounced themselves with
respect to the prevaricating policy of that of Pied-
mont, and to the usurping attitude maintained
by that Power as well in other Italian Stater
as in those of the Holy See, do not permit a doubt
that they will all be fully agreed in opinian with this last
protest now put forward by the Pontifical Government in
protection and defence of the temporal sovereignty of the
Roman Pontiff against the progressive outrageous behaviour
with which the usurper insists on fully consummating the
horrible and daring invasion of the above-indicated pro•
winces, as he already has done in those parts of the Stater
of the Church previously appropriated. And there is ever/
reason to believe that the Governments referred to will be
disposed to afford their efficacious support to the just re-
monstrances of that of his Holiness, supporting at the saute
time the gcod right which this Government feels that it
has to render responsible the Sovereign or Government of
Sardinia for all the detriment resulting from the hostile
, invasion effected and maintained in the dominions of the
Holy See, and to demand and expect complete restitution 11
)tie invaders. And, in the above enounced persuasion ant
confidence, the undersigned Cardinal, Secretary of State of
t his Holiness, invites you to communicate to your Govern•
F merit the present note, and, &c.,
"G. Cardinal ANTONELLI."