The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-11 00:00:00

rnE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11, 18(9.

SHARD LIST.

ORDINARY SRAIUGS AND STOCKS.

JOINT-STOCK BMK S.

Closing flusiness
Shate) NAME:. Paid. Price. done
10 Agra Limited, A all 104 111 114 1 .
12 Do B lO 34 4
50 Albion l5 9 7
00 Alliance, Limited
20 Anglo Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian, lint all 221 251 p 221 1
20 Anglo-Hungarian
20 Anglo-Italian 1366, limited 10 5 4
40 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columbia all 10/ 15
20 Do issued at 2 pm....., 5 ( 5 4
25 Bank of Egypt
2U Bank of Otago, lint.
25 Bank of South Australia.- all 30 32
50 Bank of Victoria, Austialia 25i 37 39
10 Bank of .New Zealand all 155 161
50 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, .nd China all 15 19 171
25 Chartered Mere. of India,
Loudon, and China all 321 act
20 City IJ 11 12 iO5
100 Colonial 25 33 4.4
10 Consolidated, !kn.
50 Delhi and London, lint • 25 •••
50 East London, inn 5 21 11
20 English and American lint 10 ••• •••
20 English Bank of Rio deJa-
neiro, lint
20 English, Scottish, and Aus.
Milian Chartered . ail 61 17
28; Hong Kong and Shanghai
Bank Corporation al 36 28
281 Do new ill 4 5
100 Imperial, lim 2) 15 16
20 Imperial Ottoman ll 21 24 131 14
5 lonian. all 19 22
25 Do new 's 6 3
Lnd Mortgage of India, Um 4 31 31
100 Do 5 p.c.Debs.lB64, 30 all '76 76 80
100 London Bank', of Mexico
and South America, lim. 20 7 6
100 London and Brazilian, lint. 45 30 27
20 Do new 71 5 41
100 London & River Plate, lint. 40 6 8
25 Do new 10 11 2 p
20 London Chart. of Australia all 231 241 23
20 Loudon and County 2O 391 501 511
50 Do new. issat2op,m,l6pd. 11 ... ..
London Joint 5t0ck.......„ 1 311 321 304 1
London and South African al 8 9
100 London& S.-Western, lint, 20 13 11
50 London & Venezuela, 11w l2l
100 London and Westminster 2O 571 5,1 511 7
100 Do Scrip, isa at 10 pm. ' 20 ... ...
100 Merchant, lint 25 61 30
10 Metropolitan, lien all 71 71
00 Midland, 1im.......
5 National of Australia
25 National of Liverpool, lien l5 3d 1p
00 National Provine. of Eag'd 42 ... ...
10 Do . 42 ... ... 41
50 National. 3O . . ..
20 New South Wales _ all 41 43
20 North-Western 7l
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 41 42
50 Provinc. Bank. Co rpo., lint lO 61 51
30 Provincial of Ireland 25 9) 92
10 Do new all ... ...
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lint 25 15 15
100 Do issued at 6pm lO 8 6
25 Union of Australia, all 46 43 464 1
100 Union of Ireland, lint
50 Union of London l5 351 361 354

PARIS CORRESPON DENG E.

TUESDAY.

It is now thought likely that the report of the com-
mittee will not he concluded much before the 23rd, and
that the 'debate will not ti until the beginning of belt
month, so that the senators, during the interval, may en-
joy a few days holiday. 1 There was some talk in the
Senate to-day of the prorogation of the Conseils
G6n6raux until the 30th of August. The reporter will
most likely he appoitited at 111{; next meeting. The
majority of the suffrages are expFtted to be for 111.
Delangle., The committee ou iho Seuatus Con:
sultana Met to-day, and continued the disnssion
on the sixth article. The only difficulty yesterday, I
understand, arose during the consideration of the second
article, relating to the reSuonsibility of the Ministers.
Filially, it was decided to pass on to the discussion of the
other articles, reserving the disputed point for future con-
sideration.'

M. noulio, a is said, is still high in favour at Court,
and his nomination as member of the Privy Council is cer-
tain. The Emperor, I am told, is still unconvinced that
France will lie' dissatisfied with ha:l measures. He inclines
to the belief t?iat the people will be contented with a
Liberal Government modified by the personal influence of
the head of tare State. Napoleon regards the new measures
as an experiment, and he awaits their reception by the
Corps L6gislatif. The friends of liberty maintain that a
Chamber elected under the regime of official
candidates does not represent the result of universal suf-
frage. Enttlll, Emperor will not hear of the dissolution
Chamber. the Char. He will never consent to it unless he is
forced to to so by the attitude assumed by the majority,
or by the Left obtaining the direction of affairs. The
great object will be to have as few changes as possible in
the working of the political system, avoiding, of course,
all direct &dlision with the new reforms. The amnesty is
thought unlikely. The attitude assumed by the Govern-
ment towards the press and the Opposition gives little
reason to expect it.
The recent press prosecutions continue to excite very
angry feelings. The detention of M. Quentin, editor of
the _Revell, at Mazas, has in particular called forth popular
indignation. No one knows why be is there ; and
and it is said that the Minister of Justice himself
does not know, but that he holds such a trifling affair as
quite beneath the notice of a man whose task it is to assist
in the union of the Empire and liberty. Several of
the journals discuss this matter to-day with some
acerbity. The .Reveit recently published a brief
account of M. Quentin's being brought for the cventh
time from Mazas to the Palais de Justice. The unfortu-
nate editor was on these occasions removed in a prison van,
and his friends and coadjutors had the opportunity
of exchanging a few words with him as he
sat among thieves and other criminals. No
notice whatever has been taken of the various
protests made on his behalf. M. Quentin has never
been examined, and still remains totally ignorant of his
offence. The Liberte, in reprinting this account,
asks what the Frenchmen who effected the revo-
lutions of 1789, of 1830, and of 1848, to establish
the reign of justice, are now to think of their Government,
and whether they can still believe in the power of the
press. The conduct of M. Devargier is severely censured,
the more so as great hopes had been formed of him. The
LibertC confesses to having one illusion the less. The
Temps points out that the long preliminary imprisonment
of M. Quentin has anticipated his sentence, and calls
upon the Minister of Justice to explain his attack upon
the liberty of the individual and upon those principles of
'B9 which the Constitution proclaims, but which the
Government apparently fai:s to understand.

For the comfort of those visitors to Paris who are appre-
bensive of being marched off to Mazas without warning for
some unconscious offence, I may mention that in the judg-
ment delivered against the Itereil it is authoritativelydeclared
that the police during the recent disturbances (which some
persons believe only existed in their imaginations) only
committed a few acts of unnecessary violence ; that it is
not true that the eergent,-de-ville are generally armed
with life preservers ; that the Emil, in stating these
facts, generalised the exceptions to the rule ; and that the
regulation which forbids the police to wear any other wea-
pon than the sword was very generally observed. Judging
from the statements of M. Laferrire and many others,
these exceptions to the rule were tolerably numerous.
The details of prison life in Paris are worth studying ;
dud the Prison of the Conciergerie has become for the
moment a place of some interest, in consequence of Messrs.
Pic and Taillefer being detained there. The description
that has been given by a recent visitor to the place is in-
teresting. There is a great difference between the new
and old parts of the prison. In the latter portion is the
dungeon in which the unfortunate Marie Antoinette spent
the last six mouths of her life. Every possible improve-
ment has been made in the arrangements of the new
buildings, and the cells are not so dreary as might be
expected. • MM. Pic and Taillefer spent their mouth of
detention in two of these cells. The floors are
mt de of oak, kept in the highest state of polish,
and the furniture is not scanty for a prison. Prisoners
fare very differently, however, after their conviction,
and ➢I. Pie will have ample cause to lament his fate when
he reaches the galleys at Toulon. There the convicts
sleep on the bare boards with no covering even in winter.
All the men in the ward are linked together, so that if oue
moves the whole must be aroused.

The Empress has been in person to inquire after the
health of Marshal Niel. He is still in a most unsatis-
factory state, and suffers greatly from weakness. The
Empress and the Prince Imperial will arrive at Lyons on
the 24th of the month, and will remain there for a day.
During her visit she will inaugurate the Boulevard de
L'Empereur, and visit the Convalescent Hospital, which
she founded herself.

There seems to be a mania for duelling just now, and
before one rencontre is forgotten another is announced.
A hostile meeting (with pistols) has just taken place
between two journalists, M. de la Ponterie, of the Paris,
and M. Naquet, of the reaple, of Marseilles. After an
exchange of shots, without effect, the seconds intervened
and declared honour to be satisfied.

Those who encourage workmen to strike might have
learned a lesson the other day on the removal of the
p isoners who had been condemned in the trials concern-
iig the Loire district. A crowd of women who were in
waiting rushed forward crying and screaming, and the
prisoners themselves appeared extremely downcast.
Many of them have families dependent on them for sup-
port.

A Naples journal gives an account of the dreadful end
of the brigand chief De Martino. He was accompanied by
a woman, who was irreclaimable himself. Some soldiers,
while searching the district of Paglietta, discovered a hut
made of branches in which the bandit and his companion
were seen. The brigand refused to surrender, but the
flash of his gun set fire to the branches, and it was
impossible to save the inmates of the hut. The
woman rushed out soon afterwards, but she died
in consequence of the injuries she received.
When the fire had spent itself, the charred remains of the
bandit were found with the barrel of his gun and the blade
of his poignard by the side of him, the rest of those arms
having been consumed. During the conflagration re•
peated detonations were heard as the cartridges of tl •
brigand exploded.

BANERUP7 CY OF 7HE COUNTESS

D'AL7EYRAC.

This case came before Commissioner Holroyd to-
day. It was an applicaticn for an allowance of £5O
per month to be granted to the bankrupt, Countess
D'Alteyrac, otherwise Willoughby.
Mr. Treherne said that at the sitting for the choice
a assignees, a resolution was passed that the
bankrupt should have no allowance until she had
accounted for a sum of £3,900 received by her.
The debts of the creditors who had signed that
resolution were only £7OO, whereas £2,118 were
proved, and therefore the resolution not having
been passed by a majority in number and value
of the creditors present, was a nullity.
The bankrupt was entitled to receive £1,200 a
year from Lord Willoughby, to be paid by her
Colonel Harcourt, and in default of payment,
Lord Willoughby, under the award, was to forfeit
£lOO penalty a month, or pay an increased allow-
ance of £2,400 a year by way of annuity, and
which the assignees claimed. He submitted that by
the 194th section of the Bankruptcy Consolidated
Act, 1849, the Court was empowered to make an
allowance to the bankrupt.
Mr. Reed said the assignees were anxious to
treat this lady with every consideration, but that
she showed great susceptibility as to age, which
prevented them from selling her annuity. If she
azsisted them, they would consent to an alloy auce
being granted, but at present she had not com-
plied with the order of the court as to the suns of
£9,800.

Its Honour s.Lid that the creditors who proved
at the first sitting might have voted if they had
chosen to do so, and their silence could not render
the resolution that had been passed void.
Mr. Treherne said he would in that case have re-
course to the statutable remedy by calling a meet-
ing of creditors, and he now asked that an allow-
ance be granted to the accountant who prepared the
accounts.

Mr. Read objected until the assignees had had
an opportunity of examining the accounts, which
had been filed, and the application of Mr. Treherue
was refused.