The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-19 00:00:00

THE SITN, _LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, 1E69.

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Closing Buenos'
Share NAME. Paid. Price. done
10
10 Agra L
Doimited, A all 12 12
10 4 11
i
B
50 Albion
00 Alliance, Limited
20 Anglo-Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian, lim all 191 2 1
20 Anglo-Hungarian
20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited lO 54 44
40 Australasian ,
20 Bank of British Columbia all 11 13
20 Do issued at 2pm ~.. '5 5 4
25 Bank of Egypt ............... all 36 33
20 Bank of Otago, lim.
25 Bank of South Australia all 30 32
50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 37 33
10 Bank of New Zealand.,,,,, all 17 18
50 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, and China .... ... .... all 21i 22
25 Chartered Mere. of India
London, and China all 31 32
20 City lO 12 121
100 Colonial ..... . ... .
10 Consolidated, lim. .
50 Delhi and London, lim
50 East London, lim ........ .
20 English and American, lim 10 ...
20 English Bank of Rio de Ja-
neiro. lim ..... . .........
20 English, sottish, and ius •
tralian Chartered
281 Hong Kong and Shanghai
Bank Corporation all 34 35
281 Do new
100 Imperial, lim ...... .
20 Imperial Ottoman ............ 10 21 41 1111
25 lonian ............................. all 25 27
25 Do new .. .
20 Lnd Mortgage of India, lim 4 31 3t
100 Do sp. c. Debs.lB64, 30 all 76 75 78
30 London Bank' of Mexico
and South America, lim. 20 5 4 154 4
100 London and Brazilian, Rm. 45 32 28
20 Do new 71 61 51
100 London &River Plate, lim. 40 10 12
25 Do new 10 21 3p 124
20 London Chart. of Australia all 231 234
20 London and County 2O 51 52 511
50 Do new, iss at 20 p.m, 16 pd. 11 ... ••• 50
London Joint Stock 1 32 33
London and South African al 91 101
00 London & S.-Western, lim, 20 ..•
150 London & Venezuela, Jim l2l
100 London and Westminster 2O 64 66 614
100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm....,,,., 20 59 61
100 Merchant, lim
10 Metropolitan, 1im,.,,.,,,., all 6t ,t
100 Midland, 11m..... ... .
4 National of Australia . .
25 National of Liverpool 11m l5 8 1 d
100 National Provinc. of Enid 42 ... ...
10 Do .
50 National.. ' - 30 46 4$
20 New South Wales . all 42 43
20 North-Western
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 43 45 431
50 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., lim lO 6 5
100 Provincial of Ireland 25 87 89
10 Do new. all ... ...
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lim 25 15 1 4
100 Do issued at 6 pm. 10 ... ...
25 Union of Australia all 47 48
100 Union of Ireland, lim
50 Union of London

A "LEAP FOR LIFE."

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

(FROM OUR OWN COER,SPONEIRNT.)
HO USE OF LORDS—LAST EVE, ING.
PARIS, THUILNDAY, March 18.
The LORD
CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
The papers are lull of details relative the explosion at five o'clock.
T.he number The Duke of ARGYLL laid on the table a letter from
at the Sorbonne. Certainly a more frightf,ll catastrophe LORD NAPIER AND MR. RASSAM.
in his report of the taking of
has not occurred in Paris for many years.
of deaths at present ascertained is four, the .number
aflrae
ntint
he referenceE m per tro the
Theodore acceptanceaftafter
t h
eo f
captives
stsh
had
LeonrdtsNapieiar of Magdala, contradicting some of the state-
m of r. Rassam,
Injured fifteen though this latter
taro. It will thus be seen that the loss of life,
point is ,uncer-
though grievous, is not excessive; but 3 l
cattleg d
; been delivered up to him.
attendant upon the explosion invest it with a-scharacter'°` STATE OF IRELAND
exceptional horror. Two human bodies hurled to ward' Their
etrcumstanoes
lordships then proceeded to consider the causes
were dashed against an iron bench on the opposite side of
of
.1,2,0 late murders and outrages in Ireland.
the street, and were broken into pieces by the vio- • a short (1.- • the A fte.discussion subjectj dropped, and the
lence of the shock, some of the bleeding limbs
House ad): 'urned•
striking the fronts of the shops, whilst par-
--
tides of human brains, penetrated into a room in the
second floor through a window which was shattered by
the detonation. The head of one of the victims was
blown into the Rue Victor Cousin, opposite the manu•
factory. A bar of iron, driven forward horizontally with
the speed of an arrow, perforated the front of a shop, came
out on the other side, and remained fixed in the wall of a
court beyond. The least mutilated of the four bodies
was only to be recognised by a ring on one of the fingers.
The others were reduced to fragments. Pieces of flesh
in a state of pulp were found on the trees which line the
pavement, other pieces were scattered about the squares,
and had to be gathered up with a shovel. The Place de
la Sorbonne looks as if it had been bombarded. Not a
whole square of glass is to be seen ; the shop-fronts of the
opposite buildings are shattered ; in the middle of the
square are several cartloads of charred timber reduced to
fragments. One of the most melancholy circumstances
remains to be related. A young woman, at work
in a neighbouring house, was so overpowered
with fear at the explosion, and the cries of
fright resounding on all sides, that she fell utterly
insensible. She was carried to her residence, where she
now lies in a hopeless state—blind and insane. The stuff
which caused all this devastation was a liquid named
bichrate of potassium, intended for torpedoes. M. Fontaine,
one of the proprietors of the manufactory, has received the
Cross of the Legion of Honour as a reward for the dis-
covery. Such discoveries have their value, but there can
be no sufficient reason why the hideous stuff should be
kept in the centre of a great city.
It is understood that the Government here has been
officially informed of Dom Fernando's determination not
to accent the crown of Spain, even should it be offered
him.

HOUSE 0C COMMONS.—LAST EVENING.
Thu SrEAKER took the; chair at 4 o'clock.
NEW Al EMBER.
Mr. WHITWORTH took mu oaths and his seat for
Drogheda.

OBSOLETE ST,' TUTES.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in reply to Mr. lied-
field, said the revision of the statutes, up to the 10th of
Geo. 111., had been made, but he could not say whether
the revision -would be completed duriug the present
session.

SNIDER RIFLES.

Mr. CARDWELL, in reply to Mr. Dixon, said the
Government had ordered 10,000 Snider rifles, and an
order fur a great quantity of other arms had been given.
THE CASE OF BLATCHER.

Mr. BRUCE, in reply to Colonel Darner, said Blatcher,
the police-constable entered the force in 1847, and i❑ 1866
he was knocked down by a gentleman's carriage near the
apot where the semaphore now stands. He was much injured,
and he was retained in the forsa with a pension of £32.
In October ho went into the hospital, and died soon after ;
but as the surgeon refused to say his death took place in
consequence of the injury he received, Sir R. Mayne did
not recommend his widow for a pension. However he
believed it was thought by those who knew him that his
death was owing to the injuries he received, he should re-
consider the decision that had been come to.
THE MAURITIUS.

Mr. MONSELL, in reply to Mr. Fowler, said there was
no need of apprehending a famine in the Mauritius, as
there was a good supply of rice there.
THE COLLEGE OF MAYNOOTH.

Mr. GLADSTONE said the proposal to give the sum
of £364,000, or 14 years purchase of the present annual
payment to the College of Mayuooth was founded on the
average of years purchase which was proposed for the
Episcopal and Presbyterian clergy.
VALUATION OF PROPERTY BILL.
Mr. GOSCIIEN said this bill, he hoped, would soon
be in the hands of members.

There was a " large and fashionable" audience" at
the Queen's Theatre, Hull, on Tuesday evening, to be en-
tertained in a variety of ways, one of which was a fool-
hardy trapeze performance by two young men calling
themselves Les Freres Trevannion. The performance
seems to have been described with graphic accuracy, for it
was "a thrilling and exciting act —the double fall for
life." This " leap for life" consists of swinging through
the air by the aid of two ropes with rings attached, from
a perch near the roof of the theatre, immediately over the
front boxes, to a trapeze suspended from the roof at the
other end of the theatre% Hanging on the trapeze
by the legs was the ono gymnast, ready to catch his
adventurous companion immediately he had swung
through the air and let go the ring. The latter
bounded away, not, however, to be firmly and securely
caught in the grip of his companion. He reached his
bands certainly, but slipped from the grasp, and commenced
his "second fall for life,'Y from the roof of the theatre to
the floor, a distance of 35 to 40 feet, amidst the shrieks of
men, women, and children. The audience all rose from
their seats in breathless anxiety as to the fate of the poor
gymnast, who had fallen heavily on his side on the floor
of the ring, whence ho was immediately carried away ap-
parently in an insensible condition. Fortunately, there
were one or two medical gentlemen present, who lost no
time in examining the cond.tion of the patient, and it was
announced that he had not sustained any serious injury.

FENIANISM.
Col. KNOX asked the Hon. Secretary for Ireland,
when it was proposed to destroy the bnlwark of the na-
tion. (Laughter, and hear, hear.) He had had his atten-
tion drawn to a meeting at Cork, at which certain Fenian
speeches were made and loudly cheered.
Mr. C. FORTESCUE said he know nothing-about that
matter— (laughter)—and that was all tho answer he could
give to the question. (Laughter.)

IRISH CIICRCII BILL.

Mr. Vance, Sir G. Booth, Sir S. Northcote, Major
Hamilton, and a great number of other members on the
Opposition benches presented petitions from the Pro-
testants in various parts of Ireland against the Govern-
ment bill for the disestablishment of the Irish Church.

EXTRAORDINARY TRAGEDY IN NORTH
CAROLINA.