The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-20 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, March 19.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess.. Beatrice,
and attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe, drove
out yesterday afternoon.

Her Majesty,[accompanied by Princess Beatrice
drove in the grounds this morning.

LATEST INTELL MENU

(REU"'ER'S TELEGRAMS.)

FRANCE.

PARIS, March 20.

The Official Journal of this morning publishes
the names of 41 Commanders of the Nationale
Guard Mobile who have been appointed to the
Northern Departments.

M. Barbier, Director of the Customs Depar
ment, has been created a Senator.

ROUDIANIA.

BUCHAREST, March 17.

M. Mellinet, the French Consul at Bucharest,
has presented an autograph letter from the Emperor
Napoleon to Prince Charles.

It appears probable that the Government wil
obtain a large majority at the next general elcc

lons.

All ERICA.

NEW YORK, March 20.

According to Mr. Adam Moffatt's report the
week's receipts of cotton have been 35,000 bales,
and since the first of September, and taken by
American spinners direct, 1,975,000. Shipments
to England 17,000 bales; to France,.£3,ooo ; and
to the continent, 2,000 ; and since the Ist of Sep-
tember 930,000 bales. Stock, 430,000 bales.
Market steady. Middling upllnd, 11f cost and
freight per steamer.

THE WAR IN PARAGUAY.
The following telegram was received yesterday
at the Argentine Legation : --

" LISBON, March 18.

" Lopez was in hiding in the mountains with a
'ew ,followersr He massacred all who refused to

join him.

" The Minister Paranhes had already left
Buenos Ayres for Asuncion, where the Ministers of
the Argentine Republic and of Uruguay were also
expected."

FRANCE.
Bo URSE, March 18.—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :-
4i per Cent. lOO 75
End of month
3 per Cent
End of month 7O 80
Credit Mobilier
End of month 2BO
Credit Foncier 1482 50
End of month —

Bank Shares 9870
Itsl'an Fives 56 10
End of mouth —
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds
Spanish Throes
Home Debt —
Deferred —
Cash
Orleans
Northern .... 1165 .
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern.... 615
Western
Eastern
• •
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 656i
470
North of Spain
Saragossa
80
Roman
r-,,0

RAILWAY'

SHOCKING MURDER, OF A SON BY HIS
FATHER.

SHEFFIELD, March 19.—This morning a shocking mur-
der was committed here. A pocket blade grinder, named
Seyman, was in bed sleeping off the effects of a debauch ;
his son was sent up stairs to him with his breakfast, but
no sooner was he awakened by the lad than he caught hold
of him and cut his throat. The father was apprehended
shortly afterwards.

ELECTION INQUIRY.
THIS DAY.

(BY TELEGRAPH

Numbers at mid-day—Thirty-nine struck off and six
added to respondents ; thirty struck off and one added to
petitioner, leaving Platt in majority of three.

Life assurance has now become the duty of every
provident man, but in performing that duty a certain
amount of doubt arises as to the particular office to
select, because in Many instances a splendid establish-
ment and a largo and expensive staff swallow up a
great percentage of the annual income, and in the
end load to amalgamation with kindred offices, to the
great danger of the assured. But there are a limited
number of sound offices in which a provision for a family
can be made with safety and security, and one of these is
the British Equitable, a report of whose annual meeting
will be found in another column. The admirable remarks
of Mr. Gover, the manager, will be found very interesting'
showing, as they do, the undoubted solidity of the society,
and the almost unexampled progress it has continued to
make ever since its first establishment 14 years ago. This
office confines its operations solely to English lives ; it
avoids foreign assurance and all risky business, and not-
withstanding the prospects of largo results in distant and
speculative investments, which offer charms to other Offices,
the principles of the British Equitable remain fixed and
concentrated on the acquiring only good English lives,
and to this fact is to be attributed the very gratifying re-
marks that found such a hearty response amongst the large
number of those present at the meeting, all of whom were
deeply interested in the success of the ociety,