The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-01 00:00:00

ITALY.

BRINDISI, April 1.

The Adriatic and Oriental Company's steamer
Principe Tomasso has arrived here from Alexandria,
after a passage of 82 hours. She brings 40 passen-
gers, 27 of whom are English.

FLORENCE, AI ril 1.
The King arrived from Turin this morning to
give audience to General Moering, who has been
specially charged by the Emperor of Austria to
thank his Majesty for the complimentary visit of
General Della Rocca at Trieste. General Moering
has been received since his arrival here with great
official distinction.

The administrative delegates have been charged
to arrange an understanding between the different
railway companies for the establishment of a direct
accelerated service between England and Italy, via
Ostend and the Brenner Pass. The delegates are
to meet on the 14th of April at Stuttgard.
CONSTANTINOPLE, March 31.

A telegram from the Dardanelles was received
here this morning, announcing the arrival there of
the Prince of Wales. His Royal Highness is ex-
pected here to-night or to-morrow morning. The
English Ambassador left here yesterday in the
steamer Caradoc to meet his Royal Highness at
the Dardanelles.
Raouf Pacha and Kiamil Bey, from the Sultan,

leave also this afternoon for the same purpose.

The English colony have prepared an address to
be presented to the Prince upon his arrival, and it
is proposed that they should go outside the port in
an expre.,:s steamer to welcome him. An official
banquet, balls, and reviews are being prepared.
On the first day of Bairam the Sultan made the
Grand Vizier a present of a magnificent diamond.

FRANCE.
BOURSE, March 31.—Three o'clock—The market
closed as follows :

Bank Shares 2860
Ittd'an Fives 55 95
End of month —
Mexican Loan 24}
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Rome Debt
Deferred ...
s. Cash
Orleans
Northern 7170
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern._
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 473k
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman..

4i pot. Cont.
End of month --
3 por Cent
End of month 7O 37i
Credit Mobilier

End of month... 280
Credit Fancier ...1481
End of month...

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WESTMINS7 ER ABBEY AND ST.

PA UL'S CAMEDRAL.

If the Cathedral has not, like the Abbey, been
he growth of centuries, the site and adjacent

ground has seen and testified to the growth of the
nation. True, the Cathedral has few of the augue4

associations which crowd around the Abbey ; true,
that while the Abbey has witnessed the coronation
of all our Sovereigns save one, the Cathedral bas

not witnessed even that one ; true, that while most

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of our Kings, from the last of the Saxons to the
second of the Brunswicks, were buried in the first
building, only one Royal bead bas rested in the
second, and he, " old John of Gaunt, time-honoured
Lancaster," never wore crown ; true, most of our
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statesmen, from John of Waltham to Palmerston,
most of our poets, most of our warriors, most of
our philosophers and men of science, repose in the
Abbey, not in the Cathedral ; yet while the Abbey
has seen more of the solemn and of the gorgeous
pageants of history, the Cathedral has seen more
of the every-day life of the nation, with all its stir
and deep emotion. St. Paul's has been, shame to
say, the exchange of London's merchants, the resort
of its profligate men and women, the haunt cf the
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time when journalism was not, when meetings
meant popular riots, St. Paul's was at once the
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pulpit, the press, and the platform of the nation.
If history consisted only of the coronations of
kings and the funerals of conquerors, the Cathe-
dral Church of St. Paul would bear no comparison
with the Abbey Church of St. Peter. But it is the
thoughts, and words, and deeds of the people which
constitute the true life of the nation, and in these
the Cathedral will bold its own against the Abbey.
Nor is the fancy strained which would make the
one structure symbolical of the Constitution of
England, and the other of the character of Eng-
lishmen. The Abbey, standing opposite the tif°
Houses of the Legislature, flanked by the depart'
clients of Government, and itself the work of cep'
turies, fitly represents the slow and gradual growth
of our institutions in Church and State. The
Cathedral, standing in the heart of the wealthiesp
and most populous city in the world, and, though
so vast a work, built in a little over twenty years;
conceived, begun, and completed by the sahle
architect ; with equal fitness represents the con;
centrate I purpose, the unflagging energy, the vase
schemes of the English merchant. The first 'env
bodies the traditions of ages ; the second is t"
achievement of a single generation.—Art. on "Mil;
man's Annals of St. Paul's" in the new number 0'
the London Quarterly Review just published.

DEATH OF ONE OF THE ORIGINAL ROTHSCHILDSI
On the 16th instant Baroness Babbette Beyfus Von V.°o
Rothschild died at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, aged 85. OA
was the only surviving sister of Baron Anselm Itothsell7l
the founder of the celebrated banking house of L. A. Y
Rotholnkl and eon.