The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-27 00:00:00

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FRANCE.

PARIS, June 27.
The monetary commission met yesterday. Their
next sitting will be held to-morrow.
A decree of the Prefect of the Bouches-du-
Rhone orders the closing of the Princess Clothilde
Club at Marseilles, for having become a gambling-
house and the haunt of womell of light character.
A letter from Venissieux (Rhone) says :—" The
rye harvest is nearly at an end, the grain being
well developed and promising a good yield. For
some time past the adds in this neighbourhood
have been infested with great numbers of rats,
which attack the roots and cause much damage to
the standing crops."
A Paris letter, in the Journal du Havre, says :
" A precipitate departure of the Viceroy of Egypt
is spoken of, and he is to leave Paris, it is said, in a
day or two. On this subject, financial deceptions
and offended self-love are also mentioned. However
we have every reason to believe the following to be
quite accurate. The real motive of the Viceroy's de-
parture is that he does not wish to meet the Sultan.
The very day of his arrival at the station he had a
rather sharp altercation with Djemil-Pacha, Ambas-
sador of the Porte, who met him on alighting. He
observed to the latter in French, and in a tone of
ill-humour—' It was at Toulon and not here that
you ought to have waited on me.' Djemil replied,
also in French, and emphasising his words—' I have
acted according to the express instructions of our
common master and sovereign.' This answer ex-
cited the displeasure of Ismail Pacha, and he spoke
on the subject to the Marquis de Moustier, who
listened politely to his complaints, but declared he
could do nothing in the matter. Jude iras."
Accounts from the Lot-et-Garonne state that the
wheat is ripening fast in that district, and that in
another week the harvest will have commenced in
the plain of the river Garonne and Lot. The ears are
very fine and well filled ; the seed is large and is
already bursting from its envelope, which is a good
sign. In general the wheat is thinly sown, and the
straw will not be abundant. The vines have a very
healthy appearance, the bunches being large and well
furnished with fruit. The tobacco has been planted
under favourable conditions. The late rains have
been propitious to this branch of agriculture, which
is one of the most important in the department.
The hemp looks well, and the temperature of the last
few days has been very suitable to it. Plums have
suffered in several districts ; the fruit appears far
from plentiful, and promises only a small yield.
The green crops have been sown in excellent condi-
tion, and will produce a good average yield.
The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the
folloWing as the atmospheric situation yesterday :
" A zone of low barometric pressure this morning
occupies the Gulf of Genoa and the Tuscan Sea ;
the wind blows fresh at Naples and at Antibes, and
stronglyfrom north-east at Perpignan. On the con-
trary, considerable pressure prevails on the western
coasts of Europe. The breeze is feeble in Brittany, and
calm prevails in the northern regions, on the coasts
of Portugal, in the Channel, and in the North Sea.
IThe barometer has risen 2 min. at Paris, 4 at Brest,
and 2 at Valencia: The sky generally ki overcast,

and rain falls at Bayonne, Rome, and Paris."—ln
Paris yesterday the weather was exceedingly dull
and lowering; in the forenoon rain began to fall,
and towards evening it came down heavily. At
three the thermometer marked 15 Cent. (59 Fahr.)
The United States' screw frigate Colorado, hav-
ing on board Rear-Admiral Goldsborougb, and the
despatch boat Frolic, arrived at Gibraltar from
Trieste on the 19th.

BOURSE, June 26.—The market continues stag-
nant, and the fluctuations are of no importance.
French Threes are a fraction higher, at 60f. 40c.
Italian Fives have advanced 5c., at 52f. 70c. ;
whereas Credit Mobilier shares have declined If.
25c., at 375 f., and Immobiliere 7f. 50c., at 187 f.
50c. Credit Foncier, Comptoir d'Escompte, and
Societe G6nerale shares remain unvaried. Railway
shares are equally flat, Orleans and Lyons are
quoted at a fraction lower. In English Consols a
rise of 4 is announced by telegraph.

Three o'clock.—The m,
4-} per Cents 99
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 69 30
Do. end month 69 371
Credit Mobilier 375
Do. end month
Credit Foncier —

Do. end month 1467 BO
BAIL

uket closed as follows :
Bank Shares —
Italian Loan 52 80
Do. end month 52 80
Mexican Loan —
Do. Bonds —
Spanish Throes
Home Debt

Deferred -
-AYS.

For Account.
Orleans BB2 50
Northern l2lB 75
Lyons and Mediterranean 892 50
Southern 578 75
Western —

Eastern

Sardinian —
Austrian
Lombard 398 75
North of Spain lOO
SaragosEa
Roman.

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THE LABOURING CLASSES.

The Society for Improving the Condition of the
Labouring Classes held its 23d annual meeting yes-
terday at Willis's Rooms, St. James's, the Earl of
Shaftesbury presiding. Among the gentlemen
present were Sir Walter Stirling, the Rev. Mr.
Nisbett, rector of St. Giles's, the Rev. Mr. Owen,
Canon Conway, Dr. Trench, the medical officer of
the Board of Health of Liverpool, and the Rev. Mr.
Pelham. The object of the society is to afford to
the labouring classes convenient and healthy dwell-
ings at reasonable rents. Buildings belonging to
the society are situate in localities where the work-
ing classes chiefly congregate, and the report, which
was read by Mr. Payne, the secretary, stated that
the house in George-street, Bloomsbury, for the
accommodation of single men, had 100 inmates,
producing a rent of £715 6s. 6d., which, after de-
ducting £445 17s. ld. for expenses, left a balance
of £269 9s. sd. ; the house in Streatham-street
had 54 families, consisting of 237 persons, pro-
ducing £790 175., and leaving a balance of £443
13s. 4d.; the model building in Gray's-inn-road
had 166 occupants, yielding a rent of £479 125.,
and leaving a balance of £2BB 18s. 4d. ; the num-
ber of washings at the public washhouse was 13,652,
producing £326 18s., but in consequence of repairs
the washhouse was closed for several weeks, so that
the return was less than it would have been. The
llatton-garden house accommodated 54 single men;
the rents amounted to £309 45., and after deduct-
ing expenses there was left a balance of £24 9s. Bd.,
an exceptional outlay for painting having been
necessary. The renovated lodginghouse in Charles-
street, Drury-lane, had an average of 80 single men
lodgers; the rents were £409 4s. Id., and a balance
was left of £136 Cs. 6d. Clark's-buildings, Broad -
street, St. Giles's, had a population of 260 ; the rents
being £576 35., and leaving a balance of £lollBs. Bd.
The building in Wilde-court, Drury-lane, had 360
inmates; the rents amounted to £631 Bs. 2d., leaving
a balance of £lO2 9s. id. At Tyndall's-buildings,
Gray's-inn-road, the occupants were 361, and
the lodginghouse had 28 inmates ; the rents were
£989 83. 3d., which, after deducting expenses, as
in the former cases, left a balance of £136 ls. The
secretary then read an abstract of the cash account

tip to December, 18G6,which showed the rec:ipts to
be £6,120 10s. 6d., which, with the balance in hand,
made a total of £6,421135. The expenses dur-
ing the year amounted to £3,580 12s. Bd. Loans
repaid, and interest on other loans, £1,607 ss. sd. ;
salaries, rent of offices, printing, &c., £795 I ls.
; leaving a balance in the hands of the trea-
surer of £474 3s. Id. The value of the real property
belonging to the society (at cost) was £44,524 14s.
9id., and the general liabilities amounted to £20,446
14s. 4d., leaving assets in the bands of the society to
the amount of £24,078 2s. 50. On the motion of Sir
Walter Stirling, seconded by the Rev. Mr. Nisbett,
the report was received and adopted. The Rev. Mr.
Owen then moved the reappointment of the com-
mittee for the ensuing year, which was seconded by
Canon Conway, and agreed to. Dr. Trench, in mov-
ing a vote of thanks to the chairman, said that the
corporation of Liverpool bad expended a large sum
of money for the purpose of affording lodging-houses
for the poorer classes of the people, and the ques-
tion was, how they were to reimburse themselves for

the outlay. A. work of this descriptiGn could not
be conducted on a merely philanthropic principle ;
it must be conducted solely on a commercial basis,
and he had come to that meeting as a pupil to learn
from the society in what manner the Liverpool
corporation was to proceed to make the undertaking
in which they had embarked remunerative. To
evince their earnestness in this cause, the corpora-
tion had offered a prize of £2OO for the best plan
that could be devised for enabling them to carry
out such a work by which they might realise a re-
turn of 5 per cent. upon the capital invested. The
vote was seconded by the Rev. Mr. Pelham, and
carried by acclamation. Lord Shaftesbury returned
thanks, and while expressing his regret at the little
progress which had been made in mitigating the
evils which it was the object of the society to
lessen, he at the same time felt that there
were agencies at work which, while on the one
hand they tended to remove closely pent-up build-
ings, and so far made open spaces where hitherto
there had been narrow and unhealthy districts, un-
happily, on the other hand, were displacing thou-
sands from their dwellings, while their numbers
were being continually increased by other thousands
coming from the provinces. Great remedial mea-
sures had been proposed with regard to the cubic
area that was to be allowed for the poor in the hos-
pitals and workhouses of the metropolis ; and if such
a scheme were to be carried out in the dwellings of
the working classes, he knew not where they could
rest themselves unless they tabernacled in the open
streets. Nevertheless, he would not speak with dis-
paragement of the scheme, for to a certain extent he
thought it ought to be put in force. With regard to
supplying cheap dwellings to the poorer classes, he
did not conceive it possible in a commercial point
of view by the erection of new buildings. It could
only be done remuneratively by being put into re-
pair buildings already erected ; bearing in mind
that the main object of the society was to provide
dwellings for the large masses of the people who
lived from hand to mouth by their daily labour, and
who do not realise more than from 12s. to 14s. a
week. It was perfectly clear that ls. 3d. a week
was as much as such people ought or could pay for
their lodgings. The duty, therefore, as well as the
principal object of the society, was to do everything
it could to facilitate the adaptation of existing build-
ings to the accommodation and means of that large
portion of the community.

INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY.—The under-named
gentlemen have been honourably distinguished by the
examiners among the candidates who have passed during
the Trinity Term for admission on the roll of attorneys
and solicitors of the superior courts :—Ralph Hutchinson
Young, Charles Mylue Barker, Walter Gardiner, Albert
Lewis, to each of whom the Council of the Incorporated
Law Society has awarded a prize of books ;
Archer, Ellery Arthur Bennett, John Copland, Francis
Nathan Drake, Charles Godfrey Esam, Jasper Gibson,
Williams Harper, Robert Hunter, M.A., Hugh Stirling,
.41. A., and Charles Henry Turner. One hundred and thirty
candidates came up, of whom ono hundred and eighteen
passed.

THE REFORM LEAGUE.—At the meeting of the
Council of the Reform League last night, at the offices,
Adelphi-terrace, the president, Mr. A. Beales, M.A., took
the opportunity of stating that ho thought certain mem-
bers of the League had done well to attend the recent meet-
ing at St. James's Hall. He felt that it was his duty as
president to defend those friends and members of the
League who had takon part in that mooting.

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HER MAJESTY, &c•

WINISOR CASTLE, June 26.

Her Majesty and the Queen of Prussia drove out
yesterday afternoon. Countess Blucher had the
honour of accompanying their Majesties.
Princess Beatrice drove out in an open carriage.
Prince Leopold also drove out, attended by Mr.
Legg.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse, attended by B ironess Schenck,
Capt. von Westerwcller, and Dr. Becker; and
Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Bar-
rington and Lord Alfred Paget, went to London
last evening, to be present at the State Bail at
Buckingham Palace.

We are authorised to state that her Majesty's
rtate ball, announced for Wednesday, the :d of July, ball
been postponed till Friday, the sth of July.

St. Giles' and the Gzeen Field&