The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-16 00:00:00

persons.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY

M. de Belleoourt, the bearer of the treaty con-
cluded with China, has arrived at Marseilles. He
was to remain in quarantine 48 hours.
The ingenious plan of the Gazette de France for
obtaining possession of the English ships of the
line, in case a war should break out between Great
Britain and France—by making a body of Zouaves
and Chasseurs de Vincennes take them by boarding
"—has drawn forth the following amusing exempli-
fication of the system from the Charivari :—" First
of all, you take a three-decker like the Eylau or the
Arcole, having 1,000 men as its crew. You then sup-
press the crew. But how, you may ask, is the vessel
to be worked ? In the easiest way in the world. As
you employ screw steamers, and as all that is required
to manoeuvre such vessels is a stoker and a few men
(so the Gazette declares), and as all the rest is sheer
superfluity, you of course put aside what is not abso-
lutely necessary. In time of war, strict necessaries
should alone be looked to. You consequently land
the crew, with the exception of the said stoker and
the few men. After that, you fill the whole vessel
with Zouaves and Chasseurs de Vincennes. You
can afford to do so, as you have land forces incom-
parably stronger than the British army. Then the
stoker gets up the steam, and down you dash
on the very first English vessel you see. You
at once get close to her, as you easily can by
means of your steam, and the Zouaves and
others jump on her deck, and in the twink-
ling of an eye she is captured. This plan
is so triumphant that at first on hearing it a
man remains quite overcome with astonishment,
and it is only afterwards that some objections
occur to him. For instance, it might so occur that
no English ship
of the line was close at hand
waiting to be boarded ; that one should be sought
for perhaps for several days ; and that during the
cruise the Zouaves and Chasseurs might be affected
with sea-sickhess, which little incident would not
exactly render them better prepared for the assault.
It might so happen, too, that the English Vessel
might use her screw to avoid the encounter, for if
steam is to aid one party in obtaining the attack, it
ought to serve the other to avoid the conflict.
There are several other objections to be made, but
we pass them over in silence, because the inventor
of the new plafi of boarding by means of Zouaves
would be capable, in order to punish us, of going
still farther, and might propose to place a squadron
of cavalry on board."

Sir Robert and Lady Peel, and Sir Fitzroy and
Lady Kelly have arrived at the Hotel Bristol,
Place Vendome.

Bounst, September 15.—1 t being option-day for
shares, efforts were made to push up prices in order
to decide the buyers of premiums to accept their
bargains. Threes have been done at 73f. 20c.,
and are now 73f. 35c. ; Mobilier varied from 965 f.
to 959 f. 50c. ; Austrian, 697 f. 50c. to 695 f. ;
Orleans, 1,440 f. to 1,432 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 862 f. 50c.
to 857 f. 50c. ; Eastern, 765 f. to 762 f. 50c. ;
Northern, 1,012 f. 50c. to 1005 f. ; and Southern,
612 f. 50c. to 607 f. 50c. The market became rather
less buoyant towards the close, when the following
were the last quotations :--

4f per Cents. 95 50
Do. end month .. ^
3 per Cents. 72 85
Do. end month.... 73 15
Bank Shares...... 3150

Crticlit Fonder 670
Belgian 41 —
Piedmontese (5)
Roman 92 75
Austrian

Credit Mobilier 952 60
Do. Account " 967 50

Spanish Threes —
Home Debt 39 63

RAILWAYS.

Account.
Orleans
Northern
New ditto B4O .. 845
Lyons and. Mediterranean 857 50 .. 856 25
New ditto --- .. -,-
Geneva 650 —. .. 650
Midi 605 .. 610
Western . 652 50 .. 652 60
Eastern
Grand Central ._ .. ....._
Sardinian 475 .. 468 75
Austrian 690 .. 692 50