The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-15 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, Jan. 14.

All shipping from England, France, and Italy
will in future undergo a quarantine of three days
only in the ports of Cadiz, Carthagena, and
Santander.

THE NEW SPANISH LOAN.
PARIS, Jan. 15.

The subscription to the loan contracted by the
Spanish Government with Messrs. Fould and Co.
proceeds so unsatisfactorily as to render it probable
that it will prove a failure.

HOLLAND.

THE HAGUE, Jan. 15.

The statement of the Globe that the Dutch Go-
vernment had declared its unwillingness to submit
the Scheldt question to the arbitration of French
and English engineers is officially denied. The
Dutch Government only stated that it would take
no part whatever in the labours of the committee.

AMERICA.
• NEW Yonic, Jan. 14, Evening.

Notwithstanding the efforts made for the aban-
donment of the impeachment of President Johnson,
the Radical members of the House of Representa-
tires strongly insist upon its being proceeded with.

'rhe screw steamer Manhatten arrived out
:o-day.

Gold, 135. Exchange on London, 1091. Five-
twenty United States Bonds, 104 ; Illinois, 120 ;
Erie, 65k.

REUNION AND MAURITIUS MAILS.
MARSEILLES, Jan. 15.

The Messageries Imperiales steamer Moeris, with
the above mails, arrived here this morning at 2 a.m.

RECEPTION OF THE FRENCH AMBAS-
SADOR BY THE SULTAN.
C ONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 31.
This day his Excellency M. Bouree, recently ap-
pointed ambassador of France at the Sublime Porte,
has been granted an audience to present his creden-
tials by his Imperial Majesty the Sultan with un-
usual pomp, that had, however, been previously
settled between the Ottoman Ministers and the am-
bassadors of France and England. Imperial car-
riages had been placed for the purpose at the disposal
of the ambassador and his suite. The whole diplo-
matic personnel, the dragomante, the military mis-
sion, the staff of the cruiser La Corse, the French
functionaries of the finances, mines, public roads,
and woods and forests, now on mission at Constan-
tinople, accompanied the French ambassador.
The introducer of the ambassador, Kiamil Bey,
came and took his excellency to the Imperial
palace of Dolma-Bagche, and thence to the Sublime
Porte.
The ambassador rode in a carriage and four,
escorted by a picket of Imperial Guard ; his suite
followed in thirteen Imperial carriages.
A guard of honour was stationed in the second
courtyard of the palace, where the ambassador
alighted.
M. Bouree was immediatey admitted with his
suite into the presence of the Sultan, and delivered
the following speech, which was translated by Aali
Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Sire, the Emperor, my august Sovereign, has
deigned to confer upon me the honour of represent-
ing him to your Majesty. The numerous duties
devolving on me on account of that mission will he
made easy by the mutual confidence established be..
tween two States which are united by so many ties;
political and commercial. I succeed an ambassador-
who will leave in Constantinople lasting remem-
brances. Your Majesty wished that such an assur-
ance should be given to him by your ambassador in
the most honourable terms ; I would feel happy
should my counsels be accepted by your Majesty
and his Ministers, as were those the Marquis de
Moustier was able to give, and of which the high
bearing was so fully appreciated. Those counsels
have been always characterised, as in the recent
question of the Principalities and Montenegro, by
that wise spirit of moderation which softens the
present and ensures the future ; it will continue, the
Emperor Napoleon feels sure, to inspire the policy
of your Majesty and also of your Government.
" Owing to a long sojourn in the East, the ques-
tions that rise up here are not unfamiliar to me, and
I bring with me to Constantin ople the personal
dispositions the most fitted to:merit the goodwill
of your Majesty. I dare asking it from this day.
The Emperor,Sire, is not indifferent to the measures
through which your Imperial Majesty has tried, and
will try, to increase the prosperity of the populations
under your sceptre. It is, above all, in developing
the immense riches, sources of the public as well as
of private fortunes, that exist in the soil of the em-
pire, that he thinks this aim can be reached. The
Emperor does not ignore the fact that great im-
provements are sometimes difficult to be realised;
but no one knows better how a strong will can mul-
tiply those ameliorations in the area of a great state
and render them everywhere simultaneously pro-
ductive. I have, Sire, the honour to place in your
hands the letters accrediting me to your Majesty,
and which renew the assurance of the constant
amity of the Emperor."
1 ES Zitiljeaty, through thq intermediary a Aali

Pacha, answered that speech by a few words full of
goodwill for the new representative of the Emperor,
and expressed a wish that the relations of good
friendship which exist between France and Turkey
should be daily increased.

Then the ambassador took leave of his Majesty
the Sultan, and was conducted to one of the adjacent
rooms, where he was offered refreshments according
to usage; and he went afterwards to the Sublime
Porte, through Tophane, Galata, and the new
streets of Stamboul, and paid his visit to the Grand
Vizier and the other Ministers of the Sultan.

PRANCE.
The celebrated painter M. Ingres and M. Victor
Cousin are dead.

The Etendard of this evening says that the Otto-
man circular relating to Greece was prematurely
announced, since it has only just now been pre-
sented to the protecting Powers.
A young woman was returning to her home in
the Rue des Filles-Dieu, about 11 o'clock, the night
before last, when she was suddenly stabbed iu the
right shoulder by a young man, who made his es-
cape. A little later another young woman was
stabbed in the breast under similar circumstances in
the same street. At two in the morning a young
man of 23 gave himself up at the Prefecture of
Police as the author of the two attempts, and exhi-
bited a pair of compasses covered with blood as the
instrument with which he had accomplished his
crimes. In his pocket was found a manuscript en-
titled :—" Reflections on death ; general considera-
tions on the punishment of the guillotine." This
document, of which he says he is the author, tends
to prove that the most agreeable of all deaths is that
on the scaffold. He is supposed to be insane.
Some evenings back a person entered the lodge of
a concierge, Rue des Fosses-Saint-Jacques. He
wore the dress of an eccleziastic, and, saying he was
very tirci, asked permission to rest a while and
finish some notes he had roughly taken on his tablets.
The request was granted, and he remained a couple
of hours, during which time, it was noticed, he
made a minute inspection of the room. On leaving
he promised to return and bring to the concierge
a chaplet blessed by the Pope. He did present
himself on the following evening, but only to ask
for the loan of a few francs for a pressing purpose,
he having accidentally left his purse at home, lie
would return the money next morning by one of
the boys of the choirs of his church at the Batig-
nolles ; but as yet the benevolent concierge has not
yet been favoured with a visit.

A young woman, named Schmit, was tried at the
Paris Court of Assizes on Saturday for the murder
of her illegitimate male child, aged 13 months. The
accused had left her parents voluntarily to lead a
disorderly life, and was delivered of a child which
she placed out to nurse. Finding, however, that it
was a burthen she took back the infant under the
pretence of confiding it to her mother, and then
drowned it in the Canal St. Martin. She was con-
demned to eight years' imprisonment.

A gentleman of Verona (Euro) was going out
shooting one day last week, accompanied by a young
man named Panton, when he stopped to speak to a
neighbour. Panton asked him to lend him his gun
while he was waiting, and upon his doing so he
put the muzzle in his mouth, fired, and fell dead,
his head being blown to pieces. He had long been
considered by the neighbours as of unsound in-
tellect.

In the Paris Corn Market last weak the four
marks of flour advanced Ifr. 75e.—to 82fr. 75c. the
157 kilos. ; wheat rose Ifr.—to 48f. the 120 kilos. ;
rye was unvaried at 24fr. the 115 kilos. ; barley was
unchanged at 23fr. 50c. the 100 kilos. ; and oats
likewise unaltered at 24fr. 50c. the 100 kilos. At
the last cattle market at Sceaux, oxen sold at 1f r.
26c. to Ifr. 54c. the kilo. ; calves, at lfr. 56c. to
lfr• 95c. ; and sheep, at Ifr. 42c. to lfr. 75c. At
Poiav the prices were Hr. 23e. to lfr. 56e. ; lfr.
540. to lfr. 95c. ; and Ifr. 45c. to lfr. 76c., respec-
tively.

The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the
following as the atmospheric situation on Saturday :
—" The winds at present blowing over France are
from the north; they are generally temperate, but
fresh near the Pas-de-Calais and on the coast of
Provence. The sea is heavy at Dunkirk and rough
in the Channel and in the Bay of Biscay. Squalls
aze passing over the Mediterzanean. The usual de-
spatches from Portugal, England, Sweden, and
Norway have not been received. Great oscillations
are observed in the magnetic needle."
During the year 1866 seventy-five new plays
were produced on the Paris stage.
The number of telegraphic despatches exchanged
in the interior of Paris now exceecl.s 1,500 a day.
The winter has set in with severity throughout
the country. The thermometer (Centigrade) fell to
3 deg. below zero (26.5 Fahrenheit) at Rouen on
Saturday. At night snow also fell, and the frost is
reported as general in the south-eastern and central
departments.

A stranger entered the court-yard of the Hotel-
Dieu, at Rouen, on Saturday morning, and drawing
a pistol from his pocket shot himself through the
heart. The body has not been identified.
An infant has just died of starvation at Roche-
fort, the avarice of its unnataral father having
refused sufficient nourishment to the mother who
was suckling it.
The city of Lisle is preparing to celebrate, in
grand style, the 200th anniversary of its annexa-
tion to France.
A young man aged 19, named Rebouillet, a
domestic at Beauvosin (Gard), has just died from
drinking a bottle of brandy in less than 5 minutes.
BOURSE, Jan. 14, Two o'clock.—Securities are
falling, with the exception of Italian Fives, which
have slightly advanced, having been quoted at 53f.
95c., with an improvement of 10c., whereas French
Threes have fallen 12ic., at 69f. 60e. Credit
Mobilier and Credit Foncier shares have declined
each 2f. 50c.—at 506 f. 25c., and 1,412 f. 50c.
Comptoir d'Escompte, weak during the last few
days, have again fallen, this time to 827 f. 50c., with
a loss of 10f. Railway Shares are very calm,
quotations are either unvaried or a shade lower.
Generally very few transactions are taking place.
English Consols lower.
Three o'clock.—Italian Fives have further ad-
vanced, and Comptoir d'Escompte shares have im-
proved. The market closed as follows :

41 per Cent 5......... 98 75 Bank Shares 3590
Do. end month....„ Italian Loan 54
3 per Cents. ...... ... 69 60 Do. end month 54 15
Do. end month 69 60 Mexican Loan
Credit Mobilier ... 506 25 Do. Bonds —
Do. end month ... 506 25 Spanish Threes
Crddit Fonciet — Home Debt ...'.c....
DO. end month 1415 Deferred ...... ......
1 B.AILW LYE,.

Orleans
905
Northern llB2 50
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern 912 50
Western 568 75
Eastern —
545
Sardinian —
Austrian
Lombard 3BB 75
North of Spain l2O
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona —
Roman. 9O

COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PASSENGERS AND
GUARDS ON RAlLWAYS.—Yesterday a number of railway
directors and gentlemen connected with mechanical science
attended a series of experiments made on trains running
between Victoria Station and the Ciystal Palac as to a
means of establishing communication between passengers
and guard, or between the guard at the rear of the train
and the driver. The first obstacle to the adoption of any
system has been the want of simplicity and cheapness.
An ;nvention tried yesterday, anal which seemed to give
satisfaction to a large body of practical men, is apparently
all that is wanting. The apparatus is applied to a car-
riage, or any number of carriages, by simply drilling a
hole in the roof. A tuba having a slight slit in it is then
irt reach of the passenger. In the slit is a pair of jams
or jaws, covered with a chemical composition of an
ignitable character, but which can only be ignited by
the touch of another composition having an affinity
to it. This second composition is to be supplied by touch-
ing the passenger's tickets with it, and the insertion of
a ticket will at once explode a rocket, which can be heard
from end to end of the train, and ignite coloured fire
which will flare for several minutes on the roof of the car-
r:age, so pointing out who:o the explosion came from.
The passenger's ticket will show who caused the explo-
sion. The experiments were completely success:ul. The
inventors aro Messrs. Lo Keux and Wishart. The inven-
tion tried yesterday has been brought to po_fection by
Mr. T. Brown, civil engineer of the European Inventors'
Agency.

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Court Cirtribt

HER MAJESTY, &c.

OSBORNE, Jan. 14.
The Queen and Princess Louise walked in the
grounds and rode on ponies this morning.
Prince and Princess Christian drove out, accom-
panied by the Dowager Duchess of Athole and Miss
M'Gregor, and visited the Female Prison at Park-
hurst. Mrs. G. I). Engleheart was in attendance
upon their Royal Highnesses.
Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, and Prince
Henry of Prussia went out walling.

We have much pleasure in announcing that her
Majesty will open Parliament in person, and with tho
same Stab as last year.

THE KING OF THE BELGIAL,M—The Avenir
.National says there is no foundation for a re' ant report
that the King of the Belgians was about to leave for the
south of Europe for the sake of a milder climate. His
Majesty's health is bet;;er than it was formeAy, and he does
not now require to pass the winter in Egypt or Turkey.
Leopold 11. is able to endure the inclemency of the weather
with impunity. Last week he was to be seen riding for
several hours together on the boulevards in the midst of
rain, wind, and snow.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesey have
been entertaining at Beaudesert the following party :
The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings, the Earl and
Countess of Winchilsea ; Ladies Constance, Mabel, and
Hilda Finch-Hatton; Viscount Maidptone, the Earl and
Countess of Uxbridge, Viscount and Lady Cons'.ance
Marsbam, Sir Henry and Lady Sophia Des Vcoux, Mr.
George Tredcroft, Mr. Peter Wilkinson, Mr. H. Thou).-
bill ; Lords Henry, Alexander, and Berkeley Paget.
The Earl and Countess Gray are expected to
arLive at their residence on Carlton-house-terrace at the
end of the month from Howick Hall, for tho meeting of
Parliament.

The Countess of Coventry has left Thomas's
Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Asdown Park.
Lady Catherine Boyle, eldest daughter of Henry,
third Earl of Shannon, by Sarah, fourth daughter of JNir
John Hyde, of Castle Hyde, county Cork, died on Tues-
day last at Dover. She was born 13th March, 1801.
The lion. Mrs. Ramsay, of Barnton, and Mrs.
and Miss Pollock Morris have arrived at Brown's Hotel.
Sir Bruce and Lady Chichester have arrived at
Maurigy's Hotel from their seat, Basingstoke.
Sir Edwin Scudamore Stanhope has left Alaurigy's
Hotel for Holme Lacy, Hereford; Sir Frederick, Lady,
and Miss E. H. Bathurst have left for II *stings.