The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-19 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, July 18, Two o'clock.—The market is
dull, and the amount of business transacted is in-
significant. Prices have a downward tendency.
The market closed as follows:

per Cents 99 25
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 6B 85
Do. end month 6B 95
Credit Mobilier 358 75
Do. end month 357 50
Credit Fonder —
Do. end month 1405

Bank Shares 3360
Italian Loan 49 50
Do. end month 49 65
Mexican Loan —
Do. Bonds —
Spanish Threes
Homo Debt —
Deferred
rex&

For Account.
. 885

Orleans

Northern 1162 50

Lyons and Mediterranean BB5
Southern 555
Western —
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 382 50
North of Spain —
SaragosEa
Roman..

IRELAND,

DUBLIN, July 18.

. _
At the Clare Assizes Thomas Fennell was in-
dicted for treason-felony. The acts charged against
him were that he was one of a party who attacked
the Coastguard station at Kilbehagh, near Kilrush,
on the night of the sth of March. The Coastguards
on duty refused to give up their arms in the name of
the Irish Republic, and were about to arrest their
assailants, when a person named De Lowry, not yet
made amenable, drew a dagger and stabbed Wilmot,
one of the guards, in several places. It was alleged
that the prisoner was one of the parties who held
Wilmot while the outrage was perpetrated. After
this occurred the Coastguards fired on the Fenianii,
wounding the prisoner, who was then easily cap-
tured. The Solicitor-General stated the case for
the Crown. There was no informer in this case.
Evidence was then given bearing out the statement
made by the Solicitor-General. The case for the
Crown having closed, Mr. Fitzgibbon addressed the
jury in an able speech for the prisoner. A witness
was then examined to show that be knew the priso-
ner, and that he did not see him at Kilbehagh on the
night in question. Sergeant Barry having replied
for the Crown, Judge Keogh charged the jury, who
found a verdict of guilty. Sentence was deferred.
At the Louth Assizes two persons named Fullam
were found guilty of treason-felony, yesterday. The
overt acts charged occurred at Drogheda. Con-
stable Steward Carroll, in reply to Mr. Joy, Q-C-0
stated that there were about 1,000 persons in the
oro-rr3. IloaaT. tlxo ‘L obin o" of b.yonoto among them.
He heard voices among them say, tt Fire, fire," also
" Now's your time," and then some 15 shots were
fired from the crowd. About 30 men of the insur-
gents were posted at an angle with the others, and
facing the crowd. Witness knocked one of them
down as he ran towards the Green-lane, and he ar-
rested Colligan as he ran. lie begged witness " not
to shoot him." He brought Colligan to the barrack,
and returned to the scene of the encounter, where
the ammunition was found. Saw Luke Fullam
lying on the ground, apparently dead, in the potato
market. Other evidence having been given, Mr.
Munroe addressed the jury for the prisoners. The
Judge charged the jury at considerable length, ad
after about two hours' deliberation they brought inn
a verdict of guilty. Sentence was deferred.
Three persons were put on their trial under the
Whiteboy Act, as having formed part of the unlaw-
ful assembly in question. While the trial was pro-
ceeding, they were advised by their counsel to
plead " guilty," which they did, and Mr. Justice
O'llagan sentenced them to 12 months' imprison-
ment from the date of their committal.
The person alleged to be " General" Fariola, a
noted Fenian leader, who was arrested in London
last week, has been brought over to this country,
and was on Monday evening lodged in Kilmainham
Prison. At Chancery-lane statior the prisoner gave
his name as Leebhast, and positively denied that
he had known or heard of Fariola. The informer
Corydon was unable to identify him. It is stated
that James Stephens had been in company with the
prisoner shortly before his arrest.
The action brought by the Lord Mayor of Dublin
against the Dublin Evening Mail for a libel con-
tained in a letter signed by Lord Cloncurry, and
published in that journal, has been tried at Ennis,
county Clare. The letter was addreised to Lord
Ilow th as Lieutenant of the county Dublin, and it
stated that the writer would resign his office as
Deputy-Lieutenant of the county, because Alder-
man Lane Joynt had been appointed to a similar
office for the city in the room of the late Mr. Dargan.
The defendants pleaded that the letter complained
of was no libel, and also an apology, &c., and lodged
£5 in court. The damages were laid at £2,000.
Scrjcant Barry stated the plaintiff's case, after which
the Lord Mayor of Dublin was examined to prove
that he read the libel, and as to the correspondence
which passed between him and Lord Cloncurry's so-
licitors, Messrs. Barrington and Jeffers. A tele-
gram states that the action terminated yesterday in
a verdict for the plaintiff—damages, £5O. A similar
action against the Cork. Constitution has been settled,
the defendant to pay the costs and apologise.
The paddle steamer Rose, from Sligo to Glasgow,
was wrecked on Tuesday night between Sligo and
Killibegs. A number of lives, chiefly poor female
emigrants, ham been lost; several bodies have been
washed ashore. There was a large quantity of live
stock on board. It is said that the boilers burst. A
correspondent of :the Daily Express, who supplies
this intelligence, adds that the screw steamer Sligo
was sent down this morning to the wreck by Messrs.
Middleton and Pollexfen, the local agents of the
steam packet company to whom the Rose belonged,
ror the purpose of reaching the vessel, but the screw
boat could not get alongside.

EXTRAORDINARY LOW-WATER IN TIIE THAMES.-
Yesterday morning, at low tide, the water in the Thames
had receded so much that the channels ordinarily used by
barges and light craft were left nearly dry, and it was with
great difficulty that the fairway channel could be navigated
by the river steamboats without grounding, particularly
the channel on the east side of Westminster and Waterloo
Bridges. This is attributable to the strong gale and the
velocity of the ebb spring-tido current.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT AN IRONSTONE MINE.-
On Wednesday morning, at the Itockley Main Ironstone
Mine, belonging to Messrs. Cooper and Co., whilst a cage
containing ironstone was being drawn up the shaft, a
cylinder connected with the drawing engine suddenly ex-
ploded. Owing to the explosion the engineman was un-
able to stop the engine, and the cage and corves fell down
the shaft with a heavy crash. The weight of the descend-
ing corves drew the empty chair and corves which were
in the shaft into the headgear, thus cutting off the com-
munication with (9 men who wore at work iu the mine.
The mor were, however, rescued one at a time and drawn
to bank—an operation which lasted fully six hours. No
one was seriously injured, but the damage to the pit and
machinery is considerable.

BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, July 18.
The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding figures of the previous account :

July 11.
fr. c.
182,500,000

DEBTOR.
July 18.
fr. c.
Capital of the Bank 182,500,000
Profits in addition to
capital (Art. 8, Law,
Juno 9, 1857) 7,014,776 02 7,044,776 02
Reserve of the Bank
and its branches
Reserve in landed pro-
perty 4,000,000 4,000,000
Notes in circulation 1,119,88.3,725 1,100,582,025
Banknotes to order and
receipts payable at
sight
Treasury account cur-
Vrent creditor 91,183,606 73 90,864,515 53
Current accounts, Paris 241,505 707 96 251,140,525 34
Do. branch banks
Dividends payable 3,417,571 75 4,951,515 75
Discounts and sundry

interests
Rediscounted tho last
six months
Surplus of receipts not
distributed
Sundries

22,105,750 11 22,105,750 14

25,485,469 SG 21,124,704 57

1,381,524 85 1,052,611 45

1,093,802 80 1,093,802 80

13,043,527 45 15,967,897 90

Total
CREDITOR.
July 18.
fr.

Cash in hand and in

July 11.
fr.

Branch banks
Commercial bills over-

due
Commercial bills dis-

272,818 64 628,130 36

counted, not yet due 217,456,526 82 217,674,142 53
Do. branch banks 246,297,921 241,699,166
Advances on deposit of
bullion
Do. branch banks
Do. on French Public
Securities 12,745,800
Do. by branch banks 7,328,900
Do. on railway shares
and debentures
Do. branch banks
Do. on Credit Foncier
Bonds
Do. branches
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, Juno 10,
1857) 60,000,000
Government Stock re-
serve
Do. disposable
Rentes Immobalisees
(Law, June 2, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of
the Bank and landed
property branches
Expenses of manage-
ment 112,511 40
Sundries
21,134,695 69 24,018,788 64

58,482,300 - 53,790,500 -
9,007,997 - 8,797,297 -

12,844,100 -
7,`259,500 -

37,262,300 -
27,343,630 -

814,100 - 816,400 -
763,350 - 781,150 -

60,000,000 -

12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
86,011,737 91 36,011,737 91

8,364,811 - 8,364,811 -

Total 1,753,425,445 06 1,741,198,489 50
Certified by the Senator Governor of the Bank of France.
(Signed) RoULAND.

MR. BRIGHI AT BIRMINGHAM.

BIRMINGHAM, Thursday Night.
A meeting called by the friends of Mr. Dixon,
the candidate in the Liberal interest, was held in
the Town-ball here to-night, the purpose being to
hear an address from Mr. Bright. There was an
immense assemblage ; not an available space was
left. Mr. Bright entered afc w minutes after seven
o'clock. He was accompanied by Mr. Alderman
W iggin (who took the chair) and most of the leaders
of the Liberal party in the borough.
Mr. BRIGHT, who was received with many rounds
of applause, commenced his speech by paying a
graceful tribute to the character of Mr. Scholefield,
lamenting the loss which he as well as the town bad
sustained by his death. He expressed a hope that in
relation to the coming contest no elector would
shrink from showing his adherence to those prin-
ciples of which Mr. Scholefield was so distinguished
a representative. He reminded his audience that
they were the sons of the men who had carried
the bill of 1832, and urged the present consti-
tuency not to forsake the cause which had made
the town famous. He discussed the circumstances
connected with the various Reform Bills which
had been introduced to Parliament. That of Lord
Russell's Government, introduced by Mr. Glad-
stone, had been met by every form of personal
animosity. Lord Derby came into power to
stem the tide of democracy, and the result had
been conversion from the tremendous perils of a .S 7
franchise to household suffrage. There was iything
to equal that since the hnnqta were said to have entn-
mittted suicide to save themselves from slaughter.
He described the Tory party as wrong, perverse,
and intractable. Every good measure was opposed
by them so long as it was safe to oppose it. When
that position became no longer tenable all opposi-
tion suddenly collapsed. Such had been the case in
respect to the Roman Catholic Emancipation of
1829, and of the repeal of the corn laws. They saw
starvation staring a portion of the population iu the
face, and a famine in Ireland ; but it was only after
immense agitation that they discovered the corn
laws were bad. The same Tory party had now
passed a Reform Bill admitting working men to the
suffrage in greater numbers than had ever been
contemplated in any bill introduced to Parliament
by any party. Hereafter the Tories would show the
same persistent and unchangeable resistance to
every improvement. When the Speaker the other
night put the final question that the bill be read a
third time, not one—the very faintest—cheer issued
from the lips of one of those who sat on the Tory
side. The bill was, in fact, the child—the offspring
of the ambition of one man. He had never heard
from that party one word of kindly sympathy
for those to whom the bill proposed to give the
franchise ; but, from what was rumoured in refe-
rence to the course about to be taken by the other
branch of the Legislature, the bill was likely to be-
come the law of the land. The whole question as to
the amount of good it might bring about to the
country depended on the future, and on whether
constituencies like this exercised their powers with
wisdom and fidelity. The voter must have the
shelter of the ballot, and he recommended Reform
Leagues to continue their organisation until that
was obtained. The hon. gentleman discussed at
length the Irish question and the Irish Church, and
went on to remark that hitherto everything of a
Liberal tendency that had been carried out had been
done by the towns ; they had had little help, from
the counties. That must be remedied by future
legislation. Passing to the contest going on, he said
Birmingham occupieda proud position in 1832, Man-
chester in 1846, Birmingham again in 1867. The
town had again to speak, and must answer before
many days were over. Let them now return the
right man to Parliament, showing that the consti-
tuency was faithful to the principles it had ever pro.
fessed. In allusion to the objections which had
been raised to his taking a part in the contest, he
said that his own interest in the result was direct
and overwhelming. No man's was so great in the
return of the Liberal candidate. They owed to him
(he said) allegiance to their own principles, and for
the manner in which he had endeavoured to enforce
them. Was he to be only nominally their represen-
tative—was his authority to be struck down by
yoking him to a colleague whose vote would de-
stroy the force of his? Better far that he should
cease to be their representative, or retire from Par-
liament, than that he should be content to sit, and
speak, and vote with a divided and enfeebled autho-
rity. He gathered from their cheers what the ver-
diet of Birmingham would be in this contest, but
he should indeed despair of his country if this town,
which had so long held a foremost place among
Liberal constituencies, should fall away from the
principles itiliad so long professed. (Loud cheering.)
He implored them to give him a colleague with
whom he could act in harmony, as he did with Mr.
Scholefield, for the welfare of that great community
and the country, in the defence and maintenance of
those principles which he believed to be inseparable
from the happiness and grandeur of the country.
The hon. gentleman, who spoke for an hour, sat
down amid many rounds of applause.
A vote was passed in favour of Mr. Dixon. The
contest is becoming extremely hot, and the town is
in an excited state.

DRESS OF TIIE FRENCH INFANTRY.—The Eten-
dard announces that the French Government has decided
to revert, in great part, to the old style of uniform for the
infantry. The short tunic will be replaced by one having
ampler skirts reaching to the knees, with pockets behind.
Tho trousers will be without folds or braiding, and bo
supplied with pockets. Tho head-dross will be a casquotte
with a large peak. The reason for the change is the
alleged superior healthiness, comfort, and eleganee of the
old uniform,

lIER MAJESTY, &c.

OSBORNE, July 18.

Her Majesty and the Royal family, with the
exception of their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur
and Prince Louis of llesse, who accompanied the
Sultan back to Portsmouth, returned to Osborne
yesterday afternoon at half-past five o'clock, after
the naval review.
Prince and Princess Louis of Ilesse left Osborne
for London this morning, attended by Baroness
Schenck and Captain von Westerweiller.

The Sultan.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, July 18.

His Highness the Viceroy of Egypt, attended by
Raghib Pasha and Major-General F. Seymour,
C. 8., visited the Sultan at Buckingham Palace
this afternoon, when his Highness took leave of his
Imperial Majesty on his departure from England.
His Highness left soon after for Dover.
Later in the day his Royal Highness Prince Louis
of Hesse, attended by Captain von AVesterweiller,
visited his Imperial Majesty.
His Imperial Highness Youssouff Izzeden Effendi,
attended by Ahmed Bey, Salim Bey, and Colonel
Hon. A. Liddell, drove out in a carriage and four
to the Crystal Palace, and afterwards visited the
Thames Tunnel.

Shortly before seven o'clock his Imperial Majesty
the Sultan, accompanied by the Imperial Princes,
and attended by the principal members of his suite,
as well as by the gentlemen specially appointed by
the Queen to attend on his Imperial Majesty, went
in state to Guildhall, to be present at the grand en-
tertainment given by the Lord Mayor and Corpora-
tion of the City of London.

The great officers of State of her Majesty's house-
hold were in attendance at Buckingham Palace on
his Imperial Majesty's departure to the City.
Tho Royal Body Guard of the Yeomen of the
Guard lined the ball and staircase of the Palace as
the Imperial party passed to their carriages.
A guard of honour of the Scots Fusilier Guards
was mounted in the court of the Palace, and an
escort of the Royal Horse Guards accompanied the
Imperial procession (consisting of ten of the Queen's
carriages, with the servants in State liveries) from
the Palace to Guildhall.

The band of the First Life Guards, under the
direction of Mr. J. Waterson, was in attendance at
the Palace this morning, and played the following
selection of music :
Overture, "Don Giovanni" Mozart.
Fantasia, " Crown Diamonds" Auber.
Walzer, " Amoretten Tanz " Gung'l.
Scone et aria, "Jeanne Hacketto"
Glee, " Tho Red Cross Knight "
Souvenir dos Bouffes Parisiennes, " Orphde
aux Eufers " Offenbach.
Galop, " Tho Troopers" Waterson.
"God save the Queen"