The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NO %TEMBE R 22, 1858.

THEAT RE -It OYAL, DRURY-LANE.—Under
the Management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W
Harrison. •
THIS EVENING, THE BOHEMIAN GIRL : Miss
Louisa Fyne, Miss Susan Fyne, Miss M. Prescott, Mr. Ferdi-
nand Glover, Mr. H. A. St. Albyn, Mr. Bargeman, and Mr.
W. Harrison,

Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon.
To conclude with a new Ballet Divertissement, LA FLEU
D' AMOUR Mesdlles. L. Michelet, Morlacchi, and Pasquale.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
MACBETH.
Macbeth, Mr. C. Kean ; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. C. Kean.
Preceded by a new Farce, in one act, entitled
THIRTY-THREE NEXT BIRTHDAY.

TH A
ETRE-ROYAI„ HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
TIITS EVENING, LONDON ASSURANCE : Mr. and
Mrs. C. Mathews, and Mr. Buckstone.
After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE GUADAL-
QUIVER. Perea Nem.
MY MOTHER'S MAID.
And ANY PORT IN A STORM.
Commence at 7.

OD OYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, THE LITTLE SAVAGE.
After which THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE.
WOOING IN JEST AND LOVING IN EARNEST :
Miss Swanborough. •
And THE BONNIE FISH WIFE.
Commence at 7 o'clock.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.
Fore Lessee Mr. William Cooke.
• Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips.
Engagement ol' John Townsend, Esq., M.P. for Greenwich,
for Six Nights only.
THIS EVENING, and during the week, will be presented
Shakspere's Tragedy of KING RICHARD THE THIRD;
or, The Death of White Surrey, reproduced with all its origi-
nal splendid effects. The Duke of Gloster, Mr. John Towns-
end, M.P.
Followed by the inimitable SCENES IN THE ARENA.
in which Mr. W. Cooke, Mr. Runnels, Miss Kate Cooke, and
Madlle. Blanche will appear.
To conclude with the popular farce of SHOOTING THE
MOON.
No fees to box-keepers. The art of riding taught.
Carriages at eleven.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.--
Proprietor—C. MORTON.
The public is most respectfully informed that the FINE
ARTS GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW
OPEN DAT AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12
o'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec-
tion of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters and is also
devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels
he may confidently,assert that, viewed altogether, the exist-
ing Musie hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently
added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether
as regards the architectural beauty of the structures them-
selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations
within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the
Kingdom.
The MusicAL ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at
Seven o'clock.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Nov. 21.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
57—highest since noon yesterday.
44—lowest this morning and during the night.
0 this day at noon.

BAnomETEn-30.18.
WIND, North-Easterly ; light, with foggy_ weather and
occasional sunshine. Afternoon—fine sunshiny weather.

Nov. 22.
43—highest since noon yesterday.
37—lowest this morning and during the night.
42—this day at noon.
BAROmETBR-30.28.
WiNn,South-Easterly ; light and fine. Foggy and
frosty in the night.

A very interesting paper was read by Mr
TEFFTS at the Liverpool meeting of the Institute
for the Promotion of Social Science. It suggested
a plan for obtaining a common decimal currency
for England, France, and America, which would
preserve all the principal types of coins, and would
eventually come into general use by all the com-

mercial nations of the earth. It is needless to ex.

patiate on the advantages that must inevitably
follow the introduction of such a system. They
must be sufficiently obvious not only to every one
engaged in business, but also to all who have
traded on any part of the Continent, and who
have therefore fallen into the hands of the money
changers. Great annoyance, delay, and expense
would be avoided, and the intercourse of different

nations promoted when so fertile a source of vexa•

tion was removed.

But the task of obtaining the concurrence of dif-
ferent peoples on such a point is one of no ordinary
difficulty. Each is prejudiced in favour of the
system to which they are accustomed and with
which they are familiar, and while making no con-
cession themselves, they would expect others to
yield to their wishes and convenience. The sove-
reign, the napoleon, and the eagle are now accept-
able in all parts of the world, but what is required
is to obtain a common Mint that would permit
these types of coins and the smaller ones in gene-
ral use to remain undisturbed ; although their values
might be expressed in different terms.
Mr. TEFFT proposes, as the standard monetary
units, what he terms " the metrical dollar," its
value to be 1.6 grammes of gold 9.loths fine. This
would be about 1 per cent less than the present
five franc piece, or a little over six centimes on
the coin, the present standard of five francs,
9-10ths fine, being 1.6129 grammes. It would be
nearly as close to the American dollar, or two
florins or four shillings. And it certainly pos-
sesses many advantages over the plan proposed, of
making the £1 the unit, and having but ten copper
coins to the shilling ; the effect whereof, as we
have repeatedly pointed out, would be to deprive
the labouring classes of a very appreciable portion
of their earnings.

The new dollar then would be taken as the re,

presentative of the American dollar, the five
franc piece, or four shillings. As we have shown,
there would be some little difference, but that
would speedily be arranged. The comparison of
the present. standards with the one proposed, are
given by Mr. TEFFT in the following table, viz. :
In Fine Gold. Troy grains
5 dollars present American standard
1 pound „ English „
25 francs „ French ~
5 dollars proposed universal „
In Fine Silver.
21 francs present French standard
dollar „ American „
2 shillings „ English 9,
dollar proposed universal ff
In Coppei.
1 cent. Present American standard
penny ~ English
5 centimes ~ French " 77.16
1 cent. proposed universal " 77.16
The ratio between gold and silver varies ma•
terially in the three nations. The proposed plan,
so far as silver is concerned, would be something
lower than that in use in France and America,
but higher than that in England. Indeed, in this
country, the actual is much below the nominal
value of the silver coinage. The present propor-
tions between the metals are as follows :

173.713
172.8
161.453
156.253

In France
„ America
11.884
P„ England
Proposed
The standard fineness also differs in England
from the other countries. This is shown by the fol-

lowing table":—
Present fineness of gold coin in England 11-12
27 silver „ „ 37-40
92
77 7/ gold and silver in France
9-10
and America
9-10
Proposed fineness of all gold and silver
We find that at present the French standard in

grammes is-
-5 francs in gold, 9-10ths fine, present standard 1.6129
1 dollar „ 1, - proposed „ 1.6
5 francs in silver „ present „ 25•
1 dollar „ ' „ proposed ~ 22.5
The change in gold would be comparatively

trifling, but it would come very high in silver in
Franc e. There are, however, many satisfactory
reasons why France should be induced to make the
alteration. The gold coinage represents 7 per
cent, of fine silver more in France than in England,
and should that anomaly be continued the probable
I result will be a gradual loss of silver to France.
The gold discoveries have materially changed the
relative value of the metals, and no country can
long persist in resisting that which may be re-
garded as a natural law.
In England, in order to introduce the decimal
system, there should be 25 cents. to the shilling.
This would be the chief change in this
country. It would give the poor man a small
advantage of some 4 per cent., and would
reduce postage receipts, and other small stamps,
and all tolls, &c., expressed in terms of copper—
that is to say, in pence or halfpence—in a similar
ratio. This, however, would be far more equitable
than the increase suggested in the report, which
would make an addition of 20 per cent. to the
charges. In gold the debtor would benefit to the
extent of about 2d. in the pound sterling, but,
surely, that trifling boon may be readily conceded,
when it is considered how long and how steadily
the balance has inclined to the other side, and to a
far greater extent. Even this might be avoided by
providing that 2d. should for one or two years be
paid in addition to the £1 on all contracts entered
into previously to the act coming into operation.
The chief, indeed, the only, objection to the plan
above referred to is, that it makes the unit too
high, inasmuch as the smallest term would be the
cent, equivalent to our present halfpenny. It is,
however, far better than that advocated by the
Decimal Association, which would require four
places of figures, of different denominations—a
great addition to the trouble of calculation. Mr.
TEFFT, however, answers this point by asserting,
that anything less than the halfpenny, or five cen-
times, is seldom if ever found in mercantile ac-
counts. He would provide for the necessities of
the humbler classes, who lose in a great number of
transactions from the want of sufficiently low deno-
minations of coins, such as those in use in France
and other continental nations, by the use of
half and quarter cents, " which," as he says,
" would give coins small enough to buy a
few pins or a few buttons at a time." It has also
" decimal divisions, is founded on decimal weight,
saves all the favourite coins now in use," and, as
Mr. TEFFT declares, offers an unit far more suited
than the franc to become the successor of the
pound.

It is not the least satisfactory portion of the
contemplated arrangement that it would be made
self-supporting, and that there would be but little
if any expense to the nation in the progress of the
changes. That some alteration will be effected is
certain. The advantages of the decimal system
are so thoroughly appreciated, that the boon
cannot be much longer withheld; and surely it is
far better, when entering on such a course, to
produce a system which will be of permanent
utility, and not require any changes, where other
nations are inclined to enter on similar ameliora-
tions. It would, however, be very desirable that
a commission should be appointed by the three
great nations chiefly concerned ; that these. com-
missioners should meet at an early period, and, if
possible, agree on a report. If they, could do so
the matter would be speedily disposed of ; if not,
each could enter on the course best calculated to
promote their own interests, and such as would
most closely approximate to that which had the
L most general support amongst the commissioners.

The Metropolitan Board of Works, even when it
does actually, upon some rare occasion, contrive to
possess itself of an opportunity, cannot by any
possibility, apparently, contrive at the same time to
take advantage of it. Old Berkeley House, we all
know, occupies a particular spot in Spring-gardens,
such as constitutes it one of the most flagrant ob-
structions in the whole metropolis. And Spring-
gardens is not by any means an out-of-the-way
locality. On the contrary, it is perhaps the most
central point of all in the capital—midway between
the East and the West, and the North and the
South—between the City and Belgravia. The
town palace of the Sovereign stands at the opposite
extremity of the most urban of our parks—more of
a garden than a park—St. James's. Along the
skirts of that park, in the direction of the Palace of
the Legislature and Westminster, are many of the
principal offices of the Government. There are the
Admiralty and the Horse Guards—there the
chief official haunts of the Executive, home, foreign,
and colonial, nestling in that little, dingy, brick-
and-mortar cul-de-sac, called Downing-street, the
back entrance to which abuts upon St. James's-
park. Yet tho entrances to that central pleasaunce
of all London, what arelithey ? The most casual,
left-handed, seemingly accidental. The oddest, the
most angular, at once the most in-the-way, and
the most out-of-the-way. There is Bucking-
ham-gate, hard-by the palace of the QUEEN ; but
iluckingham-gate looks for all the world as though
it were constructed for the express purpose, not of
being passed through, but of being passed by—on
our route from Pimlico, along Bird Cage-walk, to-
wards Westminster. There is the roadway turn-
ing up Constitution-hill, round the opposite corner
of the royal residence—the ill-omened causeway
where Oxford shot at her MAJESTY, and where
Sir ROBERT PEEL was thrOWELfrOM his horse. But
the park entrance to Constitution-hill is a dreary
enough wilderness of palings, and roads of
gravel, and ironmongery. Then there is the
side gate out of the Mall, conducting us through
Palace-yard between Clarence House and Staf-
ford House, and so round by Cleveland-row
into the west end of Pall-mall. Further on is the
bran new road opened up between Marlborough
House and St. James's Palace under the shadow of
the German Chapel. Advancing still along the.
Mall, you may turn, if you list, up that broader
opening from the park at the base of the Duke of
York's Column—that is, of course, supposing you
are afoot. Supposing you are in the saddle or
seated in hackney cab or cushioned brougham, you
must pass on by the broad sweep of the carriage
drive round that part of the enclosure—clattering
under the sombre archway of the Horse Guards,
and so emerging-between the mounted sentries in

little stone horse-boxes to the right and left into
Parliament-street turning then at yJur own
whim and pleasure either towards Trafalgar-square
or towards Westminster, between Whitehall and
the Treasury. Scarcely anything in reason can be
made out of the little postern wickets hid away in
the intermediate space skirting the park between
the Duke of York's steps and the Horse Guards'
areliway. Applewomen and small boys, tag, rag,
and bobtail, elbow and jostle you as you pass
through either, and so wind your way into Spring-
gardens, and through Spring-gardens get somehow
or another into Trafalgar-square, by Drummond's
Banking-house or by Farrance the confectioner's.
One noble entrance might at length connect St.
James's-park and Trafalgar-square—continuing the
line of the Mall right on from the Palace Co Nel-
son's Column. Arrangements are made, are all but
completed, for the purchase Berkeleyofold t
t
a House.l
Transform its site "into a fittingentrance

very point once thought of as the destination of
the Marble Arch—and how obvious, how noble,
how superb the improvement. But no! Berkeley
House is only purchased to be carefully built up
again as the house and haunt of—the name
seems to us really farcical in the presence of such
illustrations of obtuseness—as the home and haunt
of the Board of Metropolitan Improvements.

Her Majesty and the Prince Consort arc expected
to make a stay of between a fortnight and three weeks after

their arrival at Osborne next week. Tho Court will then

return to 'Windsor Castle. The Prince of 'Wales will have

returned from Berlin, and all the Royal Family will be

assembled at the castle for Christmas.

This festival will be

kept strictly en fainWe, and it is only on the commencement
of the new year that the hospitalities of the Court will be
extended through a numerous circle of the nobility.—Court

Journal.

The 18th anniversary of the birthday of the
Princess Frederick William of Prussia was observed at

Windsor early this morning by a joyous peal from the bells
of the Chapel Royal of St. George and St. John's Church.
The birthday falling on Sunday, the other customary
honours paid to the members of the Royal Family will take
place to-day. _ _

The Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane are
passing the season at Rome.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Lady
Constance Villiers arrived at their residence in Grosvenor-

crescent on Saturday evening from visiting the Emperor
and Empress of the French, and left town last evening for

the Grove, near Waftord.

The Earl and Countess Stanhope have returned
Chevening Park from a tour on the Continent.

The Countess de Stackelberg and the Baroness de

Cazes have left Claridge's Hotel for Paris.

Lord and Lady Foley and family leave town to-
day for Paris en 7 oute to Italy, where the noble lord and her
ladyship intend to pass the winter months.
_ .

Lord and Lady Arthur Hay are expected in town
in a fewdays from visiting the Margis and Marchioness
of Tweedale at Yester House, Haddingtonshire.

Last Wednesday, at Auriol (Bouches du Rhone)
he wife of a peasant, gave birth to four children. All died,

but not until after they were baptised.

EA company has been formed at St. Petersburg for

- -
improving the dwellings of the working-classes of tha

capital. The Prince of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz is at its head,
and it has the patronage of the Emperor.

M. Lain, professor of chemistry at the College of
Besan9on, has proved the presence, in considerable quantity,
of arsenic in the wire from which pins are usually made,
three or four serving to give a perceptible quantity in the
common form.

The Journal de Bruges states that an episcopa,
congress was held last week at Malines, and that the Pope's
nuncio and Cardinal Wiseman, who is at present visiting
Belgium, were present.
FOREIGN MAILS.—The Alhambra, with the Pen-
insular mails, is due at Southampton, and the Armenian,
with the African mails, is due at Liverpool on Wednesday.
The Ripon, with the Bombay mails, and the Fulton, with
the United States mails, are due at Southamptonon Thurs-
day; and the Calcutta mail, via Marseilles, is due in Lon-
don on Saturday. The Vigo, with the United States mail,
will leave Liverpool next Vednesday. The India mail,
via Marseilles, will leave London on Thursday, and the
Malta, with the Bombay mail, will leave Southampton, and
the Persia, with the United States mail, will...leave Liver-
pool next Saturday.
THE EAST INDIA AND CHINA MAlLS.—South-
ampton, Nov. 20.—A large mail for India and China was
despatched by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
screw steamer Pera, Captain T. Jamieson, which sailed
hence to-day for Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria. ,She
has a full cargo and 575 boxes of specie, jewellery, &c., value
£159,393 14s. 7d., viz.:—Madras—gold, £630; jewellery,
£1,426 ls. Id. Calcutta—silver, £104,285; jewellery,
£1,670 15s. Singapore—jewellery, £235. Hongkong—silver,
£29,600; jewellery, £224. Shanghai—silver, £11,041 ;
jewellery, £2Bl 18s. 6d. Manilla—gold, £lO,OOO. Total,
silver, £144,926; gold, £10,630 ; jewellery, £3,837 14s. 7d.
Among the Pera's passeners (120 first-class and 35 second)
are Captain the Hon. and Mrs. Liddell, for Malta ; Ensign
Baldwin, Rev. J. and Mrs. Wise, for Ceylon; Gen. J.
Williams, Capt. Holland, Lieut. T. E. Powell, for Madras ;
Col. and Mrs. Swinley, Rev. S. Beamish, Col. Troup,
Lieut. F. E. Lang, Capt. C. Thomas, Capt. J. B. Palmer,
Rev. W. Tarleton, for Calcutta; Capt. MTherson, for
Singapore ; Lieut. Tweeddale, for Suez, &c.
LETTERS TO AMERICA.—.The royal mail steamer
Europa left Liverpool on Saturday last for Halifax and
Boston with the American mails, and a full complement of
passengers and cargo. On Saturday next the Persia sails
for New York with the United States mails and passengers.
DEPARTURE OF THE GREAT BRITAIN.—On Sa-
turday last the screw steamer Great Britain, having a
ship's cargo on board,left the Mersey for Melbourne, with
a full cargo, and a large number of passengers.
THE CEYLON.—Some surprise has been felt that
the Indian packet Ceylon should have been put into Fal-
mouth last week short of coal, having been only out five
days from Gibraltar. The truth was, however, that owing
to the severe weather she could not coal at Gibraltar, and
it was intended she should go into Lisbon to take in
coals. When she came off the coast of Portugal it con-
tinued to blow so hard that she was unable to go in, and
she the came to England and touched at the first port.
TIIE WEST INDIA PACKET.—The West India
Packet was telegraphed off Hurst Castle at two o'clock on
Friday afternoon, and she ought to have arrived in South-
ampton Dock at four o'clock. A dense fog, however, came
on about three o'clock, and the Phoenix steamer was sent
out in search of the Magdalena. The fog horns were blow-
ing from all vessels in Southampton Water, and collisions
were apprehended. The Phcemx nearly ran into the Ar-
rigant frigate, and was nearly ran into by an Isle of Wight
steamer. Several boats went out in search of the Magda-
lena, and returned without finding her, amongst which was
the Customhouse boat, with Dr. Wiblin, the quarantine
officer, and Mr. Obree, the superintending tide surveyor.
After three hours' traversing up and down Southampton
Water, the Phoenix found the Magdalena off Humble
Creek, not four miles from the docks.
THE NEW BOURSE AT ANTWERP.—The com-
munal council of Antwerp has decided that the new Bourse
shall be built on the same site as that occupied by the old
one, and as nearly as possible on the plan of the former
building.
ANOTHER ACCIDENT BY FIRE.—On Saturday
Sarah Jane Mallins, a child six years of age, residing with
her parents in King's Bench-walk, Borough-road, nearly
met her death by fire. In the absence of her mother, she
was reaching something from the mantel-shelf, and her
clothes became ignited. On the mother's return home she
found her daughter in a shocking state from the injuries
inflicted by the fire. The child was removed to the hospital
in a dangerous state.
HER MAJESTY'S DOCKYARDS.—It is understood,
on good authority, that the officers, clerks, and men of 70,
as well as those of 65 years and upwards, are to retire on
the 31st of March next, the end of the financial year,
although the order or circular has not yet been officially
promulgated ; and that provisions are being made in the
" Navy Estimates," now in course of preparation, for carry-
out these arrangements, whichwill be the means of relieving'
our dockyards of the old and incapable, and recruiting them
with the young and vigorous. This would also account for
the circular of the Ist of September last, not taking effect
on the Ist inst., as at first intended.—Civil Service Gazette.
The speeches delivered in Westminster Hall by
prosecutors and the counsel for the defence, on the occasion
of the impeachment of Warren Hastings for high crimes
and misdemeanours in his government of India, had a
world-wide fame, from the impression they made at the
time. No full report, however, hes ever been printed of
these elaborate harangues of our greatest orators, Burke,
Fox, and Sheridan, and of their antagonists, such men as
Law, Plumer, and DaL'as. "This want," says the Athe-
neettm, "is in course of being supplied by the publication,
under Government, proposed and sanctioned by Sir G. C.
Lewis, when Chancellor of the Exchequer, of the whole of
these speeches. They will be printed from the Gurney
manuscript reports, copies of which are extant; and the
first volume of the work will, we believe, be shortly an.
flounced."
A letter from Compiegne, of the 18th, says

• The representation given last evening at the palace by the
performers of the Theatre Francaise was a most brilliant
one. The pieces given were "La Jeunesse de Henri IV."
and " Les Deux Menages," both of which were admirably
played. Their Majesties frequently gave the signal for
applause, and at the close of the performance the artistes
were recalled amidst loud plaudits. Among the personages
present were the Princess Mathilde, Lord and Lasly Claren-
don, Lord and Lady Palmerston, the Marquis of Hertford,
Lord and Lady Cowley, Lord and Lady Alfred Paget, Mar-
shal Valliant, Count and Countess Walewski, Baron de
Rothschild, M. Fould, M. and Mme. Rouher, the Duke
and Duchess de Bassano, the Marquis and Marquise de
Cadore, Baron de Talleyrand, General Bougenel, the Coun-
tess de la Bedoyere, the Baroness de Pierres, Baron d' Offre-
mont, &c. Several of the principal functionaries of the de-
partment were also invited. A grand stag hunt was to
have taken place on Tuesday, but the wetness of the weather
prevented it; still their Majesties went to the place of ren-
dezvous, in spite of the rain, but it was considered injudi-
cious to let the dogs loose. The next day their Majesties
and some of the guests went to visit the barrack of the
Lancers of the Guard, and spent some time in the riding-
school. The Emperor displayed great skill in striking, at
full speed, objects with a lance, and Lord Palmerston, in
spite of his years, proved himself a first-rate horseman. It ,
is said that the Court will remain here until the 2d of
December."
COLONIAL TIMBER FOR THE NAVY.—SO many
gentlemen from Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia,
and the Lower Provinces being now officially in London,
there may be a good opportunity for calling the attention
of the Admiralty to the fitness of their elm, pine, tamarac,
walnut, birch and oak for naval purposes. The country
would also save, as the wood is cheaper than foreign. We
can form no estimate as to the quantity of timber annually
used in the dockyards ; but as it appeared in evidence
before the Weedon. Committee that the Ordnance at Wool-
wich took near £.50,000 worth a year, the amount for naval
purposes cannot be under £1,000,000 or £1,200,000. A
deputation of the gentlemen now here on colonial interests
to the Admiralty, accompanied by some of the merchants
in the trade, might be of use. If we get the wood as good
from our colonies and at as low a price as from Russia,
Prussia, the United States, or other foreign countries, we
would rather see the money spent among our lumberers
and shipowners, who take in- return so much of our mann-
factures,than sending it to strangers.
THECELEBRATED CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS.—These
clever and original artistes are drawing their visit to a close.
The varied programme is nightly produced, with a bril-
liancy of change which elicits the liveliest applause. The
peculiarities of our black brethren are well brought out,
and convulse the house with laughter. In the second part,
Mr. Anthony Nish, a young artiste who belongs to New-
castle, figures in a violin solo, and figures, too, in a manner
which stamps him as a thorough musician, and a wonderful
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LATEST. NEWS.

AUSTRALIA.

ARRIVAL OF THE AGINCOURT.

The Agincourt, from Melbourne, has arrived at
Queenstown, short of provisions. She brings
£283,180 in gold.

The following telegram was received at Mr.
Reuter's office, November 22 :
MADRID, Nov. 21.
The Gazetta contains the official nomination of
Concha as President of the Senate.
The Correspondancia Autographa contradicts the
statement of a circular of the foreign powers con-
cerning Morocco.

A telegraphic despatch from Nice, announces
that two Russian vessels of war yesterday took
possession of the establishment at Villafranca,
ceded by the Sardinian Government. Russian
sentinels immediately replaced those of Sardinia,

It has been already announced that the Russian
Government being desirous of closing the Sea of
Azoff to foreign vessels of war was actively engaged
in fortifying the Strait of Kertch. Formidable
fortresses have been built on both sides at the same
time. It appears that those which are to protect
the promontory of Paulowski are in so advanced a
state that the Grand Dukes Nicholas and Michael
thought it desirable to visit the works on their
way back from the journey which they lately made
in Transcaucasia.

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY.

M. Berryer who was expected to return to Paris
this day, will not be here before to-morrow or the
day after, to prepare his defence of M. de Monta-
lembert, whose trial will come on, as already an-
nounced, next Wednesday. Few tickets have been
issued, though, as might be supposed, numerous
applications have been made. The press will, I
suppose, continue to be rigorously excluded. The
chamber (the sixth) where the trial will take place
is not very large, and a considerable space will no
doubt be occupied by officials.
BOURSE, Nov. 20.—The market improved at the
opening, but heavy sales were again made at 74f
75c., and Threes are now at 74f. 80c. ; Mobilier
steady from 1,035 f. to 1,042 f. 50c. ; Austrian,
offered at 652 f. 50c. ; Orleans, from 1,410 f. to
1,415 f. ; Lyons, 887 f. 50c. to 890 f. ; Southern, 595 f.
to 596 f. 25c. ; and Northern, I,olof. to 1,012 f. 50c.
The following are the last quotations :

41 per Cents. .... 97 24 Credit Foncier 675
Do. end month .. 97 50IBelgian 4 -
3 per Cents 74 60 Piedmontese (5) .. 95
Do. end month 74 75 R0man.......... 95 50
Bank Shares. 3150 Austrian
Credit Mobilier .. 1030 Spanish Threes
Do. Account ..... 1037 50 Home Debt 421

given proof of their lively and constant interest for
a free and independent Danish monarchy. I re-
quest you, sir, to inform Monsieur -of this
despatch, and to leave him a copy of it."

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THE SUN.
MONDAY. NOVEMBER 22, 1858.