The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-15 00:00:00

FRANCE.

To--day will probably be memorable in the
annals of the House of Commons, for it is purposed
to read the Reform Bill a third time. Although
there is apparently a good deal to do after this has
taken place, we all know that virtually the task
will have been accomplished, so far as danger and
difficulty is concerned, and the remaining duties of
those who have the conduct of the measure will be
comparatively easy. Had the Bill reached the House
of Lords at an earlier period of the session, and after
it had been subjected to less criticism in the
Lower House, no doubt a good deal more would
have been said and done in the way of comment,
if not of active hostility. Earl RUSSELL must feel,
however, that at the present juncture his occupation
is gone, and that the Representation of the People
Bill is in many respects the thing accomplished.
He has left the stormy arena of debate, and he must
take the chances of his position, and abstain from
putting in those delays which the public will not
now easily brook nor willingly pardon. In the
expectation then of little being done in the way of
change in the consideration of the measure by the
Upper House, we may well pause to consider the
task that has been so far accomplished by h
Com-
mons. It is no exageration to say that greatte credt
is due to the House itself for the consistent course
it has pursued through trying circumstances, and
the chances and changes of art eventful Session.
No doubt when all is over, and the bill has been sent
up in due coarse, many will lay claim to a share of
approval that does not really belong to them.
While we willingly accord all possible tribute to
those independqnt members, as it is the fashion to
call them, who have through good report and evil
report looked steadfastly to the main chance, and
resisted all temptation to interfere with the work in
hand, we would protest against the encroachments
of those who have done their worst, and now at the
eleventh hour would pretend that they have borne
the burden and heat of the day.

Consistency is a very good thing, as it
will not do to overlook its importance just *now

Notwithstanding the unkindly influence of ST.
SWITHIN'S there is every reason to hope that our
illustrious visitors .will enjoy their sojourn among
us, for every exertion is being made to do honour
to the Imperial guests, and to give a hearty welcome
to our nearer neighbours. The visit of the SULTAN
is, of course, the great event of the day. Never
before has the ruler of Constantinople con-
descended to pass so far westward amid the
bustle and , brusquerie of European life, and
it seem not a little strange to him to find himself
in the midst of railways and steamboats, and all the
etceteras of Engli-h civilisation. Not that
such things are at the present day unknown in Tur-
key, but that the whole scene and surroundings of
royalty in Constantinople and in London are very
different. No effort has been spared, however, to
,natnhdelamllopsedtrial guest. On Saturday the
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ceremony of a formal visit was paid to the QUEEN at
Windsor Castle, and the regal state of the proces-
sion through the streets of London attracted hosts
of spectators, who were moreover eager to obtain a
sight of the SULTAN himself.
After returning from Windsor the SULTAN dined
at Marlborough House. Yesterday he repeated
his visit, and was received by the Princess of
WALES, who was happily able to do the honours
on this interesting occasion. The PRINCE after-
wards escorted his illustrious visitor to Richmond,
the royal party going by water in the QUEEN'S
State barges, and returning by road through
Richmond-park, so that the SULTAN will have seen
some of the most picturesque spots round London.
To-day the programme is happily in-doors. He
is to receive the corps diplomatique at Buck-
ingham Palace, and to visit the Italian
Opera in State in the evening. To-morrow
he is to visit Woolwich Arsenal, Dockyard, and
Barracks, and afterwards to drive to the Crystal
Palace, and dine in the corridor overlooking the
beautiful gardens. It is to be hoped the weather
will be propitious ; if it is the scene will, remind the
SULTAN of a page out of one of his own Eastern
romances of fairy palaces and magical effects.
Wednesday is the day fixed for the grand Naval
Review at Spithead, when his Majesty will be able
to appreciate the naval strength of England, of
which indeed he ought to know something
already. Thursday and Friday will be chiefly
devoted to the City, without which no visit to this
country would be complete, and without which some
of its most remarkable and characteristic features
would be passed over. On Thursday the Imperial
guest is to be entertained by the Lord Mayor and
the Corporation. On Friday, after visiting the
House of Lords, he will go down the river and see
the shipping, and then inspect the Tower, the Mint,
the Bank of Englan,!, the Post-office, &c., and
afterwardssdao Saturday,
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in the entertainments provided for him. No day is
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in interest and importance to that of the SULTAN
himself, has been inspecting some of the wonders,
and on Saturday visited the Crystal Palace, with
which he was especially pleased. It was the occasion
of the Dramatic College Fête—a fortunate circum-
stance for that deserving institution—for his HIGH-
NESS munificently promised them a gift of £5OO, and
a similar donation to the fund for restoring the
Crystal Palace. The VICEROY has besides visited
Clieveden, and has been invited to several grand
entertainments given in his honour, so that there
will be no lack of hospitality in his regard.
The Prince of WALES must find the duties of
hospitality just now rather arduous, in spite of hia
characteristic good humour and courtesy. On
Saturday he had to snatch an hour or two from his
attendance on the SULTAN to fulfil his promise to
receive the Belgian Volunteers at Wimbledon.
Here, again, our English skies seemed determined
to deserve their bad reputation with the foreigners,
for just as the Prince was preparing to address his
enthusiastic audience the rain came down in torrents,
and the elements joined in the cheers of the volun-
teers with peabiof thunder which almost drowned the
speaker's voice. The Prince, however, is too gooi
an Englishman to be daunted by difficulties, and
borrowiug a macintosh he braved out the storm,
and finished his speech, wind and weather notwith-
standing. The Belgians manifested throughout
the highest good-humour, and the most vociferous
goodwill towards the Prince. The grand day at
Wimbledon will, of course, be Saturday, when we
have no doubt that our Belgian visitors will put our
volunteers on their mettle. The prizes now on view
in the camp are many of them of great value
and of high artistic merit. The International
colonial trophy, for instance, is a study iu itself, and
chronicles the names of the three chief winners of
the three Kingdoms, with the national mottoes of
" Defence, not Defiance," " Faugh-a-ballagh," and
" Beware the Thistle." The Tennyson Vase is, of
course, the most beautiful thing to be seen in the
Exhibition Tent, but this is not included in the
list of prizes,being intended for the Paris Exhibi-
tion. However, the Belgians have plenty to look
at, and will no doubt continue to enjoy themselves
heartily. They, too, have a busy week before them,
and London must put on her holiday garb and fulfil
her hospitable duties to Turk, and Egyptian, and
Belgian, in the manner best calculated to gratify
and do honour to each.

The 3d Battalion of the Lancashire Royal Volun-
teers have recently been encamping near Lytham,
and on Sunday, the 7th inst., at the suggestion of Colonel
Hargreaves, the commanding officer of the battalion, Chap-
lain Canon Parker preached a sermon on behalf of the
National Lifeboat Institution, which resulted in the hand-
some sum of £2O 103. being handed to the society. Last
year, at the kind request of Col. Hargreaves, a sum of 16
guiacia4 We. contributed by higi cacto and men.

On Friday the close of the Danish Rigsrad took
place at Copenhagen. The Royal Speech thanked
the Rigsrad for voting the law upon the army, and
for its accord with the views d the Government,
which it expressed in its address. The Government
promised to endeavour as much as possible to
consolidate the friendly relations between Denmark
and the Foreign Powers, and to surmount " present
difficulties" without compromising the future of the
Danish Monarchy .
A letter from Florence states that the death of
the Emperor Maximilian has cleated a deep sensa-
tion in Italy, and particularly in Lombardy. This
homage of the Italians (says the Moniteur), is, of
all the other manifestations, that which perhaps
does the most and the best honour to the memory
of the Prince. He had created the love and esteem
of every one in that country, where, as Viceroy of
the Lombardo-Venetian Territory, he nevertheless
at that time represented a Government which all
then considered as an enemy.
On the 29th of June, M. do Botmilian, recently
appointed Consul General of Prance at Tunis, had
the honour of being presented to the Bey, with the
accustomed ceremonial by M. Duchesne de • Belle-
court, his predecessor in that office at the Regency.
The date now fixed for the arrival of the Emperor
of Austria in Paris is the 28th of August. The
King and Queen of Denmark and King Louis the
Second of Bavaria will come to Paris about the
same time.
Baron Adelsward, representative of Sweden and
Norway at Paris, is gone to meet his Sovereign,
Charles the Fourteenth, at Strasbourg, to accom-
pany him to Paris. His Majesty travels in private
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under the name of Count de Beckaskoy.
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is of pure Arabian breed. It was the favourite
horse of the Sultan, who was accustomed to ride
upon it through the streets of Constantinople on
his way to the mosque. As the Emperor expressed
such admiration of the animal, the Sultan begged
his Majesty to accept it as a present, an offer which
was courteously accepted, and the horse is now in
the Emperor's stables.
A curious coincidence is mentioned in reference
to the death of the vaudevilliste Lambert Thiboust.
The talented actor made his first appearance at Caen
in the character of the member of the Convention
Barbaroux, in Pousard's piece" Charlotte Corday:,
Pousard died on.the 7th of July, Barbaroux, son
of the Conventionist, died on the Bth of July, and
Thiboust on the 9th.
A Belgian astronomical publication says that on
the night of the 21st of August the firmament will
present a curious phenomena,
which can only be
seen twice. The planet Jupiter will appear for two
hours unaccompanied by its satellites. Three of
these satellites will be in front of the disc of their
planet, and the fourth will be behind it.
In the Galerie des Matieres Premieres at the Ex-
hibition, at the stand of the company of the mines
of lead containing silver and the foundries of Pon-
tigibaud, is an immense block of silver extracted
from the lead of those mines. It weighs about
1,230 English pounds. The form is oval, and
its value is estimated at about £5,600 sterling.
It, is almost of pure silver—that is to say, the pro-
portion of lead or other alloy is not half an ounce to
21 's. The quantity of silver in the lead of these
mines is not large, but the lead and other minerals
are sufficiently valuable to pay well for working them.
The department of the Puy-de•Dome is the one
which furnishes the minerals in the greatest abun-
dance, and it was from that department the present
fine specimen was taken. 'There are, however,
mines in the Upper Alps which furnish lead with a
larger portion of silver, about 435 grammes of sil-
ver to 100 kilogrammes of lead. (There are
500 grammes to the pound, and a kilogramme is
two lbs.) About a dozen mines are worked in that
part of France. They contain coal, marble, cop-
per, alabaster, •granite, chalk, rock crystal, and
lithographic stones. The mountains there are very
lofty. Mont Pelvoux has a height of 4,300 metres.
It is not, therefore, surprising that minerals should
be found in these localities, which recall the ancient
origin of these mountains.
The Siecle, in reference to that part of the speech
of the King of Denmark on the close of the ses-
sion of the Rigsrad, in which he speaks of " pre-
senthave dbieffionculties," says—" These difficulties would
removed
long ago if the Prussian Go-
vernment had executed article 5 of the Treaty of
Prague, and if it had not adopted useless chicanery."
I have already mentioned that one of the pre-
pretexts put forth by Prussia for delay is that she
requires " guarantees" for the German subjects of
North Schleswig. Four hundred and twenty-one
of these subjects have signed a letter to the
Gazette de l'Allemagne du Nord, in which they ener-
getically repudiate the idea that any particular
guarantee for the Danish Government to insure
the safety of the German population in the districts
of North Schleswig is necessary.
"This letter," adds the Siecle, "saps the basis of
the dilatory system adopted by M. de Bismark, in
order to enable him to dispense with the provisions
of the Treaty in regard to the Duchiee."
The project of an International Literary Con-
gress will now be carried out, and arrangements for
its organisation are in progress by the committee of
the Society of the " Gens do Lettres."
The Emperor has written a letter of congratula-
tion to M. Rouher on his admirable defence of the
Government in the Chamber. This letter was
accompanied by the order of the Legion of Honour
set in diamonds.
The Memorial Diplomatique contradicts the re-
portltahtee da,u be
sutti
o iso ooff odpe
invi
no
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ntgh ai tt tuhpe
that the body of Maximilian had been mud-
mend. The French Legation hal:
Vice-Admiral de
Tegethoff has for object to t*
ill
sa isfy this odious de-
imde Mexicans
not
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,
and says that the expedition of
at the end of last month, and the diplomatic body
did not think they would be in any danger. It is
not probable that
Europe.
A strange occurrence is related in reference to a
near
the village of Chauny in
the department of Aisne. Four years ago a needle
ran into her hand, and it seems to have traversed
h
surgeons
six pieces. of te
it, for the girl suffered much pain, bute they only
succeeded
Three of
the fragments of the needle came out of the left side
pn trciecsd. to extract
of the neck a few days ago by the same aperture, at
intervals of half
an hour. Two other pieces pro-
truded two days afterwards from the right heel by
two different apertures. The sixth piece of the
needle was extracted by the girl hers.lf as she was
walking
along the road from her own village to
Abbecourt. All the pieces are as bright as silver,
except one, which is black.
The Billancourt Exhibition continues to attract.
and several interesting novelties are about to be
ad led. There is to be a show of magnificent horses
and also a dog show. The King of Wurtemberg
and the Prince of S'
—axe-IVoimar visited it yesterday,
and were much pleased with the remarkable collec-
tion of bovine animals.

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BOURSE, July 13, Two o'clock.—The market is
dull, with nothing doing. Quotations are lower.
French Threes have declined 10c., the present price
being 68f. 75c. Italian Fives have lost more heavily,
viz., 35c., at 49f. 90c. ; Credit Mobilier 3f. 75e.,
at 361 f. 25c. ; Credit Foncier 2f. 50c., at 1,417 f.
50c. ; Immobiliere 2f. 50c., at 176 f. 25c. ; and
Comptoir d'Escompte lf. 25c., at 765 f. Railway
shares are likewise at inferior quotations.

Three o'clock.—The market has remained the
same, but Italian Fives have partly recovered. The
close has taken place as follows:

ki por Conts 99
Do. end month —

3 per Cents. 6B 80
Do. end month 6B 721
Credit Mobilier 360
Do. end month 361 25
Credit Fonder —
Do. end month 1117 50
BAIL

Bank Shares 3350
Italian Loan 49 90
Do. end month 5O 10
Mexican Loan l5
Do. Bonds l3O
Spanish 'Threes 35
Llorno Dobt
Deferred
t&Ys.

For Account.
Orleans
Northern 1165
Lyons and Mediterranean BB3 75
Southern 553 75
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard- 3Bl 25

North of Spain 95
Saragosza lO7 50
Roman. —