The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-30 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, April 29.—(Two o'clock).—The market
to-day is crowded to excess, and presents a scene
of much animation. The near approach of the
settlement, however, has the effect of somewhat re-
stricting operations, and the business transacted is
of a somewhat irregular character. Three per
Cents. and Italian Fives, which at the opening were
quoted at 68f. and 49f. respectively, have since de-
clined to 67f. 60c. and 48f. 20c.—still, however,
showing an advance of 10c. in each case. Credit
Foncier Shares have further improved 10f., viz., to
1,375 f. ; whilst Mobilier are being offered at 390 f.,
or Gf. 25c. lower. The other Miscellaneous Secu-
rities, as well as Railway Shares, show no appre-
ciable variation from Saturday's closing rates.
Three o'clock.—The quotations closed as follows :

4 per Cents 96 25
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 67 50
Do. end month 67 50
Credit Mobilier 390
Do. end month 387 50
Credit Foncier
Do. end month 1370 -
RAIL'

Bank Shares 3345
Italian Loan 47 90
Do. end month 47 80
Mexican Loan —
Do. Bonds —
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred -
rAYS.

Orleans For Account.
842 50
Northern
1125
Lyons and Mediterranean
885
Southern
Western —
Eastern 535
.
535
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 382 50
380
North of Spain

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, April 29, 6 p.m.

Closing prices :—Gold opened at 1341, but after-
wards rallied, closing at 136; Sterling Exchange on
London, 109.14 ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 111 ;
Illinois, 114 ; Erie, 60. . Cotton : Middling Up-
land, 30 ; Petroleum (refined), 2G.
The Cambria and the City of Cork have arrived
out.

NEW YORK, April 20.

The Mississippi petition for an injunction to
stay the execution of the Reconstruction Act,
being so amended as to pray for an injunction
against Secretary Stanton and Generals Grant and
Ord, was presented to the Supreme Court on
Thursday last, and allowed to be filed, notwith-
standing a motion from the Attorney-General that
the bill be dismissed on the ground that the case
was beyond the jurisdiction of the Court. The
case will be heard on the 26th inst.
Gen. Schofield has announced that:former con-
scripts of the rebel army arc not necessarily to be
disfranchised.

A Republic:Au State Convention met at Richmond
on Thursday. Several white and negro Radicals
spoke on the occasion, and resolutions were passed
thanking Congress and endorsing the action of that
body in adopting the platform of the Republican
party. The resolutions also advocated political
equality and general education irrespective of
colour.

Radical meetings have been held by the whites
and negroes in Winston, Mobile, and North Caro-
lina, at which resolutions were adopted in favour of
affiliating with the Radical party in the North,
purging Congress, and confiscating the property of
the rebels.

Numerous Convention meetings of whites and
negroes have been held at Pittsburg (Savannah) and
other places, at which Conservative principles were
avowed, but at the same time submission to the
Reconstruction Act was advocated.
The collector of customs at New Orleans has
seized the French steamship Darien, in consequence

of an alleged attempt by the officers of the vessel to
defraud the customs.

The investigation into the alleged extensive
enlistments in Cuba for the army of the Emperor
Maximilian proves that very few men had enlisted,
and those without the knowledge of the authorities
of the island.

Advices from Belize (Honduras) to the 2nd of
April state that the Indian war was at an end an I
that martial law had been suspended.

MEXICO.

NEW YORK, April 20.

Republican advices from i\latamoras to the 13th
instant reiterate the news of the capture of Puebla
by the Republicans, and of the offer made by Maxi-
milian to capitulate, and the terms of which had
been refused by Juarez.

The defeat of Escobedo was denied.
'ever had appeared at Vera Cruz.

Yellow

litELAND.

DUBLIN, April 29.
Massey, the approver, has not died, as was re-
ported on Saturday. He was taken suddenly ill on
Friday, and grew worse on Saturday, when he was
attended by two medical gentlemen. His health
had areatly improved yesterday. There was a talk
of poison, but it was probably the cross-examination
that caused his illness.

An interesting case touching the religion of wards
of Chancery was brought before the Lord Chancellor
on Saturday. Messrs. Lawson and Exham applied,
on behalf of Mr. Longfield, who was the uncle by
marriage of the minors, that an order made by the
late Lord Chancellor, on the 7th of January, 1867,
on the petition of Mrs. Anne Purcell, the mother of
the minors, might be examined, and that she might
not be at liberty to take out administration to her
deceased daughter. The petition of Mr. Longfield
stated that he and bis wife, on the sth of May, 1859,
presented a petition to the Court in reference to the
religion and religious education to be given to the
two minors, stating that the children had been bap-
tised Protestants, but were being brought up in the
Roman Catholic religion. Their father was a Pro-
testant, and their mother was a Roman Catholic ;
their father had died intestate, and she was ap-
pointed by the Court their guardian, and a sum of
£5OO a year was allowed her for their maintenance,
she having no means or property of her own. She
afterwards removed the children from the jurisdiction
of the Court, and took them abroad; and those facts
having been brought under the notice of the late
Master of the Rolls, an order of attachment for
contempt of Court was issued against her, the main-
tenance for the minors was directed to be suspended
until they should be brought back, and she was
directed to bring up the children in the religion of
their father. A. reference having been directed to the
Master he, by his report made in February, 1860,
found that the children had been removed by their
mother and guardian, and that she had adopted that
course for the purpose of enabling her to bring them
up in the Roman Catholic religion, and that they
were then living either in France or somewhere else
out of the jurisdiction of the Court. Mrs. Purcell
was directedat once to bring back the children, but
she refused to do so, and still kept them abroad.
Their property, which amounted to about £2,000 a
year, was managed by a receiver who paid the rents
into court, and the allowance formaintenance having
been suspended a considerable sum of money had
accumulated. It had been lately discovered that a
petition had been presented by Mrs. Purcell, an-
nouncing the death of one of her children (a girl) in
Paris, and that she, Mrs. Purcell, had directed her
solicitor, Mr. Basil Orpen, to take out administra-
tion to her, and he had received out of the funds iu
court, to the credit of the minor matter, a sum of
£l2O for the purpose of defraying the necessary
stamp duty and other matters connected with such
administration, and Mr. Longfield now submitted
that Mrs. Purcell should not be allowed to take out
administration, and that no part of the minor's pro-
perty should be given to her. It was a most extraor-
dinary case, a deliberate contempt of Court had been
committed by Mrs. Purcell, who had taken the chil-
dren away out of the jurisdiction, and kept them
away. One of them bad recently died, the other (a
boy), now about 15 years of years, was entitled to a
considerable property. No one connected with him
could find:out where he was, or how he was being
educated and brought up. Nothing was known but

that his mother, contrary to the order of the Court,
was bringing him up a Roman Catholic, which was
not the religion of his father, and the object of the
petition she had presented to the Court was that she
might be enabled, by taking out administration to her
deceased child, to possess herself of some property,
and get some means of living, and thereby maintain
herself and her son until he was of sufficient age to
obtain his property, and in the meantime his reli-
gious opinions would be fixed in the way he was
being brought up. The Lord Chancellor said th e
case was one of the most disagreeable kind that could
come before the Court. In the case of the minors,
the Court and its officers were placed in a most
fiduciary position. Mr. Orpen should pay the costs
of the entire of the affidavit which he had made on
the motion. It was absurd to put all the matters
forward which were in it. He (the Lord Chan-
cellor) meant to act as hd supposed his predecessor
would have acted. lle entirely acquitted Mr. Orpen
of an intentional design to suppress anything mate-
rial from the Court, but that did not meet the exi-
gency of the case. The solicitor acting for the
minors was placed in a position most peculiar to the
court, and it was upon that ground he meant to dis-
pose of the case. Mr. Orpen had failed in his duty
to the Court in a most material way, for if he had
disclosed to the Court, in the petition for liberty to
take out administration on which the order now
sought to be rescinded was made, the real position
in which Mrs. Purcell had placed herself, no such
order would have been made. The order of the
Master of the Rolls was one substantially displacing
the guardian. The order of the 7th of January last
should be set aside with costs, to be paid by Mr.
Orpen, and the £l2O advanced to him to be lodged

in court to the credit of the minor matter. He
certainly would not allow the mother to remain any
longer guardian.
The Cork Examiner contains the following ac-
count of an equestrian exploit in that town :
" Thursday evening, about 5 o'cick, when Patrick-
street was crowded, as it usually is at that hour,
considerable excitement was caused by a man, evi-
dently much under the influence of drink, mounted
on a very fine horse, riding down the street from
the direction of Patrick's-bridge at a furious pace.
When he reached Messrs. Carmichael's establish-
ment, he turned his horse on the footpath and rode
along at the same pace, much to the astonishment
and alarm of the pedestrians. His horse was caught
several times by persons, but they were unable to
hold the animal owing to its rider using his spurs
freely, and slashing all within reach with a long
hunting whip which he had in his hands. Having
ridden on the footpath as far as the bridge, he went
to the other side, and on his way down rode his horse
into several business houses, creating the greatest

confusion, and in some instances doing damage. As
may be imagined, such an extraordinary proceeding
caused the gathering of a large crowd, whom for any
interference on their part to prevent his doing fur-
ther mischief the gallant gentleman addressed as a
pack of ' - Irish pigs.' Exasperated by this lan-
guage a man came from the crowd and administered
to the officer a very good thrashing, which had the
effect for a while of restraining him. Seeing police
coming, however, he again dashed away at a rapid
pace, and havingreached Patrick's-bridge, he turned
his animal again, facing a body of six policemen,
who were in pursuit of him. They surrounded him,
but he broke away from them, and he was only se-
cured by being pulled off his horse. He was then
taken into custody and removed to Bridewell, where
he gave his name as Major -, late of the 13th
Regiment. The charge of being drunk and riding
furiously was entered against him, and having given
bail to appear at the police-office next morning, he
was discharge 1."

The Duke of Bedford has given £5OO to Mrs.
Gladstone's Convalescent Home.