The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-06 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, May 4—Two o'clock.—The market to-
day shows a fair amount of activity, but the business
transacted is of a very unsettled and irregular cha-
racter. Italian Five per Cents., which touched 49f.
90c. at the opening, have retrograded to 49f. 20c.,
or a decline of sc. on yesterday's close ; and French
Threes have receded 71e., to 68f. 35c. Among
miscellaneous securities Immobilere have fallen 13f.
75c., and Mobilivr 10f., to 372 f. 50c. ; whilst the
shares of the Credit Foncier have advanced 17f. 50c.
to 1,435 f. In the railway department, the quota-
tions of the principal French lines show a slight re-
covery ; those of foreign companies, on the other
hand, are weak at sensibly lower rates.
Three o'clock.—The closing quotations are as
follows :

4} per Cents 97
Do. and month —
3 per Cents. 6B 60
Do. end month 6B 871
Credit Mobilior
Do. end month _1435
Credit Foncier —
Do. end month 1435

Bank Shares 3500
Italian Loan 49 70
Do. end month 49 50
Mexican Loan —
Do. Bonds —
Spanish Throes
Home Debt —
Deferrod

For Account.
Orleans
Northern ll6O
Lyons and Mediterranean 907 50
Southern 553 75
Western 517 50
Eastern —
Sardinian . —
Austrian
Lombard 367 50
North of Spain —
Saragossa —
Ditto to Bardelona, —
Roman.. —

Mr. Gladstone and the Liberal Party.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

(Sltings in Banco before the Lord Chief Justice, and
Justices Mellor, Blackburn, and Lush.)
EX PARTE COSTERTON.

This was a rule calling on the defendants, two attor-
neys of this court, to show cause to a complaint brought
by the plaintiff, a captain in the Royal Navy.
It appeared from the statement of counsel that theplain-
tiff employed the defendants, who were in partnership in
in 1861 in some family,lawsuit, and the result of the pro-
ceedings showed that ho was entitled to £5OO. lie con-
sented to allow the money to stand over provided they
could get a mortgage for the account. In 1866 ho applied
to them for the money, and in the September of that year
received a letter, putting off the payment. The following
December he received another letter to the effect
that their partnership was dissolved, that they
wore insolvent, and that his mortgage was not secured.
Tho affidavit of the plaintiff stated that one of the partners
had induced him by fraudulent representations to allow
them to retain the money.

The Court granted the rule against both attorneys.
COUltr OF EXCIIEQ,UIiII.

(Sittings in Banco before the Lord Chief Baron, and Barons
Martin, Bramwell, and Pig,got.)
SLADE V. SLADZ.

This case was resumed this morning, Mr. Coleridge,
Q.C., resuming his arguments on bshalf of the defendant.

[LEFT SPEAKING.'

CR►MINAL COUR r.—(ruis DAY.)

The May session of the Criminal Court commenced this
morning. The calendar does not contain any charge of
murder, but it is a noticeable fact that there is an unusual
number of cases of feloniously wounding, no loss than 11
prisoners out of the 74 being charged with that offence.
Many of them are of a serious character, as they are
charges of wounding the police by parties to resist
their lawful apprehension, and all these cases will be
prosecuted by the Treasury. There are also no fewer
than 15 prisoners charged with robbery accompanied by
violence, an offence that usually is not much heard of at
this period of the year. There are also. two cases of steal-
ing post letters to be disposed t,f at this session, and it would
seem that this class of crime—which it was hoped through
the recent regulations of the Post-office affecting money
and articles of value by post had received a material check
—is again becoming prevalent. The judges who preside
at this session are Lord Chief Justice Bovill, Mr. Justice
Blackburn, and Mr. Baron Pigott, and the aldermen who
aro to act as second commissioners are Messrs. Wilson,
Sidney, Carden, Hale, 'Dakin, and Stone.

POLICE INTELLIGESCE.--This Day.

MARL B ORO UG TREE T.
CARRIAGE ROBBERT.—Robort Anderson, a young man,
was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing a cloak
from a carriage.
Mr. Peter Burrowes Hutchins, a gentleman, residing at
No. 28, Bernard-street, Russell-square, said that on Satur-
day afternoon, while sitting in the shop of Mr. Newman,
Soho-square, havin: ridden there in an open carriage with
his sister and brother-in-law, the coach Tian being on the
box, he saw the prisoner lookingabout as if to see whether
any one was watching. Suspecting that he intended to
steal something from the carriage, he kept his eye
on him, and saw him go up to the carriage and
take hold of a cloak, and just as ho had
drawn it about half out he seized him and charged
him with stealing it. He denied doing so, said he was
going home from his work-, and that he (Mr. Hutchins)
had no right to stop him. The cloak was the property of
his sister, Mrs. Shore Smith.
Police-constable, 198 0, said that when the prisoner
was given into custody he begged hard to be forgiven for
the sake of his wife and large family. He had made in-
quiries, and found that the prisoner had neither wife nor
family.

The prisoner had no answer to the charge, but asked
the magistrate to settle it.
At the request of Inspector Harrison, the prisoner was
remanded.

THAMES.
Mr. Paget was on the bench soon after 9 o'clock this
morning, for the purpose of swearing in special constables.
None presented themselves up to 12 o'clock, and it was un-
derstood that the county magistrates were busily occupied
in the swearing in of specials at the Vestry Halls in the
district. The police of the K division, 600 in number,
and the 11 division, 208 in number, aro under orders to
muster at half-past two o'clock, at their respective station-
houses, and will leave in omnibuses, vans, and carriages
for Hyde-park. The district is remarkably quiet this
morning, and it is believed will remain so all day. The
business of the court is heavy, and it is fortunate that it is
not likely to be interrupted by the swearing in of special
constables.

CHARGE or STABBING.—James Smith, a labourer, was
charged with stabbing James Ricketts.

The complainant, whose heal was bandaged, said that
ho was seated on a chair and his head on a table fast
asleep in his kitchen on Saturday night when his wife's
sister aroused him, and said they are hitting your wife
outside. He went out to protect her, and the prisoner hit
him on the chest and knocked him down, and while ho
was down stabbed him on the forehead with a knife. The
people then pulled the prisoner off him, and he said "I
have done for one, and In go and do for the other.'
While a surgeon was in attendance on him and dressing
his head the prisoner took up a flag-stone and threw it at
the door.
John Ricketts, no relation to the last witness, confirmed
his statement. There was a general row in Bloomfield-
street, Bromley, where the parties are dwelling, on Satur-
day night. The witness saw the prisoner knock down
his namesake, James Ricketts, and then ho knocked down
the prisoner. Several persons were injured.
All
violent. the witnesses ageed the prisoner was exceedingly
Mr. Paget remanded the prisoner.

LIVERPOOL COTTON JIAIIKET—TIis Day.

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Market opens with a good demand, at about
Saturday's rates. Sales probably 12,000 bales.

The Earl and Countess of Derby will have dinner
and evening parties in St. James's-square on Saturdays, the
18th of May and Ist of June. The Countess of Derby will
have a party in Downing-street on Saturday, the 25th of
May, in honour of her Majesty's birthday.
The Earl and Countess of Gainsborough and the
Ladies Blanche, Constance, and Edith Noel have arrived
in Caveudish-square for the season.
Miss Bateman, the celebrated actress (who re-
cently married Dr. Crow), is about to return to Europe,
with the view of settling in England.
Miss Clara Vandeleur having returned from the
Continent, will make her first appearance this season at
Mr. Howard Glover's concert, at St. James's Hall, on Mon-
day, May 13th.

Mn. BRAND STILL THE LIBERAL WHIP !—COn-
trary to expectation, Mr. Brand has been induced to con-
tinue, as long as health enabled him, in the office of Whip
to the Liberal party.—Little Times.
DUKE CHARLES OF BAVARIA is about to enter a
monastery in grief for the untimely death of his young
wife.

If any of the thousands of English people who
will be crowding to Paris this year can spare a day or two
for seeing anything more than the established sights of
the city, it may be suggested to them that they should
visit the two vast establishments for the insane and the
imbecile which are really famous all over Europe, but are
seldom seen by the ordinary Englishman. Country gen-
tlemen especially, with whom, as county magistrates, rests
so much of the management of our county lunatic
asylums, would do well to study the working of
these celebrated institutions, partly to see where
they are inferior, and partly whore they are superior
to our corresponding establishments. What especially
strikes an Englishman, both in the Bicetre and
the Salpetrire, is the vastness of their size. The
former is a species of combination of our union work-
house with the asylum, and contains, including officials
and servants, nearly 3,000 persons, of whom about 800 are
ofllicted with insanity and idiocy in the terrible varieties.
The management is on the whole admirable, and shows
the gift of the French nation for organisation in every de-
tail of life. In the matter of the awakening of a certain
amount of intellectual life in the imbecile, the success of
the French system is said to be inferior to that pursued at
the Earlswood Asylum, to the wonderful success of which
the French physicians are iu the habit of doing ample jus-
tice. The Salpetriere is exclusively for women and girls,
as Bieetre is for the other sex. Its size is enormous, the
buildings and grounds extending over more than
sixty-live acres, and tho whole number of initiates,
including officials and servants, is about 5,00. of
these nearly 200 are idiotic or insan,. '['ho prin_
eipal cause of mania among the inmates iv stated
lie the exhausting effects of over much needlework, espo-
eially when carried on at night. The brain gives way
under the severe demands made upon it, and all the more
readily from the want of sufficient food and fresh air. It
is the same in Paris as in London, or rather it is worse,
inasmuch as the passion for dress among French ladies is
more unsparing and exacting than among English women.
01 the semi-idiots a large proportion come from the class
of the " unfortunates ;" and it is said that since absinthe
has come to be drunk in such quantities by the lower
classes in Paris the increase iu madness both among men
and women has been fearfully on the advance. There are
fete days and amusements iu these asylums, as in England,
but scarcely to the same extent. French ladies, a recent
visitor was told, never go over the establishment, dreading
the sight too much. But German, Swedish, and American
ladies aro by no means unknown as deeply interested visi-
tors, and there is no difficulty in obtaining permission to
visit both the institutions.---i'vli Onette,

HER MAJESTY, dcc•

OSBORNE, May 5.

The Queen and Princess Louise rode on ponies
yesterday afternoon, attended by Lady Churchill ;
and Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice walked
in the grounds.

Their Royal Highnesses the Grand Duke and
Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and the Heredi-
tary Prince Adolphus come to town from Cambridge Cot-
tage at the end of this or early in the ensuing week.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
returns to her residence at St. James's Palace on MondaY
next from Cambridge Cottage, Kew. _ .

Ilis Serene highness the Prince of 'reek and her
Royal Highness the Princess of Teck have arrived at their
residence, Princes-gate, from Cambridge Cottage, Kew.
The Marquis and Marchioness Townshend have
arrived at their residence in Dover-street, Piccadilly, from
Ball's Park, Herts.