The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-19 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

MALTA, Oct. 18.
The Ripon left at 8 p.m. yesterday, and the Pera
at 9 a.m. to-day.
The former may be expected at Marseilles on the
20th, and the latter at Southampton on the 27th
instant.

SUEZ, Oct. 18

The Norma, extra steamer from Bombay, arrived

at 1 p.m. to-day.

FRANCE.

PARIS, OCt. 19.

The Moniteur of this morning announces the
death of M. Thouvenel as a loss to the Emperor
and the country, and adds—" His name is so inti-
mately associated with the remembrance of the an-
nexation of Nice and Savoy to France that his loss
will remain the object of well-founded and honour-
able regret."

A Lyons letter of the I4th says :—" This city has
just witnessed a demonstration of working men.
For a week past it has been announced, with details
of a more or less disquieting nature. Yesterday
the senator, Prefect of the Rhone, issued a procla-
mation to the workmen marked by a happy union
of firmness and compassion. I purposely say com-
passion, for the sufferings of the silk weavers aro
only too real. M. Chevreau tells them that he is
aware that a manifestation is about to be made ;
he exhorts them to distrust the devisors of it, and
to have confidence in the Emperor ; and he con-
cludes by offering to meet their delegates in order to
come to an understanding as to the measures to be
taken to assuage the sufferings caused by the pro-
longed want of employment. A proposition like
this could not but be accepted, and this morning at

ten the delegates left the Croix-Rousse for the old
town-hall, now become the prefecture. A crowd of
not less than from 8,000 to 10,000 men followed
and filled all the streets and approaches of the Croix-
Rousse and the Place des Terrcaux. The square
itself was for a time thronged, but a strong body of
sergents do ville took up a position in it and kept
the people in the side streets. This great mass of

the population, however, raised no cries nor caused
any disorder. During this time what took place
between the prefect and the delegates? We do not
yet know. It is asserted that the men were instructed
to ask that a tax should be imposed upon the looms
worked outside the octroi barriers, the abolition of
the municipal tax on looms within the city, and the
prompt opening of great national workshops in aid
of the most pressing wants. Of those three propo-
sitions, the second alone, rumour declares, has been
accepted."
BOURSE, Oct. 18.—Two o'clock..—The market
continues dull with few transactions, and these,
with the exception of railway shares, at generally
lower quotations. French Threes, for the account,
are offered at 68f. 70c., with a fractional decline.
Italian Fives are now doing at 55f. 5c., a decline
of 25c. Credit Mobilier Shares are sf. lower, at 622 f.
50c. ; and Spanish Mobil:er 2f. 50c. lower, at 344 f.
25c. Credit Foncier remain unchanged, but
Comptoir d'Escompte have fallen 5f., to 880 f.
Railway Shares are firm, and some show a fractional
advance. Lyons are most in demand, and are doing
at 902 f. 50c., an improvement of 2f. 50c.
Three o'clock.—The market has closed as fol-
lows :-
41- per Cents 97
Do. end month —

Bank Shares 3575
Italian Loan 55 30
Do. end month 55 20
Mexican Loan —
Do. Bonds 000000 •.• --
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred -
WAYS.

3 per Cents. 6B 60
Do. end month 6B 67;
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Credit Fonder —

end month

,1360

RAILI)

For Account.
Orleans
Northern ll7O
Lyons and Mediterranean 902 50
Southern 577 50
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 4lO
North of Spain lO6 25
Saragossa 132 50
Ditto to Barcelona..
Roman

545 -

THE CONSERVATIVE HOME SECRETARY.—There
is a considerable party in England who are of opinion
that it would do certain political agitators and leaders of
trades' unions good if they were subj c;cted to the discipline
lately established by Governer Eyre in Jamaica. This
party was very wroth at Mr. Walpole for the considera-
tion which he showed to the Reform League, and our
comic journals, whose vocation is exaggeration, represented
Mr. Walpole as crying ; and, for political ends, phrases
equally liquefied have been applied to that interview. The
fact is, Mr. Walpole never shed any tears. When he com-
menced to speak ho paused, as though under emotion, but
it was no more than many persons display who break
down in a speech under unusual circumstances. So far as
he showed reluctance to proceed with measures which
must have led to a considerable loss of life, his conduct was

to his honour ; and it is bad policy, as well as bad taste,
to make an offensive use of a characteristic of sympathy,
which public men aro not in the habit of betraying. If
such conduct is persisted in, it will come to pass that inso-
lence and severity in an official will be thought the safer
policy. The people who ridicule Mr. Walpole for his
sympathy do all that lies in their power to bring the
bearing of Sir Richard Mayne into fashion. The people
have no interest in this. If the fashion a contemporary
has put on, of suggesting that the Hyde-park railings shall
be cast into a Niobeian statue of Mr. Walpole, is to be fol
lowed by the working class, we shall oblige the Home
Secretary to perpetrate some official carnage to prove his
nerve. For it requires less courage, in these days, for a
minister to commit &i outrage than to hesitate and be hu-
mane. Mr. Walpole chose by far the most courageous
part, and was called to account by his own party for it. It
is the interest of the people to respect, and even honour,
him for this.—The Working Man.

" ENOCH ARDEN" WITH A DIFFERENCE.—A citizen
of Atlanta, Georgia, was draughted into the ranks of the
Southern army during the war, and went away, leaving
his wife to sigh for the end of the conflict. At length the
end came, but he came not, and after long waiting she
took to herself another husband, and all went merrily with
them. Last week, however, the truant spouse suddenly
returned. He did not upbraid his wife, was willing that
she should continue to live with her second husband if
she preferred to do so, but merely insisted on taking his
son and going off with him. The mother could not con-
sent to part with her son. If he would wait till the next
morning she would make her preparations, and both she •
and the/ boy would go with him. So he waited ; but when
morning came both son and mother had flown with the
?woad Imbancl to panto unknown.--4(l iN Irm Era.