The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-21 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, May 19, Two o'clock.—Discounts of
rather important sums continue to be demanded.
To-day the list comprises the following, viz. :-
94,500 fr. Three per Cent. Rentes ; 30,000 Italian
Fives ; 1,050 Credit Mobilier Shares ; 600 Comp-
tour d'Escompte, &c. The market is very inactive,
with generally lower quotations—a certain amount
fof uneasiness peryadina all departments. Thrnie,
r the Account, have receded 35c.—to 63fr. 60c.
Credit Mobilier Shares have fallen to 515 fr—a loss
of 15fr. Credit Foncier Shares have declined
17fr. 50c., the quotation 1,1001 r.; and Comptoir
d'Escompte are lfr. 25c. lower—at 670 fr. The
pressure continues in Italian Fives, the cause no
doubt being the definite adoption by the Chamber
of Deputies of the bill imposing a tax of 8 per cent.
on the Rentc. To-day they have again receded
80c., viz., to 37fr. 90c. Railway Shares are also
generally dealt in on lower terms. Northern Shares
have declined sfr ; Lyons, Ifr. 25c. ; Lombard,
sfr. ; and Austrian 6fr. 25c. Paris Gas Shares are
unvaried at 1,392 fr. 50c., From London Consols
are telegraphed with a fall of f. Three o'clock.—
Quotations have further receded, the market closing
as follows :

4} per Cents 93
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 63 45
Do. end month 63 30
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month ~ 513 75
Credit Foncier —

Bank Shares 3400
Italian Loan 37 40
Do. end month 37 70
Mexican Loan 33
Do. Bonds 235
Spanish Threes -

end month

Ifome Debt —
Deferred
WAYS.

ILtILV

For Account.
Orleans
Northern 1047 50
Lyons and Mediterranean 785
Southern 525
western

Eastern

Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 286 25
North of Spain ... 115
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona _
Roman —

Arrival of the Cape Mail.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)

PLYMOUTH, Saturday.
The Union Company's Cape Royal Mail steam-
ship Saxon, Capt. E. Baynton, arrived here to-day,
from Table Bay, April 17, 4 p.m. ; St. Helena, 25,
4 p.m. ; and Ascension, 28, 9 p.m. She brings with
the usual mails 97 passengers, and the following
cargo :—Specie, £625 ; bullion, £370 ; 726 bales
wool ; 105 bales sheep and goat skins ; 851 raw
hides ; 992 bags copper ore ; 89 tusks ivory ; 1 case
rhinoceros horns; 2 bags shells, 62 boxes fruit, 38
cases ostrich feathers, 2 casks aloes, 2 bundles wild
beast skins, 4 packages copper, 14 bales buchu
leaves, 17 casks wine, and several packages sun-
dries. Among the Saxon's passengers are Mr.
Galway, Attorney-General for Natal, and Mrs.
Galway; Dr. Mann, F.R.A.S., and Mrs. Mann,
from Natal ; Major Miller, 67th Regiment ; Capt.
Macdonald, sth Fusiliers, 2d battalion. The Saxon
experienced moderate SE trades to St. Helena and
Ascension, and fresh NE winds from 3 North of
the Equator.
The news from Natal is, so far as ecclesiastical
matters are concerned, more unsatisfactory than
ever. There was nothing but wars and strifes, and
wrangling on every side. There were appeals to
the courts, and interdicts, and orders in reply to
them right and left. The bishop had got the dean
interdicted from holding service in the cathedral on
Good Friday morning. The dean on Easter Tues-
day, at an excited meeting for the election of
churchwardens, became more excited than any one
else there, and suddenly dissolved the assembly, which
would not be dissolved in obedience to him, and the
meeting went on amid disreputable uproar and con-
fusion; half the members voted and the other half
refused to have anything to do with the business.
An address had been got up to the metropolitan
asking him to cease meddling or interfering with
the diocese at all. A counter address had been got up
to the dean expressing fullest sympathy and promising
energetic aid in his procoedings. A telegram, for-
warded from Pietermaritzburg, just as the steamer
was leaving, stated that the quarrel had at length
resolved itself into a very literal contest about the
keys. The court had ordered possession of the
cathedral to Bishop Colenso, and having further
enjoined the dean to deliver up the baptismal regis-
try. The Colensonian party took possession by for-
cibly opening the church doors, wrenching off the

diaconal locks, and substituting episcopal ones of
their own. The other side then returned the com-
pliment by wrenching off these new locks, and thus
the wrangle was proceeding. The paper war be-
tween Dr. Colenso and the dean was also maintained
in the local press. The Rev. Mr. Fredoux, a mis-
sionary, son-in-law of the Rev. Mr. Moffat, senior,
had met with a sudden and tragic death in the far
interior. A trader named Nelson had committed a
crime for which he was a fugitive from justice, and
followed the track of Mr. Fredoux, who was on a
pastoral journey to Morokwain. Mr. Fredoux had
instructions sent him to arrest Nelson, and to com-
pel his return to Motito, to receive judgment for his
crime. When called upon to surrender Nelson at
first tried the effect of an apology ; but finding that
of no avail he shut himself up in his waggon,
threatening to shoot any one who should come near
him. Mr. Fredoux approached the waggon to re-
monstrate with him, and point out the hopelessness
of resistance, when, to the horror of such spectators
as escaped, waggon and bystanders were blown into
the air and six blackened corpses, including that of
Mr. Fredoux and Nelson, were stretched on the
ground. There were 1751 b. of gunpowder in Nel-
son's waggon, and this he had fired.
A deputation from the wine farmers had waited
upon his Excellency the Governor, with a petition
to her Majesty, praying for such an alteration in the
wine duties as would admit Cape wines to the Lon-
don market; his Excellency, however, produced a
despatch addressed to himself, in reply to the re-
solutions adopted in the House of Assembly on the
subject, and from the wording of the despatch it was
gathered that the wine farmers must cease to expect
any relief from the Government in the matter of
duties. The war between the Free State and the
Basutos had been finally closed by a treaty signed
by Moshesh, the paramount chief of the Basutos, on
April 3. The terms of the treaty were very favour-
able to the Free State, who thereby acquired a large
accession of very valuable territory. The Saxon
landed her mails here, and proceeded this afternoon
to Southampton. Her mails are forwarded by this
evening's mail train.

On the evening of April 15 a destructive fire broke
out in Cape Town, by which a large quantity of
property was destroyed. The fire commenced in
Longmarket-street, at the shop of Mr. Johnson,
chemist and druggist, and extended to the premises
of Messrs. Shaw and Stuttaford, drapers, and to the
bonded warehouses of Messrs. W. Dickson and Co.

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, May 19:

The Queen walked in the grounds yesterday
afternoon, and drove this morning, accompanied by
her Royal Highness Princess Helena.
Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice also walked
and drove.

Her Majesty held a Council to-day at 1 o'clock,
at which were present Earl Granville, Lord Stanley
of Alderley, and the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson.
Mr. Helps was Clerk of the Council.
The Earl of Caithness and Colonel the Hon. A.
Liddell were the Lord and Groom in Waiting.
Lord Charles Fitzroy has succeeded Lord Alfred
Paget as Equerry in Waiting.
Mr. Joseph Wyon has been honoured by her Royal
Highness Princess Helena with sittings for a medal.
Mr. Robert Dowling has had the honour of sub-
mitting to her Majesty portraits of their royal high-
nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, painted by
him for the Tasmanian Government.

MAT 20.

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, at-
tended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole and the
Hon. Flora Macdonald.

Princess Helena, attended by Miss Bowater, went
eut driving, and Princess Louise and Princess Bea-
trice also drove out in a carriage-and-four.
The Queen, Princess Helena, Prince Leopold, and
the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended
Divine service this morning in the Private Chapel.
The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor
officiated, and administered the Sacrament of the
Holy Communion.
The French Ambassador and the Earl and Coun-
tess of Clarendon arrived at the Castle yesterday,
and had the honour of dining with the Queen and
Royal family.

Miss Bowater also arrived at the Castle.
The Hon. Mary Lascelles left the Castle yester-
day.

The Prince and Princess of Wales rode out on
horseback on Saturday afternoon.
The Prince of Wales presided at the annual din"
ner of the 10th Hussars at Willis's Rooms in the
evening.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, with the HO'
Mrs. A. Hardinge and Major Teesdale in 'Waiting,
attended Divine service at the Chapel Royal St•
James's yesterday morning.
The Communion Service was read by the Rey
the Sub-Dean and the Rev. J. V. Povah.

Anthem, " Come Holy G-host"—Attwood, sung
by Master Coward, Messrs. Francis, Montem Smith!
and Bradbury.
Mr. Goss presided at the organ.
The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Jell,
Sub-Almoner, from Acts, chap. 2, verses 3-4.
At the Council held by the Queen at Windsor
Castle on Saturday her Majesty's consent was given
to the marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess
Mary of Cambridge to his Royal Highness the
Prince of Teck.

The Earl and Countess of Derby have left their
residence in St. James's-square to pass the holidays with
Cul. the Hon. Wellington P. and Lady Emma Talbot, et
their residence in the neighbourhood of Harrow.
The Earl and Countess Granville left Bruton-
street on Saturday for Walmer Castle, Kent.
The Earl and Countess De Grey left their resi-
dence Carlton-gardens on Saturday for Nocton Park, the
family seat in Lincolnshire.

The Earl Percy left Northumberland House on
Saturday for Aluwick Castle, Northumberland, to take the
command of the county militia. The Countess Percy lit'
gone to Albury Park, Surrey.
The Earl and Countess Grey left Carlton-house-
terrace on Saturday for Howick Castle, Northumberland,
for the holidays.
The Earl of Powis left his town residence oil
Saturday for Shrewsbury, to do duty with the South Salq
Yeomanry Cavalry, of which regiment he is colonel.
The Earl and Countess of Malmesbury hays
been placed in mourning by the death of Miss DashWo°d'
which occurred on Saturday last : the deceased lady Was
.3i.cer of Jane second Countess of Malmcabury, and mother
of the present earl. _ _

Lord Stanley, M.P., left town on Saturday for
Knowsley Park, Lancashire, for the Parliamentary holt-
days.
Lady Emily Foley has arrived at the Clarendon
Hotel for the season.

The Countess of Newburgh received at dinner,
at her residence in Wilton-crescent, on Saturday evening,
the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, Earl and Lady Cory
stance Grosvenor, Lord and Lady Henry Scott, lion. WI
and Lady Katharine Coke, Viscount St. Asaph, Genera
Peel, and Mr. William Peel.
The new title of Lord Wodehouse, says the
Sunday Gazette, is to be the Earl of Kimberley, from the
name of his lordship's seat in Norfolk.

The first volume of a Hindostanee translation °f
Shakspore has been issued at Bombay.
Prince Alfred has joined the Royal Navy Club Of
1765, and presented to its charity 25 guineas. —Army and
Navy Gazette.
THE EUROPEAN WAR OF 1859.—At the preseeti
crisis it will be interesting to recal the chronology °f
the European conflict of 1859. January I.—The
Napoleon made a significant speech to the Corps DiP/On"
tique. February I.—Publication of a brochure entitled
Napoleon 111. and Italy, recommended by the illottitenr•
February 23.—Departure of Lord Cowley for Vielins'
charged with a mission from England and France. 1"r
7.—Note of the Moniteur, both firm and conciliaWrii
March 23.—The Moniteur states that on the proposiii°ll 11
Russia a Congress composed of the five groat Powers
be convened to adjust all points connected with the Italia
question. April B.—Bellicose order of the day of the 111-.
peror Francis Joseph. April 20.—The Moniteur publishew
the bases adopted by the five great Powers for future dot
liberations. April 22.—The Moniteur announces tilasf
Austria alone refuses to adhere. April 25.--Projeo
law with reference to a French loan of £20,000,000.
3.—Proclamation of the Emperor of the French •
flouncing a declaration of war. May 12.—The certaill
is established of the neutrality of Prussia and EnglBll
June 4. Battle of Magenta; rumours of peace. Jull° 28.
—Battle of Solferino. July 7.—Despatch of VallegglG,
announcing a suspension of arms. July 11.—Pence
Villafranca. The subscription offered for the French 1°,3„
of £20.000,000 by 690,190 subscribers amounted '"
£100,382,391.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—A very sad affair occurred °,l
,3 ,
Friday evening last, which resulted in the death at
the Hon. Gerald Stanhope, fifth son of the present Barl,ilt
Harrington, of Elvaston Castle, Derbyshire. Itappears
on Friday afternoon the Earl of Harrington left El VaSt'°,
Castle on horseback for Derby, and was accompanied hi °,llO
of his daughters (Lady Caroline Stanhope) and his son (t",
Hon. Gerald Stanhope), also on horseback. After spendi„l3l
some time in Derby they returned towards Elvaston,
on passing Osmaston Park (about a mile out of Der,,,bhia'
the deceased's horse began kicking, and threw him. '-w-g
Earl at once dismounted, and picked his son up, Putivt-0
him in a cart that was passing at the time, by which I'e,-;
conveyed to the residence of Mr. Hollis, surgeon, Elvit,:,l;
a mile further on the way towards Elvaston. rettn""o)
Mr. Hollis's the deceased (who was only 12 years of 10$
was able to get out of the cart and walk into bir• 11°14.-
house, and the latter took him to the castle in his °wlli Pea
vete carriage, and remained with him until 10 o'clontcx
Friday evening. At midnight a change for the worse tbat
place, and Mr. Hollis was again fetched, and, believing w.
the deceased was in a dying state, at once sent for S•joar,
Fearn, surgeon, Derby, in consultation, and that gentlevo
arrived at the castle at 2 o'clock on Saturday morninge. rs,l-
poor youth, however, had become unconscious, "v., death
lied, and died on Saturday afternoon. The cause °' rur
was concussion of the brain, but there was no doubt actor,
ture of a blood-vessel in the head, as for some hours h
his death he was insensible. t the
a
It was stated on Saturday afternoon tu
directors of the New Zealand Banking C°1.13-„nu
tion had held a meeting, and bad determined 2/01;.
a temporary suspension. On Friday it will " hot
membered we announced that their acceptances to
been returned by their London agents owl, g of
some irregularity. The following is the form
circular issued to the holders of returned bills
iou_
"New Zealand Banking Corporation (Limited),_ 0;j
66,
court, Old Broad-street, London, May to ill'
" Gentlemen —I am instructed by the director
_todo
form you that they are using their best exertions tn'sa_
to t t o
satisfactory arrangements with regard to their s
to belie"
ing acceptances which they have every reason 0 rely
will be carried out, and in the meantime the dire
with confidence on your forbearance for one week
foal
A balance-sheet is being made out, but I may st„.l the
the account before the board to-day the assets soci%34
liabilitie.; by over £80,000.—1 am your obedient
ta'ry.,,
"PERCIYaId paw,S"re