The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-13 00:00:00

CANADA.

QUEBEC, SEPT. 1.

The Canadian journals were considerably excited
owing to the executive delivering up to a French
detective a prisoner of the name of Lameraude, who
had committed a forgery on the Bank of France at
Poictiers while in the position of cashier.
The Quebec Daily News, alluding to the affair,
says :--" We think there can be no question that
the parties charged with the duty of representing
the government in this matter acted with indecent
and unseemly haste, and the spiriting away of an
unfortunate criminal, and handing him over to the
tender mercies of the French government after he
had sought an asylum under our flag, and before
he had the benefit of a fair and impartial hearing of
his case, is calculated to bring the administration of
justice in Canada into the most supreme contempt."
The numerous friends of the Attorney-General
West, in Kingston, intend entertaining the
honourable gentleman at a grand banquet, pre-
vious to his departure for England.
Her Majesty Queen Emma, of the Sandwich
Islands, arrived at Quebec on the 29th of August,
where she intended to remain for several days, but
unfortunately the receipt of intelligence of the death
of her mother necessitated her immediate departure
for Hawaii after only being in Quebec for two
hcurs.

The Quebec Daily News of the Ist says :—" For
the last two or three weeks we have had a continuous
succession of heavy showers. Not a day has passed
without rain. Yesterday it culminated in a heavy
drenching rain storm, which lasted all the fore-
noon. The growing crops in this vicinity
are materially damaged, and unless we have
a dry spell soon they will be totally destroyed. In
many places the hay crop remains uncut ; oats and
rye, ripe for the sickle a fortnight ago, are beaten
down, and it will take some days of fine weather
before farming operations can be commenced. The
spring was late, wet, and cold. A warm spell in
summer gave great promise of a beautiful crop, but
the rainy weather of the last three weeks has all
but destroyed these hopes."
The Quebec timber report shows a good business
doing, the prices in most instances being in favour
of the manufacturers. It was expected that the
supply would fall short fully six millions on the ave-
rage of the previous three years.
Freights both at Quebec and Montreal were dull
and depressed. The latest charter for Liverpool
was at the excessively low figure of 225. 6d. With
the bulk of the fall fleet close there these rates were
not likely to improve.

FRANCE.

PARIS, Sept. 13.

The Moniteur of this morning publishes a con-
vention, signed at the city of Mexico, on July 30,
1866, by which the Mexican Government transfers
to the French Government one half of the receipts
of all the maritime customs of the Empire, in order
to serve as payment of the interest and principal
of the loans contracted in 1864 and 1865, and of
all obligations resulting therefrom ; likewise for
the payment of interest at the rate of 3 per cent.
on all sums due by Mexico to the French Treasury.
The amount of this latter debt, which is approxi-
mately valued at 350 million francs, will subse-
quently be definitively fixed., This convention will
enter into force from the tat November, 1866.
The export duties in the customs of the Pacific
being already mortgaged for three-fourths of the
value, the amount to be ceded to the French Govern-
merit will be reduced to the 25 per cent. remainin

over.

BOURSE, Sept. 12.—Two o'clock.—The down-
ward tendency of the market continues, though not
to any very great extent. Business is rather more
active, and upon the whole a better feeling seems
to prevail. French Threes were done at 70f. 15c.,
or a decline of 10c. ; Italian Fives at 57f. 40c., or
20c. lower ; Mobilier at 678 f. 75c., or a loss of 3f.
75c. ; Credit Foncier and Comptoir d'Escompte at
1,380 f., and 915 f., or a fall of 7f. 50c. The Raiway
Market has also again declined. Three o'clock.—
Hardly any alteration has occurred, the closing
prices being as follows :-
4* per Cents 97 40
Do. end month

3 per Cents. ....... . 7O 10
Do. end month 7O 15

Credit Mobilier 676 25
Do. end month 6BO
Credit Foneier —
Do. end month 1377 50

Bank Shares 3620
Italian Loan 57 50
Do. end month 57 50
Mexican Loan —
Do. Bonds —
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred
'AY&

For Account.
Orleans
Northern 1175
Lyons and Mediterranean 9Ol 25
Southern 553 75
Western 572 50
Eastern
Sardinian . —
Austrian
Lombard 416 25
North of Spain l2O
Saragossa 145
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman.

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Collision on the South Devon Railway.

SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 13.—A disabled engine be-
longing to a luggage train was run into this morn-
ing by the down mail train on the South Devon
Railway. The engine and one of the carriages of
the train were thrown off the line, but without
causing damage Co life or limb. The luggage engine
was deserted by its driver and stoker, and ran on
for five miles into Plymouth station, where it was
brought up by crushing through the station buffers
into the cloak room, causing considerable damage,
but no persons were hurt. The arrival of the mails
was delayed two hours.

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