The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-26 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Nov. 24.—Two o'clock.—Business is
slack, and the market is somewhat weak. Such
Securities as have been much dealt in are lower,
with the exception of Italian Fives, which opened
at 56f. 10c., and have advanced to 56f. 15c., with a
gain of sc. French Threes opened at 69f. 60c., and
are now at 69f. 55c., or 7kc. lower. Credit Mobilier
Shares have fallen 2f. 50c., to 590 f., after opening
at 592 f. 50c. Credit Foncier and Comptoir d'Es-
compte continue stationary. Immobiliere have fur-
ther declined 2f. 50c., at 387 f. 50c. French Rail-
ways are dull at same prices. Among foreign Rail-
way Shares Austrian and Lombard have each de-
clined 2f. 50c., to 411 f. 25c. and 408 f. 75c.

Three o'Clock.—The market has continued flat
to the end, and closes with the following lower
quotations :

41 per Cents 9B 05
Do. end month —

3 per Cents. 69 50
Do. end mouth 69 45

Credit Mobilier ... 585
Do. end month ... 587 50

Credit Fonder
Do. end month 1373 75

Orleans
Northern

Bank Shares 3615
Italian Loan 56 10
Do. end month 56 05
Mexican Loan —
Do. Bonds —
Spanish Threes
Home Debt -
Deferred -
'AYS.

For Account.
877 80
1180 --

Lyons and Mediterranean 905
Southern 5Bl 25
Western 562 50
Eastern 535
Sardinian —
Austrian
Lombard 4OB 75
North of Spain ll7 50
Saragossa 137 50
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

92 50

THE PRINCE OP WALES IN RUSSIA.

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(From the Berlin Correspondent of the Times.) •
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 20.

Whoever has been lucky enough to spend a week
of his life in Italian air will, I dare say, admit that
half the time would have been sufficient to acquaint
himself with the manners and habits of the people.
The genial climate causes all the business of life to
be transacted in the streets. The sky is so blue
and the air so warm that no one wishes to be cooped
up within four walls. Why forego the sight of the
heavens and the fragrance of the flowers when both
can be enjoyed by stepping over the threshold ?
Those who cannot afford to saunter about at any
rate try to perform the drudgery of life al fresco,
while others whose vocations do not admit of being
carried on before the public eye throw open doors
and windows to.make as near an approach to nature
as possible. Love-letters are penned in the garden,
and skirts sewed on the doorsteps. The cook washes
cabbages in the gateway, a bevy of children stand-
ing by, some watching the operation, and learn-
ing their lessons for the morrow. In Russia
everything is different. No one goes out unless
absolutely compelled to leave the protection of the
house. The street is not an extension of the draw-
ing-room, the workroom, or even the bedroom, as
in Italy, but only a means of communication. No
one stands kill on the pavement. All rush and
hurry past each other. Except the numerous cab-
men, and a few newspaper boys languidly standing
about in the Newski Prospect, I have hardly no-
ticed a single creature in this immense capital earn-
' ing its daily bread in the streets. No more than
half-a-dozen organ-grinders have intruded them-
selves upon my gratified senses within the space of
a fortnight. I remember one whose heroism in
exposing himself to the cold was the greater as he
had no legs, and could not even attempt to warm
himself by walking about. Perhaps he has a com-
rade who, finding himself in the same predicament,
occasionally meets his companion in misery that
they may mutually beat each other's arms and
chests. Such, at least, is the expedient adopted by
cabmen, who, with four extra legs at their disposal,
suffer as much as the legless.
Strange above all things is the thin clothing of
the poor. Under sheepskin and felt boots, cotton is
frequently worn even by men. I have in this month
of November, though the streets are covered with
snow, and a cutting wind seems to be blowing right
in your teeth whichever way you turn, seen men at
work without a fire, in costumes more suited to the
climate of Naples than to that of St. Petersburg.
Bare feet, a blouse of printed calico, and the thinnest
of breeches are little calculated to keep soul and body
together in such a country as this. ;When going out
boots and furs are expected to make up for deficient
underclothing. Of course they fail to do it, and
the mortality is correspondingly great.
Thus it is that, apart from the characteristic style
of architecture and the costume of the people, there
are few, if any, sights to be seen in the streets of
St. Petersburg. Whatever the strong or the weak
points of Russia may be, they are at this season
concealed in the houses. There is only one thing
which makes the Russian stop in the street even in
winter. It is the duty of prayer. God, according
to the doctrine of the Orthodox Church, as of all

other Christian denominations, is omnipresent, and
may be as well invoked in the closet as iu the
temple or the public thoroughfare. But it seems
to be regarded as more than ordinarily meritorious
in this country to peform one's devotions before
sacred images, and as the believers cannot possibly
enter each of the many churches scattered through
every street, they frequently remain standing out-
side the door, muttering prayers, and acquitting
themselves of their religious obligations in a manner
less formal, it is true, yet equally consistent with
the rules of their Church.

The devotion exhibited on these occasions is ap-
parently earnest and sincere. Gentlemen of rank
excepted, I have seen persons of all classes and both
sexes engaged in this pious occupation. Strong men
in sheepskins, with yellow beards, looking like the
divinities of Northern mythology—ladies, the wives
of officers and daughters of Councillors of State,
and poor, miserable women, hobbling about in the
winterly roads, and resorting every now and
then to the image of their choice to ask it
for their daily bread—all seem to prostrate them-
selves with equal humility before the shrine of
their patron saint. Before my eyes, but utterly
unheedful of my presence, a man in semi-ecclesias-
tical garb, who seemed to be a novice or sacristan,
knelt down before a picture and in solemn orison
touched the pavement thrice with his forehead. He
then rose, turned round, and with an adoring ges-
ture raised his hand toward several other pictures
suspended at a distance. I don't think we two
should agree on all questions were we ever to meet
again and discuss the things of this and the other
world in a friendly and tolerant way; but, so long
as religion exists, the purity and heartfelt nobleness
of his supplication will compel the respect of those
to whom the grave is not the necessary end of man's
career.

Many dutiful members of the Church, and more
especially ladies of rank, not content with praying
without, enter the churches or one of the many
chapels abounding in every part of the town. These
chapels are most of them but a few feet square, and
with their open windows and shining candles, seem
to invite the passer-bye to step in and compose his
thoughts in worship. Their walls are entirely covered
with images of the same kind as those which in
larger churches occupy the partition separating the
altar from the nave. Great and small, whole figures
aad busts, are painted side by side, separated by
heavy frames of an Arabesque character, in wood or
some glittering metal. Frequently, I believe I may
say in the case of old pictures always, the face and
the hands only are painted, the rest of the body be-
ing appended in embroidery, gold cloth, beaten sil-
ver, or plate. Such workmanship generally surrounds
even the head, the face just peeping out from amid
a chaplet of brilliant folds and rays. To the faithful
the metal or silken clothing which, so to say, is put
upon the pictures, affords an opportunity for adorn-
ing the object of their adoration with precious
stones. I have seen pictures with the Virgin decked
out with colours and diadems of countless price,
and there are few of these sacred images in the
larger churches of this and the other capitals of the
realm whose jewels do not amount to a very con-
siderable sum. By a natural amplification of this
custom, the pictures, being considered as persons,
are occasionally presented with treasure deposited
in their frame, but not attached to them. In the
Peter and Paul Cathedral there is au oil painting of
the Virgin to which an Empress who died not long
ago sacrificed a ring now suspended before it. Be-
fore another produet of the brush hang diamond
earrings which belonged to an Empress of a re-
moter age, and in pious humility were ceded by her
to the Mother of God. In prdference to others, pic-
tures enjoying a reputation for working miracles are
overloaded with jewellery of every kind, mostly be-
stowed to support prayers offered up or in gratitude
for answers granted. 'The time-stained but still lovely
face of the Holy Mother of God of Kazan, preserved
in the Kazan Cathedral here, before which Kutusoff
prayed when setting out against Napoleon, wears a
more costly diadem than any Empress in the world.
On his victorious return Kutusoff gratefully added
to her gems, and his statue was eventually put up
in front of the church whose patron hal lent a gra-
cious ear in his petition and strengthened his hand
against the enemy. The desire to remind mankind
of the Deity by means of these pictures is so decided
that the same often-seen frames and faces appear not
only in churches and chapels, but also in other
localities, considered, it seems, to be in special need
of protection. All the principal entrances of the
Moscow and St. Petersburg bazaars are fortified by
Virgins and favourite saints. The portal of the Ad-
miralty is flanked on either aide by ancient images,
and in the casemated passage of the fort of Peter
and Paul, which commands the capital, a painted
Christ keeps watch and ward over the gate. In
Moscow, where the multiplicity of these pictures is
such as almost to amount to a material imitation of
the Omnipresence, a peculiarly sacred representa-
tion of Christ, " the Redeemer of Smolensk," is
fixed over the principal gateway of the Kremlin.
Criminals doomed to death formerly asked for the
favour of being executed with their eyes fixed upon
this wonder-working piece of painted wood. Even
now no one is allowed to pass through the gate
without uncovering his head. Emperor and Mujik
alike pay their tribute of respect to " the Redeemer
of Smolensk."

In all churches Divine service is performed seve-
ral times a day. It chiefly consists of prayers in-
toned by the priest, or several priests officiating at
tha same time. The responses are sung by a choir
consisting of a few voices only. Powerful bassos pre-
dominate, and are seconded by the sweet sopranos
of little boys. The congregations are small on week
days, the churches being open throughout the day,
and every one it seems, competent to perform his
devotions as well without as with the assistance of
the priests. What there is of a congregation takes
no very visible part in the service. They stand and
kneel about in the nave of the church, inaudibly
muttering sacred formulas, or listening silently to
the solemn chantingof the appointed servants of the
altar. Sermons are very rarely preached. Why so
many churches should be built when this is the
peculiar arrangement of the Greek service I cannot
tell. So far as the stranger is able to see, the prac-
tical purposes of devotion would, under the ritual
of the Orthodox Church, be as well subserved by
diminutive chapels. However, the churches in
Russia, though too large for their congregations, are
in reality much smaller than in Protestant countries.
Statues and organs are prohibited by canon law.
Priests are but rarely seen in the streets, and their
garb, consisting of long black robes and broad-
brimmed hats, savours less of the ecclesiastic than
that of the Catholic clergy. Young men peforming
functions of a subordinate character in the churches
are easily distinguished by their long hair, never
touched by scissors, and, perhaps, not often enough
by combs.

CANNON-STREET AND CHARING- CROSS LINE.—
The South-Eastern contemplate, it is said, putting on at
no distant date trains running at ten minute intervals.
This would be nearly double the present train service, and
a great improvement.—llerapath.
SINGULAR INCIDENT IN A TIIEATRE.—A SAILOR'S
LOVE OF FAIR PLAY.—On Saturday evening an
amusing yet startling contretemps occurred at the Theatre
Royal, Portsmouth, which afforded a very strong illus-
tration of the British sailor's love of fair play and his
feeling towards an oppressed fellow-creature. After
the drama of " Faust," a piece was produced entitled
" The Slave's Revenge," the two leading characters being
a slave and a planter. In the course of the play the slave
is turned over to the planter, who is pretty liboral in
the use of the lash. A number of seamen belonging to
her Majesty's ship Elector were seated in the pit, and it was
observed that they did not appear to relish this state of
things, watching the movements of the two with anxious
looks and expressions of disapprobation. At length the
slave is supposed to bo laid insensible, and the brutal
planter is about to spurn him with his foot, when one of
the seamen could stand it no longer, but leaped upon the
stage, putting himself in a fighting attitude, and his ap-
pearance so startled the planter that he made his exit from
the stage as speedily as possible, leaving the " tar" in un-
disturbed possession. The sailor looked upon the matter
as a reality, for he loudly exclaimed, "Kick a man when
he is down ; not if I know it!" and taking up the astonished
slave in his arms, as carefully as if he were a baby, he
quietly deposited him in the wings. This strange incident
excited no little commotion in a well-filled house. The
curtain was lowered, and it was not until "Jack" had been
appeased by the assertion of the slave that he had not been
ill-treated that ho retired from the stage, and thus enabled
the play to proceed.

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HER MAJESTY, &c•

WINHSOR CASTLE, Saturday.
The Queen, with Princess Beatrice, attended by
the Duchess of Roxburghe, walked and drove Yes"
terday afternoon.

ACCIDENT TO LORD BI:OUGIIA3I.—The persons
from Penrith and the neighbourhood in the habit of attend-
ing the services at the private chapel attached to Ilroughaul
llall;were disappointed on Sunday last at not seeing the
venerable statesman in his usual place. It appears
hour or two previously his lordship had accidentally fallen
and injured his back, but the injury is not of a serious
character. that an

NEW BENCHERS OF TIIE MIDDLE TEMPLE.--
The following gentlemen have been elected Masters of the
Bench of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple,
viz. ;—Mr. Sowler, Q.C. ; Mr. Prentice, Q.C. ; Mr. Thomas
Jones, Q.C. ; Mr. Mundell, Q.C. ; Sir George E. lionYgill
Q.C. ; and Mr. Quain, Q.C.
NEW GOVERNOR OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND."'
The term of office of Mr. H. L. Holland as Governor of the
Bank of England expires in March next. Mr. Thon3se
Newman Hunt, the present Deputy-Governor, will the',
become Governor, and Mr. R. W. Crawford, one of 6°
members for London, will be the new Deputy-
GOTerno.
THE POPE AND THE EMPRESS.—On the occasion
of the Empress's file the Pope is said to have written A
very affectionate letter to her Majesty.
PROFESSOR DE MORGAN, we regret to hear, lia.3
sent in his resignation of the Chair of Mathematics in 1/111-
r

versity College.
A BEAUTIFUL IMITATION OF IVORY is DOW made
in Franco from a mixture Of papier-mache and gelldiDe.
It is called Parisian marble.
THE POPULATION OF CANADA last year WBg
2,881,862. There are 2,148 miles of railroad in COlad3'
which cost $121,543,109, and the receipts last year vie'..".
$10,910,678. The length of telegraph wires is 5,457 miles'
There aro 21 hospitals, 6 savings banks, and 10 buildiii6
societies in Canada.
,
SERGEANT BALLANTINE will probably be a -,
date for Colchester on the resignation of Mr. 3diller.
is unquestionably among the ablest as well as the soundest

and most consistent Liberals of the day.
The remarkable article on the Indian Muth* in
the last number of the Edinburgh Review, is said to be by
the Duke of Argyll.
THE LATE FRACAS.—The fracas which took I)lsce
about three weeks since on board one of the Kingst°ll:
and Holyhead mail packets between Mr. Reardon, if
and Mr. Wadge, and which was the subject of an 6
journed investigation before the magistrate at 3farylcboo
Police-court, has been, through the instrumentality 64 6
mutual friend, arranged to the satisfaction of both gentle'
men. On Tuesday next, when the summons is returnable
on adjournment, there will not be any appearance on either

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side. —Sunday Gazette.
ryy
CAPTURE OF A LARGE SALMON.—On Thu
rsd
last Mr. E. F. Tyler, London, captured a salmon of
extraordinary dimensions in Sprouston Dub. When Ittuadien
it
in wilnea.nslgoftnohgu. n. d
TTthhoeewgberi weigh close
breadth
tohf
etohfines:
tail
i4awlibl
h.
was,
when
nn and measuredtisin.,
measured 30in. The fins are remarkable,wfaosr,
to the usual number of rays, the ventral ones exhibit ea'-ci
a cartilaginous spur. of the length of 2-lin., three-sided, an
tapering to a point. The ventral fins, with which this rhe;
markable growth was in connection, measured 44'n•'
pectors
dorsal fin was 5-kin. broad, and sfin. in length ;
fins, 51in. long, and 51in. broad; 'mort fin, or lower cif
sal, 3in. in length. The fish, after it was hooked, We":
naiennvidaiiydtsfhteio,ea::
very indifferent run, being in rather middling conditie''
It was landed in 20 minutes after being hooked.-00
Chronicle.
SWALLOWS IN NOVEMBER.—On the 11th 111
near the village of Lenton, near Nottingham, I,lct;
served eight or ten swallows flitting through the air. 4.1„.,--e
day was fine and mild, and I watched them for some "—f
to see whether they appeared strangers to the district o
were preparing for flight ; but they continued in the PM:
locality till past four o'clock, in a rather low and shelter
e'
part. They kept rather high in the air, and appeared of a
darker colour than the common swallow, but not so large
.0
on the wing as the deviling or black martin. There nit
a great number of fieldfares in the neighbourhood nb°.,i
the same time. It is not unusual for swallows to reMBl-
so late in the season ?—Correspondent of Land and Pee'.
THE EASTERN FISHERIES.—Recent boisterol.ls
weather has caused an almost complete suspasicTt
of fishing operation.. No fresh herrings were sold at are-a
Yarmouth for several days last week; salt stuff has rang%
at from £2O to £25 per last. Four vessels have left ar°B
Yarmouth with cargoes of herrings for foreign ports—'6°"
the Star of Peace, for Ancona, with 2,000 barrels ; the Ca,„s;
sandra, for Naples, with 2,400 barrels; the Royal Tar, ';',4
Venice, with 1,900 barrels ; and the Try Again, for CiTo
Vecchia, with 1,700 barrels. The operations of the
Lowestoft boats have also been interrupted by roue
weather.
A GOOD DAY'S SHOOTING.—Last week Cap
t3I
Peach, of Idlicott House, near Shipston-on-Stour,
party killed in one day the enormous quantity of 792 be:s,
of game, including rabbits, viz., 427 pheasants, 123 har'i
233 rabbits, 5 partridges, 2 woodcocks, and 2 wild f,5;
But for a slight accident happening to Mr. West, of A-'4lO
Park, who received a shot in the hand, which delayed t
sport, many more would doubtless have been bagged' e 0
A CURIOSITY WANTED.—A gentleman adverb' a
for a horse, "for a lady of dark colour, a good trotter, into
of stylish action ! " The horse " must be young, andll3
a long tail about 15 hands high! " this
LONDON ATHLETIC CLUB.—A meeting of
club was held on Saturday at Brotnpton. and Idegre
numerously attended. The Earl of Jersey acted as ti,is,;
and several well-known amateur pedestrians assisto°-0-
stewards. Mr. J. G. Chambers (late captain of the The
bridge University Boat Club) officiated as starter•
eve
sports commenced with a race for the 220 yards Challenge
Cup, which was won by Mr. Collett. A one-mile s3,jace,
handicap followed. Mr. Rye was adjudged the root-
defeating eight others, to all of whom ho go° Bvilich
The event of the day was a half-mile handicap, for "toe!,
60 runners, from the Universities, clubs, Scc., had eiii,oth
39 of whom started. They were divided into
Gil-
won respectively by Brent, Larkin, Paulin, ltiolieLl our,
nsour, and Slater, the final heat being won by. Gi`7,trot
who had the long start of 110 yards; Riches second/1;o
third. There was also a 250 yards handicap, in 11 col.
which were won by Emery, Barnes, Butcher, Lict-roeS
Wynne, and Muir-Mackenzie ; in the final hest
came in first, Butcher second, and Liout.-Col•
third. The prizes will be distributed to the wir`ll4rh of
the club dinner at the Freemasons' Tavern on the 1"
December.
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CRICKET—ANOTHER ENGLAND ELEVEN.---- beo
the close of the last cricket season another Eleven 1145 jete•
got together by George Baker, for the purpose of "133+00
mating the North and South of England ; the title is "fol..
tslAoht
o.uievdnTiacEyastligoisoran,
Farmer,
Gsj . correct
Baker, list
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of.
the United North and Scuth of England Eleven.
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Curatetes,rton, alreadyj. Street,
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aryrdnd,ham, J. Carroll, F. Odaras,Nv . -now
rNeVs.seMd‘tCoanGl.isß,
aaknedr,S. Tubb.
Bridge-road, Stratford, E.
CABMEN AT WATERLOO STATlON.—lnrictkheet elre rtro;
of misconduct the cabmen at the Waterloo Stati°;l3;6l
black-balled, and the constable at the gate is for'''as "„iso
with the number of the cab driven by the offender, a
with the number of his badge, which are entered "P° for
list kept in his box, and referred to as need may requbi9
barring the entrance of the driver who has so 1111°12;11er ft'
distinguished himself. The black list has but sleo' are
ditions made to it from week to week, and the 40°12 to
for the greater part of a very venial character--su too
blocking up the road outside the yard, or manifesting.ey
great eagerness to get to the front of the rank alto:. 'list
have gained admission. The additions to the blael'
t.terage much less than ono per day, and the standinge'4o
has seldom, out of thousands of drivers, above 6051'1 the
members upon it for the guidance of the watchteen for
gate. The company have provided a club or tap-Ovwtio
the shelter and use of the cab-drivers. The yard, ,icies•
filled, which it often is, will contain about 250 the
As these draw up by degrees to the incline by
whicil •
station platforms are reached, the men take shelter 11,
and
great vault, which is formed out of one of the I°llo,b,
wide railway arches. There are times when a hundll).,d all
men may be seen in this spacious vault at one tinier atld
under the control of a single female, with a potelau_i, two
boy to assist. During the course of seven years;l:t:hoeujttatro
drivers have been black-balled for misconduct
0r
vault, which, by the way, is open to all comers, "
victuals Or
necessity of their being purchasers of either aotie°''
drink. The great majority of the visitors, vm. or
brought in their haunches of bread, with cheese, Bac'thei
cold meat to help the meal, which they munched t
cnos
teat'
clustered around the rousing fire, in apparancauTifera
ment. The dandy drivers of the hansoms, wh° ith a fair
a hot dinner, are furnished in the tap-room a 10-031
plate of wholesome meat, roast or boiled, a „oca,
supplyr
aof
apotatoes
ioahndisgiv-eoernys,
gNevoi tehrabilr; bread
foorirodili
b°
siar
or any other liquid, is furnished at lid•
that taking
casesleave r
oo
of
fc
ftbrobqyo,
oint
ti s
occurrence
satisfactory
of td
riiival:ova::rsteirPnetntaulier:uotiiilli,
to the station to give up property, sometimes
pass and easily "convertible," which has been
cabmen the return fare, as is considered his d
100 Station
cabs by their fares. In such cases the compaulee• r%;:s ttthblia:
whole, the cab-drivers frequenting the IV aterns
0.,
_ow,
are pronounced, by those who have the best mooa_to v the
ing them, to be a set of honest fellows, and
least, ttyerage integrity and 09kriuty.—RailwaY