The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-15 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Dec. 14, Two o'clock.—The market
shows symptoms of weakness, and all quotations are
lower. Business is all but null. French Threes
are quoted at 69f. 67ic., with a loss of sc. Italian
Fives have declined 10c.—at 56f. 70c. Credit Mo-
bilier Shares 6f. 25c., at 582 f. 50c., and Spanish
Mobilier 3f. 75c., at 317 f. 50c. Comptoir d'Es-
compte have also receded, and are at 868 f. 75c.
Railway Shares are quoted mostly with a decline of
about lf. 25c. English Consols are again tele-
graphed to-day with an advance of

Three o'clock.—Quotations closed as follows :

41 per Cents 97 75
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 0 65
Do. end month 69 621
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Credit Fonder —
Do. end month 1386 25
RAIL

Bank Shares 3625
Italian Loan 56 75
Do. end month 56 70
Mexican Loan —
Do. Bonds —
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred
;NY ANS.

For Account.
Orleans
Northern llB6 25

Lyons and Mediterranean B9B 75
Southern 582 50
Western —
Eastern
Sardinian , —
Austrian
Lombard 390
North of Spain ll5
SaragosFa, —
Ditto to Barcelona —
Roman ,

united with us in the execution of this, our royal
declaration, our dearly beloved son and successor,
his Royal Highness the Crown Prince Ernest
Augustus.
" We have also commanded that our royal seal
be affixed hereto.

" Given at Heitzing, near Vienna, the sth Octo-
ber, 1866.

(L.S.) " GEORGE REX.
" E RNEST AUGUSTUS."

To the Editor of the Sun.

you permit me to address a few lines
to you on your leading article of the 12th instant,
reviewing a publication, " The Organisation of the
Einiiire," by the Hon. Joseph Howe, of Nova Scotia.
Of this work you speak in the most laudatory
manner ; and, if I read you rightly, you state that
Mr. Howe has put forth a very original proposition
in regard to the connection of Britain and her de-
pendencies.
It is a satisfaction to find that Mr. Howe, after
27 years, should adopt (as 1 gather from your
article) the views I advocated in 1840, and many
years before then, upon the great question of the
connection of England with her colonies, and
you will be good enough to concede to
me that it is quite legitimate I should
feel much satisfaction, when I inform you that my
article, " Britain and her Colonies," was published
in 1840, by Mr. Montgomery Martin, in his " Colo-
nial Magazine." When it was forwarded to Mr.
Joseph Howe, then proprietor of the Nova Scotian
newspaper, and that Mr. Howe reviewed my article,
entitled "Britain and her Dependencies, and their
Right to be Represented in Parliament," antago •
nistically, and as impracticable, in the Nova Scotian
of the 30th of September, 1840 ; that Mr. Howe's
review was forwarded to me by Mr. Martin, in
1840 ; and 1 freely confess that I was greatly
favoured by Mr. Martin in giving a place
to my article on our connexion with our coun-
trymen beyond the seas,—the more particularly so
as Mr. Martin, in common with all thoßritish corn -
munity, then thought my proposition was most im-
practicable and would never work,—so that Mr.
Howe had some excuse in reviewing my work as he
did, though I took exception to some of.his reasons.
Probably Mr. Howe has forgotten everything
about this matter ; it is a long time ago, and, at his
time of life, most likely his memory has failed, or it
has become defective.—l remain, Sir, your obedient

servant,

THOMAS BANISTER.

5, Child's-place, Temple-bar, Dec. 14.

[We see no reason whatever for our correspon-
dent's 'closing remarks ; nevertheless, we conceive it
it to be only right that we should give his commu-
nication to us in its integrity, precisely as it stands.
—ED. SUN.]

The Late Trades Reform Demonstration.

A meeting of the delegates from the London
Trades was held last evening at the Sussex Hotel,
Bouverie-street, to receive a report from the Demon-
stration Committee Mr. George Potter in the
chair.

..p, ~..,,,..,

•
- _
.14014'voi. /Ay.
61111 WI-. etaillat
t '

HER MAJESTY, &c.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Friday.
The Queen walked out yesterday afternoon, at-
tended by the Marchioness of Ely.

Their Royal llighnesses Prince and Princess
Christian arrived at the Castle last evening from
Knowsley-park, attended by Lady Susan Melville
and Lieut.-Colonel George Gordon.
His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended by
Major Elphinstone, also arrived from Greenwich
Park.

This being the anniversary of the Queen's great
sorrow, her Majesty, accompanied by the royal
family, went this morning to the Royal Mausoleum
at Frogmore, and remained there some time. The
Dean of Windsor attended and read prayers and
portions of Scripture selected for the occasion.
After the Queen's return to the Castle the Mau-
soleum was, by her Majesty's command, opened for
all the members of the household, including the
servants, residents within the Castle, and most of
her Majesty's tradesmen in Windsor, to visit it.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the younger mem-
bers of the royal family, will leave Windsor Castle
to-day at 11 o'clock for Osborne.

--

THE ROYAL VISIT TO SUFFOLK.—The closing
festivities at Eye, Diss, &c., in celebration of the visit to
Sir E.C. Kerrison, M.P., and Lord Hartismere, of the
Prince and Princess of Wales and Duke of Edinburgh,
passed off very successfully. The tenantry of Sir E. C•
Kerrison dined together at Eye, and a substantial tea was
given to nearly 500 of the working classes at Diss, on
Thursday evening. A number of thieves came down from
London to Diss during the Prince's visit, but their opera-
tions were promptly stopped.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh
arrived at Clarenc.) House yesterday from Sand-
ringham.
His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the
Countess Bernstorff do not return to town till
Monday.

The Earl and Countess of Darnley arrived in
town on Thursday from Athboy, county Meath,
and to-day leave for Cobham Hall, Kent.
The Earl and Countess of Yarborough have dur-
ing the week entertained a very large company at
Brocklesby Park. Among the guests staying there
have been—The Duke of St. Albans, Viscount and
Viscountess Ingestre, Lord and Lady Alfred Paget;
Lord Berkeley Paget, Lord Garlies, Mr. C. and
Lady Adela Larking, Mr. Henry Chaplin, Lieu-
tenant-Colonel and Mrs. Dugdale Astley, Miss
Macdonald, Miss Howard, Mr. Edgar Larking, Vic•
On Wednesday Lord Yarborough's foxhounds met
at the hall. There was a very numerous field, and
by his lordship's liberality a first-rate luncheon was
supplied to all corners.

Viscount Sudley has returned from the Earl and
Countess of Arran's seat, in Ireland, and joined his wife at
Broadlands.

Lord Brougham left town on Thursday for Paris,
where he will remain a few days before proceeding t 0
Cannes for the winter.

Viscount Hamilton, M.P., who was detained in
Paris by slight indisposition, on his way home with the
Prince of Wales from Russia, is expected to arrive in toss'',
this evening. _

Viscount and Viscountess Dunlo were to ha"
arrived on Thursday last at Ballinasloe, county Galway'
from England. Great preparations were made for their
reception, and the band of the Galway militia and man,'
of the inhabitants were to escort the newly-married couple
to the old family seat.

The Lord Bishop of Salisbury, Mrs. Hamilton,
and family have just returned to the Episcopal Palace
Salisbury, after an absence of about two months. 1115
lordship has been spending his vacation in North Wales.
The family of Sir William Erle, the late Lord
Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, has been
placed in mourning by the death of the mother of Lsol
Erle. She was the widow of the Rev. Dr. David Williams,
Warden of New College, Oxford, and canon of Winchester
Cathedral.

The Conduct of the Naval Officers in

Jamaica.