The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-15 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Jan. 13.—Two o'clock.—The market
is firm, and quotations higher. Threes, for the Ac-
count, have advanced 10c.---to 68f. 60e. Credit
Mobilier Shares show an improvement of 10f., being
quoted at 782 f. 50c. Spanish Mobiliers are doing
at 435 f., with an advance of sf. Italian Fives ap-
pear in great disfavour, this stock having declined
17ic.—viz., to 62f. 55c. Comptoir d'Escompte
have risen 7f. 50c. Telegraphic communication
with England continues imperfect, the Stock Ex-
change despatches not having reached Paris. Three
o'clock.—The market closed as follows:

41 per Cents 97 55
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 6B 55
Do. end month 6B 57i
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3615
Credit Foncier —
Italian Loan 62 35
Do. end month 62 52f
FULL`

Roman —
Ottoman Fives —
Mexican Loan —
Do. Bonds —
Russian -
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred

'AIM
Cash.

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

Acct.
... 847 50
... 1147 50
... 852 50
... 551 25
... 560

- - ... 530 -
- - ... 205 -
- - ... 415 --
_ - ... 426 25
._- -. ... 180 -
- - ... 220 -
- -- ... 107 50
_ - ... 158 75

WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 13.

The Royal Mail Company's steamer Tasmanian,
Capt. Woolcott, 'with the above mails, has arrived.
She brings 23 passengers, $1,340,408 in specie and
precious metals, and a general cargo, consisting of
1,155 packages indigo, 96 of rubber, 251 of cochi-
neal, 42 of cotton, 3 of skins, 5 of nuts, 310 of
tobacco, 115 of bark, 1 of coffee, 1 of provisions,
and 47 of sundries. The latest dates are :—St.
Vincent, Dec. 25 ; St. Lucia, 27 ; Martinique, 27 ;
Antigua, 28 ; St. Kitts, 28 ; Jamaica, 25 ; Grey
Town, 16 ; Colon (Aspinwall), 22 ; Demerara, 24 ;
Tobago, 23 ; Trinidad, 24 ; Barbadoes, 26 ; Gre-
nada, 25 ; and St. Thomas, 30.
Her Majesty's ship Wolverine and Buzzard were
at Barbadoes. At Jamaica the Aboukir, Duncan,
Cignet, and Delight.

The Tasmanian experienced strong trade winds
till the sth, then heavy breezes and cloudy weather,
increasing to a gale on the 9th from N.W., with
tremendous sea ; weather moderating on the 12th.
Considering the weather the Tasmanian has expe-
rienced she has made a quick passage. Heavy
weather has prevailed all over the West India
islands, doing considerable damage.
No change in business at Jamaica, which remains
dull. Coffee scarce ; prices firm and advancing.
Crop of corn abundant. Exchange, 90 days, 2 per
cent.

The Colonial Standard in its packet summary
publishes a long defence of the measures to sup-
press the late movement in Jamaica, on the ground
of the great emergency, in reply to the articles in
some of the English journals. The Standard says :
—" The declarations of the rebels and their subse-
quent action after leaving Morant Bay negative the
idea of a local riot, and explain the forbearance they
showed to women, children, and doctors. The band
of rebels had assembled at Stony Gut two or three
days before going down to Morant Bay. They had
taken a fearful oath to stand by one another, and
to accomplish a certain purpose. They knew that
all the military force which was available on the
moment had been brought up to opptse them ; they
had a programme to which they stuck religiously,
neither suffering excitement, the opportunity of
plunder, nor the temptation of outraging the un-
protected women to turn them from their purpose.
They fought at Morant Bay, and stood to it reso-
lutely.
After carrying out their plans there, they
retired to prayer and to thank God for their sue-
cesses,
and then divided into separate bodies, each of
which took different directions across the country,
levying recruits by the way, and each, though away
from the others, adhering throughout to the original
plan pursued at Morant Bay. The direction
taken indicated the purpose of spreading the rebel-
lion elsewhere than in the parish. The band which
went east sent forward the threat to take and burn
Port Antonio in the next parish. These bands, it is
true, took to flight at the approach of the soldiers,
but still they carried their ravages onward, and did
not desist until the troops were actually upon them.
A rebel attempted to decoy the soldiers from Morant
Bay, on the pretence of leading them to the haunts
of certain chiefs, but failed through suspicions which
led to his detection. An address, by Paul Bogle
and other chiefs, issued after the arrival of the
troops at Morant Bay, was found, calling upon the
followers of the movement to rise. The rebels were
evidently taken aback by the sudden presence of the
troops and the prompt vengeance which was dealt
out, and they became too demoralised to make head
against the troops, but they evidently kept up
action in order to encourage the co-operation they
expected in other parts of the island. There was a
spirit of disaffection manifested in the neighbouring
parishes which was not to be mistaken. Threaten-
ing letters were daily sent to obnoxious persons in
great number. The rebels spared the doctors, but
they told why, viz., that they would want the
doctors by-and-by. They anticipated that surgeons
would be useful to them. They spared the women
and children, but for a purpose which they ex-
pressed. The torch was never applied by them but
from inevitable necessity or accident, and they gave
the reason for it.

" The evidence in the case of Gordon will pro-
bably be published before long, and it will be seen
that even before a civil tribunal he would have been
convicted. It scarcely needs argument to prove
that the prompt execution of this man, under the
circumstances, was highly important. The urgency
of the moment would not allow of his being handed
over to the slow process of the civil tribunals. His
position, as a criminal awaiting trial, would have
been a perpetual danger. It might be more regular
to a try a man in the ordinary way; but 'circumstan-
ces alter cases,' and in the public emergency then
subsisting such a course as regards Gordon would
have been highly dangerous.
"6 The present constitution has been abolished,
and the creation of a future constitution left abso-
lutely to the judgment of the Queen.
" The general news of the past fortnight is not of
much importance to the foreign reader. Every-
thing now appears to have relapsed into quietness,
but as a precautionary
measure orders have been
issued to the volunteers to turn out on guard during
the Christmas holidays.

" The Maroons have completed their Our to the
Western parishes, and returned home. They were
everywhere received with earnest welcome and en-
thusiasm, Col, Fyfe is quite recovered.''