The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-19 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, April 18, Three o'clock.—The market
closed at the following quotations :-
4-} per Cents 96 75 Bank Shares 3480
Do. end month — Italian Loan 53 50
3 per Cents.
Do. end month 67 15 Mexican Loan 4ll
Credit Mobilier ... 597 50 Do. Bonds 2BO
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- Unis — Home Debt
Do. end month — Deferred

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535
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195

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Western
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Austrian
Lombard
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Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

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The Prince Imperial.

The Evenentent publishes a long article containing
some interesting details respecting the young
Prince. The writer, M. Adrien Marx, having
written to the Emperor explaining his position on
the public press, and asking permission to visit his
Imperial Highness's apartments at the Tuileries,
received immediately an answer from his Majesty's
private secretary, stating that there was no objec-
tion to according the favour requested. Accord-

ingly the writer went at the hour appointed, and
while waiting for the return of the Prince, who

was taking his gymnastic lesson, had some conver-
sation with Miss Shaw, the English lady attached
to his Imperial Highness's service since his birth.
M. Marx afterwards being left in the Prince's apart-
ment, made the observations thus described :
" What most struck me was a small bookcase con-
taining the works used for the Prince's studies. I
expected to find dictionaries splendidly bound and
grammars with gilt edges. Great was my surprise
to find on the shelves—close to a pair of globes—a
collection of classical works dog's-eared and worn.
Despite myself I thought of the old books tied up
with a leathern strap and swung over the shoulder
by the scholars as they left the Colleges. If a
rapid observation has not deceived me, I can state
that the works written by M. Duruy predominated
in the series put into the hands of his Imperial
Highness. The writing table, low and full of
drawers, was of mahogany, its top covered with
skin and furnished with a common porcelain ink-
stand, with pens and rulers of a democratic appear-
ance. On either side were two busts in gold and
two miniatures of their Majesties painted in ivory ;
and in front of these family pictures a paper weight,
the marble base of which supports a figure of
Napoleon I. astride a chair in the traditionary
position. This figure, admirably executed, is
carved from one single block of ivory. Be-
fore leaving this part of the room I noticed two
chairs in front of the table. The low one was for
the tutor, and the other for his Highness. The seat
of the master's was intact, while that of the pupil's
was slightly deteriorated. The straw bottom was
ragged at the edges and the front rungs were worn
by the feet. The calmness of the instructor and
the petulance of the pupil are equally true in all
stages of the social scale." M. Marx describes in
the subjoined passages the mode of education
adopted M. Monnier more particularly in-
structs his august pupil during thewalks which they
take together. The studies at home at the desk are
but a small portion of the sum total of the instruc-
tion which he imparts, and the most profitable les-
sons are those given during those quasi-peripatetic
lectures. In a word, for instance, he would ex-
plain how it is that the lungs feel more at ease
in the middle of a full supply of oxygen, and point
out different plants, giving them their Greek or
Latin names. If the Prince raised his eyes towards
nightfall the conversation might turn on the stars ;
so of natural history, geology, chemistry, and
mathematics. This system is proved to be excel-
lent by the fact that, although the Prince is only 10
years old, there is not any science upon which he
has not already considerable information. History is
of all branches of instruction that which most at-
tracts him. All the phenomena of natural science
also greatly interest him, and he never tires of con-
versing on them. Next to his inclination for his-
tory the predominant traits of his mind are inves-
tigation and observation. He possesses unusual in-
telligence, and I can relate an instance in proof. M.
Monnier told me that the same morning he related
to the Prince the legend of Cadmus. The child lis-
tened attentively to the history of the Phoenician
hero founding a city in Boeotia, killing the dragon
which guarded the fountain, and giving birth,
by sowing the teeth of the monster, to
warriors who speedily slaughtered each other.
Cadmus,' said the Prince, is civilisation. The
dragon is barbarism preventing approach to the
fountain, which is light. The triumph of Cadmus
is that of civilisation, and the springing up
of soldiers who massacre each other is civil
war or the agitation of the factious mob who can
never be extirpated from a State.' To these proofs
of precocity the prince joins a pronounced taste for
the arts ; he draws and paints without masters,
models in clay without having taken any lessons,
and repeats with a finger on the piano the airs
which his ear retains. I was doubtless about to
learn some new prodigy of his encyclopaedic apti-
tude, when Miss Shaw opened the door and said to
me, Monsieur, I have begged Monseigneur to sign
one of his drawings for you, and he replied that he
would draw one specially for you. He has nearly
L finished it, and gee! hero he comes, bringing it him-