The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-29 00:00:00

FRANCE.

La Patrie declares to be untrue the statements
put forward by several journals to the effect that
unfavourable news had been received concerning
the mission of Baron Saillard. The Baron had met
at Cuernavaca the Emperor Maximilian, but up to
February 25, the latest date from Mexico, no
arrangement had been concluded. It is expected
that the next mail (to arrive at St. Nazaire on
April 8) will bring despatches from Baron Sail-
lard, with the official reply of the Emperor Maxi-
milian.

BOURSE, March 28, Three o'clock.—The market
closed at the following quotations :-
41 per Cents 97 20
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 6B 32
Do. end month 6B 30
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month 665
Bank Shares 3610
Credit Foncier —
Italian Loan GO 25
Do. end month 6O 05
RAIL

Roman —
Ottoman Fives —
Mexican Loan 4B
Do. Bonds 3OO
Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred

VATS.
Cash. Acct.
... 872 50
1122 50
... 555 -
- 562 50
538 75
... 103 75
... 390 --
- 400 -
- ... 165
200

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

... 88 75

A National Debt of Honour.

(From Punch.)
You are occasionally informed by the newspapers
that a meeting has been held by the Commissioners
for the Reduction of the National Debt. The next
time these gentlemen meet they will perhaps take
into consideration, and report upon, a debt of about
£6,100 which the nation owes to the surviving rela-
tives of the late Admiral Fitzroy. The sum above
stated, and rather more, was so much money per-
sonally expended by Admiral Fitzroy on the public
service and never repaid to him. In particular,
now some thirty years ago, " this conscientious sur-
veyor, unwilling to quit his South American station
without rendering his services in every way com-
plete, had hired two additional vessels at his own
cost to finish off the examination of the coasts of
the Falkland Islands, and subsequently purchased
a third, besides fitting out the Beagle to a great ex-
tent at his own expense." Was not this statement
made by Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, at the
Royal Geographical Society, in his anniversary ad-
dress to that scientific body, delivered May 22,
1863? And did not the eminent speaker on that
occasion also relate how, as long ago as 1829,
" young Fitzroy" gained credit by his discovery
of the Otway water in the Straits of Magellan,
insomuch that his commanding officer, Captain
Philip King, very much applauding what he had
done, named one of the chief sea passages
Fitzroy Strait ? Everybody knows the work that
Fitzroy did as chief of the Weather-office—a capa-
city wherein, having saved a multitude of lives, he
finally, from over-exertion, lost his own. He died
morally worth millions ; fiscally worth less than
nothing : in debt £3,000. The late first Minister of
the Crown promised to confer a pension on Mrs.
Fitzroy, a promise which was more than he found
himself able to perform. Government can do no
more than ask authority from the House of Com-
mons for a grant sufficient to liquidate the debt
which was all that the admiral left behind him. The
times are so bad ; the nation is so poor, and is in-
debted to so many benefactors who had spent more
thon their all upon their country before they died !
The progress of a magnificent structure in course
of erection by a grateful country in Hyde-park
shows, however, that Englishmen can contribute
something out of their poverty in acknowledgment
of true merit, even when its claims are not forced
by necessity. In behalf of the late Admiral Fitz-
roy's widow and children, the Liverpool Chamber
of Commerce has formed a fund to be called " The
Admiral Fitzroy Testimonial Fund," to whose com-
mittee the honorary secretary in London is Charles
Shaw, Esq., 55, Charing-cross ; the secretary and
treasurer in Liverpool is William Ferguson, Esq.,
Liverpool and London-chambers ; and their Lon-
don bankers are Messrs. Coutts and Co.

ILLNESS OF THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.--The
Lord Chief Justice was unable, from a sudden attack of
indisposition, to preside at the Norwich Assizes yesterday.
Mr. Baron Martin intimated to the court that his lordship
would probably be able to resume his duties to-day :he
could not, however, speak with any degree of certainty.
The Kladderedaatsh, the Punch of Berlin, has a
clever and somewhat ominous cartoon. Austria and Prus-
sia, as two gladiators, are approaching a throne upon which
the Emperor of tho French is seated, clothed in the toga,
with the laurel wreath of victory encircling his brow.
The gladiators are holding up their swords, and uttering
the formula, " Morituri to salutant," whilst the Emperor
Napoleon's countenance expresses the delight ho feels at
the prospect of this combat a l'outrance.
STREET NOMENCLATURE IN THE CITY OF LONDON.
—Neundsditch was so called from a ditch which was ren-
dered intolerable by the stench of dead dogs whose bodies
were thrown into it. Clerk-enwell takes its name from an
old custom of the parish clerks, who used to assemble at a
well in the neighbourhood for the purpose of acting
Scripture plays. The Barbican speaks for itself. A bar-
bican or watch-tower, from the top of which might be seen
a fine view of the town, formerly stood here. The actual
spot on which the Tower was built is now ignominiously
occupied by a watchhouse. Cheapside, as all the world
knows, is simply chepe, a market ; and, in like manner,
Cornhill is merely a corn market established on a piece of
rising-ground. Particular localities were distinguished by
particular trades or callings, and took their names accord-
ingly. Bread-street, for instance, was a bread market in
the old times, the bakers being prohibited by stringent
City regulations from selling bread in their shops. Cloth-
fair, inhabited chiefly by drapers and mercers, was the re-
sort of clothiers from all parts of the country. Milk-street
was the great market for milk ; as Mincing-lane, called
after the Minchuns, or nuns of St. Helen (who had their
priory and hall in another part of the City, where the
name of St. Helen is still retained), was the principal sugar
market. Staining-lane, Cheapside, was so called because
it was chiefly inhabited by painter-stainers. Similar cases
might be easily accumulated.—Reader.

THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON FENTONVILLE-HILL.
—Yesterday at the Royal Free Hospital Dr. Lan-
kester resumed his inquiry into the circumstances attend-
ing the death of Mr. Frith, a Dissenting minister, of Mar-
garet-grove, Mildmay Park, who, on Sunday the 11th inst.,
was knocked down by a van on Pentonville-hill and killed.
The particulars of the occurrence were given at the
time. Evidence was now adduced connecting a man named
Robert Smith, who came from Birmingham, with the
charge_ of manslaughter. He is a horsedealer, and ho sold
the horse he was driving when Mr. Frith was injured on
the same evening to a man at Mile-end, and since then he
himself cannot be found, although the police are acquainted
with his usual haunts. The van that he drove is the pro-
perty of another man ; the step which was at the time of
the accident broken off the van cannot now be found.
The inquest was again adjourned.

RICHARD 111. will shortly be played at the Porte
St. Martin.