The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-04 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, Oct. 4.

By order of the Emperor, Generals lTauber de
Geniis and Jaye have proceeded, one to the Loire,
and the other to the Allier, to examine the scene of
the devastation caused by the recent inundations.
They are also empowered to distribute aid amongst
the most necessitous.

The steamer Dix-Decembre, belonging to the
French Telegraphic administration, has just returned
to Toulon after an absence of three months. During
that period she was engaged in laying down the
submarine cable connecting France with Algeria,
passing by Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily. Having
completed that task, she has been occupied in
dragging for the broken portions of cable lost in
various unsuccessful attempts to connect those two
countries iu a direct line, and has recovered about
200,000 metres (125 miles.)
In consequence of an inquiry into the origin of a
large fire at a tan yard at Lacken, the proprietor,
M. Vanderkinderen, has been arrested and sent to
prison.

The committee formed at Ostend for the distri-
bution of soup and meat during the prevalence of
the cholera has had a meeting and decided that, in
consequence of the decrease of the epidemic, it would
cease its operations on the 11th inst.
Letters from Saragossa state that 54 persons of
various classes have just been arrested to be trans.-
ported to the Philippines or Fernando Po. These
unfortunates are said to be treated like condemned
criminals.

The Cossacks of the Don have just presented to
the Russian Church at Nice a magnificent silver
cross, in the Byzantine style, of the value of about
16,000 f., as a memorial in honour of the late here-
ditary Grand Duke of Russia, Nicholas Alexandro-
witch, who was their Hetman.

The iron-clad squadron, Admiral La Ronciere le
Noury, entered the Gironde three evenings back to
seek a refuge from the heavy weather prevailing in
that part of the Atlantic.
A sacrilege has just been committed in the Church
of Seyssel (Ain). Some thieves effected an entrance
by breaking the glass of the sacristy-window, and
carried off the sacred vessels, pyx, &c. An alarm
having been given, three men were arrested at Belle-
garde, making their way to Geneva. The property
was found in their possession.
One of the most curious sights on the coast at
Entretat (Seine Inferieure) was the Chaudron du
Diable. This was a kind of shaft running down
the cliff, and open at the bottom. At certain stages
of the tide the wind forced the water into the
lower opening with such a violence that it was pro-
jected to a great height above the top. A landslip
end to the phenomenon.
The customs at Rouen in September produced
175,944 f. more than in the corresponding period of
last year. During the first nine months of 1866,
compared 'with the similar period of 1865, the
receipts show an increase on imports of 837,952 f.,
exports, 2,510 f. ; and navigation, 2,344 f. In the
aggregate the income gives 812,814 f. in favour of
the present year.

Mgr. Dunanloup, Bishop of Orleans, who is at
present staying in Dauphine, in delicate health, has
just sent instructions to the clergy of his diocese to
give shelter in the episcopal palace to as many of
the sufferers from inundations as possible; likewise
to receive on his grounds all the cattle that may be
saved. The Bishop also abandons to these poor
people the third of his stipend, that is to say, a sum
of 4,000 fr.
BOURSE, Oct. 2.—Three o'clock.—The market
again opened this morning very flatly, and has since
continued so in all Securities, but the Stock most
affected by the depression is Italian Fives. They
have fallen to the extent of 55c., namely, from 57f.
sc. to 56f. 50c., and at thatquotation are very freely
offered. This weakness may be attributed to the
large requirements of money on the part of the
Italian Government. French Threes have declined
7ic., to 69f. 20e. ; Credit Mobilier Shares have de-
clined Bf. 75c., to 658 f. 75c. Credit Foncier and
Comptoir d'Escompte each 2f. 50c., to 1,327 f. 50c.,
and 912 f. 50c. Societe Generale Shares have fallen
3f. 75c., to 563 f. 75e. ; and Itnmobiliere Shares 2f.
50c., to • 410 f. Mexican Bonds remain steady at
147 f. 50c. Railway Shares are also weak with
lower quotations.
Three o'clock.—The market has closed on the
following quotations :

41. per Cents 97 40
Do. and month —
3 per Cents. 69 15
Do. end mouth 69 20
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Credit Foncier —
Do. end month 1372 50
R&M

Bank Shares 8615
Italian Loan ........• 56 40
Do. end month 56 40
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds 147 b 0
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred

For Account.
Orleans BBO
Northern ll7O
Lyons and Mediterranean 897 50
Southern 5BO
Western 571 25
Eastern 545
Sardinian . —
Austrian
Lombard 412 50
North of Spain —
Saragossa 14.5
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

68 75

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

By the above mail we have advices and papers
from Bombay to the Bth and from Calcutta to the
Ist instant. The principal news has been antici-
pated by the telegraphic summary we published
yesterday. The following, taken from the Bombay
Times, will be found of some interest :
" The Bank of Bombay reduced its rates of dis-
count 2 per cent. on the 4th of September, the
present rates being 6 per cent. on Government paper
and 8 per cent. on mercantile bills.
" The Alliance Bank of Bombay is to be wound
up voluntarily. At the meeting at which this step
was decided upon the shareholders adopted a balance
sheet representing the paid-up capital at £381,000,
and the bank's bad and doubtful assets at £340,000.
" At an uproarious meeting of the shareholders
of the Western Indian Finance and Exchange As-
sociation it was resolved that that corporation should
be wound up voluntarily.
" The Bombay Legislative Council has held three
meetings at Poona, the principal business disposed
of being the Bombay Bank Amendment Bill.
" It is feared that the cotton crops in Guzerat
will this season prove a failure, in consequence of
the damage they have sustained from the recent
heavy rains.
"Another extension of the main line of the Great
Indian Peninsula Railway has just been opened for
traffic. It is 423. miles in length, and extends from
Burhanpoor to Kundwab.
" Railway communication, which was interrupted
by the late iloods, has been re-established on the

Bombay, Baroda, and Central Indian Railway be-
tween Surat and Bombay.
"The damage done to property by the late floods
in Lower Scinde is estimated at half a million ster-
ling.
" The decision of the Governor-General with re-
gard to the Lahore and Peshawur Railway has been
postponed until the Government of Bombay shall
have reported on the projected lines from Baroda to
Delhi and from Kotree to Mooltan.

" A great scarcity of provisions prevails in Per-
sia, and the districts around Teheran are threatened
with famine.

" Mr. George, the British political resident at
Luckhimpore, has been killed by the fall of a house.
Two other persons were also buried in the ruins, but
were alive when extricated.

"Lady Lawrence and family proceed to England
in March next.

"The third and final instalment of the Delhi
prize money is now in course of payment."

AMERICA.
(By Atlantic Telegraph.) .
NEW YORK, Oct. 1 (Evening).

Gold, 147. Exchange on London, 159. Stocks
excited : 5-20 United States Bonds, 1111 ; Illinois,
1241 ; Erie, 86. Cotton, 41.
.NEW YORK, Oct. 2 (Evening).

Gold, 1481. Exchange on London, 160 k. 5-20
United States Bonds, 111 g. Cotton : Middling
Upland, 43.
SOUTIIAMPTON, Oct. 3.

The North German Lloyd's steamer Herrmann,
Capt. Wenke, from New York, has arrived. She
brings 217 passengers for this port, llavre, and
Bremen ; 38 bags of mails for London, $20,000 in
United States bonds for Havre, and 1,500 tons of
cargo for Bremen, chiefly cotton and tobacco.
The Hermann left New York on the 22d ult.,
and experienced easterly winds throughout the
passage. On the 24th she spoke the City of Loudon;
on the 25th, a Cunard steamer ; on the 26th, in
45} deg. N., long. 52 W., she spoke the British
ship Eliza, steering W. ; and on the 2d inst. passed
the British barque Countess Sefton, bound W.
NEW YORK, Sept. 22.

General Grant has refused to attend or sanction
the approaching Radical Soldiers and Sailors' Con-
vention at Pitsburg, on the grounds that he cannot
interest himself in politics. The names of the dele-
gates announced so far preient a very meagre array
contrasted with the list of delegates to the .recent
Conservative Soldiers' Convention at Cleveland.

The travelling " Southern Loyalists" have reached
Cleveland, Ohio. They had a public reception in
that city on Friday. Ex-Governor Jack HaMilton,
of Texas, and Parson Brownlow spoke. The for-
mer declared that the President must be impeached,
though he believed Mr. Johnson would refuse to
submit to impeachment, and would call upon his
friends to sustain him.

Brownlow assailed the President. He was b
favour of never letting the cotton States get back
into the Union, but would hold them for ever in
subjection. He had fought rebels, with Jeff. Davis
at their head, and he would fight rebels with Andrew
Johnson at their head. Johnson would never par-
don Jeff. Davis ,because he was afraid he would run
against him for the Presidency.
Judge Sherwood, the chairman of the meeting,
declared that the President must be impeached. If
he should resist impeachment all who stood by him
should be tried for treason and hanged. It was
rumoured that Johnson could corrupt Grant, Sher-
man, and Sheridan, but notwithstanding this the
people of the North, if they left his life would leave
him nothing else but his old goose and press-board.
A Radical Soldiers' and Sailors' Convention met
at Syracuse, New York, on Thursday, and remained
in session two days. Generals Barlow, Cochrane,
and Barnum were the principal delegates present.
Resolutions were adopted endorsing the nomination
of Governor Fenton and the course of Congress,
and declaring that the President by usurpation was
exercishig his authority in the interests of rebels, to
the detriment of loyal men throughout the country.
General Barlow, who was about the only promi-
nent soldier present that had seen much actual field
service. snoke PitterlY 9f tip President, accusing
consider the examples and fate of Caesar, who had
his Brutus, and of Charles I. who had his Crom-
well. He declared that an irrepressible conflict was
arising, and would soon be felt over all the country.
If war must come they were realy for it.
Bishop Greene, of Mississippi, a warm personal
friend of Jefferson Davis, has recently visited the
President, to intercede for his release. It is re-
ported that Mr. Johnson declared that he positively
could not release Mr. Davis until the charges
against him were either abandoned or legally pro-
secuted.

Great damage has been done throughout the
western country by violent storms during the past
week. Railway bridges have been swept away and
several villages inundated. The loss of property is
immense.

The cholera is very prevalent among the negroes
in Mississippi and Alabama.
Latest reliable estimates of the coming cotton
crop state that it will certainly fall short of a mil-
lion and a half of bales.