The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-21 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, May 19, Two o'clock.—Discounts of
rather important sums continue to be demanded.
To-day the list comprises the following, viz. :-
94,5001 r. Three per Cent. Rentes ; 30,000 Italian
Fives ; 1,050 Credit Mobilier Shares ; 600 Comp-
tour d'Escompte, &c. The market is very inactive,
with generally lower quotations—a certain amount
of uneasiness pervading all departments. Threes,
for the Account, have receded 35c.—to 63fr. 60c.
Credit Mobilier Shares have fallen to 515 fr—a loss
of 15fr. Credit Foncier Shares have declined
17fr. 50c., the quotation I,loofr. ; and Comptoir
d'Escompte are lfr. 25c. lower—at 670 fr. The
pressure continues in Italian Fives, the cause no
doubt being the definite adoption by the Chamber
of Deputies of the bill imposing a tax of 8 percent.
on the Rente. To-day they have again receded
80c., viz., to 37fr. 90c. Railway Shares are also
generally dealt in ou lower terms. Northern Shares
have declined sfr ; Lyons, lfr. 25c. ; Lombard,
Ur. ; and Austrian 6fr. 25c. Paris Gas Shares are
unvaried at 1,392 fr. 50c. From London Consols
are telegraphed with a fall of I. Three o'clock.--
Quotations have further receded, the market closing
as follows :

41 per Cents 93
Do. end month —
3 per Cents.
Do. end month 63 30
Credit Mobilier 517 50
Do. end month ~ 513 75
Credit Foncier —
Do. end month —

Bank Shares 3400
Italian Loan 37 40
Do. end month 37 70
Mexican Loan 33
Do. Bonds 235
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred -
WAYS.

For Account.
Orleans 790
Northern 1047 50
Lyons and Mediterranean...., 785

Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian

525

Lombard 286 25
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona —
Roman —

Arrival of the Cape Mail.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
PLYMOUTH, Saturday.

The Union Company's Cape Royal Mail steam-
ship Saxon, Capt. E. Baynton, arrived here to-day,
from Table Bay, April 17, 4 p.m. ; St. Helena, 25,
4 p.m. ; and Ascension, 28, 9 p.m. She brings with
the usual mails 97 passengers, and the following
cargo :—Specie, £625 ; bullion, £370 ; 726 bales
wool ; 105 bales sheep and goat skins ; 851 raw
hides ; 992 bags copper ore ; 89 tusks ivory ; 1 case
rhinoceros horns; 2 bags shells, 62 boxes fruit, 38
cases ostrich feathers, 2 casks aloes, 2 bundles wild
beast skins, 4 packages copper, 14 bales buchu
leaves, 17 casks wine, and several packages sun-
dries. . Among the Saxon's passengers are Mr.
Galway, Attorney-General for Natal, and Mrs.
Galway; Dr. Mann, F.R.A.S., and Mrs. Mann,
from Natal ; Major Miller, 67th Regiment ; Capt.
Macdonald, sth Fusiliers, 2d battalion. The Saxon
experienced moderate SE trades to St. Helena and
Ascension, and fresh NE winds from 3 North of
the Equator.
The news from Natal is, so far as ecclesiastical
matters are concerned, more unsatisfactory than
ever. There was nothing but wars and strifes, and
wrangling on every side. There were appeals to
the courts, and interdicts, and orders in reply to
them right and left. The bishop had got the dean
interdicted from holding service in the cathedral on
Good Friday morning. The dean on Easter Tues-
day, at an excited meeting for the election of
churchwardens, became more excited than any one
else there, and suddenly dissolved the assembly, which
would not be dissolved in obedience to him, and the
meeting went on amid disreputable uproar and con-
fusion ; half the members voted and the other half
refused to have anything to do with the business.
An address had been got up to the metropolitan
asking him to cease meddling or interfering with
the diocese at all. A counter address had been got up
to the dean expressing fullest sympathy and promising
energetic aid in his procoedings. A telegram, for-
warded from Pietermaritzburg, just as the steamer
was leaving, stated that the quarrel had at length
resolved itself into a very literal contest about the
keys. The court had ordered possession of the
cathedral to Bishop Colenso, and having further
enjoined the dean to deliver up the baptismal regis-
try. The Colensonian party took possession by for-
cibly opening the church doors, wrenching off the

diaconal locks, and substituting episcopal ones of
their own. The other side then returned the com-
pliment" by wrenching off these new locks, and thus
the wrangle was proceeding. The paper war be-
tween Dr. Colons() and the dean was also maintained
in the local press. The Rev. Mr. Fredoux, a mis-
sionary, son-in-law of the Rev. Mr. Moffat, senior,
had met with a sudden and tragic death in the far
interior. A trader named Nelson had committed a
crime for which lie was a fugitive from justice, and
followed the track of Mr. Fredoux, who was on a
pastoral journey to Morokwain. Mr. Fredoux had
instructions sent him to arrest Nelson, and to com-
pel his return to Motito, to receive judgment for his
crime. When called upon to surrender Nelson at
first tried the effect of an apology ; but finding that
of no avail he shut himself up in his waggon,
threatening to shoot any one who should come near
him. Mr. Fredoux approached the, waggon to re-
monstrate
.with him, and point out the hopelessness
of resistance, when, to the horror of such spectators
as escaped, waggon and bystanders were blown into
the air and six blackened corpses, including that of
Mr. Fredoux and Nelson, were stretched on the
ground. There were 1751 b. of gunpowder in Nel-
son's waggon, and this he had fired.
A deputation from the wine farmers had waited
upon his Excellency the Governor, with a petition
to her Majesty, praying for such an alteration in the
.wine duties as would admit Cape wines to the Lon-
don market; his Excellency, however, produced a
despatch addressed to himself, in reply to the re-
solutions adopted iu the House of Assembly on the
subject, and from the wording of the despatch it was
gathered that the wine farmers must cease to expect
any relief from the Government in the matter of
duties. The war between the Free State and the
Basutos had been finally closed by a treaty signed
by Moshesh, the paramount chief of the Basutos, on
April 3. The terms of the treaty were very favour-
able to the Free State, who thereby acquired a large
accession of very valuable territory. The Saxon
landed her mails here, and proceeded this afternoon
to Southampton. Her mails are forwarded by this
evening's mail train.
On the evening of April 15 a destructive fire broke
out in Cape Town, by which a large quantity of
property was destroyed. The fire commenced in
Longmarket-street, at the shop of Mr. Johnson,
chemist and druggist, and extended to the premises
of Messrs. Shaw and Stuttaford, drapers, and to the
bonded warehouses of Messrs. W. Dickson and Co.

Paris Gossip.

Reports are again prevalent of a change in the Ministry.
M. Persigny is to replace M. de la Valetta as Minister of
the Interior; General Fleury to succeed Marshal Bandon
as Minister of War. It is also said that M. Fould, Minister
of Finance, will retire, but his successor is not yet named.
Two splendid bloodhounds arrived a short time ago at
the Jardin d'Acclimatation. All Paris is running to see
these splendid animals.

The "Life of Julius Caesar," it is well known, has for
many years occupied the Emperor's serious attention. Its
most eloquent chapters were written in the gardens of St.
Cloud and Vichy. His Majesty made several journeys,
accompanied by General Fav6, to one of the most cele-
brated spots of the Gallic campaign. The Emperor was
also assisted by several distinguished officers. M. Alfred
Maury, of the Royal Institution, worked every day with
the Emperor in the literary part of the book. Upon one
occasion this gentleman found His Majesty pale, and with
tears flowing from his eyes. " !my dear M. Maury,"
said Napoleon 111., "we cannot work to-day." The Due
do Morney had died a few hours previously. A special
edition of this work was printed for distribution among
the Emperor's friends, every copy of which was signed
" Napoleon."