The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-02 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, FEB. 1.
The King, attended by his suite, has gone by rail
to Oporto to close the Exhibition in that city.
Two American war steamers have arrived here.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

PLYMOUTH, FEB. 2.

The screw steamer Stirling, from Singapore, Nov.
17, and Table Bay, Dec. 23, passed up Channel to-
day. She brings a Cape mail, with four days' later
news than the last steamer.

The distress in the colony continued to press
heavily on all classes, more especially on the un-
employed artisans and labourers.
The Governor's Guarantee Fund had not reached
half what his Excellency had asked for.
A meeting had been held at Grahamstown
where it was unanimously resolved to sign
a bond indemnifying the Governor for proceeding
with the railway works between Port Elizabeth
and that city at once. The amounts subscribed
had, however, been far short of the sum required
for that undertaking. Also the Relief Committee,
instituted at Cape Town to assist the unemployed,
had been closely pressed for want of funds, and it
was expected that they would be obliged to dis-
charge 110 men employed on the roads.
The weather had been excessively hot, and the
drought continued in several districts. At Graaf
Keinet and Aberdeen sheep were dying by
thousands.

The Customs' Revenue had already fallen short
of the total amount estimated for the year by more
than £40,000.
The Basuto war was being continued. The
Free State burghers were making renewed exertions,
but it was feared that any victory they could
achieve would prove a very inadequate set-off
against the losses they had already sustained in
trade, agriculture, and general material interests.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FEB. 2.

The 3/oniteur of this morning points out the pre-
scriptions of the law in reference to the publication
of the debates in the Senate and Corps Legislatif,
and says :—•" If the press should fall into the ex-
cesses which formerly aimed at the liberty of the
public powers and the respect due to them, the
Administration would be compelled to exercise the
rights conferred upon it by law."
BOURSE, Feb. I.—Three o'clock—The market
closed as follows:

41 per Cents 9B
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 6B 65
Do. end month 6B 60
Credit Mobilier -
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3725
Credit Foncier 1312 50
Italian Loan 6l 95
Do. end month 6l 95

Roman . 69
Ottoman Fives —
Mexican Loan 46 75

Do. Bonds — _
Russian' —
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred

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

Acut.
850 50
1111 25
856 25
545

- -
531 25

... 407 50
... 401. 25
... 180 -

225 -

147 50

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before Sir J. P. Wilde.)

lIATT V. HATT AND JOHNSON THE QUEEN'S PROCTOR
INTERVENING.)

Mr. Hanner was counsel for Queen's Proctor,
and Dr. Spinks for the petitioner.

The original petition in this case was filed by the
husband on the 20th January, 1865, and the Court
made a decree nisi, dissolving the marriage on the
15th June last. However, it came to the know-
ledge of the Queen's Proctor, that a month before
filing the petition, the petitioner had contracted a
bigamous marriage with a female named Sarah
Isabella Hunt, and be accordingly intervened.
There was a plea of collusion on the record,
but it was not pressed. The petitioner was living
with the woman Hunt at Surrey-terrace, and passed
for her husband. These facts were proved by the
sister of the petitioner, who was present at both
marriages, and there was no defence.

His lordship rescinded the decree nisi, and dis-
missed the petition.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)
IN TIE JEIIRIG-ADULTERATION OF SILK.

This bankrupt was described as a merchant of
Broad-street, and he came up to-day for-the order
of discharge. The assets show a total indebtedness
of £48,000, but no estimate of assets is yet filed.
The cause of the failure is thus assigned :
Heavy charges for interest, and not being able to
make sales, having on hand some large parcels of
silk on the continent, quite unsaleable through being
adulterated.

It was stated that in consequence of the intricate
character of the accounts an adjournment was ne-
cessary, and his Honour directed that the case
should stand over for two months.

THE PRESIDENCY OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY.—
Yesterday evening a meeting of the Royal Acade-
micians was held at their house in Trafalgar-square, to de-
cide on the election of a President, in the room of Sir
Charles Eastlake, deceased. On the 24th ult. Sir Edwin
Landseer was elected by a large majority of the Royal
Academicians who were then present, but he declined to
serve. So strong a feeling, however, was evinced that he
should be the new President that an adjournment was at
once agreed on till last night. At that meeting it appeared
that Sir Edwin Landseer persevered in his intention not to
serve, and the result has been that Mr. Francis Grant,
R.A., was elected President. The new President of the
Royal Academy is the fourth son of Mr. F. Grant, of
Kilgraston, Perthshire, and a brother of Gen. Sir J. H.
Grant, G.C.B. At the commencement of his artistic career
he applied himself to the painting of sporting pieces, but,
abandoning this part of the profession, he devoted himself
to the higher branches of the art, and in 1834 exhibited at
the Royal Academy. In 1842 he was elected an Associate,
and in 1851 was advanced to the rank of a Royal Acade-
mician.

THE FOREIGN LEGION IN MEXICO.—The Patrie
publishes the subjoined :—" The Gth battalion of the foreign
regiment, formed in the provinces of Oran and destined
for Mexico, has lately left to join the five battalions already
organised. This reinforcement will raise the foreign legion
to an effective of nearly 7,000 men. This corps, as is known,
will remain in the service of France up to the day when
the French trocps have evacuated Mexico to return to
France, when the regiment itself shall be completely paid
and maintained by the Government of Maximilian I.
France having always had in her service ever since the
Restoration a foreign corps, in which men not naturalised
might be incorporated, who should be anxious to serve
under the French flag, another legion or regiment will pro-
bably be formed."

During the last few days there has been very
little business transacted in the foreign and colonial
'produce markets. Sugars have been neglected,
although prices have remained steady. There has
been a good demand for coffee, and superior quali-
ties have brought full values. Rice has been dull
and without change, while rather more activity has
prevailed in the tallow market, without, however,
any material alteration in quotations for either pre-
ent or forward delivery.