The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-30 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, JAN. 30.
The Corps Legislatif has confirmed the elections
of MM. Larrabure and Fremy.

BOURSE, Jan. 29.—Two o'clock.—The market
presents a buoyant appearance, and better quota-
tions. Credit Mobilier Shares have advanced 30f.,
in consequence of an official announcement that
the capital of the company is about to be doubled.
Three per Cents. and Italian Fives have also
slightly improved, the former being quoted at
68f. 60c., and the latter at 62f. 35c. The Railway
Market is well maintained, with the exception of
South Austrian Shares, which are offered at 413 f.
75c., with a decline of 6f. 25c. Immobiliere Shares
continue in favour, with an advance of sf.—at 528 f.
75c. English Consols are telegraphed with a fall of
per cent. Three o'clock—The last quotations are
as follows:

4j per Cents 9B 50
Do. end month —
3 per Cents.
• -
Do. end month 84a- 75
850
Bank Shares 3725
Credit Foucier —
Italian Loan 62 25
Do. end month 62 25

Roman 69
Ottoman Fives —
Mexieslon 4B
7;7 .LV.
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —

Deferred

WAYS.
Cash. Amt.
... 855
... 1115
855
551 25

RAILY

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

531 25

... 200 -
... 410 -
... 418 75

Rolntua

-

226 25

- - ... 147 50

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE I'VIORAVIAN.
(Via Greencastle.)

The following are the heads of the news brought
by the Moravian :
NEW YORK, Jan. 20 (Evening).

The House of Representatives have passed the
bill granting unconditional negro suffrage in the
district of Columbia by a vote of 116 to 54.
General Sheridan - has telegraphed from New
Orleans disavowing all knowledge of the attack on
Bagdad. He has ordered all his subordinates to
preserve strict neutrality, and disbelieves the popu-
lar account of the affair, which he considers a sen-
sation story.

The Federal Government has relieved the pro-
visional Governor of Florida and has recognised
the Governor elect.

The Fenian Senate have called their Congress to
assemble at Pittsburg on the 19th February to de-
termine the military measures to be adopted.
Twelve ex-Federal military officers have returned
from Ireland and reported to the Senate that the
people there were powerless without arms, and were
complaining of O'Mahony's policy. The officers
were compelled to return to America, fearing arrest.

A correspondence has been published between
Generals Weitzel, Crawford, and Mejia concerning
the execution of captured Mexicans by Mejia.
Weitzel, replying to Crawford's protest, says he had
notified Mejia of the opinion held by the Federal
Government on the subject, that he would again
communicate with the Federal Government on the
subject, but had positive orders not to commence
hostilities without instructions so to do.

Mejia refused to notice WeitzePs protest concern-
ing the internal affairs of Mexico.
The Nova Scotta has arrived out, The Asia has
arrived at Halifax.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, Jan. 20 (Evening).

Money abundant. Gold 139. Exchange on
London 151; on Paris 373 f. Stock dull. New
York Centrals 934 ; Illinois 125 ; Erie 891. Five
Twenties 1034. Cotton dull. Middling Upland
51. Flour and wheat declining. Corn and Pro-
visions dull. Coffee firmer, and in moderate de-
mand. Sugar and molasses steady. Petroleum
dull ; crude 34 ; refined 55.

MOBILE, Jan. 19.

Cotton, 47, quiet. Week's sales, 10,400 bales ;
do. receipts, 12,550 bales; do. exports, 9,270 bales;
stock, 86,400 bales.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA.
NEW YORK, Jan. 16, Evening.

It appears that the statement recently made by a Mobile
paper that national troops were to be entirely withdrawn
at once from the South was unauthorised and incorrect. It
is now reported that General Grant, in response to appli-
cations !for their immediate withdrawal, states that he
would not recommend such a step until there is ample
security for all classes; and he doubts the propriety of
arming the State militia while the national troops re-
main.

The following despatch from Senator Verger, of Mis-
sissippi, at Washington, to Cloyornor Humphreys of Ws

State, would, however, seem to indicate that the troops
are not retained at the South generally on account of any
apprehensions of trouble :
"I have had an interview with the President, but with-
out definate results. General Grant has recommended the
withdrawal of all coloured troops, and that white troops
shall be left:at the South, and states that the acquiescence in
the general Government is so general that the mere pre-
sence of national troops, without regard to numbers, will
be sufficient to maintain order."

New Orleans advices state that the difficulty of obtain-
ing plantation hands still exists in that section. The
planters assign as a reason the idleness of the freedmen,
while the latter claim that if offered fair wages they are
willing to work. Direct steamship lines are to be esta-
blished between New Orleans and Liverpool, and New
Orleans and France.

The Third Michigan Cavalry has been disbanded for
mutiny at San Antonio, Texas.

Colonel John S. Mosby has been arrested by order of
Secretary Stanton, on a charge of having hung two Fede-
ral soldiers during the war, in retaliation for the murder
of two of his men. Mosby claims that his arrest is a
violation of his terms of surrender.

In the Federal Senate, cn the lbth inst., several petitions
in favour of an increased protective tariff were introduced,
and referred to the Finance Committee.

Mr. Howard (of Michigan, Republican) offered a joint
resolution, consideration of which was postponed, recom-
mending that Jefferson Davis and Clement C. Clay be
immediately brought to trial before a court-martial or
military commission for connection with the assassination
of President Lincoln and the alleged conspiracy to starve
Federal prisoners to death.

Mr. Chandler (Republican, of Michigan) called,up a bill,
directing the Secretary of State to make out a list of all
vessels destroyed by "British pirates in the employ of the
rebel Government " Mr. Chandler advised non-intercourse
with Great Britain until the bill for damages was paid.
lie then offered the following resolution :
"Whereas, by recent publication of diplomatic corres-
pondence, we are advised that Great Britain has refused to
repair the damages inflicted on American commerce through
the agency of her subjects during the late war, and has de-
clined to arbitrate, and formally not to hear anything fur-
ther on the subject ; therefore, Resolved that the President
is hereby requested to withdraw our Minister from St.
James's, and to make a proclamation of non-intercourse,
which is to take effect after such proclamation shall have
been issued."

Mr. Chandler asked immediate action on the above ; but
Mr Dixon objected, and the resolution lies over under the
rules.

In the House of Representatives, on the 15th instant, a
resolution was adopted, advising the repeal of the Govern-
ment tax of two per cent. ad valor m on the hulls of ves-
sels as launched.

The credentials of several persons claiming seats as
members from Arkansas were presented, and referred to
the Reconstruction Committee.

On motion of Mr. Darling, it was resolved that the
Judiciary Committee be instructed to report upon the ex-
pediency of amending the naturalization laws, so as to
provide that all persons before taking the oath to support
the Constitution of the United States, shall be required to
read intelligently said Constitution.
A resolution was offered by Mr. Bromall (of Pennsyl-
vania) and tabled by a vote of 138 to 12, declaring that
as white men had decided by the ballot-box in the district
of Columbia, that in their opinion, negroes should not be
allowed to vote, the District Committee be required to re-
port upon the expediency of ordering an election in the
said district, at which blacks should decide, by ballot,
whether in their opinion the white men of the district
should have the right of suffrage.
Mr. Kasson (of Iowa) replied to the charges recently
published in a New York journal that the widow of Presi-
dent Lincoln had carried away from the Executive man-
sion property belonging to the Government. Mr. Kasson
denounced the statement as a gross and cruel slander, and
said that it had been fully ascertained that nothing had
been taken except an article, valued at $l5O, which was
especially associated with the memory of her husband, and
was removed with the knowledge and advice of the Secre-
tary of the Interior and other officials.
A stock company in Charleston, organised during the
war for the prosecution of the blockade-running business,
recently published a statement of dividends made payable,
whereupon the United States Treasury officials caused the
seizure of the officers, assets, books, &c., of the company.
The affair has been referred to Washington for adjudica-
tion.

A rumour was recently circulated that a desperate plot
had been formed to release Jefferson Davis. Additional
precautions have been taken to secure his captivity. Boats
patrol the bay during the night, and stronger guards are
on the outposts. Mr. Davis is still allowed all the freedom
and indulgence compatible wth his secure custody, and is
said to be in excellent health and spirits, and very anxious
to be brought to trial.

It is said that the Free Trade League has made great
progress at the West, in which section a strong movement
is about to be made against the present high protective
tariff. Western Congressmen are said to have already
been in caucus on the subject.

""• Dirlrn”- -Lt“ give a
Myddelton Hall, Islington, to-morrow in aid of the funds
of a local charity.

PATENT-OFFICE MUSEUM, SOUTH KENSINGTON.—
Number of visitors for the week ending Jan. 27, 2,009.
Total number since the opening of the Museum free daily
(12th May, 1858), 999,170.

The French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-
Lettres, in its !ast sitting, proceeded to elect a member in
the /place of M. Leclerc, deceased. Out of 36 votes, M.
d'Avezac received 19, M. Guessard 13, and M. Leblant 4.
M. d'Avezac was consequently declared duly elected.

The Chevalier Nigra, by the spontaneous direc-
tion of his Sovereign, Victor Emmanuel, has just delivered
to M. Auber the insignia and brevet of Officer of the Order
of Sts. Maurice and Lazarus.

A TIGER LOOSE IN LONDON.--The thing really
happened in 1857, as some will recollect. An animal
dealer was unshipping a consigned tiger in the London
Docks, when a board in Its den gave way, and out came
the liberated beast. A poor little boy, about nine years
old, walked up to the tiger, taking it for a big dog, and
began patting her. The tiger turned, seized the boy by his
shoulder, and galloped down the street, carrying the boy
in her mouth as a cat carries a mouse ; the animal-dealer,
Jamrach, holding on to the tiger all the time. Mr. Buck-
land tells the whole story in his new work, " The curiosi-
ties of Natural History."

AN IRISH ANTIQUARY of some celebrity has just
died in Dublin--Dr. Petrie, the author of the
" Round Towers of Ireland." He was born in 1791, and
his original profession was that of a painter, but his tastes
were more for literature and antiquarian studies, and when
an opportunity afforded, he abandoned the brush and the
pallette for the pen. His Essay on the Round Towers
gained him the gold medal of the Royal Irish Academy.
He afterwards gained a prize from the same critical body
for his Essay ou the Military Antiquities of Ireland. Many
interesting facts relative to the Cyclopean architecture of
Ireland's earliest inhabitants were given in this. He was
afterwards engaged on the historical and antiquarian sec-
tions of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Of Irish native
music, which many years since was so successfully treated
of by Mr. Hardman in his work, Dr. Petrie is said to have
left a very valuable collection—for the most part unpub-
lished. The deceased gentleman's ?Mends, we believe, in-
tend making some arrangements for publishing these in-
teresting materials.

MACLISE ort LANDSEER.—Many academicians
who desired the election of Mr. Maclise ascertained
the feelings of that artist on the subject, according to the
Athenaeum, and received the most unhesitating assurances
that he would not accept the position if it were offered to
him ; his desire is,to give all his life and energies to paint-
ing. All who know Mr. Maclise accept this decision as
final, and would grudge every hour that might be diverted
from the execution of such works as the "Nelson" and
" Wellington" pictures at Westminster.
THE IDENTITY OF THE SWELL CASITAL !—Upou
the subject of the " Night in a Workhouse," the
" Flaneur" of the Star recently remarked :—" The curiosity
as to the personality of the writer is not confined to the
members of the literary craft—it permeates society, and
amongst the ignorant the wildest guesses are made. It
must have been some regular literary man,' says Jones to
his clique, and then away go the guesses. Mr. Charles
Dickens—' just like Dickens ;" Mr. Hollingshead—' man
that went into the sewers, you know ;' Mr. Thos. Hughes
—'says he put on a bird's-eye handkerchief for a nightcap
—Hughes is bald, you know' (I heard this gravely put for-
ward in evidence !) ; Mr. Anthony Trollop; Mr. James
Hannay—' write every night in the Pall Mall you know.'
Not a bit like your regular literary hack,' says Brown to
his coterie; some fresh man, full of observation ;' and to
these there is no doubt of the description having been
written by Lord Milton, or Lord Ashley (Lord Shaftes-
bury's son), or "Jacob Omnium," sir.' (Ye gods ! how
much of J. O.'s noble person would have been covered by
an ordinary workhouse shirt ?) 'Joshua Mason, engraver,
of Hammersmith, aged 29,' is the entry in the casual book
of Lambeth Workhouse : and my own notion is, that if for
the first three words of that entry you read 'James Green-
wood, author,' you will not be far off the mark. Mr. James
Greenwood has written many descriptive papers of curious
experiences of thieves, tramps, Jews, &c., in the old days
of the Illustrated Times, and has always shown great talent
for reproducing his impressions in a thoroughly vraisem-
blable manner. If it be, he has now taken a grand step in
advance, and deserves all imaginable kudos for the extra-
ordinary pluck which carried him through his task,- and
the vivid style in which ho has described his expe-
riences."

A YOUNG POET'S WIDOW.—A subscription has
been started in favour of Mrs. J. Stanyau Bigg, the widow
of a young writer, who some years ago published a poem
called "Night and the Soul."

Six children in the family of Mr. Garrison, of
Waterloo, Wisconsin, have died within a short time from
drinking the milk of a cow which had been bitten by a
made dog—the virus remaining in her system, whey all
suffered most terrible spume,

HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Monday.
The Queen and royal family walked and drove
this morning in the grounds.

Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales

to Staffordshire.

TRENTHAM, Monday.
The present visit of their Royal Highnesses the
Prince and Princess of Wales to the seat of the
Duke and Duchess of Sutherland is affording their
royal highnesses so much real enjoyment that yes-
terday evening it was resolved that the stay
should
be extended longer than was at first intended. This
al
teration led to the supnosition that the original
arrangement would be carried out, and that their
royal highnesses would pay a visit to the Potteries.
With this conviction the works of Messrs. Minton,
Hollins, and Co., the manufacturers of Venetian,
encaustic, and mosaic pavements, at the neighbour-
ing town of Stoke-upon-Trent, have been surrounded
during he day with a crowd of very patient and
loyal Staffordshire people, who were eager to obtain
a glimpse of the prince and princess, but they were
doomed to disappointment. To make up for this
disappointment it is expected that the Prince of
Wales will shortly revisit the Potteries for the pur-
pose of laying the foundation stone of a new infir-
mary at Stoke-upon-Trent.
A " meet" of the North Staffordshire hunt took
place this morning, and was attended by the Prince
and Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of
Sutherland, the Marquis of Stafford, Lady Con-
stance Grosvenor, the Earl of :..lrewsbury and Tal-
bot, Lady Georgiana Talbot, Lady Adelaide Talbot,
Lord Richard Grosvenor, the Earl of Lichfield,
Lord Bagot, Lord Ronald Gower, Hon. H. L.
Bourke, and the leading gentry and nobility of
North Staffordshire. The " field" of horsemen
numbered at least 200, and a great many ladies in
carriages, the pedestrians numbering some hund-
reds more. The meet was at Barlaston Hall, the
seat of Mr. R. T. Adderley, a prominent object on
the crown of the hill opposite the Monument Hill.
Their royal highnesses will terminate their visit
at the ducal residence to-morrow morning, and will
proceed to Sandringham House, whence the prince
and princess will proceed to town on the 3d or sth
proximo.

His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and
the Countess Bernstorff and the Countess Therese Bern-
storff arrived yesterday evening at the Prussian Embassy',
on Carlton-house-terrace, from visiting the Earl and
Countess of Clarendon at The Grove, near Watford,
Herts.

His Excellency Senor Riestra Envoy Dana"
dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Argentine
Republic to the Court of St. James, accompanied b
Madame Riestra and family, have arrived at the Portland
Hotel, Southsea.

The Earl and Countess of Clarendon have been
entertaining since Saturday last, at the Grove, near %rat"
ford, Harts, a select party, including his Excellency til!
Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Bernstorff and
Countess Thdrese Bernstorff, the Earl Cadogan and
Countess Cadogan, Count Maffei, Lord and Lady Skehners-
dale, Hon. Fred. A. and Lady Constance Stanley, 1:10n.
Henry Cowper, Mr. Calcraft, &c.
The Countess do Grey will have an evening party
on Saturday, the 17th proximo, at the family residence ill
Carlton-gardens.
The Countess Russell, we understand, will give
a series of evening parties shortly after the meeting o',
Parliament.
The Countess Cowper is so far advanced towards
recovery, after her recent serious illness, as to be able to
take carriage airings. Should her ladyship continue to
progress she will come to town with the Ladies Cov(Per
about the 14th prox.
Lord and Lady Chelmsford and the Hon. gigs
Thesiger have arrived at their residence in Eaton-square:
from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter at
Burghley House, near Stamford.
Lord Stanley, M.P., arrived at the Earl of
Derby's residence in St. James's-square yesterday froze
Knowsley Park, near Liverpool.
Grosvenor, m.r., is expected t°
arrive at Grosvenor House on Thursday next from
Hall, Cheshire.
Lady Egerton of Tatton has left town for Ment-
more till Thursday next. Lord Egerton of Tatton and.
Hon. Miss Egerton are staying at Brighton.
The Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., and
Frances Countess Waldegrave are expected to arrive at
their residence in Carlton-gardens about the 20th of flex'
month, from the Chief Secretary's Lodge, Dublin, for the
season.