The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-12 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, July 11.—Two o'clock.—The tone of
the market at the opening to-day was somewhat
better ; but as soon as the extensive claims of Prus-
sia, exacted as the only conditions under which she
will accept the armistice, were known, a general
re-action set in. The prospects of a discontinuance
of the war by Austria on the unsatisfactory terms
set forth in the Prussian reply being therefore al-
most entirely annihilated heavy sales have taken
place, and_the:retrograde movement in quotations
has consequently been rapid and general. Three
per Cents., for the Account, which were dealt in at
the opening at 681 r. 25c., are now at 67f. 70c., or a
fall on yesterday of 80c. Italian Fives have receded
if. 55e., the present price being 51f. 25c. Credit
Mobilier and Foncier Shares have declined—the
former 30f., to 600 f., and the latter 20f., to 1,255 f.
Comptoir d'Escompte are at 830 f., or 12f. 50c.
lower. Railway Shares are likewise much offered
at depreciated rates. Orleans have declined 10f.,
to 840 f. ; Northern, 15f., to 1,105 f. ; Lyons, 5f., to
842 f. 50e. ; Austrian, 12f. 50c., to 337 f. 50c. ; and
Lombard, 5f., to 370 f. The Discount list to-day
comprises the following, namely-405,000f. Three
per Cents.; 205,0001. Italian Fives ; 15,000 f. Credit
Mobilier Shares, and numerous other less important
sums. Mexican Bonds are quoted for cash at 157 f.
50e. English Consols are telegraphed with a de-
cline of per cent. for the August Account.
Three o clock.—A further fall of is telegrahed
on English Consols. Here quotations have con-
tinued their downward movement, 'the market
closing as follows :

4i per Cents 96
Do. end month
3 per Cents 67 35
Do. end month 67 25
Credit llobilier 585
Do. end month
Credit Fonder
Do. end month.... 1250

Bank Shares 3500
Italian Loan 5l
Do. end month 5O 30
Mexican Loan —

Do. Bonds — •
Spanish Threes -
Home Debt -
Deferred
'AYR.

Orleans For Account.
840
Northern 1095
Lyons and Mediterranean 835
Southern 525
Western
Eastern 517 50
Sardinian —
Austrian
Lombard 361 25
North of Spain lOO
Saragossa
O " 120
Ditto to Barcelona 5O
Roman

DISPOSING OF A DEAD CHILD.—The following
facts were proved at an inquest held on Tuesday evening,
in the St. Martin's Vestry-room. On Wednesday last a
little girl named Jemima Cheeseman, 14 years old, having
charge of a baby, was seated in St. James's-pea, when a
woman respectably dressed, entering into conversation
with her, asked the girl to take care for a few minutes of
a black bag that she had in her hand. Tho woman then
left, but never returned. After waiting a long time the
girl took the bag home to her aunt, who called in a police-
man, and he opened it. In it was found the body of a
child wrapped in a piece of calico, apparently some portion
of a chemise. The girl Cheeseman described the woman
as wearing a brown mohair dress, black silk jacket, white
straw bonnet, with black strings and veil, and black kid
gloves. The jury found an open verdict, and the police
are endeavouring to discover the woman, whom the girl
declare§ she can identify.

Naval and Military Intelligence

VALETTA, July s.—The French steamer Euxine
leaves to-night for Leghorn and Marseilles, taking
a mail, which will probably reach London in antici-
pation of the China and India mails, whose arrival
at Suez has not yet been signalled. Her Majesty's
screw frigate Arethusa, 35, Capt. Macdonald, has
left Malta for the Piraeus of Athens, to relieve the
screw line-of-battle ship Gibraltar, 81, Captain R.
Coote, which has been stationed there for some time.
The Assurance, 4, Commander Pym, is the only
available vessel of war at present at Malta, and she
will leave us in a couple of days to convey the next
mail to the Commander-in-Chief, who is sailing o❑
the coast of Greece in the vicinity of Patras. The
Turkish paddlewheel yacht Sultania, Capt. Izzet
Bey, left Malta on the 29th ult. for Constantinople,
after undergoing repairs in the naval dockyard.
The harbour extension works are so far completed
that the agent of the contractor has waited on the
naval authorities at this island to intimate his readi-
ness to make them over to them as soon as the
necessary soundings have been taken to show that
the stipulated depth has been attained. The steam
dredgers are now putting the final touch to the
work. Great credit is due to the contractor, Mr.
Gabrielli, for the rapidity with which he has com-
pleted the work. A letter has been addressed to the
Government by the elected members of Council on
the subject of the sanitary measures which should be
taken in regard to vessels arriving from ports in-
fected with cholera. The Government has conse-
quently issued a notice imposing seven days' qua-
rantine on arrival from Liverpool, where some cases
of cholera are reported to have occurred among the
German emigrants. The tendency of public opinion
in Europe, based on the facts of the late visitation,
is in favour of quarantine as a precautionary mea-
sure. But no regulations can, it is evident, accom-
plish the end in view in these days of rapid commu_
nication between countries. A vessel, for instance,
arrived at Malta from Liverpool, soon after the
determination of the Government became known,
having a clean bill of health, with all well on board.
She was 22 days out, but of course no exception
could be made, and she is now performing the esta-
blished term of quarantine in the Marsamusoetto
harbour ; while to-morrow persons who may have
been in Liverpool or other snspected towns four or
five days ago, and have taken the overland instead
of the sea route, will be permitted to land inValetta
without molestation. It should be observed, how-
ever, that at Malta, as at Gibraltar, the authorities
are singularly placed, and can scarcely save them-
selves, whether they like it or not, from imposing
quarantine on arrivals from suspected places, owing
to the jealous watch constantly kept over them by
the boards of health of neighbouring countries, on
which they depend for supplies. Spain, Sicily, and
Greece are ever ready to punish relaxation in this
respect by immediately closing their ports against
offenders. A telegram has just reached Malta stat-
ing that the Board of Health of Gibraltar hasplaced
a quarantine of five days on.arrivals from Malta and
Alexandria. Farcy among horses has lately broken
out in Malta. This disease, which is quite new to
the island, is supposed to be introduced from Bom-
bay. An ordinance has been passed in council to
empower the Government to cause all animals suf-
fering from it to an incurable degree to be slaugh-
tered, and to segregate others affected with it, but
which afford hopes of recovery. It is also proposed
to place all animals coming from Barbary in a qua-
rantine of observation.
Commander Hunter and the officers and crew of
Her Majesty's late screw sloop Amazon, with the
exception of one boy, arrived at Portsmouth yes-
terday at 3 p.m., and were received on board the
Duke of Wellington, Capt. Fellowes, pending the
court-martial, which it is expected to be held on
board the Victory. The boy alluded to is missing,
and it is feared must have gone down in the ship.
There are of course all kinds of rumours relative to
the collision between the Amazon and Osprey, to
the lights shown by such vessel, the directions in
which the helm was shifted at the moment prior to
the collision, &c., but it would be unwise to repeat
such rumours when the whole matter will be imme-
diately investigated by a court-martial.
It is to be regretted that the two fine G- ton 7in.
rifled guns which formed the main armament of the
Amazon have guue Clown in the vessel, and In a
position in the Channel where there is no possible
chance of their recovery. At the present moment
when the rearmament of our navy has just corn•
menced, the loss of these two guns is almost 0:
greater importance than the loss of the Amazon her.
self.

Her Majesty's screw steam ironclad ship Cale-
donia, 30 guns, Capt. Foley, flagship of Rear Ad-
miral Yelverton, got under way at Portland some-
what suddenly on Tuesday week, and proceeded in
a south-easterly direction after rounding the break-
water. Early on the morning of Friday last she
again returned to her former anchorage, accom-
panied by a screw steam vessel of about 250 tons,
brig-rigged, which the Caledonia had captured in
the Channel 20 miles south-west of Portland Bill.
The vessel, it is stated, has on board 200 or 300
naval men, who were being illegally conveyed to a
South American port to take part in the war now
raging between Chili and Peru. The vessel cap-
tured by the Caledonia is the Greatham Hall. Upon
sighting the Caledonia she put her lights out and
endeavoured to escape, but after a run of two hours
the Caledonia came up with her, and, having
boarded her, Rear-Admiral H. Yelverton returned
with his prize to this harbour, and doubtless now
awaits instructions as to the disposal of the captured
vessel.

The two Russian screw frigates Asshaba, Capt.
Kramer, and Vitiaz, Capt. Green, on a cruise from
Copenhagen, arrived at Falmouth on Wednesday,
and exchanged the customary salutes with her Ma-
jesty's ships Ganges and the Castle of Pendennis.
Rear-Admiral Possiett, who has been waiting at
Falmouth the arrival of these ships, accompanied
by the Russian Consul-General, hoisted his flag on
board the Asshaba, and will remain in port some
days.

The lighter Duck, with stores from Chatham,
arrived at Devonport yesterday.
The lighter Tortoise, H. Hoskings master, left
Devonport yesterday with stores for the dockyards
at Portsmouth and Sheerness.

The iron screw steamship Achilles, 26, Capt. E.
IV. Vansittart, was placed in the Princes Dock, in
Devonport dockyard, on Monday. She will be re-
paired with all despatch, and may possibly leave
again on the 26th, to join the Channel squadron.
On the present occasion there will be no alteration
of her masts. The Achilles would leave the dock

sooner but for Borne repairs necessary to her ma.
cliinery, One of the cylinders is split.

FRENCH VIEWS OF PRO3IOTION BY PURCHAgE.

—To us Frenchmen (who aro accustomed to look upon
promotion as to be gained by honourable service, by
seniority, or by distinction in the field), this turning of
army honours into mere shares, as it were, which are to be
bought and sold, appears simply detestable. So long as it
continues, I am persuaded that the English army will
never be what it might be, and that no other reforms in
their military system will, or can be, of much avail.
Its existence is the cause of an extraordinary system of pro-
motion called brevet, which takes some little time to un-
derstand, and which confused me not a little. With us, a
captain is a captain, and nothing more. If he be rewarded
by promotion, he is made a chef d'escadron or a chef de
bataillon either in his own or in another corps, as the case
may be ; so is he promoted in the English navy, from ono
rank to another. But not so in the English army. Regi-
mental promotion, save in the exceptional cases of death
vacancies, or the augmentations of a regiment, or the for

Jation of a new corps, is not in the gift of the, military
authorities. When an officer has to be rewarded with
promotion, he gets brevet advancement. Thus—an officer
may bo only a captain in his regiment, but have the brevet
rank in the army of major, lieutenant-colonel, and
even colonel. So long as ho is with his regiment alone
this brevet rank does not tell ; but whenever his corps is
in garrison with another regiment, or part of a regiment,
ho has a right to assume his army rank. An English
officer told me of an extraordinary anomaly of this kind
which happened in India some time ago. A captain in a
cavalry regiment, who from having been mentioned in
general orders when on the staff had attained the brevet
rank as colonel, took command, by virtue of his seniority,
of a whole brigade of cavalry before the enemy : thus
superseding all the field-officers of his own and of every
other regiment of cavalry. When the campaign was over
he rejoined his regiment, and did duty again as a simple
captain.—Dickens's " All the Year Round."
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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, July 11.
The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon with
Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein ; and her
Majesty walked in the grounds this morning, ac-
companied by their Royal Highnesses Prince and
Princess Christian, Princess Louise, and Princess
Beatrice.

Their Royal Highness3s Prince and Princess
Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and
Princess Beatrice visited the school during the
afternoon, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington,
Lady Susan Melville, and Lieutenant Stirling.
The Rev. George and Mrs. Prothero received their
Royal llighnesses.
Lady Augusta Stanley has arrived at Osborne.
Mr. Engleheart has also arrived.

PRINCESS HELENA AND PRINCE CIIRISTIAN.—•
To-morrow their Royal Highnesses the Princess Helena
and Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein will take leave
of her Majesty and royal family and embark from Osborne
in the Victoria and Albert yacht, which will steam direct
for Cherbourg, under the command of Captain Prince
Leiningen. The Prince and Princess will be attended by
Major-General and Lady Sarah Melville, Major-General
Seymour, Count Ilantzau, and Mr. Kenny, her Majesty's
courier. The royal party will not disembark before the
following morning. From Choi bourg their royal highnesses
will proceed on a continental tour, and will return in time
to accompany her Majesty to Scotland.

His Excellency the Brazilian Minister, Baron
do Penedo, left Cavendish-square yesterday for the Con-
tinent. The Commandeur Barboaa da Silva is the Charge
d'Affaires during his absence.

The Marquis of Hastings has left the St. George's
Hotel.

The Earl and Countess of Scarborough leave
,own on the 12th inst. for the season.

The Countess of Portsmouth has arrived at
Cataldi's Hotel from llarrogate.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.-(THIS DAY.)—This
morning a marriage was solemnised in the parish church
of St. James,Xestminster, between the Earl of Brecknock,
M.P. for Brecon, oldest son of the Marquis Camden, and
Lady C. Churchill, daughter of the Duke of Marlborough.
There was a very large attendance of the nobility and
distinguished persons. Among the 200 guests present we
noticed the following:—Earl and Countess Vane, Lady
Derby, Countess of Macclesfield, the Ladies Parker, Mar-
chioness of Ormonde, Lord and Lady Churchill, Mar-
chioness of Ailesbury and Lady Foley, Lord and Lady
'Rokeby, Lord and Lady Henniker, Duchess of Wellington,
Countess of Shaftesbury, Sir John and Lady Pakington,
Baroness North, &c.