The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-05 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Oct. 4.—Two o'clock.—The market is
not good, and a decline has taken place in all Se-
curities in which business has been transacted. The
French Rente exhibits the most firmness, and in it
the fluctuations have not been so violent. The
Italian Fives, notwithstanding the heavy continuous
heavy decline in them for some days, have again
fallen considerably. French Rente has fallen 10c.,
to 69f. 10c. ; while the fall in Italians is no less than
60c., 58f. 80c. A well known banker is said to be
largely offering the latter security. Credit Mobilier
Shares are 7f. 50c. lower, at 646 f. 75c. Credit
Foncier Shares are 2f. 50c. lower, at 1,370 f. No-
thing is doing in Comptoir d'Escoinpte. Gas Shares
remain quoted at 1,620 f. Immobiliere Shares have
declined 2f. 50c., to 405 f. There is nothing notice-
able in Railway Shares.

Three o'clock.--The market has been much worse
during the last hour. Quotations closed as fol-

lows :

4 per Cents 96 90
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 6B 95
Do. end month 69
Credit Alobilier 642 50
Do. end month 636 25
Credit Fancier 3620
Do. end month 1362 50
RAIL'

Bank Shares —
Italian Loan 55 70
Do. end month 55 70
Mexican Loan —
Do. Bonds —
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred
'AXEL

For Account.
Orleans
Northern 1167 50
Lyons and Mediterranean 895
Southern 572 50
Western —
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 4ll 25
North of Spain lO7 25
Saragossa 145
Ditto to Barcelona —
Boman 67 50

•SCIIAMIYL, THE CIRCASSIAN.—After his capture
in 1859 Schaanyl, the celebrated Circassian chief, was sent
with his family to Kalouga. He seems to have expected
nothing but harsh treatment from his conquerors, but the
Russian policy was otherwise, and he has from time to time
it appears, been loaded with Imperial favours. A spacious
house is at his disposal, and an income more than sufficient
for his wants On the occasion of the death of his favourite
daughter, a courier was sent to Schamyl in the Caucasus
with the body of the deceased. This seems to have touched
the venerable chief, who at once addressed an autograph
letter to the Czar, which is given at length in the Russian
papers. Schamyl hero declares himself to be no less
vanquished by the Emperor's kindness than by
his arms, and begs that he and his children may
be allowed to take the oath of fidelity. "I am ready,"
he says, "to pronounce it before tho entire people. I
invoke, as the witnesses of my loyalty and of the purity of
my thoughts, Almighty God and Mahomet his prophet. I
will take the oath before the body, scarcely chilled, of my
beloved daughter Naphisato, and upon the holy Koran.
The Czar at once acceded to the request, and accordingly,
on the 17th, Schamyl and his sons took the oath of fidelity
to the Emperor and to the Grand Duke at Kalouga. After
the ceremony the representative of the nobles of the province
addressed the exile in the name of the Russian Government.
" Live in peace, valiant veteran," he said, "in this city,
where your noble character is honoured, and where your
calm and modest life is a theme of constant praise. May
you long continue this irreproachable life, glorifying the
high magnanimity of yourprotector, our beloved sovereign
Alexander II." The reply of Schamyl, as given in the
Russian papers, is full of protestations of loyalty, and reads
as though it had been very freely translated from the ori-
ginal Arabic by a Russian official.
CIGARITOS.—The paper cigars of Havannah are
not perfect cylinders, closed at one end with a dex-
terous twist, and provided at the other with a mouthpiece.
of twisted cardboard and a morsel of cotton wool to absorb
the essential oil. Those are the famous Russian cigarettes,
made at St. Petersburgh or Moscow, of Turkish, Syrian,
and Bessarabian tobacco. The Havannah cigaritos consist
mostly of so much finely chopped tobacco placed in the
middle of a little square of very thin paper, neatly rolled
up into elliptical batons about an inch and a half long and
an eighth of an inch thick, and closed at each end with a
dexterous twist. The art of making them lies in there being
just enough loose paper at the ends, but no more, to make
the required twist, and there being a perfectly homogeneous
consistency of tobacco throughout the entire length. If the
roll be too tight, or if, on the other hand, the tobacco be
not evenly distributed, and it bulges in ono part and is
loose in another, the cigarito is useless. Indeed, it must be
made with almost perfect nicety to satisfy consumers.
We have grown quite familiar, owing to the French sans
nom paper which, for a season or two, obtained immense
vogue in Paris, With the tiny blank books from which
the leaves of tissue paper could be torn to serve as enve-
lopes for the tobacco. Neither the French nor the Germans,
however, ever attained great proficiency in this most diffi-
cult and delicate art. The 'ltalians abominate cigarips,
preferring to smoke the more abominable cigars of native
manufacturers ; and I think that the majority of English-
men could more easily learn to curl hair or play on the man-
dolin—two arts in which they are never likely to excel—
than roll cigarettes. To the Spaniard the trick comes natu-
rally. He would roll up a papelito, and twist it faultlessly,
in a third-class carriage in the middle of the Box Tunnel.
The old Spaniards, however, itmust be owned, are the best
hands, or rather the best digits, at papelito making. The
tropics take it out of a man, and the Creole Cuban is fain to
allow his slaves to manufacture his cigars for him. More-
over, in Cuba, cigarettes are but a pastime. His real repast
is in the Puros, or Havanas of the weed itself ; whereas in
old Spain, genuine Havanas are, through the idiotic finan-
cial policy of the government, so difficult to obtain, and
cigars of native manufacture are so execrable, that the
Castellanos smoke cigaritos in self-defence.--Dickens's All
the Year Round.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT TO A GENTLEMAN FARMER.
—An inquest was hold yesterday, at Newton-with-Scales,
on the body of a farmer living on his own estate, named
Richardson. It appeared that the deceased went into his
garden with a loaded double-barrelled gun, for the purpose
of shooting, and also for the purpose of picking up some
fruit that had been blown off the trees. lie was seen to go
into the garden about 11 o'clock in the forenoon, and shortly
afterwards a shot was heard. No notice was taken of it at
the time, but as Mr. Richardson had not returned at 4
o'clock in the afternoon a search was made, and he was
found in the garden in a dreadful condition. It wouldseem
from the position of the body and the gun, that while stoop-
ing to pick up some fruit the butt end of the gun, which he
had over his left shoulder, became entangled in one of the
bushes, and one barrel exploded. The contents of the
barrel entered his left thigh, and tore off the flesh for five
or six inches. He then fell, and his clothes having been
ignited when the gun was discharged, he was burned in a
shocking manner from the lower part of the body to the
throat. Some shot in'a bag that he had with him was
melted.

HIGHWAY RATES.—At Highgate Petty Sessions
yesterday a person was summoned for a highway rate by
Mr. Hammond, the vestry clerk of Finchley. The defend-
ant pleaded that he was put into the house to let it, and
had removed. Mr. Hammond said there was clearly a
beneficial operation, but he did not wish to press the
matter, and payment was,excused.
THE " CHAMPION OF ENGLAND."—The follow-
ing story illustrative of the interest taken by Victor Em-
manuel in all matters relating to fighting ran the rounds of
Florence last winter. Among the English residents in
that city was a reverend gentleman, who by failure of male
issue has succeeded to the championship of England. It
so happens that this gentleman is of very moderate stature,
and by no means a good physical representative of a royal
champion. Being informed that lie was the champion of
England, the King exclaimed, " Dio mio ! e possibile ! how
could so little a man have beaten the big boxer Heenan ?
Tell rue all about it ern-Fraser', Magazine for Pctober,