The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-27 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The list of subscriptions for the sufferers by the
late inundations has only reached £50,000 for Paris,
although the Illoniteur publishes four or five columns
of subscribers per diem. A closely printed column
represents about £6O. _ _

It is not the Credit Foncier, but one of the lead-
ing shareholders in the Credit Mobilier, who has
purchased the Patric. The Council of State has
been instructed to frame a bill for the reorganisa-
tion of the army.
The Sulut Public of Lyons accounts for the dis-
tress which now exists in that city by showing that
the exports in damasked silk have fallen within a
space of ten years from 74,000,000 francs to
11,000,000 francs, and it is expected that this year
there will be another fall of 4,000,000 francs. The
manufacturers have turned their attention to the
making of plain silks to meet the requirements of
fashion, but other looms besides those of Lyons can
supply this article.
The France of the night before last mentions

the arrival of a letter from the Emperor Maxi-
milian to an important political peronage in
Paris, in which his Majesty repeats his firm
resolution not to abandon the post to which the
suffrages of the Mexican people have called him.
He is convinced that by limiting the area of his
dominions to the country round Mexico he can re-
sist the attacks of the various parties, which already
quarrel among themselves for the power they have
not yet in their hands. Most of the Paris papers of
Monday night, in printing a telegram announcing
that the Austrian man-of-war Elizabeth has been
ordered to Mexico, follow it by a paragraph explain-
ing that the sad news of the Empress's illness will
probably cause a change in the Emperor's view of
his duty. The hulependance I3clge announces that
General Castelnau has received instructions to urge
the necessity of abdicating, and goes so far as to
predict that the Elizabeth will bring the Emperor to
Europe.
At Lyons on Saturday MM. Labauine and
Thomain, the printer and director of the Journal de
Guignol, a satirical publication issued in that city,
were charged : 1, with having treated questions of
political and social economy ; 2, with having ex-
cited the citizens to the hatred of the Emperor's
Government ; 3, with having endeavoured to dis-
turb the public peace, and provoke discord among
the population. The defendants were acquitted on
the first two counts, and a verdict of guilty having
been given on the third, Labaume was condemned
to six months' imprisonment and 2,000 f. fine, and
Thomain to a week of the same punishment and a
penalty of 100 f. _ _

- BOURSE, Oct. 26, Two o'clock.—Yesterday's up-
ward movement has continued. French Threes
have improved to 69f. 21c., an advance of 15c.
Italian Fives are doing at 56f. 45c., being higher
by 35c. Credit Mobilier Shares have gained 3f.
75c., at 632 f. 50c., and Credit Foncier 5f., at 1,375 f.
Comptoir d'Escompte, which left off yesterday at
927 f. 50c., at first reached 930 f., but sales caused
by realisation of profits have caused this security to
fall to 922 f. 50c., or a loss of sf. No noticeable
feature in Railway Shares, the fluctuations of which
are insignificant.

Three o'clock.—The market has closed as fol-

lows :

4 per Cents 97 20
Do. end month —

3 per Cents. 69 05
Do. end month 69

Credit ilobilier .' ' 633 75
Do. end month 633 75

Credit Fonder —

Da. end month 1375

ELUL

Bank Shares 3600
Italian Loan 56 50
Do. end month 56 35
Mexican Loan —
Do. Bonds —
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred
rAYs.

For Account.
Orleans
Northorn ll7B 75
Lyons and Ueditorranea,n 923 75
Southern 583 75
Western —
Eastern
Sardinian...
Austrian
Lombard 420
North of Spain —
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

G 2 50

Sir D. Gooch, M.P., at the Swindon Institute.

On Wednesday evening Sir Daniel Gooch, Bart.,
M.P., presided at a meeting to distribute the prizes
in connection with the Society of Arts' examination
of the members of the classes at the New Swindon
Mechanics' Institute, an institution which was
erected for the benefit of the many hundreds of per-
sons employed at the Great Western Company's
locomotive works at Swindon. The hon. baronet

having alluded to his early connection with the In-
stitute as one of its promoters, said : —" I can look
back upon many faces as I walk through the estab-
lishment—l see many faces that were some years
ago youthful who were boys; many that com-
menced life with me now greyheaded, and I deeply
regret that many have left us. To those young lads
who are coming up, I will tell something of my
young life. I began with little better prospects than
they. I remember quite well when I left my parents'
roof my dear old mother's last words—l was then
going under Robert Stephenson, to v.•ork as many
of you work, from six of the morning until six at
night- Always keep in mind, my dear Dan, that
you should look forward to being some day manager
of that concern.' These words have remained with
me through life. I was to look forward to becoming
equal in authority with those above me ; to consider
that I was as much entitled to such a position, if I
could earn it, as anybody else. Those words never
left me, and I would earnestly ask those young lads
who are now rising and beginning their life, not to
look at the present, not to think that their present
position is a final position, but that they should feel
it is within the power, in this free country, of any
boy to rise to any position he will fix his mind
upon. If they don't rise to such a position as they
hope for, they will gain something equally valuable
—they will gain the respect and esteem of all those
about them. There is another motto of mine—it is
one I took from old Sunderland bridge. I was in
love at the time. I thought the chances were against
me, I did not see how I was to gain my object; and
I found these words in large letters on that bridge—
' Nil Desperandurn."fhose words have aided me
through life. 'N it desperandum.' If you earnestly
set your mind upon an object—an honest one-1
don't believe that you will fall far short of its
attainment. Stick to it, never give it up ; never
say die."