The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-16 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE:, June 15.—Two o'Clock.--" Discount-
ing " continues unabated, the sums demanded to-
day are 184,500 f. Three per Cents., 170,000 f. Italian
Fives, 2,000 Credit Mobilier Shares, 575 Comptoir
d'Escompte, &c. There is, however, little disposi-
tion to effect transactions, and the tendency of
prices is generally downwards. Threes, for the
Account, are at 64f. 10c., or a fraction decline.
Italian Fives have receded per cent., viz., to 39f.,
and Credit Mobilier Shares, after touching at par,
have fallen to 490 f., with a loss of sf. Credit
Foncier have declined 7f. 50c., and Comptoir d'Es-
compte sf. In the Railway Department Lyons
show .a slight advance, whilst Northern have de-
clined 2f. 50c. Austrian and Lombard continue
stationary. Mexican Bonds have gone dom n to
160 f., being a further fall to-day of 27f. 50c. The
new 6 per Cent. Stock continues to be quoted at
20f. English Consols are announced with an ad-
vance of I.

Three o'clock.—The market became weaker to-
wards the end, and left off, at the following lower
quotations :

4i per Cents 92 25
Do. end month -

Bank Shares 3430
Italian Loan 39
Do. end month 3B GO
Mexican Loan 2l
Do. Bonds l6O
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred
rAYB.

3 per Cents. 63 80
Do. end month 63 75

Credit Mobilier 495
Do. end month 4BB 75
Credit Foncier —
Do. end month 1115

RAIL'

For Account.
Orleans 795
Northern 1062 50
Lyons and Mediterranean 787 50
Southern 520

Western —
Eastern
Sardinian .
Austrian
Lombard 271 25
North of Spain B7 50
Saragossa,
Ditto to Barcelona —
Roman -

CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN

MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 16.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Nyanza, with the heavy portion of the above mail,
arrived off the Needles at 9.50 a.m. to-day.

OVERLAND MAILS.
BOMBAY MAIL.
MARSEILLES, June 15.
The Massilia arrived at 7.30 p.m. All well. The
mail leaves for London at 10 p.m.
MALTA, June 15.
The Ceylon, with the heavy portion of the above
mail, left Malta at 8 p.m. to-day. She may be ex-
pected at Southampton on the 24th inst.
OUTWARD CALCUTTA & CHINA MAILS.
The Ripon from Southampton, 4th inst., arrived

at midnight on the 13th, and left at noon on the
14th for Alexandria.

The Syria from Marseilles, 13th inst., arrived on
the 15th at 7 p.m., and leaves at midnight for
Alexandria.

The Difficulties of the Ryves' Case.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—I have read carefully the learned and able
judgment in the above-named cause, with which, as
a lawyer, I am much pleased. There are two strong
features in the case, however, which have, I think, en-
tirely escaped the observation of the learned Judges,
as well as the learned counsel for the defence. It is
as follows :—Why (when the Duke of Cumberland,
brother of George 111., died as long ago as 1790,
without issue, and his acknowledged widow stir-
vived him 13 years, until 1803, she was never re-
ceived at Court during those above-named 13 years
of her widowhood, any more than she had been
during the lifetime of her late husband) did not the
King, George 111., see his royal niece, the supposed
Princess Olive, restored to her just rights, as no
one could be punished for bigamy after the Duke
of Cumberland's death. It is very well known
George 111. was a most kind-hearted, amiable, and
benevolent individual, whatever errors he may have
committed as King. Now whose rights would (as-
suming Mrs. Ryves's story to have been correct),
placing the would-have-been Princess Olive into
her proper place as h member of the royal family of
England, have been interfered with? The King and
Queen, George 111. and Queen Charlotte, had, in
1790, 13 children of their own, viz., seven sons and
six daughters, besides which, the Duke of Glouces-
ter, the King's next brother (who had also married
the beautiful Dowager Lady Waldegrave, a person
not of royal blood, and had, like his younger brother,
the Duke of Cumberland, who married Mrs. Hor-
ton, highly offended the King by so doing ; so
much so, that that vile and atrocious measure
(the Royal Marriage Act) was passed had two chil-
dren of his own, viz., Prince William, afterwards
Duke of Gloucester, and commonly called " Silly
Billy," and his very handsome sister, the Princess
Sophia Matilda, Ranger for many years of Green-
wich-park, who must both have come to the Throne
before the Duke of Cumberland and his issue. The
last-named personages were always considered mem-
bers:of the Royal family, but no one ever looked
forward to their coming to the Throne until the time
the Princess Charlotte and her infant both died, and
then, as none of George lll.'s numerous family had
any issue who could come to the Throne, the nation
not unnaturally turned their eyes towards the
Duke of Gloucester and his sister, who must have
respectively ascended the Throne in the event of all
George lll.'s line being put out. Doubtless it was
the fact of the Duke of Gloucester and his sister
being free from the fetters of the Royal Marriage
Act which put it into the head of that mad woman,
Mrs. Serres, to endeavour to prove herself a mem-
ber of the Royal family on the ground that there
was no Royal Marriage Act in existence when her
father and mother were married. Another diffi -
culty attending the supposed fact of Henry Frede-
rick Duke of Cumberland having married Olive
Wilmot is that it has been asserted that Dr.
Wilmot, the relative of the bride, who is said to
have performed the marriage ceremony, Mrs. Serres'
brother had signed the dinner-book at Trinity Col-
lege, Oxford,- the very day the wedding is said to
have taken place, viz., March 4, 1767. Now, it is
well known the dinner hour at all the colleges, both
at Cambridge and Oxford, one hundred years ago,
in the middle of the last century, was 2 o'clock. How,
in the name of common sense, was Dr. Wilmot to
have ridden a distance of 56 miles between the hours
of 3 o'clock in the afternoon and 9 at night, which is
the distance from Oxford to London? True he is
said to have been a first-rate horseman, but no horse-
man, if he were the finest equestrian in -the world,
could have ridden a distance of 56 miles in the bad un-
macadamised state the roads were in 100 years
ago in six hours. It is more than even Dick Turpin
himself could have done. Dinner being in those
days at two o'clock, three o'clock must have been
the earliest hour he could have set off, and this he
must have done before he could have had time even
to have swallowed a cup of tea or coffee, or to have
remained to wine or dessert. Poor man !! ! I very
much wonder such a quick sharp ride did not at
once bring on a fit of apoplexy or indigestion so im-
mediately after his dinner. Why, such a feat would
have killed 99 people of 100. As regards the
genuineness of the signatures, it is a well-known
fact that documents and other parchments will ap-
pear all the more genuine for having been kept for
a long series of years. There was, indeed, every
appearance of fraud and imposition stamped upon
the face of it, Again, as regards George lll.'s mar-
riage to Hannah Lightfoot, and the assertion that
he had three children by her, and, consequently,
that neither George IV. nor the Duke of York were
legitimate, why, had there been the least truth in
[this strange story, and coming before the public,
which it is said to have done in 1820, the year
George IV. came to the Throne, the very year of
the redoubtable Queen Catherine's trial, considering
the very great unpopularity of the King in those
days anybody might have made a very large fortune
by proving George IV. illegitimate, supposing it to
have been possible to have done so. It is not to be
denied that the descendants of Frederick Prince of
\Vales, the father of George 111., were a very miser-
able, wretched, unhapny set of beings, especially
amongst the females. George 111., his eldest son,
was out of his mind; his (George III.'s) eldest sister,
the Duchess of Brunswick, the eldest daughter of
the said Prince of \Vales (the mother of Queen
Caroline, the head of a very immoral and profligate
court), the unhappy Queen of Denmark, whose short
and sad life is so well known to all readers of his-
tory, was another deplorable example. And now for
the grandchildren, or supposed grandchildren, of
Frederick Prince of Wales, the unhappy Queen
Caroline, whose frailties were, I fear, rather more
genuine than Mrs. Ryves' documents, was a source
of misery and wretchedness, not only to her husband
and his family for a long series of years, but to all
England as well, and brought us to the very verge
of a civil war and revolution ; however ill-used she
may have been, and bad as her husband most un-
doubtedly was, still, nevertheless, two blacks do not
make a white, and pots and kettles are both black.
The popular feeling evinced by the people of Eng-
land at the time of her trial on her side was more a
dislike to the King than any real love for her, or belief
in her innocence. And now last, not least, there is
Mrs. Ryves and her mother, neither of whom were, I
believe, any more descendants of Frederick Prince of
Wales than lam myself. The whole story of Mrs.
Ryves and her mother, falsely called Princess Olive,
of Cumberland, is the most wonderful forgery and
cunningly-devised fable ever invented within the
memory of man. It is not surprising that people
become sceptical of the most solema and sacred
matters when things—i.e., documents and other
writings—can be forged in so wonderful a manner
as this has now been clearly proved to have been
done. It must be a great source of thankfulness
that the claims of this individual, who, as well as those
of her mother before her, and who has been dead
upwards of 30 years, are now set at rest and con-
signed to the tomb of all the Capulets. It has been
before the public in one shape or another for nearly
half a century. I can only say, in conclusion, I
hope it will be very, very long again before our
courts of justice are occupied with such causes as
these, wasting the time of the public as well as that
of our lehrned Judges, as well as being so little cal-
culated to increase the admiration of foreigners for
the truthfulness of the English name and character,
or the truthfulness of Englishmen in particular. As
regards Mrs. Serres I will merely add, De mortals
nil nisi bonum ; albeit, some people might add, as I
once heard of an Eton boy, at the time of the death
of the immortal William Pitt, and the boys at Eton
had some verses to write, headed with these words,
De mortuis nil nisi bonum, the boy wrote such sen-
timents I would not own them.—l remain, sir,
your obedient servant,
A LAWYER AND A LOVER OF HISTORICAL
DATES AND FACTS.

CHOLERA ON BOARD THE PERUVIAN.—IVe are
requested to state that the vessel on board of which an
outbreak of cholera was reported in our New York intelli-
gence of yesterday, is not the Peruvian belonging to the
nontreal Ozean Steamship Company's line.