The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-16 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Oct. 15.—With rising quotations, the
reponse de primes (option) is taking place quietly
and regularly, in a firm market. Threes are sc.
higher, at 68f. 85c. Italian Fives are in good re-
quest, and have advanced 45c. to 55f. 55c. The
reponse has just been closed at 55f. 50c. on this
stock, with a deport of sc. Credit Mobilier and
Credit Foncier Shares have risen each by 2f. 50c.
to 635 f. and 1,362 f. 50c. respectively. Comptoir
d'Escompte have advanced by if. 25c., to 892 f. 50c.
Paris Gas are unchanged. Railway Shares are firm,
with in some cases a slight improvement. Three
o'clock.--The market closed as follows :-
41 per Cents 96 90

Bank Shares 3560
Italian Loan 55 90
Do. end month 55 95
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred
rAYB.

10. en,

mon

3 per Cents. 69
Do. end month 6B 92i

Credit Mobilier 642 55
Do. end month 642 50

Credit Foncier —
Do. erid month 1360

For Account.
857 75

Orleans

Northern 1167 50
Lyons and Mediterranean B9B 75
Southern 582 50
atrn
Westerne
E
545
Sardinian.
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

376 25
413 75

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The Seizure of the Tornado.

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A Cadiz correspondent, writing on the 9th inst.,
sends the following in reference to the seizure of
the supposed Chilian privateer Tornado :
" The assertion of the Memorial Diplomatique to
the effect that energetic demands for restitution and
oompensation had been addressed by the English
Government to the authorities in Madrid respecting
the seizure under British colours of the screw
steamer Tornado off Madeira, on the 22d Aug. last,
by the Spanish frigate Gerona, and that the Eng-
lish Mediterranean fleet had been ordered to approach
Cadiz in order to insist on immediate attention being
given to the application, is completely contradicted
by thepapers here, but I know not on what authority.
The statements of the journals most likely amongst
those referred to to be well informed may be summed
up as follows :—That the English Government is
already well aware that if there were no legal proofs
that the Tornado was being fitted out for the
Chilians, the facts were more than sufficient to
justify a moral conviction that the object of
her owners was inimical to Spanish interests. That
the seizure of the Tornado was in strict accordance
with the definite instructions of the Spanish Govern-
ment, founded on subsequent advices received from
the Spanish consuls in England. That when the
Tornado was seized and the house which pretends to
the ownership applied to the English Government
to demand that the ship should be returned, the only
act of the English Legation in Madrid was to ask
particulars of the occurrence, and having obtained
these has remained entirely inactive, persuaded that
the verdict of the tribunal formed in Cadiz to in-
quire into the matter would abundantly answer all
purposes of justice, so far as the legality of the prize
was concerned, which verdict has not yet been
arrived at. That the English Government and its
representatives in Madrid have done nothing since
June, from which is to be deduced, without pre-
tending to know the official secrets of the inquiry,
that tha statement that the English Government
has made an official demand, and that the Mediter-
ranean fleet has been ordered to enforce the resti-
tution of the Tornado, is completely and entirely
false.

" So far the Spanish.newspapers ; for my part I
have been informed by Englishmen employed on
board of various steamers in the port and in the
Royal Arsenal, who have had every opportunity of
ascertaining the real state of things, that each indi-
vidual member of the former crew of the Tornado
enjoys the completest liberty compatible with his
position ; that all are treated in every respect, each
in his class and rank, like officers, &c., of equal
grade in the Spanish navy ; that not one man has
been placed in irons; and that not more than one-
tenth of the Tornado has been discharged ; or, say,
about 150 tons of the 2,000 or, 1,500 tons of coals
which she had on board at the time of her capture-
" You will see from the above that the Memorice
Diplomatique is far from the actual truth in its ver-
sion of the attitude of the Spanish authorities to-
wards the Tornado and its crew ; and I think it
right to put you in possession of these particulars,
which I know are in accordance with the real facts
of the case, in order to counteract as far as may be
in my power the effect of the ill-advised paragraph.
of the Memorial Diplomatique, which is calculated
to foment an unnecessary and useless ill-feeling
between two friendly nations.".

MARKETS.---This Day.

HAY.

SMITTIFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 10s; clover,
£4 Os to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 lOs per load.
Inquiry limited.
CUMBERLAND.—Iicadow hay, £3 Os to £4 10s Od; clover,
£4 Os to £5 15s ; and straw, £2 2s to £2 12s per load,
k. moderate demand.

WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 10s; clover
£4 Os to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 lOs per load
Trade dull.

COLONIAL.

TEA.—The market has been dull, operations having
been deferred until the public sales, which commence to-
day. The chief feature has been the examination of the
samples of the new semen's Monings, a bargain in which
has been reported at 2s. sd. per lb.
SUGAIL—There has been a very limited demand, and
the salas of West India have been unimportant, at hardly
late rates. Refined goods remain inactive without any
change in values.
COFFEE.—The inquiries fnr both Plantation and Native
Ceylon have been to an average extent at late prices.
RlCE.—Business has remained dull, and the few opera-
tions entered into have been at slightly reduced rates.
TALLOW.—There has been considerable excitement iu
the tallow market during the past week, and at one moment
an advance of fully is Gd per cwt. was established, but,
sellers coming forward, a portion of this improvement was
lost. The business dono has not been large. The fluctua-
tions in this market have bad a corresponding effect on
prices at St. Petersburg, and several thousand casks had
changed hands, at 471 to 49 silver roubles. The exchange
has somewhat declined, and was last quoted at 30id. To-
day the market is steady. Quotations are, spot, 44s ; all
the year, 44s 9d ; December, 45s 3d to 45s 6d ; and January
to March, 44s 6d per cwt.

MRS. JOHN T. HANSON, niece of Oliver Gold-
smith, died on Friday, the 21st September, at her residence,
West Hoboken, New Jersey, in the 81st year of her age.
Some time ago the old lady was in very reduced circum-
stances, but public attention was called to her condition
in the columns of the press, and a fund was raised suffi-
cient to maintain her iu,oomo degree of comfort up to her
doom.