The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-21 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, June 20.—Two o'Clock.—There is
again but little business doing in the markets for
Stocks and Shares. A variety of rumours—ac-
countable under existing circumstances—are in cir-
culation, the most novel, perhaps, being that which
sends a Russian fleet to the Adriatic. The amount
of credence which these reports gain, however, is
best evinced by the passive attitude of speculators
and the absence of any important change in the
various quotations. The sums demanded in " dis-
counts " are becoming daily less important, the list
containing only the following :-42,0001. French
Threes, 30,000 f. Italian Fives, and 750 Credit Mo-
bilier Shares. Threes, for the Account, and Italian
Fives are dealt in at a fractional advance, the former
being at G2f. 57ic., and the latter at 38f. 20c.
Credit Mobilier Shares show a decline of I.f. 25c.,
at 498 f. 75c., xhilst Credit Foncier have improved
10f., to 1,103 f., and Comptoir d'Escompte 2f. 50c.,
to 672. 50c. Somewhat better rates are likewise
current in the Railway Department, Northern
having advanced 2f. 50c., Lyons lf. 25c., and Sara-
gossa and Austrian 2f. 50c. each. Immobiliere
Shares have also improved 3f. 75c.; to 278 f. 75c.
Consols are telegraphed from London with a fall of
per cent.

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

li per Cents 92 50
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 62 70
Do. end month 62 65
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Credit Fonder —
Do. end month 1005

Bank Shares 3450
Italian Loan 3B 65
Do. end month sB 70
Mexican Loan QO

Do. Bonds —
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred

RAIL'

For Account.
Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean 778 75
Southern 5lO - -
Western — --
Eastern 483 75
Sardinian . 65

Austrian

Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

110 -

Extract from Mr. Goschen's Diary of Jane 19.

(Fririt the Owl.)

It is with very depressed feelings that I write my
journal to-day. There is no disguising the fact, we
are going out. It is not my fault, at all events. I
have said little, and done nothing but make a few
magistrates since I have been in the Cabinet. That
is one comfort. But still the truth stares me in the
face that I have to resign, and just, too, when I was
getting comfortable and at ease in my chair at the
Cabinet table, and able to sneeze, or blow my nose,
or scribble on the paper before me, or otherwise
amuse myself like any other Minister in Downing-
street. It is a decided bore, and it is a bore to me
especially. Why was I ever tempted to give up my
business for that of some one else ? I know that I
have done no good, and I do not feel quite certain
that I have done no harm. I have been Chairman
of the Commission for the Consolidation of the
Public Offices; and in that capacity I fear that I
have not given great satisfaction, for there is no
question the other Commissioners seem fond of
snubbing me. I have felt all along that I was not
fit to be a Cabinet Minister, and I only wonder
that Lord Russell did not see it too. I know Glad-
stone says that there is no bone in me, though he
apparently supported my appointment. Certainly
I have escaped the panic in the City, but what is that
to the failure now ? I feel that I have made a mis-
take. I never ought to have aspired to a position
lam manifestly unfit for. Was it necessary that
I should be a Cabinet Minister in order to become
the chairman of a committee on theatrical perfor-
mances? No doubt being a member of the Govern-
ment ought to have taught me what playing a part
is, but then the parts have been played so badly.
Altogether, looking back on my career since I en-
tered the Government, I feel that the whole has been
a mistake. I have excited the jealousy.and ill-will of
the class I have left, and I have found myself un-
equal to the position I have attained. My voice in
the Cabinet has never been attended to, and with
good reason, as I never had anything to recommend.
I have been able to make an addition to my theory
of exchanges by going from private life to public
life, and now, reversing the operation, find myself
again in the position I had emerged from, with, I
fear, no profit on the transaction. Altogether, there
is no question I must call myself a failure. I fear
that others will say so too, and that another Liberal
Cabinet will be complete without the name of
Goschen.

The establishment of an academy of music in
Melbourne, Australia, is in contemplation,