The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-22 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, June 21.—Two o'Clock.—The market
is somewhat weaker and quotations lower, with the
exception of Three per Cents., which are dealt in
with a fractional rise at 62f. 70c. Italian Fives are
at 38f. 45c., or a decline of per cent. Credit Mo-
bilier Shares are offered at 440 f., with a loss of 16f.
25c., and Credit Foncier Shares lose 5f., the price
being I,loof. Comptoir d'Escompte remain un-
varied at 675 f. Spanish Mobilier are offered at
185 f., a fall of 21f. 25c. In the Railway Depart-
ment, Northern and Lyons Shares have each de-
clined lf. 25c., and Lombards 2f. 50c., whilst Aus-
trian remain firm at 290 f. In Foreign Securities
Mexican Bonds are in good demand at 180 f. The
" discount" list comprises 39,600 f. French Threes,
42,500 f. Italian Rente, and 600 Credit Mobilier
Shares. Consols are telegraphed without change.

Three o'clock.—Credit Mobilier Shares have ex-
perienced a further heavy fall in consequence of
unfavourable reports concerning that company.
The other Securities became weaker towards the
close, and left off as follows :

ti per Cents 92 25
Do. end month

Bank Shares 8450
Italian Loan 3B 40
Do. end month 3B 45
Mexican Loan 2O
Do. Bonds —
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred
'AYS.

3 per Cents. 62 65
Do. end month 62 62i

Credit Mobilier ... 425 -2:
Do. end mouth ... 422 50

Credit Folicier

end month

,1105

BALL'

For Account.
Orleans
Northern lO5O
Lyons and Mediterranean 773 75
Southern — - -
Western —
Eastern . 475
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 261 25
_ _

North of Spain 7O
Saragossa llO
Ditto to Barcelona —
Roman ---

LITERATURE.

-4.
A Life's Love. By the author of " Heiress of the
Blaeliburufoot." Two Vols. Smith, Elder,

and Co.

Few things are more agreeable to the critic
(whose task, be it said, is not always an agreeable
one), few things are more delightful than to notice
the rapid development and improvement of an
author's powers since the production of some former
work. Such an improvement we are glad to re-
mark in the literdry labours of the author of the

" Heiress of the Blackburnfoot." That former
work hardly led the reader to anticipate the
conspicuous merit which is visible in this
new production. " A Life's Love " is not
only an interesting and attractive story, bat it is
delightfully told, and is a book which is likely to do
good while it amuses. The scene is laid in Scotland
a hundred years ago, and the prevailing charac-
teristics of that period, both as regards men and
manners, are very vividly portrayed. The ostensible
heroine is Elison Erskine, the orphan heiress of
Erskineland, the last of tho Erskines. The ancient
pride of birth, so consonant with the feudal spirit of
the north, is stoutly maintained by the young Elison
and the venerable Mrs. Cranford, and their various
relatives and dependants. A different spirit, how-
ever, had begun to manifest itself in the good city of
Glasgow, where, in 1766, the "tobacco lords" rolling
in wealth, held an aristocracy of their own. Foremost
among these merchant princes is Andrew Ramsay,
a self-made man, whose great anxiety is to disguise
his mother tongue and soften the broad Scottish
dialect, and whose ambition is to make a gentleman
of his soldier-son, Angus Ramsay. Contrasted
with the proud and ambitious Ramsays is the
humbler family of honest John M'Farlane, a shop-
keeper and silk-mercer, but, like John Halifax, oxe
of nature's gentlemen. Stringent as the etiquette
which separates the Spanish grandee from men of
meaner mould were the social rules and regula-
tions which divided the Ramsays from the M'Far-
lanes.