The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-06 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The lllonzteur publishes a report to the Emperor
from the Minister of Foreign Affairs and War on
the subject of the indemnity paid by the Chinese
Government for the 14 persons who were the vie'
rims of a treacherous attack made on some French
subjects civil and military, at Yang-Tcheon, on the
18th September, 1880, and of whom eight were
killed and six injured, but still living :
" The amount paid by the Chinese Government
was 200,000 taels, or 1,539,919 f. which has
been apportioned as follows :—To the widow of
Colonel Grandchamps, 125,000 f., and to four
other relatives of the deceased, 12,5001., each mak'
ing 175,000 f.; to the brother of Victor Dubut, sub"
military intendant, 160,000 f.; to the brother of 1.
Ader, officer attached to the military hospitals,
130,000 f ; to the father, mother, and sister of the
Abbe Deluc, a Jesuit missionary, 140,000 f. to the
father, mother, brother and two sisters of J. A.
Blanquet, hospital attendant, 100,000 f.; to the
father, mother, brother, and two sisters of N.
Bouichot, a private in the waggon train,
100,000 f. ; to the aunt of L. Faurien,
private in the 102 d Regiment, 40,000 f. ; and
to the mother, brother, and two sisters of P.
Ouzouf, a private in the foot Chasseurs, 100,0001.
The following are the sums awarded to those who
are still living :—To M. d'Escayrac de Lauture
charged with a scientific mission, 100,000 f. ; L. F.
J. Bachelet, private in the 101st Regiment, 90,000 f. ;
C. Roger, private in the African Chasseurs, 90,000 f.;
J. Ginestet, private in the waggon train, 90,000 f.;
J. Petit, do., 106,811 f. (this man received four
wounds in defending himself), and F. Novalm, Pri"
vate in the same regiment, 90,000 f.
All these sums are to be paid with interest, and
without any deduction for legal or other dues.
BOURSE, DEC. 5. Sales for realisation have
caused a slight retrograde movement in the market
to-day, Threes, for the Account being now at
69f 35c. The Railway Share Market has been
similarly acted on, but the variation has not been
material. The following are the last quotations
41 per per Cents 95 Credit Foncier 1180 --"
Do. end month.... 95 30 Belgian 4t --
3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 351 Roman
Bank Shares 2975 —1 Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 737 50 Spanish Threes 4O 50
Do. Account 740 ! Home Debt
RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans 1325 1327 50
Northern 985 987 50
New ditto .. 917 50 .. 25
Lyons and Mediterranean 1020 .. 1021 25
Geneva 345 .. 347 60
Southern 668 75 .. 67a
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Low hard

THE NIAGARA FRIGATE.—A correspondent of
the 1 imes says—ln your description of to-day of the ships
of war belonging to the American navy I notice a paragraph
which refers to the Niagara, of 4,600 tons and carrying
12
11-inch Dahlgren shell-guns, and which you consider to
be "a formidable cruiser." It may not be generally known
that this far-famed ship is useless and powerless as a maw
of-war, being thoroughly and hopelessly rotten in her tiny
bers. A few months since I visited this Goliath of the deep
in company with one of her officers, who informed me that
in the event of war they would not dare to use the few guo°
which she then mounted, owing to her great tenderness/
and that ho feared that the naval authorities would be
shortly compelled to dismantle or break her up. The yea'
sal was then on her homeward voyage from Japan to the
States
The official return of the gaming-house at Spas
for 1858, gives the following results :—Roulett—gainer
495,356 f; losses, 55,937 f; profit, 439,419 f. Rouge et noir
—gains, 664,605 f; losses, 363,983 f; profit, 333,622 f. It
hence appears that roulette is the most profitable. One CV
rious item in the return is, profit on changing foreign money,
284,692 f 82c. To gain such an amount immense sums Must
have been exchanged, and at pretty high rates too.
ERRATUM.—In our first leader yesterday, the
name of the Hon. Joseph Howe, of Nova Scotia, was twice
misprinted Nome.

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RONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

The Bank of England return, completed to the
4th Deamber, is again of a very satisfactory cha-
racter. There is a slight addition to the bullion,
and a considerable inci ease in the reserve of notes.
The public deposits show a large augmentation,
While there is only a limited addition to the other
securities. The various items and the changes
they present are shown in the subjoined table :
Actiye Circulation. .. £20,010,465
Increase 6,085
Bullion .. 15,139,763
Increase .. 194,985
Rest .. .. 3,125,862

.. 7,869
.. 5,206,331

1,002,402
.. 13,273,192
.. 813,117
.. 738, 197
• • 36,915
.. 10,892,859
No alteration.
Other Securities .. 16,224,428
Increase .. .. • • 29,431
Notes unemployed .. 8,927,725
Increase 213,395
The business in the Foreign anti Colonial Produce
Markets during the last few days has continued
rather inactive. Tea at public sale has declined
about ld. per lb, while sugars have also been rather
cheaper. Coffee has continued in good demand at
late quotations, while a moderate business has been
done in rice at steady rates. The operations in salt-
petre have been limited, without material change
In values, while a slight advance has taken place
in tallow for both present and forward delivery.
At the Bank of England yesterday the bullion
Operations were again of an unimportant cha-
racter.

The directors of the Crystal Palace Company
have resolved to propose a dividend at the rate of
2 per cent. per annum on the ordinary shares at the
ensuing meeting, which will leave a balance of
about £lO,OOO to be carried over.
A fair amount of business was recorded in the
Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday, and prices
Were steadily supported. The sales were about
12,000 bales.

At the half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of
the London Cnartered Bank of Australia to-day, a
dividend of 4 per cent. for the six months to the
30th June last, was declared free of income-tax.
The Stock Exchange Markets closed yesterday
With a very depressed appearance, and further in-
dications of weakness have been exhibited this
Morning. Affairs continue in a very unsettled
state and the utmost anxiety is felt in reference
to American affairs. The speculators have
forced sales to a considerable extent, and
Prices have consequently been subjected
to a further depression. Consols for money have
been 901, afterwards 893 1, and have since rallied
to 891 90. The extreme point of depression at-
tained by the account has been 893 901. and the
Present price is 901. The New Threes and the Re-
duced have declined to 893 1 ; Exchequer Bills,
March, are firm at 13s. to 16s. prem., ditto June
steady at 18s prem.; Bank Stock is 234 ; and India
6 per Cent., 1011 t.

There have been very few dealings in the Foreign
Market to-day, and prices generally show a further
decline. Turkish 6 per Cents. have receded to 75
and 76 ; ditto, 1858, to 66 to 67 ; the 4 per Cents.
to 1014 ; Mexican to 261. 8 ; Sardinian to 78;
Spanish Certificates to 51, and Venezuelan to 21.
Only alimited amount of business has been trans-
acted in the Railway Share Market to-day, and a
further decline has taken place in prices. Eastern
Counties; Great Northern, Lancashire, and York-
shire, and South Eastern have receded lOs ; North
Eastern (Berwick) 155.; and Caledonian, Great
Western, North Western, South Western, and Mid-
lands, £l.
The Foreign and Colonial lines continue flat.
Great Luxembourg have receded to 81 ; Grand
Trunk of Canada 171 ; Great Western of Canada to
81; East Indian, to 9917 and Great Indian Penin-
sula, to 99 and 991.

Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have
also shown a further decline in values. London
Joint Stock, to 323-; Ottoman Bank, to 171 ; Cry-
stal Palace Stock, to 33; and South Australian
Land, to 321.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank 'Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities B9a A
3 Per Cent. Consols Annuities
..
4New 3 per Cent. Annuities..
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs,expire sth April, 1885 l5l
India Stock
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864 98a
Consols for Account, Jan. 9.
March. Jung.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d.... 13 15
Ditto £500
Ditto Small — 1

FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 4i, per Cent, 1860
°h .1 i ian 6 . per Cent
'Danish 3 pet Cent., 1825
Mexican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Ditto Account
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
ZDitto Account
Ditto £lOO Bonds
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Ditto Account
'enezuelan 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'cl.ooK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account

The Confederate war steamer Nashville went into
the graving dock at Southampton yesterday tc be repaired.
The Federal armed mail steamer will, it is expected, come
.413 Southampton Water on Wednesday next, instead of re-
ruining at Cowes ; so that the two ships will be " within
Shot" of each other.

ME OUTWARD MAlLS.—Yesterday the Quebec
and Montreal Royal Mail steamer Jura was despatched from
Liverpool for Portland with the Canadian and United States
mails, a number of passengers, &c. To-morrow the British
and North American Royal Mail steamer America will be
despatched from the Mersey for New York with the United
States and North American mails.
TAE LATE CAB OUTRAGE IN DUBLIN.—Agnes
les,so well known in connecaion with the case of Curran,
the cabman, was placed at the bar of the Dublin Commis-
sion Court, on Wednesday, and indicted for committing
'wilful and corrupt perjury, before one of the divisional
,magistrates, by swearing that she war in Sackville -street on
the 27th of Septemb r, 1861, and that she saw a lady enter
a cab and Hamilton. Jolly remain outside, and that John
Curran was the man who drove the cab, and that she did
thereby commit wilful and corrupt perjury. On being asked
to plead to the indictment, the prisoner produced a large
letter, which was handed by Mr. Synnott, the Governor of
o
rangegorman Prison, to their lordships, who perused it.
The prisoner, in a very low voice, pleaded guilty, but sen-
tence was postponed.
:Messrs. Froom, Gregory, and Co., who lately
suspended at St. Petersburg, have notified their resumption
of business.
The rate of exchange from St. Petersburg has
fallen from 34d. to 331 d. The Government will therefore
Probably find it necessary to cause some amounts of specie
to be remitted to London or Paris.
TURNER'S GENEROSITY.—An early patron of
Turner, when he was a mere industrious barber's son
'working at three-shilling drawings in his murky bed-
-I.o°to, had seen some of them in a window in the Hay-
rnarket, and had bought them. From that time he had
go4e on buying and being kind to the rising artist,
and Turner could not forget it. Years after he heard that
Ids old benefactor had become involved, and his steward had
received directions to cut down some valued trees. In-
stantly Turner's generous impulses wet e roused ; his usual
parsimony (all directed to one great object) was cast behind
hint, He at once wrote to the steward, concealing his
name, and sent him the full amount : many, many thou-
sands—as much as £20,000, I believe. The gentleman
never knew who was his benefactor, but in time his affairs
rallied, and ho was enabled to pay Turner the whole
'441 back. Ye ars again rolled on, and now the son of
Turner's benefactor became involved. Again the birds of
tli° air brouuht the news to the guardian angel of the fa-
taily aga 1.1.- he sent the necessary theusands anonymously;
again (so singulariare the sequences of Providence) the son
stopped the leak, righted himself and returned the whole
sum with thanks.—From Thornbury's Life of Turner.
mechanism."—Morning
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