The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-25 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, March 23.—The market has been in-
animate. with very little business, and scarcely
any variation in prices. Threes opened at 68f 20c.,
Railways unvaried.
The following are the last quotations
per per Cents ... 96 Credit Foncier 937 50
Do end month.... Belgian .. —
3 per Cents
Do. end month 6B 20 Roman
Bank Shares 2880 Austrian
01-edit Mobilier.... 665 Spanish Threes 4B
Do. Account 665 Home Debt
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Lady Susan Vane Tempest, who has sufficiently
recovered from her recent indisposition to leave town, ha
gone on a visit to the Marchioness (Frances Anne) of Lon-
dondorry at Wynyard Park, near Stockton-on-Tees.
SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER-HALL.—
The usual Passion-week performance of "The Messiah" ; PLYMOUTH, Saturday.—The ship William Tell,
ii Captain Bonney, from Havre, on the 9th 4 March, for New'will take place on Wednesday next. Principal singers.
Miss Louisa Pyne, Madame Sainton Dolby, Mr. Sims . York, was off this port yesterday. Letters dated Calcutta,'
Reeves, and Mr. Santley. The rehearsals of Beethoven's...ol February 13, state that Messrs. Dunbar's ship Octavio was
celebrated grand mass in D are proceeding so satisfactorily -
appointed to sail on the 14th, with 99 soldiers, their wives,
that it is confidently expected that the work will be pro , •
and families for England. Another of their ships, the Lady
duced at the following concert. .
• Anne, Captain Sinclair, would leave witl troops in March,
The Council of the Society of Arts have giver ;homeward bound. A third, the Minden, was engaged to
to the Female School of Art permission tl hold an exhibi-
1 convoy European soldiers to New Zealand.
tion of fine arts, in their great room, in the Adelphi, during CONFERENCE ON THE BANKRUPTCY BILL. —A
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the month of June. The profits of the exhibition will be conference,
in which the Chambers of Commerce of Leeds,
applied to the building a new school of art.
Bradford, and Huddersfield and the Manchester Associa
DESTRUCTION BY FIRE OF THE Fox TAVERN, -
1 tion for the Protection of Trade, wers represented, was
LAMBETII.—This well •known tavern, situated at the I
hours, in which the important clauses of the bill were dis-1
held in this city yesterday. Its sittit occupied several'
waterside, Lambeth, was totally destroyed by fire early on ,
Saturday morning. 1 cussed in detail, and the meeting was unanimous in resolv-1
We (Army and Navy Gazette) understand that ::i ing to recommend modifications in the ',lenses referring to
officers returning home from India, via the Cape, in charger the duties and responsibilities of the crecitors' assignee, and
of invalids, will be allowed to count as service in Tndia the -*expressed a strong opinion that those chuses, as they now ITALY.
three months following the date of their departure from =' stand, would defeat the object of the WI, and prevent any The Minister of Finance in the Piedmontese
f that country. merchant undertaking the office of creeitors' assignee. A Chamber has presented a bill to the Chamber of
It is reported (says the United Service Gazette).; deputation to London, with a view of promoting amend- i
that Rear Admiral Sir H. Koppel has declined to accept "" went in these clauses when it reaches tae House of Lords, .. ~, -. . . .
I nea by political re ugeesto save
f their property
the command of the South American station, and that, on!, was unanimously resolved upon.—Mamhe,ster Guardian. from
BANK ROBBERY.—The chief casiier of the branchi Deputies for exempting from stamp duty all deeds
sequestration.
being relieved by Sir Baldwin Walker, he will return to -
England. ;panic of England at Portsmouth, a 11r. Theakston, haso
The Master of the Rolls proposes, ou the 16th of 'e7lbeen missing from that esproceeded to the
tabliNhment since Friday last, some preliminary business, l
The Italian Senate, in its sitting of the 20th,
April, to make a call c f 10s. per share on the contributories and with him Imo in gold. So far tie discovery of the4discussion of the bill for the abolition of feudal
of the Deposit and General Life Assurance Company.
RENEWAL OP THE BUILDERS' STRIKE.—We un- *--;.
t4less extends at present, but, as Theakston had been in theptenures in Lombardy, and voted the two first
establishment during the time it has been in existence at
derstaud that the bricklayers and masons are about to re.- Portsmouth (2,5 years), and at the time of absconding was
in roc ipt of a salary of £lOO per annum, it is. feared that Ho, w r
read
commence the strike which was defeated in 1859. In spite Oresig,nation of the Cabinet,
Oarticics. The Minister of
aJfutesrtilcvehiacrihntohuen;leindistthere
of the efforts to introduce other topics into the dispute, o.other discoveries will yet be made. Thealc;ton left a note,;ive
despatch• d from
a the a
sam telegraphice
day,
announcing
i;a virtually the same question as before, namely, a limi-,
the hours of labour to not more than nine. On addressed to gentleman ' l • •
!. a criip uy ed in the bank, in whichill
f,,,,:ne stated that he had money sufficient to carry him to Lon-ti Ascoli on
tation of
./, tress of Civitella del Tronto had surrendered to
Saturday the workmen employed by Messrs. Lucas andil"°n, and that he intended to destroy himsel. Ei'Gren. Mezzocapo, after a cannonade which lasted
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Kelk and Sir Morton Peto were to remove their tools andl FORGED BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES.— Tneremfour days, as already known.retcheat the for-
cease work. From one or two other smaller firms the `fare a great many forged notes of the Bank of England
his at- y
,i A Turin letter sa s:— " I have received
men also "go out." As in the case of the strike at MessrsVresent in circulation. There is a very simple way of find-rnews of Garibaldi from a person formerly a Major
Trollop's, rn 's, the masters, it is thought, will adopt the saei- ing out whether a note is good or bad. The difference be
army, who has just arrived here from Caprera.
course as in 1859, and close their yards till work is resumed. tween a good note and a forged one is that the former has-.;iii :
at Messrs. Lucas and
Kelk's and at Sir Morton Peto's. In the watermark produced in the manufacture of the paper, ~,
i .a . , The General told him that for the moment there was
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the case of Messrs. Lucas the strike is particularly unfor-•i n the latter is produced by embossing. If a good nothing to be done."
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tunate, as they are the contractors for the Great Exhibitionknote is wetted with a sponge and held up to the light the -
building in 1862. The ground has already been brokenwa;ermark remains, and is even clearer than before; but if, Sadler's Wells Theatre has been taken by Mr.
at Kensington, and the preparations advanced for laying _this is done to a forged one the watermark entirely disap- :Josephs, for a spring season, to commence on Easter-
the foindations of the brick walls, but now all is stopped, spears. Monday.

Gentlemen.—Black evening coat, with trousers and
boots; white cravat; round hat.
Stars and ribbons will be worn.

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans 1421 25 .. 1422 50
Northern
New ditto B9B 75 .. 898 75
Lyons and Mediterranean 955 .. 955
Geneva no .. 391 25
Southern 540 .. 540
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard . .