The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-29 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, May 28.—The market has been heavy,
and the business done has been at a decline on the
closing rates of yesterday. Reports have teen
current of the death of the Sultan, but no accounts
had been received.:
7con:
Bfierimgialt:i,e:in. Threes, for
the Account, are now at 69f 25c. The Share Market
also shows a slight decline in prices.
The following were the last quotations :
ft per per Cents ... 96 25, Credit Fonder —
69 la Piedmontese Fives. 73 90
3Dpoe.
rencdenmtsonth
Do. end month..., 69 20 Roman
2;0925
5-3
:i
HAoulanteria:ebt
47:k
Bank Shares —
Credit Mobilier 7OO —' Spanish Threes.... 50 25
Do. Account
RAILWAY&

Cash. Account.
Orleans ****** "' ' 1355 .. 1356 25
Northern .........•.•.. 987 50 .. 987 50
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 926 25 .. 927 50
Geneva 4lB 75 .. 420 .
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian. ..........
Austrian
Lombard )4,

AUSTRALIA.

PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY MORNING.

The ship Duncan Dunbar arrived at Spithead,
from Sydney, with passengers. She sailed from
Sydney on the 6th February.
The passengers are
landing.

She has brought on freight 12,000 ounces of gold,
2,840 bales of wool, 30 tons of:gum, and 40 tons of
tallow. Total value of freight £160,450 sterling.

A letter from Uri says that fifty sheep with their

shepherd have been buried by an avalanche at Anisteg.

ATTEMPTED MURDER ON BOARD AN AMERICAN
SHIP IN THE MERSEY.—John Crosby, chief mate of the
American ship Panama, and a runner named Gibney, were
brought up on remand at the Liverpool police-court yester-
day, charged, the former with attempting to murder a
coloured seaman named Johnson, and the latter with being
an accessory after the fact. It will be remembered that
while the Panama was lying in the Mersey, opposite Liver-
pool, a dispute arose between the mate and the crew rela-
tive to the totally defective rations supplied on beard the
ship, and that during an alleged state of insubordination
amongst the men, the chief mate discharged a pistol atJohn-
son, the ball from which passed through his arm, and
caused him b fall into the river. It was stated in evidence
that no mutiny whatever existed amongst the crew at the
time the mate used his revolver, and as the magistrates con-
sidered his conduct quite uncalled for, they committed him
for trial on the charge of attempted murder. Gibney, the
other prisoner, who endeavoured to keep the mate out of the
hands of the police by landing him immediately after he
had shot Johnson, and again trying to put him on board
the Panama when she was outside the pox t, was also com-
mitted for trial.

THE MALTA AND ALEXANDRIA TELEGRAPII.—In
oonsequence of the damaged state of the steamer Malacca,
having on board the Tripoli and Malta portion, and about
half of the Tripoli and Bengasi portion of the Malta and
Alexandria Telegraph cable, caused by the foul weather
encountered during the voyage from England, some delay
will occur in commencing the operation of laying this part of
the line. She is now in her Majesty's dockyard, under repair,
and it is not expected that she will be out of the hands of the
workmen for some days. The cable has been tested since
its arrival here, and, with the exception of a few knots of
it, which were damaged, and have been coiled under water
in the dock, has been found in perfect working order. Mr.
Wildman Whitehouse, who was the chief electrician em-
ployed in laying the Atlantic cable, has arrived here on
forbtnyi fortnight since
Malacca by the
the part of Messrs. Glasse, Eliott and Co. Part of the
electric staff of the Government arrived by the Malacca,
wash e
g f and Messrs. Glasse, Elliot, and Co.'s staff reached this
about a
Marseillesloosening of.
T.
severalh e
injury
sustained
of
her iron plates. Notwithstanding these contretemps the
public are looking forward with confidence to the successful
termination of this great undertaking in submarine tale-
graphyt—illifito Tinos,