The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-02 00:00:00

BIRMINGHAM, JULY 1.

STOCK EXCHANGE.--The transactions in this market
to-day were chiefly in local stocks. South Staffords 9 13-16
- Staffordshire Gas, 101—New Waterworks, 16i —Bir-
mingham Old Union Mills, 13z—Great Westerns, 64a
London and is.Torth WeAern, 103—Birminghana Banking
Company,2--Shropshire Bauks, •

Loss OF LIVES IN THE RlVERiTHAllES.—Yesterda-
men
morning. about seven o'clock, whilst several young
' boys were bathin2 in the River Thames, at Hor sley-
ant, - cry was raised that a boy was seized with the
down, e• was drowning. The poor fellow was seen to
cramp, a" -nil after spinning round in the water
shalt, then rise, ••• sucked under the shipping,
several times', be w- • nva4, dived several tmesafteAr
man, dressed inlight ce.. • -h-
-im. The previous evening
him, but was amble, to ilea _ at Bankside, which
way
a man was drowned iv as satnilar ,„athing in rivers in
shows the great danger of perons up and down,
which steamboats are c ,ntinaally pas: ins,
IMFORTANCE OF SNOWING FRENCH.—In this. happy
country of (arra, where any man may be anythin''' from
President downwards, everybody should know a
of everything, particularly French, so as to be prepared
for an emergency. Several capable men have misted
good appointments as foreign Ministers because they
could not speak any language but their own. A know-
ledge might be the means of securing an embassy, per-
haps to France, where a smattering of the language will
be found extremely convenient to an ambassador. Our
present representative to the Emperor of France la-
bours under the disadvantage of not being able to
speak the language of the country ; but fortunately
for us the Emperor can speak English, so that our
Minister can have intercourse with him without the aid
of an interpreter. But all Frenchmen cannot speak Eng-
lish, and Horace Vernet, the great battle painter, is one
of them. We are likely, it seems, according to a correspon-
dent of the Providence Journal, to be deprived of the
services of the great French artist in departing our na-
tional capitol because he does not understand English,
and our Minister cannot speak French. Mr. Mason, it
is said, received instructions to make an offer to Vernet,
and sent for him to communicate the intelligence to him.
The Minister read the de-patch to the artist, who could
n, understand a word of it ; and when some one asked I
..
-•hether he Intended going to America, he replied
him N." .1 not know he had been invited. Perhaps some
that be t:..
found before this to act as an interpreter
friend bas Oen
Minister and the artist, and the French- •
between the L.
have leas the honour that has been paid him.
man will m•
—Noe York Tiflli
•

BIRTHS.
OF A SON.

On the 29th June, at 2, Alfred Villas, Upper Holloway
Mrs. George Armitage
On the 28th June, at Eggington Hall, Barton-on-Trento
Lady Every—prematurely, stillborn,

OF A DAUGUTER.
On the 27th June, at Bessingby, Yorkshire, the lady c't
sWwialnlnin, heatm
5:2t.
h 8 itGtharjefguoininit.he; Esq.
On
Regiment.
Cheltenham, the wife of CaptaiA
_ _ _

MARRIED.
On the 2d inst., at Newton, near Wisbech, by the Re/'
J. W. Berryman, John, only son of Hugh Wooll, EA',
of Upwell Hall, Cambridgeshire, to Martha Elizabetbr
only daughter of the late John Cole, Esq., of GuanotO
Gate House, Sutton St. Edmunds, Lincolnshire.
On the Ist inst., at the church of Allhallows, Barking,
Mr. Anthony Brough. of London, to Emma, only Baugh'
ter of Charles Law, Esq., of Fleetpond, Hampshire.
On the 30th June, at Chepstow, the Rev. Wm. Talmilo:-
. -mbent of Thames Ditton, Surrey, and Fellow O'
Kiulacy.
'ollege, Cambridge. to Charlotte, third daughter of
the late Jat.qes Evans, Esq., of Tutshill-lodge, Chepatosfs