The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-20 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, July 18.

The Moniteur of this morning reprints the fol-
lowing communique, published in the lemps yes-
terday :

" The Journal le Temps, in its impression of the
12th July, reproduced a notice of the Ministry of
the Interior, inserted in the Moniteur of the 11th
instant, announcing that MM. the Baron Emile
von Erlanger and Julius Reuter, in consequence of
a notification of tender, had been declared conces-
sonaires of a submarine telegraphic line for the pur-
pose of connecting France with the United States
of America."

The Temps appends to this note a stetem ant pub-
lished by the London Daily News, in which it 18
asserted that a prior concession has been granted,
on the 17th ult., by the Mnistry of the Interior, to
M. Eugene Delessert and Mr. William Blackmore.

The 7emps added that an explanation appeared
;o be necessary.

The explanation is very easy. MM. Delessert
and Black-more have obtained no concession Iron
the Minister of the Interior. They had in their
hands, on the 17th June, a simple draft of convert"
tion, which was neither signed nor approved, and
which consequently could. not confer upon them any
right.

MM. Delessert and Blackmore themselves Per-

fectly understood the state of the case. Two sue'
cessive adjudications, at which they were invited to
be present, were held on the 29th June and the
6th July without any protest whatever on their
part having been made in the interval.
It is therefore incomprehensible that these gen'
amen can now raise claims which are unauthorised,
and to maintain which they can adduce no title.
BOURSE, July 18.—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :-
41 per Cent.
End of month... Ital'an Loan
3 per Cent
End of month 7O 25 Mexican Loan 23 5'
Credit Mobilier
End of month... 276 25 Spanish Threes 37
Credit Foncier ...1168 Home Debt
End of month... Deferred ......
RAILWAYS. Cash,
Orleans , BBl

Northern 1153
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 568

Western
- - -

Eastern . . 558.

Sardinian
Austrian 562

Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa.
Roman

MR. SINS REEVES AND ENCORES.—MT.
Reeves, who steadily opposes the custom, is frequently
made aware of the views of his audience upon till°
point. Last autumn he underwent cosnsiderabl°
insult in Manchester because he declined to ill-
peat a ballad. He had yielded to the first Lis;
he civilly repudiated the second, being tired, and being
further alive to the peril of exerting a throat so SO'
sitive as his own. The Mancunians persisted in the ell"
core ; Mr. Sims Reeves held out with equal resolution'
Ho at first declined the compliment ; ho now stood out on
the justice of the case, and refused the demand. The
Mancumans breke out into an uproar ; they hissed, tb°l
yelled, they drove from the platform the succeeding
singer - a lady—until she retired in tears ; they ultimately
broke up the concert. Why? Simply because Mr. SirD,l
Reeves objected to give them double what he had stipulates"
by contract to perform. Ho had bargained to sing tvr°
songs ; his audience asked four at the same price. 214°Y
had the right to ask it, but they had not the shadow of 11
right to enforce the claim, or even to feel aggrieved if gr'
Reeves declined. You may offer half price for any article
of commerce if you please, but you are not privileged tc:,
insult the vendor if he bows you out of the shop. Ir°-
may make the excellence of your baker's last batch a Pin
text for asking two loaves at the price of one ; but t"t:
baker is fairly empowered to dissent from that view.V.%
to require two penny buns for a penny because the btin
aro good is not more unreasonable than the principle
volved in an encore.—The Broadway.
SIR it. MAINE'S UNMUZZLED D0C43.--On
day an extraordinary sale of dogs captured by the Poli`':
took place at Cretnorne. Sixty-eight lots were put erf,c)
saL., and although some of the dogs were vary valual)."/'
only £2) was realised.
PILCHARDS.—Upwards of 300 hogsh,?acis of Pile;
chards were caught on the Cornish coast during the 1,3 t
+
week, which was the first week of the season. Sales ,A 0
is. 6d. to 2s. per six score. Larger commissions than
any previous year have been received from London.
of
CRYSTAL PALACE.—Seven Shilling and SixPell
Day, Saturday, July 18.—Admissions by season tick° '
4,546; ditto on payment, 1,011; total visitors, 5,564.