The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-30 00:00:00

ROME.

ROME, June 29.

A Pontifical Bull summoning a General Counci
of the Roman Catholic Church, to meet in the
Basilica of the Vatican on the Bth of December,
1869, was formally promulgated here to-day. All
ecclesiastics entitled to be present are enjoined to
appear, or, if prevented, to be represented by proxy.
The Bull expresses hopes that princes and other
rulers will afford the ecclesiastics all possible facility
for making the journey to Rome. The Bull also
states that the object of the Council is to assure the
integrity of the faith, respect for religion and the
ecclesiastical laws, the improvement of public morals,
the establishment of peace and concord, and the re-
moval of the ills afflicting civil and religious society.
The Bull finally adverts to the necessity for main-
taining the temporal power, the sanctity of matri-
mony, and the religious education of youth, and
deplores the efforts of the enemies of the Church to
overthrow those principles.

THE BRAZILS.

LISBON, June 30.

The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's ship,
Oneida, from the Brazils, &c., arrived here at 1
p.m. yesterday, with 173 passengers for Southamp-
ton, £32,089 in specie, 1,033 bales of cotton, 150
barrels of tapioca, 516 barrels of coffee, 306 rolls of
tobacco, and 135 packlges of sundries.
The Seine, with the outward mails of the 9th
inst., was at St. Vincent on the 20th inst.

BOURSE, June 29.—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :-
44 per Cent.
End of mouth... Ital'an Loan
3 per Cent
End of month 7O 80 Mexican Loau ... 23
Credit Mobilier

Spanish Threes 39 50
Home Debt —
Deferred ... 37 25
Cash
Orleans ... 887
N orthern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 6OO
Western
Eastern • • 552
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman..

End of month... 320
Credit Foncier —1540
End of month...

RAILWAYS.

585
395
611
72
46

PROFESSOR LONGFELLOW AND THE
ABYSSINIAN CA PTI VES.

" The Poet Longfellow has arrived in London.
On Saturday last he visited the studio of Mr. John
Watkins in Parliament-street, and gave sittings for
several photographic negatives. Mr. Rassam and
others of the released Abyssinian captives have also
sat to Mr. Watkins for portraits, which will excite
an unusual amount of interest."—The Times.

An Abyssinian boy brought to England by Dr.
Blanc, whose portrait is included in the series of
photographs referred to by the Times, appears with
a set of the heavy iron manacles that night and day
fettered the limbs of each of the prisoners during
the twenty one weary months of their cap-
tivity. During the present season Mr.
Watkins has made many valuable additions
to his already comprehensive and, indeed; unequal-
led series of contemporary portraits, among whom
mly be named the Marquises of Salisbury and
Waterford, Lord Ly tton, The Countess of Donough -
more, the Ladies Dacres, Viscountess Strang-
ford, Viscount Curzon, M.P., the new Bi-
shops of Rochester and Hereford, the Bishop of
Honolulu, the Ven. Archdeacon Wordsworth, the
new Vice-Chancellor Sir G. M. Giff.trd, the Hon,
Baron Pigott, the Hon. Justice Hannen, the Attor-
ney-General, the Solicitor-General, Sir Charles
W yke, Ambassador to Copenhagen ; Sir Bartle
Frere, late Governor of Bombay ; Admirals Sir
Sydney Dacres, Sir Alexander Milne, and Sir Adol-
phus Slade ; Generals Sir Richard Dacres and Sir
Melvill Melvill ; M. Gustave Dore and Mr. Thor-
burn, the eminent artists, and Mr. Whitworth,
whose munificence has recently made him famous—
these alone form an attractive collection of
portraits, but at this well-known " Studio in
Parliament-street" may be seen a dozen volumes,
each containing a hundred faces of persons dis-
tinguished in every walk of life, and all of whom
have been posed, focussed, and photographed
by Mr. John Watkins and his stJf of able assis-
tants.

MARKETS-7HIS DAY.

COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE MARKET.

Only moderate supplies are in the market to-day, and the
tone in general is steady, although there is but a limited

demand.

Tea— The usual pubic sales were not held to-day, but
privately thero is rather more inquiry for common qua-
lities.

Rice is very quiet, but transactions are at steady prices.
Saltpetre remains in limited demand, at 19s to 19s 6d.
for middling to good Bengal on the spot.
Hemp is in moderate request, at £37 to £37 lOs for clean
St. Petersburg.
Sugar—On the spot there is more inquiry, but the mar-
ket is not brisk. Prices are without quotable change.
Deliveries are well kept up, and the relative deficiency
in stock is increased. Floating cargoes continue
in steady request for outports at 23s Cd for good musca-
vado sugars. In refined there is not much passing to alter
quotations. . . . . . .

Coffee maintains a firm position, and for native kinds the
demand Is decidedly better, purchases being made at
48s 6d to 50s for good to fine ordinary. Colory, planta-
tion, Ceylon coffees also range full prices. Consumption
and export continue favourable.

_
COTTON MARKET.
LivEitrooL, Juno 30.—Sales probably 8,000 bales.
Market steady.

Great excitement has been produced at Marseilles
by threatening letters sent to some of the principal
inhabitants demanding sums of 25,000 f. from each.
One of the persons having paid no attention to the
missive, received a few days later a parcel which had
been left at his house by a stranger. This packet
proved to be a volume entitled " La Vie de Gerson,"
and the merchant, who had some suspicions, hav-
ing carefully raised the corners of one of the leaves,
found that the middle of the book had been scooped
out, and the space filled with denotating powder,
arranged with chemical matches and sand paper in
such a manner that on the book being opened
suddenly and forcibly an explosion should be
caused. He shook out the powder, and was thus
able to examine the new kind of infernal machine
without danger. All the letters scut bear the signa-
ture of Bandulini.

The last advice 3 from America announce that
there will be no payment of the July dividens on
the Virginian State Bonds, there being no money
in the Virginia treasury, and no prospect of the
treasury being typlenished.

A journal called the Revival, which is devoted
to chronicling the proceedings of the " converted
clowns" and other irregular preachers, l rints in a
recent number the following advertisement
Gardener, Lead. —An energetic young man, age
twenty-six, is desirous of obtaieing, a situatipn as
above. Has been bred to the profession. Tho-
roughly understands forcing, bedding, laying out,
and the different branches connected. (Is a
labourer in the Lord's vineyard.) Testimonials,
both professional and Christian, will bear the
strictest investigation.—Address, &c."