The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-16 00:00:00

BJMBAY MAIL.

The Ripon leaves at 11 p.m. to-day for South-
ampton, where she may be expected about the 24th
instant.

FRANCE.

PARIS, July 16.
The illonileur of this morning publishes a decree

approving the protocol signed on the 9th ult. be-
tween France and Turkey respecting the right of
Frenchmen to acquire landed property in Turkey.
A Ministerial decree, dated June 30, grants to
M. Lewis, the editor of the Journal Telegraphique,
a cable between
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The case of the journal Le Rever rlVer termi-
nated in the condemnation of 111. Delehoze to three
months' imprisonment and 5,000 francs fine.
BOURSE, July 15.—T1
closed as follows :--
41 per Cent.
End of month —
3 per Cent
End of month 7O 25
Credit Mobilier 277 50
End of month 276 25
Credit Foncier 1.168
End of month —

see o'clock.—The market

Bank Shares 3710
Itsl'an Loan —
End of month —
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds -
Spanish Threes 37 50
Home Debt —
Deferred

RAILWAYS.

Cash
Orleans .................................. BB2
Northern 1153
Lyons and Mediterranean 935
Southern..... 568
Western 567
Eastern ............ .. 558

Sardinian ................................. 491
Austrian 563;
Lombard 4OB
North of Spain 6O
Saragossa
Boman

DISCOVERY OF FRESCOES AT POMPEll.—Another
archaeological treasure has been brought to light at
Pompeii, and is attracting the attention of anti-
quaries. In the vestibule of a house in the Via
Stabiana, two frescoes have been discovered, pro-
bably representing the portraits of the master and
mistress. These two figures are on the same wall,
close to each other ; the man wears the toga pecu-
liar to the magistracy ; the woman is seated as if
she were meditating before writing ; in her right
hand she holds the stylas, which she is in the act of
wetting on the tip of her tongue ; in the left she
has the wax tablets on which she intends writing.
Both these figures are well-designed and in excel-
lent preservation. They have been removed to the
Museum of Naples.
FAMINE IN MOROCCO.—The Constitutionnel con-
tains a distressing account of the famine in Morocco,
which is spreading the most disastrous effects
amongst the Mussulman populations. The harvest
has been a total failure, and for such grain as can
be imported enormous prices are demanded. The
situation is described as worse than that of
Algeria. Numbers:of persons are constantly dying
of hunger. The roads are covered every morning
with the:dying and the dead. The rich are power-
less to save these poor creatures ; and the
number of those who have perished, either
of hunger or the epidemic, is estimated at
one-fourth of the entire population. "It is not, as
will be seen," says the Constitutionnel, " Algeria
alone which has just passed through a deplorable
crisis. In Tunis, as in Morocco, the population,
ravaged with cholera, ruined by invasions of locusts
such as were never before seen in the memory of
man, and suffering two years of drought, have, in
the summer of 1868, becn plunged into the deepest
suffering. Fortunately, in Algeria, a good harvest
has repaired, so far as it was possible, the losses
experienced by those tribes, and the wants of the
coming winter may be met by the provisions made
for giving employment, by the exercise of charity,
and various kinds of assistance judiciously ren-
dered."

TILE TEA DUTY IS REDUCED Hornintan's Pure Tea is
sold Bd. per pound Cheaper. This interesting fact will, when
fully known, even further increase the demand lot these
Choice, long-approved Teas. They are not sold loose, but
only in Packets, signed " llorairiu2n," London.