The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-07 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, FEB. 6.—There is much business, and
the tone of the market is very cheerful ; all prices
are higher. There is, therefore, great animation.
Three o'clock. —The market closed as follows :
Bank Shares 3230
Ital'an Loan
End of month 43 40
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred —

41 per Cent.
End of month
3 per Cent
End of month 6B 65
Credit Mobilier
End of month l7B 75
Credit Fonder - 1380 j
End of month 1383 75 1

Account
Orleans , BB6i
....
Northern 1163f
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern.... 5lO
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian 5221
Lombard 3sBk
-1.

RAILWAY'S.

North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman

BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, Feb. 6.

The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding figures of the previous account :

DEBTOR.
Feb. 6.
fr.
Capital of the Bank 182,500,000
Profits in addition to
capital (Art. 8, Law
Juno 9, 1837) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 02
Reserve of the Bank
and its branches 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14
Reserve of landed pro-
perty 4,000,000 4,000,000
Notes in circulation ' 1,202,412,825 1,212,072,175
Bank notes to order and.

Jan. 30.

182,500,000

receipts payable at
143 '23 33,524,732 02
sight 33,659,
Treasury account cur-
rent creditor 68,631,036 05 73,156,675 32
Current accounts, Paris 366,545,723 t 0 368,996,018 02
Do. branch banks 44,202,204 43,254,288
Dividends payable 1,909,988 i a 2,368,269 75
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last
930,376 76
six mouths
Surplus of receipts not
distributed
Sundries

Total . .............. 1,913,734,762 24 1,960,223,895 29
CREDITOR.
Feb. 6. Jan. 30.

fr. e.
Cash in hand and ill fr. c
Branch banks 1,063,846,758 581,042,678,057 02
Commercial bills over: 87
due 135,511 08
Commercial bills dis- --
counted, not yet due 245,875,994 75 278,101,433 85'
Do. branch banks .....• 231 , 109,788 210,873,666
Advances on deposit of
61 ,681,500 58,917,800
bullion
Do. branch banks...... 11,211,877 11,473,277
Do. on French Public
Securities 12,230,800 12,00'5,400
7,553,400
Do. by branch banks 7,330,400
Do. on railway shares
36773,300 _
and debentures , 36,601,900
Do. branch banks 27,855,300 27,904,900
Lo. on Credit Fonder
939,200 _
Bonds 931,500
867,500
Do. branches ............ 851,800
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, Juno 10,
1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000
Government Stock
servere-
. 12,980,750 14 12,980,750
40,706,669 66
Do. disposable - 40,700,669 66
Rentes Immobalisees
(Law, June 2, 1857) 100,000,000 ..... 100,000,000 --
Rotel and furniture of
the Bunk and landed
property
branches 8,288,157 _ 8,287,840
Expenses of manage-
ment 289,458 52 258,688 12
Sundries

Total 1,943,734,764 24.1,960,223,895 29
Certified by the Senator Governor of u Bank of France.
(signed)
BOTJLAND.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

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meeting of the
party iu the
principalCA3lß Inat I De
members
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ti v e
university was held yesterday at the Eagle Hotel.
The Rev. the Master of St. Peter's College occupied
the chair. Mr. Anthony Cleasby, Q.C., late fellow
of Trinity College, was selected as a candidate for
the vacancy caused by the elevation of Sir C. J.
Selwyn to the bench. The names of Mr. Beresford-
Hope and Mr. Cecil Raikes were also proposed, but
the majority of those present voted for Mr. Cleasby.
A committee was then formed for promoting
Mr. Cleasby's election, and was joined by the
most influential members present. The Master
of St. Peter's was appointed chairinan, and the
Provost of King's and the Master of Clare,
vice-chairmen. Mr. Beresford-Hope's friends, how-
ever, have declined to accept the above decision,
and a meeting in that gentleman's interest is con-
vened for to-morrow.
BRIGHTON.-111 consequence of a rumour which
has been extensively circulated that Lord Pelham,
eldest son of the Earl of Chichester, Lord Lieu-
tenant of the county, will be a candidate for
Brighton at the next general election, his lordship
has written to the secretary of the local Liberal
Association denying the statement ; and adds,
" Under no circumstances will I endeavour to divide
the Liberal party by standing against the present
[members for Brighton."

GERMAN LAW.—I have come across a judicial an-
ecdote, the scene of which lies in Germany, and it illus-
trates very ludicrously the matter-of-fact and methodical
nature of the Teutonic mind, as well as its severe adher-
ence to logic. A complaint was made to a magistrate that
a blow had been given in the course of an altercation, but
the witness who was relied on to prove the assault could
only say that ho heard the blow given, as he was at the
time in a certain inn near which the occurrence had taken
place. The defendant, who denied
giving the blow, urged
that it was impossible, even if it had been given, that the
witness could have heard it from whore he was. The ma-
gistrate resolved to try the point by
actual experiment,
and proceeded to the inn, while an officer of the court ac-
companied the comp ainant to the precise spot where the
quarrel had occurred, and there and then gave him a good
sound whack. The magistrate, on resu.ning his seat in
court, said ho heard the blow perfectly well from inside
the inn, and the defendant must pay a double fine—ono
for the original blow, the other for the experimental and
official thump—Once a Week.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(PROM. OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, THURSDNY, Fcb. 6.

If you were to believe Parisian gossips, taking their cue
from M. Rouher's speech, the Press Law is only the first
of a series of Liberal measures which are to crown the
edifice. According to these quidnuncs, the next surprise
will be an Imperial letter setting up Ministerial responsi-
tility, attended with freedom of meetings and of political
agitation, to consummate democracy in full play. They
point to the significant reference of M. Rouher to the
four millions of new electors who have entered the field
since the Second Empire was established ; and the
gradual accession of this new blood will render, accord.
ing to the Minister, the concession of fuller measures of
freedom necessary and safe. It is not to be denied that
the minority in the towns and the departments, thottgh
small, is continually growing. II ad the Army Bill been
one of the questions still before the country, it is impos-
sible to say if that would not have brought up the minority
very near to thewinning side. Meanwhile, it is difficult
to explain the action of the Ministry in what they are
doing, unless they have really accepted a Liberal
programme as a necessity. The first article of
the bill already passed, in suppressing the preli-
minary authorisation hitherto required, opens up the
way for Opposition journals in the departments,
and these journals reproducing the attacks of the
independent Paris press, will not tend to strengthen
the hands of authority. At present the Opposition press
is hardly seen in the rural districts, and in the large towns
the Government are losing ground rapidly. Whatever
may be the ultimate effects of the new law, its first influ-
ence is an increase of the Emperor's popularity. The
public show an unmistakeable satisfaction with the pro-
gress of the measure.
Apropos of the Lille election, the Avenir Nationae,
attempts to show that the dullness of French trade is due
to the external policy of the Government. It imagines
that the American markets are closed against French
goods on account of the Emperor's motion to recognise the
Southern States, and of Mexican intervention ; and it pro-
fesses to believe that the Italian League have been able to
induce the Italian people, to abstain from purchases of
French goods on account of the second occupation of
Rome. Neither of these suppositions is -tenable. The
exports of France to the United States have been checked
by the tariff of the country, and French manufacturers
may be assured that Italians and Mexicans, in spite of
their offended national pride, will buy the cheapest goods
they can get, whoever may have made them.
On account of the attacks that have been recently and
foolishly made on the treaties of commerce, it is considered
not unlikely that M. Baudrillart will presently succeed
Paulin Limayrac in the conduct of the Constitutionnel.
M. Baudrillart is a political economist and a free-trader.
While you are discussing the question of technical
education for your young men, the French, having per-
fected that work, are opening ecoles professionelles for
young ladies. Throughout France secondary and superior
education for young women is making great progress. In
the Rue Richelieu is a professional school for ladies, to
prepare them for artistic pursuits and commercial or
industrial careers. In this school or college the English
language and designing will be obligatory for each
pupil. Those who afe intended for business must
learn German and Italian also. The school day is
from 8 ~.m. to 6 p.m. ; examinations are to take
place every three months, and a public examina-
tion at the end of each year. What a learned gen -ifation
the next one should be !

Our neighbours the Belgians have caught the war
panic. A Ministerial project is b;:fore the Chamber of
Representatives which would make almost the entire male
population subject to bear arms in defending the country
from invasion. This system of organisation does not give
universal satisfaction. The member for Antwerp protested
that Belgium was in no danger of invasion, and that hey
small army was quite equal to her needs. He had suffi.
oient confidence to demand a general. disarmament, and ii
any case the abolition of the conscription. .

From Naples we learn that Vesuvius has resumed itc)
activity. Three successive shocks of earthquake wer4
experienced on the sth. The volcano was ejecting asheE
and lava.

I have previously referred to the uncertainty of affairs
in South America. The BOrsenhalle of Hamburg publishes
a telegram stating that the Government of Colonel Prado
in Peru hag been overthrown. The arrival of. Canseco at
Lima was momentarily expected. The misfortune of
all these republics is, that their highest offices always pass
into the hands of military men.
A letter from Constantinople states that the Sultan has
determined to become a subscriber to the 11lickhbir, the
organ of " Young Turkey," published in London. It is
supposed that the interdiction of its circulation in the
empire will be either wholly withdrawn or allowed to re-
main practically a dead letter.
There was an immense crowd at the ball given at the

Tuileries last night. An English lady attracted more
attention than admiration by wearing a dress of mauve
silk literally covered from head to foot with green flowers.

The Paris correspondent of the Daily News is informed
"on good authority" that diplomatic despatches have
lately been sent from Paris to Berlin demanding guarantees
that the " Customs" Parliament of Germany should not
treat of political subjects. As it is unlikely that M. de
Bismarck will listen for a moment to such interference,
this may explain the rumours that the relations between
France and Prussia are not so good as they were a feu
days ago.

The expenses common to Austria and Hungary for the
next year have been fixed at £8,635,000. Of this amount
Austria contributes •70 and Hungary 30 per cent. The
estimates for the army and navy amount to £8,000,000.

Count Charles Arrivabene shocked the Italian Chamber
of Deputies with some revelations about the abominable
traffic in Italian bo3 s which sends so many of them to the
streets of London and New York. This is an organised
white slave trade. Count Arrivabene declared that
there exists in England a regular company, having
at its bead an Italian, who has made a large fortune
by this vile and cruel traffic. The present centre
of operations in Italy is on the Par al terri-
tory, but close to the Italian frontier, across
Which agents are despatched into the poor and
mountainous districts of the Modenese, Parmesan, and
Bolognese Apennines, where they are able to purchase for
a few crowns children from the age of '7 or 8 up to that of
15 or 16 years. He gave a harrowing description of the
manner in which these young slaves are treated in the
lowest quarters of London and New York, of their being
huddled together in wretched cellars in wet and cold and
hunger, and beaten or turned into the street when their
gains are deemed insufficient. General Menabrea ad-
mitted the existence of the evil. Its source was the disor-
ganised state of the country, and the remedy was to
improve the condition of the labouring. classes by restorin
credit and introducing foreign capital.
The Agent-General for South Australia, in London,
has received a letter which reports some important dis-
coveries made by the South Australian Exploring Expe-
dition. The explorationi were made in the extreme
north of the continent. The most important is the explo-
ration of the mouth of the River Roper, which falls into
the Gulf of Carpentaria. It is said to be a fine stream,
fully answering the description of Leichhardt. Lime-
diately to the north of Probable Island, in a part hitherto
represented as being dry land, Captain Cadell sailed up a
bay twenty miles long by ten bread, with three large
rivers running into it. He recommends the estuary of the
Liverpool, on the northern coast, as the best site for the
capital of a colony. He is convinced of the possibility of
surveying the necessary 800,000 acres of land during the
good season of the S.E. monsoon of 1868. The aborigines
of this country were very kind to the explorers.
The Times Calcutta correspondent hopes there will be
sympathy for the Waghers whom our troops in India
have recently encountered and almost annihilated in
Kattywar. They have been buccaneers by land and sea
for centuries. The peninsula of Kattywar juts out on the
western coast between the gulfs of Cambay and Cutch. It
is about 150 miles long and as many broad, and its people
are the -most backward in the dependency. In the en-
gagement which has just taken place, the leader, Dewa
Manick, fell, and a large part of his force. The Ist
Light Cavalry lost Captain La Touche and Captai
Hebbert, besides several Sepoys.
It is stated that the postal contract with the Peninsular
and Oriental Company has excited dissatisfaction in India.
Anglo-Indians do not like to be handed over to a monopoly
for twelve years. Its first act has been to refuse to allow
passengers who take its steamers only to Suez, that they
may proceed by Brindisi or Trieste, to send their heavy
baggage on to Southampton as hitherto. If there are
political reasons for giving the contract at so high a rate to
the Peninsular and Oriental Company, it is said, should
not the general revenue bear the expense? Anglo-Indians
-iay that if the postal account between India alone (with.
out China) and England were fairly dealt with, were sub.
mitt: d to a body of arbiters at once impartial and informed,
;,he very serious tax of 3d. would not be put on Indian
etters.

The great Protestant demonstration in Dublin is tha
subject of I.3aJers in most of the Irish paper. 3. The Con.
servative journals speak of it in high terms, and predioi.
great results from it. The Freeman, on the other hand,
maintains that the meeting was the embodiment of low
selfishness. But they must give up the spoils of conquest,
and be content to live on equal terms with Catholics and
Dissenters. Their exclusive privileges " cannot be sus.
tained. A thousand Defence Associations and any
tniount of " No surrender " would fail to vivify what the
opinion of the world has doomed and paralysis already
overtakes.

UR. GLADSTONE AND THE Ef,-EE LABOUR

_REGISTRATION SOCIE7 F.

The following correspondence has been published :
" Free Labour Registration Society, Jan. 30, 1868.
"Sir,—As I see by your letter to Mr. George Potter
that your only object is to inform yourself upon this
most important subject, and that for this purpose you
have consented to receive a deputation of unionists to
state their views of the case,' I would respectfully
suggest to you that you should, eithcr on that
ar some subsequent early day, hear the other side
from men of the same class; and for this purpose I
respectfully offer to you the service of five artisans
to speak upon the five points touched upon by Mr. Potter's
clients. I have the honour to forward to you a copy of
our annual report, which will, perhaps, ezEplain to you the
object of our society better than the limits of a short
letter will allow.—l am, sir, with deep respect, your most
obedient humble servant,

" F. C. MAUDE, Colonel, Hon. Sec.
"To the Right Hon. W. H. Gladstone, M.P., &c."
" llawa,rden, Jan. 31,1868.
"Sir,—You have not .been quite correctly informed
about the deputation which I am to receive on the 18th.
The members of it come to me to contend against certain
propositions which I have laid down.
" This can only be done viva nee. Information of the
principles of their system, apart from this controversy, I
should have requested to receive in writing, and I shall be
most happy to receive any such information in that form
from those on whode behalf you act.
"I cordially wish well to those combinations of working
men which separate the benefit society from the rules
restraining labour, and wish well to all who object to such
rules when they interfere with individual freedom.
"In many cases I rejoice to see among the working
classes a reaction against much that belongs to trades
unions. But I am impressed with the belief that this
reaction, to be healthy, must be spontaneous, and that if
it appears to depend on the patronage or pecuniary aid of
employers or of the upper classes, it will never thrive.
" It is on this account that I have not connected myself
with any such movement. I appreciate the motives of
those who act otherwise, yet I think the point to which I
have referred should Rot be lost sight of.
" Forgive this intrusion.—l remain, sir, your faithful
servant, " W. E. GLAD3TONS.
" To Colonel Maud, &c.
"Many thanks for your enclosures."

The Herald has reason to believe that if Mr. Forsyth's
candidature for the representation of the University of
Cambridge were likely to prove acceptable to the members
of Convocation, that gentleman would resign the appoint-
ment of standing counsel to the Secretary of State for
India, and thus free himself from any disqualification for
the vacant seat.

The Odd Fellows Grand Lodge has reported the
strength of the Order in the United States. It has 2,860
lodges, with 214,581 members, and 697 encampments with
34,842 members. During the year ending September
1867, the aggregate income of the'order was 2,020,111 dols.,
of which 692,629 dols. was expended for various charitable
objects.

PRESENTATION OF A. BlRCH.—According to cus-
tom, the captain of the school recently presented, with
much ceremony, a birch tied up with blue ribands to the
Rev. J. J. Hornby, M.A., the new head master of Eton
College. The birch was presented at the beginning of
eleven o'clock school, and the head master replied in a few
appropriate words, saying that he hoped he should be
seldom called upon to use it.
THE MURDER OF A GIRL IN DUMFRIES.—
Robert Smith, the young man who is charged with having
murdered a girl near Annan, and also with having
attempted to murder a woman near the same place, has
been examined at Dumfries, before Mr. Boyle Hope,
sheriff-substitute, first, on the charge of rape, murder, and
robbery; and, secondly, on the charge of attempt to
murder. It is understood that the prisoner made a full
confession of the whole of the crimes charged against
rim.

FEMALE DOCTORS.—A statement is going the
round of the papers to the effect that, as the Court of
Assistants of the Apothecaries' Company has decided not
to exclude women from their examination in Arts, there is
every probability that this concession will be followed by
admitting them unreservedly to the examination in Medi-
-eine. This latter statement is wholly incorrect. There is
not the slightest chance of any woman getting the license
of the Apothecaries' Society under the regulations im-
posed by the Court of Examiners in Medicine.—Lancet.

THE QUEEN'S HEALTH.—Although her Majesty,
yielding to the wishes of her subjects, has consented to
face the fatigue of personally holding a limited number of

drawing-rooms during the ensuing season, and is, we trust,
justified in making the effort by the state of her health,
yet we understand that the Queen is still far from having
entirely recovered her strength. 'The effort which the
Queen has made to renew more extended personal relations
with her people will assuredly be gratefully acknowledged;
and, if her strength should not be equal to the complete
fulfilment of these laborious ceremonials, a just and re-
spectful appreciation will not be wanting of the gracious-
ness with which the sovereign has endeavoured to re-enter
upon the task.—British Medical Journal.

DISTRESS AT THE EAST OF LONDON.—On Thurs'
day afternoon a meeting was held at Exeter Hall, under
the presidency of Lord Radstock, in reference to the pre-
vailing distress in the Eastern districts of London. The
noble chairman said he felt humbled for himself per-
sonally, and for the Church, for the state of things
which existed in the Eastern districts of this vast and
wealthy metropolis. An urgent appeal had recently been
sent out by a society (his lordship did not mention its
name), and an amount equal to one-half of a half-year's
income of many an individual member of the Church had
not been received. In addition to money, 250 personal
workers had been asked for, and he felt grateful to those
who had come forward. As a member of the Christian
Church, he was bound to admit that men might point to
it and say that, in reference to this great distress at the
East of London, it had produced no satisfactory results.
There was, indeed, amongst them a sentimental love of
the gospel, a desire to combine holy and beautiful things,
but there was no practical following in the footsteps of
Him who preached the sermon on the Mount, and who
intended that it should be a lesson for all ages. The
standard of Christians of the present day was an entirely
different one from that ; for Christ would uever have
allowed tens of thousands of his fellow-creatures to be
starving while untold riches were abounding around
Him. It was a farce to talk of revivals of religion,
and to be careless of so much existing distress. Mr.
Baxter, the well-known parliamentary agent, and several
other gentlemen gave addresses, but no collection was
made.

The election of Professor of Political Economy at the
Oxford University, in the place of the Rev. J. E. T.
Rogers, M.A., whose term of office had expired, took
place on Thursday. Mr. Rogers offered himself for re-
election, but having given offence to certain members of
the university by supposed dissenting proclivities, Mr.
Bonamy Puke was brought forward to oppose him. The
interest seemed almost as great as if a member of
Parliament were about to be returned ; and it is stated
that the town• swarmed with country parsons, most of
whom, as the result shewed, voted in favour of Mr.
Bonamy Price. At the close of the poll that gentleman
was declared elected, the numbers being, for the successful
candidate, 620 ; for Mr. Rogers, 193. Among Mr.. Price's
supporters were the following members of the House of
Peers The Archbishop of York ; Earls Carnarvon,
Dartmouth, and Stanhope ; the Bishops of London, Peter-
borough, and Rochester ; and Lord Redesdale. Among
the members of Parliament we read--ViscountCranbOrne,
Mr. Coleridge, Mr. Cave, the Hon. A. Egerton, Mr.
Mowbray, Sir Stafford Northcote, Mr. Sclater-Booth, Sir
M. Hicks Beach, Mr. G. W. Hunt, Sir E. Lechmere, and
Mr. W. H. Gore-Langton.

Mr. E. K. Karslake, M.P., brother of the Attorney-
General, made along speech at Colchester, on Thursday, at
the meeting of the Junior Conservative Association. The
hon. gentleman thought that there was a very fair prospect for
the Conservative party, because the Liberals in the House
were so split up. There was the moderate section and the
advanced section, which Mr. Gladstone had to keep in
order. Mr. Karslake seemed to think that it was impos-
sible for the Opposition leader to do so, for any coalition
between him and the advanced party would prodUce a
secession of the moderate Liberals to the Conservative
ranks. The learned member did not anticipate a dissolu-
tion this year, and was of opinion that any attempt
to throw out the Government would be defeated.
There were, he said, a lot of " capital letter "
members in the House of Commons, whose only object
was to add the two letters " M.P." to their names, in
order that they might become chairmen of companies, &c.
These gentlemen being always opposed to a dissolution
would help the Conservative party. They did so—he was
obliged to confess—in the matter of the Reform Bill. As
a matter of course; Mr. Karslake thought the present
Ministry to be a good one. Speaking of the possible
retirement of its head, he suggested Lord Stanley
as the future Premier. Turning to Ireland, the hon.
member said he would rather go as a common soldier and
serve against the Irish as his enemies, than contemplate'
the possibility of a severance between the two countries.
With regard to education, though he was opposed to the
compulsory system, he would rather have that than
nothing at all. He would support any proposal made by
the Government with regard to the representation of
1 Scotland, though he was against increasing the r)acrab,r,
of the
.11oRse of Commons.

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