The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-28 00:00:00

men.

It is reported that Rosecranz, the new Minister of
the United States to Mexico, will urge Juarez in
favour of annexation.
News from Port-au-Prince of the 10th instan t
indicate that the revolution is likely to succeed.
Salnave was preparing for flight. llis family had
been captured by the Cacos rebels.
The Canadian authorities continue to take pre-
cautionary measures against Fenian raids.
The Royal Mail steamship Russia, from New
York on the 19th, arrived at Queenstown at 3.10
a.m. to-day with 40 cabin passengers and $76,000
in specie. She landed 86 sacks of mails, and pro-
ceeded at 3.20 a.m. for Liverpool. All well.
QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 28.

The National Steamship Company's steamer
Pennsylvania arrived here last night from Liver-
pool. She embarked her passengers and proceeded
for New York. All well.

HALIFAX, Aug. 27.
The Inman Royal mail steamer City of Wash-
ington arrived here to-Jay. All well.

INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

SUEZ, Aug. 28.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Carnatic, from Bombay, arrived at 7 a.m., and the
Candia, from Calcutta, at 10 a.m. to-day.

FRA.

gCE. '
.ree o'clock.—The market

BOURSE, August27.--T.
dosed as follows :-
4} per Cent.
End of month... Ital!.an Loan
3 per Cent
End of month 7O 121 Mexican Loan -. 23
Credit Mobilier
End of month... 283 73 Spanish Threes 36 50
Credit Foacior ...1436 Home Debt...„.
End of month... Deferred .......

RAILWAYS.

Cash
Orleans ... 905
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern-- 5BO
Western
Eastern .. ........................ 565
Sardinian .................................... 42
Austrian ....................................... 537
Linnbard ....................................... 407
North of Spain 53
Saragossa
Roman

7HE UNEMPLOYED AT DEPTFORD.

Last night a meeting, convened by the " Unem-
ployed Poor League," was held in the Broadway,
Deptford—Mr. B. Cook in the chair. There was a
considerable attendance of working men.
The CHAIRMAN briefly traced the history of the
was the fifth meet-
htishe subject of the un-
pinrgesewnhticmhohvaedmbeneet,nsthaetlidngont
employed poor. As an instance of the anomalies
which existed in our midst, he mentioned that every
prisoner cost the country £37 a year, whilst thou-
sands of labouring men earned only Bs. a week, or
£2O 16s. a year. Yet when the labouring man be-
came poor he was supported in the workhouse at
2s. 41d. per week. (Oh, oh.) The new Parlia-
ment of England should be enlisted on behalf of
the unemployed poor. (Cheers.)

Mr. J. W. O'NEILL moved the first resolution as
follows :—" That it is the duty of the State to pro-
vide casual or temporary employment on such terms
and conditions as may be found practicable and ex-
pedient for all persons claiming such employment,
and having no visible means of subsistence other
than by their labour, by continuously carrying on
large national works of a permanent and beneficial
character, such as the construction of waterworks,
bridges, railways, canals, reclamation of waste lands,
and the more scientific development of land at pre-
sent in a state of partial and defective cultivation."
Ile said the unemployed could not gat justice all at
once, but they would get it by agitation and the
force of public opinion. Let those present take the
truths they had heard to heart and grow them
up, so that their voices would be heard in St.
Stephen's.
Mr. LE LUBEY seconded the resolution, and said
the present movement grew just as the snowball did
when rolling. _ _

The CHAIRMAN, in putting the question, said he
had heard that on Saturday last thirty hands had
been discharged from a factory in Deptford, and
that in Deptford there were 800 houses unoccupied.
He also understood that money boxes were being
handed about for the unemployed poor.
The resolution was carried, and some other
speakers having addressed the meeting the proceed-
ings terminated.

THAMES CONSERVANCY.--A return presented pur-
suant to Act of Parliament has been issued, which gives
a general report of the proceedings of this body during
the past year. The financial account showed that the Con-
servators received during the year 1867 a sum of £67,312,
including a balance of £5,083 for the previous year. The
chief items of this sum are tonnage dues, £22,991 ; pier
dues, £5,627 ; water and canal companies, £2,350 ;
tolls, £6,120 ; rents for accommodation, .£3,565 ; fines
for accommodation, .£5,169 ; ballast licences, .£1,356 ; and
fees for raising and removing wrecks, £2,276. The ex-
penditure for the year amounted to £63,138, of which more
than .£B,OOO was expended in salaries, .£4,263 for iron
lighters in raising wrecks, £1,218 in stores, screws,
chains, and buoys for moorings, ezc., and .£2,051 in
raising and removing wrecks and obstructions. The Con-
servators report that "in the early part of last year it was
found that great quantities of mud had rapidly deposited
in the navigable channel near the main drainage outfalls
at Barking Creek and Halfway Reach, which threatened
to present serious impediments to the navigation, and that
the fact of such an enormous quantity of sedimentary mat-
ter being cast into the river from the sewer outlets causes
considerable apprehension,and requires constant watch-
ing in order that steps may be taken to maintain and keep
open the navigation."

CORRESPONDENCE PROM PARIV

ZFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS. THURSDAY, August 27.

The visit of the Count and Countess of Girgenti still
occupies the attention of the ingenious. Driven to despair
by the lack of greater problems, the Presse believes that
Rome is to be the object of this interview, and that an
unexpected solution of the Franco-Roman question may
be looked for. The Count de Girgenti is certainly
the brother of the Ex-King of Naples, but then
the Countess is the daughter of the Queen of
Spain. Here is an admirable opportunity of a see-saw
for the numerous politicians who rely upon their imagina-
tion for their facts. Those who reject the Rome theory
insist that the Empress of the French -would like to hear
from the daughter of the Queen of Spain respecting the
events which are cc ur, ing, or may occur, in the benighted
peninsula. This is much more rraisemblable than the
first theory. As to the Emperor, it is pretty certain that
the statement of the Figaro is correct, and that there will
be no interview between his Imperial Majesty and the
Queen of Spain at Biarritz.

By the influence of the colonel of the 83rd Regiment an
inquiry has been made into the events which transpired
at Nimes on the 29th of July, when a private meeting
was interrupted by the police with several soldiers. It was
reported that M. Lanier was struck and wounded by a lieu-
tenant who has since been made a captain. The inquiry shews
that M. Lanier was wounded by a bayonet thrust from a
soldier, and that the lieutenant was behind. It is said
that M. Lanier suffers much from the effects of hiEs
wound. But still worse remains to be told. The father
of M. Lanier was so excited when his wounded son waT
brought to him that he died in four days from tilt
nervous shock which he experienced. More than fifty
thousand persons were present at the funeral.
Must we estimate amongst the merciful " dispensations,
of Providence," to use Mr. Disraeli's phrase, that villany
can never restrain itself within due bounds? A young
dealer in jewels here established himself in business, and.
was enabled to obtain unlimited credit on account of his
being the nephew of a rich and highly esteemed merchant.
To obtain jewels wholesale on the security of his
signature, and dispose of them to the public for cash,
was a highly lucrative business, and it is not sur-
prising that the young trader prospered exceedingly
for a while. The species of fraud which consists in obtain.
ing goods without paying for them is not original, but it is
profitable and safe. But our young friend could not stop
here. One day he became possessed, on credit, of diamonds
to the value of £14,000, and the temptation proved too great.
He could not wait for the tedious process of realisation by
trade, so he left his business behind him and decamped with
the diamonds. When " wanted "he was abroad. Whether
the defaulter can be captured, or whether the sale
of the diamonds can be prevented, is a problem for the
police ; but the boundary within which fraud is safe has
been overstepped, and the " respectable trader " is now a
criminal. Does not the difference between the crime and
the prelude appear remarkably small?

The opening of the Councils-General has been attended
with few features of interest. They are presided over by
some of the foremost Ministers, but the " utterances" so
far have not been remarkable. The presidents have
generally confined themselves to the stereotype routine of
the harvest, the glorious success of the loan, and some
Delphian predictions on the question of peace or war.
The three forthcoming elections in the Var, the Nievre,
and the Moselle departments are looked forward to with
extreme interest after the result of the Jura. The candi-
dates have all been chosen, and are now vis-à-vis, but there
are no means of estimating the results.
The sale of the Figaro in the streets has been stopped—
why, I cannot learn. This is the only press event of the
week, so that the journalists consider themselves very
mildly treated so far. Moreover MM. Finard and Baroche
have been summoned to Fontainebleau, and this is con-
strued as an indication that the rigour of the press prosecu-
tions is to be abated.

A dreadful crime has taken place at St. Denis. An old
man of 73 years, with his woman-servant, aged nearly 50,
have been murdered by a workman under circumstances
of great barbarity. The murderer committed suicide on
the spot.

THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAY.