The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-05 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Jas. 4.—The business of the settlement
prevents anything like new operations, but Rente
remains firm at the quotations of Saturday, Threes,
for the Account, being now unvaried at 66fr. 70c.
Mobiler have slightly receded, the price being now
1,032 fr. Railway Shares have been rather offered,

and are generally lower. The market remained
firm to the close, and left off as follows :

4i per Ceuta .. 94 CO

Italian Loan 7l 45

end month

Do. end month.... 71 50

3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 70
Credit Mobilier 1045
Do. end month !045
Rank Shares 3290
C reditr F oneier 1225
Roman .. 73i

New ditto
Do, end month,
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes 52
(Tome Debt
Deferred

BAILWAYB.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 975 975
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean
New. ditto
S Althorn

930 -

.. 927 50

Western
Eastern
SarJinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa..
Ditto to Barcelona

885 - - -
68'2 50 .. 686 25
510 - -
477 50 .. 477 50
392 50 .. 392 50
403 - . 402 50
516 25 .. 616 25
517 50 .. 615 -
620 - .. 615 -
300 - - -

The Agitation in Italy.

The fol:owing is the text of a proclamation by
Garibaldi, which has just been published in the
Staazpa newspaper :
"Before the hypocritical intrigues of diplomacy,
which now denying and now caressing the most
sacred cause and the most solemn rights, makes a
mask of them to cover the shame of its abject sel-
fishness, what remains there for Italians to do ?

"Betrayed in their aspirations, and their gener-
ous initiative misrepresented, the Treasury overladen
with debts, dishonest or incapable men in power, a
warlike enemy fortifying himself in the north, with
enemies not warlike, but no less iniquitous, who
seek to force us to ally ourselves with their frauds
or become slaves to their influence, what remains
there for Italians to do?

" Let them unite; but no longer in support of
men whose antecedents of tortuous policy promise
nought save hatred, discord, renewal of party vio-
lence, and fatal disenchantment.

" Let them unite ; but not in the spirit which by
incapacity and malignity has spent the vital forces
of the nation in fratricidal conflict.
"Let them unite; but in the name of him in
whose loyalty alone we confide with filial truth in
a supreme orisis—in Victor Emmanuel 11.
"He alone never failed in his given word. The
insidious arts of diplomacy will shiver, as they have
ever done, against his truth and honesty. The
country may confide in him in the approaching
struggle, because he who was ever the bulwark of
the destinies of Italy, and who risked his crown in
the unequal struggle on the field of battle, will
never descend to compromise, but will conduct us
gloriously to Rome and Venice.
"Let us, then, unite in the name and with the
honesty of Victor Emmanuel. Let him be promptly
invested with the dictature of the entire kingdom.
Lbt the Parliament be closed. Let the lists for the
conscription open before the arrival of spring for
the speed formation of columns of volunteers, who
will form the vanguard of the regular army. Let
squadrons of National Guards be formed as a
reserve, and let us march without loss of time on
the Mincio.

" In the name of Italy and Victor Emmanuel Dic-
tator, all parties will unite; the brigandage will
cease which infests the fairest jewel of the Italian
crown; the ramparts of Austria will yield; the
people of Venice and Illyria will rise in insurrec-
tion ; Italy will regain her own influence, and mis •
tress of her own destinies, will be in a position to
seize her capital.

" GDISEPPE GARIBALDI."

PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS.

The several portions of the President's speech
have been referred by Congress to the appro-
priate standing committees. A number of proposi-
tions relating to the army, slavery, and the Canadian
Reciprocity Treaty have been introduced. Several
resolutions regarding the rebellion, peace, and re-
construction, were presented on the 14► h—one by
Fernano Wood, providing for the appointment of
commissioners to proceed to Richmond with the
view of arranging for the termination of the war
and securing peace. It was laid on the table (i.e.,
the House passed to the other business of the day)
by a vote of 96 to 59. On the 15th a resolution,
offered by Henry Winter Davis, that so much of
the President's Message as relates to the duty of the
United States to guarantee to every State a repub-
lican form of government, and to 'those States in
which the Government has been abrogated or over-
thrown, be referred to a select committee of nine
members, who shall report the bills necessary to
carry into effect this duty, was adopted by a vote of
89 to 80. On the 17th Mr. Harrington, of Indiana,
offered resolutions, denying the power of Congress
to confer upon the President the right to suspend
the writ of habeas corpus in the loyal States, and
asserting that the assumption of the President in
these respects is contrary to the progress of the
age, despotic, and wholly subvereive of the
elementary principles on which the Government
is based, The resolutions were rejected-67 against
89. Mr. Edgerton, of Indiana, offered a preamble
and resolution setting forth that " the House can-
not but regard with anxiety the unprecedented and
extraordinary claims and assumption of high pre-
rogative by the President" in the Emancipation and
Amnesty proclamations, and the House " denounce,
as among the gravest of crimes, the invasion or
occupation by armed forces of any State, under the
pretext or for the purpose of coercing the people
thereof to modify or abrogate any of their laws or
domestic institutions that are consistent with the
Constitution of the United States." This was laid
on the table by a vote of 90 against 63. Mr. Smith,
of Kentucky, then offered a series of resolutions,
one pledging the House to a vigor, us prosecution
of the war, and declaring against any armistice or
proposition of peace, so long as there shall be found
a rebel in arms against the Government. This was
adopted by a vote of 90 against 64. Resolutions in
favour of voting money for ttie war, and thanking
the soldiers in the field for their gallantry, were
adopted with but one negative vote—Mr. Harris, of
Maryland. Notice was given of a Bill to increase
the pay of privates and non-commissioned officers
of the army ; also a resolution to refund to the
States, counties, townships, wards, cities, and
municipal corporations, all moneys paid by them
respectively for bounties to volunteers in the
Union.

STRANGE SUPERSTITION.—At Abbotsford a little
child's cradle is shown, not as belonging to the great poet,
but as being actually Sir Walter's cot I
ENGLAND AND SWITZERLAND.—"It has evidently been
Mr. Benson's object to render them rivals in point of beauty
of decoration to the elegant Swiss knicknacks, and at the
same time to preserve the characteristics of an English watch
—strength, durability, and accuracy. In point of decoration
his watches are certainly unsurpassed."—Standard, Nov. 15,
1862. Chronometer, duplex, lever, horizontal, repeaters,
centre seconds, keyless, split seconds, and every description
of watch, adapted to all climates. Benson's illustrated pam-
phlet on watches (free by post for two stamps) contains a
short history of watchmaking, with prices, from 3 to 200
guineas each. It acts as a guide in the purchase of a watch,
and enables those who live in any part of the world to select
a watch, and have it sent safe by post. Prize medal and
honourable inenuon, classes 33 and 15. J. W. Benson, 33 and
34, Ludgate-bill, London. Establbthed 749. Watch and
clock maker by special warrant of appointment to 11.R.H.
the Prince of Wales.