The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-23 00:00:00

TELLERS.

FRANCE.

M. Bour&, the French Minister at Athens, has
arrived in Paris. Daring his absence Viscount
Amelot de Chaillon, First Secretary of Legation,
will act as Charge d'Affaires.
The Moniteur publishes an imperial decree pro-
mulgating the treaty of commerce concluded be-
tween France and Italy on the 17th January, 1863,
and of which the ratifications were exchanged on
the 19th January of thepresentyear. The decree in-
cludes the entire text and stipulations of the treaty,
to which is added the new tariff of import duties
between the two countries.

Mgr. Fru3hard, Bishop of Limoges, has just left
his diocese for Rome.

The grand annual cattle show at Poissy is to be
held this Sear on Wednesday, March 23.
The Emperor and the Empress attended the
Theatre of the Porte St. Martin, on Saturday night,
to witness the first performance of " Faustine."
Mr. Dubrenil, who has just been translated from
the see of Vannes to the archbishopric of Avignon,
and Mgr. Gazilhan and Dours, the new bishops of
Vannes and Soissons, took the oath of allegiance to
the Emperor yesterday at the Palace of the
Tuileries.

BOURSE, Feb. 22.—A favourable effect has been
produced on the Market by the arrival of the Eng.

lish funds with a rise of I. Threes, for the Ac-
count, have improved to 66F. 45c. Mobilier also
shows a alight advance, being now at 1,050 f.
Railway Market rather more buoyant, with a slight
rise on some of the lines. The market closed as
follows :

41 per Cents. 95 GO
Do. end month....

Italian Loan 67 80
Do. end month 67 85
New ditto .. 67
Do. end month....
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes 5l 25
Home Debt
Deferred . 45 75
PAYS.

- _
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 45

Credit Mobilier 1050
Do. end month 1017 60
Bank Shares 3287 50

Credit Foncier ....1250

Roman .

BALL'

Orleans
Northern
New ditto —
Lyons and Mediterranean 935 -- .. 935
New ditto .. 885 ..
_777

Cash. Account.
1002 60 .. 1000
952 60 .. 950

Southern 660 .. 660
Western
Eastern
Sardinian 378 75 .. 380
Austrian 4lO .. 412 50
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa 662 50 .. 585
Ditto to Barcelona

Austrian Circular on. the Succession

Question.

The Cabinet of Vienna has issued the following
circular despatch to its diplomatic agents at the
courts of the various Federal princes :

" VIENNA, Feb. 13.

" At its sitting of the 11th inst., the Federal Die
resolved to vote within 14 days upon the proposi

tions sent in by a committee bearing upon the Lon-
don treaty of May, 1852. Simultaneously with
these proposals, a separate vote of Austria and
Prussia had been submitted to the high Federal
Governments, which deduces from the rightful and
actual position of afflirs the irrefutable conclusion
that, as it is admitted the London treaty is not bind-
ing upon the German Diet, the majority of the
committee has nat had any occasion to make of the
mere denial of this treaty a separate portion of the
examination of the succession question with which
it was entrusted, and to request of the Federal Diet
a vote by which nothing whatever would be gained
towards deciding the disputed question.
" If the vote which the majority of the commit-

tee, notwithstanding our repeated earnest represen-
tions, desires of the Federal Assembly appeared to
us simply as a superfluous but innocuous matter, or
if our apprehensions were limited to such vote
having in reality no further meaning than a demon-
stration against the two great German Powers, we
should be satisfied with having already explained
our difference of opinion in the abovementioned se-
parate vow. We could in any case, if the resolu-
tions proposed by the committee were really taken,
perfectly secure our own position ty the declara-
tion that absolutely no alteration would thereby be
made in the position of affairs.
" But the four proposals of the majority, even if
entirely ineffective as regards the question of right,
might upon that account very easily produce in the
political sphere the effects of an intentional chal-
lenge, and without all cause as without all use, to
a certain extent force from the non-German Powers
decisive counter-declarations in favour of the Lon-
don treaty. It cannot require demonstration that
after the outbreak of hostilities in Sleswig, the re-
sponsibility for a proceeding must be doubly grave
by which the tension already existing in the rela-
tions between the great Powers should be volun-
tarily increased without any reason in the nature
of the subject.
" This consideration has determined us to express

through you to the Government to whom you have
the honour to be accredited, the especial wish that
it will not give its assent to the propositions of the
majority of the committee, but will pronounce itself
upon the entire succession question entrusted to the
committee for examination. This course may be
considered the leas objectionable, as the second por-
tion of the report drawn up by the represtntativo
of Bavaria to the Diet has been already presented
in its entirety, and it is only requisite to read the
final proposals to be convinced that they nowhere
presuppose a separate expression of opinion as to
the ineffectiveness of the London treaty, can ba
accepted or declined without any such expression.
"Although we, for our parts, maintain that the
portion of the question resting upon Federal right
is led back to its true point of issue by the Anstro-
*Prussian separate vote, we remark finally that even
a Government not fully concurring in the individual
deductions of that vote would not be prevented from
voting against the separation of the final conclusion
into one negative and one positive half, as has been
already done by the ambassador of the Grand
Duchy of Mecklenburg of the Federal Diet.
" Your Excellency will not fail to communicate
this present note to the G)vernment.—
Accept, &C.,. " BECIIBERG."

BRIGHTON ELECTION,

TO THE EDITOR OP THE SUN.

Sir.,—As I have suffered considerable inconveni-
ence from happening to bear the same name as one
of the candidates for the representation of Brighton
at the recent election, I trust that you will allow me,
through the medium of your columns to contradict
the impression that prevails that I was the candi-
date on that oecasion,—l am, Sir, your obedient
servant,

EDWARD HARPER,
BArrister-at-Law, of Woud6lee,
near Brightm

21st Feb., 1864,