The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-27 00:00:00

(Letters on Monday morning.)

FRANCE.
PARIS, AUG. 27, Morning.
The difficulties which had arisen between Turkey
and Montenegro in reference to the frontier have
been satisfactorily arranged by a Mixed Commis-
sion.

BOURSE, Aug. 26.—The market continues in the
same lethargic state as regards the business doing,
while prices are well maintained. Threes, for the
Account, are unvaried at 66fr. 30c. Mobilier have
improved to 1,002 fr, 50c. Railway Sharea offered.
and some of the lines quoted lower. The market
closed es follows:

41 per Cents. .. 94 75 Italian Loan 67 45
Do. end month.... D. end month 67 50
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 30 New Mexican .... 56 75
Credit Mobilier 1003 75 Russian
Do. end m0nth....1006 25 Austrian
Bank Shares 3380 Spanish Threes.... 49 25
Credit b bonnier 1220 Florae Debt
Roman
D...t.mwxya.

Cash. Account.
Orleans BB7 59 4. 887 50
Northern .... -
4onsand Nedioxranvan 916 25 917 50
Southern
Western
Eantern
Sardinian -
Austrian ..
Lorr bard
North cf Spain
Saragossa 497 60 .. 500
Ditto to Barcelona
The original articles of the Paris journals are not
of much importance, generally relating to subjects
already discussed. The Siecle, however, in a series
of remarks on the visit of the King of Prussia to
the Emperor of Austria, gives some details of in,
terest respecting the relative positions of the vas
rime German States, the conclusion arrived at
thing that the two great Powers are gradually in-
creasing their influence and authority at the ex.
penile of the smaller States, The writer says:--
. It is only necessary to lock at the obscure part
which the Secondary States of Germany play when
Prussia and Austria are in accord, to feel per-
suaded of the humiliating situation into which they
would fall, if those two Powers should come to a
definitive understanding. What, for instance, has
become of the grandtu? of Saxony, which so often
played a European part ? Where is that of Bavaria,
the Elector of which was the centre and pivot of the
greatest internal wars that are remembered in Ger-
many Who still bears in mind the preponderating
importance of Hanover? Those States, which ought
to have availed themselves of the rivalry of Prussia
and Austria to become German bulwarks, have only
known how to take tin undecided plane in coalitions
They have lowered themselves day by day. They
have not understood that their real means of pre-
servation was to place themselves at the head of the
German revolution, and to constitute a strong Fee
deral Germany. They have dreaded unity as much
as death, and have preferred to live under the shel-
protection afforded by Prussia and Aus-
tria.t l'ehe Emperor Francis Joseph suggested to
the
o f h
Confederation a plan which would have given
a kind of preponderating place to one of the secon-
dary States, He proposed five successive authori-
ties :-1. A Federal Directory composed of Austria,
Prussia, and Bavaria, thus admitted to a kind of
precedence, and of two of the Princes whose con-
tingents form part of the Bth, 9th, and 10th corps
d'ormee of tee Confederation ; 2, A Federal Coun-
cil, consisting of commissioners representing the 17
votes of the present restricted Council of the Fedee
ral Assembly ; 3, An assembly of delegates elected
by the representative bodies of the different States
of the Confederation ; 4, An assembly of Princes
and of the superior magistrates of the free towns;
5, A Federal Tribunal to judge a part of the causes
which now devolve on the Diet. But those
plans evidently had not in their favour
the appearance of good faith. The admis•
sion of Bavaria into the Federal Directory
only had for object to detach from the interests
of the Confederation a powerful member, and to
interest it by a kind of share in the ambition of
Prussia and Austria. All the co• Federates would
have been jealous of this new partner in the Em.
pire, and division would have been greater than
ever. But what is a stronger proof of bad faith is,
that in all those series of assemblies of Kings,
l'rinees, and delegates there was no place for those
elected directly by the people. Germany was only
represented by official persons—of the real national
representation there was none. No one can consider
as such the Chamber which would have been com-
posed of the delegates of the majorities devoted to
the Governments. That Chamber, moreover, would
find itself swamped in the series of other authori-
ties. It would have had above it the direction of
the three Sovereigns, the Council of 17 votes, the
Assembly of Princes, and the Federal tribunal,
all accorded active functions, whilst it would have
been invested with only a kind of deliberative
mission. If the Emperor of Austria had
really wished for a Germany worthy of the
name, he would have proposed an Assembly
elected directly by the people, and itself regu-
lating the great Germanic interests. Besides,
although that plan did not contain anything very
liberal, it was nevertheless rejected by Prussia,
King Frederick William, who now governs with
the sole co-operation of the aristocracy, and who
dispenses with a Budget Toted by the repasental

tives of Prussia, was not a man to accept for Fede-
ral Germany an Assembly elected even in the
second degree. On the other hand, the probability
is that the sharing of the Directorate with Bavaria
did not much please him. What is the use, as De
Maistre said, of that worn out and rusted machine ?'
Germany may see from all this, the Siecle argues,
that if nothing favourable resulted from her intern
rests from the visit of Francis-Joseph in 1863, there
is even less likelihood of something advantageous
from that of the King of Prussia to Vienna in
1864. List year, it was Austria, who represented
the liberal element, and Prussia who opposed it ;
at present, the two Powers have drawn closer
together, and as the Probability is that Prussia is
not likely to yield, it must be Austria who has
given up her ideas of liberalism ; Prussia, who will
carry out her will, certainly not `foreshowing any-
thing propitious for Federal institutions.

THE BOMBAY DIAIL.

(REUTEII%:, EXPRESS.)

SOUTHAMPTON, Aug. 27.
The Penins'.;tar and Oriental Company's steam.
ship Bar.ida, Captain Haselwood, with the heavy
Portl:4 of the above mails, has arrived. She brings
35 passengers, 3 packages specie (value not stated),
Indian curiosities and Delhi jewellery, value 3,350
rupees, and 152 packages sundries.
The Baroda left Alexandria on the 12th; in the
Mediterranean she experienced strong head winds,
from Gibraltar to Finnistero strong westerly winds,
across the Bay and up the Channel light variable
winds and fine weather.

On the 231 inst. in lat. 41.11 N., long. 9.27 W,,
spoke the British barque Dorothy, and exchanged
colours with the company's steamer Delta, bound
for the East with the outward bound mails of the
20th.

Her Majesty's ships Marlborough, Meanee, Gib-
raltar, Pticebe, Royal Oak, Resistance, Chanticleer,
Psyche, Fire/17, Hibernia, Racer, and Redpole; at
Gibraltar, her Majesty's ship Procris.

GIBRALTAR, Aug. 21.
The new French Minister accredited to the
Sultan of Morocco, M. Aime d'Aquin, arrived here
from Malaga, yesterday, and left this morning for
Tangier, in the French steam frigate Jura. After
landing the French Minister the Jura goes to Vera
Cruz, whence she will convey to France a portion
of the French army of occupation.
The following British vessels have arrived here
since the 13th inst. :—Schconer Pacific, 16 days
from Swansea; brig Britisher, 22 days from Car-
diff; schooner Maelota, 14 days from Cardiff;
schooner John Pierce, 16 days from Cardiff; brig-
antine Mountain Lass, 24 days from Cardiff;
schooner Integrity, 14 days from Cardiff; schooner
William Tucker, 20 days from Liverpool ; brig
Alpha,ls days from Newport; steamer Genoa, 10
days from Glasgow ; schooner Ellen Vale 23 days
from Swansea ; H.M.steam sloop Racer, 7 days from
Falmouth; her Majesty's gunboats, Tyrian and
Wizard, 6 days the former, and 61 days the latter,
from Falmouth ; steamer Milan, 6 days from Liver-
pool ; schooner Pride of Anglesea, 16 days from
Newport; echooner Edward Margaret, 14 days
from Newport; brigantine Harry Herbert, 15 days
from Newport ; steamer Fortuna,6 days from Lon*
don ; and steamer lonia, 7 days from Liverpool.
Exchange on London, 90 days' date, 514 ;
Paris, sf. 29c.; Marseilles, sf. 30c. ; Genoa, 5t.31c.;
Madrid, 8 days sight,' par ; Cadiz, 4 to 11 dia. ;
Seville, a dis ; Malaga, `die.; Barcelona, prem.;
Almeira. Valencia, Alicant, par. Freight without
alteration.

The Telegraphic Treaty between Hamburg

and Holstein,

The followirg is the exact text of the telegraphic
treaty concluded between the city of Hamburg and
the Federal Commissioners for the Duchy of Hol-
btein, to which exception is said to have bean taken

by Prussia :
Treaty for the regulation of telegraphic communi-
catio❑ of the free Hanse Town of Hamburg with
the Duchy of Holstein, and over the frontier
thereof, as well as with Cuxhaven.
As in consequence of the negotiations which have
taken place by order of the Senates of the Free
Hanso Towns of Hamburg and Lubeck and the
Federal Commissioners for the Duchies of Holstein
arid Lauenburg, upon the conclusion of a treaty for
the establishment of the telegraphic communication
with Hamburg and Lubeck through Holstein, it
appeared desirable to regulate at the same time the
telegraphic communication of the free Hanse Town
of Hamburg with the Duchy of Holstein and over
its frontiers, as well as with Cuxhaven, the nego-
tiators appointed by the Senate of the free Hanse
Town of Hamburg and the Federal commissioners,
viz., Syndic Dr. Carl Hermann Merck and Govern-
mental Councillor Carl Ernst Emil Lesser, member
of the ducal government at Kiel, have agreed to
and concluded the following treaty, reserving its
approval by their respective superiors.
Sec. 1. Th© free Hanse Town of Hamburg un-
dertakes the obligation of forwarding telegraphic
messages coming from and by way of Hamburg,
and destined for a northerly direction, upon the l'ne
existing between Hamburg and Altona, or upon a
new line to be constructed; and binds itself to
permit the ducal telegraphic administration to for•
ward messages destined for Hamburg and distanced
past that city upon the line to be maintained by
Hamburg between Hamburg and Altona and
through the Hamburg telegraphic offices.
Sec. 2. For the use of the wires upon the ducal
state telegraph ,lines the Hamburg telegraph sta-
tion shall pay to the ducal telegraph administration
50 per cent. of the gross receipts calculated accord-
ing to the tariff in operation upon the ducal state
telegraph lines.

On the other hand 10 per cent. will be returned
to the town of Hamburg as compensation for the
works it will have to undertake to join the ducal
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lines.

Sec, 3. Permission shall be given to the Free
Hansa Town of Hamburg to establish telegraphic
communication between Hamburg and Cuxhaven
by submerging a cable from Cuxhaven to Brune-
-1 butte], and making use of the poles of the West
Holstein telegraph line to carry the requisite wires.
The works necessary for this purpose upon the
West Holstein telegraph line shall be carried on
under the direction of the Holstein telegraph
administration, the costs hereby entailed being
defrayed by Hamburg upon presentation of
the account, while the maintenance of the line
will be undertaken by the Holstein telegraphic
administration upon its own territory.
Sec. 4. Provided, upon nearer examination, some
other point upon the Holstein coast, as, for instance,
Neufeld, shall be thought better adapted for the
landing place of the cable from the district of Ritze-
battel, the free Hanse Town of Hamburg shall be
at liberty to land the cable there and carry a tele.
graphic line to Brunsbuttel.

Sec. 5. The free town of Hamburg shall pay the
Holstein telegraphic administration, as compensas
tion for the concessions in sections 3 and 4, 25 per
cent, of the gross receipts derivable from the trans•
mission of private messages between Cuxhaven and
Hamburg, and vice versa, along the Hamburg and
Cuxhaven line through Brunsbattel.

Sec. 6. Should an extension of the line past Cux-
haven take place, the private messages sent along
the line passing through Holstein shall be paid for
by handing over 25 per cent. of the Hamburg share
of the tariff for that line to the Holstein telegraph
ad ministration.

Sec. 7. This treaty shall be concluded for the
term of 10 years from Jan. 1, 1865, and shall con•
tinue in force for terms of similar duration so long
as notice of its cessation shall not have been given
byZeither party six months prior to expiration of
one of the decennial periods.
Sec. 8. This treaty shall bo prepared in duplicate
and the exchange of the ratifications take place
within four weeks at latest from the present date.
Done at Hamburg, this 22c1 July, 1864.
(Signed) C. H, MERCK, Dr.
E. LESSER.

RESPITE OF THE CONVICT MARY HARTLEY.—
A respite has been granted in the case of the convict, Mary
Hartley, who was convicted of the murder of her illegiti-
mate child and left for execution at the last session of the
Central Criminal Court.