The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-26 00:00:00

St. Etienne.

A Council of Ministers was held yesterday at St.
Cloud, the Emperor presiding.

General Mollard, Aide-de•Camp to the Emperor,
has been appointed to go to the frontier to meet
Prince Humbert.

Chevalier de Nigra, Italian Minister in Paris,
has returned to his post from his short excursion to
Switzerland.

By Imperial decree, Rear-Admiral Mezeres has
seen appointed to the command of the French
squadron in the Pacific, and Rear. Admiral L icapelle
to be Commandant of the naval force in Algeria.
BOURSE, Aug. 25.—Little change has taken place
in the tone of the market. Threes, for the Account,

are navaried at 66fr. 30c,
declined, being now at
quiet. The market closed
4t per Cents 94 60
Do end
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 30'
Credit Mobilier 9)7 50
Jo. end month 995
Bank Shares 3360
Credit P oncier l2lO
Roman • 76 50

, Mobilier have slightly
9951 r. Railway Market
as follows :
Italian Loan 67 60
Do. end month 67 45
Ditto Threes .. 43
New Mexican .... 56 25
ttuesian
Austrian .. B2 50
3pani,,h Threes —
rierne Debt

Deferred

ILAILWAY6.

Cash. Account.
Orioans BB5 .. 88.5
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean 910 .. 9t2 50
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
LOTP bard
North of Spain
Saragossa.. 6OO ... 497 50
Ditto to Barcelona

Close of the Saxon Chambers and Speech
of the King.

DRESDEN, Aug. 23.

The Chambers were formally closed today by
a Speech from the Throne. His ,Majesty said:—

Gentlemen of the Estates,—The labours of the
eleven..h regular parliamentary session are closed.
It' they have not yielded so rich a harvest in a
legislative point of view as the previous session,
several not unimportant bills have yet been passed,
and the Government, empowered by you, has Imo
enabled to rcmove the :net obstacles which stood
in the way of the introduction of the civil legal
code.

By the establishment of interim committees for
several bills postponed for lack of time, their
thorough and undisturbed preliminary considera-
tion is secured, and it is hoped the way paved fur
a more rapid settlement of,l'usiness in the ensuing

session.
My Government will not forget to testify its
interest in the further development of a common
legislation for the whole of Germany.
I have thankfully to acknowledge that the Cham-
bers have availed Lemselves of the favourable
financial position of the country to make liberal
grants for real necessities, At the head of these
stands the magnificent grant of an increase of
salary to all classes of State servants, by which
a long felt need has been accomplished, and the
anxious position of many indiviluals will be alle-
viated.
But you have also made numerous and consider-
able grants with commenable readiness for other
objects—for churches and schools, for improvement
and enlargement of the hospitals, prisons, anc
workhouses of the country, for increase of the pa}
of the soldier, for the better distribution of military
service by relieving the Treasury from a consider-
able burden ; and, lastly, fir the further completion
of the network of railways.
Tha agreement of the views of the Chambers with
the steps taken by me in the two important ques-
tions of the day upon common German ground—
the regulation of commercial relations and the
matter of the Schleswig-Holstein llachies—has
afforded me especial satisfaction. With regari to
the former, the commercial future of Saxony is se-
cured against all eventualities by the conclusion (it
a treaty with the Kingdom of Prussia and the other
North German Stares, to which you have given your
assent with rapid decision. But it remains alto to
he hoped, and will form the object of my incessant
efforts, that tt,e beneficial customs union (Zillve-
rein) will be preserved to its full extent, and thai
Commercial relations to Austria may not only be
maintained in the manner hitherto observed, but
may constantly develop themselves further irs the
sense of national connection.
I have been guided by all my acts in the Schles
wig-Holstein matter by my own conviction of re
Bard for the honour of Germany, The moral sup-
port which you have given me in this question has
been of the greatest value to me.
The glorious victories of the armies of the two
great German Powers, combined with the fortunate
and honourable conduct of the negociations in which
the German Confederation, as such, appeared for
the first time as an independent European Power,
have turned this matter in a direction which per-
mits the hope of its speedy favourable solution in
the sense of the rights and the wishes of Germany.
Although it was mat ter of regret to me that our
excellent troops were unable to take part in the
atovenatned valiant exploits, it affords me on the
other hand satisfaction that the less glorious but
not less desirable praise of unshaken discipline and
strict fulfilment of duty, even under difficult
circumstances, must be given them. These show
soldierly qualities as genuine as valour upon the
field of battle. I owe my brave army this
testimony.
May Prcvidence further take cur country under
its holy keeping.

THE WAGES OF LASCAR SEAMEN.—At the Liver-
pool Police Court, yesterday, a case of great interest
to shipowners was heard by the local magistrate consequent
upon a claim for wages, preferred by 15 Lascar seamen. The
complainants said they had shipped at Moulmein on board
the ship Agenoria, Captain Johnsen, belonging to Messrs.
Lamport and Holt, of Liverpool, who refused to pay them
any wages. Tor the defence it was shown that when the
men were shipped at Moulme'n the captain was obliged to
give a bond, at the rate of £3O per man, that they should
all be rent back again. Arrangements had therefore been
made to send them to India again in another ship, and that
no wages were paid solely to hinder the mon from deserting.
The Court decided that they had no jurisdiction.

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