The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-10 00:00:00

GERMANY.

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.
MARSEILLES, AUG. 9

FRANCE.

PARIS, Monday, AUG. 10,

I' Opinion Nationale regards the occasion as
highly favourable to the development of a Franco-
Austrian alliatce.

Le Constitutionnel speaks of the enthusiasm with
which the Emperor has been received by the popu-
lation throughout the whole of his recent trip into
Normandy.

BOURSE, Aug. S.—The market continues heavy,
but without any further material decline,—Threes,
for the Account, being now at 671. 30c. Railway
Share Market without animation. The market
closed as follows :

it per Cent 5....... 96 45 Italian Loan 7l 90
Do. end month... Do end month 7l 95
3 per Cents
Do. end month.... 67 45 Do. end month.... 72 20
Credit Mobilier....loBo Russian
Do, end m0nth....1075 Austrian
Bank Shares 3165 Spanieh Threes 53
Credit lioncier ....1245 lime Debt

• RAILWAY&.
Cash. •Ace,ount.
Orleans lOl7 50 .. 1017
Northern ....
.... 992 50 .. 987 50
New. ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1022 50 .. 1020
Geneva 490 .. 492 60
Southern 690 .. 695
Western
Eastern .... 5OO .. 495
Sardinian 412 50 .. 410
Austrian 425 .. 426 25
Lombard . 550 .. 550
.......
North of Spain
Saragossa.. 6BO • . 680 ._Ditto to Barcelona .. :: 352 50 .. 357 50

contains the
THE GERMAN REFORM QUESTION.
The -Wiener Zeitung ~.
of
this dap
Aug. 6.
following important official communication :—" His
Imperial Royal Apostolic Majesty has addressed
autograph letters, bearing date Vienna, July 31st,
to all the Sovereigns who are members of the Ger.
man Confederation and to the Senates of the four
free cities (Hamburg, Bremen, Lubeck, and Frank-
fort), by which letters the German Confederates
are invited to meet his Majesty in person, in order
that the question relative to a re-organisation
of the Bund, which shall be in accordance
with the spirit of the times, may be taken into con•
sideration. His Majesty proposes that the Federal
city of Frankfort shall be the place of assembly,
and that the first sitting shall be held on the 16th
of this present month of August."
The letters in question, which are 35 in number,
were written some
three or four weeks ago, but
they were not signed until Friday last. The missive
addressed to the
King of Prussia was presented by
the Emperor in person, as his Majesty wished to
give his Royal relative a special proof of his good-
will and kindly feelings towards him. A person
who saw the two Monarchs meet at Gastein says
that the King of Prussia had tears in his eyes when
retired to a room which was once
glnaste Archduke John, and there they
he shook hands with and embraced the Emperor,
and that the Austrian Monarch also displayed some
emotion. When the King called on the Emperor
otheceutpe
wiodSboyvetrheei
accompaniedßismarkuntil
remained alone for about a quarter of an hour. The
bhye returned his Prussian
his adjutant, M. von
Manteuffel, bat the Emperor of Aust "
of King
MM. wasvon ria raw nothing
Majesty's visit. On the 2d inst. Francis Joseph
of Austria dined with Frederic William of Prussia,
and his Majesty's next
neighbour was the in-
fatuated author of the Prusso-l-tussian Convention
of the Bth of February. Soon after dinner the Aus-
trian monarch returned to the villa which the
Countess of Merau had placed at his disposal, and
in the course of the evening M. von. Bismark went
there to pay his respects. lam not aware whether
the Prussian Minister was admitted to the presence
of the Emperor, but it is probable that he was not,
as his stay at the villa Was very short, and he ap-
peared to be much out of temper when he left it.
His Majesty, who is said to be in excellent spirits,
returned to Schonbrunn late in the evening o
Tuesday, the 4th inst.

The 16th instant is likely to be a very important
day for Germany, for on it the Emperor of Austria,
who is at the head of the German Bund, will in
person bring forward a project for its reform. Men
in office profess to know little or nothing of the
intentions of his Majesty, but a foreign diplomatist
has given me to understand that the following are
the principal features of the Austrian project of
reform :-1. Germany to have representative insti-
tutions like those possessed by Austria; 2. The
German Parliament to consist of two Chambers—

the upper ono to be a House of Peers, the lower
one a Chamber of Deputies. The Upper House to
bo partly composed of persons nominated by the
different German potentates, the Lower House to
be formed of deputies elected by the represents-

tives of the people in the various German States.
3. Only those Austrian and Prussian provinces
which are part and parcel of the federal territory
to have a right to send representatives to the Ger-
man Parliament. 4. The method of proceeding in
federal matters to be simplified. 5. An efficient
executive power to be established. Such power
either to consist of the representatives of Austria,
Prussia, and Bavaria, or of the representatives of
Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Saxony,
Hanover. As the ex-Minister Count Bernstorff de-
clared that Prussia wished to exclude Austria from
the Germanic Confederation, it is not likely that the
Austrian propositions will find favour at Berlin,
but the German nation so ardently desires a reform
would be
of the Bund that it will hardly be inclined to attend
as it would be a
to the special interests and bye-ends of the Pros.
sians. In my opinion, a well-organized,
the representa-
powerful,
and independent German Confederation
a great boon to the world at large,
the Federal States aed a P
guarantee for the maintenance of
tive system in safeguard
o
against the encroachments of Frauce
Oa the one
aide, and a Auebi4 Qu the 04111 ;

VIENNA, AUG. 10.
Twenty-one German Princes, including the
Grand Duke of Baden, have accepted the Emperor
of Austria's invitation to the proposed Congress at
Frankfort.

According to the programme of the Emperor,
the proposed National German Assembly would be
composed of an Upper and a Lower House. The
the German princes,
Diets of States ftohremlaerttwerooufldmebme
bceormspoofstehdeof
belong-
ing to the German Confederation.

The Messageries Imperiales steamer, with the
above mails, passed off Messina on the Bth, and is
expected to arrive at this port on the 10th inst.,
with 69 passengers, 1,054 packages of sundries, and
980 bales of silk.

The Emperor arrived at Pin on Saturday last.
An immense concourse of people, more than 100,000,
were present, who cheered his Majesty.
The greatest enthusiasm was manifested.
Le Pays observes that, although the Archduke
Maximilian has hastened to express his thanks to
the French Emperor for his Imperial Majesty's con-
gratulations upon the Archduke's nomination by the
Junta as Emperor of Mexico, his Imperial Highness
fails to indicate, even by a single phrase, whether
he consents or not to that nomination.