The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-05 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Oct: 3.—The market has been heavy,
and Stock having been offered, the business done
shows a decline on yesterday's quotations. Threes,
for the Account, are now at 67f. 65c. Mobilier has
also receded, being now at 1,165 fr. Railway Shares
are also on the declining scale. The market closed
as follows :

It per Cents. 96
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 67 60
Credit Mobilier 1163 75
Do. end month 1165
Bank Shares 3335
Credit .Foncier 1325

Italian Loan 73 30
Do. end month 73 55
New ditto ...... 73 45
Do. end month 74 30
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes.,
Rome Debt ..
vAYS.

Cash. Account.
1017 50 .. 1015
990 ..

Orleans
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1020 .. 995
Geneva..
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian 420 .. 412 50
Austrian
Lotrbard
North of Spain .....
Saragossa.. 650 .. 600
Ditto to Barcelona

PRUSSIA.
A Berlin letter declares that German diplomatists
in various States are occupied with the task of re-
futing the memorial addressed to the King of Prus-
sia by his Ministers on the subject of the Frankfort
Congress. "That reply," ad.ls the letter, "will
entail no small amount of labour ; it will require
weeks of deliberation and a long exchange of de-
spatches. The Austrian Cabinet is to perform the
duty of reporter; the document on leaving its hands
is to be submitted to several Courts interested, and
on receiving their approbation will be forwarded to
Berlin in the form of a collective note."

THE NATIONAL SHAKSPEARE COMMITTEE.—
The names of the Count de Montalembert, Charles
Reed, Esq., and John Leighton, Esq., have been
added to the National Shakspeare Committee during this
past week. In a cordial letter addressed to Mr. Linnaeus
Banks, one of the honorary secretaries of the National
Shakspeare Committee, the illustrious Count de Montalem-
bert says :—" Paris, Sept. 21, 1863. Sir,—Different cir-
cumstances of a painful nature have prevented my sooner
answering the letter you did me the honour of addressing
to me in June last, relating to the Tercentenary of Shak.
speare's birth. I can but teel extremely flattered that the
Provisional Shakspeare Committee should have thought of
me, and shall be deeply honoured to see my name enlisted
amongst those who wish to pay homage to the greatest
genius of England, and perhaps of modern Europe. Pray,
therefore, inform me of what I am to do, in order to respond
to the views of the committee, besides giving the use of my
name.—l have the honour to remain, Sir, with sincere re-
gard and sympathy, your obliged and obedient servant, Le
Count de Montalembert." Intimations having been re-
ceived from Dublin, Glasgow, and other most important
cities, that their inhabitants desire to help the cause, the
Athencelon announces that steps are being taken to establish
in various parts of the kingdom local committees in aid of
the committee sitting in Pall-Mall. On Tuesday last, for
example, a working men's meeting was held in the Philo-
sophical Institution, Birmingham, to take into consideration
the question of erecting a national monument to Shakspeare
on the occasion of the approaching tercentenary, when the
following resolution was adopted by the meeting :—" That
it is desirable that the working men of Birmingham should
co-operate with the London committee for the purpose of
erecting a national monument in commemoration of the an-
niversary of the three-hundredth birthday of Shakspeare ;
and that this meeting pledges itself to assist in raising sub-
scriptions for that purpose." It is suitable enough that the
working men of Warwickshire should set the example, no
doubt to be followed by the working men and all other men
throughout the land,