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

GERMANY.

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

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

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.
MARSEILLES, AUG. 9.
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.

FRANCE.

PARIS, Monday, AIM. 10,

The Emperor arrived at Pin on Saturday last.
An immense concourse of people, more Clan 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.
L'Opinion Nationale regards the occasion as
highly favourable to the development of a Franco-
Austrian alliance.

.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. B.—The market continues heavy,
but without any further material decline,—Threes,
for the Account, being now at 67f. 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 ...... 67 45 New ditto
Do. end month.... 67 45 Do. end month.... 72 20
Credit Mobilier....loBo Russian
Do. end m0nth....1075 Austrian
Bank Shares ...... 3365 Spanish Threes 53
Credit Fonder ....1245 Rome Debt

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
OrTeams ....... 3.017 50 .. 1017
Northern ............ ... 092 50 .. 987 50
New ditto ............... 50 --
Lyona.d.!e.d.i.terr7nean I(4T 4
50 109220
Genevaso
Southern .............. ........
690 ---•
• 695
Western .............. 525
Eastern . ..... 500 • • 495
Sardinian ...... .............. 412 50 .. 410
Austrian ............ 425 .. 428 25
Lombard .............. 550 • • 559
North of Spain ....... 543 75 .. 542 50
Saragossa....... 680 680
Ditto to Barcelon.a.:, . 352 50 .. 357 50

THE GERMAN REFORM QUESTION.

VIENNA, Ang. 6.
Imperial Royal Apostolic
The Me 7 •
ner eztung of this day contains the
'ollowing important official communication :—" His
Majesty
fort), by has addressed
autograph letters, bearing date Vienna, July 318 t,
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-
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 Blind, which shall be in accordance
with the spirit of the Limps, may be taken into con
sideration. His Majesty proposes that the Federal
city of Frankfort shall be the place of assembly,
Fridayhich arela last.
35.
The i n number,niissiv
e
and that the first sitting shall be held oa the 16th
of this present month
or foursia w weeksawas
presented
of August."
The letters in question, w
were written some three
addressed theyw ere
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thesignedKing
i u
ng of Prussia
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
room
he shook hands with and embraced the Emperor,
and that the Austrian Monarch also displayed some
t
emotion. When the Ring called on the Emperor
the two Sovereigns
by the
retired to a
John, whichand there they was once
occupied
remained alone for about a quarter of an hour. The
King was accompanied by his adjutant, M. von
Manteuffel, but the Emperor of Austria late Archduke a
raw nothing
of M. von Bismark until he returned his Prussian
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-Itussia
n Convention
of the Bth of February. Soon after dinner the Aus-
trian monarch returned to the villa which the
Countess of Meran 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 of
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 id 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 one to be a House of Peers, the lower
one a Chamber of Deputies. The Upper House to
be partly composed of persons nominated by the
different German potentates, the Lower House to
be formed of deputies elected by the representa-
tives of the people in the various German Mates.
3. Oniy 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 proceediog in
federal matters to be simplified. 5. Au 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-

dared 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
of the Bund that it will hardly be inclined to attend
to the special interests and bye-ends of the Prus-

Ia my opinion, a well-organized, powerful,
and independent German Confederation would be
a great boon to the world at large, as it would be a
guarantee for the maintenance of the representa-
tive system in the Federal States and a safeguard
against the encroachments of napes on tha one
And of RusiA on the 422: