The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-14 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, JANUARY 14th.

The Bank of Prussia has reduced its rate of
discount for commercial bills and advances on mer-
chandise to 5, and for securities to 51 per cent.

AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.

VIENNA, JAN. 14

The Presse of to-day says :—" We learn from a
reliable source that the following is the purport of
the notes exchanged between Count Mensdorff and
Herr von Bismark

" Austria decisively repudiates the participation
proposed to her in forcible measures against the
Middle States represented as revolutionary by Herr
von Bismark. Austria will not abandon the ground
of Federal right, and reminds Herr von Bismark, in
case Prussia should desire the annexation of the
Duchies, of the suggestion formerly offered to King
William through Count Haroly. This was to the
effect that Austria would only consent to annexa-
tion upon being compensated by enlargement of her
German territory.

FRANCE,

PARIS, JAN. 14.

An imperial decree has been published to-day
reducing the custom dues on Peruvian guano to 18
francs per thousand kilogrammes. This reduction
will come into force on the 15th of February next.
The ball at the Tuileries on Wednesday night was
brilliant. The Emperor was present until two in
the morning ; he appeared in excellent health, and
his vivacity and cheerfulness were the more re-
marked from the reports which had been current
during the afternoon having created an impression
that his Majesty would not be present. This morn-
ing his Majesty went out shooting at Rambouillet.
At the same time it is only fair to say, however
slight, there has been a foundation for the reports
concerning the Emperor's health. Soon after his
return from Chantilly he had a very slight attack of
gout. On this slight substratum of fact the alarmist
report, which created a perfect panic yesterday,
have been grounded. _ _

A decision has just been come to :at the Minis-
try of War that one out of every two corps of
infantry shall send an officer to the Musketry
School at Chalons to follow the exercises which
are to commence without delay and finish on the
25th May, and that each corps of infantry shall send
to the same school a sub-officer to follow those which
commence on the 12th Feb. When those officers
and sub-officers return to their corps, they will be
charged with the instruction at the regimental
schools."

The following paragraph is now going the round
of the Paris journals :—" Captain Neuradowski,
a Pole formerly in the Prussian service, has been
elected King by a tribe of Kaffres."
BOURSE, Jan. 13.—The market has been rather
firmer, with business doing at a slight improvement.
Threes, for the Account, are now at 66f. 80c.
Mobilier have improved to 955 f. Railway Market

firm, with transactions at an advance on some of
the lines. The market continued firm to the close;
and left off as follows :

41 per Cents 95
Do. end month —

Italian Loan 65 45
Do. end month 65 65
Ditto Threes —
New Mexican
Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred

3 per Cents. 66 85
Do. end month 66 95

Credit Mobilier ... 957 50
Do. end month ... 955

Bank Shares 3450
Credit Fonder 1277 50
Roman 73

RAILWAYS.

___________
Cash. Acct.
Orleans B9O ... 890
Northern 892 50 ... 992 50
Lyons and Mediterranean 923 75 ... 925
Southern 577 50 ... 577 50
Western 540 538 75
__ _ ...

Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard

510 - ... 510 -
308 75 ... 308 75
437 50 ... 442 50
537 50 ... 538 75

North of Spain 360
Saragossa 430
Ditto to Barcelona —

... 357 50
... 427 50

MEXICO.

RECEPTION OF THE PAPAL NUNCIO BY THE
EMPEROR.

PARIS, JAN. 13,

Intelligence received here from Mexico announce
that Cardinal Meglia, the Papal Nuncio, had pre-
sented his credentials to the Emperor Maximilian.
Monsignore Meglia said that the Holy See had
confidence in the Emperor, nothing doubting that
religion,";the fruitful source of the prosperity of
nations and the most solid support of Governments
and Thrones, would be the constant object of the
Emperor's protection.
The Emperor replied as follows :
" In sending so distinguished a personage the
Holy Father gives us an evident proof, which we
accept with gratitude, that the Holy Church desires
the definite and necessary settlement of the difficult
matters pending between. our Government and the
Holy See. The Mexican Government—Catholic,
loyal, and based upon true liberty—will not fail in
its duty. It receives the worthy representative of
the Vicar of Christ with the full confidence that his
arrival is the first step towards a mutual and a
durable settlement, which God will bless."