The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-21 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AUSTRIA.
SIGNATURE OF THE CONVENTION BETWEEN

AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.

SALZBU_RG, AUG. 21.

The Convention in reference to the continuance
of the co-dominion of Austria and Prussia in the
Duchies was signed at noon yesterday.

The Emperor of Austria has returned the visit of
the Grand Duke of Oldenburg.

CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN

MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 21.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Ripon, with the heavy portion of the above mails,
has arrived here. She brings 200 passengers,
£153,694 in specie, and a general cargo, including
1,256 bales of raw silk, value £BO,OOO sterling. She
left Gibraltar on the 16th August, and on the same
day spoke the ships renown and Result, and on the
19th the Champion of the Seats.

The gunboats Firefly and Redpole were at Gib-

raltar.

Gribraltar exchange on London, 49i ; on Paris,
5 24 ; Geneva, 5 24 ; Madrid, 1 dis.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.
MARSEILLES, AUG. 20.
The Syria, with the Bombay mail, arrived here al
8 p.m. to-day.

The mails will be landed at 11 p.m., and leave al
11.30 a.m. to-morrow (Monday) for London.
Ship and passengers in quarantine fOr 60 hours.
OUTWARD INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.
MARSEILLES, AUG. 19.

The Messageries Imperiales steamer Moeris left
this port to-day with the mails, 41 passengers, and
specie value' £181,760 fOr India and China ; 155
passengers and £4,000 for Alexandria.

The Tiger, with the homeward mail, left Galle
for Suez, on the 10th inst., with 6,000 bales of silk.

FRANCE.

ELECTION OF COUNT WALEWSKI.
MONT DE MARSAN, AUG. 21.
The election of a deputy to represent this town in
the Corps Legislatif took place to-day.
The number of electors on the register was
39,000, of whom 29,000 voted.
Count Walewski, the Government candidate, was
elected almost unanimously.
The Emperor's fete was celebrated with great
solemnity in the principal cities of Europe. At
Turin a Te Deum was performed in the Church of
St. Philippe Neri, at which the Consul-General of
France and several Frenchmen of distinction were
present. At Venice a mass in music was executed,
and the residence of the consulate was illuminated
in the evening; and at St. Sebastian. a Te Deum
was also celebrated.

The Courrier du Dimanche publishes an Imperial
decree, after a decision by the Council of State, con-
firming the conclusions of the Government Commis-
sioner, M. Fare, Master of Requests, on the subject
of the second suspension of that journal without the
preliminary warnings. The decree says, " Consider-
dering that in those circumstances our Minister could
not suspend a journal a second time, without two
fresh warnings, and that consequently, by the judg-
ment contested, he exceeded his powers—the deci-
sion of our Minister of the interior, dated the 24th
August, 1864, is annulled."
BOURSE, Aug. 19.—Two o'clock.—The market
is very firm, Stock and most Shares have risen con-
siderably, and maintain the appearance of a further
progressive movement. Threes, for the Account,
have advanced 10c.—to 68fr. 25c. Credit Mobilier
Shares are in progress of sfr., having regained the
price of 800 fr. About 800 more of these shares are
discounted to-day, with 3,000 North of Spain,
which are being done at 238 fr. 75c., with an ad-
vance of sfr., Spanish Mobilier Shares have also
distinguished themselves with an advance of 12fr.
50c.—to 492 fr. 50c. The late reaction now proves
favourable to the upward movement. Three o'clock.
—Sales during the last hour have caused the prin-
cipal speculative valuers to greatly recede from
their higher prices, otherwise the 'Railway Share
Market has maintained its advance, particularly
Northern and Lyons shares, for which there has
been a good demand. The last quotations are as
follows :

41 per Cents 97 50
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 6B 171
Do. end month 6B 15
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month 790
Bank Shares 3600
Credit Foneier —
Italian Loan 65 30
Do. end month 65 30

Ditto Threes —
Mexican Loan 47 50

Do. Bonds — --
Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Throes
Home Debt
Deferred
Roman

Cash. Amt.
857 BO
... 1080 -
- ... 871 25
... 567 50

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern .
Western ..
Eastern ...
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard..
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

, -JL -

- - ... 528 75

- - ... 270 -
- - ... 407 50
- - ... 490 -
- - ... 232 50
- - ... 320 -

A large balloon was found hooked to a tree at

Passchendaele (Belgium), on the 16th, at five o'clock in
the morning. In the car there was nothing but a man's
hat bearing the initials C. I. It is probably the balloon
which M. Godard went up in at Rouen on the 15th, but
was forced to abandon.

HORSE-SHOEING.—The first step towards shoeing
the horse was the contrivance of solew, or sandals,
made to clasp on the hoof like the hunting-sandal now in
use on emergency. In Japan, sandals of plaited straw are
still used, fastened round the fetlock with straw bands.
They are soon worn out, but eating little, are easily re-
placed. Some nations, the Icelanders, for example, have
used horn to shoe their horses. A portion of a ram's horn
was formed into suitable shape, and fixed on the hoof with
horn pins. A similar practice is said still to obtain in the
valley of the Oxus, the material there employed being the
antlers of the mountain-deer. The grand discovery of
iron horseshoes took place, it is believed, about the time of
the Norman Conquest. It is not known positively when
or by whom iron horseshoes were invented. In the
Bayeux tapestry, worked by the ladies of Queen Matilda's
court, to celebrate the victories of William the Conqueror,
the feet of the horses:are represented without shoes, but
the bits, splits, and other trappings are minutely rendered.
In the Great Seal of William the First, the horse is unshod,
but in the seals of subsequent kings all the horses have
shoes.—Chambers's Journal.

The Grand Duke Constantine left Stockholm on
Wednesday for Copenhagen. The monitors of the squa-
dron will immediately return to Cronstadt, while the rest
of the squadron is to follow the Grand Duke to Copen-
hagen. The squadron will afterwards proceed to Kiel.

The 'journals of Ostend state that at a second
_concert given in the Kursal, the piece containing the Bra-
banconne, and which on the first occasion had given rise
to so much commotion not having been included, the audi-
ence demanded it with loud cries, and even insisted on its
being repeated a second time.
DEATH OF MINASI.—Among the deaths recently
announced is that of James Minasi, the celebrated pen-and-
ink artist. He was 89 years of age.
THE ABBE LISZT, it is announced, will superin-
tend the production of his oratorio, "St. Elizabeth," at
Pesth, Iluring the course of this month, and then return to
Rome to take office as Director of the Music of the Papal
Chapel..

GOTIIS VERSUS DRUIDS.—We hear that one of
our most important national monuments has had a narrow
escape, It was intended to hold a Congress of Archteo-
logists at Stonehenge, dig under the altar-stone, and raise
the fallen trilithon. Sir Edmund Antrobus, however, the
owner, has, we are told, wisely set his face against the
proposal.

JUDGE HALIBURTON is said to be annotating the

three series of his famous " Sam Slick, or the Sayings and
Doings of the Clockmaker," with a. view to a new one-
volume edition, which is to be profusely illustrated. Mr.
Bentley will issue it as one of his Christmas books.

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THE NEW READING-ROOM OF THE IMPERIAL
LIBRARY IN PARIS, built on the plan of Mr. Panizzi's mag-
nificent reading-room in the British Museum, will be opened
to readers early in next year. English visitors to the
Bibliotheque Imperial may remember that the present
reading-room stands on the site of the offices of John
Law's famous bank.