The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-15 00:00:00

The Minister will continue his speech to- morrow

THE AMERICAN MAIL,
ROCHES POINT, DEC. 15, 11. 30 A. 31.
The Persia is not yet in sight.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, DEC. 13.—Business continues limited
in amount, but the prices of yesterday have under-
gone a very slight variation, Threes, for the Ac-
count, being no at 70f. 55c. The Railway Share
Market has been also without animation, and with
but little change in quotations. The market slightly
improved at the end, and closed as follows:—
ft per Cents .. 97 50 Bank Shares 3395
Do. end month.... Credit koncier 1335 -
3 per Cents ...... 70 55 Piedincrntese Fives 71 50
Do. end month.... 70 65 Italian Loan 7l 70
New 3 per Cents .. Russian -
Do. end month.... Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 1102 50 Spanish Threes 54 --
Do. end m0nth....1106 21 Rome Debt
HA IL WAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans 1067 50 •• 1068 75
Northern .... 1042 50 .. 1045
New ditto . 1010 ..
Lyons and Mediterranean 1152 50 .. 1153 75
Geneva 376 23 ..
Southern .. 7BB 75 .. 790
Western
Eastern', ....
Sardinian 375 • •
Austrian
I,mr. bard . , 557 50 .. 590
North of Spain
Saragossa .... 660 .. 661 25
Ditto to Barcelona .... 317 50 .. 320

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, DEC. 11.

The tower chamber of the Reichsrath yesterday
rejected the proposed amendment to the Bill for
the protection of epistolary correspondence. OR the '
Ist inst. the Upper House reaolted to propose to
the representatives of the people to empower the
Government to open all letters which may be
passing through the Austrian post-offices when war
or internal disturbanbes "are about to break out."
The original reading' was " have broken out," and
no objection would have been made to it bad not
the President of tho Council of State managed to
persuade the members of the Upper Chamber that
it was necessary to the well-being of the Empire
that "in such a matter" the hands of the
Executive should not be bound. Both M.
von Schmerling and Count Rechberg were well
satisfied with the bill as posed by the Lower
House, and you will hardly tic in error if you sup-
pose that men high in office advised the deputies
not to agree to the above mentioned amendments
Dr. von Muhlfeld, who is one of the members for
this city, spoke in favour of the athendment, but
the house paid little or no attention to what he
said, es it was resolved not to give a character of
legality to the odious custom of clandestine letter-
opening. M. Schindler, another of the members
for Vienna, said that, if the deputies should agree
to the amendment proposed by the nominees of the
Crown, the new bill must be called " An Act
authorising the violation of the secrecy of
letters" (zur Yerletzunq des Briefgelleininises).
After a short discussion, in which the members
of the Cabinet Wok no part, the amendment was
rejected by a large majority: It is to be regretted
that no bill for the protection of epistolary corre-
spondence can be passed this session, but the
Viennese conso:e themselves by
iia:ying that it is
better to have no law at all than a bad one. Pefore,
the house rose the President stated that at 10
o'clock on the 11th inst.
(to day), a mixed
commit-
tee of 12 persons Woirld take into consideration the
amendment which the Upper Cbamher proposes to
make in the Bank Act. The six persona vqo repre-
sent the Austrian Peers in the committee are Barots
Baumgartner, Rothschild, Reyer, and Rueskefer,
Marshal von Hess, and Prince Schwarzenberg.
In the Upper House the debate on the Bank Act
has been brought to a close. During the sitting of
yesterday the Minister of Finances, who has little
influence in either House, proposed to make a
change in the method of " covering" the bank-
notes ; but his motion was supported by no one but
Prince Jablonowski, a noble of Polish origin. On
Tuesday, when the debate on be Bank question be-
gan in the Upper Chamber, the Cardinal Archbishop
of Vienna made a sneech which must have pro-
, duced a very agreeable impression on all those per-
, sons who heard it. His Eminence, who is a man