The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-10 00:00:00

"IRE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1869

SHARE LIST.

ORDINARY SHARIGB AND STOCKS.

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

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C losing Business
Share Neat. Paid. Price. done
10 Agra Limited, A all 104 114 111
A Do • B lO iii 4
50 Albion .i
00 Alliance. Limited
20 Anglo Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian, lim all 921 224 p 234
20 Anglo-Hungarian
20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 5 4
40 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columbia all 101 14
20 Do issued at 2pm ~.. 5 5 4
25 Bank of Egypt
20 Bank of Otago, lint.
25 Bank of South Australia all 30 32
50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 37 30
10 Bank of New Zealand all 151 101 151
50 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, ,mi China all 13 19
25 Chartered Mere. of India,
London, and China
20 City
100 Colonial 25 08 40
10 Consulidated,li tn.
50 Delhi and London, lim
50 East London, lim 5 21 11
20 English and American, lint 10 ... ...
20 English Bank of Rio de Ja-
neiro. lim
20 English, ,cuttish, and Aus.
traliau Chartered
281 Hong Kong and Shanghai
Bank Corporation all 36 38
281 Do new lll 4 5
100 Imperial, lira 2O 15 16
20 Imperial Ottoman lO 24 28 1431
z 5 lonian all 19 22
25 Do new 5 6 3
Lnd Mortgage of India, lint 4 34 31
100 Do sp. c. Debs.lB64, 30 all 76 76 80
100 London Bank‘ of Mexico
and South America, lint. 20 7 6
100 London and Brazilian, lim. 45 30 27
20 Do new 74 5 41
100 London & River Plate, lim. 40 6 8
25 Do new 10 14 2 p
20 London Chart. of Australia all 231 241
20 London and County 29 4111 501 514
50 Do new. iss at 20 p.m, 16 pd. 11 ... . .
London Joint Stock 1 313 324
London and South African al 8 9
100 London & S.-Western, lint, 20 13 11
50 London & Venezuela, lim l2l ... ...
100 London and Westminster 2O 571 54 574 4
100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O ... ...
100 Merchant, lim 25 61 54
10 Metropolitan, lira all 71 74
00 Midland, lim 2O 11 1 19
5 National of Australia
25 National of Liverpool, lint l5 3d 1p
00 National I'roviuc. of Eng'd 42 ... ...
10 Do , ., 42 ... ...
50 National.. 3O ... ..
20 New South Wales all 41 43
20 North-Western
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 41 42
50 Provinc. Bank. Co rpo., lint lO 61 51
30 Provincial of Ireland 25 9j 34
10 Do new all ... ...
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lim 25 ii 1;
100 Do issued at 6pm lO 8 6
25 Union of Australia all 43 41
100 Union of Ireland, lim
...
...
..,
50 Union of London

PARIS CORRESPON DENCE.

MONDAY.

A. Cabinet Council was held yesterday at St. Cloud,
when the course which the Government should pursue in
regard to the proposed liberal amendments, was discussed.
The amendment proposing the election of a certain number of
senatorsbg the Conseils Gdndraux was the principal topic.
The attitude assumed by M. Rouher has been the subject of
much discussion. The President of the Senate is not, as
you know, believed to be too favourable to the work of
Constitutional reform, and, in spite of his professions, the
public are inclined to attribute to him every mischance or
obstacle which threatens to impede the progress of the
Senatus-Consultum. However, lam told that so far from
identifying himself with the reactionary party in the de-
liberations of the committee, M. Rouher has pronounced
in favour of the most liberal interpretation of the terms
of the Seuatus-Consultum. In the debate on the first
article, concerning the double initiative of the Emperor
ald the Corps Ldgislatif, several members, relying
on the plebiscitum which was the base of the
Constitution of 1852, proposed the preliminary inter-
vention of the Council of State. M. de la Guerro-
niZ.,re, on behalf of the Liberals, strongly opposed
this suggestion, and he was supported by no less a
speaker than M. Rouher himself. It has been suggested
that the President of the Council sees that the only role
left for him to play is to support with energy the new
reforms, and that we may look before long for his appear-
ance as the ally of the Left.

The Constitutionnel declares that every day brings a
fresh accession to the ranks of the Liberal Empire, and
reconciles some opponent. There are, indeed, some whose
ambition or self-interest renders them immovable; but the
Constitutionnel boasts that if the Senatus-Consultum has
not reconciled them, it has at least deprived them
of the banner of Liberalism, and has compelled them to
declare themselves revolutionary. M. Brinvilliers, a
senator, has presented an amendment to suppress the
words " par une rdsolution motives " in the article which
gives the Senate the right of veto; but it is not thought
that the majority will support this.
I hear that a letter written by the Emperor last May to
one of his former Ministers has been shewn to the com-
mittee. In this letter the liberal views of Napoleon 111.
regarding the parliamentary initiative are clearly indi-
cated.

Fresh nominations to the Council of State are talked of
as likely. M. Blanche is to be included, so that a vacancy
will occur in the office of Secretary to the Prefecture of the
Seine.
M. Emile de Girardin publishes a long attack on " The
Policy of Expectation" in the Liberte of this morning,
He declares that the policy which has prevailed has
been indecisive, equivocal, and complex, and he has little
hope of a change for the better. It is the fate, he says,
of an undecided Government to exhaust itself in expecta-
tion.

The election of M. Delangle as reporter to the Com-
mittee of the Senate is thought likely. M. Behic is unpopu-
lar owing to the support of M. Rouher.
No improvement is recorded in the condition of Marshal
Niel. The operation performed by Dr. Nelaton wal
successful in itself, and the report of a broken instru-
ment is denied, but it seems that some slight accidents
occurred after the operation, which have aggravated the
illness of the patient. He suffers from great weakness.
The proposal that the Emperor should review the Garde
Mobile on the fifteenth of this month has been abandoned,
and the same fate has attended the notion of the grand
political amnesty. This had been looked for in conse-
quence of the Message of the 12th of July, and the new
policy which has been inaugurated. The Constitutionnel
asks if the acts of the Government ought not to be in
accordance with its words, and if the Liberal principles of
the Emperor ought not to be applied in a
liberal manner ? At the time when the Emperor
himself has introduced changes into the Constitution, it
declares that there should be no more press prosecutions
and no more imprisonments. A generous policy is always
a safe one, and a general amnesty would give great satis-
faction to the public. It is to be feared that these good
counsels will not prevail, for the prosecutions of the press
seem to increase rather than to diminish. The Correc-
tional Tribunal of Rouen has just given judgment in
the case of the editors of the Progres, of that
place, charged with exciting hatred and contempt of
the Government. Both have been fined £2O, and
sentenced to a short imprisonment.
A dreadful accident from lightning occurred the other
evening in the neighbourhood of Clermont Ferraud. As
the diligence from that town to Bort was ascending a
hillside, it was suddenly enveloped in two clouds heavily
charged with electricity, coming in opposite directions,
and which met at that point. Suddenly a flash was seen,
accompanied by a loud detonation, and the postilion with
the five horses by which the vobicle was being drawn
were all struck dead. None of the passengers were hurt.
An extraordinary change in the weather has taken place
at Lyons during the last few days, and the cause is attri-
buted to a violent hailstorm which broke over Switzerland
and Alsace. At Bale lumps of ice as large as hen's egg,
fell.

For some time past false five-franc pieces of the time of
_Louis Philippe have been circulated in Paris. The exer-
tions of the police have led to the discovery of a baud of
coiners, fourteen in number, comprising men and women.
The authorities found in their possession some moulds and
several pieces of money ready to be circulated.

The strike among the silkworkers has become pretty
general in Bourgargental, and a similar movement has
appeared at St. Chamond in the braid works. They ask
for an increase of wages and a reduction in the hours of
work.