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THE SUN, LONbON, FRIDAY EVENING, A,IIGIJS r 20, 1869.

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

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10 Do - B - 10 31 41
30 Albion
00 Alliance, Limited
20 Anglo Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian, lint all 121 2:-,lp 231
20 Anglo-Hungarian
20 Anglo-Italian 1866, hunted 10 5 4
40 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columbia all 11 13
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 32
50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 37 33
10 Bank of New Zealand all 1,-.1 Itii
50 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, : nd China all
25 Chartered Mere, of India.
London, and China all
20 City lu
100 Colonial 25
10 Consolidated, lint.
50 Delhi and London, lint
50 East London, lint 5
20 English and American, lint 10
20 English Bank of Rio de Ja-
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20 English, Scottish, and Aus-
tralian Chartered
281 Hong Emig and Shanghai
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281 Do now ll-
l Imperial, lint 2O
2U Imperial Ottoman lO
25 lonian all
25 Do now 5
Lnd Mortgage of India, lint 4
100 Do sp. e. Debs.lB6l, 30 all 76
100 London Bank! of Alekieo
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100 London and Brazilian, lint. 45
20 Do new 71
100 London & River Plate, lint 4O
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ris.nrs CORRESPONDENCE.

Tnu USDA!".
There is good news for the Liberals. To-day the Senate
Commission reassembled after two days' interval, to hear
the final decision of the Government respecting the famous
Article 2, which deals with the responsibility of Ministers.
I am assured that they have resolved to comply with
the wishes of the Liberal majority of the Com-
mission, and to sanction a fresh version of
Article 2 which shall be less vague and more
precise. Thc line of demarcation between the
responsibility of the Emperor and that of the Ministers
will be clearly defined. As matters previously stood,
there was something like a, contradiction in
terms, since the responsibility of Ministers "who
depend solely on the Emperor " was tot
likely to prove very satisfactory to the Chambers.
The amendment of M. Doujean has been conclusively
disposed of, the Commission refusing to entertain any part
of it. It proposed that part of the Senators should be
elected by the Conseils G4n6aux, that the prinCiple of the
initiative and the right of voting the laws should extend
to the two Chambers, and that the Constitutional power
should be divided between them. The Constitutionnel pro-
fesses no surprise that amendments so advanced should be
rejected by the Commission. The introduction of the elective
principle into the Senate is as yet strange and unfamiliar to
the public, but it is less easy to understand why the power of
reforming the Constitution should remain the exclusive
attribute of the Emperor and the Senate, to the total
exclusion of the Corps L6gislatif. A reform in this
respect is imperative. The scheme of M. Boujean, says
the Constilutionnel, is the Senatus-Consultum of the
future.

It is said that the Emperor, while discussing the terms
of the amnesty with his Ministers, quoted a passage
from a letter written by Napoleon I. to the King of
Holland. " It is especially in regard to political offences,"
so ran the letter, " that it is well to chew clemency. If it
is the Sovereign who is attacked there is something
of grandeur in the pardon. At the first rumour of
an offence of this kind public opinion arrays itself
on the side of the offender. If the Prince remits the
penalty the public feeling turns against the offender, but
if he follows the contrary system he is considered hateful
and tyrannical." Cynics may ask how it is the present
Emperor has become suddenly impresed with the force of
this " striking passage," but the majority of the Parisians
are generally very well satisfied with his newly-developed
liberality, and the 'malcontents are few and far between.
The irreconcilable!, as they are termed, are just now
much agitated by the defection of M. Jules Favre, who,
at a recent meeting at Angers, declared that he was not
unfavourable to the Senatus-Consultum, as when people
were badly off it was unwise to reject what was good in
waiting for what was better.
I hear from Metz that General Frossard, aide-de-camp
to the Emperor, has been paying a visit of inspection to
the fortifications of that town. The works are tolerably
advanced, and could, I understand, already resist an
attack, but they are not yet fit for the
Emperor's examination. Some little excitement
was created recently by the discovery of two priests
speaking German among the workmen. It was imme-
diately supposed that they were Prussian spies, and I
presume it is in consequence of this that a line of sentries
is now drawn round the workmen, and no one is admitted
within the forts without a card. This little incident
chews the jealousy and suspicion with which Prussia is
regarded here.
An amusing story comes from Guinaucourt, in the de-
partment of the Meuse. One of the electors addressed
a petition to the Senate praying for the revision of the
electoral list. The Mayor refused to authenticate the
signature on the ground that the petition "was wanting
in common sense."

I read in the Belgian journals that M. Leon Bachelery,
of Brest, who was recently condemned by the Brabant
court to six months' imprisonment and RS fine for
attacking Napoleon 111. iu a pamphlet, has just
been set at liberty. I presume the King of the
Belgians thought that it was unnecessary for him to be more
severe than the French Etnperorhimself. He has, however,
despatched M. Bachelery across the frontier, interdicting
him from returning to Belgium, so that, as matters now
stand, the offender may reside in France, against the
sovereign of which the offence was committed, but must
keep out of Belgium, against the king of which he appears
to have had nothing to say.
The Emperor's health has greatly improved. He will
hold an official reception to-night at the Palace of St.
Cloud.

The Prince Imperial has presided at a grand dinner at
the Camp of Chalons. After the dinner a theatrical
representation took place, which the young Prince
honoured with his presence.
A most exciting scene took place at the Hippodrome
yesterday. Lucas the exhibitor, entered the cage of the
lions, having forgotten his cudgel which he generally
carries. After a few minutes the lioness sprung upon him,
and one of the lions joined in the attack. The scene was
most painful, and Lucas was given up for lost, when his
assistant rushed into the cage, with a gun, which he used
as a stick, and succeeded in driving back the lions. The
unfortunate keeper has been seriously hurt, but his wounds
aro not thought dangerous.

There is considerable curiosity respecting the appoint-
ment of the new War Minister. The Emperor is said to be
undecided in the matter. He is himself inclined towards
General Leba,uf, but the army desires the appointment of
Marshal L'azaine, now in command at Nancy.
A congress of journalists is expected to assemble at
Lyons at the beginning of September, in order to discuss
the various reforms which the press can demand.
A curious incident occurred during the celebration of
the Empiror's Fete in the Loire district. An old man
walked in the procession who that day completed his hun-
dredth'year. He had served in the campaign of the Republic,
and was wounded in that of Naples. He has never been
seriously ill, and walked with a firm step at the grand
ceremonial. It is estimated that not less than 500,000
strangers arrived in Paris from the departments and from
abroad for the Fete of the 15th of August.
The Figaro announces another duel in connection with
the press, but this time the affray has not been attended
with serious consequences. The combatants were Com.
mandant de Castez and M. Edouard Rodriguez, th.
writer of an offensive article in that journal.