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Do. ‘lOO Bonds .77.
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Do. Account
D 0.1500 Bonds
Do. 4.130 Bonds 9l
Do. 7 per Cent., 1868
(livJrativni 1-o,ilwav Debentures —
Gireert 5 per Cont., 1821 5, ex Coups —
De. Account
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Do. CourOL 13
Do. Account
3-11.toinala 5 per Cent .. —
Honduras Gov Rail. Loan., 10 p. Ct., all pd 83i
it-.;ian 5 yr Curt., 1865 —
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Do Mitrenituana Railway ssi
ftisicar. 3 per Cent •
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Aouteviclvau 6 per dent. .. —
A c:rish Imperial 5 per Ceut
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Do. Deferred
Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865

Do Account ,, 771
Do 4} per Cent. (Ul:'.arren)
Do 44 per Cent., 1862 ~ —
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Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7,'9,'60,'2,': 334
Do. do. 1867 —
Do. do. Sc, ip, £2O paid —
Russian 5 i•er Cent., 1822, £ Sc
Do 44 per Cent 1850
Do 4} per Cent., 1860
Do 8 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do ;do, Scrip —
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonds.. 94 4
Do. do. £B4 15s. d 0...,
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Do. do £B4 15s. do —
Do Nicolas Railway 6B 74
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Spanish 3 per Cen . —
Do. Acc‘funt
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Do. Account
Do. New Deferred —
Do. Account
Do. Passive —
Do. Corn. Cert. of Coup. not funded —
Do. Account
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan
Do Government, 1864
Do do, 1868
Turkish 6 per Cent.
DJ Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do Account .., 694 4
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent., 1862 —
Do Account .
Do £IOC Bonds 684
Do 5 per Cent. 1865 —
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1860
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Austrian o per Cent. Ex 10 Florins -
Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 24 per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil, —
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French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 23f.
Italian 5 per Cent. 1831, R.-.:. 25f. -
Do Account 544
TWO O'CLOCK.
Jonsols Money .. 93;14. 1
Do. Account, August 5

PARIS CORRESPONDENCE.

SUNDAY,

The second act of our Constitutional play will commence
on the 2nd of August, on which day the Senate meets to
consider the Emperor's reforms. The public are waiting
rather impatiently for the rising of the curtain, and all the
more so as, politics being entirely nil for the present, the
excitement is venting itself in some disagreeable
rumours. Some say that a party in the Senate
will attempt to put a very liberal construe.
tion on the Emperor's Message, and will make
it the foundation of some very real reforms. But this
party, it is admitted, is a lamentable minority. The
majority in the Senate, it is well known, are opposed to
all reforms whatsoever. And it is now generally whispered
that these reactionary senators will endeavour if possible not
to interpret the Emperor's Message liberally, but to burke
the reforms to a great extent. The help of M. Rouher,
who will preside, is counted on. It is rumoured, too,
that the plan of reform, being drawn np by the Govern.
ment, will not concede one important point much insisted
on. This is the right of proposing ordres du four motials—in
English, resolutions to do this or that, and motions of
"No Confidence." If this concession be not made, half
the value of the reforms will be lost. But these are all
nothing more than on dies, suggested by the excitement
of the situation. They may prove groundless.
It is just as well, however, to point out what difficulty
must be experienced in getting the Senate, unless on a
positive order from the Emperor, to pass any great mea-
sure of change. Like your House of Lords, the Senate
has nothing to gain by change. Like your House
of Lords it cannot be Letter off. It is unlike the
great aristocratic assembly of England in every
other respect; but the interests of the two are identical
in keeping things as they are. The Senate is not an heredi-
tary body, it is entirely nominated by the Emperor, save and
except that all cardinals, marshals, and admirals of the
Empire have a seat in virtue of their office, an exception
which clearly makes no difference. The power of the
Senate is considerable. Every law must receive its sane-

tion, petitions can be presented to it alone, and, most
important of all, every modification of the Constitution
must he submitted to it. It is composed almost wholly
of novi honzines, men who have risen with the Empire, and
have nothing to hope except from the Empire. They are
not formidable from their aristocratic influence, for the
Empire has no aristocracy, properly so called. Our many
revolutions have put an end to that sort of thing. 'limy
are not men of great intellect, for if they were they would

not do for the Senate, which must be wholly under
the Emperor's control. Lastly, these humdrum senators
get £1,200 a year, which is a great deal more than they
could get in any other capacity. You may imagine, then,
that the Liberals do not look upon the prospect of their
settling the reforms without some mifg:ving.
There will probably be a fight of sonic sort even

amongst the quiet senators. There is, as I have just said,
a few reformers in the Upper House, and it is certain
that these, if the programme of reform be not satisfactory,
will endeavour to procure an extension of it. The leaders
of this small band are Baron Brenier, the Count e
Sartiges, and M. de Maupas.
M. Sainte Beuve is seriously ill ; Marshal Niel has been
ill, but is now better ; M. de Montalembert is almost
entirely recovered.
A rather extensive stock-jobbing case has just been

settled. It is another example of the difficulty, if not
impossibility, of bringing commercial offenders within the
reach of the law. In this instance, a broker,
named Laperche, who absconded in June, but since
surrendered, was tried by the Seine Assize Court on
various charges of misapplying funds entrusted to him by
customers of the firm, and of falsifying his books to conceal
various fraudulent transactions. He commenced business
in 1858, and appears to have speculated cn his own
account, in violation of the laws regulating his calling.
In 1865 the attention of the Syndicate of the brokers
was attracted to his proceedings, and an examination
of his books having shewn that his profits had amounted
to £40,000, he was called on either to resign his
charge, or pay over his unauthorised gains to the funds of
the corporation. He chose the latter alternative, but a
sum of £lO,OOO was afterwards returned to him. He,
however, failed to profit by the lesson, and recommenced
speculation under assumed names, but fortune turned
against him, and being at length involved in difficulties
he disappeared, leaving considerable deficits, after em.
ploying various moneys deposited with him for invest-
ment. He afterwards gave himself up. The brokers' Syn.
dicate then returned the other £30,000 which had been
taken from him, and his family likewise came to the
rescue. By their help all the creditors were paid in full,
and the only losers by these swindles are the culprit him.

self and his partners. The latter, however, have been
recompensed to the extent of 40 per cent., and may pro-
bably receive a further dividend. So far all's well that
ends well ; but it will be seen that the breach of the law
remains notwithstanding that most of the losses by it have
been made up. The jury, however, seemed to be of
opinion that if a crime was paid for there was an end of
it, for they found the man not guilty of fraud, and he was
set at liberty. Is employing other people's money in
speculations a fraud or not?

The papers here—French papers are so indefatigable in
fishing up grotesque odds and ends—contain notices of two
remarkable suicides. The first took place in France. A
woman of the commune of Nouziers lately conceived the
frightful idea of burning herself alive. She con-
structed in the middle of a field, with straw
and faggots, a funeral pile, on which she placed
herself, and then set it on fire. The corpse was found
completely calcined. The deceased was about 55 years
of age, and had long suffered from an incurable malady.
The other is a Hungarian suicide. John Stebaleski, a
shopkeeper at Pesth, loaded a pistol, and discharged the
contents into his heart. He had previously written the
following letter to a friend :—" My dear Friend,—l have
decided to kill myself tomorrow. Life is insupportable.
I adore my wife, but she has grown so stout—she that
was of so ravishing a figure when I married her. Adieu,
my friend ; tell my wife that I prefer to die rather than

be✓ unfaithful to her, or to separate myself from her

by means of the law. Farewell, and pity me." This
eccentric character thought it necessary to shave himself

and put on his best clothes before putting the pistol to his

heart.

The heat is tropical. The theatres are empty ; the
vendors of cool drinks are making their fortunes. It is a
fact worthy of record that at one of the Bordeaux theatres

yesterday not a single spectator put in an appearance.