The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-19 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, AUG. 19.

A telegram received here from Salzburg says :

" The French and Austrian Sovereigns received a
most brilliant reception in every part of South
Germany which they traversed."
The Emperor of Austria with his own hand con-
ferred on Prince Metternich the Order of the
Golden Fleece. _ . _

Pmus, Aug. 17.

BOURSE, Aug. 17, Two o'clock.—The market is
is dull and transactions are insignificant ; stocks
and shares are quoted with but slight variations.
Threes at 69f. 70c., a fraction higher ; Italian
Fives, on the contrary, are 49f. 30c., or 10. lower.
Credit Mobilier and Credit Foncier unchanged at.
326 f. 25c. and 1,385 f. The same dulness exists in
the railway department, but from London there is
an advance telegraphed in Consols of one-eighth.
Three o'clock.—The following were the last quo-
tations :

4} per Cents lOO
Do. and month —
3 per Cents. 69 70
Do. end month 69 65
Credit blobilier
Do. end month
Credit Foncier —
Do. and month 1385

Bank Shares 3340
Italian Loan 49 25
Do. end month 49 32
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred
(its.

Orleans

For Account.
. 897 50

Northern ll6O
Lyons and Mediterranean 895
Southern 555

Western 572 50
Eastern 545
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 385
North of Spain
Snragosea - -
Roman , —

THE BRAZILS.

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 23

The financial measures proposed by the Govern
ment passed the second reading in the Chamber o
Deputies on the 22d, and will probably pass the
third reading by the end of the month, so that the
discussion in the Senate will commence at the
beginning of August.
In the Chamber of Deputies the Cabinet have
a large majority, but in the Senate they are at the
mercy of their political adversaries, the Conserva-
tives and the Radicals.
It has always been a principle with the Senate
not to deny the Cabinet the means to govern the
country, but it is yet doubtful if that Chamber will
consider the authorisation to issue paper money as
the only means left Government to pay the ex-
penses of the war and the necessary bills in circula-
tion in case the bearers exact payment.
The proposal which authorises the Emperor to
admit into the Council of State the Imperial
Princess and the Prince her consort passed the
third reading in the Senate, despite the efforts o f
Government, but as their majority is large in the
Deputies it will most probably fall in the Lower
House, or perhaps be sent to a committee, who
would, it is believed, never sit on the subject.
Dates from Paraguay reach to the Bth inst. Both
the army and the fleet were ready for battle, and
were awaiting only the word of the Commander-in-
Chief, which was momentarily expected, when
very heavy rains set in, and compelled the
Marquis of Caxias to adjourn active opera-
tions for a few days, as the ground became
so much soaked as to render the march of our army
a very difficult affair.
With respect to the plan of the attack there are
many conjectures more or less plausible. As the
fleet would have to co-operate with the army,
it was by many supposed that the ironclads
would force the passage of Curupaity to
shell Humaita, compelling the Paraguayans to
attend to that point. Others affirm that the ships
would pass Hutnaita, to protect a division of 5,000
men which march along the Chaco, cross the river
above Humaita, and attack the Paraguayan lines in
the rear, and thus cut off the retreat of Lopez's
army.

Curuzu has been entirely abandoned, and the fleet
can prevent the Paraguayans occupying the posi-
tion, which is exposed to a raking fire from the river.

REMARKABLE ESCAPE OF A PRISONER.—One of
the prisoners from the Winchester County Gaol, whose
name was Neale, was on Thursday last engaged in spade
labour, under charge of a warder, outside the prison. It
happened that Mr. Coawell's balloon, which had ascended
from Southampton, passed close over the ancient city, and
attracted of course much attention. Among others, the
warder watched the unusual visitant with close inrerest.
When the balloon had passed the warder turned to his
charge, but ho had passed too. The shrewd fellow had
taken the opportunity to escape, and has not since been
traced.

TIIE FALL OF A FLAGSTAFF.-,—The jury who as-
sembled at Plymouth on Saturday to inquire into the cause
of the death of Joseph Avery, which occurred on Thurs-
day by the fall of a flagstaff in front of the Royal Western
Yacht Club, returned a verdict of accidental death, coupled
with the observation that they considered that a flagstaff
61ft. long ought to have been stepped in the ground 6ft.
and not sin., like the flagstaff in question. Mr. John Ed-
monds, the coroner, stated that he concurred in the very
proper comment which the jury had made. The members
of the club are raising a handsome donation for the parents
of Avery.
HEAVY RAINS IN YORKSHIRE.—MaIton, Satur-
day.—The immense rains of Thursday night, which
reached 1-69 in. at Malton, and at the moor base 2.51 in.,
have caused the North Riding moors to assume the aspect
of a winter flood. Up to the time of writing, however, they
had not overflowed. The Ilolbeck, however, did not over-
flow on Friday, and the flat country of the Vale of Mow-
bray, cornfields and grass about Wiling particularly, was
under water. Tho rainfall has been greatest on the
eastern sido of the Vale of York, and on the great North
of England lino, in the neighbourhood of Tollerton, the
fields were flooded and cattle were driver& a Aga fell
120YOY on sAturclAy.