The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-03 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, July 2 (Evening).
In to-day's sitting of the Congress Senor Barza-
nallana, the Minister of Finance, explained the
arrangements proposed for the settlement of the
certificates of the Passive debt as being extremely
favourable to the English creditors, and moved that
the Congress should hold morning and evening sit-
tings to accelerate the settlement of the debts. The
arrangement of the question of the certificates on a
favourable basis is now looked upon as certain.
The holders of certificates will not have to pay any
equalisation tax. Such payment will only have to
be made by the holders of Passive Stock.

FRANCE.
The Marseilles journals mention thearrival in that
city of M. Duruy, Minister of Public Instruction,
for the purpose of inspecting the college and other
educational establishments.
The bulletin of the Paris observatory gives the
following as the atmospheric situation yesterday :
" There has been a further barometrical decline since
Sunday in the north-east of France. This morn-
ing the pressure is inferior, at 760 mm. west of a
line passing from Oporto, by Bayonne, Paris,
Amsterdam, and Greencastle (Ireland). The wind
has veered to the south-west, and the sky is covered
with cumuli. Towards Bordeaux, Limoges, and
La Rochelle, the.weather is stormy, and is tempes-
tuous at Strasburg. The wind is gentle on the
coast of the Channel, the Atlantic, and the Medi-
terranean."—In Paris yesterday the weather was
magnificent for the season. At three the thermo-
meter marked 29 Cent. (84 1-5 Fahr.)
The Afoniteur publishes a list of 56 persons to
whom medals have been awarded for acts of de-
votedness in saving life during the month of May,
1867.

The Italie of Florence says :—The (Ecumenic
Council, announced for next year, will, according to
a letter from Rome, have to pronounCe three orders
of questions ; first, with the errors of contemporary
reasoners in a Catholic point of view ; next, about
the modifications which may be with propriety in-
troduced into the discipline of the Church ; and,
lastly, it will have to give its opinion on the exist-
ence of the temporal power."
The Russian Government, with a view of fur-
thering the commercial transactions of the Empire,
has just authorised the Imperial Bank of St. Peters-
burg to issue paper money to the amount of 35
millions of roubles, which is to be guaranteed by
Treasury Bonds.
General de Kleist, aide-dc-camp to the King of
Prussia, has just died at Berlin.
BOURSE, July 2, Two o'clock.—The market con-
tinues weak, and sales are offered on all securities
at lower quotations.
Three o'clock. —The market closed as follows :
qper Cent 5......... 09
Do. end m0uth.,..,.
3 per Cent 5...,.,,,, 68 70
Do. end m0nth...... 68 70
Credit Mobilier ... 366 25
Do. end month 366 25
Credit
Do. end m0nth...... 1436 25

Bank Shares 3300
Italian Loan 5l 35
Do. end month 5l 70
Mexican Loan l6
Do. Bonds l3l 21
Spanish Throes
Home Debt
Deferred
(LYS.

Orleans For Account.
870 50
Northern 1203 7 5
Lyons and Mediterranean B7B
Southern .... 75
565
Western
Eastern ..................................
ASardinian •
ustrian
NLombard...,
orth of Spain,,,, B5
Saragossa
Roman.