The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-11 00:00:00

FRAN CIE

BOURSE, April 10, Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :-
4} per Cents 96 Bank Shares 3400 --
Do. end month — Italian Loan 47 75
3 per Cents. 66 50 Do. end month 47 7C,
Do. end month 66 25 Mexican Loan ...„ .
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Credit Foncier — Home Debt . ._........
Do. end month 1305 Deferred ............
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RAILW LYB.

For Account.

Orleans

825 __---

Northern llO5
Lyons and Mediterranean 865 _
Southern 545

Western 535
Eastern 525
S ardinian
Austrian
Lombard. 366 25
North of Spain BO

SaragosFa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman .

85 -

PRUSSIA AND WURTEMBERG.
BERLIN, April 10.
The semi-official North German Gazette of this
evening gives a denial to a statement of the Bank
Gazette that, in a despatch recently addressed to the
Cabinet of Stuttgart, the Prussian Government had
declared that it looked upon the treaty of alliance
with Wurtemberg as inseparable from the treaty of
peace concluded between that State and Prussia.
The North German Gazette adds—" The Prussian
Government considers it self-evident that the treaty
of alliance of the 13th August last must require the
sanction of the Estates. At the same time it has
equal confidence in the German national feeling. of
,the Wurtemberg Diet, and in the thorough fidelity
of the Wurtemberg Government to its treaty en-
gagements.

The North German Gazette also publishes an
article, in which it points out that the fortress of
Luxemburg had a national obligation to serve as a
protection to the German Confederation, and also
the international object of guaranteeing the neutra-
lity of Belgium. It adds

4, This position the dissolution of the former Con-
federation has not changed. Were Prussia, on her
own responsibility and without the consent of the
Powers represented at the London Conference, to
give up the occupation of Luxemburg, she would
violate her national and international obligations as
a member of the Bund and as an European great
Power.

" The Marquis de Moustier appears, according
to his communication in the French Legislative
Chamber, to desire to conform to these considera-
tions.

" That no intention exists of incorporating Lux-
emburg with the North German Confederation has
been already made manifest by the declaration of
Count Bismarck in the North German Parliament."

THE NORTH GERMAN PARLIAMENT.
BERLIN, April 10.
The North German Parliament completed to-day
the preliminary discussion of the Draft of the Con-
stitution.

On the debate of the 71st and last paragraph,
which declared that the relations of the Bund with
the South German States will be settled by special
treaties immediately after the constitution of the
North German Confederati m, Herr Lasker moved
an amendment, proposing that the entry of all or
one of the South German States into the Northern
Bund could take place on the proposition of the
presiding power and by means of Federal legisla-
tion.

Herr Von Hoffmann, Federal Commissioner of
the Grand Duchy of Hesse Darmstadt, mada a
speech, in which he thanked Count Bismarck for
the reply conceived in Federal and friendly terms
made by the latter to the interpellatiou of Count
Solms-Lanbach in yesterday's sitting of the Parlia-
ment. Herr Von Hoffman added, "I believe I may
the same time give expression to the great satis-
faction which that reply afforded the Hessian Go-
vernment. The entry of the whole of the Grand
Duchy of Hesse Darmstadt into the Northern Bund
would certainly be the
.simplest mode of removing
the existing evils. Nevertheless zuell a step, while

conferring upon the Grand Duchy greater rights,
would also lay upon it heavier burdens, and an un-
derstanding with the representatives of the country
would therefore be necessary before a decision upon
the question could be taken. I am, however, per-
suaded that the Hessian Government and Diet
will be found to be animated by the same patriotic
spirit, and that the matter in question will speedily
be settled in a way corresponding with the interest
both of Hesse Darmstadt and the whole of Ger-
many."

Count Bismarck, in reply, declared that the
amendment of Herr Lasker was not opposed to the
wishes of the Federal Governments, though he did
not intend to vote for its adoption. " The Treaty
of Prague," he said, " makes reference to the recon-
struction of the whole of Germany, and thus em-
braces the international and national relations
between the North and South. The fact that a
South German Confederation bas not yet been
established prevents the North and South from
being connected by a bond of union. If a South
German Confederation existed the Parliaments of
the North and South would not long submit to being
kept separate."
Article 71, together with Herr Lasker's amend-
ment, was then adopted by a large majority.

At the conclusion of the debate the Polish mem-
bers protested against the union of the Polish popu-
lation with the North German people.

AUSTRIA.

The following is the text of the Imperial letter
addressed to M. Von Beust, and which was read as
a message at the opening of the three Diets of
Bohemia, Moravia, and Carniola :
" My Dear Baron Von Beust,

" The Diets of my kingdoms and territories which
are unconnected with the Crown of Hungary, and
which were opened on the 18th of February last,
were informed of the motives that led me to have
recourse to the convocation ordered in the patent of
Jan. 2, 1867, of a constitutional Reichsrath, which
is to deliberate upon the questions to be solved.

" The Diet of my kingdom of Bohemia, &c.,
answered the invitation of my Government to pro-
ceed to the elections iu such a way that I thought
proper to make by my patent, of the 26th of Feb-
ruary, a new appeal to the faithful population of
that country.

" I consequently request you to invite again the
Diet issued from the new elections to send repre-
sentatives to the Reichstadt. I reckon upon the
political wisdom and the loyal feelings of the Diet,
and I trust it will hasten to answer that appeal.
"I request you to give to the Diet the assurance,
reiterated and special, that nothing is more opposite
to the intentions of my Government than the idea
of infringing the constitutional autonomy of that
kingdom ; that, on the coutiary, my wish is that
that autonomy shall be extended when the condi-
tions of security a ndpower of the monarchy will allow
it, and even that it shall besurrounded with new gua-
rantees by the durable consolidation of the consti-
tutional organisation of the monarchy, and by the
progressive development of liberal institutions.
" Ofen, April 3." " FRANCIS JOSEPH.