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

FRANCE.

PARIS, AUG. 10

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.

PARIS, 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 :
ti per Cents lOO
Do. end month —
3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 65
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Credit Foncier —
Do. end month 1385 --

Bank Shares 3340
Italian Loan 49 25
Do. end month 49 32'
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes -
Home Debt
Deferred
ILAILW &TS.

For Account.
Orleans
Northern ll6O
Lyons and Diediterrs.nefin .....
Southern 555
Westora 572 50
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 385
North of Spain —
Saragosa — -
Wallin.

THE BRAZILS.
Rio DE JANEIRO, July 23.
The financial measures proposed by the Govern-
ment passed the second reading in the Chamber of
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 h:s.ve
a large majority, but in, the Senate they are at the
mercy of their political adversaries, the ConserTa-
fives and the Radicals.
P, 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 of
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 Ilumaita, compelling the Paraguayans to
attend to that point. Others affirm that the ships
would pass llumaita, to protect a division of 5,000
men which march along the Chaco, cross the river
above llumaita, 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 PRISONEII.—One o:
the prisoners from the Winchester County Gaol, whoiae
name was Neale, was ou Thursday last engaged in spade
labour, under charge of a warder, outside the prison. It
happened that Mr. Coxwell'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 he had passed too. The shrewd follow had
taken the opportunity to escape, and has not since been
traced.
THE 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 Thers-
day by the hill of a flagstaff in front of the Royal Western
Yacht Club, returned a verdict of accidental death, coupled
with the obser ration that they considered that a flagstaff
Glit. long ought to have been stepped in the ground Eft.
and not ',in., ifl at 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 Mahon, 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 I.lolbeck, however, did not over-
flow on Friday, and the flat country of the Vale of Mow-
bray, cornfields and grass about Gilliug particularly, was
under water. The rainfall has been greatest on the
' eastern side of the Vale of York, and on the great North
of England line, in tho neighbourhood of Tollerton, the
fields were flooded and cattle were driver off. Rain fell
heavily CIA §iturchy•