The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-20 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Aug. 19, Two o'clock.—The market is
somewhat weaker, and most stocks and shares aro
quoted with a decline. Threes are at 69f. 55c., or
15c. lower. Italian Fives, also lose 15c., at 49f.
15c. Credit Mobilier lose 3f. 75c., at 322 f. 50c. ;
and Credit Foncier 10f., at 1,375 f. Paris Gas
shares have fallen 7f. 50c., at 1,575 f. Railway
shares aro likewise quoted at lower rates than on
Saturday.

Three o'clock.—The for

lowing were the last quo-

tations :-
4i per Cents lOO
Do. end month

Bank Shares 3340
Italian Loan 49 15

3 per Cents. 69 65
Do. end month 69 60
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Credit Foncier —

Do. end month 49 20
Mexican Loan l3 50
Do. Bonds llO
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —

Do. end month 1378 75

Deferred

For Account.
893 75

Orleans

Northern 1155

Lyons and Mediterranean 892 50
Southern 555 75

Western —
Eastern 543 75
Sardinian —

Austrian
- - -

Lombard 385

North of Spain 75
Saragosea 9O --
Roman. 65

7HE EMPRESS CHARLOTTE.

VIENNA, Aug. 16.
The Presse publishes the following particulars
the malady of the Empress Charlotte :
" The event is now known which ended by dis•
ordering the fine mind of the Empress Charlotte o
Mexico. When the Empress was taken from Rome
to Miramar, on the 10th October, 1866, it was im-
possible to question the derangement of her intel-
lectual faculties. This state of mind first led to a
crowding of chimerical ideas in the mind of the
august Princess, which were gradually eclipsed by
fears of persecution and poison. During the first
weeks of her stay at Miramar these fixed ideas were
so intense that the unfortunate Empress was incap-
able of banishing them. Her terror was so great as
even to paralyse her sense of sight and of smell,
this state of things often sufficing to bring about the
most appalling illusions.
"It was then it was found necessary to remove
the sufferer from the Castle of Miramar to the iso-
lated pavilion in which she continued to reside till
her departure. The Empress Charlotte constantly
experienced a sort of moral oppression ; but the
causes she assigned for this state of mind only proved
too clearly how great was the power that enthralled
her reason. Her physicians did not neglect to
examine her physical state. But all the methods of
which science can dispose, such as percussion, am-
cultation, and palpation, only served to confirm the
belief that her case was that of a diseased mind in a
healthy body. The nervous system even was not
at all attacked, except by the excitement—a natural
consequence upon her moral condition. Dr. Riedel,
director of the hospital of Vienna, Dr. Ilek, chief phy-
sician of the Imperial Marine, and Dr. Machick had
the satisfaction of seeing their diagnosestic fully
confirmed, when in the month of June last Professor
Duchek was consulted at their request. Everything
tends to show that the malady of the brain had de-
veloped itself without being provoked or favoured
by any abnormal condition of the other organs.
Only by this fact the effort of science was rather
obstructed than favoured, for with the exception of
physical symptoms no signs of congestion, hyperee-
mia, or inflammation of the brain could be observed.
So long as the other organs were found to be in their
normal condition, it.was impossible to discover any
rational clue on which to base a methodical treat-
ment which, moreover, could not but have bad the
precise effect of considerably deteriorating the Em-
press's mental condition. For in every dish, in
every drink offered to her even by her most faithful
attendants, she suspected the presence of some deadly
poison. Her conviction was so deep on this point
that at first she scarcely took anything but fruit.
The administration of the smallest medicament must
have increased this apprehension ; how much more
therefore was to be feared from forcing medicines
upon her. This is why her physician had recourse
to tepid baths, leaving everything else to the in-
fluences which were being brought to bear upon her
mind and to psychological treatment.
"The most delicate attentions were above all
things necessary a order to destroy every influence
likely to increase the mental malady, develops fixed
ideas, or produce irritation of the brain. Those
around the Empress had to appear quite unim-
pressed with the illusions to which she was subject ;
and, on the contrary, to seek by a rational division
of unexciting occupations to dispel every gloomy
thought. But it may be understood how limited
were the means at the disposal of the physicians to
attain this end.
" The desire to avoid these sad hallucinations and
nocturnal visions rendered all intercourse between
the patient and the outside world impracticable. An
attempt was made, but in vain, to induce the Em-
press to consent to the visit of hey august parents,
who had come to Miramar to see her. She also re-
fused to admit a lady to keep her company, and de-
clined to make excursions or take walks.
" Although the latter did not extend beyond the
garden enclosure, even most persons perfectly well
known to the Empress caused her apprehension, and
exercised a pernicious influence upon her condition.
" One thought only predominat9d in the mind of
the Princess on leaving Mexico. She had promised
the Emperor, her husband, that in case her political
mission to Europe should not succeed, she would
remain at Miramar until the Emperor, who then
little imagined the fate that awaited him, should re-
join her. It was then the predominating thought
of the Empress, and as she had been day by day so
cruelly disappointed since, she looked on every
human being as a political adversary and would see
no one. During this period of her stay at Miramar
it was tried to divert her thoughts by society, but
these efforts were in vain.
" Notwithstanding this a faint hope seemed to
pierce the veil which enveloped her mind. The
symptoms of improvement which first showed
themselves in her bodily condition date from the
month of January last. Her appetite became better
at dinner, her Majesty rarely leaving her plate un-
touched. She also began to drink less rarely. Her
sleep was calm, and lasted sometimes for nine hours
at a time.
" During the day she occupied herself regularly
with reading, painting, embroidPring, and music,
and in the morning and afternoon she went out
walking. In this manner the earlier excitement
ended by gradually giving place to a condition
having at least in appearance nothing whatever of
an abnormal character.
"In conversation her rare mental endowments
manifested themselves with a real charm, her me-
mory no longer failed her in making any quotation,
except when recalling
an event of the past or pre-
sent. Outside the circle of her fixed ideas she
showed a sure and dear judgment ; her letters, of
which she wrote many, could not be distinguished
from those of her better days, neither in style nor
in the order of ideas. Her disposition had no ten-
dency whatever to melancholy ; on the contrary, it
was not rare that a smile played upon her fine and
noble features.
" But however satisfactory these symptom might