The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, -AUGUST 10, 1866.

solution to the question of frontier limitation. It
was believed at Vienna that Austria must give up
the Trentin, which is the last footing of Austria in
Italy, and which would be an incessant source of
conflict.

The fair of Beaucaire, which is generally an im-
portant one, is just finished, and the business has
been very flat, much below the usual average. The
languid state of commerce, in spite of the prelimi-
naries of peace affected it very much. The chief
diminution in business was in drapery and in wool-
lens. There was some activity in the tanning trade
and also in Indian cottons, which fetched a high
price. In flannels, nothing whatever was done
The warm weather has returned, but then is still
a great deal of rain, Some fear is expressed that
the quantity of wet will injure the grapes.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AUSTRIA AND ITALY.

FLORENCE, Aug. 10.

The _ltalie of to-day says :—The Italian forces
which had advanced as far as Pergine and the walls
of Riva, are compelled for strategical reasons to
concentrate in the rear.

" The diplomatic question relative to the district
of Trent must not be confounded with the strate-
gical question. The necessity for concentrating the
troops way cause the evacuation of certain portions
of territory
iedbythe Italians without its re-
sulting
that o h
territories are not to be claimed
s occupied
in the ncgociations for peace."

The Actzione of to-day says :—The mediation of
France not having succeeded in obtaining the
acceptance by Austria of the conditions of the uti
possidetis formally agreed upon with Italy. France
left Italy to consult her own interests. A formidable
concentration of Austrian troops ready to take the
offensive, on the district of Trent and Isonzo, de-
termined the chiefs of the Italian army to place
their forces in a better position for defence.
The military conditions for the discussion of an
armistice being thus changed, there would hence-
forth be no reasons to refuse the armistice, which
has become necessary for European reasons. We
conclude, therefore, that an armistice will shortly
be agreed upon.

RAGUSA, August 9.

In consequence of the refusal of the Porte to
satisfy the demands of the Christians in Candia the
latter have risen in insurrection.

SPAIN.
MADRID, August 9 (Evening).

The Queen of Spain arrived to-day at Zaranz.
Enthusiastic popular demonstrations were made in
honour of her Majesty during the journey from San
Ildefonso.

PRANCE.

:NIPORTANT DEMAND OF THE FRENCH

GOVERNMENT.

PARIs, Thursday.

The French Cabinet has addressed a note to the
Prussian Government, pointing out that the great
changes in the political organisation of Germany
render it necessary that the French frontier should
be rectified by a cession of territory to France.
The French Cabinet made yesterday a further com-
munication to the Cabinet of Berlin, demanding
the restoration of the French frontier as it existed
in 1814.

PARIS, August 10.

The Steele of to-day says :—" France, in view of
the considerable aggrandisement of Prussia, is said
to have opened negociations with the Berlin Cabinet
relative to the Rhine frontier. Prussia has not yet
thought fit to entertain the French propositions."
The Illoniteur of this morning says :—" The re-
turn of the Emperor from Vichy has received
several erroneous interpretations. By the advice of
the doctors his Majesty gave up the course of treat-
ment which he was following at Vichy. The Em-
peror is much better in health since his arrival at
St. Cloud."

Pants,opened
august 9.—Two o'clock.—The market
and alttough very little business was
feebly,
transacted prices were quoted at a slight improve-
men t. French Threes were dope at 69fr. or an
improvement of 221 c. Italian Fives at 51f. 55c.,
or 35c. higher. Mobilier 654 f., or a rise of sf.
Credit Foncier 1,300 f., also a rise of sf. Comptoir
d'Escompte unvaried at 865 fr. Scarcely any change
has occurred in the Railway Market.

Three o'clock.—The nrket was firm at the close,
with an improvement in almost all securities :

per Centsa. 97 50
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 69 25
Do. end month 69 25
Credit Mobilier 651 25
Do. end month 651 25
Credit Foneier 1300
Do. end month 1300

Bank Shares 3550
Italian Loan 5l 20
Do. end month 52 20
Mexican Loan 29
Do. Bonds 177 50
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred

It/iILWAYB.

For Account.

Orleans ................................... 875
Northern ....... , .................. . ...... 1135
Lyons and INlediterranean ........... 878 75
_ .

Southern ................................. 530
Western .................................. 565
Eastern ........... 535
Sardinian ................................ 80
Austrian ......•
Lombard....... 385
North of Spain lO2 50
Saragossa .............................. 122 50
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman -

PROROGATION

PARLIAMENT.

THIS DAY.

HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH.

Parliament was prorogued this day by Commis-
sion. The Lord Chancellor read her Majesty's
Speech as follows

My Lords and Gentlemen,
We are commanded by her Majesty, in releasing you
from the labours of a protracted session, to convey to you
her Majesty's acknowledgments for the zeal and assiduity
with which you have applied yourselves to your Parlia-
mentary duties.
Her Majesty has much satisfaction in informing you that
her relations with all foreign Powers are on the most
friendly footing.

Her Majesty has watched with anxious interest the pro-
gress of the war which has recently convulsed a great por-
tion of the Continent of Europe. Her Majesty cannot
hare been an indifferent spectator of events which have
seriously affected the positions of sovereigns and princes
with whom her Majesty is connected by the closest ties of
relationship and friendship ; but her Majesty has not
deemed it expedient to take part in a contest in which
neither the honour of the Crown nor the interest of her
people demanded any active intervention on her part. Her
Majesty can only express an earnest hope that the nego-
tiations now in progress between the belligerent Powers
may lead to such an arrangement as may lay the founda-
tion of a secure and lasting peace.
A wide-spread treasonable conspiracy, having for its ob-
jects the subversion of her Majesty's authority in Ireland,
the confiscation of property, and the establishment of a
Republic, having its seat in Ireland, but deriving its prin-
cipal support from naturalised citizens of a foreign and
friendly State, compelled her Majesty at the commence-
ment of the present session to assent to a measure, recom-
mended by her representative in Ireland, for the tempo-
rary suspension in that part of her Majesty's dominions of
the Habeas Corpus Act. That measure, firmly but tem-
perately acted on by the Irish Executive, had the effect of
repressing any outward manifestations of treasonable in-
tentions, and of causing the withdrawal from Ireland of
the greater portion of those foreign agents by whom the
conspiracy was mainly fostered.
The leaders, however, of this movement were not de-

,eired from progecuting their criminal designs beyond the
imits of her Majesty's dominions. They even attempted

from the territories of the United States of America an in-
road upon the peaceful subjects of her Majesty in her North
American Provinces. That attempted inroad, however,
only served to manifest in the strongest manner the loyalty
and devotion of her Majesty's subjects in those Provinces,
who, without exception of creed or origin, united in de-
fence of their Sovereign and their country. It served also
to show the good faith and scrupulous attention to inter-
national rights displayed •by the Government of the
United States, whose active interference, by checking
any attempted invasion of a friendly State, mainly con-
tributed to protect her Majesty's dominions against the
evils of a predatory' inroad.
Her Majesty would have been rejoiced at the close of

the present session to be enabled to put an end to the
exceptional legislation which she was compelled to sanc-
tion at its commencement ; but the protection which her
Majesty owes to her loyal subjects leaves her no alterna-
tive but that of assenting to the advice of her Parliament

to continue till their next meeting the provisions of the
existing law. Her Majesty anxiously looks forward to the
time when she may be enabled to revert to tho ordinary
provisions of the law.
GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,

Her Majesty commands us to thank you for the liberal
provision which you have made for the public service,
and for the naval and military defences of the country.
MY LORDS AUND GENTLEMEN,

Her Majesty has seen with great concern the monetary
pressure which, for a period of unprecedented duration
has weighed upon the interests of the country. The con-
sequent embarrassment appeared at one moment to be
aggravated by so general a feeling of distrust and of alarm
that her Majesty, in order to restore confidence, authorised
her Ministers to recommend to the Directors of the Bank
of England a course of proceeding suited to the emer-
gency. . . .

This, though justifiable under the circumstances, might
have led to an infringement of the law, but Her Majesty
has the satisfaction of being able to inform you that no
such infringement has taken place, and that, although the
monetary pressure is not yet sensibly mitigated, alarm is
subsiding, and the state of trade being sound, and the
con dition of the people generally prosperous, Her Majesty
entertains a sanguine hope that confidence will soon be
restored.

Her Majesty has observed with satisfaction, and will

deep gratitude to Almighty God thathe has so far favoured
the measures which have been adopted for staying the
fearful pestilence which has visited our herds and flocks,
that its destructive effects have been in a great measure

checked, and that there is reason to hope for its entire ex-
tinction at no distant period. In the meantime her Ma-
jesty has given her willing assent to a measure which has
been introduced for the relief of those districts which have
suffered the most severely from its visitation.
Her Majesty regrets that this country has at length been
subjected to the fearful visitation of cholera which has
prevailed in other European countries, but from which it
has hitherto been happily exempt. Her Majesty has directed
that a form of prayer to Almighty God, suitable to the
present exigency, should be offered up in all the churches
of this realm ; and her Majesty has given her cordial ap-
proval to legislative measures sanctioning the adoption, by
local authorities, of such steps as science and experience

have shown to be most effectual for the check of this fear-
ful malady.
Her Majesty hopes that those in whose hands so large
and beneficial an authority is left will not be slow to exe-
cute the powers entrusted to them, and that they will be
seconded in their endeavours by all who have at heart the
safety and well-being of her people. In connection with
this subject her Majesty hopes that a bill, to which she has
given her ready assent, for improving the navigation of the
River Thames, may incidentally be conducive to the public
health.

Her Majesty has great satisfaction in congratulat-
ing the country, and the world at large on the suc-
cessful accomplishment of the great design of connect-
ing Europe and America by the means of an electric tele-
graph. It is hardly possible to anticipate the full extent
of the benefits which may be conferred on the human race
by this signal triumph of scientific enterprise, and her Ma-
jesty has pleasure in expressing her deep sense of what is
due to the private energy which, 'in spite of repeated
failure and discouragement, has at length; for the
second time, succeeded in establishing direct com-
munication between the two Continents. Her Ma-
jesty trusts that no impediment may occur to inter-
rupt the success of this great undertaking, calculated; as it
undoubtedly is, to cement yet closer the ties which bind
her Majesty's North American colonies to their mother
country, and to promote the unrestricted intercourse and
friendly feeling which it is most desirable should subsist
between her Majesty's dominions and the great Republic
of the United States.

Her Majesty is aware that, in returning to your respec-
tive homes, many of you have duties to perform hardly
less important than those which belong to you in your
legislative capacity. Her Majesty places full reliance on
the loyalty and devotion with which you will discharge
those duties ; and her Majesty earnestly prays that your
influence and efforts may, under the blessing of Divine
Providence, tend to the general welfare, prosperity, and
contentment of her people.

THE BELGR Braddon's new Maga-
zine will, I am informed on the best possible autho-
rity, make its appearance under the most favourable
auspices in October. It will be illustrated in a superior
style, and will aim to be of the highest character as re-
gards the matter and the manner of its articles. It will be
written in good English, and in its pages papers of sterling
merit will only appear. Amongst the writers already era-
gaged on it I may mention the author of "It is Never too
Late to Mend;" Mr. Winwood Reads, who is preparing an
article on African discovery, a subject of great interest at
this time, and onwhich he is well qualified to write; Walter
Thornbury, Percy Fitzgerald, R. W. Buchanan, the
poet, Mortimer Collins, probably Anthony Trollope, or
Whyte Melville ; and last, but not least, must be mentioned
the name of George Augusta Sala, who will resume
those admirable articles on the Streets of the
World, which were such an attractive feature
in Temple Bar. The tale which will, to the
majority, however, form the main attraction of the new
literary venture, will be called "Birds of Prey," And was
announced, as perhaps some of your readers may remember,
as about to make it appearance in the January number of
Temple Bar. Miss Braddon, however, has thought better
of it, and has reserved it, as she had a perfect right to do,
for what will be particularly her own magazine. I have
already told you that the title of this new candidate for
public favour will be Belgravia ; and if it only sells as Miss
Braddon's tales sell, it must be an immense success. The
gifted authoress, for suzh undoubtedly she is, is certainly
one of the most remarkable women of the day, affecting
none of the eccentricities of genius. George Sala is so
near-sighted that when engaged in writing he places the
paper on a chair, and kneels down as if about to perform an
act of devotion. Miss Braddon, when similarly engaged,
seats herself on a low chair, puts a quire of paper on a
music-book, holds her ink-bottle in her left hand, and
writes away by the hour, and writes not in vain, as pub-
lishers and readers know well.—lpswich Express.

EXCHANGE OF AUSTRIAN AND ITALIAN PRISONERS.
—Negotiations are being carried on between the Austrian
and Italian camps for an exchange of prisoners. The
number on either side is calculated to be about equal.