The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-20 00:00:00

LA TEST INTEL LIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AUSTRIA.

PESTH, FEB. 20.

The deputation of the Croatian Diet commissioned
to present to the Emperor an address in reference
to the union of Hungary and Croatia is expected
here to-day. The deputation will be received by
the Emperor the day after to-morrow in the Castle
of Buda.

FRANCE.
PARIS, FEB. 20.
The Minister of Agriculture has sent M. Delpech,
professor of medicine; M. Raynal, veterinarian ;
and M. Alfort, to Germany, to examine and report
upon the trichinae disease prevalent in pork.

ADDRESS OF THE CORPS LEGISLATIF.
PARIS, Feb. 19.

In to-day's sitting of the Corps Legislatif the
following draft of the address, in reply to the speech
from the throne, was read by the President Count
Walewski

" Sire,—The Corps Legislatif is happy to con-
firm with your Majesty the more general tendency
to settle foreign difficulties in a peaceful way.
Strengthened by your interviews with various
sovereigns, and by the amicable meeting of the
English and French fleets, this tendency is a fresh
pledge of that peace whose preservation responds
to the necessities of the people, grants the desire of
France, and does honour to the wisdom of her
Government.

" We have always shared with the Emperor the
firm hope of seeing a reconciliation effected between
the Papacy and Italy, necessary to their interests,
to 'the peace of Europe, and to the tranquillity of
consciences. The convention of the 15th Sept ,
loyally carried out, will afford a new guarantee of
the temporal sovereignty—(very good, very good.)
—whose maintenance is indispensable to the inde-
pendent exercise of the spiritual power of the Holy
Father. (Renewed approval.)
" The country has received with satisfaction
the assurance that our expedition to Mexico ap-
proaches its close. Led to Mexico by the imperious
duty of protecting our fellow-subjects against hate-
ful violence, and of seeking the redress of injuries
only too real, our soldiers and sailors have worthily
fulfilled the task your Majesty entrusted to their
devotion. This expedition has once more testified
in these distant countries to the disinterestedness
and powcr of France. (Very good, very good.)
The people of the United States, so long acquainted
with the loyalty of our policy, ought not to take
umbrage at the presence of our troops upon
Mexican soil. To desire to subordinate their
recall to other convenience than ours would
be to make an attack upon our rights
and our honour. (Approbation.) These,
Sire, are in your keeping, and the Corps Legislatif
knows that you will watch over them with a solici-
tude worthy of Francq and of your own name.
" Tranquillity at home has enabled you to visit
Algeria—whose wants cannot be too maturely
studied—and to give it a new proof of your sympa-
thies. Your absence afforded the Empress an op-
portunity of exercising those rare and noble quali-
ties that add to the brilliancy of the throne and to
the security of the country. (Renewed approval.)

" In the midst of this calm millions of electors
proceeded with the fullest liberty to the renewal of
the municipal councils. This vast movement of
public opinion testified to the spirit of order reign-
ing among the population, and your Government
has only had to make exceptional use of the neces-
sary and conservative right secured to it by the
constitution. (Very good, very good !)
" The law upon coalitions, the bill relating to
co-operative societies, and the facilities announced
to promote their development, open an experimental
era worthy of our common solicitude. The assis-
tance of the Corps Legislatif will never be wanting,
Sire, when you may have to reconcile measures
suggested by the interest of the working classes with
the necessities of public order.
" The inquiry destined to confirm and throw
light upon the wants and wishes of agriculture will
be received in the rural districts as among ourselves,
with a sentiment of the most lively gratitude. We
are certain of responding to your Majesty's inten-
tions, by expressing the hope that this inquiry will
be carried out in All the departments in a manner
permitting the various interests to display themselves
with the fullest liberty. The agricultural popula-
tion, so laborious, so unassuming, and so profoundly
devoted to the Empire, will lay before you, Sire,
with confidence, the sufferings they experience and
the relief they hope. (Approval.)
"We congratulate ourselves with your Majesty
upon the improvement in our finances, and we shall
examine the Bill relating to the Sinking Fund
with the attention so important a subject com-
mands.

" The savings effected in the public service re-
spond to a wish frequently expressed by the Corps
Legislatif, but at the same time, as guardian of the
interests of the army, the Emperor has been obliged
to take them into consideration, in order not to
weaken our military organisation, and to discharge
the debt contracted by the country towards those
by whom it has been valiantly served.
" These savings have rightly left untouched the
resources devoted to public works. Agriculture,
commerce, and manufactures attach the greatest
value to the extension and perfection of all the ways
of communication.

" Education also ought to preserve intact the
credits devoted to it. Primary instruction has not
ceased to make praiseworthy and constant pro-
gress, thanks to the active and simultaneous efforts
of the state, the communes, and the families. By
more and more supporting this triple alliance we
shall succeed in realising the wish common to your
Majesty and to the Corps Legislatif, and in daily
reducing the already limited number of children
deprived of the benefit of education.
" Peace abroad, order and activity at home,
attest at once the salutary initiative of your Go-
vernment, and the confidence of the country in
the stability of our institutions, whose founda-
tions rest upon the free and solemn vote
of the French people. This stability is
by no means irrecoucileable with the wise pro-
gress of our liberties. You have already proved
this, Sire ; and the past answers for the future.
To develop institutions, to secure labour and credit,
to strengthen public morality, to consolidate re-
ligious principles, without which the best laws
remain inoperative—this is the fruitful work with
which your Majesty associates the great powers of
the State, and which draws closer and closer the
ties uniting France to your person and your
dynasty." (Loud applause.)

'BOURSE, Feb. 19, Two o'clock.—The Bourse is
thinly attended to-day, and there is very little busi-
ness doing. Quotations, however, show little or no
variation. Threes, for the Account, are unchanged
at 69f. 15c. Italian Fives are quoted at 60f. 90c.,
or Tic. lower. Credit Mobiller Shares are if. 25c.
lower—at 673 f. 75c. In the Railway Market Aus-
trian Shares lose sf.—to 401 f. 25c., and Lombards
3f. 75c.—to 397 f. 50c. Three o'clock.--The mar-
ket has closed on the following quotations :

41 per Cents 9B 95 Roman 69
Do. end month — Ottoman Fives 3B 75
3 per Cents. 69 10 Mexican Loan 47
Do. end month 69 1`.41 Do. Bonds 3OO
....

Credit Mobilier ... 672 5r.1 Russian
Do. end month ... 671 25 Austrian

Bank Shares 3690 Spanish Threes ...
Credit Foncier 1327 50 Home Debt —
Italian Loan 6O 80 Deferred

Do. end month 6O 90

Orleans ~

Northern .

Lyons and Mediterranean,

Southern
Western
Eastern
•
Sardinian .
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman