The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-26 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE PAPAL STATES.

ROME, Sept. 24.

Yesterday a grand banquet for 360 persons was
given by the officers of the Pontifical army to the
officers of the Roman Leg:on. The French gene-
rals were present during the banquet. M. de Sar-
tiges, the French Ambassador, the Duke de Monte-
bello, and Colonel d'Arey, drank toasts to the health
of the Pope and the Emperor.
To-day his Holiness gave his benediction to the
Roman Legion, which defiled before him.

ITALY.
FLORENCE, Sept. 25.
The Empress of Mexico has passed Bologna on

her way to Rome.

TRAPANJA, Sept. 25.

News received here from Palermo states that the
normal state of things in that city is completely

restored.

AUSTRIA,

VIENNA, Sept. 26.

Baron Bannigarten has been released of his func-
tions as Governor of Galicia, and has been replaced
by Count Cypluchowski. Baron Bannigarten has
received the Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold.
Count Rothkirch-Pruten has been appointed Go-
vernor of Bohemia.

Vice-Admiral Tegetthoff has been removed from
the command of the fleet in order that he may enter
upon new duties. Ho is replaced by Herr von
Pokerhy. Her von Wiplinger has been appointed
President of the Marine Department of the War
Ministry.

FRANCE.

PARIS, Sept. 26.

Yesterday the rivers Allier, Loire, and Youne
and other streams continued to rise. The waters
of the Lot and Dordogne appear to be de-

creasing.

The river Are, in Savoy, has overflowed its
banks.

The telegraphic communication between the
centre and south of France is difficult.

BO URSE, Sept. 25.—Two o'clock.—Abetter feeling
is prevalent to-day without there being any very
apparent cause unless it be the natural reaction to
the continued state of depression in which the mar-
ket has lately been plunged. Nearly all securities
show an upward movement, though not in most
cases to any very great extent, the principal varia-
tion being in Italian Fives, which were done at 57f.
20c., or an advance of 60c. ; French Threes at 69f.
40c., a rise of 20c. ; Mobilier, 670 f., or a 3f. 75c.
higher ; Credit Foncier at 1,377 f. 50c., or an im-
provement of 50f. ; Comptoir d'Escompte at 910 f.,
or a rise of 2f. 50c. ; Paris Gas unchanged at
1,620 f. Railway shares have been firmer.

Three o'clock.—No change of any moment has
occurred, the closing prices being as follows:

41 per Cents —
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. —
Do. end month 69 40
Czedialobilier
De. end month
Credit Foncier —
Do. end month 1375 -
RAIL

Bank Shares..,

Italian Loar. —
Do. end mouth 67 15
Mexican Loan —

Do. Bonds —
Span's i r_e_ti-ees
Home Debt
Do:erred -
'AYB.

For Account.
Orleans BBB 75
Nor horn. 1172 75
Lyons and Mediterranean OO5
Southern.. 572 50
Western 570
Eastern 545
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 416 25
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Bracelona
Roman

155 -

THE PRUSSIAN CHAMBERS.

BERLIN, Sept. 25, Evening.
To-day in the full sitting of the Chamber of De-
puties the debate on the Loan BPI was resumed.
The Minister of Finance made a speech regretting
the harsh interpretation put upon the Bill in Com-
mittee. He said :

"'The position of Prussia is not yet decided,
peace has not yet been concluded with Saxony, and
the relations of the North German Confederation
to Southern Germany are not regulated. Prussia
must defend what she has acqu'red, and must always
be able to take up arms for that purpose. In such a
position the unforeseen often plays the most im-
portant part.

" The financial question is the chief point, and if
the right moment be allowed to pass the accom-
plishment of Prussia's arms may be deferred for
years, and her very existence again endangered.
Money must be at the disposal of the Government.
We must have our hands on our swords and our
purses well filled 1"

The Minister of Finance eventually agreed, on
the part of the Government, to all the amendments
authorising a maximum loan of 40 millions or 30
million thalers, in place of the GO millions which
had bc3n demanded.

Herr Virchow opposed the proposals of Herr
von Twesten, and defended the amendment brought
forward by himself.

Count Bismark then made a speech, in which he
urged the House to consider the bill from a political
point of view, and pince the Government in a posi-
tion to defend what had been gained. Official
communications proved that the spirit of concilia-
tion had not entered the Imperial Court with the
conclusion of peace. Moreover, the Eastern ques-
tion might lead to serious European difficulties, and
in time of danger, with the money market hi an
unfavourable condition, the Government would not
be able to raise a loan. Should no circumstances
arise, no money would be expended by the Govern-
ment without the approval of the House. What
had been withdrawn from the State Treasury last
spring must be replaced. Count Bismark concluded
by appealing to the House to trust the Govern-
ment. He then signified that the Al inistry accepted
the amendment proposed by Herr Michaell'i!, and on
the decisive div:sion the bill, with that deputy's
amendment, was passed by a large majority.

Yesterday the Liverrool magistrates fined a man
named Greenstock .£5O for acting as an emigration agont
without a licence.

SOMETHING LIKE A PRESENTIMENT.—A young
lawyer, who had chambers in the Temple, had a
nodding acquaintance with an old gentleman on the same
staircase. The old man was a wealthy old bachelor, and
had a place in the country, to which he went for a week
every Easter. His servants had charge of the place while
he was away—an old married couple who had lived with
him for twenty-seven years, and were types of the fine old
English domestic. One Easter Tuesday the young lawyer
was astonished to find the old gentleman on his Temple
staircase, and made some remark about it. The old man
asked him into his room, and said he had received a fear-
ful shock. He had gone down as usual to his country
place, and had been received with intense cordiality, had
found his dinner cooked to perfection, and everything as
it had been from the beginning. When the cloth was re-
moved his faithful butler put his bottle of port on the
table, and made the customary inquiry about master's
health, hoped master was not fatigued by the journey, had
enjoyed his cutlet, and so on. The old gentleman was left
alone, his hand was on the neck of the bottle of port, when
it suddenly flashed across his mind, " Here I am, a lonely
old man ; no one cares for me ; there is no one hear to help
me if anything should happen to me. What if my old ser-
vant and his wife have been cheating and robbing me all
the time ? What if they want to get rid of me, and have
poisoned this bottle of wine ?" The idea took hold of him
so strongly that he could not touch his port. When the
man came in again he said he did not feel well, would have
a cup of tea; no, he would have a glass of water and go
to bed. In the morning he rang his bell, and no one
answered. He got up, found his way downstairs ; the
house was empty, his two faithful old servants had
vanished. And when he came to look further he found
that his cellar, which ought to have contained two or three
thousand pounds worth of wine, was empty, and the bottle
they had brought hint last bight was poisoned.—Cornhill
Jia,lcainefa 9c(c.kr.