The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-23 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Nov. 21 (Evening).
The general discussion on the Budget was closed

to-day.

The motion of Herr Lasker, censuring the Go-
♦ernment on account of the sale of the Cologne
Minden Railway without the sanction of the Cham-
bers, was agreed to by 126 to 122 votes.
The Minister of the Interior has introduced a bill
for the regulation of the Pruzso-Bavarian frontier.

SPAIN.

MADRID, Nov. 22, Evening.

The Queen of Spain has resolved to pay a visit to
the King of Portugal at Lisbon, at the commence-
ment of December next.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Nov. 22.—Two o'clock.—The market is
very firm, and French and Italian stock show a
considerable advance, but less business is doing in
Railway Shares, which are quoted with hardly any
variations. French Threes are doing at 69f. 80c.,
which is an advance of 27ic. Italian Fives have
reached 56fr. 55c., or 42ic. higher. Credit Mobilier
Shares have gained 2f. 50c., at 610 f., and Spanish
Mobilier 3f. 75c., at 325 f. Credit Foncier are un-
varied. There is a decline of * telegraphed on
English Consols.

Three o'Clock.—Quotations have slightly retro-
graded for the close, and leave off as follows :-
4} per Cents 97 50
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 69 80
Do. end month 69 77i
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Credit Foncier —
Do. end month 1382 50
RAIL

Bank Shares 3625

Italian Loan 56 40
Do. end month 56 40
Mexican Loan —
Do. Bonds —
Spanish Throes
Home Debt —
Deferred
'AYB.

For Account.
Orleans BBO
Northern llB5

Lyons and Mediterranean 913 75
Southern 583 75
Wootorm —

Eastern —
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 412 50
North of Spain —
S aragosr a 145
Ditto to Barcelona —
Roman.. 62 60

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 23.

The steamer Cambrian, with the Cape mails,
arrived here this morning. She left Natal on the
16th Oct., Cape Town the 20th, St. Helena the
29th, and Ascension the 2d November. She brings
60 passengers, including the Bishop of Zanzibar and
his suite, the Rev. Messrs. Baldwin, Jenkins, Mae-
namara, Lewis, and Edwards.

• Lady Wodehouse, the wife of his Excellency the
Governor-General, died at Cape Town on the
night of October 6, after several months' illness,
aged 48. Deceased was very generally beloved
by the colonial public, from her having shown
warm and constant interest in the affairs of the
colony. Her funeral was arranged as a private one,
but a large number of colonists attended to express
their sympathy. Over 50 private carriages formed
the funeral cortege. Both houses of. Parliament pre-
sented addresses of condolence. The business which
had been transacted in Parliament had been chiefly
of a routine character.

The Colonial Secretary made his annual budget
speech on the 25th September. A long discussion
followed, mainly upon the necessity of economising
the public expenditure. Ultimately the estimates
were referred to a select committee, whose report
has not yet been presented.

A bill authorising a loan of £360,000 has been
brought in, of which £120,000 is for the completion
of the line between Wellington and Tulbagh, Klotf,
and the rest for the Graham's Town Railway. An
active opposition was organised against the bill,
and the debate was adjourned until October 22.
Meanwhile the various Government measures bear-
ing upon finances made but little progress.
Two railway bills were before the House of
Assembly. The first repeals the acts of 1862, and
the second authorises the Government to raise
money by means of debentures.

Mr. Le Seur, Postmaster-General, had been sus-
pended, and another head of the Post-office ap-
pointed in his place temporarily. The late exten-
sive plunder in the Post- office is the cause, and it is
believed that his administration had been too
mild, but there was no imputation on his per-
sonal honour as a gentleman or his integrity as an
official. Sweeping changes were to be immediately
made in the internal arrangements of the Post-
office.

A bill to discontinue payment of the salary of
£l,OOO per annum to the High Commissioner had
been carried through the House of Assembly, and
had passed the second reading in the Legislative
Council.

In the Free States the position of affairs remained
pacific. The Basutos appeared to be indisposed to
resume hostilities. Cattle stealing continued rife in
the frontier districts, although not quite so exten-
sively as during some recent periods. The white
inhabitants of the districts of King William's Town
and East London had suffered severely, and
failing to secure what they regarded as ade-
quate protection from the Government had
formed themselves into a mutual defence
association to punish the Kaffirs. Help
being at hand, his Excellency had interposed
and caused 13 members of the association to be
prosecuted, who were committed for trial. This

proceeding of the Government had caused great
excitement in the locality.

Her Majesty's ship Rapid Simon's Bay, Oct. 20.
for England.

The Cambrian experienced fine weather on her
voyage home. Business at Natal continued dull,
but the recent rains had caused the agriculturists to
consider their prospects more cheerful.

Mr. Blanely, a gentleman from Madeira, had
made a proposition to the Government of Natal to
import white (Portuguese) labourers from Rat
Island, at a much cheaper rate than that at which
coolies could be obtained.

Openir.g of the Hungarian Diet.--Imperia

Rescript.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)

PESTH, Nov. 19.
At the opening of the Hungarian Diet in this
capital to-day, the following Imperial Rescript was
read :
" We, Francis Joseph the First, by God's grace,
Emperor of Austria, Apostolic King of Hungary,
Bohemia, Galicia, Lodomeria, and Elyria, Archduke
of Austria, &c., send greeting and grace to the eccle-
siastical and temporal representatives of our faith-
ful kingdom of Hungary, and the parts therewith
connected, who are assembled in the Diet convoked
by us in our Royal free city of Pesth, Dec. 10,1865.
" Faithful Lieges,—With unshaken confidence in
heavenly Providence and in the faithful devotion of
our peoples we resume the thread of our negotiations
with the Diet, the startingpoint of which we pointed
out in our speech from the throne, and as whose
highly important and unalterable ultimate object
we consider the Constitutional settlement of the
bond connecting the various parts of the monarchy,
as well as the speedy restoration of the autonomous
rights of our beloved Kingdom of Hungary.
" The unfavourable turn of the war, which was
not to be effaced by the brilliant victories of our
Southern army and fleet, defeated those hopes, we
built upon the justice of our cause and the ready
heroism of our army, even notwithstanding the nume-
rical superiority of the Powers allied against us.
" In view of the severe decree of fate, which could
only be reshaped more favourably by the utmost
exertions of sacrifice and of the moral and material
strength of our peoples, we did not hesitate to re-
store to them, even on hard conditions, the blessings
of peace, the security of which we have always
reckoned among the deeply felt cares of our paternal
heart, and among our highest duties as a Sovereign.
" The momentous events of the past, coupled with
regard for the changes that have taken place in inter-
national relations, henceforth require, in an increased
and really unavoidable degree,that we should hasten,
to the extent of our power, the settlement of the pend-
ing internal affairs of our monarchy upon the basis
pointed out as essential to the sincere satisfaction. of
the constitutional rights and claims of our peoples.
" In our royal rescript of the 24th of June last we
have already recognised the ready activity with
which the estates and representatives of our beloved
Kingdom of Hungary, in Diet assembled, have as-
sociated themselves with our efforts, and have upon
their part also begun to contribute to the solution
of the common task.
" The more we were forced to lament that we
were compelled to prorogue the Hungarian Diet
just at the very time when, owing to the aforesaid
diligence of the same in the preliminary consulta-
tions of the Committee, a draught was obtained
respecting the starting point and ultimate
object of which—although it has not yet passed
through the legitimate stages of public debate and
consideration of the Diet—we did not even at that
time hesitate to express our recognition, for we feel
ourselves called upon, in the endeavour to reconcile
opposite demands, to turn our active attention to all
those points whose development is calculated
speedily to pave the way for a solution of the main
question founded upon rights and equity.
" We see with satisfaction in that draught the
lively sense of the connexion of our countries ex-

pressed, and the indispensable consideration stated
as guiding principle that the security of the Monar-
chy in its most important interest should be gua-
ranteed.

" In reply to the unhesitating frankness and tha t
confidence the Estates and representatives in Diet
assembled have expressed in their address to us, we
therefore wish them to feel assured in advance that
we recognise the subjects proposed in the draught of
the said sub-committee with reference to the debate
and treatment of common affairs, as a fitting point
of union for the establishment of the constitutional
compromise.

" In order still further to secure the rapid and
satisfactory success of the consultations in this re-
spect, we think it advisable to indicate those princi-
pal points with regard to which it appears requisite,
for the purpose of a suitable division of common
affairs, that. special attention be directed on the part
of the Estates and sepresentativea.
" What we must indispensably uphold is theunity
of the army, which, together with the unity in the
command, and in the internal organisation of its
parts, also undoubtedly dotnands unanimity of prin-
ciple in the arrangements for the time of service and
filling up the ranks.
" The future development of international traffic,
and the vital conditions of industry, require just as
indispensably that the Customs' tariff, and, as a
logical sequence, the indirect taxation exercising an
important influence upon industrial productions, to-
gether with the State monopoly system, should be
regulated upon an agreed and similar basis.
" Lastly, the State debts, and the innermost being
of the State credit, so intimately connected there-
with, require united treatment, if the interests of
the money market, which affect life in all parts of
the realm with equal vigour, are to be preserved
from dangerous oscillation.

" By the result of the negotiation with the Diet
carried on upon this foundation, we trust speedily
to be in a position to regard as in principle removed
the obstacles with respect to those guarantees for
the general State connection we are obliged, as the
immediate consequence of the Pragmatic Sanction,
to guard from every danger. We shall thus upon
our part be able to contribute toward the fulfilment

of the wishes conspicuously put forward in the ad-
dresses of the Estates and representatives, and by
the appointment of a responsible Ministry, as well
as the restoration of the,municipal self-administra-
tion, to do justice to the constitutional demands of

the people of our beloved Kingdom of Hungary.
" While we are resolved to introduce the respon-
sible system of government not only into Hungary,
but generally we reserve to ourselves to carry out
the detailed application and realisation of the prin-
ciples referring to common affairs, together with
the modification of those stipulations of the laws of
1848, respecting which we expressed our hesitation

in our Royal rescript of the 3d Al arch last, through
the responsible Ministers to be appointed by us and
in agreement with the Estates and representatives
in Diet assembled.

" We entertain the hope that the Estates and
representatives of our beloved Kingdom of Hungary
will receive the candid statement of these our pater-
nal intentions with unprejudiced feelings, and will
make the points of view dwelt upon by us the sub-

ject of earnest deliberation, suitable at the same
time to the requirements of the day, thereby upon

their part accelerating the fulfilment of our most

earnest wish—viz., the secure introduction of Con-

stitutional organisation into our collective realm.
" The country now stands upon the threshold of
the fulfilment of its wishes.
" The sentiments which induced us to place in its
hands the decision as to its own future to be arrived

at by a correct recognition of its interests are not
changed.
" We assuredly believe that the conscientious
co-operation of the goodwill of both parties will

succeed is imparting to that future a basis calcu-
lated to harmonise the venerable traditions of the

past with the demands of the present, and thereby
permanently to secure their renewed prosperity.
Given at our capital city of Vienna this 17th
November, 18(i6. 44 FRANCIS JOSEPH,

GEOLGE VON MAILATII,
" JOLIANII VON BARTos.'

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HER MAJESTY, &c•

WINDSOR CASTLE, Thursday.
The Queen drove out this morning, attended by
the Duchess of ROxburghe, and his Royal Highness
Prince Leopold went out walking.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, and
their Royal Highnesses Prince Albert Vict.m. and
Prince George, left the Castle this morning for
London, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Stonor and
General Kaollys. Her Royal Highness Princess
Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington and
the lion. Mortimer Sackville West, also went to
London.

Yesterday being the birthday of her Royal High-
ness the Crown Princess of Prussia (Princess Royal),
a party of children residing at the Castle and in the
neighbourhood were, by her Majesty's commands,
invited to a dance, which took place in the Red
Drawing-room.
Their Royal Highnesses the Princess of Wales'
the Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Louise, Prince
Leopold, and Princess Beatrice were present.
Refreshments were afterwards .served in the
White Drawing-room.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh went
out shooting, attended by Major-General Sir T. M.
Biddulph, Lord Alfred Paget, and Lieutenant Haig.
His Royal' Highness afterwards went to London,
attended by Lieutenant Haig.
The Lord Chancellor, the Duke and Duchess of
Roxburghe, and Lord. Stanley, arrived at the Cozad
yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the
Queen and the Royal Family.
The Lord Chancellor and Lord Stanley left the
Castle to-day.
The Hon. Caroline Cavendish and the Hon Flora
Macdonald have succeeded the Hon. Lucy Kerr and
the Hon. Mary Lascelles as Maids of Honour in
Waiting.

Ile Princess of Wales, with Prince Albert Victor
and Prince George, attended by the Hon. Alra°
Stonor and General Knollys, arrived at Marlbo-
rough House yesterday morning from Windsor
Castle.

THE MARRIAGE OF THE CZAREWITCIL
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov, 18.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and
the Crown Prince of Denmark, their Highnesses
Prince Herman of Saxe-Weimar and Prince Albert
of Saxe-Altenbourg, with a large number of their
suite, arrived at Moscow at half-past 12 on the 15th
inst. Major Teesdale, who is remarked as one of
the defenders of Kars, was one of the suite in at-
tendance on the Prince of Wales. The august tra-
vellers were received at the station of the Nicholas
Railway by Prince V. Dolgoro7ki, governor of MO
cow, several persons of note, all the authorities of
the town, and a large assemblage of citizens.
guard of honour, formed on the platform of the
station, received the foreign princes with militant
honours, while the band played the national airs
of England and Denmark. A second military band,
placed on a balcony opposite to the railway statial)
saluted the august foreigners' entry into the town
with the same airs.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Den-
mark occupied the apartments of his imperial
Highness the Czarewitch in the Kremlin ; his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, and their klighnesses
the Prince of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Altenbourg
were located in that part of the palace which ad-
joins the Ouroujeinaia Palata. Having rested from
their journey the august travellers visited the cathe.
dral of the &gumption and the other churches of
the Kremlin, the Grand Palace, the Terun, the
Granovitaia Palata, and the Ouroujeinala Palate,
and the arsenal, after which they drove through the
town, where they visited several shops and factories.
The governor-general of Moscow, Prince V. Delge-
rouki, and Prince N. Troubetskoi, the grand master
of the Court, were invited to dinner by the princes.
In the evening their royal highnesses and their
highnesses paid a visit to the. Grand Theatre, where
the entertainment consisted of two acts of the bal-
lets Giselle" and " Faust," and' one act of the opera
of " Roussalka." The hall was brilliantly lighted
up, and the company in the boxes were in fall
dress. The princes were accompanied by Princ©
V. Dolgorouki and Prince N. Troubetskoi.
After the second act the audience called for the
Russian National Anthem, and afterwards for the
English and Danish Anthems, both of which were
several times repeated ; this interruption to the
play was concluded by the Russian Anthem being
again performed. The Prince of Denmark and the
Prince of Wales replied to several calls by coining
to the front of their boxes to acknowledge the com-
pliment.

On the 16th the Governor-General of MOSCOTI
gave a dinner in honour of the august travellers'
after which the princes set out at 11 o'clock at night
on their return to St. Petersburg.
On the 12th and 13th instant the town of Wl°
was magnificently illuminated in honour of the in"
perial marriage. The theatres gave entertainments
for the two days at reduced prices. At these Per;
forwances the National Anthem was performed
several times amid enthusiastic cheers.
The town of Kiew was also brilliantly illuminated
for three days, and popular entertainments were
given in the theatre.

KELLY'S POST-OFFICE DIRECTORY rol‘

THE SIX HOME COUNIIEd.

The sixth edition of Kelly's Post-office Director!
for the six home counties, viz., Essex, HertS'
Middlesex, Kent, Surrey, and Sussex for the year
1867, has just made its appearance, and like ita
gigantic companion, the London Post-office Dired
tory,,it continues to increase its information so Ye?,
largely that three or four hundred additional
pages have been rendered necessary. The goodlZ
volume now contains no less than 2J2'
I pages, but the great value of the work dr
pends upon the fact that during the last slf
months it has been very carefully corrected, evert
parish having been visited by the agents °(
made
in publisher. Several additions have been madein the present new edition ; lists of Hundreds as
poor-law unions have been included in the t017,1‘
graphy of each county. The locality of each par'
is very fully described ; the post-office savis
banks and Government annuity offices are _
set down, and in addition to the list of Par°;
chial offices, clearly arranged under their respective
headings, a list of farm bailiffs of gentlemen farming'
their own land has been added. The new lines °a
railway have all been laid down on the maps MIT
to each of the six counties ; in fact, nothing uB,
been omitted in the compilation of the book, whiclat'
must have been a work of enormous labour. Fr° a
the references we have made haphazard, we cad
testify to the general correctness of the book, 3.13
the editor, Mr. E. It. Kelly, may, we think, 11th
perfect certainty, console himself with the satisf3es
tory assurance that his labours have resulted in
perfect and complete success. The book is an that
~,
can be desired, and therefore it deserves, apart fro'
its usefulness, the most extended circulation.

EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY.--It appears tha°
Mrs. Stodare, acting upon the advice ofurner°lls
friends of her late husband and of her own, has reoperate
the Temple of Mystery, so ably presided over by the 18bi
Colonel Stodare. A recent visit convinces U. that
entertainment is one that will not merely realise the e-
pectation of the public but the anticipation of the VI):
prietrix. ;The feats of artificial magic are ri:o
formed with grace and accuracy, and, Whit'
more surprising still, without confederate aid or the
paratus with which we are accustomed to see similar eXb..l l
bitions accompanied. The old maxim that the public `
ii
willing to be deceived as well as to deceive is appare e,:
ut_
one on which Colonel Stodare fixed his faith. That th
is hero a great pleasure in being cheated, sv.ta
admit. We miss the ventriloquial part of
eated .
entertainment ; but, however, this is comPeno,
for by the attention being, with little interruption,
centrated for two hours by the wonderful dexterity
es
bited in legerdemain. The optical illusion of the 5P11113.0
itself amply repays a visit, and the Marvel of Mecca, les
which Madame Stodaro appears floating like Mallol3l°
r'.
coffin in mid-air, is really a truly wonderful and re
ably ably clever illusion.

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