The Sun. — 1866-09-19 (London, England)

FRANCE.  The Council of State met last night under the  Presidency of his Majesty the Emperor. It is reported that it was decided that the general elections should be adjourned for one month as now levies are being made, and recruiting is prohibited by law within GO days of the elections. The Chambers will also probably be prorogued till the financial and banking law now under discussion in the Senate, and which will most likely pass the third reading to-day, is adopted by by both Chambers. On Mondayan elderly man, apparently between GO and 70, threw himself from the column of the Bastille, and falling on the tarpaulin stretched at the basement of the column to protect the workmen employed in repairs rolled thence to the ground, without receiving any apparent injury. He instantly scrambled on his legs, picked up his cap, and was deliberately walking off, when the guardians politely requested him to accompany them to a neighbouring guard house, to give an account of his sensations de voyage. Two brothers, named Gamonel, were tried at Pr ivas a few days ago for attempting to murder a man named Riffard under peculiar circumstances. Riffard had accidentally killed their father whilst he was plundering an orchard, and the filial sentiments of the brothers impelled them to take vengeance on him. They shot him with a pistol, but the wound did not prove fatal. The court acquitted the younger brother, but sentenced the elder to two years' imprisonment.  A melancholy incident occurred the evening before last during the performance at the Opera-Comique. A lady, the wife of a merchant in the Rue de Clery, was seated in one of the upper boxes, when she was suddenly taken ill, and although taken to the corridor and seated at an open window in the hope that the fresh air might revive her, she presently became quite insensible and expired about an hour after. The cause of her death is supposed to been been an aneurism. The deceased lady had not complained of any indisposition during the day. A lad aged 13 was killed yesterday by falling from the scaffolding of a house in course of construction near the Champ de Mars. BOURSE, Sept. 18.—Two o'clock.—The market has fallen back into the inanimate state which has been the prevailing characteristic lately, now that the half-monthly liquidation has been completed. But although little business is being transacted Securities remain firm, and prices are quoted at an advance. French Threes were done at 69f. 40c., or 17ic. higher; Italian Fives at 57f. 80c., or a rise of 55c. ; Mobilier at 680 f., or an improvement of 3f. 75c. ; Credit Foncier at 1,370 f., or 2f. 50c. higher ; Comptoir d'Escompte at 920 f., or a fall of sf. Railway shares show an upward movement. Three o'clock.—Hardly any change has occurred, the closing prices being as follows:  41 per Cents 96 75 Do. end month —  Bank Shares 3510 Italian Loan • Do. end month 57 50 Mexican Loan 57 80  3 per Cents. 69 371 Do. end month 69 3o Credit Mobilier Do. end month  Do. Bonds — Spanish Threes Horne Debt Deferred 'AYE!.  Credit Fonder - Do. end month 1375  Orleans For Account. 75 Northern ' Lyons and Mediterranean 9OO Southern 570 Western 570 Eastern 543 75 Sardinian Austrian Lombard 420 North of Spain — Saragossa 147 50 Ditto to Barcelona — Roman —