LONDON.

Southland Times, Issue 563, 18 September 1866, Page 2

LONDON.

__U.gU.~- _f. The truce between Italy and Austria has been prolonged for eight days, pending Austria's reply. Mr Gladstone's Church Bate Abolition Bill has been read a" second time. Cotton market quiet. August 3. Total Cotton sales of the week, 70,000 bales— of Surat, 40,000 bales. Total imports of the week, 76,000 bales of Surat, 60,000 bales. Total stock of cotton, 900,000 bales. The Armistice has been prolonged. The preliminaries for a months' peace have been agreed upon. Austria has been excluded from the German Confederation, and pays a war indemnity of twenty million thalers. An Italian proclamation has been issued for the reconstruction of Venetia. The Atlantic Cable has been successfully laid, communication being perfect with New York. The Queen and President have exchanged congratulations. Monster Beform Meetings after the Hyde Park affair passed off quietly. [ The New Ministry were entertained at the Mansion House. Parliament has passed a resolution declaring unnecessary punishisments— — — Here the press telegram abrnptly closed, from what cause we cannot yet say ; this is the second occasion that this has occurred. . '

Celobwb o_ Sodium nr PnoTQ_iup_r_— A treat novelty ib expected from Italy, and consists in a method of fixing photographs prints with chloride of sodium. The Chemical Netvs states that it ia the inventicn of Signor Ronoalli, who takes his prints from the frame, and plaoes them in a 5 per cent, solution of chloride of sodium, leaves them there some time in the cold, and then gradually heats the bath, finally boiling for about ten minutes ; after whioh the print is completely fixed. '■ " - ~**~w