The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-04 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.

Notwithstanding the principal foreign Ministers
being absent (Prince Metternich end Count Goltz
are at Fontainbleau, Baron Budberg is
going to Kissingen), M. Drouyn de Lhuys, says
the Union, held yesterday (Thursday) his weekly
diplomatic levee. The Minister for Foreign Affairs,
besides his receptions on the Wednesday evening,
gives audience every Thursday, between three and
si= o'clock, to such members of the diplomatic body
who have some communications to make to him or
some informations to ask either upon questions con-
cerning their respective governments or upon the
general situaticn of affairs. :Each foreign Minister
is ushered in by turn, according to the date of
his arrival, but those who have the rank of Am-
bassadors, like the Pope's Nuncio, the represents
tires of E-gland, Austria, Prussia, or Russia, enjoy
the privilege of being admitted as soon as they pre-
sent themse ves. The result is that the envoys of
the minor States have often to wait a long time, or
even cannot on that day obtain admittance to the
closet or the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

The Thursday receptions are always numerously
attended, and the various representatives hold in
the waiting room conversations in which
they ex-
change their informations.

If we are to believe what was Raid yesterday, the
pacific attitude assumed by England with regard to
the Danish war is considered a master piece of
policy ; and the London Cabinet, which was threat-
ened with a dangerous isolation, is now placed in a
position to join the German Powers and Russia.
The diplomatists best placed to be well informed,
confirm the information which we published two
days ago respecting the great number of despatches
exchanged bet:-7--sn London, Kissingen, and Carls-
bad with re4ard to the resolution udopt(d by the
English Govtrnment.

The Danish question is considered at an end, and
the separatio❑ of the two duchies becomes a new
fait accompli. There is no occasion, therefore, for
~ny offer of mediation. England has come to an
understanding with the German Powers not to let
the principle of universal suffrage establish new
monarchies in the other European States. This
perhaps will explain the ill-humour our semi-official
prints have not had the tact of concealing, against
the attitude assumed by England after the rupture
of the Conference.

The informations transmitted to the principil
Foreign Ministers at Paris seem unanimous to state
that the most perfect understanding has been esta-
blished at Kissingen and at Carlsbad between the
Emperor of Austria, the Czar, and the King of
Prussia. We are assured that those Sovereigns do
not believe either in the opportunity or the useful-
ness of a Congress. If the Powers of Europe have
not succeeded in coming to an understanding in the
London Conference upon one solitcry question, the
Danish one, hcw will they be able to agree better
to solve other questiors much more complicated—
such as those of Italy, of Poland, and of the East P
L' Union says:—" It is generally believed that
the new Alabama is a ship which has fast been
constructed at Bordeaux in the yard of M. Arman,
and the destination of which, unknown to the pre-
sent day, has craated a lively interes; in that town.
Besides, Captain Semmes has signed a contract with
a large Prussian firm for the fabrication of cannon-
balls, which are not to weigh less than 220tb."
The official returns of the Customs receipts in
France for the first five months of the present year
demonstrate the continuation of the double move-
ment previously remarked—a certain stagnation in
me imports and a very considerable augmentation
in the exports. The Constitutionnel makes the
subjoined observations on the subject :—"The im-
ports, in fact, only amount in round numbers to
883 millions of francs, instead of 894, for the
corresponding period of 1863; but if the item co
corn is struck out on both sides, the imports of
1864 will be found to amount to 872 millions,
against 868 in 1863. We remark that the
importation of English castings has declined
from 9 millions to a little less than 2, and
that of iron to 610,000 fr. for the five months.
French exports, on the contrary, have reached an
enormous amount, previously unknown in the com
mercial annals of France, as will be seen by the
following short table :

First five months in 1861 .. 803 millions.
1862 .. 894 ~
3) 1803 993
9, 1864 .. 1,230 ~
Thus, the five months of the year 1864 show an in-
crease of 24 per cent. on the preceding year, and of
50 per cent. over 1861. The principal elements of
this immense comm ercial movement are silk and
woollen stuffs, of which the exporration has
increased in three years from seventy millions
to 136—that is to say, has simply doubled ;
hides and leatbern go-)ds, tools and other metal
wares, wines and brandies, chemical produc-
tions, timber, resinous matters, &c, The influ-
ence of commercial liberty on the new markets
opened to the native industry of France has pro.
cloud an unprecedented incre4se not only in silks
and woollen stuffs, but on divers articles which
wero never supposed to be capable of such a deve-
lopment. Thus, in three years, the exports of
turnery ware and mercery inert-rased from 36 rail-
lions to 62; of millinery and artificial flowers from
3 to 8; of furniture from 4 to 7; and of wearing
apparel and made up linen, from 32 millions to 45
A rather curious detail is that, whilst the exports
of French cutlery, which commenced in 1862 with
an importation of 193,000 francs, sank in 1863 to
89,000 francs, and in 1864 to 82,000 francs."
BOURSE, July 2.—The market is without anima-
tion, but previous prices maintained. Threes, for
the Account, are unvaiied at 66t. sc, Alobilier has
improved to 1,058 f. 75e. Railway
market quiet,
but firm. The folloing are the closing prices
it4lian Loan ...... 70 60
Do. end month.•• • """" —'
Ditto Threes ......
New Mexican .• ••
56 2,.)
w
Russia/1 ........
82
Austrian ....... • 51 25
Three'....
Debt .....
Deferred ........ 451
Cash. Account.
8(30
NO -•
990
992 50
--- ••
880 • • 885 --

41 per Cents 93 85
Do. end month —
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 20
Jredit Mobilier 1067 50
on, end month 1070
Bv.nk She.res 3305
Credit oncier 1240
Roman ...•.

RAIL

Orloantl
Northern
Lyon,sand MeditcaTaneu
New ditto
465 —•—
.•
Southern • 645 ---' ..65
9
Western - .. 460 Eastern
Sardinian
3 36.2 50
..
Austrian
60 „ 408
[.orchard . ............. 640
.. 430
-- • • 535
75
North of Spain ........ 430 --
Saragossa .........• 565 -- .. 550
Ditto to Barcelona .... 250 ' '

....., r•samp•

PitusslA.

The latest advices announce that Prussia is vigo•
rously prosecuting the reconstruction of the Z3ll-
vertin on the basis of the Treaty of Commerce with
France. She has just signed conventions to that
Ep
effect with Saxony,
trank-tort. lectorai
Hesse, Brunswick,
and the free city e
Other adhesions
...
are expected. The league of the South does not
seem likely to meet V, ith much success.

THE PRINCE OF WALES.—rbe London corre-
spondent of the Zutrpool Albion writes—" We may expect
shortly to see the Prince of Wales, like the Duke of Sucher•
land, with a fireman's helmet and coat. He has approached
that stage of firemanahip more than half way. On Friday
morning he was busy at the headquarters of the brigade, iu
Watling-street; and subsequently he, the Duke of Slither
land, and Captain Sbaw, chief of the brigade, drove through
the town on a fire-engine."
41 Captain Winslow,
Of the E.learsarge," says the
Opinione .Nationale, "who two years ago, while
employed on the Mississippi, was attacked by a complain,
in his eyes,
has been for souse days in Paris for the pur-
pose of taking radical advies. The Americans in Paris
the evening before, last invited him to dinner at Phi-
lippa's, at which Mr Dayton, the United States'
Minister and the Secretaries of
tho Legation, were
present. The Burgeon and the paymaster of the Kear-
sarge were also among the company. At the close of
the dinner, and on the proposition of one of the guests, a
collection was made for ei ecting a monument to the Federal
sailor who has just died iu 'ho naval hospi al at Coerbourt_
of the wounds he received in tho action with she Alabarm,,
The other two wouuaed moo aro going on favourably
The naval combat of the 19th Juno will therefore bays coat
ill; Federals the lots of only one un.z.":