The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-26 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENGT.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Sept. 24,—The market, in the absence
of anything like business, remains stationary:
Threes, for the Account, are unvaried at 65fr. 95c.,
and Mobilier only shows a slight improvement,
being now at 1,017 fr. 50c. Railway Market dull,
but with prices up to the present time pretty well
maintained. The market closed as follows :

4t per Cents .. 92 70
Do. end month....
3 per Cente
Do. end month 65 90
Credit Mobilier 1015
Do. end m0nth...4010 2.5
Bank Shares —
Credit Fancier l2OO
Roman

'ltalian Loan 67 60
Do. end mouth 67 65
Ditto Threes —
New Mexican
Russian ..
Austrian
Spanish Threes —
Home Debt
Deferred
,WATS.

Cash. Acconnt.
890 .. 891 25

Orleans , -•.•

Northern

983 75 ~

..........___ .. . _ ..
Lyons and Mediterranean 921 25 .. 923 75
Southern
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian .. 3lB 75 ..
Austrian -
Lon bard
North of Spain
Saragossa 487 50 .. 488 75
Ditto to Barcelona

AMERICA.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

The objects that are causing most interest or at
least excitement here and in the Northern States
generally, are—

The Chicago Convention, the Surrender of the
Forts, and the operation of the Fleet at Mobile
Harbour, and last, not least, the capture or evacu•
ation of Atlanta.

Assuming, on the strength of Mr. Stanton's offi.
cial but disjointed despatches, that the Federal
troops really occapy Atlanta, it makes a very con.
siderable practical difference whether the place was
" captured," or, as rainy think, deliberately evacu-
ated by the Confederates ; because, if the latter be
the case, it implies the correctness of the statement
put forward some time since that the Government
works, mater:al, &c., had been traneferred "further
South." If this be so, then the Federals only gain
the position and bare walls. However, great have
been the rejoicings in the North over the event ;
and the President has issued a sort of quasi pro-
clamation, recommending a general thanksgiving
for the Mobile harbour affair and the glorious
achievements of the army under Major-General
Sherman in the State of Georgia, resulting in the
capture of the city of Atlanta.
As it is possible before the steamer sails that
some more definite account may reach New York of
this capture, I shall defer any further remarks on
the matter.

Probably ere this letter ever reach your columns,
English readers will have had opportunity to learn
as much as they have any desire to know about the
Chicago Convention. That these conventions and
ratification meetings, and so forth, are of political
importance, inasmuch as they express the senti-
ments for the time being of the majority of the
politicians attendant on the several occasions, is a
thing that nobody will deny. But when it is also
recollected that they are virtually mere demonstra-
tions—that they legally do not form part of the
machinery, so to say, by which a President is
elected, I see no reason or object for my troubling
British readers, or their troubling themselves much
about the Chicago convention.
However, as it is generally stated that the nomi-
nation of Gen. M'Clellan, and the tone of the other
resolutions passed, denoted a strong feeling or wish
or opinion, amongst the majority of free and en-
lightened citizens there assembled in favour of
peace—that, in short, it was a peace convention, it
may be as well to see what the South thinks on the
subject. I have little doubt but that the following
extracts from the Itichmend Examiner express the
general, real, Southern sentiment.
After stating that, now the issues of peace and
war are not in the hands of politicians aid states-
men, but in the hands of soldiers, and that—
" Further, those Yankees who are war men to-day
will be peace men in three months it their grand
campaign turns out an utter failure; and those who
are for peace to-day, with few exceptions, will foam
fnr war and yell for blood within the same three
months, if they see reason to believe that the Con-
federacy is reeling to its fall." The article con-