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

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.

Notwithstanding the principal foreign Ministers
being absent (Prince Mettcrnich and Count Goltz
are at Fontainbleau, Baron Budberg is
going to Kissingen), M. Dronyn de Lhuye, 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
six 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 situation 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 representa-
tives of England, 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 bold in
the waiting room conversations in which they ex-
change their informations.
If we are to believe what was said 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 between London, Kissingen, and Carls-
bad with regard to the resolutions adopted by the
English Government.
The Danish question is considered at an end, and
the separation of the two duchies becomes a new
fait accompli. There is no occasion, therefore, for
any offer of mediation. England has come to an
uaderstanding with the German Powers not to let
the priuciple 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 principal
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 et 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 Congrass. If the Powers of Europe have
not succeeded in coming t) an understanding in the
London Conference upon one solitary question, the
Danish one, how will they be able to agree better
to solve other questions much more complicated—
such as those of Italy, of Poland, and of the East ?
L' Union says : " It is generally believed that
the new Alabama is a ship which has just been
constructed at Bordeaux in the yard of M. Armen,
and the destination of which, unknown to the pre-
sent day, has crsated a lively interest, 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 2201 b."
The official returns of the Customs receipts in
France for the first fire months of the present year
demonstrate the continuation of the double move-
ment previously remarked—a certain stagnation in
the imports and a very considerable augmentation
in the exports. The Constitutionnel makes the
subjoined observations on the sunject :—"The im

ports, in fact, only amount i❑ round numbers to
883 millions of francs, instead of 891, for the
corresponding period of 1863; but if the item o.
corn is struck out oa both sides, the imports of
1864 gill 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 nom

ur2roial annals of Prance, as will be seen by the
following short table :

First five months in 1861 ~ 803 millions,
1832 .. 894 „
1863 .. 998 „
If 1864 .. 1,230 „
Thus, the five months of the year 1864 show an in

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crease of 24 per cent. on the preceding year, and of
50 per cent. over 1861. The principal elements of
this immenba commercial movement are Bilk and

woollen stuffs, of which the exportation has
increased in three years from seventy millionb
to 136—that is to say, has simply doubled ;
hides and leathern go-xls, tools and other metal

wares, wines and brandies, chemical produc.
tions, timber, resinous matters, ---ke. The infln•

rice of commercial liberty on the new markets
opened to the native industry of France has pro.
h r e es closing
..
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..5
(laced an unprecedented increase not only in silks
and woollen stuffs, but on divers articles which
were never supposed to be capable of such a deve-
lopment. Thus, in three years, the exports of
turnery ware and mercery increased from 36 mil-
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 unvat ied at 66t. Sc. Mobilier has
improved to 1,0581. 75e. Railway market quiet,
prime :
but firm. The following apreitttohTe
70 60
41 per Cents 93 85 Italian L0an......
Do. end month — Do. end mont...
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 20 New Mexican .. • •
credit Mobilier 1067 50 Russiaa . —
no. end month 1070 Austrian ......
.... 82
Bank Shares 3305 Spanieh Tic:re ..
..... •. 51 25
°rnne Debt ......
Oredit k oncier 1240
Roman
........ 45i

SAIL

'Alrb,

Orleans
Northern ....
Lyons and Mediterranean
New ditto
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian .....
Austrian ....
Lon, bard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

Cash. Account.
860 8(,0 --
990 992 50
880 •„, 885 --

- -
''...
•••-• • •
645 _ , , 650 -
500 _ , , - --
465 - „ , 460 -
365 ,__ „ 362 50
407 60 „ 408 75
540 .- .. 535 -
430 ...... .. 430 -
665 - „ 660 -
250 -* .. -- -*

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PRUSSIA.
The latest advices announce that
rously prosecuting the reconstruction of the Zall-
vereia on the basis of the Treaty of Commerce with
France. She has just signed conventions to that
Hesse, effect with Saxony, Electoral Prussia is v7go-
se, Brunswick,
and the free city of Franktort. Other adhesions
are expected. The league
of the South does not
seem likely to meet ilith much success.

corre-
spondent of the .L tverpool Albion writes-4'
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THE PRINCE OF WAL Es. rhe London
with a fireman's helmet
Sire may expect
shortly to see the Prince of Wales like the Duke of Suther-
land,and 'coat. He has approached
that stage of firomanship more than half way. On Friday
morning ho was boy at the headquarters of the brigade, in
Watliog-srreet ; and subsequently he,
land, and Captain Shaw, chief of the brigade, drove through
the town on a fire-engine,"
the Duke of Suther
" C iptain Winslow, of the Kearsarge,' says the
Opinione Nationale, "who two years ago, while
employed on the Mississippi, was attacked by a complaint
in his eyes, has been for some days in Paris for the pur-
pose of taking medical advice. The Americans in Paris
the evening before last invited him to dinner at Phi-
lippe's, at which Mr, Dayton, the United States'
Minister and the Secretaries of the Legation, were
present. The surgeon and the pay master of the gear-
serge 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 electing a monument to the Federal
sailor who has just died in 'rho naval hospi, al at Cherbourg
of the wounds he received in the action with the Alabama,
The other two wounded men are going on favourably.
The naval combat of the 19th June will therefore hen post
the Federal's the loss cf only one man.".