The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-19 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, July iB.—The market has been dull,
and in the limited business doing prices are rather
lower. Ttrees, for the Account, are now at
35c. Nobilier have receded to 1,020 f. The Rail-
way :tfarket has been firmer than the Rente, and
solce few of the lines are at present quoted with an
'lmprovement. The market continued heavy to the
close, and left off as follows :

4i per Cents. O4 30
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 35
Credit Mobilier 1013 75
Do. end month 1013 75
Bank Shares 3400
Credit Fonder 1220
Roman -
HAIL`

Italian Loan 6B
Do. end month 6B 10
Ditto Threes ..
New Mexican .... 57
Russian
Austrian

Spanish Threes 61
Home Debt
Deferred
rAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean 896 25 .. 896 25
New ditto
--
Southern 645 .. 645
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard .... 531 25 .. 531 25
North of Spain
Saragossa s'o .. 530
Ditto to Barcelona

The American Cruisers,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—The following is an extract of a letter re-
ceived by me this morning from Darrynane Abbey:
"Two steamers were fighting off the Bull Rock
on Monday evening (11th) suppoked to be Americans.
At Darynane the shots were heard from 5 to 7 p.m.,
and the dairyman in Scariff saw the ships and says
his cattle were nearly driven mad by the firing.
One vessel seemed to him to be on fire. One went
to the north, the other out to see, after a while.'

The Bull Rock is just to the north of Bantry Bay;
Scariff is an island four miles west of I)arrynanc,
and ten north of the Bull Rock.—Your obedient
servant, DANIEL 'C ONNELL.

liilarney, 14-iy IG.

Manifesto of the Confederate States,

JOINT RESOLUTIONS DECLARING THE DISPOSITION OF
PRINCIPLES AND PURPOSES OF THE CONFEDERATE
STATES IN RELATION TO THE EXISTING \VAR WITH

THE UNITED STATES.

Whereas : It is due to the great cause of humanity and
civilisation, and especially to the heroic sacrifices ct their
gallant army in the field, that no means, consistent with a
proper self-respect and the approved usages of nations,
should be omitted by the Confederate States to enlighten
the publie opinion of the world with regard to the true cha-
racter of the struggle in which they are engaged, and the
dispositions, winciples, and purposes by which they are
actuated therefore,
Ite.,,olved by the Congress of the Confederate States of
America : That the following manifesto be issued iu their
name, and by their authority, and that the President be se-
quested to, cause copies thereof to be transmitted to our com-
missioners abroad, to the end that the MU may be laid
before foreign governments.

MANIFESTO OF TILE CONGRESS OF THE CONFEDERATE
STATES OF AMERICA RELATIVE TO THE EXISTING-
VAR WITH THE UNITED STATES.
The Congress of the Confederao States of America,
acknowledging their responsibility to the opinion of the
civilised world; to the great law of Christian philanthropy,
and to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, for the part
they have been compelled to bear in the sad spectacle of
war and carnage, which this continent has for the last
three years exhibited to the eyes of afflicted humanity,
deem the present a fitting occasion to declare the principles)
the sentiments, and the purposes by which they have been,
and are still, actuated..

They have ever deeply deplored the necessity which con-
strained them to take up arms in defence of their rights,
and of the free institutions derived. from their ancestors ;
and there is nothing they more ardently desire than peace,
whensoever their enenty, by ceasing from the unhallowed
war waged upon them, shall permit them to enjoy in peace
the sheltering protection of the hereditary rights and those
cherished institutions. The series of successes with which
it has pleased Almighty God in so signal a manner to bless
our arms on almost every point of our invaded border since
the opening of the present campaign, enables us to profess
this desire of peace in the interest of civilisation and hu-
manity, without danger of having our motives misinter-
preted, of the declaration being ascribed to any unmanly
sentiment or any mistrust of our ability fully to maintain our
cause. The repeated and disastrous checks, foreshadowing
ultimately discomfiture, which their gigantic army, erected
against the capital of the Confederacy, has already met
with, are but a continuation of the same providential sue-
cesses for us. We do not recur to these successes in any
spirit of vain boasting, but in hunblo acknowledgment of
that Almighty protection which has vouchsafed and granted
them,
The world must now Gee that 8,000,000 of people inhabit-
ing so extensive a territory, with such varied resources and
such numerous facilities for defence as the benignant bounty
of nature has bestowed upon us, and animated with one
sacrifice of ease, of health, of pro-
spirit to encounter every
perty, of life itself, rather than be degraded from the condi-
tion of free and independent States, into which they were
born, can never be conquered. Will not our adversaries
themselves begin to feel that humanity has bled long enough,
that tears and blood and treasure enough have been expended
in a bootless undertaking,covering their.own land no less than
ours with a pall of mourning,and exposing them far more than
ourselves to, the catastrophe of financial exhaustion and
bankruptcy, not to speak of the loss of their liberties by the
despotism engendered in an aggressive warfare upon the
liberties of another and kindred people? Will they be
willing, by a longer perseverance in a wanton and hopeless
contest, to make this continent, which they so long boasted
to be the chosen abode of liberty and self-government, of
peace and a higher civilisation, the theatre of the most
causeless and prodigal effusion of blood which the world
has ever seen, of a virtual relapse into the barbarism of the
ruder ages, and of the destruction of constitutional freedom
by the lawlessness of usurped power ?
These are questions which our adversaries will decide for
themselves. We desire to stand acquitted before the tri-
bunal of the world, as well as in the eyes of Omniscient
Justice, of any responsibility for the origin or prolongation
of a war as contrary to the spirit of the age as to the tra-
ditions and acknowledged principles of the political system
of Amer:ca.
On this continent, whatever opinions may have prevailed
elsewhere, it has ever been held and acknowledge(' by all
parties that government, to be lawful, must be founded on
the consent of the governed. We were forced to dissolve
our Federal connection with our former associates by their
aggressions on the fundamental principles of our compact
of union with them; and in doing so we exercised a right
consecrated in the great charter of American liberty—the
right of a free people, wben a Government prineo dotruQ-
u