The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-13 00:00:00

AUSTRIA AND MEXICO.

VIENNA, AUG. 13.
The Oesterreichische Zeitunq, in an article on the
election of the Archduke Maximilian to the throne
of Mexico, says The acceptance or refusal of
the throne is, up to the present time, a personal
affair with the Archduke. The Austrian Govern-
ment has in no way interfered in the question, and
taken no part in the negotiations relative thereto.
The Emperor Napoleon, in communicating direct
with the Archduke, has also perfectly maintained
this point of view. Negotiations have been opened
solely between the two high personages, and not
between France and Austria. The conduct of the
Emperor has thus been marked both by courtesy
and loyalty.

"The situation of Mexico might lead, at a later
period, to differences with America: But all this is
irrevelant so long as the matter has a personal cha-
racter, apart from politics. It is for the Archduke
in his wisdom and in consulting his own tastes to
see whether ho will enter into this affair, and what
guarantees he can obtain. The Archduke is too
experienced a man to accept the offer of the Mexi-
cans before their country be entirely submitted, and
before it has expressed itself through the medium of
freely-elected representatives.
The Oesterreichische Zeitung concludes :—" The
whole subject is one of a very delicate and difficult
nature, and must be treated with prudence and
ability."

WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS.
SOU i HAAMPTON, AUG. 13.

The Royal Mail steamer Seine, with the above
mails, arrived off the Needles at 1.10 p.m. to-day.

FRANCE.

PARIS, AUG. 13.

The Moniteur of this morning publishes a letter
from Pekin, dated the 13th June, stating that the
insurrectionary movements in the southern pro-
vinces are creating serious embarassments to the
Government.

BOURSE, Aug. 12.—Business continues limited in
amount, speculators keeping away as much as they
can in consequence of the heat of the weather.
Threes, for the Account, are unvaried at 67f. 45c.
The Railway Share Market quiet, but prices were
pretty well maintained. The market closed as
follows :

it per Cents. 96 50
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 67 40
Credit obilier lOB2 50
Do. end month 1077 50
Bank Shares 3365
Credit k oncier 1250

Italian Loan -.—
Do. end month —
New tiitto —
Do. end month —
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes —
Home Debt
...

RAILWAYB.

Cash. Account.
Orleans lO2O .. 1017 50
Northern -
New ditto . -- • • --
Lyons and Mediterranean 1026 25 .. 1027 50
Geneva
490491 25
Southern
Western - .. 525
Eastern
Sardinian — • • ...... --.
Austrian
Lombards47 50 .. 648 75
North of Spain e• • • "''''' '''''' • • -•--.
Saragossa.. .. -- • •
Ditto to Barcelona .... 352 50 .. 348 75

MUSIC.

Hymns, Sacred Part Songs, and other Pieces,
Edited by Frederick Westlake. Parts I. and 11.

Lambert and Co.

The combination in this beautiful series of Hymns
and other Sacred Pieces, the intimate and appro-
priate combination in them of Good Music and
Good Poetry, both of a religions character—is the
simple but admirable design set before himself by
the compiler and editor of the Publication.
So far as the working out of such a design can be
estimated upon an examination of two instalments,
the initial one and its immediate successor, we can
speak of it in terms not merely of unhesitating ap
proval but in those of real and unaltcted admira-
tion. Within the compass of these two intro-
ductory Parts alone, comprising in one of
them 13 and in the other 16 distinct compo-
sitions, no less that 23 out of the 29 pieces
thus given have been composed expressly for the
work under notice. Of these twenty-three original
pieces four are from the hand of Mr. Westlake
himself—and of themselves, by their varied merit,
justify his position as supervisor of the whole serial
collection. Macfarren, Molique, Meyer Lutz, John
Barnett and Henry Leslie, Schultes, and Schacher
are particularly noticeable also among the other
contributors. The pieces are variously arranged for
two, three, or four voices. The accompaniments
are, at choice, for organ, harmonium, or pianoforte.
Living composers, and these both English and
Foreign, as the names already specified sufficiently
indicate, are intended to be chief contributors to a
work as carefully selected and as intrinsically beau-
tiful of its kind, as a,whole, as it is a perfect marvel
of cheapness in the mere manner of its publication.

Sight Singing made Easy. pp. 32. Lambert and

Although this little sixpenny manual (designed
for choirs, schools, and choral societies) does not
assume to itself any notable originality either in
plan, principle, matter, or arrangement—as its own
prospectus very candidly acknowledges—it will be
none the less welcome, or the less useful,we are certain
of that, when it comes to be examined into by those
for whose use it has been expressly designed. It
is wonderful how much practical instruction has
been comprised within so small a compass, and that
what has been so compressed there, has been ren-
dered, in spite of the compression, so perfectly corn.
prehensible in every way to the least tutored learner.
Intended, as its very title page intimates, to em-
brace the advantages of the Tonic Sol-fa System
with the ordinary musical notation, it is
calculated to render sight-singing easy to all
corners, that is to the disciples of both
schools or systems—easy, that is, upon one simple
condition that the instructions here compacted
together be practised or acted upon within a reason-
able interval with assiduous application.