The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-15 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE,

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

ACCEPTANCE OF THE THRONE OF
MEXICO BY THE ARCHDUKE
MAXIMILIAN.
PARIS, AUG. 15.
The Memorial Diplonzatique of to-day says :
" We are harpy to be able to announce that his
Imperial Highness the Archduke Ferdinand-
Maximilian accepts, with the consent of his sr.gust
brother, the Emperor of Austria, the ere Ivn of the
new Mexican empire.
" The first overturea made to the Court of Vienna
touching the candidature of the Archduke
Maximilian to the throne of Mexico date
from the month of October, 1861. The
Emperor Francis Joseph then replied that
although appreciating at its just value the
preference accorded to his dynasty, he left his
brother sole arbiter to decide when the moment
should come to take a definite resolution. But, as
it was important to know if, and to what point, the
Court of Vienna would be willing to realise the
wishes of the Mexican nation, his Apostolic
Majesty sent Count Reebberg, immediately after
the first confidential overtures with the Court of the
Tuileries to the chateau possessed by the Archduke
Maximilian at Trieste, where his Imperial High-
ness habitually resides.
" The Minister of Foreign Affairs was instructed
to represent to the Prince the high destiny to which
the Mexican people and the personal sympathies of
Napoleon 111, would call him on the successful
issue of the French expedition. As we have said,
Count Reehberg was authorised to declare to his
Imperial
Highness that the Emperor Francis
Joseph, as chief of the Imperial family, left him
full and entire liberty to take the part which suited
him best.

" The Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian was
strongly
moved to find that at the moment when
he had built the retreat of Misamor in order to re-
main henceforth a stranger to politics, the
.Emperor
of the French should have indicated him to the
choice of the Mexican
people to fulfil so great.
and elevated a
mission as the pacification and
regeneration of the ancient empire of Montezuma
"But at the same time, the Archduke made the
acceptance of this mission, beset with so many diffi-
culties, dependent upon certain conditions, which,
to be well understood and estimated, merit ulte-
rior explanation.
" We shall at present confine ourselves to stating
that the essential condition, viz. •—' That the re-
establishment of the monarchy in. Mexico, as well
as the election of the Prince as future Sovereign,
shall emanate from the spontaneous movement of
the country,'
has received the
"The other conditions which are more within the
arrival in 'A thatby hisall
domain of has •
already been accomplished.
diplomacy are no less assured. From the
month of October, 1831, the Archduke Maximilian
an era of peace and edpruopofosn
parties as the dawn of
pros-
perity.
A few months ago the venerable Arch-
bishop of Mexico went in person to the palace of
Mexico would
Misamor to urge the Prince in the name of religion
and of the whole Mexican episcopate to accept
the holy and glorious mission which Divine Pro-
vidence had predestined him. The worthy prelate
had the consolation on leaving 111isamor of knowing
that the Archduke would no longer hesitate, in the
event of the Mexican throne being re-established
under the conditions specified by his Imperial
Highness at the opening of the negotiations.
"The Archduke had therefore already entered
into more than a moral engagement towards the
the Mexican episcopate and the notables of the
country, who, befor© proclaiming his election, Were
anxious to have a certainty of his acceptance.
"At the taking of Puebla the Archduke ad-
dressed his congratulations to his Majesty the
Emperor of the French in an autograph letter.
The bearer of this letter was the Baron de
Pont, Cannel 'ller in the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs at Vienna, who, from the origin of the
candidature of the Archduke to the Mexican throne,
was attached to his Imperial Highness as private
secretary. The tenor of this letter, which Was
lately delivered at Fontainebleau to the Emperor
Napoleon by n pra
' ce Metternich, was itself the pre-
lude to a definitive acceptance by the Archduke at
the proper time and place.
" The letter in question having been presented in
manner to Napoleon 111. by the an official Ambas-
sadorcis Joseph, implied also the antici-
of the august chief of the H
pated consent apsbarg

dynasty
" It pia,'
be seen from theipreceding that in an-
flouncing the definitive acceptance of the Archduke
Ferdinand-maxi/1111mb we do not put forward a
simple conjecture, but a resolution, based on anthen-

.c facts•"

H POLISH INSURRECTION.
DEFEAT of THE RUSSIANS AT ZARZYN.
THE
CRACOW, AUG. 15.
The insurgents attacked and dispersed three com-
panies of Russian infantry and a squadron of
cavalry on the Bth inst., at Zarzyn, in the Palatinate
of Lublin. Two hundred Russians were killed and
110 taken prisoners ; the latter, however, were sent
back. The insurgents captured 200,000 roubles in
gagernent•
this en
This news is confirmed by the Warsaw Dziennik
pow:: eszecliny.
and the
........_
CONGRESS AT FRANKFORT,
FRANKFORT-ON-MAINE, AUG. 14.
up to the present the Grand Dakes of Weimar
and ,Baden, the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha,
Braunschweig, and Saxe-Meiningen, Prince Henry
of the Netherlands, the Prince of Rudolstadt, and
the representatives of the free cities of Hamburg,
Lubeck, and Bremen, have arrived here.

PRANCE.
THE NAPOLEON FETE DAY.

PARIS, AUG. 15.
No speech Was made by the Emperor at the re-
ception at the Tuileries to-day. His Majesty heard
a Te Deum after the reception, and subsequently
returned to St. Cloud,
It is asserted that Earl Cowley has returned to
Paris, and will be present at the dinner to be given
at the hotel of M. Drouyn de Lhuys.
BOURSE, Aug,
14.—The arrival of Consols with
a fall of has had a slight deprssing effect, Threes
being again at 67f. 40c., with very little doing.
Railway Share Market also dull, but variations up
to the present time insignificant. The market
closed as follows

41 per Cent 5....... 96 50
Do. cnd month....
3 per Cents ...... 67 45
Do. end month.... 67 35
Credit M0bi1ier....1076 25
Do. end m0nth....1078 75
Bank Shares...... 3370
Credit F orluier .„.1200 -
3A

Italian Loan 72 25
Do. end month 72 10
New ditto
Do. end month 72 25
Russian -
Austrian
Spanish Threes.° •
Home Debt mt., 47i
AY/3.

Cash. Account.
Orleans lO2O .. 1016 25
Northern 985 .. 990
New ditt0......
Lyons and Meditarranean 1023 75 .. 1020
Geneva 493 75 .. 491 25
Southern ......
Western
Eastern . ... 497 50 .. 495
Sardirlian .......
Austrian
Lon.hard ........ 546 25 .. 550
North of Spain •
540 .. (42 50
Saragossa 685 .. 635
Ditto to Barcelona ~ .1 °-{5 .." ' I ....
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