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

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REITTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

ACCEPTANCE OF THE THRONE OF
MEXICO BY THE ARCHDUKE
MAXIMILIAN.

, . 15.
The Memorial Diplomatique ofPARIS to-dayAUG
says :
" We are happy to be able to announce that his
Imperial Highness the Archduke Ferdinand-
Maximilian accepts, with the consent of his august
brother, the Emperor of Austria, the crown of the
new Mexican empire.

" The first overtures 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 Rechberg, 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 o

Napoleon 111. would all him on the successful
issue of the French expedition. As we have said,
Count Rechberg 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 3.lisamor 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 already been accomplished.
" The other conditions which are more within the
domain of diplomacy are no less assured. From the
month of October, 1831, the Archduke Maximilian
has received the most unequivocal proofs that his
arrival in Mexico would be looked upon by all
ago the venerable Arch-
partiesMexicopros-
perity.A as the dawn of an era of peace and pros-
ta
hued
hoof;
yt
and
tiedin person to the palace of
Misamor to urge the Prince in the name of religion
ew
went
whole
glorious Mexican episcopate to accept
vidence had predestined him. The worthy prelate
had the consolation on leaving Misamor of knowing
that the Archduke would no longer hesitate, in the
event of the Mexican throne being re-established
mission
which Divine Pro-
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, before proclaiming his election, were
anxious to have a certainty of his acceptance.
"At the taking of Paebla the Archduke ad-
dressed
his congratulations to his: Majesty the
e French in an autograph letter.
Emperor of the
The bearer of this letter was the Baron de
Pont, Councillor in the Ministry of Foreign
Vienna, who, from the origin of
Affairs atthe
of the Archduke to the Mexican throne,
candidature
to his Imperial Highness as private
was attached
secretary. The tenor of this letter, which was
at Fontainebleau to the
lately delivered Emperor
by prince Metternich, was itself
Napoleon the pre-
lude to a definitive acceptance by the Archduke at
time and place.
the proper.
letter in question
,c The having been presented in
manner to Napoleon 111.
an official . by the Aaibas-
cis Joseph, implied
sador of Fran also the antici-
ent of the august chief of

dy nastY•
It map be seen from thelpreceding that in an-
nouncing the definitive acceptance of the Archduke
Ferdinand-m(0=1111in, we do not put forward a
simple conjecture)
but a resolution, based on authen-

,ic facts."

TSB FOLISHIISURRECTION.

DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS AT ZARZYN.

CRACOW, AUG. 15.
The
insurgents attacked and dispersed three com-
panies of Russian infantry and a souadron of
cavalry the Bth inst., at Zarzyn, in the Palatinate
of Lti lin on.
Two hundred Russians were killed and
110 taken
prisoners ; the latter, however, were sent
back.
The insurgents captured 200,000 roubles in
b

this
engagement.
This newsis confirmed by the Warsaw Dziennik
and the Powszeszechny.

CONGRESS AT FRANKFORT,
FRANXFORT-ON-MAINE, AUG. 14.
Up to the present the Grand Dukes of Weimar
and Baden, the Dukes of Saxe•Coburg-Gotha,
B raunschweig, 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

It per Cents. .. 96 •50
Do; cud month....
3 per Cents .. 67 45
Do. end month.... 67 35
Credit M0bi1ier...,1076 25
()o. end rn0nth....1078 75
Bank Uhnres 3370
Credit F oncier „„1200

Italian Loan 72 25
Do. end month 72 10
New ditto
Do. end month 72 25
Russian
Austrian .. Bl 50
Spanish Threes,
Home Debt -

FLAILWANi.

Cash. Account.
Orloans lO2O .. 1016 25
Northern
New ditto
--
Lyons and Mediterranean 1023 75 .. 1020
Geneva 493 75 .. 491 25
Southern .. 7OO .. 697 50
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lou bard
North of Spain
Saragossa .. 635 .. 685
pit.,) to BaNaoua ~, r; Z)':1O- '"" , " "