The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-28 00:00:00

MEXICO.

Advices from Vera Cruz to the Ist inst. state that
the army under the command of General Bazaine
had left Mexico city for a campaign against Juarez.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

BRESLAU, Nov. 27.

Intelligence received by the Breslauer Zeitung,
states that the arrests of superior officials iu War-

saw continue.

Six hundred persons, including ladies, and
Luszczewski, the director of the department of the
Interior under the Grand Duke Constantina's ad-
ministration, have been transported to Siberia.

FRANCE.
PARIS, Nov. 28.

The Const;tutionnel of to-day contains an article
signed by the chief editor, M. Limayrac, entitled
"England and the Congress." Tne writer says :
" By a refusal to attend the Congress England would
afford grounds to those who assert that her great-
ness and prosperity are founded upon the misfor-
tunes and ruin of other nations•"
M. Limayrac expresses grievous regret to see a

policy parading itself for Lib:,ralism, inspired by
sentiments of mean jealousy, and the rivalry of
England continually put back the friendly hand
which we extend to her, and make obstacles to all
that appears generous and opportune.

"It is not only at Rome, but also at London,"
continues M. Limayrac, " that the non possumus
doctrine is made apolitical dogma."
The article then recalls England's refusal to
favour the national movement in the Danubian
Principalities, to protect Montenegro, Piedmont,
Mexico, America, and Poland, and reminds its
readers how loyal and sympathetic the French
Government has shown itself towards England, and
how little it has received in compensation.
" In the present state of things," continues M. de
Limayrac, " if France has reason to feel offended
at the want of concurrence on the part of England,
it is Europe that will be wounded in her most
serious interests. Free from all personal ambition,
France calls with good faith upon all the Powers.
If troubles and conflagrations should arise in
Europe, as it is only too easy to foresee, the en-
tire responsibility would fall upon those who have
rejected the work of peace and conciliation."
:It is understood that M. Fould, the French
Finance Minister, is about to propose to the Cham-
bers a loan of 300,000,000 f., equal to £12,000,000
sterling. The Mexican and Coohin China wars
have caused a deficit of £10,000,000, for which the
Minister is unable to provide by any other means.

BOURSE, Nov. 27.—The market has been heavy
to-day, and prices have slightly declined. Threes,
for the Account, are now at 69f. 90c. Mobilier are
also lower. The same may be said of Railway
inued hoary to the end,

Shares. The market con
and closed as follows :-
41 per Cents .. 95
Do, end month....
3 per Cents
Do. cnd month 66 95
Credit Mobilier 1076 25
►>o, end month 1075
Bank Shares 3370
Credit Fonder 1260
Roman —

Italian Loan 72 20
Do. end month 72
New ditto
Do. end month —
Russian

Austrian
Spanish Threes —
Rome Debt
Deferred

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 977 50 .. 977 50
Northern
New ditto - • . .
Lyons and Mediterranean 948 75 .. 950
New ditto .
Geneva 498 75 ..
SJathern 692 50 .. 690
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lorobard
North of Spain
Saragossa 627 50 .. 627 50
Ditto to Barcelona

INDIA.

ILLNESS OF LORD ELGIN.

The following telegram from the Bombay Govern-
ment has been received by the Secretary of State
for India, dated November 15 ;
" The following message to your address, dated
Nov. 13, has been received from Sir R. Napier,
from Calcutta :

"'Lord Elgin has become so dangerously ill that
he has thought it necessary to communicate with
Sir Wm. Denison, and a steamer is in readiness to
proceed to Madras, if necessary.'
" Colonel Norman telegraphs as follows from
Meean Meer, Nov. 12 ;
" In an affair on the frontier, on the 9th inst.,
we had about 60 men killed and wounded, includ-
ing Major Harding, 2d Sikh Infantry; Lieutenant
Murray, 71st Highlanders; and Lieutenant Doug-
las, doing duty with the 71st Highlanders, who
were all killed; Lieutenant Oliphant, sth Goor-
khas, and Lieutenant Battye,Guide Corps, wounded.
The Commander in Chief reached Lahore this
evening.'

"Funds at Bombay—Fours, at 6 discount;
Fives, at 3 premium; Five-and-a-lialf, at 13
premium.

" The last accounts of Lord Elgin were up to
4 p.m. of November 14; he was daily becoming
weaker."

Flooding of (Books about) the Nile.

It is easy to see how a Nile tourist falls into the
melancholy condition of becoming a Nile author.
Probably when he leaves Cairo, encumbered with
the normal blank journal, and the normal quires of
thin letter-paper in the normal writing-case, he has
no sort of definite intention of boring anybody but
himself with the facts to be entered in his diary, or
any one beyond his half-dozen familiar correspon-
dents with the observations and speculations to be
contained in his letters. He has repelled the sug-
gestion of polite friends—" Of course you'll write a
book about it"—with a negative smile of perfect
sincerity, really believing himself too sensible to
undertake such an act of supererogatory weakness.
He intends honestly to enjoy his three or
four months of lotus-eating, without aspiring to
leave any record of them which an absorbed audience
shall not willingly let die. He begins to keep his
journal as a manly duty to himself, and to scribble
his letters for the innocent gratification of a narrow
home circle. Unhappily, through pressure of time
while fitting out his boat for the voyage, he has
requested his first friend, A., just to send on the first
letter, containing his little description of the streets of
Valetta or the bazaars of Cairo, to his next friend, 8.,
to spare the trouble of saying the same thing twice
over. The next friend has, and uses, a discretionary
power of passing the letter on to a third, and so forth.
By the time the second despatch from Egypt arrives,
a whole alphabetical series of kindly critics is fairly
established, who, for want of anything better to do,
will always be very glad to hear how far the
writer of such a lively letter has gone up the river.
Before the traveller has reached Thebes, a packet
of home correspondence, forwarded only too quickly
through the courteous British consul, assures him of
the great pleasure and valuable information his letter
has given the whole circle of his friends at home.
The slow poison of habitual circular writing spreads
gradually over the whole descriptive correspondence
of the unhappy man, and imperceptibly developes
the fatal idea that the critical public will but be a
larger circle of sympathetic friends. He warms
towards his very journal, treating it no longer as a
mere repository of daily facts, but more and more
as a vehicle for desultory sentiment or speculative
rhapsody. Naturally he falls in with one or two
little adventures rather different from those which
have befallen any of the other tourists of the year,
or believes that he does so. His dragoman Alee
or Muhammad is found to possess a peculiarly
amusing individuality of character or demeanour,
distinguishing him from all his brother Muhammads
and Alees, and capable of being touched off with
great spirit, through the record of a few conversa-
tions in the Egyptian idiom of the English language.
And so the mischief is done, and sooner or later the
poor tourist finds himself committed to the task of
adding his own driblet to the ever-deepening stream
of shallow works upon the Nile. The memory of
a bright and sunny winter of leisurely enjoyment,
which might have endured for years as an unalloyed
satisfaction in the retrospect, is rendered turbid and
distorted by the necessity of arranging facts and anec-
dotes,poin ting and exaggerating far the English mar-
ket the touches of local colour and individual charac-
terthe which seem most lively to tell well and render
volume effective, and lastly, of choosing an attractive
title. Perhaps there are a fewpc
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greater number of Nile scribblers, male and female,
drift into a needless expense of paper and printers'
ink in this blind sort of way. It is in a simple
splri
• "t of kindliness that we put forward these re-
marks at the commencement of the Nile season,
with the hope that they may be read, and their truth
laid to heart, by at least a few of the unthinking
mortals who, but for some such good advice, might
be drawn into swelling the unreadable volumes of
the next year's Nile flood.— Saturday _Review.

A LIFE OF PIUS VII., by a Roman Prelate, is
announced as about to be published opeodilh

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 27.

The Queen, accompanied by their *Royal High-
nesses the Crown Princess of Prussia (Princss
Royal) and Princess Louise, walked and drove in
the grounds this morning.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales,
the Crown Prince of Prussia, and the Duke de
Chartres, went out hunting with the harriers,
attended by Major-General Hon. A. Hood, Major
Teesdale, and Major Schweinitz.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Chartres and the Earl of Carlisle arrived at the
Castle yesterday.

The Earl of Carlisle had an audience of the
Queen.

The dinner party yesterday included their Royal
Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, the
Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, Princess
Helena, the Duke and. Duchess of Chartres, the
Earl of Carlisle, Lady Mary Hood, Lady Caroline
Barrington, Colonel Hon. Sir C. Phipps, Dr. Halz-
mann, and the ladies and gentlemen in attendance.