The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-03 00:00:00

tended to relieve him when tbe crisis came, why
was the relief with'ceid until it could not avail ?
The telegraph tells us that the plundering and de-
struction at Jackson amounted to from flee to ten
millions of dollars. Was it worth so much to any-
body that General Pemberton should have been
promoted over so many officers of experience and
ability ? The Government may feel very easy on
the subject, but the ignorant public must be per-
mitted to have its doubts."

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, MAY 23, Evening.
Money easy. Gold, 49 per cent. prem.
Exchange on London, bankers' bills, 165.
Stocks steady; New York Centrals, 1251,-; Illi-
nois, 114 ; Erie, 99.-k.
The Bohemian takes out 27,000 dols. in specie.

(Per the Bohemian.)
NEW YORK, MAY 23, Evening.
Official reports received in Washington from
General Grant's army, up to the 20th inst., say—
" General Grant has captured Haines Bluff and
the entire works of Vicksburg, also a large number
of prisoners and 57 guns. The battle was still
raging, with the prospect of capturing the entire
Confederate force in Vicksburg.
" General Grant holds Jackson, the Black River
bridge, and Haines Bluff."
The news is generally considered highly favour-
able to the Federals.

MEXICO.
(Per the Bohemian )

NEW YORK, MAY 23, Evening.

Mexican accounts from Puebla to the 30th of
April, received here via San Francisco, and pub-
lished by the New York journals, say—

" The French had two further conflicts with the
Mexicans, in the first of which the Mexicans held
their ground, and in the second remained masters
of the field, capturing 150 Zouaves.

" Juarez has left for Comonfort's army, to urge
offensive operations."

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

SOU !'HAMPTON, TUNE 3.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Ceylon, Capt. Evans, with the heavy Calcutta
and China mails, has arrived. She brings 165
passengers, 5 packages of specie, 1 package of
jewellery, 14 packages of valuables, and 1,046 pack-
ages of general cargo, including 676 bales of raw
silk, value £60,000 sterling.

Her Majesty's ship Procris was at Gibraltar; the
Meanee, Icarus, Trafalgar, Revenge, and Magi-
cienne at Malta; and at Alexandria the Perdrisc,
Sardinian frigate Victor Emmanuel, and French
frigate Jerome Napoleon.
The Spanish steam transport San Quintin, with
707 officers and men, arrived at Cadiz, from Ceuta,
on the 22d.

GIBRALTAR, MAY 28.

The following British ships have arrived here
since the 20th inst.:—Steamer, British Queen, 5
days 17 hours from Liverpool ; steamer Danube,
51 days from Liverpool. ; steamer Admiral Canarier,
91 days from Liverpool ; steamer Pera, 4 days 5
hours from Southampton ; steamer Isis, 61 days
from Liverpool; steamer Atlas,sl,- days from Liver-
pool ; and schooner Laura, 16 days from Cardiff.
The American steam-sloop Kearsage arrived here
on the 26th from Madeira.

Exchanges are quoted on London 90 days' date,
50/ to Paris, sf. 30c.; Marseilles, 5f 31c,;
Genoa, sf. 32c.; Madrid, 8 days' sight, 4 pm. ;
Cadiz, -7-, dis.; Seville, a die.; Mak ga, a dis.;
Barcelona, l prem. ; Almeira, 4 dis. ; Valencia,
prem. ; Alicant, 4 dis. Premium on Fire Franc
Pieces, 1 p.c.—dull. Freights unaltered.

Stoppage of the Steamers between England
and Matamoras.

It appears that the owners of the steam line be-
tween this country and the Mexican port of Meta-
mores have discontinued the service pending the
decision of the British Government respecting the
late seizures by the United States cruisers. In this
way a large trade is left open to be monopolised by
adventurers at New York and Boston, who are
known to be active in its prosecution, and the com-
mercial interests of the country are damaged at a
time when it is more than ever important that every
legal outlet should be made available in order to
compensate for the circumstances by which the in-
dustry of Lancashire is affectel. If the doctrine is
to be admitted that British vessels trading between
neutral ports are liable not merely to a fair exami-
nation, but to seizure, of course no one in England
will wish to see the rule infringed ; but this ques-
tion seems up to the present moment to have been
evaded, and the belief is that whenever it shall be
brought forward in a direct manner it will be re-
jected not only by Great Britain, but by the United
States. The argument that it will be to the future
advantage of England as a maritime Power to get
such a doctrine established is untenable, because it
never can be to the bent fit of any country or indivi•
dual to rest their proceedings on principles that are
inherently wrong or irrational ; while it is also cer-
tain that, however we might acquiesce in them now,
other Powers, when it was their turn to suffer,
would turn round and disavow them, either by
some quibble or by the more correct plea that civi-
lisation and knowledge had advanced, and that no
force of custom could render it incumbent on a
nation to continue to recognise a system of folly and
injustice. The matter is one that demands immediate
action, and there is less excuse for delay since Mr.
Everts, who is regarded in New York as the most
sound and accomplished authority on international
law, is now in this country, commissioned by Pre-
sident Lincoln to facilitate, in conjunction with Mr.
Adams, the attainment of a clear and permanent
understanding on all such points.—limes.

NEWSPAPER STEREOTYPING. Few persons
would suppose (says the Critic), remembering the
rapidity with which a daily paper is c imposed and printed,
that the "formes" could be stereotyped. Yet, so it is, and
for the sake of that very rapidity. The Engineer gives
some particulars of the mode pursued in respect of the
limes. The pages are set up with types in the ordinary
manner, and from these a paper matrix is obtained by pres-
sure. The paper intended to receive the indentation or in-
taglio of these formes is prepared as follows :—Beginning
with a sheet of very thin and fine but strong paper, known
variously as bank-post or silver tissue, a sheet of brown
paper and two or more sheets of blotting paper are succes-
sively pasted one over the other upon one side of the tissue.
The opposite or face side of the tissue is dusted
with powdered French chalk. The form of type
is first warmed in a steam oven ; and then, when
taken out and laid flat, the plastic paper web, prepared for
impression, and still damp with paste, is placed upon it, and
the whole passed beneath a weighted roller. The impression
is as perfect as if it had been made in the finest wax. The
paper comes from the types without the least wrinkle, and
without cutting or tearing the edges of any one of the thou.
sands of impressions with which it is covered. Thu sheet,
too, is nearly dried and is ready for the moulding frame.
As it is not so stiff but that it may be readily bent, the
paper is now made to assume the curve corresponding to
the cylinders, 64 inches in diameter, of the Applegarth
presses and those made upon Hoe's plan by Mr. Whit-
worth. The paper mould is held between an iron back
and a block of fire-clay, curved upon its face, and
in this position the type metal may be poured, and a stereo-
type plate produced in a few seconds, and perfect, with the
exception of trimming the edges and planing the back,
which operations are accomplished in a few minutes more.
The paper mould is not burned by the contact of the melted
type metal, which fuses at a comparatively low temperature.
A slight discolouratlon and the least smell of burning are the
extent of the injury to the mould, which, indeed, is good for
a dozen or more casts, and may then be filled, if required,
and preserved for years, to be again cast from at any time.
The sixteen pages of the Times, including it double supple-
ment, are thus stereotyped between 4 o'clock end 4.40 every
morning, the average time of making and finishing each
plate being two minutes and a half. Instead of printing
off a whole edition from a single form of typi, as many like
impressions may be obtained at one and the same time as
there are 'presses for the work,