The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-02 00:00:00

were expected to be the means of bringing to New
Orleans 100,000 bales of cotton, which is quoted
in that city 48 cents. and declining.

A rumour was prevalent yesterday that
General Hooker was falling back from the Rappa-

hannock to the Potomac for the better defence of
Washington and Maryland, as there were signs of
the Confederates preparing to cross into Maryland
by way of the Upper Potomac.

It is reported from Port Royal that three block-
ade runners from Charleston for Nassau have been

captured,

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, MAY 22 (Evening).
Money easier. Gold 481 prem. Exchange on
London—Bankers' bills, 164.
Violent fluctuations have occurred in the stock
market during the last three days, caused by ex-
cessive public speculation, but the market closes
steady. New York Centrals, 1241 ; Illinois, 1131 ;
Erie, 984; 5 per Cent. United States Bonds, 96;
do., 6 per Cents., 1071. Cotton dull. Middling
Upland, 50 to 53c.
Flour delinining ; prices 10c. lower. Wheat and
corn, good inquiry, with a decline of 2c. Provi-
sions quiet ; coffee nothing doing ; sugar and mo-
lasses very firm ; bonded petroleum firm and ad-
vancing.

(Per City of Cork.)

NEW YORK, MAY 20, Evening.

No further confirmation has been received of the
reported evacuation of Vicksburg. Neither is the
report credited here.

The impression gains ground that Johnston will
offer Grant battle in the neighbourhood of Vicks-
burg.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, MAY 24 (Afternoon).
Money abundant. Gold 482. prem. Stocks
heavy. New York Central, 124; Illinois, 1108;
Erie, 994 ; Five per Cent. United States Bonds, 96 ;
Six per Cents., 107 t. Flour dull. Wheat and

corn advanced one cent.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, June I.—The market has been heavy,
and Stock having been offered, prices show a fur-
ther decline—Threes, for the Account, being now
weak at 69f. 20c. Railway Shares have been
firmer than the Rente, and up to the present time
the closing rates of Saturday have been pretty well
maintained. The market closed as follows :

►1 per Cents .. 97 10
Do. end month....
3 per Cents
Do. end month —
Credit N 1 obilier 1,110
tin. end month —
Bank Shares —
Credit r oncier

Italian Loan 72 N
Do. end month —
New ditto
Do. end month —
Russian
Austrian .. —

Spanish Threes 54
Home Debt

'AYB.
Cash.
Orleans lOO2 50 ..
Northern

RAIL'

Account.

New ditto • oo • -- • • --
Lyons and Mediterranean 1042 50 ..
Geneva 432 50 ..
Southern
761 25 ..

Western
__ -

Eastern ....
Sardinian 420 ..
Austrian
_ __

Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa.. .. 722 50 ..
Ditto to Barcelona .... • •

THE FRENCH ELECTIONS.

PARIS, June 1, Evening.
The Presse of this evening gives the following as
the result of the elections in Paris:—
"In the second arrondissement M. Thiers, the
Opposition candidate was elected by 11,112 votes,
against M. Devinek, the Government candidate,
who obtained only 9,857 votes.
" In the third arrondissement M. Emile 011ivier,
ex-deputy, Opposition candidate, was elected by
18,651 votes, against the Government candidate, M.
Varin, who received 9,957 votes.
" In the fourth arrondissement M. Ernest Picard,
ex-deputy, Opposition candidate, was elected by
17,046 votes, against General Perrot, ex-deputy, the
Government candidate, who received 6,487 votes.

" In the fifth arrondissement M. Jules Favre,
ea-
deputy, Opposition candidate, was elected by 18,655
votes, against M. Frederick Levy, Mayor of 11th
district, the Government candidate, who obtained
8,507 votes.

" In the sixth arrondissement M. Gueroult, chief
editor of the Opinion Nationale, Opposition candi-
date, obtained 10,717 votes; M. Fouche Lepelletier,
ex-deputy, Government caadidate, 9,323 votes; M.
Cochin, Opposition candidate, 6,000 votes; and M.
Prevost Paradol, editor of the Journal des Delats,
Opposition, 2,200 votes. None of the candidates
having obtained the two-thirds majority, requisite
by the electoral law, the ballot will be resorted to
in this district.

" The results of the elections in the eighth and
ninth arrondissements have not yet transpired."
The Lemps announces that M. Ilavin, political
editor of the Siecle, has been nominated by the
Opposition in the first arrondissement; and La
France states that the Opposition has nominated
M. Darimon, ex-deputy, in the seventh arrondis
cement,

PARIS, JUNE 2

Intelligence received from the provinces states
that MM. Berryer and Marie, candidates of the
Opposition, have been elected for Bouches-du-
Rhone, but it is doubtful whether M. Thiers has
also been chosen in that department.
In the department of the Nord, MM. Plichon,
Lambrecht, and Kolb-Bernard have been elected.
M. Thiers has failed at Valenciennes, and the
ballot has been resorted to in the 7th circum-
scription.

M. Betssieres has been elected at Strasbourg, ob.
taining 21,353 votes, and M. Barrot, 6,365.
M. Dafaure has failed in two circumscriptions of
the Charente Inferieure, and in the first circum-
scription of the Gironde, The numbers were for
M. Cure 6,782, Cavertiyon 6,992, Dufaure 3,240.
The ballot will be resorted to.

At Lyons M. Henon, candidate of the Opposition
was elected.

M. Thiers has also failed at Aix as well as at Va.

lenciennes.

PARIS, JUNE 2

All the Opposition candidates have been elected in
Paris, with the exception of the 6th district, in
which the ballot will be required.

The Constitutionnel, in an article signed by M.
Paulin Limayrac, states that the candidates, MM.
Dufaure, Montalembert, Barrot, Passy, Merode,
Dupont de l'Eure, L'Herbertte Glais Bazone, Kir-
drel Sonvenel, Renneville, Freslon, Charamond,
Flavigny St. Marc Girardin, de Civrac Bac, Jules
Lasteyrie, Mortemart, Prevost Paradol, Victor Le-
franc Barthelemy, Saint Hilaire de Mornay, the
Duke Decazes, and Gustave Beaumont, have failed
to be elected.

The writer continues—" The success of the Op-
position list in Paris was forwarded by the divisicn
produced in the ranks of the friends of the Govern-
ment by the attitude of the journal La France.
But in all the Departments the Government can-
didates are triumphant."

A letter has been published, addressed by the
Minister of Public Worship to the Archbishop and
Bishops who signed the memorandum recommend-
ing the electors not to abstain from voting. The
Minister censures this act as being in opposition