The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-31 00:00:00

TUE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY E V NIN(4, 3UL Y. 31, .1.863

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

MEXICO.

PARIS, JULY 31.

The report of Marshal Forey, dated 14th June,
giving an account of the operations of the French
army in Mexico, up to that date, has been pub-
lished this morning.
Marshal Forey states that he had sent a column
to protect the mines at Real del Monte, which the
enemy intended to plunder, and to destroy the en-
gines. The Marshal announces that he is occupied
in forming a Provisional Government, which, fol-
lowing the intentions of the Emperor, will be com-
posed of men of moderate views, belonging to all
parties.

The news of General Marin having taken San
Juan Baptista, and of Colonel Dupin having occu-
pied Huatuses, has been confirmed.
The Constitutionnel of this morning publishes an
article, signed by M. de Limayrac, dwelling ener-
getically upon the insufficiency of the Russian
reply.

THE BRAZIL MAIL.

LISBON, JULY 30.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship
Magdalena, which arrived here to-day from the
Brazils, will leave for Southampton at 6 p.m., with
106 passengers, £15,074 in specie, 300 bales of
tobacco, and 385 packages of sundries.

BUENOS AYRES, JUNE 28.
Cordova is in the hands of the insurgents. •
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Exchange, 665., no takers; ounces, 463. Wet
salted ox hides, 371 ; dry American, 36 to 37 ;
wool firm ; tallow 141 ; lumber, 32 ; flour nominal;
refined sugar, 16.

The scarcity of gold continues.
MONTE VIDEO, JUNE 30.
Exchange, 51 (?). Wet salted hides, 5.65 ; dry
American, 4.50 to 5; dry German, 5.40. Wool,
none at market. Tallow, 1,72 k.
Political affairs unsettled.

DENMARK.

FLENSBURG, JULY 31.

The Schleswig Diet was closed yesterday, on
account of the necessary number of deputies not
having attended.

In the evening the loyal inhabitants of this city,
headed by a band of music, made a demonstration
in honour of the Royal Commissioner and the loyal
deputies,
who were warmly cheered.

SPAIN.
MADRID, JULY 30.

At the monthly auction for the sinking fund of
the Passive Debt to-day the prices fixed by the
Government were for the foreign portion 34.14;
for the seriee of the home Passive 36.10; and for
the second series, 24.10.
The tenders sent in for the foreign passive ranged
from 33.97 to 37.50 ; for the first series of the home
portion from 36.25 to 36.65; and for the second
series from 24.10 to 24 24.

FRANCE,
PAnls, Friday, July 31.

L' Union observes almost in a tone of anguish to-
day, "Assuredly it is a singularly painful situation,
in the presence of permanent anxieties of opinion,
to have the power of replying only with silence to
the questions prfsiing upon us now so urgently !
More particularly when the situation has reference
to an alternative no less momentous than that of
peace or war." Continuing
in the same strain,
the writer adds frankly, "For ourselves we have
no pretension to repeat the echoes of the Diplo-
matic Olympus . • • No, Alas! we known
nothing ! We know nothing, that is as to the
positive disposition of the three Courts; and the
Royal Speech at the closing of the English Parlia-
ment does not tend in any way to enlighten us in
our ignorance."
La France, en the other hand, appears disposed
not only to affect as usual an intimate knowledge
of what is going on behind the scenes, but almost to
predict very confidently something like an amicable
settlement.
L' Opinion Nationale contents itself with refer-
ring, in a tone of satisfaction, to the continuance
still of the perfect identity visible in the Polish
policy respectively France, England, and Austria.
.Le Siecle remarks, for its part, rather enigmati-
cally, for the phrase might mean just anything or
nothing, " we are now ttaversing that phase of
conjectures which invariably precuds great move-
ments and decisive events."
Le Pays, on the contrary, deems it advisable in
regard to the situation of France (and conse-
quently, of course, of all Europe), so far as its re-
marks can at all tend to do so—to dissipate ill-con-
. animation. T h e
ill-con-
sidered solicitude in reference to that "situation,"
and to calm as much as impatiencepossiblmeat:t continues
of all.
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The market closed as follows

_
lt per Cent 5....... 96 80 Italian Loan 7l 50
Do. end month.... 67 15 Do. end month —
Nevi, ditto
3 per Cents ...... 71. 55
Do. end month.... 66 97 Do. end month —
Credit. Mobilier.... 1050 Russian ..
Do. end month.... 1047 50 Austrian
Bank Shares ...... 3370 -- Spanish Threes 52 75
Credit koncier .... 1255 Rome Debt

RA IL

WAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans lOO2 50 .. 998 75
Northern .. ..
New ditto = • --- • • ---
Lyons and Mediterranean 1015 .. 1013 75
Geneva 4BB 75 .. 487 50
Southern ......
Western
Eastern
Sardinian 407 60 .. 407 50
Austrian
hou.hard
North of Spain
Saragossa 685 .. 672 50
Ditto to Barcelona

BEIVICK'S BIRDS —There is no man who has set
forth natural history so captivatingly as Bewick ;
and that, not because of the dry bones of a text, but through
the art which Horace ssys brings .objects before the faithful
eyes—the pictorial art. And in a double way. His birds
themselves are admirable, perfect in shape and attitude,
glossy of feather, and placed characteristically on bough,
rock, or marsh-encircled island ; but, besides, they are
served up with a garnish of vignettes, or tailpieces, which
sometimes admirably illustrate bird .life and bird-habits ; at
others, relieve the monotony of the subject by a dash into
the highest realms of humour. It is more particularly in
this last aspect of a genial artist that we would now chiefly
regard Thomas Bewick . . . . We value our Bewick be-
cause nowhere else do we find within the compass of two
volumes such a full and quaint pictorial exhibition of a
lively fancy, of a half-mournful satiric vein, of an acquain-
tance with nature; such vivid proofs that the artist has
been on many a lonely moor, has leant his ear in many a
solitary place, has watched the wild, the farmhouse, the
snow-storm, the wimpling brook, and the ocean, at hours
when no eye but his was watching ; has caught animal
motion and passion in the act of moving and feeling, and
has struck such a rapid diapson of human life from infancy
to age, that to call him post were not to exaggerate his
achievements.—Dickens's " All the Year Round."
A WONDERFUL ORCHESTRAL ACCOMPANIMENT.
—The lovely movement of the adagio, commencing
with the words " Notte d'amor, tutussplendor," in Gounod's
"Faust," is led up to, says an able musical critic in the
Saturday Review,
by about a dozen bars in which the com-
poser has displayed his especial skill in the use of the harp,
in combination with flutes, hautboys, bassoons, horns, and
the strings ; the strings and the wind at last falling away,
so to say, into an ascending and a descending scale, in a key
far removed from that of the opening phrase, absolutely re.
quiring a distinctly marked crescendo, and yet terminating
in a prolonged chord. so soft and equably sustained, not-
withstanding the sudden entrance of trumpets, trombones,
and drums, as to allow the harp arpeggios, which have been
continued unbroken, to be heard clear throughout the whole
volume of sound.