The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-27 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Sept. 26.—The market has been buoy-
ant, and stock having been in demand a rather
large amount of business has been done at improved
quotations. Threes, for the Account, which opened
at 69fr. 20c., are now firm at 69f. 30c. The Rail-
way Share Market has been also more animated,
and some of the lines show higher prices. The
ng to the close, and left

market continued improv
off as follows :

41 per Cents .. 96 25
Do. end month....
3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 45
Near 3 per Cents
Do. end month —
Credit Mobil ier 1017 50
Do. end month 1018 75

Bank Shares
Credit Foncier 1240
Piedmontese Fives 7l 50
Italian Loan 7l 60
Roman
Austrian .....
Spanish Threes 5l 75
Home Debt

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 1062 50 .. 1062 50
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1168 75 .. 1168 75
Geneva..
Southern B7O .. 870
Western
Eastern

Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

367 60 - --
477 50 .„ 482 50
611 25 „. 612 50
528 75 .. 530 -
608 76 .. 610 --
340 - .. 340

THE WAR IN AMERICA.

(Per North American, by telegraph to Cape Race
and from Londonderry.)
NEW YORK, SEPT. 15 (Evening).

Generals M'Clellan and Burnside passed through
Frederick, Maryland, on the 13th inst., and imme-
diately pressed forward in the direction of Hagers-
town to overtake the Confederates.

An official report from General M'Clelian, dated
head-quarters beyond Middletown, Sept. 14 (even-
ing), says :

" After a very severe engagement the corps of
General Hooker and Reno have carried the heights
commanding Hagerstown-road by storm. Our troops
behaved magnificently. Gen. Franklin has been
wholly engaged uu the extreme left, but Ido not
know the result, except that the firing indicates
progress on his part.

" The action continued after dark, and termi-
nated leaving us in possession of the entire crest of
the heights.
"It has been a glorious victory. I cannot yet
tell whether the enemy will retreat, or appear in
increased force in the morning. General Reno was
killed."

A second report from General M'Clellan, dated
head-quarters, 15th September, says :

" General Franklin's success on the left was com•
plete, resulting in his capture of the Gap. We
have a considerable number of prisoners. The
enemy disappeared during the night, but our troops
are advancing in pursuit. I do not know where
they will next be found.
" General Hooker reports from the advance that
the enemy is making for the river in a perfect panic.

" Later information just received completely con-
firms the news of the rout and demoralisation of
the rebel army. General Lee is reported to be
wounded. General Hooker has over 1,000 pri-
soners. It is stated that Gen. Lee gives his loss
at 15,000 men.

" We are following as rapidly as the men can

move."
It is reported that General " Stonewall" Jack-
son has recrossed the Potomac at Williamsport in
Virginia.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Money easy. Gold declining.
Exchange—Bankers' bills, 1291.
Stocks buoyant. New York Central, 96; Illi-
nois, 64f ; Erie, 401.
Cotton quiet—middling upland, 57c. Flour and
wheat in good demand for export. Corn, good in-
quiry. Provisions dull. Coffee, sugar, and mo-
lasses quiet.

SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 27.

The North German Lloyd's steamer Bremen,
from New York on the 13th inst., arrived off the
Needles at 10.35 a.m.

BLOIVDIN COMING DOWN HEAD FORE-

3108 T.

At four o'clock yesterday, at the Crystal Palace, Blondin
fulfilled his promise to "descend a rope, head foremost, to
the ground." The wording of the promise had, as was
doubtless intended, awakened attention to the at least
double entendre.

From the ordinary Blondin rope in the curved top of the
central transept another was carried to the floor in front of
the orchestra, this rope running into a hollow pedestal.
Blondin having gone through all his usual feats on the rope,
handed over the pole to his assistants, and began his tricks
on the perpendicular rope. It cannot be said he began at
once to descend, for he dallied, played, and went up and
down, as if he feared to complete his task too soon and too
easily. When he began the real work of descending, he
held on and worked down the rope, apparently with the
muscles of the calves of his legs principally, certainly not
hand or arm. Throwing his head clear of the rope, spread-
ing out his hands, he spun round, letting himself down at
will. He brought up every 40 or 50 feet as if he were
muting down in too ordinary a way. He then twice turned
his back on the rope and lowered himself in that fashion,
his feet and legs seemingly being much trusted to. While
Blondin was feeling for the rope over his head in this part of
the feat, his position looked very dangerous to the unini-
tiated. It was positively a relief to see him return to the
ordinary gyrations round the rope with his hands
i out-
spread. Ile concluded his descent into the pedestal n this
fashion. He seems quite as much at home tu "coming
down head foremost" as in any other feat connected with
his rope-walking. After having disappeared through the
floor, Blondin, as if to assure the spectators of his con-
tinued vitality, bowed his acknowledgments from the or-
chestra, and was much cheered. The band of the G divi-
sion of metropolitan police afterwards played several
pieces.

Mr. Simon Fraser, the discoverer of Fraser river,
British Columbia; had recently died at St. Andrew's,
Canada West,