The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-15 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Aug. 14.—Two o'clock.—The attend-
ance is' so thin that the Bourse can hardly be said
to be seriously opened ; everybody is much more
occupied with to-morrow's great fete than with busi-
ness. 11,050 North of Spain and 3,025 Credit Mo-
biller Shares are demanded to be discounted to-day.
In spite of those enormous demands, the only two
quotations known on Threes up to the present hour
are 67f. 95c. and 67f. 97ie., with a fractional ad-
vance on the closing quotations of Saturday. Credit
Mobilier have had the following quotations-768f.
75c., 762 f. 50c., 766 f. 25c., and North of Spain
198 f. 75c., 201 f. 25c., 197 f. 50e. Consols are tele-
graphed from London without any change. Three
o'clock.—The Stock which has attracted most at-
tention has been the Mexican Loan, which has ad-
vanced 1 per cent.—to 271, on the belief that the
long-expected conversion will take place next month.
Prices improved a little towards the close, which
took place at the following quotations :

4} per Cents 97 50
Do. end month —
per Cents. 6B
Do. end month 67 95
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 8590
Credit Foncier —
Italian Loan 65
Do. end month 65

Ditto Threes
Mexican Loan 47 75
Do. Bonds
Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Rome Debt
Deferred
Roman —

KLYS.
Cash. Acct.
.••• 850
... 1067 50
;:.. 856 25
... 563 75

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Boman

526 25
... 270 ---

.-- -- ~.
---
405 -

_ - ... 480 -
_ - ... 200 -
_ - .., 315 -

222 50

A SINGULAR TELEGRAPHIC BLUNDER.—One of
the office-bearers of the Grand Lodge of Scotland,
who had to attend the ceremony of laying the foundation-
stone of the memorial to the Duke of Athole at Logierait
on Thursday, loft Edinburgh on Wednesday without his
cooked hat. On discovering the omission he telegraphed
from a station on the Inverness and Perth line to his wife
in Edinburgh, " Send my cocked hat --- to-morrow."
Our readers may judge of his consternation when, on the
following day, his friend put into his band, not the miss-
ing article of attire, but a parcel of "cooked barn," into
which words it appeared the telegraph clerks had trans-
formed the message !—Dundee Advertiser.
" OUT OF TOWN."—Yesterday, at the Sheriffs'
Court, Red Lion-square, in a railway compensation case,
only 'four" out of 21 special jurors attended, and a tules
was prayed. The answer was that the special jurymen
were "o-at of town."

Yet there is deep anxiety felt about the situation
on the Rio Grande, and it cannot be denied that
the majority of the American people would like to
see a war there. Every one who supported the
Government in the war against the South hates the
French, and would like nothing better than to send
American troops to drive Maximilian out of Mexico.
Southern sympathisers, however, sympathise with
Maximilian, and feel sure that if American neu-
trality is preserVed, Juarez wi'l be defeated. His
party is looked upon, much as the per se Aboli-
tionists are regarded in the North, as men always
anxious to stir up commotions and keep the world
in continual broils. The unanimous opinion of
both parties is that without American aid Juarez
never can be successful, and, as a necessary conse-
quence, a continual battery is kept up upon the
authorities at Washington to compel them to send
him aid, or to embroil the French and Americans on
the Rio Grande, so as to keep the greater part of
Maximilian's troops busy. A war between the French
and Americans on the Rio Grande is not improbable,
yet both President Johnson and Maximilian are
anxious to preserve the strictest neutrality. M. Eloin,
Maximilian's agent, is in New York, and he denies
that he has ever been in Washington importuning
the President for a recognition of the empire ; and
neither he nor any other representative of Maximilian
will go there on any errand, until the doors of the
White House stand wide open to receive them. There
is no longer any doubt that Maximilian has given up
the cannon sold to his troops by the Confederates, for
we have received advices of their formal surrender at
Brownsville on July 10. Although no intercourse is
permitted between the French and American armies
on the Rio Grande, and the officers and men hate
each other most cordially, yet the only chance of a
battle is from the intermeddling of Cortinas, who
flies about Matamoros, and crosses from one side to
the other of the Rio Grande with his handful of
Juarists, evidently with no other object than to em-

broil the French and Americans. Our latest news is
to July 14, and at that time he had not been successful,
and it is to be hoped that prudent officers on both
sides the Rio Grande will checkmate his efforts.

On July 12 the Texas Bank of the Rio Grande
was picketed by American troops from the mouth of
the stream up to Brownsville. The French held the
opposite shore, and in many places the pickets of
the two armies were not more than 40 yards apat
In this picket line and at Matamoras the French are
supposed to have about 18,000 men. In the Fede-
ral line there are 17,400 men, about 6,000 being
negroes. There are many other Federal troops in
Texas, 5,000 being at Galveston, 6,000 negroes

under General Weitzel on the march, by way of San
11 Antonio to the Upper Rio Grande, and at least 12,000
1 cavalry under Custer and Morritt, crossing the nor-
thern part of the State, also to encamp on the Upper
Rio Grande. At the rate these troops were march-
ing they were expected to reach the neighbourhood
of Piedras Negras in the lasi week of July. No
doubt in the first week of August they will be en-

camped along the Rio Grande, and will gradually
extend their lines down towards Browrsville. The
Liberals hold the Rio Grande, where Custer and
Morritt have charge, and they no doubt will look on
each other with great kindness ; yet the instructions
to preserve neutral'ty, given to all the American
generals, are so strict that if they are obeyed no
complications can possibly follow. Some days in ad-
vance of the march of Custer and Morritt are many
small parties of Conservative soldiers on their way
to*Mexico. We have reports that two of these parties
—one led by Kirby Smith, the other by Shelby, have
been stopped by the Liberals near Piedras Negras,
paroled, deprived of their arms and waggons, and
then allowed to cross into Mexico. Many other
parties, however, have succeeded in crossing and
eluding the Liberals, and as Maximilian is straight-
ened for troops, they are, no doubt, gladly welcomed
to his army.

With the merits of the Mexican contest Ameri-
cans have very little to do, and beyond the general
impression that the Liberals are hopelessly defeated
very little is known of the actual progress of the
war. The reports from Mexico are vague and con-

flicting, and, in addition to the falsehoods invented
by both parties there, American speculators invent

ten times as many here. It is stated, apparently
on good authority, that 12,000 French troops, an
additional force for Maximilian, arrived at Tampico
about July 2. There are no organised movements
in any part of the United States to procure aid for

either party. The Government puts a stop to any-
thing that may result in a breach of neutralii,y, and
the only aid the Liberals get is sent clandestinely,
and must be very small. MaximiPan gets much
more, but not nearly so much as is reported, his help
only being the addition to his army of gipsy-like
bands of discharged Confederate soldiers, who are

very little accustomed to the restraints of. camps or
the strict discipline of the French armies.
A movement, which will no doubt have much
effect in cementing the union between North and
South, has been decided upon by the bishop of the
Protestant Episcopal Church. This Church was the

only Protestant body which before the war had not

split into factions upon the slavery question. A
general convention of the bishops and clergy will
meet in Philadelphia in October next, and the
Northern bishops have sent to the Southern ones

invitations breathing the spirit of kindness and
brotherly love, asking them to return to their places
.in the convention. If any or all of the Southern
bishops choose to be present, they will only need to
present their credentials, answer to their names, and
tQke their seats as of old, without doubt, question,
or condition of any sort whatever. The Church.
Journal, the organ of the Episcopal Church in
America, assures the Southern bishops that they
will be most heartily welcomed, and that although
there are a few Radicals in the Church who would

favour the passage of incendiary resolutions, the

constant course of all the general conventions since
the war began has been to frown down such pro-
ceedings. If by-these means the Episcopal Church
throughout the country can be reunited it will go
a great way towards restoring good feeling between
the sections. Nearly all the men of wealth and high
social position North and South are of that faith.
The unity of that Church and of the Roman Catho-
lic Church, both having the strongest Conservative
tendencies, will do much to aid the efforts making,
both North and South, 'for a restoration of the
Union.

President Johnson has recently pardoned several
Southern men on condition that they leave the
country and never return, and in many parts of the
South the planters seriously discuss such a course.
Brazil is generally preferred by the would-be emi-
grants, though very few carry out their scheme, on
account of not having the money to pay their way
and the necessity of parting with their slaves, for no
man is allowed to take his slaves out of the country
with him, they being considered as free as he is.