The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-20 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Nov. 19.—The business done has been
limited, but no further decline in Rente has taken
place—Threes, for the Account, remaining firm at
70f. 25c. The Credit Mobilier show a slight fall.
The Italian Loan has been heavy, and is quoted at
70f. 80c. Railway Shares quiet. The market
cloud as follows :

4t per Cents .. 97 50
Do. end month....
3 per Cents
Do. end month 7O 30
New 3 per Cents
Do. end month —
Credit Mobilier 1062 50
Do. end month 1065 -
RAIL'

Bank Shares 3345
Credit Fancier 1290
Piedmontese Fives 71
Italian Loan 7l 10
Roman
Austrian
Spanish Threes 52 N
[lonia Debt ..
VATS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 1053 .. 1050
Northern
New ditto • ..
Lyons and Mediterranean 1145 .. 1146 25
'Geneva..
Southern .. 832 50 .. 835
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa.. 630 632 50
Ditto to Barcelona 338 75 .. 340

PROPOSED 1115DIA7ION IN AMERICA

The following is the reply of the Russian Govern-
ment to the French proposal of mediation in

Ameria :

"DESPATCH OF PRINCE GORTSCHAKOFF TO M. D'OUBRIL,
CHARGE D'AFFAIRES OF RUSSIA AT PARIS.

" Sir,—l herewith enclose you a copy of a des-
patch from M. Drouyn de Lhuys, which the Duke
of Montebello has been charged to communicate
to us.

" It concerns the affairs of North America, and its
object is to invite us to an entente with France and
England to take advantage of the actual lassitude
of the parties to propose, in common; a suspension
of hostilities.

" In reply to this overture, I reminded the French
Ambassador of the solicitude which our august
master has never ceased to feel for the American
conflict from its very onset, a solicitude caused by
the amicable relations existing between the two
countries, and of which the Imperial Cabinet has
given public proofs. I have assured him that no-
thing could better respond to our wishes than to see
the termination approach of a struggle which we
deplore, and that to this effect our Minister at
Washington has instructions to seize every favour-
able opportunity to recommend moderation and con-
ciliation, so as to appease conflicting passions, and
lead to a wise settlement of the interests at stake.
I admitted that such counsels would certainly have
greater weight if presented simultaneously and. in
the same friendly manner by the Great Powers who
take an interest in the issue of this conflict.

" But I added that, in our opinion, what ought
specially to be avoided was the appearance of any
pressure whatsoever of a nature to wound pubic
opinion in the United States, and to excite suscep-
tibilities very easily aroused at the bare idea of
foreign intervention. Now, according to the infor-
mation we have hitherto received, we are inclined to
believe that a combined step between France, Eng-
land, and Russia, no matter how conciliatory and
cautiously done, if it -was taken with an official and
collective character, would run the risk of causing
precisely the very opposite of the object of pacifica-
tion, which is the aim of the wishes of the three
Courts:

" We have, therefore, drawn the conclusion, that
if the French Government should persist in deeming
a formal and collective step opportune, and that if the
English Cabinet shares that opinion, it would be im-
possible for us, at the distance we are at, to anti-
cipate the manner in which such a measure would
be received. Bat it, in that case, our Minister
should not participate officially, his moral support
is not the less acquired beforehand to any attempt
at conciliation.

" By giving it to his colleagues of France and
of England under the friendly form (forme offieieuse)
which be might deem best suited to avoid the ap-
pearance of pressure, M. de Stoeckl will only be
continuing the position and language which, by
order of our august master, he has never ceased to
observe since the commencement of the American

quarrel.
" It is in this sense that I invite you to explain
yourself to the,French Minister of Foreign Affairs
in reply to the communication he has made to us.--
I am, 84.0. " GORTSCHAKOFF,

" St. Petersburg, Oct. 27 (Nov. 8), 1862."

DEBUT 01 MDLLE. PAT7I IN PARIS.

(From Galignani's Messenger.)

One of the most brilliant successes witnessed in Paris for
many years attended the debut of the above-named young
lady at the Italian Opera on Sunday night. The opera
selected for the occasion was " La Sonnambula," and fre-
quently as we have listened to that beautiful work, from
which the favour of the Parisian has never swerved for a
single season since Bellini first gave it to the world, and
in which we have therefore year after year heard those
great mistresses of the art, Mdmes. Persiani, Sontag, and
Cruvelli, to say nothing of lesser lights, yet it has never
been our fortune to meet a representative of the gentle vil-
lage maiden, so peculiarly qualified by every gift of nature
--grace, youth, charm of person, feeling, and expression,
to say nothing of loveliness of voice and marvellous powers
of execution—as we find united in Mdlle. Adelina Patti.
Her voice is a high soprano, clear, resonant, and bril-
liant in tone, and disciplined to a perfection that opens
an entirely new view as to the extent vocal education is
culled in America, for it is understood that, though of
Italian birth, our new nightingale owes her musical tuition
wholly to the United States. But her voice, beautiful as it
is, is yet not the highest of her gifts, for the feeling and
pathos she displayed as an actress in the deeper portions of
the character won her an ovation the like of which is sel-
dom witnessed in this city. L.ecall upon recall, bouquets,
and overwhelming plaudits followed in succession, and
it may be questioned if Mdlle. Patti ever received a wel-
come more hearty, cordial, and enthusiastic in any capital
she has visited than from the proverbially cold public of
the Italian Opera House in Paris. For the present we
shall conclude by one word to express our admiration—in
common with the entire audience—of her execution in the
delicious finale of the opera, " Ah, non giunge," every tone
of which breathed the spirit of ecstatic joy, and so close with
hearty congratulations on her brilliant and most deserved
success.-

The following was posted yesterday at. Lloyd's
It ie reported that a steamer has left Liverpool with a
view of capturing or destroying veesels and cargoes sailing
under the Federal flag, and that another will shortly fol.
low," -

NEW ADELPHI THEATRE.

TARTUFFE.

The chef d'ouvre of Moliere was revived in its
English version at this theatre last evening, for the
benefit of. Mr. Anson, the able treasurer
of the house, and with the view of
gratifying the public with one of the
most masterly delineations which our English
stage presents. Genius is always shown by its
sympathies, since it does best what it loves most,
and it is no little triumph for Mr. Webster that he
can say his best success has been in the
highest effort of the greatest comic poet of
modern times. Wr.oever sees him in this
character will see him in his strength. The per-
formance is an evidence of that rare union of quali-
ties which can not only balance breadth of concep-
tion with exactness of detail, but interpret with
equal fidelity the outer and inner life of
man—and thus rise to the higher adjustment of the
accidental and the enduring. The Tartuffe of Mr.
Webster is not more the jesuit of the old French
court than he is the jesuit of our own day. True in form l
to one of the periods, he is true in soul to both. We
have only to peel off the picturesque shell of dress
and expression of the Renaissance to find the core
of passions and purposes of 1862 beneath. It is
thus acting becomes an art, and rises to its claim of
a mental instrument, and it is the possession of this
art which sets Mr. Webster apart as one
of the true comedians of his day. Of the admirable
detail of this performance, familiar as it is to the
public, we can have no occasion to say a word.
Mr. Webster was warmly welcomed on his en-
trance on this occasion—was followed with marked
attention through all his leadir.g scenes, and loudly
called for at the close. He was most worthily sup-
ported by the Dorine of Mrs. Mellon—a con-
ception that was steeped just as truly in the
of Moliere, ana executed with a warmth
and naturalness that no other slotrooa of mir day
could parallel. The other entertainments were the
farce of " Ici on Parle Francaise," the comic scene
of "Blue Beard," by Mr. and Mrs. Howard Paul,
and the second act of " The Green Bushes," in which
Miss Avonia Jones manifested all her extraordinary
powers.
The house was crowded to the roof.