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, rempining 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
closed as follows :

It per Cents 97 501 Bank Shares 3345 -
Do. end month.... Credit F oncier 1290 -

3 per Cents
Do. end month 7O 30
(stew 3 per Cents
Do. end month —
Credit Mobilier 1062 50
Do, end month 1065
HA IL

Piedmontese Fives. 71
Italian Loan 7l 10
Roman—
• Austrian
Spanish Threes 62 60
Home Debt .. sok

Cash. Account.
Orleans lO5l .. 1050
Northern
New ditto —
Lyons and Mediterranean 1145 .. 1146 25
Geneva 350
Southern

Western

Eastern
Sardinian 3BO
Austrian
LON' bard

North of Spain
Saragossa 630 .. 632 50
Ditto to Barcelona 338 75 .. 340

PROPOSED MEDIA7ION IN AMERICA

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

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

" Sir,—l herewith enclose yon 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 hosti,lities.

" 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. But if, 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
o f England under the friendly form (forme ogicieuse)
which he 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
iu eply to the oomroueiontinin ha have mad° to
I am, &c. " GORTSCHAKOFF,

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

DEBUT OF MDLLE. PAI7I 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 fur 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
carried 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. E,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 is reported that a steamer has left Liverpool with a
view of capturing or destroying vessels and cargoes sailing
under the Federal flag, and that another will shortly fol-
low."