The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-07 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BoußsE, July s.—The market continues to im-
prove in firmness and animation, but prices up to
this time show no improvement on the closing rates
of yesterday, Threes, for the account, being un-
varied at 68f. 45c, Railway Share Market also
firm. The market closed as follows :

4t per Cents 97 25
Do, end month —

Bank Shares 3140
Credit Fancier —

3 per Cents
Do. end month 6B 50
New 3 per Cents
Do. end month —
Credit Mobilier 827 50
Do. end month —

Piedmontesc Fives 73 30
Italian Loan 7O 75
Roman —
Austrian
Spanish Threes —
Home Debt

RAILWAYS.
Cash.
Orleans 1275
Northern .... lOO6 25 ..
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1037 50 .. 1091 25
Geneva.. —

Account.

Southern
Western

813 75 .. 816 25
553 75 .. 552 50

Eastern

541 25 :: 640 -

Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard

490 - 492 50
6.8 75 .. 611 25

CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, JULY 6.

The Royal Mail steamship Africa arrived here
at 2.15 p.m. to-day. She brings 186 passengers and
63,791 dols. in specie. She landed all the mails
and 13 passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at
6.30. All well. The Africa experienced very
foggy weather and easterly winds.

NEW YORK, JUNE 24, Evening.

The Confederates claim the victory in the battle
fought near Charleston on the 16th. No Northern
account of the engagement has been yet received.
1 MILLCI.I4 &ALIALU is
•-•
to West Point to consult General Scott.

The judgment against the Circassian declares
that papers were found on board giving conclusive
proof of a deliberate intention to run the blockade.
The Federal War Department has offered two
dollars premium and one month's pay in advance
to all recruits.
No material change has oecurred at New Orleans.
General Butler has condemned one alderman and
the chairman of the Ladies Relief Committee to
hard labour with ball and chain in Fort Jackson.
The controversies between General Butler and the
foreign consuls continue. The acting British con-
sul Coppell, having asked information concerning
the oaths to be administered to foreign residents,
General Butler replied that no answer would be
given until Mr. Coppell's credentials and preten-
sions were recognised by the British Govern-
ment and the Federal Executive. All attempts
at official action on Mr. Coppell's part must
cease, his credentials having been asked for, but
not exhibited. _

Great excitement prevailed on the Isthmus of
Panama. A body of General Mosquera's troops
having landed at Aspinwall, the Governor of
Panama had ordered the citizens to arm themselves,
but eventually compromised by permitting Mos-
quera's troops to go to Panama.
Both Houses of Congress have passed the Tax
Bill. The tax imposed upon cotton amounts to
half a cent. per lb.
A Committee of the House of Representatives
has passed an amendment authorising the issue of
one hundred and fifty million dollars demand
notes, with the privilege to the Secretary of the
Treasury to issue notes of less value than five
dollars.
The Bremen and the Etna have arrived out.

[LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO HALIFAX.]
NEW YORK, JUNE 26th, Evening.

General M'Clellan reports officially that the
pickets on the left of his army before Richmond
had been considerably advanced, under a sharp
resistance from the Confederates. The pickets and
lines of the Federals under Generals Heintzelman
sod Hooker were where he wished them to be. The
affair was over, and he had gained his point with
little loss. Notwithstanding strong opposition, the
Confederates were driven out of their camp in front.
The ground gained was a swamp, with thick un
derbrush, beyond which is an open country. The
position gained is considered important.
The House of Representatives has passed the
Treasury Note Bill.
Both Houses of Congress have passed the Pacific
Railroad Bill.

The New York Tribune says that General Jack •
Non has been checked, Generals Fremont, Shields,
and Batiks having combined their forces.
The Jura has arrived out.

Money abundant. Gold 91 per cent. premium.
Exchange unsettled at 120 to 1201. Stocks ad-
vancing. Cotton buoyant; middling upland 3G,
Provisions steady,

A report Which lately emanated from Madrid
regarding the renunciation of his claims to the Spanish
throne by Don Juan de Bourbon seems to have been well
founded. In consideration of this act, it is alleged, the
Queen reinstates him in his rank and titles, and re-conveys
to him the large forfeited estates of his father, Don Carlos.
Should the Prince in his new position retain the temperate
and liberal views of government he has frequently avowed
during his residence in this country, the arrangement may
have a beneficial influence on Spanish politics and also on
Spanish credit, since he is known to entertain a strong
opinion with regard to the stigma that must rest upon the
nation so long as the confiscation practised on the English
bondholders shall remain unremedied;