The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-13 00:00:00

MEXICO.

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Respecting the reported death of Gen, Zaragoza,
La Presse publishes the following
"A private despatch from Vera Cruz announces
that the rumour was generally accredited in that
city that General Zaragoza had been put to death by
his own soldiers. The rumour requires confirma-
tion."

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i4'RANCE.

BOURSE, October 11.—There have been a few
sales for liquidation,
but no very material down-
ward effect has been produced. Threes for the

.f. 85c. Railway Shares
,d as follows :
Bank Shares 3225
Credit Foneier 1275
Piedmontese Fives 73 65
Italian Loan 74 3u
Roman
Austrian
Spanish Threes 521
Rome Debt

Account, are now at 71
quiet. The market close(
/ per Cents .. 98 75
Do end month....
per Cents
Do. end month 7l 85
New 3 per Cents
Do. end month —
Credit Mobilier 1200
Do. end month 12071

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 1057 50 .. 1055
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1185 -- .. 1187 50
Geneva..
Southern BB5 .. 886 25
Western
Eastern . ...
Sardinian 3BO ..
Austrian
Lorrbard
North of Spain
Saragossa 622 50 .. 625
Ditto to Barcelona 345 .. 347 50

AMERICA.

(Per Arabia by telegraph to Halifax and via

Queenstown.)

NEW YORK, OCT. 2, Morning_

The excitement on the Stock Exchange yester-
day increased without the influence of either mili-
tary or political news. The market was very active,
and closed buoyant at an advance of 1 to 2 per
cent.

Advices from New Orleans report that a large
number of people have taken the oath of allegianc3
to avoid the penalties of the Confiscation Act, which
General Butler is rigidly going to enforce.
The operations of the civil law have been resumed
in New Orleans. The sheriff had opened six dis-
trict courts. The country below New Orleans is
much troubled by Confederate marauding parties,
and a provost-marshal has been appointed for both
sides of th© river.

Twenty guerillas have surrendered themselves.
The Federal gunboat Iroquois has been sent to the
mouth of Rio Grande.

The British prize steamers Circassian, Memphis,
Bermuda, Stettin, and Columbia are being fitted
out as Federal cruisers.

Mr. Simon Draper, of New York, has been ap-
pointed provost-master-general of the United States.
The steamer Victoria, from Sabine Pass, and the
steamer Cuba, from Mobile, have arrived at Havana
with combined cargoes of 1,300 bales of cotton.
The Confederate Congress has passed a new Con-
scription Act, to include all able-bodied men be-
tween the ages of 35 and 45.
Southern reports state that an engagement
occurred between the Federal gun-boat Santiago de
Cuba and the Confederate steamer 290, in which
the former was riddled with shot, and forced to
retreat. The report, however, is not entirely
credited.
The New York Herald asserts that Mr. Eli
Thayer is appointed military governor of Florida,
to carry out the scheme of introducing into the
Southern States a loyal labouring population.
• The Government will equip from 10,000 to 20,000
six months' volunteers, and station them in the
States to be thus influenced. Each volunteer will
receive a homestead of public lands, and free trans-
portation for his family to the principal port of the
State where they are located.
It is intended by this means to infuse into the
Southern States an industrious and loyal popula-
tion, in order to protect the Union men.

It is supposed that the manufacturing and pro-
ductive districts of England can be made to contri-
bute to this emigration.

The Federal War Department has determined
upon the exchange of State prisoners with the rebel
Government.

Heavy Federal reinforcements are being sent to
Hilton Head and along the shores of the Broad
River.

It is supposed this is preparatory to an attack
upon Charleston.
The steamer Vanderbilt is being converted into
a man-of-war to carry 12 guns of heavy calibre.
She, it is believed, will be the fastest vessel in the
Federal service.

The Confederate Congress have authorised the
issue of 5,000,000 dols. in copper coin, of denomi-
nations of 5, 10, and 25 cents.
A letter from Louisiana is published in the Pro
valence Journal, stating that the Confederate Go.
vernment intends to emancipate and arm at least
400,000 negroeS, and use them against the Federal
Government, with the determination to rule or
ruin.

The New York Times thinks that General M'Clel-
lan's report represents a fearful picture of life
wasted in South Mountain and Antietam battles,
and thinks the price paid was worth the capture
or annihilation of the rebel army, and asks what
officer, or what difficulties of country, or what
combination of circumstances is to be held respon-
sible for this worst of bargains.

The Albany Argus states that General M'Clellan
has issued full reports of the battles in which he
has been engaged, but that they have been sup-
pressed by the War Department.
The Federal Post-office Department has issued a
notice that any letter mailed with the stamps at all
soiled or defaced will be treated as unpaid. The
New York press generally strongly condemns the
course of the Government in thus repudiating its
own stamps. The New York Tinzes says they have
now no intrinsic value. They are not a legal tender,
nobody will redeem them, and they will not pay
the postage. The public might as well take wooden
buttons or pebble stones, for they would have as
much value.

V.
The Mayor of New York vetoed on Sunday the
resolutions of the Board of-Aldermen, declaring that
emancipation would be dangerous to the national
welfare. These resolutions were passed previous to
President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation.
The mayor in his veto strongly approves of the
proclamation, and thinks it must give the death-
blow to the rebellion. He also disapproves the
proposal of the aldermen to create a new com-
mittee formed for the committee on Union national
affairs and a number of delegates from each of the
political committees of the city. The mayor thinks
that a committee thus constituted would assume a
partizan character, acting in sympathy with the
views of that party with which the majority of its
members would be identified, and would soon be-
come a strongly political rather than a patriotic
committee.
The Governor-General of Canada and the Lieu-
tenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, accompanied by
a large suite, have arrived at Chicago for the pur-
pose of a hunting excursion in the western prairies.

THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.—The opening of
this important line of railway will not now be delayed for
more than a few days, and but for the small requirement of
Col. Yolland, the Government inspector, it would have
been opened for traffic this day. An alteration in the shape
and size of the glass lamps of the signals has been consi-
dered necessary, and, with this exception, everything has
been approved. The permanent way, the switches and
poir ts, the bridges and stations—all in fact that relates to
the working of the line—have been found satisfactory, and
the contractors and officers of the company have been com-
plimented in the highest manner by the Government in-
spector for the admirable manner in which the works have
been executed. The brickwork of the tunnel and the re-
taining wall has been highly praised, as also the construc-
tion of the bridges, and the station accommodation. The
arrangements for working the line are completed, and the
engines and carriages are all ready. Further trials have
shown that the plan of consuming the smoke and steam by
the locomotive engines has perfectly succeeded, and after a
couple of engines had been running backwards and forwards
during the whole day, no disagreeable effect arose from any
of the products of combustion in the tunnel. It has been
decided that the trains will start from Paddington and Far-
ringdon-street every 10 minutes, from 8 in the morning till
Bin the evening. Fr om 6to 8 o'clock in the morning, and
from 8 to 12 at night, the trains will run only every 20
minutes. Express trains will start every hour, running the
whole distance from Paddington to Farringdon-street in 10
minutes. With these exceptions all the trams will stop at
the intermediate stations, the time occupied in the whole
journey being 15 minutes. The lowest fare taken will be
2d., and this will be charged between any intermediate
stela, n, and the lowest through fare will be 3d. There are
three classes of carriages, first, second, and third ; all, how-
ever, equally well lighted by the gas carried with the train.
The second-class carriages 'are fitted with cushions, the
third are light, spacious, and well ventilated, and the first
are roomy, exceedingly comfortable, and even luxurious in
their gentral style and fitting,---Observer.

SPORTING NOTES.

NEWMARKET SECON OCTOBER MEETING.

The meeting commences to-day, but the events to be
decided are of no great importance, unless the handicap
over the Cesarewitch Course should throw some light over
the great race of to-morrow. The following table will
show, at a glance, the winners, starters, age, weight, and
value of the stakes since its foundation as a race !