The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-21 00:00:00

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, Dec. 20.
Congress has adjourned till January 6, having
,aken no action as to the cotton tax.

FRANCE.
BOURSE, Dec. 20, Three o'clock..—The market
closed as follows :

4/ per Cent.
End of month -
3 per Cent
End of month 6B 90
Credit Mobilier
End of month 172 60
Credit Fonder 1367 50
End of month 1372 50
RAILWA'

Bank Shares 3275
Ital'an Loan
End of month 45 77;
Mexican Loan 12 25
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred

Account
Orleans ... 865
Northern ll7Bl
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 5501
Western
Eastern • •
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 3521-
North of Spain 6l
Saragossa
Roman 5l

TIIE WAR IN TLIE BRAZILS.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 23.

Accounts from the seat of war reach to the 12th
inst. The investment of Humaita by land is at
last complete, and Brazilian batteries command the
river Paraguay in front of the mouth of the Ber-
mejo, where the river is very narrow.
On the 28th October the commander-in-chief of
the Brazilian forces, the Marquis of Caxias, de-
tached a column of 2,000 cavalry, 2,400 infantry,
and four rifled field piece:, under the command of
Brigadier-General John M. Menna Barreto, to
occupy the potrero Ovella and Tayi. The only
entrance to the potrero was through a narrow
passage defended by £two deep trenches, a lake
and a battalion of infantry. After three hours'
fighting, however, the place was taken, the Para-
guayans losing 80 men killed and 56 prisoners,
besides 200 muskets, 1,200 head of horned cattle,
and 50 horses. The Brazilians lost 67 men and
nine officers killed, and 255 men and 18 officers
wounded. The place was immediately put in a
state of defence, and the general, leaving there
half of the force, marched on with the rest to
Tayi, which was found to be occupied only by a
very small force, which fled, leaving two pri-
soners. On the night of the Ist instant, how-
ever, a column of about 800 infantry were
perceived landing a little higher up under the pro-
tection of three steamers. Next morning the
Brazilian infantry received orders to dislodge the
enemy, who had commenced to fortify the position
with incredible rapidity. The Brazilians advanced
in three columns, and, without firing a shot, car-
ried the place with the bayonet in a few minutes.
The Paraguayans suffered severe losses. 600
were made prisoners, and those who swam off to
the steamers were for the greater part drowned,
as the vessels could give them no assistance ; for the
four field pieces, which had taken up a very favour-
able position, kept up such an effective and well-
directed fire on them that one of them foundered,
another was set on fire, and the third had her ma-
machinery and one of her paddle-wheels so much
damaged that she drifted helplessly down towards

towards Humaita. A fiat boat armed with au 80-
pounder was also sent to the bottom. Tayi is now
well fortified, and, in case of an attack, from 8,000
to 10,000 men can be marched up from Tuyucue.
President Lopez, finding his position desperate,
on the morning of the 3d sent 5,000 infantry and
1,000 cavalry to attack the lines of Tuyuty. The
right of these lines was never very strong, and,
lately some of the fortifications had been impru-
dently razed, to shorten the road for the supplies
of Tuycue6. The defence of the position had been
confided to a corps of Correntine soldiers and the
Paraguayans serving in the Argentine Army. On
the morning in question the latter were doing
duty at the outposts, and on seeing their
countrymen advance, retired without giving the
alarm, and may be said to have led the enemy into
the centre of the Brazilian camp, whence they were
repulsed after four hours' of very hard fighting,
leaving upwards of 2,000 dead—of which number
78 were recognised as officers—and 155 prisoners.
The Brazilians lost 205 men and eight officers
killed, and 533 men and fifty-four officers
wounded. A Brazilian battalion, nearly 400
strong, was surprised, surrounded, and made pri-
soners before help could arrive. The Paraguayans
also took four Argentine field-pieces, but of these
three were afterwards found in the marshes.
The Argentine cavalry under Hornos, and the
Brazilian under Victoria, which had been despatched
to Tuyuty from Tuyucue as soon as the news of
the attack reached the Marquis of Caxias, arrived
in time:to do good service in the pursuit of the retir-

ing force.
The commander-in-chief at Tuyuty, Gen. Vis-
count Porto Alegre, had two horses killed, and was
slightly wounded ; and General Joseph Louis Menna
Barreto severely by a ball in the cheek.

LIVERPOOL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.—Yesterday
a deputation from the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce
waited upon Mr. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., at his brother's
'office in Liverpool, and informed him that it was their in-
tention, before the meeting of Parliament, to hold a ban-
quet, and that they purposed inviting the members for
the borough and county, Lord Stanley, and others, and
expressed a hope that the right hon. gentleman would be
able to attend. Mr. Gladstone did not give a positive
answer.