The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-04 00:00:00

MEXICO.

Republican accounts received from ➢latamoras to
the 15th inst. represent Miramon to have been
totally defeated by Escobedo. Juarez had returned
to Zacatecas. The news received through Im-
perialist sources state that Miramon was successful.
An Imperial squadron has attacked and totally de-
feated a Republican flotilla near Campeachy. The
Emperor was at the capital actively engaged in re-
organising the Imperial army, which represented
30,000 strong, well armed and disciplined.

QUEENSTOWN, March 4.

The royal mail steamship Australasian from New
York on the 20th ult., arrived here at 10.55 p.m.
last night with 71 passengers. She lauded all the
mails except those for Liverpool and Scotland and
six passengers, and proceeded immediately. All
well.

She was detained at New York on account of a

snowstorm.

LISBON, March 2.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh
landed to-day from the frigate Galatea, and dined
with the Royal family at the palace. He after-
wards accompanied the King to the Opera House
of San Carlos.

FRANCE.

The Legislative Body sat yesterday, Count Wa-
lewski in the chair. Several local bills were pre-
sented.

M. Rouher, Minister of State and of Finance ;
M. Duruy, Minister of Public Instruction ; and
the other Government Commissioners, were present.
Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clotilda re-
ceived in audience yesterday M. Dalyanni, Minister
Plenipotentiary for Greece.

Count Langrand-Dumonceau, coming from
Rome, two days back arrived in Paris. Rumour
states that the financial plan which he presented
to the Italian. Government will be carried into exe-
cution with the co-operation of Baron de Rothschild
and the Credit Foncier of Paris.
Mine. Carrette, nee Bouvet, Lady of Honour to
the Empress, has just been delivered of a son.
Almost at the same time Mme. Oscar de l'Espine,
nec Tascher la Pagerie, gave birth to a daughter.
BOURSE, March 2.—Three o'clock.—The market
has closed as follows :

II per Cents lOO 50
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 7O 20
Do. end month 7O 15
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month

Bank Shares 3580
Italian Loan 54
Do. end month.,„ b4
Mexican Loan 2O 50
Do. Bonds., l4l 25
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred -
'A.YB.

Credit Foncier
Do. end month 1520

RAIL'

Orleans For Account.
930
Northern 1230
Lyons and Mediterranean 940
Southern 585
Western 595
Eastern —

Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 420
North of Spain ...... _

SaragosEa,
Ditto to Barcelona

Roman .

87 50

Lord Brougham on the Suffrage.

The following letter, addressed to Mr. Gladstone
by Lord Brougham, has been forwarded to us for
publication:—

" Cannes, Feb. 27.

" Dear Mr. G.,—The following is nay telegram
to-day in answer to what I received two days ago,
and I beg your attention to it.

" The telegram of Monday, giving the account of
what passed in the House of Commons, is most
unsatisfactory, especially as regards the county
qualification.

" The true course is to give household suffrage.
I proposed this at the end of 1829, just before the
change of Government, and it was agreed to by the
whole Liberal party present at our private meeting,
Lords Grey, Lansdowne, Radnor, and John Russell
among the rest.

" Unfortunately, it made no part in the Reform
Bill, because all were more anxious to destroy no-
mination and rotten boroughs than anything else,
and schedule A is supposed to have carried the bill ;
but though that was very important, the extension
of voting to householders, and the punishment of
the corrupted and the corruptors, were equally im-
portant, and were then lost sight of. I believe that
if bribers as well as bribed persons were sent to the
treadmill, nobody would venture to run such a risk.
"I am, dear Mr. G., with best regards and re-
spects to Mrs. G., most sincerely yours,

" 11. BROUGHAM.
"The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P."

Strand Theatre.

The very successful burlesque of " Esmeralda, or
the Sensation Goat," was revived at this theatre on
Saturday with the greatest.success. Miss Ada Swan-
borough, Miss F. Hughes, and Miss Eliza Holt sus-
tain the principal parts in excellent style. Of course
much new matter—jokes, jests, and songs—has been
introduced, the effect of which is to greatly increase
the fun in this very whimsical production. The
scenery and dress are of the most splendid descrip-
tion, and, taken with that fact, Esmeralda is per-
haps one of the best burlesques ever produced. A
long and prosperous run is certainly destined for the
revival. The house was crowded on Saturday even-
ing with a brilliant and fashionable audience.

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.—From a parliamentary re-
turn just issued it appears that since the passing of the Act
18th and 19th Viet., 389 societies hare deposited their rules
with the registrar of friendly societies in England, under
sec. 44 ; and of this number 363 have been established for
one or more of the purposes mentioned in sec. 9. The re-
gistrar gives extracts from the rules of several of these
societies.