The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-04 00:00:00

ROUTE OF FRENCH TROOPS TO THE
.13ALTIC. .

HANOVER, May 29.—Great sensation has been
caused by the demand of Count Reculot, the
French Envoy at this court, for permission to
march a body of Imperiai troops through the Hano-
verian territory. It appears that considerable in-
convenience was felt and delay occasioned last year
by sending the French army of co-operation to
the Baltic by sea, although on board such
splendid ships as the squadron under Commodore
Grey in the Hannibal, and it has now been decided
to send the expedition by the railroad through the,
North of Germany to Lubeck, where steamers
will be waiting to take the troops up to the
point where • they are wanted, and which of
necessity, remains a secret for the present. Be-
sides, the expedition will be much more nume-
rous than the last. The number of French
troops conveyed to the Baltic last. summer, and
employed at the reduction of Bomarsund, was
not more than eight or ten thousand men, whereas
the Army of the North destined for service in the
Baltic musters nearly 80,000 men, about one-half
of whom have received orders to hold themselves
in readiness to move, and the other half will form
the reserve. Although the Hanoverian Govern-
ment has not given a decided answer, there is
little reason to doubt that it will be a favourable
one, particularly as the request is supported
most energetically by the British Government, who
have sent instructions to that effect to Mr. Bligh,
her Majesty's representative here. A similar re-
quest has been made by the Marquis de Moustier
at Berlin to the Prussian Government, and steps
have been also taken by France to obtain the con-
sent of the Senate of Lubeck for the embarkation
of the French troops at Travemunde.

A MERICA.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.

The British and North American royal mail
steamer Asia, Captain Lott, arrived in the Mersey
at 9 p.m. (after a detention of two hours at the
bar for water), and by her we have advices from.
New York to the 22d,, Boston 23d, and Halifax to
the 24th ult. inclusive.
The Asia sailed from Boston at 12.30 p.m. on the
23d, and at 4 p.m. on the 24th passed the royal
mail steamer America hence fpr Boston • same day
at 9.48 p.m. arrived at Halifax, where she remained
an hour and a quarter. On tke Ist at'S p.m. passed
Cape Clear.
The Asia brought 196 passengers and 933,575
doll. in specie.
The Baltic, United States mail steamer hence, at
New York on the 18th ult.
The case of Colonel Kinney came up in the Dis-
trict Court in Philadelphia on the 21st ult., and
was postponed till the 4th of June.
The steam- ship Hermann left New York on the
19th ult. for Southampton and Bremen, with 250
passengers, but in consequence of the violence of
the easterly storm then prevailing was forced to
come to anchor off Quarantine, from whence she
took her final departure at seven o'clock in the
morning of the 20th ult.. The Ariel, for Havre,
with 190 passengers, also sailed at noon. These
two steamers took out only about 234,00 dollars
in specie. A bag of letters addressed to the United
States Consul at Paris, sealed with the " Depart-
ment of State, U. S. A.," clandestinely put in
charge of a passenger per Ariel, was seized and
sent on to the Department at Washington, from
which it purports to come. The steamer United
States left on the 19th for San Juan, Nicaragua,
with passengers for California.
The Northern Light had arrived from California.
A proposition was pending in the legislature to
divide the present territory of California into three
distinct States, to be called California, Colorado,
and Shasta, neither one of which, it was said, if
the division should be accomplished, will permit
the introduction of slavery. The business of San
Francisco had taken no turn for the better, but the
prospect was evidently brightening.
A despatch in the Roston Chronicle of the 23d
ult., dated from Washington, May 22, says :—" It
is said that R. W. Cameron, of New York, now in
England, has obtained the contract for the convey-
ance of the mails from Europe to Australia (via
Panama), once a month, at the rate of 7,000/. the
round trip. Two first-class steam-ships are to be
built in this country and two in England for the
use of this line." •
By way of New Orleans advices froth Havana to
the 15th ult. had been received. It is reported
that the blockade of the ports will be raised on•the
return of Gen. Concha from Matanzas and Carde-
nas, whither he had gone to inspect the troops. Two
extensive commercial failures had taken place—
one that of Arreta Brothers, the other that of Mr.
Solomons. Sugar remained without change in price.
The frigate Fulton left for Key Weston on the
14th. The frigate Constitution was spoken on the
Bth, bound into Havana. She was from the coast
of Africa, •bound to Portsmouth.
From Great Salt Lake it was learned that Col.
Steptoe had failed in bringing to punishment the
Indian murderers of Captain Gunnison and party,
solely through the duplicity of the Mormons, who,
it appears, thke every opportunity to impress upon
the minds of the savages the idea that the Mor-
mons and Americans are two (distinct people. This
is done with the ulterior design of forming a league
against the United States authorities, in case of
any attempt by the government to - abridge the
power of the Mormon leaders. It is reported that
Colonel Steptoe has declined the governorship of
Utah territory, and that Chief Justice Kinney has
been offered the appointment.
The United States packet Hermann arrived at
• Cowes yesterday, on her way to Bremen. She left
New York on the 19th ult.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, MAY 22.
There aro abundant indications of further WO iu th

money market. Very little paper of the first character
finds its way to the brokers, and there the rates range
from 6to 7 per cent. For inferior paper the rates are
nominal, varying according to the needs of the borrower
and the capacity, of the lender. The western markets
are better supplied with capital.
COTTON.—The sales of the five days past amount to
13,500 bales, of which about 7,000 bales were in transit
(including a cargo of 2,200 bales -for Liverpool and one
of 1,500 for Havre), the market closing on the bases of
103 c. to 10?-0. for middling uplands, 10/c. for Mobile,
and 10Ze. to 11c. for Orleans. These rates establish an
improvement of Se. to lc. oil our quotations of 15th iust.
per Atlantic, and the tendency is towards farther ad-
vance. _ _

FLOUR, &c.-Holders cf common brands of flour were
firm to-day, and in sonic instances a slight improvement
was obtained. State flour sold at 9 dole. 871 c. to 10
dols. 25c. for common to favourite brands, and 10 dole.
75c. to 12 dols. 75c. for Oenessee ; Michigan, Indiana,
and Ohio 10 dols. to 10 dole. 25c.; fancy brands, 10 Ms.
31/c. 'to 10 dols. 371 c. ; extra ditto, 10 dole. 500 to 12
dole. Southern flour was flan at 11.dols. 25c. to 11
dole. 374 e. for common to favoUrite brands, and 11 dole.
50c. to 12 dole. 50c. for extra. Canada flour was in
good request at 10 dole. 25c. to 11 dole. Rye flour is
without alteration-sales were made at 7 dole. 25c. to
8 dols. 37tc. Jersey meal, 5 dols. 18ie. to 5 dole. 25c.
3,000 bushels of Canada wheat sold on private terms.
Corn was rather dull. Sales of white were made at
1150. to 116 c., and of mixed and yellow at 1170. ; 5,000
bushels of mixed Western, for delivery in June, sold at
105, and 10,000 bushels, to be delivered in July and
August, at 1051. Oats are in fair request, 70c. to 80c.
for State and Western, and 55c. to 58c. for Southern.
Puovisioss.-The market was rather quiet to-day,
yet we do not observe auy quotable change in prices.
Sales of old mess pork were made at 16 dols. 62,1 c. to
16 dole. 75c. ; new, 17 dole. 75c. ; and new prime at
14 dols. 50c. Cut meats were in favour of the buyer-
hams sold at 9/c. to 91c. ; shoulders, 7/c. to 71c. Sales
of 350 boxes bacon, short middles, rib in, sold at 9c. to
9/c., Lard in fair request at 10/c. to Die. ; prime is
held at Bic. Beef is in steady demand-repacked
Western and Chicago, 14 dole. 75c. to 15 dots. 50c. ;
extra, 16 dole. to 16 dols. 50c. ; Vermont, 13' dole. 75c. ;
country mess, 9 dole. 75c. to 12 dole. ; country prime,
8 dole. to 9 dole.; city, 9 dole. to 9 dole. 50c; beef hams,
17 dole. 50c. to 21 dols., including State and best
Western and Chicago.
FREIGHTS.-There is a moderate amount offering,
and the packets fill at the following rates :-To Liver-
pool-Cotton, square bales, per pound, 5-32 d. to 3-16 d. ;
flour, is.

SOUTH AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 3.

By the Madrid, with the Peninsular mails, we
learn that the Portuguese steamer Donna aria
11. arrived at Lisbon on the 25th of May, with
dates from Buenos Ayres, April 7 ; Monte Video,
12 ; Rio de Janeiro, 28 ; Bahia, May 3 ; Pernam-
buco, 5 ; St. Vincent's, 15 ; and Madeira, 22.
The Donna Maria had 300 pastengers, princi-
pally third-class, for Lisbon, all of whom were sub•
ject to five days' quarantine.
Nothing of interest had taken place in the River
Plate since the advices per Avon. The General
Assembly convened by the Argentine Government
had not taken place on the 4th of April for want
of sufficient numbers. On the frontier 2,000
Indiana, headed by Calfucura and Catrie], had as-
sembled near Azul, with hostile intentions, and
measures were being adopted to receive them. " No
further news had been received of the Brazil squa-
dron or the progress of negotiations with Paraguay.
At Rio de Janeiro it was generally believed the
Parana Cabinet would quit office as soon as the
Ministers could lay before the Chambers, which
Were to assemble on the 3d of May, the reports of
the different departments ; but there was no ;cer-
tainty as to the party who would be intrusted with
the formation of a new Cabinet. Capitalists were
preparing to take shares in the new railroad pro-
jected to the interior, under Government guaran-
tee of 7 per cent., but it appeared probable the
different plans afloat for improvements in Brazil
would exceed the capital obtainable, and that some
of them were likely to receive a temporary check.
Viscount Itaborahy, the founder of the Bank of
Brazil, had been appointed President of that esta-
blishment, which had contracted its circulation and
increased the tightness of the money market. The
exchange on London for 90 days' sight bpened on
the 23d at 271.
At Bahia holders of sugar attempted to maintain
higher rates, but were generally compelled to sell.
At Pernambuco import and export business con-
tinued very dull: Sugars bad come .in but slowly,
and prices of the better grades of whites and mus-
covadoes kept very high.
Exchange on London done at 27 to 271.
Shipping News at Pernambuco.—On the 28th of
April the Thomas and Joseph Crisp, from Launces-
ton to London, called off for supplies, and proceeded
on the 29th. 28th, bark Undaunted, from Lima,
called off for supplies, and proceeded to Liverpool.
29th, Amazon, from lelbourne, put in for supplies,
bound for London. May 1, Jessie Burns, bark, from
Lima, with guano, put in leaky for repairs, dis-
charging part of her cargo. 2d, the Great Western
steamer arrived, with mails from Southampton,
and left next day for Bahia and Rio. 4th, her
Majesty's steamer of war, Sharpshooter, from Pam,
sailed from Rio Janeiro.

THE PENINSULAR MAILS

SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 3.

By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Madrid, Captain Cook, with the Peninsular
mails, in charge of Lieut. Purves, R.N., Admiralty
agent, we have dates from Gibraltar May 24, Cadiz
25, Lisbon 29, Oporto 30, Vigo 31.
The Madrid brings' 84 passengers, among whom
are the Right Hon. Chief Baron Pigott, lady, and
family, Baron and Baroness Adelward, and seven
distressed seamen, 26 packages of specie, and a
cargo consisting of 290 chests of oranges, 97 pieces
of elephants' tusks, 28 cases of dates, 10 casks of
wine; two packages of jewellery, 51 boxes of eggs,
five baskets of onions, 100 boxes of potatoes, and
25 packages of general merchandise.
The Madrid brings Lisbon dates to the 29th ult.
The French steamer Newton and the Spanish
schooner Cruz were the only foreign ships of war in
port. The Portuguese steard-packet Dom Pedro
11. was to leave Lisbon for the Brazils on the 30th
of May, and the Donna Maria 11. about the 20th
.of June.
'lt was understood at Lisbon that the Cintra Rail-
road contract would be urged through the Cortes,
notwithstanding the municipal opposition which
claimed as city property, under an old grant, all
grounds reclaimed from the banks of the Tagus,
where a pier is projected to carry the railroad from
Lisbon to Belem. _ _

The Count de Thomar brought forward a vote of
censure on the 28th ult., affecting the government
of the ex-Governor of Angola, Viscount Pinheiro,
which was rejected by 31 peers contra six.
At Gibraltar exchanges on London were quoted
for bills at 90 days' date, at 511; Paris ditto, sf.
36c. ; Marseilles, sf. 36c. ; Genoa, sf. 42c. Span-
ish Pillared Dollars, 51 per cent. prem.

NAPOLEON AND CONSTA.NTINOPLE.

10.

In his seventh volume of the Consulate and Empire
M. Thiers narrates the negotiations and confidential in-
tercourse of the two Emperors, in, July, 1807, at Tilsit.
There, be tells us, they discussed !‘ that immense system
by which they were held joint rulers over Europe. The
possible, the probable partition of the Turkish empire,
was the continual topic of conversation." Napoleon was
to have the maritime provinces, Russia the banks of the
Danube as far as the Balkans. ,

One day, —says the historian, the two Emperors,
on returning from a long ride, shut themselves up in the
writing cabinet, where numerous paps were spread out.
Napoleon, apparently continuing a conversation briskly
begun with Alexander, desired M. de Meneval to bring
him the map of Turkey, unfolded, it, then resumed the
conversation, end, suddenly clapping his finger on Con-
stantinople, exclaimed"several times, regardless of being
heard by his secretary, in whom he had absolute confi-
dence—Constantinople! Constantinople Never 'tis
the Empire of the world!"
M: Thiers adds in a note that he had these particu-
lars from M. de Meneval himself, and that their accu-
racy is guaranteed by the, correspondence of MM. de
Savary and de Caulaincourt. They prove, he remarks,
that, notwithstanding all the efforts of Alexander, the
limit of the Balkans was never passed.
The Occult Treaty signed at Tilsit, he further states,
merely contained a stipulation that in case the Turkish
Government refused the mediation pf France, its Euro-
pean provinces, excepting Constantinople and Roumelia,
should be relieved "from the vevations of the Porte."
Anxious, then, as Napoleon was in 1807 to gain the
Russian alliance, there,was one price he would not pay
for it. He would not tolerate Russian dominion south
of the Balkans ; and though he professed, under certain
contingencies, a willingness to advance the Russian
frontiers to that range, subsequent events proved that
he was insincere in those professions, and never intended
any real augmentation of the Russian empire at the ex-
pense of the Sultan.—. Examiner.
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DINNER AT THE MANSION-mum—The Lord Mayor
and the Lady Mayoress entertained at dinner on Satur-
day last, in the Egyptian Hall, a number of the judges
and of members of the bar, with some other guests,
amounting in all to about 150. The "loving cup"
having been sent round with the forms prescribed by
immemorial usage, the usual loyal and patriotic toasts
were given by his lordship, and cordially received by
the company. The Lord Mayor then proposed " the
Health of her Majesty's Judges," coupling with the
toast the name of Lord Campbell, and passing a glowing
eulogium on the ability, the learning, and the integrity
which those distinguished personages displayed in dis-
charging the duties of their high offices. The toast
having been duly honoured, Lord Campbell acknow-
ledged the compliment. He said that ho and his brother
judges felt deeply the high honour which bad been con-
ferred upon them on that occasion. Some oiter toasts
followed, and the company separated at an eMOT hour.