The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-19 00:00:00

THE SUN LONDoN,! TRURSI)AY _EVENING APRIL 19 1,ci55

tion of parishes ; and it intimates that, if the
bishops and clergy do not, without delay, commu-
nicate what is required, special measures will be
adopted against them. The journals confirm what
was said some days ago as to the Pope's Nuncio
having presented a protest from his hotness against
the religious bases of the constitution, and against
the bill for the sale of ecclesiastical property. Ru-
mours of the retirement of the Ministers of Foreign
Affairs of tbo Interior continued current, and it
was said that the former was to be nominated to
the lucrative post of President of the Supreme
Tribunal of Justice, vacant by the death of M.
Alonzo. General Infante was spoken of for the
Ministry of the Interior, and M. Gonzales, Am-
bassador at London for that of Foreign airs.
In the Cortes on the 10th M. Alonso, of the demo-
cratic party, proposed a motion to the effect that
the bill on the naticnal guard, recently adopted,
should not be submitted to the royal sanction ; but
after a speech from the Minister of Justice, the
Corte:: rejected the proposition by 119 votes to 30.
The Minister of the Interior brought in a bill re-
lative to substitutes in the army. The discussion on
the part of the budget relative to the Civil List was
resumed ; and the annual allowance to the Queen
was fixed at 28,000,000 reals (the real is about
5 sous). The proceedings in the Cortes on the 11th
up to post-hour were of no interest.. A letter from
Saragossa states that seventeen of the inhabitants
had been an ested for having refused to pay their
share of a forced loan of 500,000 reals imposed by
the municipality.

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CITY, Two O'CLOCK. 1
The cotton market at Liverpool yesterday
closed very firmly, but prices were without altera-
tion. The sales were estimated at 8,000 bales 12;
(1,000 of which were for export, and: 1,000 on
speculation), comprising 420 Peruam and Maran-
ham at 51 to 71; 200 Egyptian at 6d. to 71(1. ;
and 1,200 Surat at 31d. to 4d. per lb. The Rail- 31
way share market closed heavily, but prices keep 9,7 i
firm.
22
There are no colonial arrivals. 25

tieLLEATATM.

(”rmtlrii Prices
yesterday.

' nv.tr,.., done
yesterday.

The New York letters to the 4th inst. represent
business as being dull, and the Californian failures
had caused an uneasy feeling. Messrs. Page, Bacon,
arid Co. of St. Louis, had again suspended payment,
as will be seon by the following :

"It is with sorrow that we announce the suspen-
sion of the firm of Page and Bacon of St. Louis. Their
drafts were again dishonoured at their agency to-day,
and the second suspension has overtaken the firm at a
time when its friends hoped it had regained sufficient
strength to sustain its .resumption. The position of
affairs in Califirnia, end the protracted suspension
of the house of Page, Bacon, and Co., Of San Francisco,
is the principal cause of the relapse of the house in St.
Louis Drafts to a large amout:t on the Sin Francisco
house.have been sent on here for payment, and so far as the
means of the house here would admit, have been liquidated.
This weakened the firm of Page arid Bacon, which, with
the absence of remittances of gold, cJuipelled the St.
Louis firm to falter again in their payments. It will be
very difficult for this concern to resume woin, and we
fear the only course left is to go into liquidation and
close un. It now appears that the resumption iu Feb-
ruary last was premature ; that it should have been post-
ponsd until return advices had been received from Cali-
fornia, so that the worst would have been known."

The Count and Countess of Trapani arrived at
Rome on the 10th.

A MERICA.

LIVERPOOL APRIL 18.
By.tho arrival of the m.til steam-ship Atlantic
we are in receipt of advices from New York to the
4th inst. The Atlantic was detained for 36 hours
(luring her passage repairing a sliiht defect in the
machinery. She bring 4 1,300,000 dols. of specie
on freight.
The Royal Mail steam-ship Asia arrived hence at
Beston on the 31st ult. The United States mail
steamship Baltic, lience, was passed going into New
York on the•4th inst. The screw mail steam-ship
Union, from Southampton on the llt.h ult.,. had
pot into Halifax on the 31st ult., after a most
boisterous passage, short. of coal.
The business of the Legislature at Albany had

The Mexican advices represent the government
as being generally succesiful against the revolu-
tionists.

From Guatemala a party writes under date of
Fob. 10, that--

"In tha face of heavy gove'rnment debts, the House
of Assembly ha l resolved to increase the salary of the
President to $20,000 per annum ; and in order to
be able to carry out this cherished "spoils" scheme,
members intended to raise the tariff duties on foreign
importations, adding so inuch:to the 24 per cent. already
charged as would almost completely annihilate all legiti-
mate tad with other countries. Smuggling would, it
was thought, largely incrra-e. The lion. J. L. Marling,
United States inistor , hall arrived at Guatemala. In
San Salvador the people were agitated with the discus-
sion of a proper :site for their new ca;)ital. Many pro-.
per y holders want to have the city rebuilt, in its (Li
situation, in 'defiance of former and expected earth-
quat, es." •
Although the Norwegian Board of the Trunk
Railway, under whose charge the ptactical working
of the undertaking is placed, have advised the
EngliAt directors that it is not their intention to
issue any report until September, when the annual
dividend becomes payable, it has been thought de-
sirahle by these latter to address a few words to the
preference shareholders in order that there may be
no misapprehension in reference to the position in
which they stand.
It must be borne in mind that from the net an-
nual receipts of the railway, the preference share-
holders are entitled to 5 per cent. on their capital
before any further division of profits can take place.
During the last year the question was raised,
whether, in case the net receipts of any one-half
year did not amount to a dividend at the rate of 5
per cent. per annum, the difference ought to be
made up on the receipts of the half-year next en-

been of a purely local nature. The Prohibitory
Liquor Law hid passed the Senate, after a strong
but steadily resisted effort to throw it out.
From Washiugton we learn that the President
had decided against an extra session of Congress,
and that the action of the Government indicated
warlike measures relative to the El Dorado and
other ontrag, s committed by the Cuban au huricies.
Much excitement has been created in conse-
quence of a report that Colonel Lewis L. Taylor,
formerly clerk in the office of the first nu litor, had
forged the name of Jefferson Davis, Secretary of
War, to notes amounting to 10,000 or 20,000. do-
llars. He had left the city.
It appears from the returns which have as yet
been made public of the election in ?Kansas, which
took place on the 30th ult., that the Anti-slavery
party made a very indifferent stand. The elections
throughout the country continued to result in the
favour of the Know-nothings.
An examination into the facts connected with
the enlistment of recruits for the British Foreign
Legion had taken place. Fifteen had been arrested
at Philadelphia as they were leaving that city on
board a steamer for New York. The number that
had been raised in Philadelphia was estimated at
500. Upon this subject it was reported from
Halifax that official orders had been issued to pro-
vide rations for 500 recruits for the army in the
Crimea expected to arrive from the United States.
In New York a person named J. R. Bucknell, said
to be au officer of the British army, had been ar-
rested and sent to Philadelphia charged with en-
listing persons with this object: Mr. Bucknell
represented himself as an engineer engaged in em-
ploying men to 'work on railroads in Texas.
At an election at Cincinnati a savage riot had
occurred between the Dutch and the Americans.
The ballot-boxes were destroyed, and it could not
be ascertained which party had elected their can-
didate. Several severe encounters took place, and
the Dutch paraded the streets with a loaded cannon
bidding defiance to the Americans. The latter,
however, turned the table upon their opponents
by seizing the cannon and us;rig it against them.
The result was that three of the Dutch were killed.
Che American party, one of whom was severely
wounded, formed in procession and paraded the
streets with a loaded cannon. The Germans took
possession of the cannon, which bad been left on
the public lauding, and conveyed it to the Free-
inasons'-hall. The Americans had sent a committee
to demand its restoration, threatening, if it were
not delivered up, to go and take it. Fears were
eutertained that further disturbances would occur.
Two persons, one of whom was a bystander, had
been killed in an affray at the St. Charles Hotel at
New Orleans. The steamer Bulletin had been burnt
below Lake Prcohdence, and 23 of the passengers
and crew were missing. The vessel and cargo, con-
41sting of 3,500 bales of cotton, were a total loss.
In the steamer Huntsville 4,000 bales of cotton had
also been burnt. Terrific g des had been experi-
enced at Albany and Philadelphia. At Philadel-
phia an extensive gas factory was blown down, and
25 of the workmen buried in the ruins. Eight
notties were taken from the ruins, and several per-
sons were severely injured. The damage was esti-
mated at $15,000. At the Democratic County
convention, held in Philadelphia, one of the county
counniesieners had been expelled for refusing to
testify uuder oath against Keow-nothingisin.
The steam-ship Starof the West had arrived,with
advices; from San Francisco to the 9th ult., and
$238,909 in specie on freight.
steam-frigate Devastation was
lyilingerintejepstoy;s
tofSanaan:
The vault of Adams and Co. at Sonora had been
broken open by the mob and some $47,000 paid out
to hOlders of certificates by the committee appointed
by_ the.peeple. The names of Chapin, Sawyer, and
Co., David Green, J. P. Davies, and S. B. Conrey,
of San Francisco, are mentioned among the failures.
The newly-discovered diggings at the Kern River
were in great favour, people flocking thither
in thousands, both by land and water. The
most wonderful stories were reported, Rains bad
fallen abundantly, and all the streams were swollen.
AkSacranaento.the river had risen rapidly, and was
onlytwo or three feet below the to intum height
attained since the foundation of the city. The
Pacific. Express Company had taken the place of
Adams. and Co.'s Express. The latter concern had
almost entirely disappeared. A specimen of almost
pure gold, worth $876, had been taken out of a
place in the neighbourhood of Downierille, Sierra
county. An enterprising firm at San Francisco had
put up a brig with despatches for Japan.
From the Sandwich Islands we learn that the new
King had issued a neutrality proclamation, and a
notification that the Governments of Great Britain
and France and the United States had offered him
assistance to maintain his Government.
From Mexico we learn that Santa Anna had re-
turned to the capital, and had been received with
salvoes of artillery and other demonstrations of joy.
Tie revolution was said to be losing ground. One
of the chiefs of the late Boulbon expedition, Captain
Matthew Thomas, representing himself as au Ame-
rican citizen, had been arrested and sent to San

suing.
This point was settled by its being arranged
that the division of protits should for the present
take place annually, a decision to which the Eng-
lish directors were the more induced to agree, inas-
much as the traffic of the hue is of that peculiar
nature as to be, in a great degree, dependent
upon circumstances beyond human control,
so that the vicissitudes of the weather de-
termine, in a great measure, the proportions
of the whole traffic which shall be carried in each
particular season of the year ; thus, during the first
half year since the formal opening of the line, the
long drought extending far into the autumn not
only prevented the usual amount of timber from
being floated down to the saw-mills, but left the
mills themselves for a period of 4 mouths without
the necessary power to convert the usual stocks.
To this, the principal brandh of the traffic, there has
been, therefore, a considerable check, but as may
easily be perceived, it is probable that the
greater portion of this decrease will be recovered
and that the transport of the timber is, in fact, not
lost to the railway, but deferred. The directors
have found on the other hand that the returns of
passenger and ordinary goods traffic for the present
year show a progressive increase, and they conceive
that notwithstanding the derangement produced
by the unsettled state of the north of Europe,
there is still every prosp.xt of the twelvemonths
traffic being found equal to all reasonable expecte-

The Hon. the East India CompanY
tions. • • 20
have now 20
formerly notifted to the Bombay Biroda, and Con- ?ri
int India Railway Company, the immediate con- UV
struction of a portion of their lino of railway, coin- too •
mencing at Surat and proceeding to Baroda and 25
Ahmedabad, on the understanding that this com-
pany aro, when required, to coutinne the line.from 100
Surat to Bombay. A guaranteed interest at the leo
rate of 5 per cent. per annum is at the same time 20
granted in the first instance upon 500,000/., the 5
amount of capital required to make the first portion 5
of the line. 5
This being almost a holiday in the City, and the 20
principal thoroughfares much impeded, business 4
generally is suspended, and the Stock Exchange 204 i
also is comparatively inactive. The following have too
been the current prices up to the hour of our
writing which, from the " state of blockade," is rog I
necessarily earlier than usual : 1100
The following are the nominal prices of foreign 20
stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 to 61 ; Mexi- 1.00
can, 20 to 201 ; Peruvian, 69 to 71; ditto Three 20
per Cents., 48 to 50 ; Portuguese Four per Cents., b
41 to 43 ; Russian Five per Cents., 98 to 100; 20
ditto Four-and7a-Half per Cents., 88 to 90 ; . t
Spanish New Deferred, 18sL to 18i ; ditto Three 20
per Cents., 361 to 361; ditto Certificates, 41 to 51; 33i
ditto Passive, 31 to 4i-. 10
20
The last week's railway receipts ascertained up
to this date are in round figures as under : 20
16
1855. 1854. 20
Great Western
North-Western 54,260 53,886
South-Western
Brighton
51 iillaii cl ...... ..
South- Enatern .......
Caledonian
Gr. at Northern
Lanea,hire and Yorkshire 18.994 19,646 21
North-Eaittrn

Francisco.
The steam-ship Black Warrior had arrived with
dates from Havanbah to the 28th ult. Pinto, the
chief of the conspirators had been put to death,
awl Cadalzo anti Pinelo, it was supposed, would
be sentenced to 10 years in the chain tang in Africa.
An effort to procure their execution was, however,
being made. The Consul of the United States is
reported to have notified to the Captain General,
by direction of Secretary Marcy, that " if one drop
of American blood is spilled in the present crisis the
Government of the United States will not be
answerable for the result." An American citizen,
Francisco Estranges, is under sentence of death.
Arrests continued to be made.
In New York business continued without im-
provelnent. Stagnation prevailed in every depart-
ment of trade. Capital was abundant at 6to 7
per cent. on call loans. In the stock-market there
was a slight concession in prices on the part of sel-
lers. In foreign exchange the transactions were
only to a moderato extent, and sterling closed less
firmly at 9Z to
Paris, ttc., were quoted at sf. 14c. and to sf.
10c., and on Bremen, 79 to 80.
The cotton market c!osed firm, but the prices
were kc. below those current a week previously.
Light receipts continued to be reported at the
Southern Ports. Flour had advanced 12 to 25c.
There was no inquiry for export at the high prices
current. Provisions were firm, with an active de-
' mand. Naval stores dull. The demand.for Scotch
pig-iron was light, and as holders were firm the
sales were only in small lots at $3O to $3l at six
mouths.
In freights the market generally was without
change, and the offers in all directions continued
light.

BRITISH FUNDS rath DAY AT ONE
I From the Octal )

Buqiness done
i3tnk Stoek ..... ..... . 2lO
3 ~or it,Aineed Annuities...... BBl
.3 per Cent. Console Annuities
Navy 3 per Cent. Annuities ......
iJUIVZ A.llMlitie9, Expire sth Jan.. 180 31
Dittc 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct., 1859
§ 11-16

Endia Stock 22.8
Ditto for the Account.— 229
Booth,. ......... . .....
iiitto, under # 000 .........
%roots ;or Account, 10th ➢iay . ..... 891 90i
Si'actiuqu‘-;1 nilhc, 20.

3i per Cent.
......
5 8
1859, .....
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ON F. O'CLOM.
• xchnegituteor Bonds N5B,
Aexiean 3 per (`ent.
rdinian D.n:ls, 5 per Cent. . .
• urkisi, Bonds, 6 per cent 744
Ditto for the Account... .............. 74
I) v.,l.qui, t.h above t.a, Able in Loon 1
62A
Dutch Exchange, 2. per Cent. 12 (Intl.__

GARDENS.—GRAND GALA (Tine DAY.)—
Tn consegnence of tie Imperial visit of their Majesties
Napoleon 111. and Eu;Tide to the Court and people of
Er.glarid, these delnititful grounds will exhibit this
eveniog a scene of extfaor iinary Fp! en dour. All the
vast resources of the establishinent are to be put
requisition to rendcr the fete one of brilliancy
befitting the occasion. The illuminations will be on an
unprecedented scale of magnitude, the leading feature
of which will be the Turco-French arch, completed
specially to honour the occasion, and Mr. Simpson's
well-known energy is a guarantee that the nume-
rous plelsure-seekers, whom the present delight-
ful weather is calculated to entice to the e, joy-
raent of an a/ fresco entertainment, will be amply
rewarded to-night by a visit to the special attractions
of Cremorne. The Duke of York school,
excellent band, will be in attendance. The opportunity
is a peculiarly favourable one for participating in its
inspiciting as9l39,ileuts. with their

A SIIIP ABANDONED AT SEA.—The Fanny Giffney,
Moody, from Liverpool to Now York, sprang a leak
soon after leaving port, which increasintz, she ►was aban-
&nod on the sth of March, between St. Croix and St.
Stomas with 14 feet of water in her hold, and sank
ilioost immediately after ; the crew and passengers
saved.