The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-25 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA.
LIVERPOOL, bloND.tv, 9 P.N.
The Royal Mail steam-ship Niagara has just arrived
with later advices from America. This fine vessel sailed
from Boston on the 12th instant, and made the usual
call at Halifax on the 14th, to land and receivo tha mails
and passengers connected with the British colonies.
She brings 85 passengers, but no specie.
Congress was still occupied in considering a grant to
the Collins line of steamers, but nothing decisive bad
been arrived at.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENC,
The money market since the departure of tha evious
steamer had been very easy, and money plen The
general trade of the country waii in a satisfaillte con-
dition. Business was brisk, stocks and secaiiiiiii were
in demand.
The market for breadstuffs was quiet, a noes were
without change. Western Canal flour, 4 . 12ie. to
4 doll. 25c. per barrel (steady); Genessee , ime wheat,
1 dull. 10e. to 1 dull. 12c. per 601 b.; ludian'eorn, round
yellow, 62c. to 64c. per bushel; Indian meal, 3 doll. 25c.
to 3 doll. 37e. per barrel.
The cotton market at New York is reported brisk,
with a good amount of business doing. Prices have ad-
vanced slightly, the abundance of money being the
cause assigned. New Orleans and Mobile middling fair
to fair, loic. to 104tc. per lb.; Uplands middling fair to
fair, 9c. to 9ic. per lb., or a rise of -lc. per lb.
Provisions were in good demand at former prices.
Exchange on Lundun, 109 to 110; Paris, 5 17;
Hamburgh, 35i to 36; Bremen, 7841 to 78k,

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Minister of Public Instruction has addressed a
long circular to the Rectors of Academies explanatory
of the decree, of the 10th April last, relative to a new
plan of studies. That decree, he says, is destined to
secure a good grammatical education to all classes of
pupils, as it is useful to all ; and when it is completed,
to enable such pupils, as have a vocation for the liberal
professions to continue, after passing an examination,
the study of lettres or of the sciences. He denies
that, as has been alleged, the Government wishes to
make a separation between lettres and sciences ; and
as a proof of it he states that the examination for a
degree in sciences will comprise literary matters, and
for one in lettres, scientific subjects.
General BEDEAtr has addressed the following letter
to the Minister of 'War, refusing to take the oath of
fidelity :

" Mons, 15th May, 1852.
Monsieur le Ministre,—An order fixes the time with•

in which the oath imposed on soldiers is to be taken.
Placed out of the pale of the law since the 2d December,
I might abstain from replying to that prescription. But
I do not wish that my silence should be falsely inter-
preted. My acts have always had for principle and
object the respect and the defence of the laws. I was for
that sole cause arrested, imprisioned, and violently pro-
I scribed. Injustice and persecution do not change honest
convictions. I refuse the oath. " BEDEAII."

The PRINCE PRESIDENT of the Republic has re-
mitted to M. VIGNAUD, lately responsible editor of
the journal La Province, the punishment to which he
was condemned by the Court of Assizes of the Haute-
Vienne, for an insulting article against the head of
the state.
M. BAUNE, one of the ex-representatives, under
sentence of banishment, was present in Paris last
week at the marriage of his daughter, who had ob-
tained permission to that effect. He has since re-
turned to Brussels.
We read in the Pays—" The Marquis DE PASTO.
RET, agent of the property of the COUNT DE CRAM.
Bonn, fulfilled, in the opinion of some persons, the
functions of Lieutenant-General of the kingdom.
After having been replaced in this last-named post by
the Duke D'ESCARS, be passed generally for being
the writer of the document of Venice. He has just
contradicted those assertions by two solemn acts, in
taking the oath of fidelity to Lotus NAPOLEON ; one
as member of the Commission of Historical Docu-
ments, and the other as member of the Superior
Commission of Public Assistance. Such facts have
no need of comment."
According to a Paris letter in the Independance of
Brussels, the French Government proposes to increase
the stipend of the Archbishop of PARIS from 40,0001.
to 50,000 f., those of fourteen Archbishops from
15,000 f. to 20,0001., and of sixty-five Bishops from
10,000 f. to 12,000 f. It also proposes, says that
journal, to increase the stipends of the Vicars. General
by 600 f., to improve the position of some of the
lower clergy, to increase the allowance to the
Chapter
otfh e choirs S t. Denis,
o f acnatdhteodragirsa.nt 180,000 f. for in-
creasing The Journal du Loiret says :—" We have an-
nounced that the PRESIDENT of the Republic bad
bought a property in the Sologne. The Prince has
purchased two estates the chateau of La Grillaire,
and the chateau of La Motte-Beuvron, with the lands
attached to them. They were bought together for
the sum of 1,500,000 f. It is the intention of the
PRESIDENT, it is said, to make on these estates an
essay of agricultural colonisation.
Sieele, that the National Guard of
Paris will
by the
The Constitutionnel contradicts a statement made
amount to an effective strength of 50,000 men, and
says that Colonel VIETRA has written to say that the
22 battalions only amount to 17,000 men.
The Presse extracts the following from a history of
brigade:—`
Prince Lours NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, by A.
If thisola
BARRIER :
On the 29th January, 1849, M. Changarnier wrote
to General Forey the following letter,
the register of the orders of the
frightful little scamp (afreuz petit dr6le) renews his
, Presideannwtdhe
proposition to you, turn on the heel
back to him.—CiIANGARNIER.' ''
General CHANGARNIER, adds the Presse, p
of INI. ARMAND MARRAST
Con-
stituent Assembly, who had demanded thus
of the
charged to defend the Assembly that the guard
by two battalions. should be increased
On Thursday last the Arab Chiefs,
through Lyons on their return to Algeria, in
passing
present at a sham-fight given by 9 Algeria, were
LANE in honour of their visit, d General C. ..,ASTEL
of which were watched by ' and the whole details
the Arabs with
of railway shares. TheFoaudr-and-a-lalfper
in-
terest
and attention. great ,i presentehs_ok e exists
y ur
price The Bourse was firm, with trifling advance in th
opened at 99f. 90e.. and
1c,1109s
theean month;sß ailw atyh esTh
Shares,
per eCents.sl closed at 70f.C9eon-c-t.se;
at 99f, 15e. for the end
oOtrl
Vierzon, 592 f. 50c ; Basle, 24 75c; Avignon, 3171. 50c.;
2901.; Great Northern, 588 f .;
Rouen, 770 f.; Havre,
75c.; Paris and Strasburg, 55E:f* 75e.'
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGNG7Sc.;
368 f. 750.; Paris and Lyons
per Liege,
Lyons,
131.
75c. Bordeaux, 618 f.
Dutch Rhenish, 4 East Indian, 22:ji—Grand Junction
caANRGAEII:WMAATS24A.T TINE.
of France, 37/B—Namur and 6 l/i —Northern of France,
and Lyons, r cans and Bordeaux, b.
A.miens Shares), 13
103/B—Paris 153,—Paris
Cent.th_oi Bonds (formerly Bolougne and
nu Stras-
bourg, 21% Sambreand Rouen, 293 A—Paris a
s and
and Meuse,
,-,, v, —. Tour
Nantes, 111/2.

ounts from MaSd PdAIN.
Acc
19th inst. ri have been received of the
Since the dismissal of General CORDOVA, the
rumour of coup d'etat or changes in the Constitution
had partly subsided. General LEASUNDI, Captain-
General of New Castile, having summoned a meeting
of the officers of the different corps composing the
garrison, gave them a for assurance that those
rumours were totally devoid of foundation.
The Three per Cents. were done at 43 •, i ;
the New
Three per Cents. at 21 13.16 ; the Debt of the
First. Class t.; 8-a ; and that of the Second at 5 56.
------

Mr, Ogden, wbo for some years held the office of
United States Consul at Liverpool, has been appointed to
thCIAMQ gitiO is Alaacheiter,

Another•grand review of the troops of the garrison
took place at Berlin on the 21st. The Emperor of
RUSSIA, who was present at the review with the
King of PRUSSIA, repeatedly expressed his satisfac-
tion at the appearance of the troops, and the correct-
ness with which they went through the different
manceuvres. There was an immense crowd of citi-
zens assembled, and both Sovereigns were loudly
cheered. After the review, there was a dinner at the
Palace, in honour of the EMPEROR, to which 400 per-
sons, officers of the army, high public functionaries,
&c., had been invited. The first toast was
proposed by the King of PRUSSIA, who, after
desiring his guests to charge their glasses, said—" I
propose in my own name, in that of the army, and in
that of all faithful Prussian hearts, the health of his
Majesty the Emperor of RUSSIA, whom may GOD
preserve in the portion of the world which he has as-
signed to hini, and at a period when he is indispen-
sable." The Emperor of RUSSIA replied—" May
GOD preserve your MAJETT," and soon afterwards
the EMPEROR rose again, and said—" I drink to the
health of his Majesty the king of PRUSSIA, and that
of his valiant army:" These toasts were received
with great enthusiasm. After the dinner, their
MAJESTIES, attended by a brilliant suite, went to the
opera,
and were warmly cheered by a crowded au-
dience.
The New Prussian Gazette gives a piece of news
Prussianwhic Chambers
h seems torequiarreecotnofibremcaotniovno.kedlt
again i.s , that
for
theth
intending e
27th of June, the Government to bring
forward a new proposition for the formation of the
First Chamber.
The fair of Leipzic, which has just concluded, has
not been a very satisfactory one. Prices were not
very high, owing to there having been too large sup-
plies of all sorts of goods. The retail trade, however,
sale was rather brisk, especially during the last week.
The
of
in fbotohe s
books notveireynngareLt, but payments
were well made.
Scientific works were in demand.
We read
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of v
amulet which Lord
Byron formerly wore roundpossess'esan
thei his neck, and which proves
a treaty entered into betwbeleerbligloorldomwaon'andi
how stinerceition.
the inscriptions of which have
in virtue of which no harm couldeen
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spoken of in the
KsoonAraorifYailesunstahtsa: rhusieira
journal announces that F&.rizqr ELSSLER.
has just married at Hamburgh a Dr. IlAym