The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-06 00:00:00

THE btiN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 6, 1865.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(P,EUTER's TELEGRAMS.)

SPAIN.
MADRID, APRIL 5 (Evening'

In to-day's sitting of the Congress, the Minister
of Finance made the following declaration in refe-
rence to the settlement of the passive debt and of
the coupons. The worst thing which can be done
is to press the Government with too great impa-
tience. Spain can do far more than she did in 1851,
but she will do it when she believes the moment to
be opportune for so doing. Those outside this
Assembly who would force the Government do only
harm to those interests which they would serve.
The semi-official papers deny the rumour of a
conference between the Papal Nuncio and Marshal
Narvaez.

TURKISH FINANCE.
CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 29
(Via Marseilles.)

The Turkish Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs
leaves for Paris and London to-day to complete
with the Ottoman Bank and Mr. Laing the nego-
tiations in reference to the conversion scheme.

The Viceroy of Egypt is expected here in May,
in order to be present at the marriage of his son
with the Sultan's niece.

INDIA AND CHINA.
SIIANGHAE, FEB. 23.
The Mahometan rebels have gained some ma-
terial successes. They have captured Tunchang
and Loyang.
The Chinese garrison at Hunghow has mutinied.

There is no news of importance from Japan.
Tea declining. Silk active and advancing--
settlements, 1,400 bales; export, 35,000 bales,
Exchange on London, 6s. 41d. Freight declining,
(By Direct Overland Telegraph.)

BOMBAY, APRIL 1.
Exchange on London, 2s. Old. Freights, 50s.
CALCUTTA, Maui' 31.
Markets dull. Exchange on London, 2s. Old.
(Via Suez.)
CANTON, MARCH 1.

Grey shirtings and twist unchanged. Tea un.
changed ; total export to date, 110,125,0001 b. Ex
change on London, 4s. 6id.

MESSINA, APRIL 5.

The Messageries Imperiales steamer Peluse, with
the India and China mails, left here for Marseilles
at four o'clock this morning. She brings 190 pas-
sengers and 1,346 packages of merchandise.
(By Direct Overland Telegraph.)
BOMBAY, APRIL 4.

Sir Charles Trevelyan has made his financial
statement. -The deficit this year amounts to
£144,000. The estimates for the year ending
April, 1866, show a surplus of £500,000. The in-
come tax is to cease. An export duty of 3 per cent.
is to be levied on jute, wool, tea, and coffee, and of
2 per cent. on hides, sugar, and silk. The import
duty on hops is reduced to 1 per cent.
The financial condition of the country is declared
to be prosperous.

NEW ZEALAND.
(By Telegraph from Suez.)
MELBOURNE, FEB. 23.
War has recommenced in New Zealand. A de-
tachment under Brigadier Wall was nearly routed
at Ovaita-roa. The troops were rallied, however,
by the exertions of the officers. The British loss
was 13 killed and 33 wounded.
Mr. Hewitt, a member of the Provincial Council,
has been murdered and decapitated by the rebels.
The rebel leader, William Thompson, is reported
to have surrendered to Gen. Carey.
The Confederate cruiser Shenandoah is lying off
King's Island.
Capt. Wadell threatens. to report to his Govern-
ment at Richmond the conduct of the Australian
authorities in refusing to furnish his vessel.
The Panama mail contract has been signed.

EGYPT.
ALEXANDRIA, March 18.

To-day at 1 o'clock his Excellency the Right
Hon. Sir H. Bulwer will be entertained at Ramle by
Mr. Bulkeley. The Governor of Alexandria and
the most distinguished Ministers of the Egyptian
Government, together with a number of the princi-
pal residents of Alexandria, have been invited to
meet his Excellency. Extensive and tasteful pre-
parations have been made for the reception, in the
garden, of Mr. Bulkeley's guest. It is probable
that her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador will remain
a few days at Ramle, Mr. Bulkeley having placed
his new mansion at his disposal. Sir Henry's health
has greatly improved during his stay here and in
Cairo. During the week he has been able to en-
tertain at dinner the Consuls-General and Consuls
of the various nationalities, and to accept the hospi-
talities of Mr. Oppenheim and other gentlemen.
His Excellency on Thursday evening honoured the
Zizinia theatre with his presence. He occupied the
Vice-regal box, and on making his appearance the
orchestra played " God Save the Queen," the
audience afterwards heartily cheering him. The
revolt in Upper Egypt has not been confined to the
Bedouins, but had extended to the fellahs. It is
said that the Mudir of Gherza had been assassi-
nated, Sciahim Pasha had been wounded, the Cofta
church had been violated, and 400 camels laden with
sugar belonging to his highness the Viceroy hadbeen
plundered. Peace has now, however, been restored.
Discouraging advices from England are quite put-
ting a stop to business in the villages. The fellahs
are holding back their cotton, and will not listen to
the prices offered them. In Zagazik many of the
factories are stopped. There is no work at Zifta
and Matallah. Cotton is getting much scarcer.
Business at Mansoorah is almost at a standstill,
although it is said there is still one-third of the cot-
ton produced in that district yet to come to market.
Cotton has been extensively cultivated there, and
preparations for an extended culture are being made.
His highness the Viceroy possesses large tracts of
land in that vicinity, and has evinced his interest in
the place by building a splendid palace, now near
completion. The progress Mansoorah has made
may be estimated by the fact that frontage land has
been sold at £2 sterling the pic of 26in. It is cal-
culated that no fewer than 300,000 cantars of cot-
ton were grown in 1863 at Mansoorah.

Peson, with great presence of mind, coolly asked for
his whip, which had dropped, and then speaking to
the animal with authority, succeeded in disengaging
himself and soon brought his assailant to perfect
obedience, getting off with a few slight scratches.
" You would hardly believe," says a Paris letter
in the Salut Public of Lyons, " that a man who can-
not read has been chosen somewhere as Minister of
Public Instruction. That is impossible, you will
probably say, unless it is in Japan; and even there!
Pardon, the fact is true, and the phenomenon has
taken place in Europe. You may remember that
the ambassador of the Sublime Porte has been re-
called. This diplomatic movement gave rise to some
changes in the Turkish Cabinet, in consequence of
which the Sultan chose for the abovementioned de-
partment Nevrez Pacha, a man who really cannot
read."

The Constitutionnel states that different detach-
ments, forming altogether an effective of about 600
men, are about to join the corps composing the
French division of occupation at Rome, to supply
the places of those who have been sent home.

Mgr. Lavigerie, Bishop of Nancy, has returned
from his visit to Rome.

A labouring man, named Forzic, at Plonnerin
(Cotes-du-Nord) murdered his wife three. days back
by strangling her during her sleep. The man, when
arrested, at first denied the crime, but afterwards
confessed it, declaring that his motive was to get
rid of his wife, as they did not live happily together.
The woman bore an excellent character, while the
man was an idle and drunken fellow, and had
already been twice imprisoned for debt.

The international conference on telegraphic com-
munications at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
under the presidency of M. Drouyn de Lhuys, has
terminated the first examination of the draft of a
convention prepared by the French Government.
The representatives of the different Powers are said
to be already in accord on the following points :
The abolition of the system of zones and the adop-
tion of a uniform tariff for each country in Europe;
the franc accepted as the monetary unity for the
international tariffs ; the employment of cipher, if
required, for correspondence ; the use of despatches
" recommended ; " and lastly, considerable reduc-
tion in the international tariffs at present in vigour.

The Norhimpings of Stockholm states that the
launch has just been safely effected in that port of
the John Erikson, the first Swedish monitor. She
measures 205 feet long by 46 feet wide. The side
plating is five inches thick, and around the tower,
where the cannons are, it is 12 inches, as is also
that which protects the rudder. The vessel will be
provided with six steam engines.
The emigration from the province of Alicante in
Spain to Algeria is increasing in very large propor-
tions. Six years ago, according to an official return,
there were 80,000 Spaniards in that colony, whereas
there are now 100,000. Alicante and Valence are
preparing to send this year from 15,000 to 20,000.
The execution of Jean Requille, for the murder
of his mother, took place the morning before last at
Blois. The condemned criminal was conveyed in a
vehicle from the prison to the place where the scaf-
fold had been erected. The Abbd Bioet, chaplain
to the prison, supported him up the steps, and
Requille, on reaching the platform, knelt down
calmly and received the last benediction. The
moment after, all was over. A great crowd had
assembled to witness the execution.

The Epoque of last evening, on the subject of the
probability of M. Baroche being appointed to the
Presidency of the Chamber, says :—" It now ap-
pears to be ahnost certain that M. Baroche will be
called to the Presidency of the Chamber. It is
thought also that he will present himself for election
to the Legislative Body, not, as was first said, in
the Puy-de-Dome, that is, in the circumscription
left vacant by the death of the Duke de Morny, but
in the department of the Seine-et-Oise, where a
place will become vacant by the nomination of M.
Darblay to the dignity of Senator. It is known,
besides, that M. Baroche has considerable property
in that department, and is President of the Council-
General."

BOURSE, April s.—The aspect of the market is
firm. Threes, for the Account, are not quoted,
there having been hitherto few or no transactions
in them. Mobilier Shares have gone up, and are
now at 825 f. Railway Shares are still firmer, with
a very general rise in quotations. The market
closed firm. The following are the last quota-
tions :

41 per 9ente 96 30

Do. end month —

Italian Loan 65 60
Do. end month 65 75
Ditto Threes 46 50
New Mexican
Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt 43
Deferred -
WAYS.

3 per Cents. 67 60

D. end month 67 80
Credit liobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3550

Ondit Foncier 1292 50
Roman

Cash. Acct.
Orleans
Northern lO7l 25 ... 1078 75
Lyons and Mediterranean 9BO ... 982 50
Southern 556 25 ...
Western 555 ... 560
Eastern 535 ... 537 50
Sardinian 306 25 ... 305
Austrian
Lombard 550 ... 551 25
North of Spain 295 ... 300
Saragossa 3BB 75 ... 387 50
Ditto to Barcelona 155 ...

The Niagara and the Sacramento.

LissoN, March 30.

The Jornal do Commercio of to-day gives the fol-
lowing as an official account of the recent events :
" The two Federal steamers anchored at Belem,
much below the ground they wished to take, because
the Portugueseguardship prohibited their approach-
ing nearer to the place where the Stonewall lay.
Next day, when the Confederate vessel had sailed,
they weighed anchor, with the intention of coming
up the river, but did not notify the guardship of
their intention, and this caused the Governor of the
Tower of Belem, whose orders were precise, to fire
into the vessels. It is explained that the Federal
ships steamed towards the bar in order to take the
turn up the river, and there is no doubt the whole
difficulty might have been obviated had they sent
previous notice to the Governor of Belem Tower.
It is said that at the first shot the Niagara lowered
her flag half mast, to show she accepted the intima-
tion not to go out, and this signal appears not to
have been observed at the tower, which fired six
more shots at the frigate, and it is said three balls
struck her side. The commander of the Niagara
complains that a blank cartridge was not first fired
to give him timely warning. There is much talk of
reclamation and exchange of diplomatic notes, but
on this head nothing official has transpired."

TEA.—The imports of tea in February showed
a very great falling off, having amounted to only
6,574,3641 b., as compared with 12,765,2941 b. in February,
1864, and 16,929,2801 b: in February, 1863. The imports
for the two months ending February 28 this year were
9,486,0981 b., as compared with 16,093,0671 b. in 1864, and
27,026,9701 b. in 1863 (corresponding periods). The quan-
tity of tea entered for home consumption in the first two
months of this year was 15,359,1471 b., as compared with
14,935,6291 b. in 1864, and 12,196,3371 b. in 1863 (correspond-
ing periods).

ANOTHER MIS- APPREHENSION.—On Sunday night
a gentleman named Crum, an officer in the army, who had
been staying at Scarborough, and who arrived in York on
Monday morning, was apprehended at one of the principal
hotels in that city, charged with having forged a cheque
for £1,500 on a bank in Buxton. One of the inspectors
named Hodson had a warrant for the apprehension of
a man named Temple Morris, and he arrived in
York at a late hour on Saturday, after which he re-
ceived information that a gentleman, whom it was sup-
posed was the offender, had arrived in the town. Inspector
_Hodson immediately waited upon Capt. Crum, and told him
that he held a warrant for his apprehension on a charge of
forgery. Mr. Crum told the policeman that he was mis-
taken, and after informing him that he was a nephew of
Messrs. Crum, merchants, Mosley-street, Manchester, told
him and a policeman who accompanied him that they might
search his portmanteau (in which were his regimentals),
his cardcase, and, as he said, "the whole of his letters," if
they liked. However, the local "Dogberries" declined
to do this, and the constable, exhibiting the handcuffs, told
him that if he did not go with them by the next train he
would have them applied in a manner he would not ap-
prove. Mr. Crum, acting upon the advice of some gentle-
men who were present, but who were unknown to him,
consented to go quietly ; whereupon he was removed from
York to Buxton, and, on being faced with the bankers in
the morning, they immediately stated that the police were
mistaken. The gallant Officer was immediately released
from custody. It is said that legal proceedings are con-
templated.—Manchester Examiner.