The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-16 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVEAIiNG, JUNE 16, 1865.

to look into the minutiae of the affairs, and see that
all is carried on with the utmost care and caution,
and regulated on those principles most conducive to
public safety.

We are glad to find that hon. members are not
inclined to allow Sir CHARLES WOOD to pursue his
erratic course unmolested. The late period of the
session at which he has for several years chosen to
bring forward his Indian statement has long been
censured by those really interested in Indian affairs,
and, accordingly, since the last days of the Parlia-
ment are already being talked about, several gen-
tlemen thought proper to make some inquiries as to
the future intentions of the Indian Secretary. Mr.
SMITH asked whether Sir C. WOOD intended to
continue the practice he had adopted of bringing
on the Indian Budget a few days before the
close of the session, and, if not, what arrange-
ments had been made for working up the
accounts at an earlier period. Sir CHARLES
WOOD prudently avoided the general question, but
said that the time at which the present Budget was
brought forward must depend upon the progress
of supply. Mr. MILLS, misled, no doubt, by the
connection of the subjects, asked if a loan were to
be proposed? No, nothing of the sort, said the
Indian Minister, so that the reason for the delay is
not very clear. It is really time that some change
was introduced in the management of this impor-
tant matter. The Indian Budget is brought on at
the fag end of the session, when half the members
have left town, and the other half are weary and
indifferent, only anxious to get over the inevitable
business. This is not the way to keep up that
active supervision over our Indian empire which
must be maintained if we hope to insure its pro-
gress and welfare. Sir CHARLES WOOD, no doubt,
likes to escape any cross-questioning and interfer-
ence with his arbitrary exercise of authority, but
the public at large are not quite so willing to
entrust the government of some millions of persons
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to his charge as he is to assume the responsibility.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 16.

The Royal Mail steamer Atrato has arrived here
with 212 passengers, $966,490 in specie, and 2,074
packages of cargo, consisting chiefly of cotton,
coffee, cochineal, and cocoa. She left St. Thomas
on the 29th ult., and on the following day her port
engine became disabled, and she made the voyage
with one engine only.

The Spanish fleet in Chili had been heavily rein-
forced by further arrivals, and coal and store depots
had been established for their use.. Much anxiety
existed in Chili as to the position of affairs with re-
gard to the claims made by Spain. No official in-
formation of the question at issue had been made
public, but one of the demands on Chili was that
they should salute the Spanish fleet, which it was
said the Chilians would not'do.
The new customs tariff met with strong opposi-
tion from the merchants of Valparaiso, and a com-
mittee which had been formed had framed an
amended tariff, and offered it to the Ministry, as
superior to that coming into operation on the Ist
of May.

Business at Valparaiso was quiet. Exchange,
46 to 46i per dollar.
The revolution occupied public attention in Peru
and the speedy crushing of the rebellion was anti-

cipated.
On the Bth ult. a simultaneous attack by sea and
land was made by the Government forces on the
revolutionists at Arica. After a short struggle the
revolutionists abandoned the defences in confusion,
and Arica was taken by. the Government troops.
The Spanish steam ram Numancia, 6,000 tons, had
arrived at Callao, to reinforce the Spanish squadron.
Business was depressed. Exchange, 36* to 37.
In Guatemala Congress assembled on the Ist of
May, and General Cerna was elected President by
a large majority. The Republic was quiet.
The revolutionary rising in the department of
Olanoho, Honduras, continued.

In Salvador uneasiness prevailed on account of
an attempt by the friends of Barrios to overthrow
the present administration. Trade and agriculture
were flourishing.

In Nicaragua a plague of locusts had done great
damage to the cotton plantations. Congress had
adjourned till next year.
The Costa Rica Congress was opened on the Ist

May.
Wet weather at Trinidad had interrupted the
sugar making. Tonnage was plentiful, and freights
low. About one-third of the crop had been

shipped.
Sugar making was
proceeding rapidly at Barba-
does, and the quantity was good. Provisions were
scarce and the island healthy. Exchange, 90 days,
475.

Business was dull at Jamaica, and rain was fall-
ing all over the island. The sugar crop, owing to
the long drought, was short of the average. Coffee,
548. to 565. Rum, 24d. to 251 d. per gallon, 18
proof in bond. Sugar, ordinary, 13 to 14; middling,
15 to 16 ; fair, 17s. per 100 lb. Exchange, 60 days,
2 per cent.

Transactions in Italian

Joan have taken place at
Ised as follows :

66f. 70c. The market cli

41 per Cents 95 50
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 67 30
Do. end month 67 27i-
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares —

Credit Foncier 1275
Italian Loan 66 65
Do. end month 66 65
BAIL

Ditto Threes —
New Mexican
Do. Bonds B2O
Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Defer-red
Roman 74

WAYS.
Cash. Acct.
Orleans
Northern 1065 ... 1067 50
Lyons and Mediterranean B4l 25 ... 840
Southern 576 25 575 —4

Western
Eastern
Sardinian.
Austrian

526 25 - -
503 75 503 75
302 50 303 ;5
422 50 ... 423 75

Lombard 492 50 ... 492 50
North of Spain l9O ... 188 75
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona —

AMERICA.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
ARRIVAL OF THE CHINA.
NEW YORK, JUNE 6, Evening.

The Federal debt amounted on the Ist instant to
2,635mi11i0ns of dollars, the annual interest thereon
payable in coin to 641 millions, and the interest
payable in currency to 60 millions. The legal ten-
der notes afloat amount to 659 millions.

The suppressed testimony at the conspiracy trial
has now been published. Connover, a correspon-
dent of the New York Tribune, Merritt, a physician
of Montgomery, and a Government detective, tes-
tified that they were intimately acquainted with the
Confederate agents in Canada, and feigned to act
in complicity with them in order to learn their
secrets. They frequently saw Saunders, Thompson,
and Clay in intercourse with Booth. Connover
testified that he was present when Surratt delivered
despatches to Thompson from Davis and Benjamin,
indicating Lincoln, Johnson, Stanton, Grant,
Seward, and Chase for assassination, and that
Thompson commissioned Booth for this purpose.
He also testified that the Confederates in Canada
had organised a plan to poison the reservoirs and
the stock of cotton in New York.

The Times says that the Government depends
upon the evidence of Connover, Merritt, and Mont-
gomery for the implication of Davis.
General Kirby Smith has surrendered on the
same terms as Generals Lee and Johnstone, and
all the cotton in the Trans-Mississippi department
belonging to the Confederate Government has been
delivered over to the Federals.

Confusion and anarchy are reported to be reign-
ing at Galveston, the Confederate leaders having
lost all authority over their troops. The steamer
Lark has returned to Havana from Galveston, hav-
ing been robbed of her cargo.
Governor Magrath, of South Carolina, has sur-
rendered.

General Grant has issued an address to the
Federal armies, acknowledging their services and
achievements.

Telegraphic communication between New York
and Charleston is now re-established.

The North and South Atlantic squadron is to be
reduced to 40, and the Gulf River squadron to 60

vessels.

Williams and other leaders of the Mexican emi-
gration at San Francisco, have been held to answer,
before the grand jury, for a breach of the neutrality
laws. The charter of the barque Brontes has been
revoked.

The North American, City of Washington, and
the New York have arrived out.

The blockade runner Denbigh has been burned.
NEW YORK, June 8, Afternoon.
The French have occupied Chihuahua. Juarez
hag fled towards New Mexico.
Large quantities of cotton are Arriving at Wil-
mington.

A denial has been given to the statement that
Mr. Stanton intends to resign his office of Secretary
of War.
President Johnson has discharged from imprison-
ment all enlisted men of the Confederate army not
above the rank of captain, and those of the navy
not above the grade of lieutenant, upon taking the
oath of allegiance, except those who were excluded
by the amnesty proclamation.
Judge Underwood has informed the grand jury
Of Norfolk that the parole of Lee's army was a
mere military arrangement, not influencing the
civil rights or status of the persons paroled.
General Grant has arrived at New York, and
was received with great popular enthusiasm. He
was present at a meeting of citizens in the Cooper
Institute to signify their adherence to Mr. John-
son's Administration.

Resolutions were passed urging the Government
to demand indemnity from the neutral Powers for
the depredations caused by Confederate pirates,
predicting the enforcement of the Monroe deictrine,
and favouring negro suffrage.
It is reported that Mr. Davis will not be tried
until September.
The New York Times confirms the statement
that he was manacled for three days.
A revised report of the recent speech made by
Mr. Wendell Phillips says he advocated the repu-
diation of the Confederate and not the Federal debt.
It is stated that the Government has demanded
the surrender of the Confederate ram Stonewall by

Spain.
It is asserted that the Government has refused to
send a vessel to accompany the Atlantic cable expe-
dition, because no official information has been re-
ceived of the, repeal of the regulation requiring
Federal vessels to quit British ports within 24 hours
of their arrival.
Mr. Garrett Smith willl lecture to-night, denying
the right of the Government to try the Confederates
for treason.
The Africa has arrived at Halifax.
Money abundant. Gold, 1378. Exchange on
London, 1511 ; ditto Paris, 3.711. Stocks slightly
firmer. New York Centrals, 91 ; Illinois, 1181 ;
Erie, 754; Five: Twenty Bonds, 1038. Cotton dull;
middling Upland, 43c. Flour, wheat, and corn dull.
Provisions declining. Coffee quiet. Sugar good
inquiry. Molasses steady. Petroleum dull—crude,
35c. ; refined, 50c.

QUEENSTOWN, JUNE 16.

The Inman steamship Edinburgh, from New
York, on the 3d inst., arrived here at 2 a m. to-day,
with $369,466 in specie, and 251 passengers.
She landed 45 passengers, and proceeded for

Liverpool at 2.15.
Her news has been anticipated.

" WITH HALF HIS LIMBS IN BATTLE LOPPED
AWAlr."—Dring the distribution of commemorative medals
at Alessandria on the Fete of the Statuto the assemblage
was much moved at seeing an artilleryman come forward
and receive a medal with his teeth. This brave fellow,
who had lost both his arms by a shell, had taken part in all
the wars from 1848 to the day of receiving that injury, and
in proof of his exploits wore numerous medals on his
breast, including one in gold, one French, and one Turkish.
The crowd cheered him heartily.
EPIDEMIC AT MEDINA AND MECCA.—Letters from
Medina give frightful account of the ravages of the
epidemic now raging both at that city and Mecca. It takes
the form both of typhus and cholera. On the eve of Cour-
ban-Beiram, and during the Ist and 2d days of the feast,
this terrific scourge carried off no less than 46,000 victims
amongst the pilgrims, and though the intensity of the
plague is somewhat abated, multitudes still perish. The
inhabitants have fled, and the streets are filled with corpses.
Of the Persian pilgrims alone no less than 5,000 have; fallen
victims, amongst whom is the sheik Mirza Ilachim, who,
saint as he was reputed to be, has perished with his whole
household„ composed of ten persons. Sheriff Abdullah
Pacha has taken refuge at Taif, and the Governor-General,
Vedji Pacha, after having lost a son and daughter, his him-
self fallen dangerously ill.—Levant herald, June 7.
MURDER IN CANADA.—On Sunday, the 28th of
May, a respectable farmer of the name of Moquin
went to church with his family at the village of Laprairie,
on the south shore of the St. Lawrence, in the district of
Montreal, leaving his house and two young children in
charge of two women servants. In his absence a man
named Berrean, or Brist, who has bsen in the United States
army, and was formerly known at the house, went there,
shot one of the servants and one of the children, robbed
the house of $5OO, set fire to it, and fled to the woods. The
affair has caused great excitement in and about Montreal,
where there is some apprehension as to the results of the
disbandment of the United States army, especially as it has
been rumoured that the soldier is to be allowed to retain
hie arras as a trophy of the war.