The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-01 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, OCT. 31.
The usual monthly auction for the sinking fund of
the Passive Debt took place to-day.

The prices fixed by the Government were :—For
the Ist interior, 34f. 50c. ; 2d interior, 19f. 60c. ;
and for the exterior, 301:
Tenders were sent in at from 31f. 45c. to 34c.
60c. for the Ist interior ; and from 19f. 59c. to 19f.
65c. for the 2d interior.
No offers were made for the exterior.

TUNIS, OCT. 31.
A general amnesty has been granted to all persons
implicated in the late revolution.
The Khasnadar has proposed to the Bey other
measures of clemency and progress.

PORTUGAL.
LISBON, OCT. 30.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship
Oneida has arrived here from the Brazils, and will
leave for Southampton at 8 p.m. to-day, with 138
passengers, specie £57,123, 700 bags of coffee, 200
barrels of tapioca, 105 bales of cotton, and 150
rolls of tobacco.

The Rhone, with the out Brazil mail of the 9th
October, arrived at St. Vincent on the 21st inst.

The Arno, from Southampton, arrived at Rio de
Janeiro on the Bth October.
The Duncan Dunbar was wrecked off Ran Roccas
on the 7th October. The crew and passengers were
taken off by the Oneida on the 17th, all well.

COLLISION IN THE MERSEY.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 1.

The schooner Rover this morning, whilst drag-
ging her anchor, drove foul of the ship Culloden,
for Portland, in the Mersey, when both vessels
sank.

It is reported that only five men were saved.
About 20 are at prcscnt naiesings

AMERICA.

(Arrival of the City of London.)

QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 31.

The Inman steamer City of London arrived here
to-day with the mails, 289 passengers, and $233,000
in specie. She landed 76 passengers, and proceeded
for Liverpool at 7.50 p.m.
NEW YORK, Oct. 21 (Morning.)

The Secretary of the Treasury has announced
that he will receive gold deposits, issuing therefor
gold certificates, payable on demand and receivable
for duties.

Business at New Orleans is reported to have in-
creased 33 per cent. since August. The old cotton
crop is steadily coming in, but the new crop is late,
and will be far below the average.

The North Carolina Convention has adjourned
until May next, after resolving to submit to the
people's vote the resolutions prohibiting slavery and
annulling the secession ordinance.
General Humphreys, upon his inauguration as
Governor of Mississippi, declared secession to be
unconstitutional, and stated that he favoured
absolute emancipation, but was opposed to social
or political equality for the negro.
Governor Sharkey has been elected senator from
Mississippi.
Fears of a negro insurrection continue to prevail
throughout the South.
A Democratic ratification meeting has been held
in New York, at which General Slocum and Messrs.
John van Buren and Montgomery Blair delivered
addresses endorsing President Johnson's reconstruc-
tion policy, denouncing negro suffrage, and declar-
ing it necessary to enforce the Monroe doctrine in
regard to Mexico.
A Republican ratification meeting has also been
held in this city, at which President Johnson's re-
construction policy was endorsed.
Mr. Stephens had au interview with President
Johnson yesterday, and afterwards left for Georgia.
The North Carolina Convention has passed a
resolution forbidding any legislation for the as-
sumption or payment of the Confederate debt.

The Fenian Congress is said to have decided
yesterday on an important secret measure. A large
amount of funds has been promised. The delegates
will personally subscribe poo,ooo. The number of
Federal officers present at the Fenian Congress has
increased. General Sweeny, of the regular army,
has been presented, and Colonel Murphy has ten-
dered to the congress the services of 20 colonels and
other officers and soldiers of the late Federal volun-
teer army.
There is a severe gale prevailing all around the
American coast. The steam-ship Circassian, from
Bremen for New York, having sprung a leak, the
captain ran her ashore on the 20th, at Rocky Bay,
Cape Breton, in order to save her. She lies on the
sand beach, the passengers and crew having been
rescued. The steamer Atlantic, from New Orleans
for New York, has been wrecked, and nearly all on
board perished. The Golden City left San Francisco
on the 18th with $1,250,000 for New York, 300,000
for England, and $70,000 for France.
The Scotia and Borussia have arrived out.
Mr. Seward has made a speech, in which he stated
that the Prosident would conduct the settlement of
national claims between the Government and foreign
nations without compromising the national dignity
and honour. The influence of the United States
on the international conduct of foreign States, par-
ticularly on the American continent, though impaired
by the civil war, would now be renewed. Ho ex-
pected to see Republican institutions, wherever
heretofore established throughout the American
continent, especially vindicated, renewed, and rein-
vigorated. When this progress was accomplished,
he would look for signs of its working on other con-
tinents.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Oct. 21, Morning.
Money tight—Gold, 1461. Exchange on London
159 ; on Paris, 35G4. The stock market yesterday
showed signs of panic, but afterwards became
steadier. New York Centrals, 95 ; Illinois, 1324 c,
Eney 86i 1 0-20 Bonds, 1031. Cotton declining—