The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-08 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC.
LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY EVENING.
By the United States mail steamer Baltic we
have advices from New York to the 28th ult. She
brought 241 passengers, and $600,000 in specie on
freight.
Havannah accounts of the 22d ult. contain no
political news of interest. Sugars were dull, but
prices firm. The crop was reported to be one-
tenth larger than last year, with a stock on hand
of 175,000 boxes.
The steamer Arctic, from Liverpool, was going
into New York as the Baltic came out from Wash-
ington.
We learn that the State Department had offici-
ally declared its readiness to pay the third instal-
ment of the Portuguese indemnity.
The jury in the Gardner case had not yet arrived
at a verdict.
Her Majesty's steamer Argus had arrived at
Halifax from Portsmouth, and was to proceed to
the Gulf of St. Lawrence to protect the fisheries.
Quebec accounts of the 27th ult. state that the
bill to increase the representation in the Legisla-
tive Council and the Seignorial Tenures Bill had
been thrown out by the Lgislative Council.
Telegraphic accounts from Baltimore state that
information had been received there of the escape
of Patrick O'Donoghue and another of the Irish
exiles from Van Diemen's Land.
Stock of molasses small, and prices tend up-
wards.
From the city of Mexico we have advices to the
18th, and from Vera Cruz to the 22d ult. A revolu-
tion broke out at Vera Cruz on the 17th among the
National Guards, in consequence of an order from
the Government to incorporate them with the regu-
lars. The revolution lasted three day during which
business was entirely suspended. The regulars
troops had possession of the forts, and the National
Guards of the streets and city gates. Brisk firing
was kept up during the whole time, but the affair
was finally ended on the 221, by the entrance of a
large body of troops from Jalapa, who took 50 of
the National Guards prisoners, and restored quiet.
Santa Anna had issued many arbitrary decrees ;
he had suspended Legislative authority of all kinds
throughout the Republic, and prohibited the pos-
session of arms, powder, or any kind of munitions
by private citizens. He had also placed the tele-
graph under the control of Government. The army
was being reorganized and increased. Lombardine
had been promoted to a General of Division. A
project for a new national bank had been started,
based upon a Government loan of from $8,000,000
to $12,000,000. The French Minister had arrived.
A good business had been transacted in the New
York Stock Market, at enhanced prices for most
descriptions.
No material alteration in the money market.
Exchange, 1091 to 1097 T ; Paris, 5 12i to 5 15 ;
Amsterdam, 411- to 41g ; Frankfort, 40i to 41.
Cotton in good demand at an advance of lc. per
lb., with large daily sales.
Four in moderate demand at firm prices.
A good inquiry for wheat for export.
Indian corn quoted at 60c. to 62c. per bushel for
mixed and white southern, and 65c. to 66c. for
yellow.
Scotch pig iron inactive ; two cargoes of scrap
iron to arrive sold at $37, six months.
Provisions dull and inactive.
Freights to London and Havre without altera-
tion.

THE FRENCH EMPIRE.

Paris and Orleans, 1,055 ; Paris and Strasbourg,
900 ; Paris and Lyons, 909 f. ; Paris and Rouen,
1,045 f.

IMPORTANT FROM TURKEY.

A telegraphic message from Berlin, states that
•
intelligence had reached that capital from St. Pe-
tersburgh in which it is announced that the Em-
p3ror of Russia had dispatched a courier to Con-
stantinople, with a demand that Prince Menschi-
koff's last proposal should be accepted by the Porte
within eight days.
The Cologne Gazette has the following under the
head of Constantinople :—" The Sultan in putting
his signature to the answer rejecting the proposi-
tions of Prince Menschikoff, is reported to have
said, ' I really cannot understand what it is at-
tempted to exact from me. I desire only the hap-
piness of all my subjects, without distinction of
religious creed, and have shown this desire with
more ardour than any of my predecessors, and yet
the more I display this feeling the less gratitude do
I find on the part of the Christian Princes who are
my neighbours.' The Sultan then signed in a bold
hand. The language of the Sultan has spread
everywhere, and has produced an electrical effect.
Never was Sultan more beloved by his subjects."
We read in the Debats

" The following, according to our correspondents,
are the circumstances which produced the last Ministe-
rial crisis at Constantinople, and brought back Reschid
Paella to power. On the 12th ult. the old council of
Ministers had resolved to reply to the dispatch in which
Prince Menschikoff acknowledged in anything but con-
ciliatory terms the reception of the note of Divan, dated
on the 10th, which, as is well known, rejected the draft
of the treaty, presented on the sth by the Russian am-
bassador. This new reply of the Turkish Government
was to be handed to the Prince in conference to which
lie had been officially iuvited through Nourredin-Bey,
Dragoman of the Divan, and at which was to be present
the Grand Vizir, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the
Seraskier or Minister of War, and Arif-Effendi, the
representative of the Ulemas. Prince Measchikoff
accepted the appointment for the following day at the
palace of the Grand Vizir. At the hour fixed
on, the Ministers, who were assembled at Kouron-
Tchesme, the residence of the Grand Vizir, had the
annoyance of seeing the steam-frigate of the Prince,
bearing the ambassador's flag at her mast-head, dash
past the windows of the palace, where they expected
to see her stop, and proceed to Beschick-Tasch, the
palace of the Sultan, as though the Russian ambas-
sador had forgotten the appointment made on the
previous day, and paid no attention to the remark
made to him by the Grand Vizir a few days before
when the Prince talked of a fresh audience of the Sultan,
that his Highness was unwell, and could not see any
one. It was in fact the Sultan himself whom Prince
Menschikoff wished to see. The first dragoman of the
Russian embassy, M. Argyropoulo, was charged to
transmit to the first Secretary of the Sultan the demand
of the Prince, and which it was thought proper not to
refuse, however unpleasant it might be for the ministers
of the Sultan. On being admitted to his presence, the
Russian ambassador immediately began to complain of
the resolution of the Divan. We do not pretend to give
the conversation which took place textually, but we
think we may rely on the following as being the sub-
stance of it The intentions of the Emperor,' said the
Prince, 'towards your Majesty and your Government
have been badly interpreted. The Emperor will never
forget that you are the son of his friend the late Sultan
Mahmoud, and no one would be more distressed than
he to see a rupture take place between the Sublime
Porte and the Court of Russia. Let your Majesty
deign once more to listen to the counsels of a neighbour
and a friend ; let me permitted to hope that the reply
given to my ultimatum is not definitive. Perhaps your
Majesty has not yet consulted all the persons who could
enlighten you on this subject and make you appreciate
rightly the importance of a refusal given on such
an occasion to my august master. I entreat your
Majesty to weigh maturely the consequences which
might result from a prolonged resistance on your
part to the wishes of the Emperor.' After making these
remarks the Prince returned on board, and instead of
going to Buyukddr6, he kept his frigate stationary
under the windows and opposite the gate of the palace.
After Laving received this communication, the Sultan
sent for the Grand Vizir and the Seraskier. I will not,'
he said, break off my relations with the Emperor of
Russia, neither will I give myself up entirely ; find me,
therefore, a middle course, which will satisfy Russia, and
save the honour of Turkey.' To these remarks, the
ministers, who had not recovered from the emotion
caused by the affront just given them, replied by advising
resistance. It is, said the Grand Vizir, the only means
of saving the independence of the Sultan. The plan
adopted was decided on almost unanimously by the
Council, and it is impossible to change it. He concluded
by offering his resignation. The Seraskier, Mehemet-
Ruschdi-Pacha, went still farther than the Grand Vizir ;
he declared to the Sultan that he would sooner lose his

In the absence of news respecting the affairs of
the East, some of the Paris journals put forward
an article extracted from the Journal de Francfort,
and to which, in the remarks that they make upon
it, they attach considerable importance, the jour-
nal in question having the reputation of being an
organ of the Russian Government. We think that,
more importance is attached to the article than it
deserves, for the journal can have had no means of
knowing what course the Emperor of Russia in-
tended to pursue, after receiving the news of the
failure of the leading point of the mission of Prince
Menschikoff. The article of the Journal de Franc-
fort is good, however, as showing that the partisans
of Russia do not believe that the failure of M.
Menschikoff, as regards the demands of the pro-
tectorate of the Greeks in such a way as virtually
to deprive the Sultan of the sovereignty over a
large portion of his subjects, will lead to a rupture
of the peace of Europe. The argument of the
Frankfort journal—and this, in fact, constitutes all
that is worthy of notice in the article—is that, as
Prince Menschikoff has succeeded fully in the ques-
tion of the Holy Sepulchre, he has done quite enough
to satisfy the honour of the Emperor of Russia, and
to enable him, without losing his dignity, to put
up with the refusal of the Sultan to grant the other
demands made iu his name by his representative.
If the view taken by the Journal de Francfort has
been suggested by persons who may be supposed to
be acquainted with the intentions of the Emperor
Nicholas, the statement becomes important, for it
is really the best way of putting an end to the
question. Unfortunately, however, the pertinacity
with which Prince Menschikoff followed up his de-
mands respecting the protectorate, showed that he
regarded them as infinitely more important than
those respecting the Holy Sepulchre, and for the
Emperor of Russia to realise the predictions of the
Journal de Francfort, he must to a certain extent
disavow the proceedings of his Ambassador.
The Senate met yesterday, M. Troplong in the
chair. M. Larabit read his report on the bill relat-
ing to the execution of the telegraphic line between
France and Algeria. After a discussion, in which
M. de Lezay-Marnesia, M. Larabit, the Marquis de
Pastoret, the Marquis de Boissy, and M. Bonjean,
the Government commissioner, took part, the Senate
declared unanimously, minus two votes, that it did
not oppose the promulgation of the bill. Baron de
Lacrosse next read the report on the budget of
receipts and expenses for 1854, and the Senate
decided unanimously that there was no reason to
oppose its promulgation. The same decision was
come to respecting the following bills :—That
which relates to the payment of the present debts
of the department and communes; the bill to again
put in force Arts. 86 and 87 of the penal code ; that
relating to the organisation of Mortgage backs ;
that concerning the execution of the railway from
Lyons to Geneva, and of the railway from St.
Rambert to Grenoble ; the bill concerning the
discount banks ; that relating to the concession of
the baths of Vichy ; and the bill authorising the
city of Orleans to contract a loan. The proceed-
ings then terminated.
The General Direction of Customs and Indirect
Taxes has published a return of the general com-
merce of France with her colonies and foreign
countries in the years 1850, 1851, and 1852. The
following facts appear from it :—The number of
vessels engaged iu effecting importations, was
16,300 in 1850, of 2,068,963 tons burthen ; 17,424
in 1851, of 2,201,917 tons burden ; and 18,692 in
1852, of 2,438,203 tons. Of the total number in
1850, 7,494 were French and 8,806 foreign ; in
1851, 7,637 were French and 9,787 foreign ; and
in 1852, 7,991 French, and 10,701 °foreign.
Thus, then, the same fact which has been noticed
in previous years again occurred, namely, that
French navigation does not increase in the same
proportion as foreign. The same is the case
with respect to tonnage ; it rose for French vessels
from 837,526 tons in 1850 to 931,992 in 1852 ; but
for foreign vessels it rose from 1,232,437 tons in
1850 to 1,506,210 tons in 1852. The official value
of the imports both by French and foreign vessels
was 771,200,000 fr. in 1850, 733,900,000 fr. in 1851,
and 929,300,000 fr. in 1852 ; and if to that be added
the value of the importations by land, the general
total was, for the three years, 1,174,100,000 fr.,
1,157,700,000 fr., and 1,438,400,000 fr. With re-
spect to exports, the number of vessels engaged
was, in 1850, 15,626, and their tonnage was,
1,666,189 ; in 1851, 17,212 of 1,886,269 tons bur-
den ; and in 1852, 16,406 of 1,863,406 tons. In
this return French vessels only figured for 7,540
vessels
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FATAL ACCIDENT.—An accident accompanied with
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1,264,600,000 fr. in 1851, and 1,304,800,000 fr. in
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1852. Adding the exports by land, the general totals loss of life occurred at
.the railway Station, Northamp-
of exports for the three years were 1,531 ton, on Tuesday morning. On the. arrival. of the 7:30
1,629,700,000 fr., and 1,681,000,000 fr. London at Northampton it is put on one side
until the arrival of a later train from London, when the
The announcement that the Emperor of train
passengersfrom
m are transferred from one train to the other.
had dispatched a courier to Constantinople, re- A gentleman named M‘Leod, belonging to London,
quiring the acceptation by the Porte of Prince was walking on the platform by the side of the train,
Menschikoff's ultimatum, caused quite a panic at which was moving very slowly, when he stumbled over
the Bourse yesterday. The Three per Cents. for a small box, and fell off the platform, a distance of about
cash declined If. 45c., and for the Account lf. 65c. four feet, and one of the wheels of the carriage passed
The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. for the term ad- over his body. Surgical assistance was immediately
vanced 200., thus equalising the quotations of that obtained, but proved of no avail ; the unfortunate man
inrat iquest, to be held.
died in about twenty minutes after the occurrence. The
description of stock for cash and the account. bodyilies at the Old White Hart, near the station, await-
iteleC4otbc
Shares of the Bank of France rose 7f. The final
quotations were :—For Cash—Three per Cents.,
77f. 25c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 102 f. For street, having at "succeededl rFienitovbotyaeh,linogf
the sans
the Account—Three per Cents., 77f. ; Four-and-a- tion of the Commissionersn
Half per Cents., 102 t. Bank Stock, 2,672 f. Shares the erection of this
clock ofb the Woods andl Forests riets
at st
thefor
of the Mortgage Bank declined 2f., closing at 798 f., corner of Beak-street, whereaistslsirintedotlyonlyacaen object of
and those of the Societe Mobiliere 7f., being finally general attraction, but of great public utility. It was
quoted at 818 f. The unfavourable condition of af- to
the perfecting of this clock that Mr. Bain devoted his
fairs at the Bourse exercised considerable influence gen3lulsmarnAdß labs our for so many years.
on the Railway Share-market, causing a decline in was printed, showingkl that on the 31st March, 1852,
S BANKS.—On Monday a return
the shares of all the more important lines, in Paris there wore 9,473 depositors to
and Orleans and Paris and Rouen shares to the cavalry and infantry,and 1,671 of the ordnance corps ;
military savings banks of
amount of 101., and in the remaining lines of from , making 11,144. The total
amount of the fund is
sf, to 7f. Final quotations :—Northern, 885 ; 157,8261. 6s. Old.

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occupied the post of Grand Vizir, could not have been
the result of any dissent between the Sultan and his ad-
visers ; at Constantinople it was thought that it bad
more particularly for object to bring back to power
Reschid Pacha, the statesman who is the personification
of reform, and whose liberalism and tolerance are justly
appreciated in Europe, and who will return to office
with the mission of accomplishing nearly definitively the
political emancipation of all the Christian races of the
Empire. He will besides, it is said, endeavour to effect
more—attribute henceforth to all the powers of Europe
that protectorate which Russia now claims for herself
alone. In the same manner that the independence and
neutrality of Turkey have been placed by treaties under the
safeguard of the whole of Europe, will it be under its aus-
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that the manifesto which is to announce this new step
of Turkey in the career of reform, and withdraw the
Greek race from the exclusive influence which Russia
wishes to exercise over it, is being prepared in the
bureaux of the Porte, and will shortly appear. It is
said to be the English A mbassador who has impelled the
Porte in this path, and it is thought that the favour with
which his ideas on the subject were received contributed
not a little to precipitate the resolutions of Prince Men-
schikoff."
The Patric says :—" A letter from Vienna of the
Ist announces, as a rumour generally current, that
the mediation of Austria was probable in the affairs
of Turkey. We cannot say if this rumour is well
founded, but i t had assumed a tolerable consistency
at Vienna."
Mr. Tucker, one of the couriers of the Foreign-
office, in London, embarked at Marseilles on the
sth, in the Caradoc steamer, with dispatches for
Admiral Dundas at Malta.
We learn from Marseilles that the Leonidas
steamer has arrived there with Constantinople
letters to the 25th ult. The enthusiasm for the
Sultan, in consequence of his resistance to the de-
mands of Russia, is stated to have become almost
general in the Turkish capital. The inhabitants
were getting up a patriotic subscription. When
the Leonidas passed by Malta the British fleet was
still in that harbour.
A letter from Constantinople, of the 23d, says,
it was reported there that Hain-Paella, the brother-
in-law of the Sultan, will be sent as special ambas-
sador to St. Petersburgh. The same letter informs
us that, although it was hoped that war will be
avoided, the Porte is preparing on every point for
resistance. Four thousand barrels of powder and
other munitions of war have been taken from the
arsenals, and distributed among the fleet and
army.