The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-18 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—There is not so large a busi-
ness doing in the fall trade as was expected, which is at-
tributed to the high price of money. Exchange on Eng-
land 1091 to -I. The stock market is unsettled and
feverish.

Flour yesterday was without marked change. White
Genessee wheat sold at 2 dols. 15c. • corn was again
active, while the market closed easier for purchasers.

THE WEST INDIA MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 17.—8 y the Royal Mail
Company's steam-ship Tamar, Capt. R. Revett,
arrived this morning, at 6 o'clock, from the West
Indies, with the usual mails, we receive our usual
despatches and papers. On her homeward voyage
the Tamar experienced moderate weather.
The latest dates brought by the Tamar are :
Greytown, Aug. 20 ; Chargres, 23 ; Demerara, 25;
Trinidad, 25;Carthagena, 25;Jamaica, 26; Grenada,
26 ; Barbadoes, 27 ; Jacmel, 28 ; Antigua, 29 ; St.
Kitts, 29 ; Nevis, 29 ; Montserrat, 29 ; Porto
Rico, 31 ; St. Thomas, Sept. 2 ' • Tobago, Aug. 24 ;
St. Vincent, 26 ; St. Lucia, 28; Martinique, 28 ;
Dominica, 28; Guadaloupe, 28 ; Belize, 19.
She has on board 123 passengers, including De-
puty Commissary General Rayner, Lieutenant
Purcell, R.N., Staff Assistant Surgeon Thompson,
the Marquis de San Andres, Count de Salazar, ctc.
The Tamar brings the passengers from the Wind-
ward Islands, left at St. Thomas's by the Atrato.
The Tamar brings on freight 500,000 dollars, on
merchants' account,. 600 serous of cochineal, 2
packages vanilla, 67 bales of sarsaparilla, and a
general cargo, consisting of 100 packages.
The cholera was abating at Barbadoes.

Samana, in the island of San Domingo, had
been taken possession of by the Russians.
A large fire had broken out at Belize, Honduras,
which had destroyed between 90,0001. and 100,0001.
value in property. The origin of the conflagration
is attributed solely to accident.
The following important intelligence is received
from Sail 'Domingo :---The United. States frigate
Columbia, with a commodore's flag, attended by two
other American vessels, a Corvette and steamer, have
arrived at the port of San Domingo, and have for-
mally demanded the cession to the United States of
the port of Samana, with certain adjacent territory.
A general officer, with one or more officers of en-
gineers, is also reported to be on board the Co-
lumbia. On'the demand having been made on the
Government of the Dominican Republic, the Bri-
tish and French Consuls immediately despatched
express messengers. to Port-au-Prince.
From Jamaica wolearn that cholera still existed
in several parishes.
His Excellency the Governor has issued her Ma-
jesty's proclamation, further proroguing the House
Of Assembly from the 29th of August to the 3d of
October, but not to meet and proceed to business.
In the Jamaica markets little improvement had
taken place. In freights little offering.
Exchange, for bills on England at 90 days; 6011
per cent. prem. ; 30, 1 ditto.

FRANC UNDER THE EMPEROR

NAPOLEON 111.

(From the Moniteur.)

France is now enjoying the fruits of the honourable
and firm policy inaugurated by the Emperor. In spite
of famine, epidemic, and war, the national activity has
not been diminished and the public credit has not been
shaken. Thanks to the wise resolution of the Govern-
ment, so well seconded by the courage and confidence of
the country, three of the most formidable scourges that
can afflict a nation have been reduced, with the excep-
tion of losses to be for ever regretted, to the limits of
passing difficulties. The epidemic is being extinguished;
the famine has been succeeded by an abundant harvest ;
the war, commenced under happy auspices, inspires no
more alarm than the ambition which created it. Within
a short time the nations, faithful to their appointment,-
will re-assemble at Paris to take part in the pacific strug-
gles between industry and the arts.
What an immense change has taken place in opinion
as well as in position ! At the same time that France
resumed in Europe the eminent rank which be-
longed to her, she witnessed the disappearance of
that distrust of which the recollection of the past
rendered her the object. That nation, against which
every other country thought it had the right to
cherish jealousy, has become by an unexpected change
the most solid support of European order. It is no
longer towards the north that weak or menaced States
turn their attention ; and, what is still more astonishing
the fears which France inspired have ceased by the ac-
cession of him whose glorious name seemed calculated to
awaken them. What has just taken place at Boulcgne
forms an indication more expressive than any words.
To that shore, whence Napoleon 50 years ago menaced
England, and whence he rushed to the conquest of Ger-
many, have come the Prince, the husband of the Queen
of England, generals from all the States of Germany,
and also the King of the Belgians and the King of Por-
tugal, to visit the heir of Napoleon. They were present
as allies, as friends, at the manseuvres of an army which
by its discipline and its bravery, still more than by the
spot where it was encamped, recalled to recollection the
Grand Army of the first empire.
The fact is, that every one is now aware that those
valiant soldiers only threaten the enemy of the peace of
the world ; that the memorable words of Bordeaux,
which at first appeared irreconcileable with the reality,
have become an incontestable truth to all ; that no one
doubts that, with the causes of division which still exist
in Europe, with the weakness of certain States and the
hesitation of others, if France had not been satisfied with
the re-establishment of its national Government, if her
strength had not been concentrated in a firm and skilful
hand, the question now to be decided in the East would
have become the signal for one universal coufiagration.
It is because every one is convinced that a prompt and
to re-eetablioh perm enorgeOc war way the only' way