The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-21 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Our accounts from Madrid are of the 15th inst.
A grand ball was to be given that evening by
the French Ambassador, in honour of the Empress
of the French, it being her birthday.
The Senate was to meet, preparatory to the
session on the 17th. The Ministerial majority of
the Chamber of Deputies proposed to meet on the
same day, to select the officers for whom they will
vote.

The Ministers are preparing the budget for the
year 1854.

The Cabinet had taken into consideration the
plan of a railway to connect Spain with Portugal
through Badajoz.

The Clamor Publico, of the 15th inst., states that
the Ministers will present bills to the eputies on
the following subjects :-1. To withdraw the pro-
position of a reform of the Constitution. 2. A
bill on the budget and a demand for permission to
continue to levy taxes. 3. A bill on the press and
on railways. 4. A bill to define the duties of mili-
tary senators ; another demanding that all the de-
crees passed, and all the extraordinary credits
granted during the Parliamentary recess, be con-
firmed ; another regulating the Stock Exchange,
and effecting a reform of the tribunals.

A treaty for the protection of literary property
had been signed by the French and Spanish Go-
ernments.

GERMANY.

The Prussian Government ha,s, it• is said, for-
mally proposed to the Government of Greece to
make excavations at its own expense in the plain
of the old town of Olympia ; and the Greeks are
disposed to accept the proposition ; but the condi-
tions have not yet been settled. It is expected that
important archaeological and philological discoveries
will be made.

The Cologne Gazette says the Prussian Govern-
ment has made known to the Cabinet of St. Peters-
burg, that it intends to preserve the same line of
conduct in the Eastern question, as that Cabinet
followed in the Schleswig-Holstein affair.
The Constitutionnel says the Count d'lsenbourg,
who lately made such a violent attack on M. de
Hassempflug, the Prime Minister of Hesse Cassel,
is found to be completely insane, and has been re-
moved from his chateau of Weehterbach to a lunatic
asylum at Illenau.

AMERICA.

ARAIVAL OF-THE NIAGARA AND CITY

OF MANCHESTER.

Yesterday forenoon the Royal Mail steam-ship
Niagara, Captain Leitch, arrived in the Mersey,
with the usual mails from the United States and
North America. The Niagara sailed from Boston
on the 11th inst., and also from Halifax the same
date, and has brought, besides the mails, about 60
passengers and 100,000 dols. in specie on freight.
The Liverpool and Philadelphia Company's screw
steam-ship City of Manchester, Captain Robert
Leitch, also arrived at Liverpool at a very early
hour yesterday morning from Philadelphia, which
port she left on the sth inst. She has brought
about 30 passengers and 130,000 dols. in specie on
freight. _

The Bremen and New York Mail steam-ship
Germania arrived at New York from Bremen on
the Bth inst.

The political intelligence from the United States
by this arrival is unimportant.
We have telegraphic advices, however, from
New Orleans of California news. The mail steamer
Daniel Webster had arrived from St. Juan at New
Orleans, en route to New York, with San Francisco
dates to the 16th ult., and gold dust to the value
of $2,500,000.

John Mitchel, the Irish exile, who had effected
his escape from Van Diemen's Land, had arrived
via the Sandwich Islands.

There is news that Sonora had been burned on
the 3d ult.

The Californian markets were depressed ; but
the intelligence from the mining districts continues
of the same encouraging character as heretofore
reported.

Business generally was dull at New York, and
money continued very tight. Although stocks had
advanced in value, they were subject to a good deal
of unsteadiness.

In the New York Cotton Market there had been
a fair amount of business transacted, and former
quotations were steadily maintained. The follow-
ing were the rates on the day of the departure of
the mail :—New Orleans and Mobile, mid. fair to
fair 11.1 c. to 12ic. per lb. ; Uplands, mid. fair to.
fair 11c. to 113 c.
In the market for breadstuffs the advance caused
by the English advices per the Africa had been
checked by the tightness in the money market.
The quotations of the different articles in this mar-
ket, on the departure of the steamer, were as fol-

terit. 0

_ to 7$ per brl.,
steady ; Genuessee prim() wheat, 1$ 78 to 1$ 80 per
601 b. ; Indian corn, round yellow, 80c. to 82c. per
bushel, barely supported ; Indian corn, southern
white, 80c. to 82c. per bushel.
But little business had been doing in the provi-
sion market, but late rates were steadily main-
tained.

Freights continue to rule much the same as they
have done for some time past. At the departure
of the steamer the asking rates were—Flour, to
Liverpool, 3s. 9d. to 4s. per barrel; grain, Is. Old.
to ls. ld. per bushel ; cotton, 3-16 d. to id. per lb.;
cotton, to Havre, c, to Ic. per lb.
Exchange on London was quoted at 1091 to 104,
but at these figures was not well sustained. Paris,
5 121 to 5 15 ; Hamburgh, 361 to 37 ; Bremen,
8O to sq.