The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 15, 18h4.

the services of Roman Catholic chaplains in Go-
vernment prisons, Mr. SPOONER as earnestly op-
posed it, and the house "in its wisdom" pro-

nouncedMr. SPOONEit conqueror in the ecclesiastical
tournament. Mr. SPOONER and bigotry are evi-

dently at a premium. To be sure, it must be
anything but pleasant to the Hon. Member, to
survey the company which followed him into the
lobby, to find himself in close association with

Mr. HADFIELD, Mr. CROSSLEY, Mr. W.'_ J. Fox,

Mr. MIALL, and others, who avowedly helped him
to treat the Catholics as they intend to treat his

own chaplains of the Established Church, as soon
as they have it in their power. Extremes in
politics are often said to meet. Tory and Char-
tist have been more than once successfully allied

against Whiggism in electioneering contests ; and
certainly, in the present case, ecclesiastical extremes

united to effect a common object, with motives mor-
tally antagonistic. Messrs. SPOONER, NEWDEGATE,
MILES, and HORSFALL made a principle of paying
the Established clergy, and none besides, of main-
taining them, not only in their present pecuniary

prerogatives, but also in the honourable position
of being the sole recipients of State pay, for
visiting those who are " sick and in prison." The
Dissenting members, on the other hand, made a
principle of voting against any one at all receiv-
:ng State pay for religious services, whether ren-
dered in a prison or a palace. Here, perhaps,

A/ONE Y MA RKE

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO o'CLOCK.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 10,000 bales, including 2,000 Ameri-
can, 500 Surat, and 40 Sea Island, taken for ex
port and on speculation. The market closed with
more steadiness. American, 1-16 d. per lb. lower ;
other kinds without alteration. The sales com-
prised 7,000 American, 250 Pernam and Maranham
at 6d. to 7d.; 200 Bahia at fild 5 • 300 Egyptian at
;
fild. to 10d. 2,000 Surat at 21,-d. to 31d., and
40 Sea Island at 10d. to 2s. 2d. per lb. Railway
Shares were firm.
The steamer La Plata, with the West India
mails, brings 800,000 dollars in specie. The
Jamaica accounts mention that fewer com-
plaints were heard from the planters. The cholera
had re-appeared. in many districts, and ended
fatally
in many instances. The House of Assembly
had been prorogued. The following is from the
Morning Journal :
" We learn that fifty-three passengers arrived on
Monday in this port, in the schooner Two Sisters, from
Navy Bay. These persons form a portion of the emi-
grants that left this place to work on the Panama rail-
road. Two more vessels, with more returning emigrants,
are shortly expected. This does not speak very favour-
ably for our hardy natives' appreciation of the comforts
of the Isthmus. The Barbadian of the 26th April men-
tions that the heat had been so oppressive for some days
past that it might truly be said the warm season had
set The country,' it remarks, was deplorably in
want of rain ; having had scarcely any April showers,
we cannot expect to see any May flowers. Our native
food is lamentably scarce and dear. Lots of sugar
worth a good deal of money, but people can't eat gold
or silver, or bank paper."
The steamer Great Western has the Brazilian
and Buenos Ayrean mails on board. The letters
add nothing important to what is given in another
column.

The steamer Franklin, telegraphed as having ar.
riven off Cowes, has on board 1,300,000 dollars
This is, no doubt, all for Havre, but the con
tinuous receipt of so much bullion, whether in
France or England, cannot but afford ease to the
European money market generally. The curtailed
means of some of the United States Banks began
to tell upon discounts, and to affect commercial
houses, which found themselves deprived of
their ordinary accommodation. Besides the four
suspensions at Baltimore, the firm of William Platt
and Co., at Philadelphia, had stopped for a million
of dollars. Cotton was rather cheaper, but flour
had advanced.
Some conscientious individual, who failed to pay
taxes due at former periods, has forwarded to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer ten Mexican Bonds
of 5001. each ; and there was a little amusement
excited in the Stock Market this morning by the
Government broker appearing as a seller of the
security.
Complaints are very generally made at the de-
ductions from dividends in course of payment of
the increased income-tax, at the rate of 141. in the
pound, for six mouths, and. we understand that
Messrs. Roth3childs, Barings, and other capitalists
having interest to pay upon foreign securities, de-
ducted it even last month. If, as every one sup-
posed, the doubled impost was to be levied for
twelve months from March last, it is clear
that half-yearly dividends falling due in May
should only be charged at the rate of 7d. in the
pound for 4 months, and 14d. for 2 months. An
appeal lies against the exaction, we may be told,
but its necessity would have been obviated by pro-
per instructions from head quarters.
In the English Stock Market business con-
tinues very limited, but prices are firm. Con-
sols have been 911 to for Transfer, and
are now 911- #. The sales of Reduced 3 per
Cent. and New 31 per Cent. Annuities made
by the Bank broker within the last two or three
days, are by some attributed to the Savings Banks,
and it is said they will replace their stock by Ex-
chequer Bonds, the issue of which to the amount
of another 4,000,0001. has been authorised by the
bill which was read a third time on Tuesday. If
the banks do not take them, the open market will
probably be tried, or tenders invited, which
would amount to the same thing. The dis-
count market being now easier, there is a
fuller supply of cash for temporary invest-
ment, but Exchequer Bills would probably be
preferred. These latter continued at par to 4s.
premium. East India Bonds have been Is. to 3s.
premium. The New 3/ per Cents. have been at
914 to 92, and the 3 per Cents. at 94 to
Foreign Securities have been dull, but the quo-
tations have not varied materially. Russian 5 per
Cents. have been marked 98i, and the 4i per Cents.
SQ. Mexican Bonds have been at 244. Spanish
New Deferred are 191, and the Passive 41. Dutch
2i per Cents. are 60 to a.
The Berdan Machine Company have received by
the last ship further advices from Mr. George
Windsor Earl, their agent in Australia, containing
additional orders from Sydney and Melbourne for
the machines, remittances, and accounts of his
proceedings. The reports of the investigation by
the Society of Arts and the Institution of Mechani-
cal Engineers at Birmingham, have been published
in full, and the greatest interest is shown in the
working of the machine. The model machine was
deposited with the Hon. Charles Nicholson,
Speaker of the Legislature. At a special general
meeting of the Wentworth Gold Mining
Company, held on the 15th of March, it
was unanimously agreed to order one large ma-
chine, and subject to the decision of their represen-
tative in London to obtain a further number of
machines. Attention is now directed to make the
production of gold a permanent pursuit, and the
sydney Morning Herald, in an article on Quartz
Crushing, says if the production of gold is to be
permanently useful to the colony, it will not
" become so under the desultory and nomadic life
which is followed by the gold-digger. The gold-
fields and ranges of this colony must he worked on
a grand scale. Capital and skill must be employed,
and labour mustmeet its ordinary lot of subjection,
at fair and remunerative wages to the enterprise of
the employer.
The last weeks railway receipts ascertained up
to this day are in round figures as under :-
1854. 1853.
Great Western
North-Westtrn
South-Western
Brighton
Midland
South-Eastern 19,181 16,252
Caledonian, and Edin. and Glasgow 16,468 14,763
Great Northern 17,770 15,625
Lancashire and Yorkshire 24,620 18,800
York and North Midland
Newcastle and Berwick } 31,854 25,601
Leeds Northern
Most of these returns are encouraging, but those
which strike most are the Brighton, Midland,
North-Western, and the York lines.
Railway Shares have been more dealt in, and
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Midland, and one or
,wo others, have advanced. Foreign shares are

dull.
The Gold Alines have been heavy. Agua Fria
lower. The Banks are firm. Crystal Palace are
bettor.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK,
(From. the Oticial List.)
Business done.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 914 k
Now 3i per Cent. Annuities 9li 2 18
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 4 9-16
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 4 5-16
India Bonds, £lOOO •
Consols for Opening 19th July
Exchequer Bills, 2id.
£lOOO .........................
2500
Small.. ...
Exchequer Bonds Scup ............
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK
Mexican 3 per Cent. . ...... . ... .. t .
Russian Bonds, 1822, .5
per bent: k 'St 984
Ditto 44 per Cent. .. .. . .... . ....
Spanish New Deferred*, ..
per Cent. 194
Ditto Passive (Converted)
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Guil 6O
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates

HALF-PAST TWO,

Consols for Opening 19th July .... ..... 914 1 x d

SHOT•PROOF BATTERIES.—An offer has been made to
Government, by a scientific gentleman, to construct an
entirely new description of battery, which will be both
shell and shot proof. The invention is, it is said, applic-
able to all our ships of war, but particularly so to gun
and rocket boats. The subject is now under the con-
sideration of the Ordnance.
THE ISTHMUS OF CENTRAL AMERICA.—A statement
has been lately been published in the San Francisco
papers illustrating in a remarkable manner the correct-
ness of the favourable anticipations expressed on the first
opening up of the transit across the isthmus of Central
' America, via the river San Juan and Lake Nicaragua,
the practicability of which was pronounced by many
authorities to be a delusion. It appears that, although
the Panama line has been the established route to the
Pacific, supported by the subsidised mail steamers both
of England and the United States, the aggregate of
Californian passengers, by whom the Nicaragua route,
conducted only by private enterprise, is preferred ex-
ceeds the entire total of those who proceed by way of
Panama. The number that crossed Nicaragua from the
Ist of January to the 27th of April last, the latest period
to which the returns have been made, was 9.586, while
for Panama it was only 9,134. Analogous results are
also said to be observable with regard to the transmission
of specie, the remittances via Nicaragua showing a con-
stant increase.

LATEST FOREIGN- NEWS.

THE WAR.
REJECTION OF THE AUSTRIAN
ULTIMATUM.

A telegraphic despatch from Vienna, dated yes-
terday evening, says it is not doubted that Russia
:las rejected the Austrian summons.

CONSTANTINOPLE.

A telegraphic despatch of June 5, from the
Turkish capital, says Reschid Pacha has provi-
sionally left the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He
is replaced by Chekib Pacha. Kiamil Pacha, Pre-
sident of the Council ad interim. Kernel Effendi,
ambassador to Berlin. Karadia, ambassador to
the Hague.
17,000 Anglo-French troops have been sent to
Varna.
The first division of French troops is daily ex-
pected at Constantinople.
The combined fleets are at Baltschik.
The Turkish squadron is at Kavarna.
The Rev. Mr. Cannon, who has just returned
from Schumla, is the bearer of two letters in Greek
from the Bishop of Schumla, or Panslava, to the
Bishop of London and the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, in which the Greek prelate disclaims all
sympathy with the Czar, and lays much stress upon
his fellow-feeling, and that of his co-religionists,
for the success of British and French arms.

RETURN OF THE KINd OF PRUSSIA
TO BERLIN.

A telegraphic communication from Berlin, of
June 10, mentions that the King had returned from
Tetschen. The news that the Russians were trans-
ferring their head-quarters to Jassy has caused a
great sensation. The party of the Extreme Right
(pro-Russians) sees in this movement a commence-
ment of the evacuation, but this opinion does not
seem to be shared in by others. The Prince of
Prussia will receive at his castl3 of Babelsberg,
near Potsdam, the deputations sent to him from
various parts of the kingdom, the number of which,
on the 9th, already amounted to 70. - It is not
known whether the Prince will take part or not in
the approaching festivals at Berlin.

PRUSSIAN MISSION TO ST. PETERSBURG,

The Moniteur publishes a despatch from Vienna,
dated yesterday, in the following terms :
The Austrian Government congratulates itself
with respect to the results of the interviews at
Tetschen.

The Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin have agreed
to answer the objections of the Bamberg Conference
and to remove the difficulties to which they give
rise.

Colonel Manteuffel is about to set out for St.
Petersburg, bearing a despatch from the Prussian
Cabinet, in support of the summons addressed to
Russia by Austria.

TYRANNICAL CONDUCT OF THE RUSSIANS
IN LESSER WALLACHIA.

Under dale of Widdin, 30th May, the Moniteur
says :—The Russians, on leaving Lesser Wallachia,
pillaged everything. They seized the archives and
public moneys ; they robbed the convents and
churches of all their precious monuments. The
Commander of the Ottoman troops, Halim Pacha,
has re-organised the administrative service of
Krajova. At his call the majority of the employees
returned to their posts ; the proprietors who had
emigrated with their families returned to their
homes. A Wallachian journal, the first number
of which appeared at Krajova on the 25th of May,
enumerates all the acts of .violence committed by
the Russians, and makes an energetic appeal to the
nation in favour of the Ottoman authorities.

- AUSTRIAN PARTICIPATION IN THE
BLOCKADE OF EPIRUS.
CORFU, June 3.—The two Austrian men-of-war
sent to the coast of Epirus have commenced cruis-
ing from Avlona to Prevesa.