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 Legislative 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 1094- ; Paris, 5 12i to 5 15 ;
Amsterdam, 411 to 41g ; Frankfort, oi to 41.
Cotton in good demand at an advance of Ic. 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.

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 in 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
pFrra:cileedirnt,g he
of his Ambassador.emusttoacertain extent
disavow the
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 banks ;
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 and or
Thereig
countries in the years 1850, 1851, 1852. n
following facts appear from it :—The number ofl
vessels engaged in effecting importations, was
16,300 in 1850, of 2,068,963 tons burthen ; 17,424
i
in 1851, of 2,201,917 tons burden ; and 18,692 n.
1852, of 2,438,203 tons. Of the total number m
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 1,438,4000001 r. 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 and 787,560 tons in 1850, 7,752 vessels
837,099 tons in 1851, and 7,304 vessels and 823,743
tons in 18.52. The total value of exports by French
and foreign vessels was 1,183,400,000 fr. in 1850,
1,264,600,000 fr. in 1851, and 1,304,800 000 fr in
1852. Adding the exports by land, the general totals
of exports for the three years were 1,531,000,000 fr•
1,629,700,000 fr., and 1,681,000,000 fr.
The announcement that the Emperor of Russia
had dispatched a courier to Constantinople, re-
quiring the acceptation by the Porte of Prince
Menschikoff's ultimatum, caused quite a panic at
the Bourse yesterday. The Three per Cents. for
cash declined lf. 45c., and for the Account If. 65c.
The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. for the term ad-
vanced 20c., thus equalising the quotations of that
description of stock for cash and the account.
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
the Account—Three per Cents., 77f. ; Four-and-a-
Half per Cents., 102 f. Bank Stock, 2,672 f. Shares
of the Mortgage Bank declined 2f., closing at 798 f.,
and those of the Societe Mobiliere 7f., being finally
quoted at 818 f. The unfavourable condition of af-
fairs at the Bourse exercised considerable influence
on the Railway Share-market, causing a decline in
the shares of all the more important lines, in Paris
and Orleans and Paris and Rouen shares to the
amount of 10f., and in the remaining lines of from
sf. to 7f. Final quotations :-..-ITcrtliern, 885 ;