The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-03 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool on Saturday
were estimated at from 4,000 to 5,000 bales, in-
cluding 1,000 taken for export and on specula-
tion. The market was steady, without alteration
in prices. The sales comprised 200 2ernara and
Marauham, at 60. to 7d.; 100 Bahia, at 6d. to
6d.; 200 Egyptian, at 6d. to Bd.; 700 Surat, at
21d. to 4d.; and the remainder American. Rail-
way Shares were dull and heavy.
The corn trade is brisk, and wheat is 6s. to Bs.
per quarter dearer than on Monday last.

The steamer Asia, from New York, brings ac-
counts of the 22d ult., but the letters are not yet
in town. She has on board 300,000 dols., sup-
posed to be chiefly for the Continent, as the rate
of exchange on London was not higher than 108 k
to 109, while on Paris it was 515t0 5 16. Stocks
were lively, with an upward tendency. Cotton
was firm. Flour and wheat were well supported,
and inclining to advance.
The Australian and Indian letters, via South-
ampton, have not yet been received.
The English Stock market opened a little
weaker, but has rallied since. Consols have been
851 to 86 for transfer, and since 86k to I. For
discount the prices have been 858 to 86, and sub-
sequently 86i to Exchequer Bills have Leen
is. discount to 2s. premium. The New Five per
Cent. Annuities have been quoted 1111. The
expected comparatively favourable nature of the
revenue account for the quarter ending the sth
inst. has some influence.

Foreign securities have been more dealt in.
Mexican bonds have been up to 231 and Chilian
Stock has been at 98, without the dividend.
Equador is at 31. Venezuela Bonds have been at
22k. The Spanish Deferred Bonds have been 16k,
and the Three per Cents. 33i to 341. Dutch
Two-and-a• Half per Cents. have been at 541.
The railway meetings announced are the fol-
lowing :

Company. Date. Place, &c.
Central of Switzerland April 27, Basle.
Dublin and Wicklow .
Lyons and Geneva April 27, Paris.
Paris, Caen, and Cherbourg April 29, Paris.
Sambre and Meuse April 7, Belgium.

In Railway Shares, the business doing has been
generally at full rates. South-Eastern have been
rather firmer, as well as Great Northern, Eastern
Counties, and York and Berwick. French Shares
have been rather heavy.
In the Mining market, St. John del Rey and
Santiago de Cuba shares have been mostly dealt in.
Bank shares are nominally quiet. The Land
Shares tend upwards.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.-CLOSING PRICES

( Prom the Official List. )

. _
Moines. lonp
3 nor Cent Consols Annuities 86 -,1 51 61 a 1 6
New 5 per Cent. Annuities IIIA
India Bonds, £lOOO
___
Ditto, under £lOOO l5 5 d
South Sea Stock
(Jonsols for Account 18th April B6 51 6i a i
Exchequer Bills, 2d.
iIOOO
£5OO 2 p 2 d
Small •
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
nrazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 9O
New Brazilian Bonds, 1829 & 39, 5 per Cent. 911
(Milian Bonds, 6 per Cent... ' . 9B x a
Fquador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, 11 per Cent 17
Grenada Bonds, Deferred
qe,xican 3 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 234 1 1
Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent. 55
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 3l i 31
Ditto for the Account 341
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 3l p e
Venezuela Bonds, 3, per Ceat. ........

dividends on the shove payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Guil ..... 541
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates _
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols B6
Ditto April Account B6 g

AMERICA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA.

LIVERPOOL, Monday, 5 A.M.—By the steamer
Asia, we have advices from New York to the 22d
ult. She has brought 67 passengers and $303,000
in specie on freight.
On the 27th she passed a large steamer steering
westward; Ist of April passed the barque Doonahair
steering west ; 2d passed the barque Elphinstone.
The screw steamer Charity, from Liverpool, ar-
rived at Portland on the 21st, having been in ice
nine days.
The steamer Alps sailed from New York for
Liverpool on the 21st ult., with $lOO,OOO in specie.
The Washington correspoadent of the New York
Tribune, writing on the 21st, says the Nebraska
Bill was introduced in the House of Representatives
to-day by Mr. Richardson, of Illinois, and was re-
ferred to the Committee of the whole, by a vote of
110 to 95, amid the greatest excitement, after a
speech from Richardson, saying, that " to refer it
to that committee was to kill the bill."
The Gadsden Treaty is again under considera-
tion. There is no discussion, but merely reading
the documents.
In the New York Stock Market there was a good
demand for both stocks and shares at firmer prices.
Erie Railroad Shares opened at 79 and closed at
79i. Money abundant ; loans on first-class secu-
rities 7 to 8 per cent.
Exchange on London, 1081 to 10E ; Paris, 5
131 to 5 16k.
Cotton active, at an advance of to I cent per
lb.
The Arabia's advices had produced quite a panic
in the corn-market. Flour declined 75c. per barrel,
wheat sc. to 10c. per bushel, and Indian corn Sc.
per bushel.
Freights to London without change.

Tm GOLDEN AGE. —lt appears that the American
steamer Golden Age, to which the Post-office authorities
refused to grant any extra allowance for a mail (prefer-
ring, a few days later, to pay 1.000/. to the sailing-shin
Matilda Wattenbach), reached King George's Sound,
Australia, in 61 days, after having been detained 14
days at St. Vincent and the Cape. Her actual running
time was therefore only 47 days.
A BARGE SUNK IN THE THAMES,--OR Saturday the
sailing-barge Uncle Tom was making for the East India
Dock, Blackwall, heavily freighted with crates of
earthenware and glass, when she was run into by the
American ship Pride of the Ocean. Such was the force
of the collision, that she instantly went down and the
men in ehirqe were immersed. B ,ats pat off, and the
Pow tori:1;!; €:,;;au3Led. Yester-
day the Essex shore, as far as Woolwich, was strewn
with the fragments of the wreck and broken crookery.l§

LATE►7rI FOREIGN NEWS.

THE WAR IN THE EAST.

PASSAGE OF THE DANUBE.
IBRAILA, MARCH 27.—General Kotzebue com-
menced the siege of Matschin, and General Aurep
the siege of Isaktscha, on the 25th March.
General Schilders superintends the operations.
SEMLIN, MARCH 31.—A private despatch states
that the Russians attacked Kalafat on the 29th,
and took three entrenchments.
BUCHAREST, MARCH 28.—The Turks crossed the
Danube at Simnitza, opposite to Sistowa. The
contest has already lasted several days. All the
troops from Bucharest have been sent there. •
The Frernden Blatt says that scythes for Russian
account have been stopped by the Austrian cus-
tom-house at Orsowa.
A telegraphic despatch, dated Vienna, yesterday,
says :—The fortresses of Hirsowa, Matschin, and
Isaktscha were taken by the Russians on the 28th,
likewise Babadagh. The Russians are consequently
masters of a great part of the Dobrudja.
" We have received some details relative to the
passage of the Danube by the Russians. This
movement commenced on the 22d in three columns,
by means of four raft bridges. The principal column,
under the orders of General Luders, started from
Galatz ; Prince Gortschakoff crossed the river with
the troops between Isaktscha and Toltscha, pro-
tected and accompanied by the division of General
Aurep • and the third column effected its move-
ment below Brailow, at a place called Geschit, on the
right bank, but which is not mentioned in the maps.
These forces amount together to 50,000 men, in-
cluding 41 battalions of infantry, 3 regiments of
cavalry, 1 of Cossacks, and 140 pieces of cannon.
This movement in advance of the Russians
has produced some uneasiness, but strategically
speaking there is no cause for it. The Russian
army, which is now on the right bank of the Da-
nube, does not occupy one of those threatening
positions by which events are ruled. It has arrived,
not in Bulgaria, or on the road to Constantinople,
but in the Dobrudja—that is to say, on an im-
mense plain, intersected with marshes, without
resources and without communications. It has
behind it, between Toltscha and Matschin, a
Turkish corps d'armee of 30,000 men with 60
pieces, under Halim Pacha, and before it a barrier
of fortified places, Irso %a, Silistria, Custendje,
Varna, and Shumla, which bar the road to the
Balkans. It is thus difficult to explain the reason
why Prince Gortschakoff has chosen this place for
crossing the Danube. It is true that in 1828 the
Russians entered the Dobrudja by Irsowa, in order
to attack Varna and Silistria, but at that time they
had possession of the Black Sea. The battle of
Navarino had destroyed the Turkish navy, and the
Russians were therefore free in all their communi-
cations. Irsowa, besides, is only half way between
Brailow and -Bulgaria, and the Russians were not
the less obliged to pass a mouth in forming an em-
bankment in order to cross the marshes. As they
are now deprived of the Black Sea, it is diffi-
cult to comprehend thil movement which they
have adopted. An Eaglish journal states that
they have reason to fear 'seeing their line of opera-
tion cut by the arrival of European troops in the
Dobrudja, and what is certain is, that Omer Pa,cha,
who ought to know the effect of it, regards this
passage of the river as the greatest piece of ser-
vice the Russians could have rendered him. The
movement, .now that it has commenced, will con-
tinue ; the Turks do not offer any [resistance.
Bucharest is about to be completely evacuated,
all the troops who were in that place having received
orders to March on the Ist of April towards the
Danube. On the other hand, something significa-
tive is preparing on the Austrian frontier. An order
has been given to form a moveable head-quarters
at Buda. , The administrative personnel has been
made, and all measures have been taken as if a
forward movement was in contemplation. Steamers
full of troops and with cannon every day go down
the Danube, as if a military emigration were going
on. The army on the frontier, including the in-
habitants who are performing permanent military
duty, is not less than from 120,000 to 150,000
men, although the contrary has been stated, and
supplies are being collected on a very extensive
scale.

The following telegraphic despatch appears in the
second edition of a conemporary to-day :
" MALTA, March 30.—The Caradoc has arrived
here. She left Constantinople on the 26th, with
Sir John Burgoyne on board, who leaves for Mar-
seilles.

" The whole of the combined fleets entered the
Black Sea on'the 24th. Their destination is sup-
posed to be Varna. They were preceded by the
Inflexible, with Ottoman troops.

" The following vessels have arrived at Malta
with troops on board :—The Cape of Good Hope,
Georgian a, and Taurus steamers ; French steamers
Pluton, Maroccain, Montezuma, and Albatross.
" Sir George Browne leaves to-morrow for Galli-
poli with the Rifles.
" The Pluton and Maroccain have already sailed
for Gallipoli.
" The amount of English troops already arrived
here is 432 officers, and 11,571 non-commissioned
officers and privates.
" The total of French troops that have passed by
Malta is 3,514 men, and 250 horses.
" Coal is scarce."

The Frankfort Journal states that the Emperor
of Russia intended proceeding to Kiel, and taking
the Empress into the interior of the empire, as
soon as hostilities should have begun in the. Baltic.

A despatch from Trebizonde, -dated March 13,
states that the Russians are concentrating forces at
Askalzick, that operations are directed against
Kars ; and that the Turks are concentrating
20,000 men at Sivas.
The Trieste Zeitung of Saturday says that the
Shah of Persia has determined upon observing a
strict neutrality ; and that two steam-frigates be-
longing to the combined fleets left Siuope on the
11th to reconnoitre the Russo-Circassian coast.

A telegraphic despatch of the 28th ult. from
Constantinople, says the Grand Mufti and Rifaat
Pasha, President of the Privy Council, had been
dismissed, and men more agreeable to the Western
Powers had been appointed instead. Constanti-
nople was quiet, but the irritation of the ultra-
Mahomedan party was extreme.

The combined fleets were to sail in a few days
for the Black Sea.

The Corriere Italian°, of Vienna, says :—" Let-
ters from Constantinople announce that the Sultan
has granted a firman nominating General Maglien
and John Ghika, Plenipotentiaries in Moldavia.
and Wallachia,, confirming the ancient rights which
the Principalities enjoy, and. conferring on them
besides the right of forming a separate State, with
an army of its own. These two
personages, it is
said, on entering Wallachia will form a provisional
Government, and the whole people will be con-
voked to elect a new Sovereign."

The subjoined is from a Constantinople letter of
March 20th :—" On Friday last every preparation
was being made by the combined British and
French squadrons for leaving their Anchorage at
Beycos in the Bosphorus, and entering the Black
Sea. A counter-order has, however, been given,
and they have not moved. Yesterday her Ma-
jesty's steamer Caradoc left for Varna to take on
board General Burgoyne and his party, who are
returning from Schumla. Capt. Symmons, R.E.,
left for the Danube by this occasion. The
Retribution, Hon. Captain Drummond, and the
French steamer Caton, have returned from
their visit to the mouth of the Danube, at Sulina,
in the Black Sea. The weather was, however, so
boisterous, that the object of their mission, to
verify whether the Russians had closed the mouth
of the river, could not be accomplished. The two
British engineers who were made prisoners by the
Russians last November, when the Turkish mer-
chant vessel, Tidjari Midjaret, was captured, re-
turned here the day before yesterday. They were
sent to Moscow, and afterwards, on being set at
liberty, to Vienna, and thence to Trieste, from
which place they returned to Constantinople, and
joined their families, who were naturally in the
greatest state of anxiety about them. The
Vauban and Gomer, two French war steamers,
have left for Athens. The British steamer
Niger is already there, and the Highflyer
has now also left for that destination. A
courier has arrived at the Porte, announcing
that the Russians attempted, on the 12th of this
month, to cross the Danube, near Turtukai, but
that they were beaten back, suffering a severe
having 2,500 dead and wounded. It is the
general opinion that the Russians will attempt the
passage of the Danube on a very large scale before
the arrival of the British and French armies. It is
believed that General Baraguay d'Hilliers, the
ambassador of France, will shortly be recalled.
I am sorry to say that there is a want of a suffi-
cient supply of coals for the British and French
steam squadrons. This most deplorable fact may,
perhaps, have contributed towards their present
inactivity. The French steamer Cacique has
been sent to cruise on the coast of Circassia.
Accounts have been received here from Patras up
to the 13th. The revolution was still on the in-
crease. Nine thousand Greeks were under arms.
The town of Janina was in the hands of the insur-
gents, and the Turkish garrison Was besieged in
the citadel.
oilieiai 1i as been coramanieated by the
Porte to the ambassadors of England and France
with regard to the Greek insurrection, This note

is a recapitulation of the recent events in Greece,
and an accusation of participation therein of the
Greek Government. The object of the note is to
render an account of the state of things to tile pro-
tecting Powers of the Hellenic Kingdom, with
which it entertains amicable relations, fully confi-
dent that they will disapprove of the improper line
of conduct of Greece, and that they will adopt
measures accordingly. The note, which is signed
" Reschid," bears date the 9th of March.
The Sampson has arrived from the Black Sea
with the account that the Russians were evacuat-
ing their forts on the eastern coast. There are 21
of these places, and the Sampson saw the fort of
Souchum-Kaleh abandoned, and on landing it was
discovered that the Circassians had taken posses-
sion, set the place on fire, and were engaged in
plunder. Some small steamers engaged in trans-
porting the troops were ordered into port, and
ran in under the guns of another of the forts.
The captain of the Sampson, having ascer-
tained that at least two of the forts were thus
relinquished, left immediately with the news, and
the Admiral has despatched the Furious for fur-
ther intelligence. It appears probable that the
Russians are endeavouring to concentrate their
forces, and that fearing their inability to garrison
so many places, they are abandoning the weaker
among them. Both sides seem to anticipate an
immediate renewal of hostilities in Asia. The sea-
men are anxious to be permitted more active mea-
sures than at present ; as a refusal on the part of
anything like an equal Russian force to return to
port cannot be overcome without transgressing the
orders of the Governments and committing an
overt act of war."