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

FRANCE.

The leading columns of the Paris journals are
on subjects which are without general interest, or
which have been discussed so frequently as to leave
nothing new to be said upon them. The Difbats
makes a leading article of a review of the last work
of the Count de Ficquelmont, and sums up as fol-
lows the pricipal points :

"Let us briefly sum up the analysis which we have
just made of M. de Ficquelmont's pamphlet. The force
of Russia is in the north, and not in the south. Rus-
sia is not strong on the shores of the Back Sea. The
natural limits of Russia are the Black Sea, and when
Russia passes the boundary to enter the valley of the
Danube, she commits a double fault, for she removes
from the centre of her power, and comes against the
Austrian interest encamped on the mountains of Tran-
sylvania, and the European interest watching over Con-
stantinople. Austria, placed on the natural frontier of
Russia, and commanding it, is the most natural and
most legitimate mediatrix between Europe and Russia to
re-establish peace, if Russia will listen to advice ant
admit that there are limits which she ought not to pass.
The Moniteur publishes a number of decrees.
One of them promulgates four additional articles
tt) the Postal conventions recently exchanged be-
tween France and Belgium, intended for regulat!eg,
the rate of postage on journals and periodical
works sent from France and Algeria to Bel-
gium, and vice versa. Another of them
names four surgeons in the army to be Chu"'
hers of the Legion of Honour, for services in the
army of the East and in the Baltic, and 50 i:on co. w-
inissioued officers and soldiers, to be Chevaliers
in the same order, for their services at the taking
of Bomarstmd ; and a fifth confers the Military
Medal on Sergeant Bernier, of the 15th Regialen
of the Line, who having been sent with a detach-
ment of 25 men to assist in getting in the harvest
in the arrondissement of Clamecy, where the
cholera was raging, not only performed the duty
confided to him, but showed the greatest devoted-
ness in attending on the sick, and in burying the
dead.
The following private telegraph despatches hriva
been received :

" Marseilles, Sept. 16.
"The Porte has authorised the export of corn,
but from Constantinople only. The ports of Italy
are almost entirely free from cholera. It 11914
made great ravages at Messina, where 13,000 are
said to have died. On the 12th there were oral
five cases."
"Hong Kong, Jnly 22.
"Anarchy and piracy go on increasing. The
pirates attack European vessels and massacre 1,118
natives of the coast. France, Portugal, and the
United States have esia'Aished cruisers, and pur-
sue the pirates in their haunts. In consequence of
the approach of the insurgents, the greatest panic
prevailed at Canton, and the inhabitants were emi%
grating en masse."
"Bombay, July 31.
_ .

" The Russians are negotiating for the Purchase
of the fortress near Herat ; they are exciting Persia
against Turkey, and are drilling the Persian troops
at Nero. The English, having reacquired confi-
dence in their own strength, have refused the
offer made by the King of Nizam of a corps of
cavalry. They are negotiating for the acquisition
of advanced posts towards Khiva."
The following details are given of the fire at the
station of Arles, already mentioned by telegraph.
In the evening of the 12th flames were seen to issue
from the goods yard, and in a few minutes after,
notwithstanding that immediate aid was brought,
the whole place was on fire. Fortunately, there
were in the yard at the time only 183 tons of mer-
chandise of the up-trains, and scarcely any of the
down. Ten waggons were consumed, as well a 8
cranes used for loading and unloading. Every-
thing was insured.
The French Three per Cents. were done on
Saturday on the Boulevards at 74f. 55c. Very little
business was transacted.

SWEDEN.
A letter from Copenhagen, of the 13th, says
" Yesterday took place the election of the electors
for the Vulkstheng. The candidates proposed 1),1
the organs of the opposition were alone chosen•

ITALY.
A letter from Lugano of the 9th announces 111131,
M. Fischer, the gunsmith, lately arrested I°6
having been concerned in the affair of the bee
intended for importation into Lombardy, has bee
liberated on bail, the other gunsmiths of the to
having undertaken to be sureties for kiln.

MONEY MA RKET

AND
COM ifER.CIAL INT;TLLra E N ' .
CITY, TWO o'CLOCK,

The "sales of cotton at Liverpool on Saturday,
Were estimated at 6,000 bales, including 500
American, and 500 taken for export and on specu-
lation. The market was tame, and closed heavily,
with prices rather in favour of buyers. The sales
comprised 4,500 American, 250 Egyptian at 54d.
to 6id., and 1,300 Surat at 3d. to 4id. Railway
Shares were steady.

The wheat trade has been steady to-day, and
prices have advanced 2s. to 3s. per quarter, and
the imports of fore:gu grain are very limited.
The accounts by the overland wail are in respect
to the condition of the import markets at Calcutta
and Bombay of a more satisfactory character, the de-
mand for piece-goods having increased, although
prices were kept down by the abundant supplies.
In exports a moderate business has been done.
Money was becoming easy. As to the China mar-
kets they were still deranged by the revolution,
and at Shanghai the difficulty about paying duties
arrear caused much annoyance to the merchants.
The steamer Tamar, with the West India mail,
brings better accounts of the health of the colonies,
but the cholera still raged in some places. The
amount of specie on board is 500,000 dollars.
There are a few Australian letters and papers to
July 3by this opportunity. As usual in the winter
season, trade was dull at Melbourne. The gold
production of the three previous months showed
an increase of 41,000 oz. in Victoria. Specie was
being freely re-shipped to England, and several
vessels had left with large amounts on board. The
Eagle had 80,000 oz. and 34,9991. The advices
are very scanty, as no regular mail comes via
Panama.

The New York accounts, per Asia, to the 6th
met., describe the money market as continuing
tight. One writer observes
" The experience of the past six months has been such
AN to utterly destroy all disposition to enter into new
speculations, and it will therefore be difficult to get up
41 kflation in prices, except in extraordinary instances.
There may be cases where stocks possess a greater
actual than market value, where certain movements have
lieen male that give a different complexion to the com-
P4'Y's affairs, where an improvement in prices would
oe justified, but, as a general thing, we can look fur no
favourable change, and may as well make up our minds
for a long period of dullness and depression. Money is
abundant and cheap enough for the ordinary purposes of
trade. The premium at which the New York State Loan
Was taken a few days since showed that there is capital
enough offerinY when scar( ity is undoubted. The great
eculty in the fancy stocks of the day is a want of confi-
nce."

Concerning the crops we have the following ad-
ditional information :

"There is no doubt that a great number of fields of
Virginia,
and potatoes in some of the States, particularly in
Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Michigan,
will nearly if not quite fail. Many fields of corn
'will hardly yield a return of the seed, and but a small
Proportion of winter fodder ; while others wiil oily
1:rodu„, a respectable show of " nubbins," which
description of corn ears generally find their way to
the
pigstyes.
The greater proportion of the potato
fields
in the above named States will not produce an
tapregate yield of more than half the average, al-
"gn there are seine of a late planting, which will
Probably turn out handsomely. In most of the Southern
States the drought was not so severely felt, and we bear
"unusually large crops of corn in that section, and a
s4°d avei age yield will also be had on the bottoms of
the Oh;
0, Upper Mississippi, and Missouri rivers. In
the Northern and Eastern States, althouJ,h the dry wea-
ther has been very trying upon the tall crops, we have
eard of very few complaints compared with these which
nave reached us from the West, and we think we can
safely anticipate for corn and potatoes, in this section, a
Yield which will nearly, if not quite, compare with that
of previous seasons. _ _

The Montreal Pilot, of the 18th inst., says
We have authority to announce that the entire line
of railroad from Quebec to Richmond, will be
Opened for traffic and travel on the 2d of October,
on and after which day regular trains will traverse
the road between Montreal, Richmond, Quebec, and
Pori land.

Fires
Port Dover Argus, of the 26th inst., says
-nres are still raging in the woods around us, in
"ery direction for miles, and have done consider-
able damage in burning fences, and in some in-
stances have destroyed entire fields of grass.
The Port Hope Watchman, says :—Although the
yield of wheat is not generally so great as last year,
yet from the circumstance of a greater breadth of
land covered with fall and spring wheat this sea-
son, the quantity grown and harvested in these
counties will be much larger than what was pro-
duled in 1853.
The Stock Market is very dull this morning, but
the quotations are much the same. Consols have
becn 95i 4, and since 951 g for transfer, while the
uccount prices are 95i I. Exchequer Bills have
teen 6s. to 95,, and India Bonds Bs. premium,
being steady. The Exchequer Bonds of 1859 are
at 994 to par. Speculators generally are now
quietly awaiting the receipt of late intelligence
from Sebastopol, and should that prove favourable,
Many of them anticipate an immediate rise of 1
Per cent.

In the Foreign Market the Turkish scrip is now
quoted without the new allotment, and is 3 to 3i
premium. Mexican Bonds have been done at 24i.
Sardinian Stock is worth 881, Russian 4i per
Ceuta. have been done at 89 to I. In Spanish
Bonds there have been only a few bargains. The
3 per Cents. are at 371, and the Deferred Bonds
have been done at 181 to /.
In railway shares there has not been much doing,
and they are in some instances less buoyant than
they were. The Midland have been at an advance
to 33 and 331, the Berwick are firm at 79 to r, and
the Caledonian, North-Western, and Great Western
are at about the previous rates. buxemburgh
Shares have been at previous rates, and Antwerp
".119. Rotterdam are rather firmer. The French
itre merely nominal. The Gold Mines are a
shade better, the Banks quiet, and Crystal Palace
Without alteration. _

The following are the nominal prices of foreign
Mocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6 to 6;
Jqexican, 24i to 24i ; Peruvian, 70 to 72 ; ditto
3 per Cents., 51 to 53 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents.,
40 to 42 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 98 to 100 ; ditto,
411- per Cents., 88 to 90 ; Spanish New Deferred,
1l to ; ditto 3 per Cents., Vi to 38 ; ditto
Certificates, 5i to 5i ; ditto Passive 4 to 41.
The railway meetings announced are the fol-
lowing
Company. Date. Place.
Birknhd. Lane. & Chesh. Jne. Oct. 21, Birkenhead.
Boston, Slefrd.andilid. Juno. Sept. 19, Euston Hotel.
Caledonian
East Anglian
East Lancashire Sept. 25, Bury.
Hereford and Welwyn, June Sept. 39, Shire Hall, Hertfd
Lancaster and Preston
Manchester, Sheff and Line Sept. 19, Manchester.
Do. Pref. and No. 1. Qui:liars Sept. 19, Manche-ter.
Mid. Great Western (Ireland) Sept. 22, Dublin.
North British Sept. 22, Edinburgh.
Portsmouth Sept. 28, Great Geeorge-at.
Rouen and Havre Sept. 29, Paris.
Royal Swedish
Scottish Central Sept. 19, Perth.
West Hartlepool
Whitehaven Junction

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES
(From the (Vicki List.)
Be fuss done.
Per Cent, Consols Annuities 9SA
ludia Bonds, SACO() . ........ ....... •••
Ditto under £lOOO p
Consols for Account 17th Oct.
Exchequer l3ills,
6 9
£lOOO .........................
8 9 6
2600 ...........................
...... 9 6
Each Small .........................................
Nuer Bonds 1858, 3i per Cent. —
Ditto 1859, ~
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
trazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent lOl
Mexican 3 per Cent. ...........................
Ditto for the Account ........................ 24i
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 por Cent. X 5t.....
'Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent 42 40
Ditto 4i per Cent S9I 9
Rardiniau Bonds, 5 per Cent BB4 71
Spanish. Bonds, 3 per Cent. 37A
SPani.h New tteferred, 3 per Cent . 18i
paanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun. 5 p
Turkish s'erip
Ditto for the Account 3A 3
Dividends on Ine above paysoie I,ondon.
THREE O'CLOCK.
...... 95A §