The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-02 00:00:00

FRIGATES.

42 from 60 to 50 guns
16 from 16 to 40 guns
5S frigates.

3,955 guns.

CORVETTES.
39 from 33 to 14 gunS
BRIGS, SCHOONERS, AND CUTTERS.
101 from 20 to 4 guns
TRANSPORT-CORVETTES, LIGHTERS, &c.
39, carrying together7cB guns, and measuring 18,500 tons,
STEAM NAVY. _ _ .

3 ships, 20 frigates, 30 corvettes, and 64 avisos, repro-
eenting a power of 28,750 horses.
In the above return are included several ships,
&c., which are still on the stocks.
Public securities and railway shares experienced
yesterday a considerable rise. The Three per Cents.
opened at 63f. 65e., rose to 64f. 60c., and closed at
64f. 25c. for the end of the month ; the Four-and-
a-half per Cents. at 91f. 15c.; and the New Loan
at 64f. 75c. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,060 f. ;
Rouen, 847 f. 50c. ; Havre, 415±. ; Great Northern,
745 f. ; Strasburg, 740 f. ; New Shares, 542 f. 50c. ;
Paris and Lyons, 817 f. 50c. ; Lyons to the Medi-
terranean, 673 f. 75c. ; Western of France, 557 f.
50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 505 t. ; Great Central
of France, 405 f. ; Lyons to Geneva, 425 f. ; Bank of
Credit Mobilier, 510 f.

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AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.
The Allgerucine Zeitung has an article upon the
recent Austro-Prussian convention, which states,
" that a Russian passage of the Balkan, indepen-
dently of any possible rising of the Servians and ;
Bulgarians, will be distinctly regarded as a cases li
belli, but it is withal expressly provided that the
Russians are not to be attacked provided they re-
tire peaceably within their own territories."
Prussia has forbidden privateers to enter her
harbour.

THE FIRE AND Loss OF LIVES IN WHITECHAPEL
Yesterday morning Mr. Hodsoll, the assistant to Messrs
Topiis, the surveyor to the Sun Fire-office ; Mr. Braid
wood, the superintendent of the London Brigade ; Mr,
Fogo, the foreman of the A district ; Mr. Foay, of the
II division of police, and other officers, attended at the
ruins in Colchester•street, for the purpose of collecting
all the evidence they could to lay before the coroner
relative to the calamitous fire that occurred on Satur-
day morning last. A man named Stonehouse informed
the officers that he was in the house up to 11 o'clock on
Friday night, when lie noticed that the whole of the un-
fortunate sufferers were quite sober, and they appeared
to be on the most amicable terms with each other. It is
necessary to state this because an unfounded statement
had gone abroad that one of the lodgers had fired the
premises for the sake of plunder, and had perished in
the attempt. The following sufferers have been identi-
fied by Stonehouse .—John Vieck, a native of Amster-
dam, aged 30. He went up with the landlord at 12
o'clock to bed. The gas was previously put out, but not
turned off at the main. At that time there was not the
least appearance of fire in any part of the premises.
Francis Miller, a tailor, aged 30 ; John Dunkleman, a
carpenter, aged 35 ; Mark Ziegler, aged 21, a Polish
Jew ; Thomas Zerram, a slippermaker ; a Prussian beg-
gar, name unknown ; and an Hungarian officer, name
unknown. The man Frost, in the hospital, is still alive,
hut no hopes can be entertained of his recovery. The
inquest, it is expected, will not be held until Thursday
or Friday next, so as to allow sufficient time to get the
evidence together.
MEXICO.—The mercantile advices from Mexico by the
Atrato reach to the 2d of April, but contain little intelli-
gence. The possibility of the non-ratification of the
Gadsden treaty at Washington seems thus far to have
been altogether lost sight of, and the news, which had
not yet arrived, of the proposal in the United States'
Senate to cut down the contemplated payment from
3,000,0001. to 1,400,0001., and of its ultimate rejection
even on those terms, will therefore be likely to cause
great dismay. So much impnrtance was attached to the
affair in Mexico that, according to some opinions, "the
destinies of the present Government, and, indeed, those
of the whole country, are dependent on it." The adverse
result, moreover, will be felt with increased severity,
owing to the unlooked-for expenses thrown upon the Go-
vernment by the insurrection of the Governor Alvarez
in the State of Guerrero, which, although thought lightly
of at first, may, from the unhealthy climate and other
peculiarities of that district, become a new focus of chro-
nic anarchy. Santa Anna, however, had hitherto been
successful in his progress against the rebel forces, and
large numbers of deserters from them are said to have
joined his army. His operations were likely also, to be
greatly facilitated by a movement which he had ordered
by sea to blockade the port of Acapulco, where some of
the party were endeavouring to intrench themselves.
With regard to the continued decrees of banishment, al-
though they excite much animosity, the feeling of the
commerciai classes is obviously that of satisfaction at
seeing the country cleared of any portion of its nume-
rous class of professional conspirators.
GENERAL BUSINESS OF THE PORT OF LONDON.—Dur-
ing the past week the number of vessels reported inward
was 229, being 51 less than in the previous week. The
total quantity of grain reported was large, being 98,905
qrs., including 53,847 qrs, of wheat, in addition to 6,405
barrels and 4,283 sacks of flour. Of wool there were
reported 2,806 bales ; of tallow, 768 casks ; of rice,
16,289 _bags; and of sugar, 689 hogsheads, 119 casks,
and 13,601 bags.- The number of vessels cleared out-
ward was-119, beitig 12 more than in the previous week.
Of these, 38 were in ballast? and seven for the '1A1,2440,11
colonies.