The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-13 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.'

NEW YORE, April 30.—There was more activity ap-
parent, and a gradual advance of prices in the stock
market was taking. place. Without any very specula-
tive movement, there was evidently more disposition to
buy on the part of regular investors. In the money
market there was no alteration of importance, call loans
being still readily obtainable .at 7 per cent. The ex-
change market has been very' firm—some backers raised
their prices to 10 per cent for sterling ; the business in
general was very naederate. Di a on London were
quoted 91 to 91 per cent. prem. ; Psris, &c., f. 5.171 to
f. 6 161 60 days, and f. 5 121 short sight.
Cotton continues firm, but-prices are without quot-
able change, and the demand is fair. The Pc
tr.iliAl news,
to yesterday morning, bad no perceptible eff,ct on the
market, the advance on the other side having been an-
ticipsted 'here, though transitu lots are generally
held 1 higher. The sales are e,timated at 7,000
bales fit the three days, including low to . good
0 leans rni.'dling, in transitu to Liverpool, at
10c to 101 c., with id. freight, and parcels from Mobile
at abou', ic. off these prices.
Flour has been only in very moderate demand during
the past week, and with little dotty; for export, prices
have been very irregular, the market closing at a decline
of 56c. to 75c. per brl. In wheat there is but little cf
good sound quality offering, and this brings compara-
tively high prices for 'coal milling. Yellow and mixed
Indian corn have declined 30. per 56ibi., while prime
white sells at previous prices.
`FBEroRTs. 'relghtsaim.withoutalteration. To Liver-
pool—For cotton, Id per lb.'; Tour, is 31 to is 6d per
tad ; grain, 4d to 411. per b 1.9 To London—Fiour, 2s
per brl. To Havre—(cotton, Ic. per lb ; flour, 65c. per
brl.

NEW ORLEANS, April 26.—Rec6ipts for the week
23,000. Cleared for (r ~at Britain 160,700 bales. Mid-
dling 101 e. (other descriptions quote lie.) Freight 5-16(I,
dull. Total excess in receipts at all the ports as made
up by the New Orleans Price Current, 900,000 bales.

Spirit of the Public Journals.

( From, the Times of this day.)
Our readers are now in possession of the Note
addressed by the Plenipotentiaries of Sardinia to
the Paris Conference. Its contents have been al-
ready in a great measure anticipated by the con-
versations reported in the 22d protocol, but still it
is impossible to peruse uch a document without
feelings of the liveliest interest and sympathy. The
Plenipotentiaries begin by stating that they were
disappointed in the hope that the Congress would
not separate without taking into consideration some
plan for restoring the equilibrium of Italy, now
disturbed by foreign intervention, although they
admit at the same time that, owing to the peculiar
position of Austria, sucheousideration turned out
to be impossible. They therefore introduce the
subject on their own account. The evils of Italy
they attribute to foreign intervention, and the sys-
tem of repression, which wasjustifiable perhaps in
1848, has been persevered in for eight years, with
unremitting or even increasing rigour. They state
that this condition of ,affairs is fraught with a
double danger for Piedmont—first, the awaken-
ing of revolutionary passions, from which the tem-
perate and balanced liberty of a limited monarchy
has almost as much to dread as absolutism itself ;
and, secondly, from the measures which Austria
takes with the view or under the pretence of
counteracting revolutionary movements, the re-
sult of which is that she envelopes with a large
force the eastern frontier of Piedmont, occupies
Parma, fortifies Piacenza, and thus obliges her
weaker neighbour to maintain an amount of force
Rica. .
which which drains her population, and is extremely in-
" 4 Much esteemed Sir and Friend,—The mail furious to her straitened finances. Sardinia, they
brings the correspondence of January Ist from Costa
remark with much truth, is the onl State in Italy
Rica has not arrived, and in consequence I have nothing
y time which has been able at the same to erect a
to say to you in regard t-, mercantile business. As to hi
bar-
public matters, you will please to refer to my communi- nor against the revolutionary spirit and to keep
cations of to-day to the Minister. By this you will see that free from the insidious and still more perilousprotec-
this Government is willing to put 2,000 muskets at my tion of Austria. Sardinia has combated anarchy not
disposal for the service of the republic of Costa Rica. No- with despotism, but with moderate and reasonable
thing is said in the note about the time of payment. How- freedom, and for this reason anarchy and despotism
ever, I have not made up toy mind to take them previous are equally in league against her. Whatever,
to receiving instructions from you, or which of the two therefore, promotes the cause of Mazzini or Radetz-
kinds of arms to take. In case I should take them ky—whatever stirs up the passions of the populace
previous to your being able to write upon the or stimulates the crueltyambition and of priests or
subject I will send them in the month of March,
soldiers, the twin-born pests of Italy—is equally
if a vessel sails for Punta Arenas, without
dangerous for Piedmont, which, being built upon
further orders from you. I have not yet replied officially
p
to Lord Clarendon to offer my sincere thanks in my popular and monarchical principles, has everything
own name and that of the Republic for his manifests-
to fear, whether from the sword of the despot or
tion of sympathy and friendship for Costa Rica • and, the torch of the incendiary.
though the whole affable manner in which Lord dlaren- This, then, is the condition of Piedmont, and
don spoke to me when I bade him farewell, almost in- this is the right on which she claims to bring, be-
dueed me to believe that he would not refine the mus- fore assembled Europe the Italian question. She is
kets, I will not deny the pleasure I felt on the receipt of possessed of an excellent constitution, a patriotic
Mr. Hammond's le .ter. I could not sleep all that night King, and a people well fitted for the enjoyment
for joy. I sent him a note on the following day, stat- and preservation of freedom. But these blessings
ing I would address an official note to Lord Clarendon, she is not permitted to enjoy—nay, she is threat-
conveying my thanks, and that in the meantime I en
ened every moment with their loss or curtailment,
treated him to send me permission from the War Do
because it is the pleasure of certain conservative
partment to examine the two kinds of muskets, so as to
ascertain which I should take for the Republic. All this Powers, on the one hand, to stimulate the passions
is very good, but I don't like the intelligence from Ni. which fills her towns with political exiles and tend
caragua, where it seems Walker is establishing himself to confuse her Government with that of her arbi-
firmer and firmer every day. I cannot understand how trary neighbours, while on the other hand, these
the other States did not unite themselves from the begin- same Powers are constantly acting with revolu-
ning to expel him front Nicaragua. I have letters from tionary violence, and committing, in the name of
Guatemala and San Salvador, requiring me to request order, worse excesses than anarchy itself could de-
from this Government help and succour ; but what can
people who do not make an vise or execute. The ground taken by Piedmont
be done for republics oris the very one so often used to justify armed in-
exertion to help themselves . When I was telling Lord tervention—the dread of the mischief which the
Clarendon that Costa Rica already had an army of 800
disturbances of one State may bring to the welfare
men on the frontier of Nicaragua he was much pleased,
of
avid said, ' That was a right step,' and lam persuaded another, only here the argument is used to pre-
that my having made that insinuation is one of the tea- vent, instead of to further, foreign interference.
sons for giving us the muskets. The questions pending There is,
indeed,
only one remedy for the affairs
between this 'country and the United States are very of Italy. That is, to suffer her to become once more
complicated, but there will be no war, for this reason, what she has never been since that unhappy day
th t the gentlemen in the great republic observe that, when the miserable ambition of Charles VIII. re-
although the British nation do not bca,t or say much on peated with fatal success the policy of the Hohen-
the subject, they aro determined to punish the Yankees stauffen, and again sent across the Alps those legions
very seriously for the least insult to the national honour. of foreigners who swept away that peculiar civili-
To the eyes of the whole world— of this country in par-
sation which shed so much splendour over the
titular—a war between the two nations would be the
worst of evils; but to Central America the case would history of the middle ages, and has left behind
it the noblest monuments' of art and genius
be very different, as Walker and his associates would be
that the human mind has produced since the days
kicked out of Nicaragua.
"' I send to the Government a copy of the Times, in of ancient Greece. From that unhappy time
which is found a letter from Mr. Marcy to the American Frenchman, German, and Spaniard have devastated
Minister to Nicaragua. Though this letter appears to, with rival fury that fair land, which then lost what
censure the Minister and holds out a threat to Walkiqi she has never since recovered—the inestimable

" I enclose herein a copy of the letter mentioned, and
I take this op iortunity to repeat myself your Excellency's
most obedient servant,

" E. WALLERSTEIN.
" To his Excellency Senor D I3,rnardo Castro,
Minister of Relations of the Republic
of Costa Rica, S:in "

(Translated from the original.)
" Landon, Feb. 16, 1856.
" Senor Don Juan Rafael Mora, San Jose de Costa

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