The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-31 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern 9BO .. 976 25
New ditto .. 865 .. 865
Lyons and Mediterranean B7O .. 868 75
Geneva 405 .. 402 50
Southern
Western 570 .. 567 50
Eastern
Sardinian 415 .. 411 25
Austrian
Lombard ....
Exchange on London, at sight, papef, 25f. 14c. • money,
25f. 13c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 871 c. ; money, 2:41 85c.

AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, MAY 31.

The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's
steamer City of Washington, Captain Petrie, which left
New York on the 19th inst., and the Montreal Ocean Com-
pany's steamer Bohemian, Captain M'Master, which left
Quebec on the 19th inst., have arrived. The Anglo-Saxon
had arrived out.

The Chicago Republicans had nominated Mr. Lincoln
for the Presidency. The Illinois Convention had nomi-
nated Mr. Hamlin for President, and Mr. Maine for Vice-
President. Great enthusiasm prevailed, Mr. Seward had
determined
,upon closing his senatorial career.
MONTREAL, MAY 19.

The Canadian Parliament has passed resolutions for abo-
lishing canal tolls. The Houso has been prorogued. The
country has been suffering from want of rain, but last night
and to. day heavy showers have fallen.

Extensive preparations are being made throughout the
province for the reception of the Prince of Wales.
NEW YORK, MAY 18, EVENING.

Stocks are In moderate demand, at irregular prices. New
York Centrals, 81i to 81a; Erie, 211 to 22; Illinois, 614 to
62 ; Pacific Mail, 25 to 87.

The money market is well supplied, but the demand is
dull.

Exchange on London quiet-109a to 1091. Cotton firm.
Sales, 1,500 ; middling upland, 111 c. Prices of flour in
favour of buyers. Sales, 14,000 barrels, at 5 dols. 10c. to
to 5 dols. 15c. for superior State ; Canadian heavy, and
drooping. Wheat, corn, and oats dull and heavy. Pork
steady. Tallow and lard firm. Sugars active, and lc.
better.

MOBILE, MAY 17:

Cotton steady. Sales, 5,000 bales.
CHARLESTOWN, MAY 17.
Sales of cotton to-day, 1,700 bales; sales of the week,
6,000. Prices have advanced to I during the week.

MONTREAL, MAY 19, EVENING.
Flour, sc. to 10c. lower. Market inactive. Superfine is
freely offered at 5 dols. 35c. to 5 dols. 45c.

LATEST BY TELEGRAPH, via FATHER POINT.

NEW YORK, MAY 19, Nom.
The Adriatic has arrived out. Money rather easier.
The stock market is excited and unsettled. All shares
have slightly declined, owing to a rumour of extensive
frauds in the Pacific Steamship Company.

Cotton firm. Breadstuffs show a declining tendency.

NEW ORLEANS, MAY 18.

The cotton market is unchanged, but prices are steady.
Sales of the week, 35,000 bales; receipts of the week, 7,500
bales.

DEPARTURE OF THE GREAT EASTERN FOR NEW
YORK.—The works remaining to be completed before the
Great Ship is ready for seA have now been brought within
such compass as to leave no doubt of her being prepared to
start on Saturday week, 9th June. A large body of engi •
neers and smiths from Swindon went on board on Monday
to assist in carrying out the alterations in the machinery
department, and will be finished by Wednesday. Mr. Yates,
the secretary to the Great Ship Company, will sail for• New
York on Saturday next, in order to make arrangements for
the reception of the ship on the other aide of the Atlantic,
and the last steamer brought over a pilot from Now York
for the Great Eastern. There is a very fair demand for
the berths, but as the number will be limited to 303 pas-
sengers only, there is no doubt of the ship having her full
complement. The crew signed articles on Saturday last,
and almost the whole of the hands are now on board. Mr.
Bold, the manager, still remains in the ship, and will ac-
company it to New York, and remain with her during her
stay in America.

THE EX-DUKE OF MODENA.—We read in the
Corriere Mercantile of Genoa, of May 24:—" We know
positively, says the Sentinella Bresciana of the 23d, that
the Austrian garrison of Verona has evacuated that city,
and is echeloned upon the Po. It has been replaced at
Verona by troops of the ex-Duke of Modena." A Vienna
letter of May 20, in the Swabian Mercury, says It ap-
pears to be certain that the Legitimist party is preparing
coup in Italy to restore the exiled princes. But it is
equally certain that the Piedmontese Government knows
of their intrigues, and is prepared to defeat thee." The
New Zurich Gazette affirms that 1,500 Austrian soldiers
were landed on May 13 at Molfetta to reinforce the King of
Naples's army.

THE BATTLE OF THE BELT.

TREATY OF ALHAMBRA.

Last evening the closing scene of this eventful
contest took place at the Alhambra Palace, Leices-
ter-square. The battle at Farnborough having been
decided to be drawn by the referee, who could not
or would not remain in the ring to see the fight
out, the stakes were returned, the combatants hav-
ing been persuaded (how wisely is questionabls)
not to resume the fight, and as an earnest of the
general appreciation of their courage and endur-
ance, a fac simile of the original belt, i.e., the true
champion's belt, was presented to both Tom Sayers
and John Heenan. Thus this international con-
test, which has excited such extraordinary interest
for the last two months in all classes of society,
from the peers of the realm, aye, and the ladies
too, down to the roughs of St. Giles, has been settled,
and, in our opinion, most unsatisfactorily. We do
not in the least consider either Sayers or Heenan
to blame for the absurdity of the arrangement. In
spite of the cant which is the fashion now-a-days,
we do not hesitate to affirm that the majority of the
people of England, both peer, prelate, and et roXXoL,
desired, like the belligerents themselves, to have
the contest brought to a final issue. But, allowing
that, for the sake of humanity and civilisation, it
was better that the men should not meet again,
why, in the name of common sense, give to an
American, who did not win the fight, a belt in all
respects similar to the real champion's belt, with
the arms of England, and words " Champions of
England," engraved upon it, to carry back across
the Atlantic, and to enable him, with some colour
of truth, to declare to the delighted Yankees, " I
guess I've whipped the Britisher." We respect.
fully beg to submit to the Great Authority of the
ring, and to those gentlemen who have been active
in this affair, that Tom Sayers won the belt in a
fair fight, and is entitled to hold it until he is
beaten, which has not yet been done. When Ben-
digo retired from the ring, he kept possession of
the belt until it was fought for by Perry and Pad-
dock, and, on the same principle, Sayers had a right
to hold it on the same terms. We do not object to the
presentation of a testimonial to either of the men ;
but that testimonial should have been something
different.from the renowned champion's belt, or it
should have bore an inscription, to the effect that
it was a copy of the champion's belt, and a tribute
to gallantry and endurance. The men were, of
course, in the hands of their friends, and are not
accountable for their bad taste and stupidity.
The doors of the Alhambra opened at eight o'clock,
and before nine the reserved seats, notwithstand-
ing the rather high price (a guinea), were well
filled by gentlemen of the turf and the fashionable
patrons of the ring. There was likewise a sprink-
ling of the fair sex, who could not resist the allure-
ment of a glimpse of the renowned bruisers, and
but from motives of delicacy we fancy
the attendance would have been far greater.
The entertainment commenced with the per-
formances of the " African Opera Troupe,"
which was followed by some very good music and
the acrobatic performances of the Roman Brothers,
who went through some clever feats of agility, and
then the great event, of the evening took place by
the presentation of the imitation belts to Sayers
and Heenan.

A Mr. Caldwell, connected with the New York
Spirit of the Tinzes,made a few introductory remarks,
and with true transatlantic eloquence characterised
the two heroes of the evening as the bravest men in
the world since the time of Wellington and Napo-
leon. (Were Wellington and Napoleon so remark-
able for personal courage above the rest of man-
kind P) The two pugilists having shaken hands,
Mr. F. Dowling (the referee) presented one of the
belts to Heenan, and read the following address :

" ENGLAND
" TO JOHN C. HEENAN, ' THE BENICIA BOY.'

" Sir,—This belt is presented to you by the
editor of Bell's Life in London, as the representa-
tive of the sporting press of Great Britain, in
token of that country's high appreciation of your
?Spirit and pluck in coming across the Atlantic to
combat for the English champion's belt, and to
commemorate the great valour, endurance, and fair
spirit displayed by you in the battle of the 17th of
April last. It is not necessary here to entbr into
auy particulars of that great struggle. Its renown
may be said to be world-wide; its history is
already familiar to every inhabitant of the Old
and the New World. It is a history which will be
read by future generations with admiration, and
cannot fail, whenever and wherever it is told, to
raise a desire of emulation among the rising aspi-
rants to pugilistic honours. There may exist, per-
haps, a regret on your part that you are unable to
bear away with you the original trophy for which
you undertook so long a journey. Let that regret
at once vanish. In this counterpart you have a tes-
timonial as honourable as the object of your fondest
hopes, and forget not that the chance is still open to
you of bearing off that object itself at some future
time. It still lies open for competition. Your brave
opponent, having already done enough to render
his name famous, has announced his retirement from
the active practice of his profession, and will now
rest upon his laurels, content to witness among
others struggles for that which he, like yourself,
has been, as it were, compelled to forego. Mean-
while take this token—cherish it as a well-earned,
well-deserved memento of the admiration of the
people of this country; and rest assured that while
pugilism continues one of the sports of Great Britain
(and long may that period be) so long will the name
of John C. Heenan be remembered with respect as
that of one of the bravest men that ever entered a
four-and-twenty foot roped ring. The belt, which
is an exact fac-simile of the Champion's Belt of
England, and of precisely similar value, has been
purchased by a subscription among the noblemen
and gentlemen of this country, headed by a sum of
£25 from your brave opponent, Tam Sayers. The
auspicious ceremony of this evening will cement for
ever the bond of friendship already entered into
between yourself and Tom Sayers, and will tend
strongly to increase the international good feeling
already subsisting between America and England,
which must ever be the anxious desire of every true
lover of his country.
" Presented at the Alhambra, Leicester-square,
May 30, 1860. " FRANK DOWLING."
John C. Heenan, having received his belt, pro-
ceeded, amid loud cheers, to gird himself with it.
Mr. Wilkes then presented a belt to Thomas
Sayers, and accompanied the presentation with the
subjoined address :

" AMERICA
" TO THOMAS SAYERS, OF ENGLAND.
" London, May 30.
" Sir,—On the part of many noblemen and gen-
men, and, I may venture to say, on the part of hun •
dreds of thousands of people on each side of the
Atlantic, I take pleasure in presenting you this
glittering testimonial. It is an exact copy, in pure
shining silver, of that brave old belt into whose re-
splendent metal you have mixed the merits and
valour of sixteen well-fought battles, all of which
have brought you fame, but none of which have
been more honourable than the last. Those battles,
though all fought on English soil, are well known
to the people of the United States, and through
them you have there earned, as well as here, a name
not to be forgotten. There, as here, you have troops
on troops of friends, and should you ever choose to
visit our shores you will test in a way most pleasant
to yourself the fact that great nations have no pre-
judices, and that manly rivalry, among a generous
people, is only a stronger bond to the friendship of
the brave.

" It was my good fortune to witness the contest
by which you earned this brilliant trophy, and
which you have chosen should be the termination of
your long and honourable public life ; and I refer
to that contest now only that I may bear my testi-
mony to its worthy character. it was not an ordi-
nary battle of the ring. It was no common contest
actuated by mere grovelling motives. It was chi-
valry revived, and it was not only courteous, but
knightly. Not a low word, not a coarse look, not
a mean action, shaded the conduct of either yourself
or your antagonist, but with that graceful bearing
which belongs to courage you and he, like two cava-
liers of old, did battle worthy of the audience by
which you were surrounded and of the great nations
in whose names you stood engaged. Though not
rewarded by the natural termination sought by
battle, upon neither of you rests the blame of the
incomplete result ; and here let me remark that a
contest in which credit paused so frequently in
doubt—a battle where you delivered and endured
so much, and through the whole of which you
shone so nobly—is well chosen to be the fitting
finish of a great career.
In this view, and in view also of your hidgehepdl ey
serts, I will now state what I have never feltat
liberty to state before, which is, that so
was John Heenan, in common with his country-
men, impressed with your merits as a man, it was
his fixed intention, had the old belt been awarded
to him for what took place at Farnborough, to have
con the occasion of its pre-
handed it to you again,