The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-20 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Nxw YORK, June 7.—The demand for foreign ex-
changes is very moderate, but drawers, nevertheless, to-
day were firm. Bankers generally refused to draw on
London below 1091 to 1091, while we can learn of no
important sale above the inside figure. Good commer-
cial paper was offered at 109 k to 1091. The following
are the extreme rates of foreign exchange, bankers'
signatures 60 days' sight :—London, 1091 to 1091 ;
Paris, 5.171 to 5.161 ; Antwerp, 5.181 to 5.171. Money
contiaues abundant, and the supply of specie among our
city hanks has again considerably increased to-day.
BREADSTUSFS. —Flour : The market exhibited no
change of moment in prices, while there wit.: some ani-
mation in sales, owing in part to the disposition among
dealers to await the receipt of the Niagara's private let-
ters.—Wheat : The market for prime lots was steady,
while inferior and common grades were dull and irregu-
lar.—Corn : The sales embraced about 36,000 bushels,
including western distilling lots at 55c., and sound wes-
tern mixed at 50c. ; white and yellow, for eastern ship-
ment, at 53c. to t 4c. ; and sound white and yellow, in
shipping order, at 56c. Much of the western corn re-
ceived comes to hand in bad order.

COTTON.—IIe market closed firm, with an advance of
to. to gc. in the fortnight. The more important tabu-
taries of the Mississippi are again reported to be falling,
and the weekly receipts are decreasing, but as the av er-
age receipts from this date for the past five years would
place this crop at 4,580,000, there is nothing yet shown
against our theory of a final yield of about 3,600,000.
The accounts of the growing crop are very satisfactory,
and with the exception of oae or two cold days we have
noticed no complaints.

BOUNDARIES OF THE UNITED STATES
AND MEXICO.

PROCLAMATION OF PRESIDENT PIERCE.

Whereas, pursuant to the first article of the
treaty between the United States and the Mexican
Republic, on the 30th day of December, 1853, the
true linaits between the territories of the contract-
ing parties were declared to be as follows :
" Retaining the same dividing line between the two
Californias as already defined and established, according
to the fifth article of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo,
the limits between the two republics shall be as follow- :
" Beginning in the Gulf of Mexico, three leagues from
land, opposite the mouth of the Rio Grande, a, provided
in the fifth article of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo,
thence as defined in the said article up tue middle of
that river to the point where the parallel of 31 deg. 47
min, north latitude crosses the same ; thence due west
one hundred miles ; thence south to the parallel of 31
deg. 20 min, north latitude ; thence along the said
parallel of 31 deg. 20 min, to the 111th meridian of longi-
tude west of Greenwich ; thence in a straight lin, to a
point on the Colorado river twenty English miles below
the junction of the Gila and Colorado rivers ; thence up
the middle of the said river Colorado until it intersects
the present line between the United States and Mexico "
And whereas the said dividing line has been surveyed,
marked out, and established, by the respective commis-
sioners of the contracting parties, pursuant to the same
articles of the said treaty.
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Franklin Pierce,
President of the United States of America, do hereby
declare to all whom it may concern that the line afore-
said shall be held and considered as the boundary be-
tween the United States and the Mexican republic, and
shall be respected as such by the United States and the
citizens thereof.

In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the
United States to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, this
2d day of June, in the year of our Lord 1856,
[L. s.] and of the independence of the United States the
80th. FRANKLIN PIERCE.
By the President.
_

W. L. MARC; Secretary of State.

Naval and Military inteiligence.

Her Majesty's steam mortar ship Forth, 12, Captain
Lord John Hay, C. 8., will leave Spithead for Plymouth
iu a day or two.
Her Majesty's screw sloop Harrier, 17, Commander
Derriman, having refitted and readjusted her compasses,
left Plymouth harbour and anchored at Spithead, to
await sailing orders, on Wednesday night.
Her Majesty's ships Shannon, Liffey, &c., are being
prepared fur the pendant in all respects, but they will
not be put in commission unless necessity should call for
their services.

Her Majesty's steam-ship Himalaya, Commander
Priest, went into Portsmouth harbour yesterday after-
noon to take in coal and await orders.

Her Majesty's steam despatch gun-vessel Flying Fish,
Commander Dew, was undocked yesterday at Ports-
mouth, after having been lengthened a little in the keel,
and a little more blade added to her screw.
The steam-transport Britannia, No. 2, arrived at
Spithead yesterday morning from Corfu, with the 3d
West Middlesex Militia on board.
The Sir Robert Sale, East Anglian, and Melbourne
transpirts left Portsmouth on Wednesday evening and
yesterday morning for the Thames.
The Mermaid, convict ship, arrived at Spithead yes-
terday from the Thames, to embark other prisoners.
The Mercury cutter, Lieutenant Robinson, sailed
from Portsmouth for the Channel Islands yesterday.
The steam-ship Great Britain will sail from Liverpool
for Malta with troops to morrow. She will then pro-
ceed to the Crimea and bring home troops. On the same
day the Cleopatra is expected at Liverpool, from Kings-
town, with an English militia regiment. She will sail
on the same evening for Dublin with a field battery of
five officers, 184 men, 122 horses, 6 guns, and 11 car-
riages. Ott the 26Th inst. the Assistance steamer will
sail for Malta with detachments of the Ist, 14th, 21st,
47th, 57th, 68th, and 71st Regiments of F,iot.
The Rhadamanthus, 4 guns, paddle-wheel steam-trans-
port, Master-Commander Edmund P. Cole, from Wool-
wich, has been taken into the basin at Sheerne s, havino-
landed the spare store boilers for the Miranda, and the
screw propeller for the Scylla. She is to be put out of
the basin this day, and returns to Woolwich.