The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-27 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

The treaty of navigation concluded at Vienna
between the riverain States of the Danube has been
submitted by the Wurtemberg government to the
approbation of the chambers. In the preamble of
the bill on the subject, the government expresses
its opinion that this treaty in no way weakens the
old riverain conventions, and that it even affords
to the navigation of the river certain facilities which
were before wanting. A question which has been
pending between the same government
and the mediatised lords, relative to the sup-
plementary indemnities to be paid them in
compensation for certain privileges suppressed
or redeemed, threatens to terminate to the
Second Chamber in its report recommends the re-
jection of the bill which the Government had pre-
sented for the purpose of having the sanction of the
chambers to the arrangement come to.
The Austrian Gazette Publishes the following re-
marks on the acquittal of Bernard
"Such a state of things cannot be maintained
even for a very short period. The grand jury which
1 is formed of the civilised world will not hesitate to
deliver a verdict of condemnation against the
right of asylum, such as it is now practised in
England. Suppose for a moment that all the'
States were to adopt the English principle, such
a regime would throw us back for 1,000 years
into birbarism. Each State would declare bar
yond the reach of the law the subjects of ano her
State, and approve of all the crimes which, being
prepared on its territory, should 133 perpetrated in
another. There is no State that could tolerate a
system under the protection of which Bernard and
his ace )mpliees may continue for the future what
they have been hitherto constantly doing. Ac-
cording to the revelations furnished by the Bernard
trial, the Government and the English people will
be, as much as Orsini, Pierri, aLd Bernard, respon-
sible for the blood shed in sech attempts as that of
the Rue Lepelletier. If the English Parliament will
not admit principles of right more eleva'e,l than
those which animated the auditory of the Central
Criminal Court of the Old Bailey, there is an end
to the honour and grandeur of the English name."

AMERICA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MORNING.

The screw steamer Hammonia, Capt. Schwensen,
has arrived from New York, with one day's later
news than that by the Persia. She brings 158 pas-
sengers, mostly for Hamburg, but no specie.
On the 18th of April the Hammonia spoke a
Hamburg ship, Sir Robert Peel, from New York,
for Hamburg ; and on the 23cl the American bark
Milton, bound to Glasgow.
In the Houso of Representatives on the 17th a
motion for the appointment of a committee to con-
fer with the Senate on the Kansas Bill was:carried,
by the Speaker's casting vote.
The ship Sunny South had arrived at New York,
with several passengers of the ship John Gilpin,
which struck on an iceberg off Cape Horn on the
29th of January, and foundered. The passengers
and crow were saved by the British ship Hereford-
shire.

Cotton was less firm, and no change in price.
Flour heavy, and sales moderate. Corn in light
supply, and firmer, with free sales of white at 73c.
to 730., and of yellow at 75ic. to 76c. No change
of moment in prices of wheat. Pork irregular, and
closed firmer. Sugars fairly active, and prices
steady. Coffee unchanged. Freights heavy, and
engagements moderate.
The Stock Market was irregular, and pri,:es ruled
lower. An unusually light amount of business
was transacted. The closing rates for sterling ex-
change were 8i to 9 per cent. premium for banks
and bankers' bills. There was but a moderate
amount of business.

Serious consequences were anticipated from the
flooding of the Lower Mississippi, caused by heavy
rains through the western and north-western coun-
try ; the Illinois and Missouri rivers were both ris-
ing, and all their tributaries at flood height.
The steamboat Falls City had exploded her
boilers off New Orleans, killing seven or eight per-
sons, and wounding several more.
The brig Manhattan, from Boston, for Cien-
faeg.s, was lost on the first inst. on Boca Grand
Reef, cff Trinidad,• Cuba.
At New Orleans, on the 14th, 1,200 bales of
cotton were sold at irregular prices, and quotations
could!not be given. Sterling exchange 1061 to
1071.

EXTENSION OF THE GOVERNMENT OFFICES, DOWNING-
sTsEET.--- Yeaterlay, by directions of her Majesty's;
Commissioner of Works, notices were issued in West-
minster to the 'feet that it was their intention to sell a
number of houses in King-street, Upper Crown-street,
and that locality, which it is intended to have removed
for the purpose of building upon their sites the new
buildings fur the Government offices from Downirg-
street, this being the first sale in furtherance of that
object. There aro several offices, chambers, &c., in-
cluded in the sale. As by act of Parliament it has been
dotermioed to continue the erection of the Govern.
ment offices to a considerable distance westward, the
remaining houses will be put up to auction as soon as
an adjustment of the claims can be settled between the
owners of the property in the line and the com-
missioners.