The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-03 00:00:00

Naval and M•litary.

The long-promised extra pay to the army is still
the principal topic of conversation in the Alder-
shott Camp. The troops have waited in vain fer
some official intimation than the recommendations
of the Recruiting Commi3sion::ra be carned
out, and the di2content is loud in general. The
effect of the delay must be greatly to injure the ser-
vice, many of the time-expired men having taken
their discharge rather than longer endure the sus-
pense of uncertainty. Some inducements must be
pro!nptly held out if valuable men of this clan are
to be retained in the army, and it Ia thought, if in
addition to 3d. extra per day the ten-years' men
were allowed to begin their second period of service
with a clean defaulter's sheet a great many of them
would rejoin. Although there is murmuring on the
subject of the extra pay, the restriction of flogging
to a few offences has given great satisfaction in the
camp, but the delay in the issue of prize-money
may still be reckoned, among the causes which pre-
vent recruits from joining the army.
The annual dinner of the officers now and for-
merly belonging to the Ist Life Guards was held at
Freemasons' Tavern on Saturday evening.

The annual dinner of the Royal Regiment of
Artillery was given at Willis's Rooms, King-street,
St. James's, on Friday evening. The Duke of
Cambridge, colonel of the regiment, was in the
chair.

The members of the Nulli• Secundus Club (Cold-
stream Guards) dined together at the London
Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on Saturday evening.
The annual regimental dinner of the officers at
present and formerly belonging to the Scots Fusi-
lier Guards took place at the Albion, Aldersgate-
street, on Saturday.
The following appointmentswere made on Satur-
d.y at the Admiralty ;—Capt. E. Tatham to be
superintendent of the Royal William Victualling-
yard and of Plymouth Hospital, vice Codd, pro-
moted ; Capt. R. J. J. G. Macdonald, of her Ma-
jesty's ship Arethusa, to the Bellerophon, vice
Tatham ; Capt. R. Coote to the Arethusa, vice Mac-
donald; Cape. Lord F. H. Kerr to the Excellent,
additional, for special services, vice Heath, appointed
to the East India station ; Capt. W. Luard to act
on the Ordnance Select Committee ; and Comman-
der Harry W. Brent, to the Bellerophon.

TffE CRETAN INSURRECTION.

(From a Correspondent of the Times.)
ATHENS, May 23.

What is called the logic of facts is received with
great deference in France, and the eloquence of
facts is recognised in England even when we care
nothing about their logic. The last voyage of the
Greek blockade runner Arkatli is full of a vast deal
both of logic and eloquence which ►uay be introduced
into the study of the mystery called the Eastern
question. Here are the facts. Your reade:s can
supply the logic and the eloquence that are wanted
for themselves without trouble, fur they are not far
to seek.

On the 11th the Arkadi sailed from Syria, and
reached the western coast of Crete before sunset.
As soon as it was dark, and her grey hull could glide
near her enemies and escape notice from all but
very wary and watchful eyes, she steamed to the
little port of Loutro, in Sphakia, where she found a
Turkish frigate at anchor. She then turned back
westward and approached Aghia Roumeli, where
she saw a Turkish man-of-war coming down from
Suia. There was therefore nothing to be done but
to get out of the way ; so the Arkadi stood out to
sea and avoided notice. She escaped observation,
and, as no time was to be lost, she soon came back to
the coast eastward of Loutro. She found a Turkish
corvette anchored at Frangho-kastelli, and again
put about, running into Vouva, a creek between
Loutro and Frangho-kastelli, though these two
anchorages are not ten miles apart. It was
absolutely necessary that the cargo should be
landed in this neighbourhood to insure its imme-
diate transport to a safe depot in the Sphakian
mountains. About midnight all hands, assisted by
a body of men who seemed to rise out of the earth
on shore, were busily employed discharging the
cargo. When two-thirds were landed the cor-
vette had got up steam and the frigate was seen
coming out of Loutro, so that the Arkadi was com-
pelled to hoist up her boats and run out to sea be-
tween 1 and 2 a.m. of the 13th. t T
ships considered themselves near enough to fire a
few shots at the Arkadi, which steamed westward
at a moderate rate speed, drawing after her the
frigate and corvette as far as Cape Krio. About 3
a.m. a Turkish gunboat was met, and on a signal
from the frigate joined in the chase. The Arkadi
then put on all steam and ran away to the north-west,
but as soon as she was out of sight of her pursuers
she bore away to the south-east, and passed in the
rear of the Turkish ships, gaining her former anchor-
age at Vouva. Before half-past 8 a.m. the remain-
der of her cargo was landed. She then proceeded
eastward to Korakas, where the captain had learnt
that a number of families collected at Rodakino
were waiting to be embarked for Greece. A
number of women and children were taken on
board, two Turkish men of war hove in sight, and
the Arkadi steamed off to'the eastward, closely pur-
sued until she was under a full head of steam, when
she lost sight of her parsuer.=, and by sailing round
the island of Crete returned to Syra at nine o'clock
on the morning of the IGth of May.
The captain of the Arkadi during this voyage is
a Psaroite officer named Kotzia, who has given re-
peated proofs of his able seamanship in sailing ves-
sels, and who displayed the same enterprise and
cool courage when commanding the Panhellenion.
The speed of the Arkadi and the skill with which

she is handled render her escape easy, and if the
Greeks possessed two such vessels the Turkish fleet
would he unable to prevent the Syra blockade-run-
ners from carrying supplies to the insurgents in
Crete with as much regularitj as the Cunard steamers

carry her Majesty's mails to America.
On Monday (20th) I visited Candia in the Aus-
trian Lloyd's steamer. I found there seven Turkish
steam transports, which had brought troops and
supplies. Omar Pasha after the failure of his attack
on Sphakia moved eastward, first to the fortress of
llettimo, and then to the district of Mylopotamo,
which embraces the northern slopes of Mount Ida.
Some skirmishing took place in the vicinity of Meli-
doni and at Damasto. The wounded of the Turkish
army, some 16 or 17 in number, were sent down to
the coast and landed from a steamer at Candia on
Sunday night. For the present the troops are said
to be healthy, but I saw a quantity of bread landed
from the transports at Candia which looked as if
it was intended to make a change in this respect,
and if Omar Pasha wishes to keep his army in a good
sanitary condition, he must look better after thebread
contract and some other administrative trifles. The
climate of Crete is delicious at this season of the
year, and the snow stilt forms a crown of more than a
thousand feet in breadth on Mount Ida, and covers
the sides of the summits of the Sphakian or White
Mountains.
The 600 Mainote volunteers who establshed them-
selves at Lasethe have been joined by upwards of a

thousand armed insur,gents, and the Turks will find

it extremely difficult to dislodge them from the
strong position they occupy. There is still a patch
of snow i.,iUlc on the hight.st peak of Lasethe,
which rises to the height of 7,100 feet, as indicated

in Captain Spratt's map.
In order to qu It the insurrection blare diplo-
macy takes the matter oat of his hands, Oinar Pasha
mu,t employ his military force with as mach skill
and vigour as Captain Kotzia handles the Atkadi.
At present this is far from being the case. The Ar-
kadi landed the Mainote volunteers, with a cargo of
rifles, ammunition, and cores, at the bay of Sitia,
near the ea3t end of the island. A boat brought
the news to Camila, having a favourable wind the
same night. A force might have been sent off in a
steamer sufficient to occupy the isthmus of Mira-
bella, and shut tip the volunteers in the eastern
corner of Crete, where there would have been no
difficulty in destroying them. But, instead of im-
mediately despatching a force by sea, two days
were wasted in deliberation, and then troops were
marched by land to the Bay of Mirabella, where
the island is only seven miles broad. Of course,
they were too late. The volunteers had already
been joined by a body of insurgent Cretans, who

received arms and ammunition, and, collecting up-
wards of 500 horses and mules, conveyed every-
thing iu safety into the stronghold they now occupy,
which they may succeed in holding during the whole
summer against any force Omar can lead or send
against them.
When I left Candia on Monday evening it was
believed that Omar Pasha would arrive there on
Tues.lay ; but when I reached Canea on Tuesday
morning I found that it was behoved there that he
would return to Apokorona and make another at-
tack on Sphakia in person. The force under his
command is generally said to be about 25,000 men,
and of these about 5,000 are native Cretans. Some
of the Egyptians in Candia were mere boys, but the
greater part of the force is composed of good
troops.

Miscellaneous Foreign News,
(Fronz-the Anylo-Aieriean Times.)
Pan's, May 30.

The " gay" city, as Paris is usually called, has,
indeed, put on holiday attire, and is looking its
very best. Every one of the countless throng is
bent on pleasure, and has come for amusement, not
business. Its broad clean streets and handsome
blocks of palaces impress many strangers who are
now here for the first time. The Exhibition is, of
course, the great and absorbing topic, viewed from
many points—whether the individual may be a
simple gazer at the pretty things, an anxious exhi-
bitor, or an ardent patriot, jealous for the superior
excellence of his own nationality. All are inte-
rested, and the daily increasing crowds, and the
stirring life around, add to the general excitement.
Crowned heads have assembled, drawn by peaceful
influence in such numbers that a stranger dropped
as a meteorite from the heavens might. sup-
pose that some weighty questions were now
being settled in Paris on which the fate,
not only of Europe, but of the entire world, was
concerned. The latest news tells us that not only
the Emperor of Russia, the Sultan of Turkey, the
Pasha of Egypt are to join the illustrious throng,
but last, but by no means least—to those who love
to gaze on royalty—the Emperor of China, that
ruler of the Celestial Empire, cannot withstand the
Magnetic influences. Would that a Congress
might assemble, seizing so good an occasion, to de-
termine to wage war no more against each other, and to
regard the instruments of warfare, exhibiting speci-
mens simply of man's ingenuity, but utterly value-
less for all practical purposes. If the inspection
of the Great Show engrosses the day, balls, parties,
entertainments of all kinds engross the night, and
it will take some time before those who have fully
entered into the giddy whirl will be able to settle
down to the realities of everyday life.
The last reception of the season to be given at
the residence of General Dix, our United States
Minister, was held on Saturday night last, and no
better proof of its being a delightful entertainment
can be given when I say it was sometime after 12
o'clock before the guests could tear themselves away,
forgetting in the enjoyment of Ow evening that
Sunday morning had overtaken them whilst " trip-
ping the light fantastic toe" to merry music.
The races, theatres, fries, operas, &c., I am sorry
to say, continue the same on that day in Paris as on
any other, as if really there was " no rest for the
wicked." But, to return to the reception of last
Saturday night, it was really a very grand affair,
and more numerously attended than any hitherto
held. To give an idea of the distinguished persons
present, or of the dresses, is a task I must leave to
your clever Paris fashion correspondent, unequal
as I feel for the subject, as I can only judge of the
general effect, which is all most gentlemen can,
whether a style of dress is becoming, suitable to the
occasion, and in good taste. . .

Yet, let me mention one question that Dame
Rumour says is now coining before our astonished
vision, id est, the invention of another article for
ladies' use, which bids fair to rival the false ears I
was so unfortunate as to mention in a previous
letter. The last inventions spoken of are false lips.
itoy, pouting lips, so constructed as.to defy detec-

tion.
I hear that on Sunday last the Emperor received
the delegates of the " Universal Tourists Com-
pany," awl that this company will be a most suc-
cessful affair. _ .

The American Circus has become one of the in

Zit utioas o" Pari:l, and the Theatre du Prince Im-
perial is crowded to overflowing every night. It is
well deserving of success, for the artists employed
are the first in the world, and the proprietors have
spared no pains and expense to render it superior to
any exhibition of the kind ever held. Indeed Messrs.
Bidwell, Van Orden, Spalding, and Qdick seem
determined to prove that an American circus cannot
be surpassed by anything in Europe.

The number of Americans in Paris do not
seem to be on the increase at present, for as
fast as a large party arrive on a steamer another
bears equally as many, if not mere, away on her
homeward-bound passage.
Still prices keep high; rooms are still held at the
same exorbitant rates that were asked for them a
month or so ago, when it was hoped by enterprising
landlords that during the Exposition the unlucky
person who had not before coming engaged apart-
ments would not have where to lay his head. How
have their " mighty expectations" fallen. Alas!
alas ! would that their prices would also fall.

The fete de 1. Ascension was observed on Thursday
last. All the offices were closed, and the city pre-
sented a quiet appearance—more than it generally
does on Sanday.
On the arrival of the. Emperor of Russia, his
Majesty Louis Napoleon will have a grand review
of the army.
The brilliant weather this week, in complete con-
trast to the cold, gloomy aspect of last, has cheered
every one, and admitted of unlimited out-door en-
tertainment.

Since the remarks by the special correspondent
of the Times on the attractions of the English
girls at the EngHAI restaurant of the Paris
Exhibition crowds assemble there to gaze at the
young women. They will at least learn to endure
the staring process, and to be proof against looks

of admiration and killing glances. They are, as a
rule, pretty, although the fantastic method of dress-
ing the hair detracts from their natural beauty.
The arrangements made for the working classes in the
way of refreshment are excellent. A large hall has
been erected in the grounds, and I saw the list of
prices charged with satisfaction. Considering the
sums demanded for everything eatable and drink-
able just now in Paris the charges are not only
moderate, but very cheap. The ground has been
granted by the Government, and the landlord has
no payment to make for gas.

ROME, May, 1867.
The tide of travel, following well-understood
laws, is wisely diverted from this city soon after
Easter, as those who remain longer are well con-
vinced. For the last few days the Sirocco has been
blowing, bringing the breath of the African deserts
into our streets, stifling almost every thought of
energy and enterprise, and clearly explaining the
hitherto mysterious love of Romans for quiet loun-
ging in their cool cafes. The heat, intens3 as that
of midsummer in America, yet differs wonderfully
from it, seeming to depend on the direct rays of the
sun. In passing through an open square the tem-
perature is withering, suffocating, but the shade,
when regained, is actually cold by contrast, and
there even the hot breeze creates a chill. To this
state of things the dangers of this period must be

largely (Inc.

Yet, by care in food, clothing, and the manage-
ment of exercise and rest, these dangers may
be reduced, if not wholly disarmed. Our artists
still remain stubbornly at their posts, though has-
tening preparations for a speedy retreat.
Mr. Rogers is finishing the Washington Monu-
ment for Richmond, designed by the lamented
Crawford, the work on which, suspended during
the war,"is now resumed. This is to be surmounted
by an equestrian statue of Washington, 23 feet in
height, colossal statues of his companions in the
Revolution, occupying subordinate positions, and
many graceful allegorical figures appearing at in-
tervals.

'The resumption of this undertaking after so long
a delay is a pleasing evidence of a returning good
feeling between those so sharply alienated during

the last sad years, as well as of undying love for
the Father of our common country. When this
work of Northern artists shall be set up in a
southern city to the honour of him who once led
our united armies, we may hail the event as no
slight indication of the return of peace and good
will.

Not less interesting to multitudes now, and to all
true Americans when time has healed the wounds
of war, will be the memorial monuments to the
illustrious dead who have fallen to complete the
work of Washington. Of these, that for the State
of Rhode Island, to be set up in the city of Provi-

fence, will be sOft. high. The crowning statno,

10ft. high, is of America, leaning on the sword
now gladly sheathed, and holding forth gar-
lands of laurels and immortelles. The angles

f the pedestal will support four statues, each seven
'eel in height, representing the four branches of
he service. Still below will appear appropriate

has reliefs. The effect of the completed monument,
as given in photographs, kindly shown'me by the
artist, is very pleasing and satisfying.
A similar monument, still larger ant more elabo-
rate, for the state of Michigan is now in rapid pro-
gress, though the design is not yet fully developed.
On the summit appears a 'statue representing
Michigan of the same size as the America
just referred to. It is a war-like figure,
moving forward with shield aloft, and sword
drawn back for the thrust. In the girdle
which binds the coat of mail appears the Indian
tomahawk, and in the hair the In dian ornaments
of shells and feathers, indicating the youth of the
state, whose lands within the memory of living men
were the home of the savage. There is nothing
else savage, however, in the representation, which
is full of grace and life.

It is pleasing to know that for these works the
artist's remuneration will be somewhat adequate to
their cost and merit. For the former he is to be
paid $50,000, and for the .latter $75,000, money
which may be put by the States which pay it to the
account of public education.
Of the smaller works iu this studio it is scarcely
necessary to speak. The Nydia, by repetitions and
photographs is, already well known. The Ruth
gleaning the scattered ears, and looking up with a
trustful timidity at the approach of the master of
the domain, and the Isaac bound upon the wood,
but lifting his face with such an expression of
bright and sudden joy at the angel's.command—
" Abraham, lay not thine hand upon the lad !"
are worthy of no less admiration.
Mr. Mozier is now modelling a Sgure which re-
presents Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, guarding
the bodies of her sons and kindred, to whom burial
was long refused,—a story told with touching
simplicity in the twenty-first chapter of the first
book of Kings, and finely paraphrased in the poem
of Bryant. The last touch has just been given to
a statue of Rebekah, who is represented at the well
poising her pitcher upon her shoulder, the robe
veiling and yet displaying the slender and active
form. The Penseross, which stands near this, pre-
sents a thoughtful study of drapery, suggested by
the Pudicitia at the Vatican, though disposed upon
a different plan. The face and figure are founded
upon Milton's description of the
" Goddess sago and holy,
With even step and musing gait,
And looks communing with the skies
- A melancholy graceful,
Pleasing and tranquil."

The chisel is bringing from the marble a new repe-
tition of the statue of Truth, one of the most vividly
executed, as far as a model can indicate of 'this
artist's designs—a truth living and strong, with
drawn sword and gathered mantle, at whose feet
lies the mask struck from the face of Falsehood.
The statue is executed for a young ladies' seminary
in the State of New York. One of Silence was
first ordered, but on reflection the benefactor
deemed it wiser to present his fair friends with the
ideal of a more attainable quality. These are
but few of many works, most of which are, how-
ever, well known, as the Peri, the Pochahontas,
the Veiled Uudine, &c.
Mr. llaseltine, a young artist who has returned
to his studies after an honourable soldierly career
in the Union army, is no .v finishing a memorial
monument for the Uaion League of Philadelphia.
Upon a pedestal ornamented with bas-reliefs is
placed a statue, six feet in height, of America hon-
ouring her fallen brave. It is a figure, gracefully
draped, advancing with firm but pensive step ;
while the head, slightly inclined, the calm, subdued
sadness of the thoughtful face, well express the
ar;:3t's fine ideal of a" proud sorrow." Here also
are the garlau is of laurels and immortelles, but
with a new disposition—clasped upon the breast
with the left hand falling at the side in the right, as
if to be solemnly and reverently bestowed. With

such au air a mother might coari.b, after years Lad
passed, to the grave of her brave dead. Flom this
figure several flue busts have been already modelled,
as well as a complete copy reduced to three-quarter
size.

I noticed here also a bronze Excelsior, with the
action and the look 'which the poem -suggest, and
bringing out its substantial thought the career of
irrational, insatiable, but inflexible ambition, ad-
mired, mourned, and condemned by turns. This
figure is a copy of one in marble now in New York.
Two contrasted groups of the Christian and the
heathen mother, the one trustfully presenting her
babe for baptism, the other with a sharp struggle
between superstition and natural affection preparing
to surrender hers for idolatrous sacrifice, well repay
examination.

There is a fine little bronze, to be executed here-
after on a larger scale, of America Triumphant, a
figure full of calm dignity and confidence, sheath-
ing the sword with hearty good will, fresh as at the
opening zather than the close of battle, the face
perhaps a trifla too triumphant to suit any but
Americans in the hour of victory; but one statue
cannot express all emotions. I must pass by other
finished figures, merely noticing recent models for
two promising groups of Grateful and Ungrateful
Love.

To the celebrated studio of Miss Ilosmer, I
shall take the liberty of scarcely referring, as all
her best productions are so well known. Just
completed is a fine fountain, with elegant statuettes
of sirens and cupids. This will appear in London.
Also new is the reclining figure of a faun asleep,
with very antique head, while a little satyr is
tying the ends of the lion's hide, which covers the
sleeper, around the stump on which he rests.
It is evidently a conceit of the lively mind which
produced that impersonation of droll . mischief,
Puck. This mischievous tendency of Puck becomes
appropriately, no doubt, but, fur my taste, unplea-
santly malicious in the new figure of the same size,
the " Will o' the Wisp."
"The Pandora Hesitatingly Opening the Fatal
Vase" the work of Mx. Quez, is a very successful
representation of alife-like legend. The "Rebekah,"
leaning on her pitcher by the well, is fine. The
countenance wears an expression of irresolution and
surprise, suited, no doubt, to the sudden proposal
by proxy, but calculated to make her wooer
somewhat anxious had he been present in person.
I noticed here, also, a fine Undine, an Indian
group, a good representation of the mythical
shepherd, whose mode of life kings and poets sigh
for and shun. But the most taking thing, if the
word may be allowed, is the Sans Louci, a sweet
child, with her curly head thrown back, the face
bubbling over with laughter, the open book almost
dropping from her hand—a negligent little student,
to bc scolded from a sense of duty, but loved and
admired all the while.
The well-known studio of Mr. Story contains
the model for a bronze statue of Everett, executed
for the City of Boston, showing the orator as he
was twenty years ago, but our modern dress must
be admitted to be ungraceful when seen in a statue.
Another of Josiah Quincy is life-, but youngerlike
looking than recent Harvard graduates remember
him. There is a Cleopatra, gloomily meditating
on her reverses, a Sappho very loveable, and had a
Medea knife in hand, with an expression as fearful
as the fearful deed she plans, and a Lybian Sybil,
faithful doubtless to the ideal of such a character,
though such an ideal seems to the writer hardly
worthy of perpetuation in marble. A plaster group
of Red Riding Hood and the Wolf seems to deserve
completion, which the artist has hitherto been too
busy to grant.

The trade of India iu some principal exp2rts
during the five years influenced by the American

war, will be seen from these figures up to the end
of 1865-66 :
Year.

.859-GO

Cotton.
5,572,234

Wool.
71,796

Rice.

1860-61 7,330,637 ... 473,554 2,936,876
1861-62 ... 10,202,761 ... 355,810 „. 3,219,247
1862-63 ... 18,779,183 ... 787,821 ... 3,316,376
1863-64 35.864,785 ... 866,033 ... 3,806,075
1864-65 37,573,666 ... 1,001,687 ... 5,295,968
1865-66 35,578,290 ... 674,627 4,t57,522
These figures are very elcqucnt, and are within the
truth, because they represent values at the port of
shipment in India, not in England. If, allowing
for the increased export, ten millions sterling be
taken as the normal value of the whole cotton crop
of India,. it received about 95 millions more in
these live years at the expense of America for cot-
ton alone. By private telegram from Bombay,
May 25, 2.30 p.m., we learn that shipments of
cotton during last week, amounted to 63,000 bales.
The vine disease is appearing in Portugal, and
has broken out with virulence in some districts.

The Cable informs us that Mr. 111‘Culloch, the
Secretary of the Treasury, has written a letter, in
which he expresses an opinion that a temporary in-
crease of the Public Debt is unavoidable, and that he
will stop the reduction of the currency for thepresent.
The enemies of the United States who can damage
the country in no other way seize on all circum-
stances tending to the discredit of its financial posi-
tion. The recklesness with which appropriations
were made by the XXXIX• Congress has checked
the Secretary's power of contracting the currency
and reducing the debt. Two other unforeseen
occurrences have increased his difficulties. One
is the Indian war; the other, the depression of trade.
The enormous sum voted by the Legislature for
bounties to the soldiers has had an injurious influ-
ence on the Treasury ; but although the process of
reduction is for the moment checked, the consolida-
tion of the Public debt continues. There is a strong

party in America who do not believe in the wisdom
of reduction. They hold that the nation rapidly
grows richer—that the precious metals as rapidly
fall in value. The vast area of auriferous soil in the
States and Territories which are daily being developed
will insure to the United States from their rich
mines a metal basis which no other country pos-
sesses, and which is the best guarantee of a specie
payment for all indebtedness. What may be a dif-
ficult task for the American nation to accomplish
at present will, in all probability, be comparatively
easy ten years hence. SAne months hence the
railway from San Francisco, with few breaks, will
penetrate into Nevada, and it is difficult to estimate
what the effect will be in laying open the rich
silver mines of that State and adjoining Territories.
Already the yield is rapidly increasing, and mining
stocks and shares arc growing in favour. They
cannot fail to attract the attention of British
capitalists, who at a small risk may in this direction
reap an almost fabulous return. At any rate their
effect will be immense on American finance, and
those who leave this source of supply out of the
question omit the very essence of the financial
strength of the United States.
On Sunday the Persia arrived at Queenstown

with 221 cabin passengers and a large sum in specie.
The 1 arifa reached the same port on Monday with
152 passengers and $55,000. On Tuesday. the
Ilanunonia arrived at Southampton with 288 pas-
sengers and $461,432. Th same day the Vile
de Paris was at Brest with 296 passengers and
4,000,000 francs. On Wednesday the North Ger-
man Lloyd's steamer Union arrived at Southampton
with 302 passengers and $55,000. She was delayed
by an accident to her propeller, which forced her to
run at half speed. On Friday the Din reached
Queenstown with a large number of passengers and
£16,000 in specie. _ _

On May 23 the Europe arrived at New York from
Brest, and the Pennsylvania and Manhattan from
Liverpool. On the 25th the North German Lloyd
steamer Hermann and the Inman steamer Etna.
The Germania arrived on the 26th, the City of Bal-
timore on the 27th, the ,Scotia and Tunzpico on the
28th; the Amy°, from Falmouth, and the Aleppo,
from Liverpool, on the same day, and the /Vova

Scotia at Quebec. The Virginia from Liverpool
and the St. Patrick from Glasgow arrived at New
York on the 30th May.
It is announced positively in New York that

Queretaro was captured by the Liberals on the
15th May ; and Maximilian, Mejia, and Miramon •
taken prisoners. Bat the Stlitlard still adheres
to the opinion it has all along expressed, that these
advices are pure fabrications. In proof of this it
yesterday published the following private letter,
dated Tampico, 27th April, with these remarks
We know here that Escobedo was defeated
before Queretaro ; that he lost ten thousand men
. -
after a sanguinary combat never recorded as yet in
internal vars. JuDrez has sent, one after
five special couriers ordering the troops to
join him ; but his or.lers have been unattended to,
the commander here being a partisan of Ortega,
the town, with the command-
though as yet he has not announced it publicly,
because there arc four American gunboats an-
chorede rs
o f opposite
which the governor has had the most
osite
counted on refused to
violent and disagreeable questions. Now if
Escobedo was, as this letter and former commu-
fnoirceaetiinoenests,aua assert,the muchstoroopshented in want of rein-
join him, how can he possibly have taken Queretaro?
Porfirio Diaz, it has always been said, was besieging
the capital itself, therefore Escobedo Could not have
been reinforced by him. But the strongest ground
for disbelief in the news of the capture of Maxi-
milian and the fall of the Empire is the fact that
the Liberals stop all correspondence
that is not
i
written by themselves or n their interests. They
must have good reason for not allowing the truth
to be known."
The liberation of Jefferson Davis is the subject
that occupies most prominently the American papers.
.He was released on bail of $lOO,OOO distributed over
twenty citizens, who are each liable for $5,000 that
he will be forthcoming to take his trial for high trea-
son in November, if required. Horace Greeley
heads the list of sureties, for which he has been
in
soundly ab
ed by many journalists of his party.
Among those who were censured for thus acting
was John Minor Botts. A friend from Washing-
ton wrote to him condemning this course, to which ha
very properly replied that he would not allow himself
to be dictated to in these matters. He added that he had

asked Mr. Charles O'Connor to inquire of his client
if he had any objections that his most determined
opponent, his iife-long political foe, should, in a
spirit of harmony and conciliation, attach his name
to the bail bond. Mr. Davis expressed no reluc-
tance, but, on the contrary, was rather well pleased
with the magnanimity of the offer. A short inter-
view followed, described by Mr. Botts as in
nowise compromising the dignity of either party.
The Nation regrets to hear bad accounts of the
way in which Southerners receive the donation
sent from the North for their relief. " In one case,
in Georgia, the county officials refused to distribute
a cargo of corn unless they were paid for their ser-
vices out of the corn ; and there is a very general
disposition not to be satisfied with such things as
the miserable Yankees find it convenient to send
on. .This gorilla condition of mind is greatly to be
regretted, as it serves no good purpose. It does not
help the South, and does not punish the Yankees.
If the maundering editors and orators who are all
the time wondering why the Yankees do not
forget and forgive would preach mutual for-
givenness and forgetfulness, they would do some
good. In the meantime—and this is the main thing
--there is no doubt that real and wile-spread dis-
tress does exist, and there is apparently strong pro-
bability that during the next two months there
will be at the South a real mediaeval famine, with
hundreds, if not thousands, of deaths from sheer
starvation,
if people at the North do not bestir
themselves." The Nation should not forget the
painful position in which the South has been placed.
We feel no small admiration at the manner in
which this aristocratic community have borne their
heavy misfortunes, and great allowances should be
made for petulance under the trying circumstances.
It is surprising that nothing has been accomplished
in England or in France in aid of the starving
South. We arc amazed that the Times, which has
always expressed such admiration for the gallantry
and endurance of the Southerners, has not directed
the attention of English benevolence in this direction.
A riotous disposition is
gaining ascendancy in.
some towns of the South, which we regret to say

proceeds from a bad feeling between the freedmen
and the whites. At Mobile a riot followed an
address of Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania. While he
was haranguing in no measured terms a large
gathering of negroes son►c evil-disposed person fired
a pistol shot at hint. The negroes retaliated, firing
became general, and three or four persons were
killed and others wounded. The violence of Judge
Kelley's language has been generally condemned,
while the right of speech has been upheld. It may
require strong forbearance and a painful act of re-
pre,,sion on the part of the South to refrain from
tarring and feathering, from lynching, and riding
on rails people who -give utterance to obnoxious
sentiments. Yet the nation has decreed liberty of
speech in the South as welt as in the North, and
however repugnant it must be endured. That the
freedmen have shown a riotous disposition is displayed
by the fact that during the week the Negro steve-
dors got up an affray in New Orleans ; another
occurred between the soldiers and negroes in Gal-
veston ; a third at Brownsville, Tennessee ; and a
fourth at Nashville, Tennessee. These have fol-
lowed the more serious one at Richmond. It is
not surprising, under the circumstances, that such
ebullitions should occur, but we hope that they will
not be of long continuance, and that the freedmen
and the whites will soon settle down into their re-
spective places, which cannot be expected to happen
at once in a society so rudely disturbed as that of
the South.

The most prominent men are leaving America by
scores for Europe, and it is probable that, most of
its loudest and longest talkers gone, the States will
sink into a profound calm, unless second rate people
and aspiring youngsters seize the opportunity to
push themselves into notice. A midsummer session
of Congress is a mere illusion. Even the Presiden-
tial election next year excites little interest, as all
feel assured that General Grant is the coming man.
It is thought,_ failing him, that Mr. Colfax is the
most likely person. The Springfield Republican says
that President Johnson is wearing his best clothes,
and looking sleek and amiable since Congress is out
of the way ; Mr. Seward is seeking new worlds to
conqueror buy (has he thought of the Sandwich
Islands ?) ; Mr. Stanton is spending lots of money
fighting the Indians, and Mr. M'Culloch is alarmed
at the propect of increased expenses and falling re-
venue ; " Uncle Gideon" looks like Moses, and is
reconciled to the Connecticut election, and Post-
master-General Randall has no idea of resigning-
not he. Ex-President Pierce, who promised Jeff
Davis northern help for his rebellion, showing both
a traitor's and a coward's heart, went down to give
him welcome to liberty again, and ought to have
been snubbed in return.

The arrival of Americans during the week has
been very large, few steamers bringing less than
200 cabin passengers, and some over 300. The
most celebrated statesmen and soldiers are now
crossing in scores, and men will soon be passing in
Regent-street or pushing in the exhibition against
those about whom they have been reading for years
past, and whose acts may have had an influence
on their own fortunes. People looked for the
advent too soon, but the Americans, who know
most about the Atlantic, preferred to wait for
quieter times. We expect a large t number will
make London their head-quarters, for hbwever
attractive Paris may be few like to live in a whirl,
scrambling for every meal, and paying enormously
for great discomfort.
The terrible accounts of starvation and destitu-
tion from the South prompted a deputation last
week, from the National Freedmen's Aid Society to
wait on Lord Derby, as Chairman of the Central
Committee for the relief of distress in the cotton
districts; to ask that the surplus funds at the dispo-
sal of the Committee might be sent to the Southern
States of America to relieve the distress there.
Lord Derby listened attentively, and promised to
give the matter his best .consideration ; but he
pointed out that he was but one member of the
Committee, that there were other applications for
the surplus funds, and that the majority of
.the
Committee might not think that the request now
made was one with which they ought to comply.

The importance of the Ems harbours has been
attracting the attention of the Prussian Govern-
ment. Hitherto the Rhine country and Westphalia
had no direct. communication with the German
Ocean, and their Transatlantic traffic had to be
carried through Dutch, Belgian, and even French
sea-ports. Now a direct route is offered by the Ems
harbours of Emden and Leer, and the inhabitants
of the Rhino country and Westphalia are reported
to be about to form a joint stock company to supply
a line of packets from Emden and Leer to foreign
countries. They propose also to shorten the .dis-
tances from South-Western Germany by means of
a railroad from Hamm to Giessen, and from the
Rhine country by means of a railroad from the Rhine
in the direction of Oberhausen towards the Ems
Ilarbours.

In the report, just published, of the Registiar-
Gl.neral of Victoria, in Australia, some curious
statistics occur, which show how rapidly intermar-
riages are taking place in that colony. The strangest
feature is the list of marriages contracted by
Chinamen with European women, amounting to 59.
Half of these got English wives, and about a quar-
ter Irish wives. The Pall-Mall Gazette remarks on
this subject—" When a generation of this mixed
race has lived under the transforming influences of
the Australian climate, it is probable that a race
quite unlike anything European will be the result."

General Sherman has joined General Hancock to
conduct the Indian war, and their resoluteness and
determination have already had some effect in driv-
ing some of the most implacable tribes to the south,
and inducing others to come to terms. Large bodies
of troops are being pushed forward and posted along
the main routes of travel. Contractors and carriers
are reaping a rich harvest. A story had been cir-
culated that the steamer Miner, bound up the
Missouri from St. Louis to Montana, had been cap-
tured and burnt, and her passengers and crew
slaughtered, by the Indians, about 100 miles above
Sioux City. But as late news know nothing of the
circumstance, its truth is more than doubtful.

The eight-hour strike in Chidago has came to an
end, after a loss in wages and profit of $lOO,OOO.
On this subject the Springfield Republican says
The experience is, however, a warning, and the
dogma of a fixed, legal day's work will be more and
more separated from the true labour movement, that
in its objects of elevating every class of labourers
into intelligence, and skill, and a share in the
management of the business of which they are so
important an element, commends itself to every
philanthropist and every Republican statesman."

It is estimated that three million dollars' worth
of new buildings, which were to have been put up
at Chicago this year, have been abandoned on
account of the eight-hour movement.
The negroes employed in the tobacco factories of
Lynchburg have struck for higher wages, the em-
ployers agreed to give twisters and roll-makers $2.25
per hundred pounds, in lieu of .$1.75 till June,
when, for the three months ensuing they will
give $2.50.
The Californians are having equal rights presented
in a shape they do not quite relish. Ah Chung, a
Chinese artist of San Francisco, desiring to become
an American citizen, recently applied to a court of
record in that city for the necessary papers. " All
free white male citizens" of the age of 21 years, and
upwards, are certainly eligible to American citizen-
ship. But whether the, Mongolian race can justly
claim to be classed with white citizens is a contro-
verted point on the Pacific slope, and consequently
Judge Hoffman set counsel to work to study the Civil
Rights Bill and the law bearing on the case before
granting or rejecting " John's" application to join
the great American family.
The Springfield Republican gives us the following
item :—" Travel across the continent has become
regular and reliable again, and work on the Pacific
Raiload, both at the California and eastern ends, is
renewed with vigour. On this side the managers
mean to lay two miles of track a day for one hun-
dred days or more ; and at the other about 20,000
Chinf.men will soon be die:ging a pathway down
the Sierra Nevadan on the eastern slopes, and
stretching it out into the Humboldt valley. In
California, the Pacific Railroad managers have got
possession of the Western Pacific Railroad, so called,
to 'run from San Francisco, via Stockton, to Sacra-

mento, and mean to complete it from Stockton to
Sacramento in three months' time."

The ship continent is reported to have foundered
at sea while on her way front New Orleans to
Havre. Both ship and cargo were lost ; but the
crew and one lady passenger were rescued. Among
other casualties we notice that the steamer Lansing
exploded her boiler while running between Rock
Island and Port Byron, Illinois, on the 13th May,
when six persons, officers and passengers, were
killed or drowned, including W. 11. Noble, of
Burlington, lowa ; W. 11. Beebe, of Colorado ; and
_ _

I. Curtis, of Dubuoue. --
The Springfield Republican tells us that Russia

has telegraphed that she accepts the treaty of sale
for her American territory, which Professor Agassiz
suggests should be called Behringia, after Bel►ring
who first explored it. " The more we hear of this
acquisition the more we talk about it, the better the
people like it and applaud the bargain. Ben Hol-
laday has already started a steamer for its 'shores
from San Francisco, so that we shall have fresh
accounts of what is going on there, and what the
people, and country are all like."

We hear that the week before last a financial
panic occurred at New Orleans, on account of the
reported defalcations of the Treasury, and of the
First National Bank. The reports, as usual, appear
to have been exaggerated, but $llO,OOO are missing
--covered by the property of the Sub-Treasurer's
securities.

The Senate has concurred with the House, 27 to
8, to carry on the Hoosiac tunnel another year by
an appropriation of $600,000. It is thought, how-
ever, that the work will stop before long, on account
of its cost, especially as a road over the mountain
will give all needed accommodation at considerably
less outlay.
The ship-building interest of New England is
suffering greater depression than it has experienced
for years. About sixteen vessels are all that are
on the stocks. In New Hampshire and Maine
business is somewhat brisker, but great discou-
ragement is felt from the difficult task of competing
with the ship-builders of the British provinces.
.The Dubuque Herald states that the farmers in

he western counties are persecuted by pigeons ;

indeed that these birds have become a scourge.
Vast flocks appear and darken the air, and having
migrated a long distance from the South are very
voracious. They alight on newly-sown fields, and
rolling over like waves of the sea, pick up every
grain in sight. It is impossible to drive them off.
They care not for the firing of guns, throwing of
stones, shouts of men, or barks of dogs. One farmer
two miles east of Independence had sown three
acres with wheat, and was preparing to harrow it
when the pigeons made their appearance and gobbled
up every grain before it could be covered. Sports-
men have waged incessant war against them, and
killed great numbers, but their places are quickly
supplied. Pigeon-hunting has lost the charm of
novelty, and the only idea now is, how to save the
grain ?

Secretary M'Culloch has issued a circular to col-

lectors of Customs and others, in which, after
quoting section 14 of " An Act to Increase Duties
on Imports, and for other purposes," approved June
14,1864, he instructs collectors " to cause to be kept
a record from day to day, stating the name of the
vessel, the place from which and the time when she
arrived, the name of the importer, and the date of
entry; and will give notice of the liquidation of
such entries by posting in some conspicuous place
in the Custom-house, accessible to the public, on

the day succeeding the date of ascertainment and
liquidation, a transcript of such record, there to
remain for ten days, when such transcript will be
removed and filed with the records of the office ;

and the posting of such transcript will be deemed
and taken to be a notice to all , parties interested.
The notice of dissatisfaction or protest referred to in
the section cited must in all cases be presented to
the collector within thirty days after notice of the
ascertainment and liquidation of the duties as pro-
vided. When an appeal is taken from the decision
of a collector, such appeal, addressed to the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, may be delivered.to the col-
leaor, who is instructed to receive and transmit the
same to the Treasury Department, with a full
report of the case, together with a statement of the
reasons for his decision."
An accident occurred the other evening at the Ale-

tropolitan Theatre, Buffalo, during the performance of the

Arabs. Three of the members of the troupe met with an
accident which at the time commanded but littlo attention,

but afterwards proved to be not a little painful. In the
act of breaking up, or dissolving ono of the complicated
pyramids, these men fell backwards from their elevated
positions, and struck with great violence on their heads.
The shock to the nervous system was so great in each that
they were rendered totally blind.
The two-story frame building, No. 50, Polk-street,
at Chicago, while being raised to the street grade, fell on
Thursday morning, May 16, killing Mrs. Watkins, the wife
of the owner, and severely wounding four others.
The Canadian Executive Council clos:i its session
at Ottowa, on Tuesday, May 14, and will remove to Mon-
treal, henceforth the capital of the dominion. The change
will cause the removal of about 70 families from the city.
Selma, Alabama, has nearly arisen from the
ashes in which it was laid two years ago.
A pelican, measuring nine feet from tip to tip of
the wings, and having a bill ten inches long, was shot re-
cently in Kentucky.

A portion of a Baptist congregation in Nassau,
N. P., were suddenly immersed in the baptistery on a ro-
cont Sunday. The joint and brick work flooring of the
front steps gave way, precipitating those above into the
tank.

A correspondent of a Philadelphia paper describes
the Paris Exposition building as follows :—" Take a round

gingerbread with a hole in the middle. The lOle;;;re-
sents a garden. Around the hole describe with a knife
eight or ten circles ; each of these is an aisle running quite
round the exhibition. Across these concentric circles, draw,
from the hole to the circumference of your gingerbread,
thirty or forty straight lines or radii. These separate the
nations. Now, if you want to look at machinery, being a
machinist yourself, begin with the greater outer ring or
circle, and you will pass, in their order, the machineries of
every nation. The second interior ring is devoted entirely
to furniture. Go round it and you can study the upholstery
of mankind. The third ring is devoted to clothing. Fol-
low this round, and all the fashions of the world and the
wearers will be demonstrated.

A Boston correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
writes the following :—" I visited the great pioneer of the
anti-slavery movement, Mr. Win. Lloyd Garrison, at his
home in Roxbury, near Boston, and had the honour and
pleasure of accepting an invitation to take tea with him-
self and family. ' It may not be generally known that Mr.
Garrison has been prevented from taking his usual active
part in public affairs, during the last twelve months, by a
fall, which severely injured his right arm and shoulder.
lie is now, however, nearly recovered, and his general
health is much improved of late. Mr. Garrison sails for
Europe on May 1, to be absent till July or August. Mr.
Garrison has also been a great sufferer during the last
three years, from the effects of a paralytic shock. Mr.
Garrison has four sons and a daughter living. One is
editor of the Nation, two are wool merchants in Boston,
and ono is at college. Tho daughter, one of tho most
beautiful of American women, is now in Europe, and the
wife of your special correspondent in Paris."

San Francisco rejoices in a decree from the
Supreme Court which gives to the city valuable lands in
the suburbs that had been seized and stoutly claimed by
private parties.

Over one hundred Poles arrived in Galveston a
few days since. They are to be followed by a large num-
ber of their countrymen.
The New York boot-blacks have reduced the
price to five cents a " shine."

The wheat iu North and South Carolina looks
well. TLa wheat harvest there begins about the middle

of Juno.

The new mill of the Willimantic linen company,
which is now nearly supplied with machinery of the-latest
invention and is in successful operation, is 404 by 69 feet,
six stories high, and built of unhammered stone. This
establishment is ono of the largest in the 'United States,
and in it are made thread of all sizes and thirty-two dif-
ferent colours. The Wauregan company's new mill at
Plainfield is also nearly oomph:Wl, and is a duplicate of
the large ono built eighteen years ago, being 500 by 50
feet and five stories high.
DISTRESS IN TIIE SOUTIIERN STATES.—Every
day the accounts of Southern destitution are more urgent,
more widespread, more fully authenticated. The state-
ment of Governor Orr shows that letters have been re-
ceived from about eighty different points in South Caro-
lina from reliable mon, and they all tell one tale. A
famine is upon all, black and white, apparently equal to
that in Ireland during the potato rot twenty years ago.
People aro literally dying of hunger, and others are wan-
dering up and down despairingly, seeking forfood. Some
of these are owners of small farms, who try to mortgage
their lands for money to buy broad, but cannot. W. Gil
more Simms writes :—" As far as I can see there is no
escape from a general famine in which all will suffer,
many perish. There are hardly five i❑ a hundred who

will be able to supply themselves with provisions of any
sort, unless by borrowing money on mortgage, not only of
the growing crop, but of the lands, and at such a rate of
interest that no crop they can raise will save them from
ruin." These are the best cases. But the difficulty is
that "no section can help the other." All are alike. It is
from the North aid must come, if at all. The multitude
without any sort of property. is far greater. A friend
writes to us privately—" The North is just keeping US
alive." W. Gilmore Simms says: —"I do not see what is
to avert the fate of thousands, to whom the peck or
bushel of corn, which suffices for a week, must .simplY
prolong the agony of death by inches." That all parts of
.the South are now more or less affected in this waY i 6
clear ; but we hope none, so badly as South Carolina.
There stem to be but few comprehensive minds to take
any broad views of the case. Trade stops ; employers
dismiss their hands; agriculture is paralysed. What is to
become of the future? The most enterprising of the
coloured race have left, as far as they could, and tllO5O
that remain are poor and destitute. How it is all going
to end in a. bettor crop and improvement for next year it is
hard to see. . The lands are good, lAA there is no capital
to work them, no food for those who remain. Lands will
be mortgaged and sold for a mere nothing to those wit°
have courage to buy or advance on them sufficient to knee
the present inhabitants from starving. Philadelphia
Ledger.

COMMERCIAL.
The financial panic at New Orleans has had the effect of
increasing the price of gold, which closed on Thursdoll
touching 138. The exports of the metal have been un-
usually large, the steamers on Saturday taking out
$2,119,000, and on Wednesday $1,398,508. Another large
instalment goes away to-day. Against this the steamer
from Aspinwall brought in last Saturday $420,000, and the
Java, on Wednesday, half a million of francs. San Fran-
cisco has exported from the commencement of the year
$10,751,071, which is over the exports of the same period
last year. It is reported also from California that the de-
mand for mining stocks is on the increase, and the price
rising from which, it is believed, that the return of the
precious metals will continue to increase. There is a rise
in foreign exchange, which may now be quoted at 109 le
1091 in gold. As business has become more active, the
supply of money is not quite so large, though loans on call
continuo at 5 to 6 per cent., and commercial paper may be
negociated at from 6 to 71 for first-class, and 8 to 10 for
second-class. The rates at Chicago are easy, as Well As
generally through the West, and money must soon flow in
that direction from the East in payment of wool, and for
advances on crops. Government stocks are in demand,
though no change has taken place in the quotations. I 1
rise in Europe was looked for on more Pacific news, and
the cable advices give satisfaction in showing that the ex'.
pectation has been realised. The groat increase in the
expenses of the War Department has taken people by sur-
prise, and leaves little chance of a decrease this year in
the public indebtedness. The income of the year ending
June 30 is estimated at $488,000,000, which it is said will
leave a surplus of $212,000,000. The other engagements
of the Government will prevent, it is thought, any further
attempt at redeeming the greenback currency just nosy.
The Government holds $26,000,000 of the retired legal
tenders which it is not thought will be destroyed until it is
certain that necessity will not arise for their reissue. 1-11 n)
ease of the money market has had a favourable influence,
on the miscellaneous stocks. The Pennsylvanian Central
makes a 3 per cent. dividend for the six months, and :10
extra stock dividend of 5 per cent. The Hudson Diver
Stock has again risen above par, and was sold at 102. This
rise was justified by the large increase of receipts, averag-
ing $2,000 a day over a corresponding period of last Year'
The New York Central has fallen. The quarterly divi"
dend of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company will, if re-
port be true, be 3 per cent. Franklin Telegraph is rising'
Though stocks are more active, there is little improve'
meat in mercantile business. The crops look unusually
favourable, but at present wheat and flour are at famine
prices, which, it is feared, will be continued until har-
vest. California has exported largely to New York,and wheat is even coming in from Liverpool to supply t ,
present deficiency. I enclose tho latest quotations.
137 f, United States Five-Twenties (1862) 1091. (186.)
105 k, (1865) 1061, (1865, New Issue) 108, United States
Ten-Forties 991, United States 7 3-10 Loan 1061, lilts"
souri Sixes 961, Tennesse Sixes 641, Virginia Sixes 641
New York Central Railroad 971, Erio 64 Erie Preferre_le
72, Hudson River 102, Reading 1031, Michigan Colin!'
109, Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana 671,
nois Central 1141, Cleveland and Pittsburg 78, Clevelaei,
and Toledo 114 Chicago and North-Western 3.1*, CUrt
cago and North-Western Preferred 691, Pittsburg, F°.
Wayne, and Chicago 961, Toledo and Wabash 41,1.
cage and Rock Island 881, Ohio and Mississippi Certificate!
211, Adams Express Company 60 to 69, American - gn:
United States 601, Wells, Fargo, and Co.'s 66, Merchants
Union 19, Western Union Telegraph Company 431, 1.4'
cific Mail Steamship Company 128, Atlantic Mail Steam'
ship Company 103, Cumberland Coal Company preferred
311, Canton Company 431, Quicksilver Mining Company
5/1, Mariposa Mining Company 7 to 8, Mariposa
Company Preferred 181.

(From Messrs. _Bowles and Drevees Circular.)
bola
PARIS, MAY 2911r.—The 30th (Ascension-day)
observed as a close holiday, obliges us to issue our circa
under to-day's date.
We have no important changes to report at our Bonr.cell
The general confidence in a continuance of peace, whilbo
continues to gain ground, is naturally strengthened 1))" 'of
fact of the approaching visits of the leading Sovereigns ,v
Europe ; and in connection with the present political ea%
and great abundance of money, influence the market
favour of higher prices. thet
In Americans purchases for investment and for o
markets have more than counterbalanced the effect of the
very large sales made for New York account, where t a
advance in gold is maintained, and rates have advaae„
to
steadily from 88-i 5-16, the closing quotation on the 2f
inst., to 821, the closing rate of to-day. The Remo
closes at 69 95 ; the Italian closes at 52 70 ; Exchange
London, 25 171. •