The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-23 00:00:00

BRUSSELS.

BRUSSELS, MAY 23.
A royal decree has been issued, ordering the cattle
market at Antwerp to be closed.
BRUSSELS, MAY 23.
The Hereditary Prince of Denmark arrived here
yesterday evening.

THE PRINCIPALITIES.

BUCHAREST, MAY 22 (Evening).

Prince Charles of Hohenzollerin arrived here at
4 p.m. to-day. All the church bells were rung on
his arrival, and the authorities presented him with
bread and salt. The Prince went in a carriage to
the Chamber of Deputies, and to the Metropolitan
Church this evening. The town is illuminated.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIAN.
(Via Greencastle.)
NEW YORK, May 12 (Morning).

O'Mahony assigus as reasons for resigning his
having given consent to the Eastport expedition,
the failure of which had damaged the cause ; and
furthermore he objected to remain an obstacle to
the restoration of harmony among the brotherhood.
Stephens, in a letter accepting his resignation, ap-
proves the action as wise and patriotic, but con-
demns Mahoney's weakness in sanctioning a move-
ment calculated to divert the attention from Ire-
land. Stephens declares that the objective point of
the Fenians is not Canada or Japan, but Ireland.
Stephens was serenaded last night, and made a
short speech acknowledging the compliment, and
exhorting Irishmen to be united, to drop dissen-
sions, and look to the wants of Ireland.
A Fenian mass meeting was to take place at Jones
Woods on Tuesday.
It is rumoured that a Fenian movement has been
organised at Buffalo. General Meade has been
ordered thither.

The Fenians who captured the schooner Went-
worth restored the vessel in a few hours, uninjured,
to the captain. The party then landed on the coast
of Blaine.

Generals Steedman and Fullerton, the commis-
sioners sent south to investigate the affairs of the
Freedmen's Bureau, report from Wilmington that
agents of the Bureau had been exercising arbitrary
power, and practising great cruelties upon freed-
men. The commissioners recommend the removal
of all officers of the Bureau in Virginia and North
Carolina, and the transfer of their duties to others.

The Senate has confirmed the appointment of
General Sides as Minister at the Hague.
NEW YORK, MAY 11 (Evening).

James Stephens arrived here yesterday evening
in the steamer Napoleon, and was enthusiastically
received by the Irish. It is reported that he has
been elected General Head Centre. O'Mahony has
resigned, previously removing Killian from the post
of Treasurer. Stephens stops at the Metropolitan
Hotel, and receives a great number of visitors. He
has informed the reporters of the press that he will
soon return to Ireland, adding that if the Fenians
discontinue their dissensions here they can be
fighting British troops in Ireland in solid front
within the present year. He was told that the
Senate had advocated the invasion of Canada be-
cause O'Mahony opposed it. He had procured the
latter's election as head centre.

Roberts has had an interview with Stephens, and it
is reported that the contending factions are becom-
ing reconciled under the recognised leadership of
Stephens.

Killian has issued a circular, deelaring the failure
of the Eastport expedition to be only temporary.
The few thousand dollars had been well spent,
they having increased the existing complica-
tion, brought the British fleet with shotted
guns within 100 yards of the American forts,
caused the suspension of the government of
New Brunswick, and agitated the fishery question.
He had selected the sensitive point between Great
Britain and the United States. The north-west
frontier was the gateway to Ireland. The massing
of Fenians on the frontier had strengthened the
Confederation scheme, and Mr. Seward might soon
have some cause to oppose the establishment of
Royal blood in the North as he had done in Mexico.

The grand jury of the Federal Circuit Court of
Norfolk has indicted Mr. Davis for treason. The
Court has adjourned until the first Tuesday in
June, when it will meet at Richmond.

Judge Abell, of the First District Court of
Louisiana, has decided that the Civil Rights Bill is
unconstitutional and not binding on that Court.
A part of the Grand Level of the Mississippi river has
given way, flooding thirteen parishes of Southern
Louisiana, and causing an immense destruction of
property.

Yesterday the New York Chamber of Commerce
protested against the proposed export tax on cotton.

News from St. Thomas announces that the
steamer Styx left that port on the Ist May for Vera
Cruz, with 1,200 French troops.
NEW YORK, MAY 12 (Evening).

The French Minister is reported to have explained
that the French troops, announced to have passed
St. Thomas, on their way to Mexico, are only t 3
replace for the present some whose terms of service
has expired.

It is rumoured that Stephens will make a tour in
the States, in order to reorganise the Fenian circles,
preparatory to the development of a new plan of
operations. No 'deb Bonds are to be issued at

present. No prominent Federal State or municpal
official is yet reported to have visited Stephens.

NEW YORK, MAY 12.

Money abundant ; Gold, 1281 ; Exchange on
London, 141; on Paris, 3.98. Stocks firm but
little doing. New York Centrals, 92*; Illinois,
1221; Erie, 731; 5-20 Bonds, 102. Cotton :held
firmly ; Middling Upland, 341; flour and wheat
dull ; corn quiet ; provisions dull ; coffee steady ;
sugar and molasses quiet ; crude petroleum, 29 ;
refined, 42. Receipts of cotton at New York last
four days, 5,000 ; Two days sales, 3,000 bales.
NEW ORLEANS, MAY 11.

Cotton firm and active ; low, middling ; 32 to
33 weeks receipts, 6,000 ; two days sales, 4,000

bales.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MAY 23.

The Constitutionnel of this morning publishes an
article headed, " The peaceful policy of the Empire,"
in which it states that the French Government has
taken the initiative for a collective step on the part
of France, England, and Russia. The Constitu-
tionnel adds :—" Diplomatic communications are
being carried on between the three Courts to settle
the form which this step shall take, and the moment
when the attempt shall be made."

BOURSE, May 22, Two o'clock.—The tone of
market is much improved to-day, and all securities
show higher quotations. Threes, for the Account,
are dealt in at 63f. 55c.—a rise of 40c. Italian
Fives are in good demand at 39f. 15c., or an ad-
vance of lf. 15e. Credit Mobilier Shares improved
6f. 25c., viz., to 513 f. 75c ; and Credit Foncier,
5f., to 1,090 f. Better prices aro also obtained on
Railway Shares, Northern having advanced 2f. 50c.
—to 1,045 f., and Lyons, sf.—to 715. Austrian are
actively dealt in, and show an improvement of 15f.,
at 300 f. Lombard Shares have an advance of 10f.,
the price being 297 f. 50c. English Consols are
telegraphed with an advance of percent. 147,500 f.
French Rente is being " discounted" ; also 95,000 f.
Italian Fives, 1,250 CreditMobilier Shares, and 150
Lyons. Three o'clock. —The market has closed as
follows :

4 per Cents 93
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 63 35
Do. end month 63 55
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month 513 75
Orolit Foncier —

Do. end month 1097 50

Bank Shares 3350
Italian Loan 39 35
Do. end month 39 35
Mexican Loan 32
Do. Bonds 230
Spanish Threes
Home Debt

Deferred

RAILWAYS.

For Account
Orleans
Northern 1052 50
Lyons and Mediterranean 790
Southern 526 25
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 295
North of Spain ll5
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona BO
Roman

495 -

75 -

The Bombardment of Valpai also.

[REUTER'S EXPRESS.]
MADRID, May 20.

The following official despatch of Admiral
Mendez Nunez commanding the Spanish naval
forces in the Pacific, detailing the bombardment of
Valparaiso upon the 31st March, has been received
in this capital.

" On board the Numancia, Valparaiso
Roads, March 31, 1866.

" Most Excellent Sir,—Profoundly saddened, as
your Excellency canunderstand, and labouring under
the sorrow ful impression the duty of directing the fire
of the ships placed under his command upon a popula-
tion that does not defend itself must produce in the
mind of the chief of a squadron, I hasten to acquaint
you with the manner in which I have fulfilled this
painful obligation conformably to the instructions
H. C. M.'s Government, after having in vain ap-
pealed to all the means of conciliation compatible
with dignity, a 8 your Excellency will perceive num
private communications, and the Government of
Chili persisting in its refusal to give our insulted
flag the satisfaction due.
At dawn this morning the vessels completely
equipped set themselves in motion under my orders
and anchored in the interior of the port. A few
minutes before 8 o'clock the English and American
squadron quitted their anchorage to take up a posi-
tion at the entrance. At 8 o'clock I gave the signal
agreed upon to unmask the guns, and to announce
that fire would be opened after an hour's delay. At
a quarter to nine I gave orders to beat to quarters,
and at a quarter past nine, each vessel occupying
the post assigned to her in order of battle drawn
up the day before, and of which I enclose a copy to
your Excellency, I opened fire against the enemy.
" The Villa de Madrid, the Blanca, and the
Vencedor a anchored at from 4 to 7 cables lengths
distant from the points upon which they directed
their broadsides, kept up their fire with perfect
precision and accuracy. The manoeuvres were all
admirably executed. The Resolucion did not suc-
ceed until towards ten o'clock in placing herself in
a good position to cannonade the point designated
to her. Her fire was not always very precise ;
therefore, perceiving that she did not manage to
throw her shells into the railway buildings, and that
several on the contrary fell in a convent situated
upon a height at some distance, I ordered that ves-
sel to cease firing against the point she thus vainly
cannonaded, in order to direct her broadsides against
the customs warehouses, an operation she carried
out this time with sufficient success. Conforming
himself to the instructions I had given him, the com-
mandant of the Blanca, in concert with the Ven-
cedora, bombarded the Exchange and the Govern-
ment House.

t 4 At half-past 11 I ordered the Blanca to attack
the railway establishments, and the Villa de Madrid
to turn her fire against a barrack and a small fort
upon a height above the Customs' warehouses,
where the Chilian flag was hoisted. The gunners
of the Villa de Madrid displayed admirable skill.
They succeeded in cutting the cords of the flagstaff,
so that the flag remained hanging from the broken
staff between earth and sky. At noon the four
Customs' warehouses were set on fire, as well as
that portion of the city past the Exchange, from
a shell fired by the Vencedeora, which scattering
into some shops and houses adjoining soon spread
the flames. The railway buildings having also been
burnt, I gave orders to cease firing by hoisting
the Spanish flag from the mizen—th© signal agreed
upon with the English Admiral and the American
Commodore to announce that the bombard-
ment had ceased. I then immediately returned with
my ships to the anchorage the squadron had occu-
pied since the day of publication of the manifesto to
the corps diplomatique residing at Santiago, leaving
the Resolution at the entrance of the port to sus-
tain the blockade.

" The foreign vessels having resumed their former
anchorage, I addressed a letter to the English Ad-
miral, earnestly begging him to let m e know whe-
ther he had heard that the inhabitants of Valparaiso
had to regret the loss of many of their number.
Admiral Denman replied to me in a very friendly
manner, that, according to the only information he
had received, four persons had been killed on land.
I hasten to communicate the above to your Excel-
lency's superior knowledge, as is my duty.
" May God protect your Excellency many years.
(Signed) MENDEZ IN UNEZ.
" To His Excellency the \lin later of Marine."

MISS RUSSELL'S CONCERT.—This fascinating
prima donna will give her annual concert, under the direc-
tion of Mr. Jonghmans, at the Canterbury Hall, on Friday,
the Bth of June, when several distinguished artistes have
volunteered their services. During the evening the cele-
brated Hungarians, the Brothers and Sister Keralfy, will
make their first and only appearance at this establishment
in their wonderful entertainment of " Kanasz es Csardas,"
and a new waltz by Willem Vandervell, entitled " Nemea,"
will be played for the first time. We have no doubt that
this especial and deserving favourite will command a
bumper.

FAP';
rd fruit

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Tue sday.
The Queen drove in the grounds yesterday after-
noon, and walked and drove this morning, accom-
panied by her Royal Highness Princess Helena, and
attended by Miss Bowater.
Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice also went
out driving.