The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-02 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
(Via Crookhaven.)

NEW YORK, APRIL 21.

General Meade has arrived at Eastport. He has
announced that he will preserve neutrality, and has
taken precautionary measures for that purpose.
The steamer Virginia has arrived out. Several
fatal cases of cholera had occurred on board.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW Yoßs, April 21 (Morning.)—Money:abtui

dant. Gold, 127. Exchange on London, 136 f ;
do. Paris, 4 134. Stocks steady. New York Cen-
trals, 92fr ; Illinois, 114 ; Erie, 73 ; 5 20 Bonds,
104/. Cotton dull. Middling Upland, 37. Flour
quiet. Wheat dull. Corn steady. Provisions
slightly firmer. Coffee dull. Sugar and molasses
steady. Petroleum slightly firmer; crude, 251 ;
refined, 39. Week's receipts of cotton at New
York, 11,000 bales.

NEW ORLEANS, April 20.—Cotton slightly firmer.
Low middling, 36 to 37. Week's sales, 11,00 Q
bales. Week's receipts, 18,000 bales.

INDIA.
(By direct Overland Telegraph.)

BOMBAY, APRIL 24,.4.20 P.M.

71b. shirtings, 7r. Ba. Cotton very dull. Ex-
change on London, 2s. 14d. The latest London date
is the 21st April.

CALCUTTA, APRIL 23.

71b. shirtings, 7r. 12a. Exchange on London,
2s. 2d. Government securities : 4 per eents., 864 ;
5 per cents., 1014 ; 5f per cents., 107 k.

MALTA, MAY 1.

Sir Wm. Denison, the late Governor of Madras,
arrived here this morning by the Pera. He intends
staying a week at Malta and Gibraltar.

BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS.
MALTA, MAY 1.
The Pera.left at 10 a.m. and the Geelong at 2

p.m. to-day.
The former may be expected at Marseilles about
the evening of the 3rd, and the latter at South-
ampton about the 10th inst.

OUTWARD CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND
AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

The Poonah from Southampton, on the 20th
April, arrived on the 30th at 6 a.m., and left at
noon for Alexandria.

The Ripon from Marseilles on the 25th April ar-
rived to-day at 11 a.m., and leaves at 4 p.m. for
Alexandria.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, May 1, Three o'clock.—The market
has closed on the following quotations :

If per Cents 95 75
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. • 65 60
Do. end month 65 45
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month 560

Bank Shares 3520
Italian Loan 44 75
Do. end month 44 10
Mexican Loan 4O
Do. Bonds 266 25
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred
-AlO3.
Cash.

Unis
Do. end month —

Acct.
... ... 815 -
- 1083 75
- 845 -
- ... 540

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian _
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

... 525 -

- -- ••• 320 -
- - ... 347 50
- - ... 137 50
- - ... 182 50

lIIE MAGAZINES.

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BLACKWOOD. —" Memoirs of the Confederate
War for Independence " are continued at some
length, and are written in the usual interesting
manner. They have now reached to the battle of
Chancellorsville. " Gipsies" is a readable sketch,
that is well calculated to attract notice. It is truly
stated, that though we live in an age of investigation and
discovery there are still puzzles in the midst of us and
problems we cannot solve. Who are the gipsies ? is a
question easier to ask than to answer. This article notices
a work lately published, "A History of the Gipsies," by W.
Simson, edited by James Simson. Among other matters
mentioned by the editor as conducing to a more favourable
Intercourse with this race, one is mentioned of great im-
portance, that wo shall always in writing or printing
begin the word gipsy with a capital G. " most
people having hitherto written of► them as if they
were describing rats and mice." " The Negro and the
Negrophilists" is an article very appropriate at this junc-
ture. It is truly said that the "now foremost nations in
the world are suffering at this moment from a moral
malady, which the Americans, with more force than
elegance, call nigger on the brain." Very forcible are the
remarks made upon the absurdity of the course pursued
by the pseudo-philanthropists at home, who are now
making themselves so conspicuous in the wrong direction,
living in a country where it is truly said a full-blooded
Ethiopian is as rare as a black man, and where a mulatto
is seldom seen. These men have "for the last three
months been beside themselves with an excess of what
they- may themselves call Christian charity, but which, to
other eyes, look marvellously like unchristian
malevolence and theological rancour." A good deal
of truth may be found in this comprehensive article on the
negro race, and while it is admitted that slavery has re-
ceived its death-blow, it is observed that the sudden aboli-
tion of slavery is no advantage to the slave; but causes a
state of things that is fraught with evil consequences to
all concerned, particularly the unhappy negro. " Sir
Brook Fossbrooke" is getting more interesting as it pro-
ceeds, and this month we are taken to Italy, which is a
relief after all we have heard of Colonel Sowell and his be-
longings. The story of "Miss Marjoribanks" is concluded,
and it will be with a kind of regret that the reader takes
leave of her. This tale has been carried on through ten
years of Lucilla's life, which is rather a dangerous ex-
periment, but in this instance it has been successful. As
Lucilla marries her cousin she still keeps her name un-
changed, and "as she was in the first freshness of her
youthful daring when she rose like the sun upon the chaos
of society in Carlingford, so she is now as she goes forth
into the country to carry light and progress there." This
series of " Chronicles of Carlingford" has been a very en-
tertaining one. The Reform Bill is discussed in a long
article, which enters fully into the speeches delivered in
the last debate, with the exception of the last ones. That
of Sir E. Bulwer Lytton is especially praised, and it is truly
said that the right hon. baronet greatly distinguished him-
self. The writer of this article condemns the course of
those who persist in supporting the policy of a Minister
whose measures they are opposed to, and even desire to see
defeated.

FRASER'S.—The opening paper in Fraser treats
of the efficacy or propriety of public prayer in con-
nection with public calamities. The writer discusses
the subject with suitable reverence and moderation,
although the conclusion at which he arrives may not
be the general one. We have two military articles,
a somewhat unusual feature in Fraser, the one being on
" The English Troops in the East," the other in answer to
the question, " How are European Armies Officered ?"
The first paper especially deserves very serious attention,
for it shows how terribly the lives of our soldiers are
wasted through needless exposure in unhealthy situations,
or by neglect of sanitary laws. This is denounced by the
writer as the "customary neglect of advantages offered by
nature for the preservation of European constitutions in the
East." Even in Ceylon the mountains, healthy and shel-
tered from the monsoon, and abundantly supplied with
water, are almost entirely neglected as military stations,
and tho troops are located in the low countries, where
fever and dysentery abound. '• No nation," exclaims the
writer, in just indignation, "worthy the name of a first-
class Power, can be content to see a great army perish from
causes over most of which it has perfect control." A very
entertaining paper is on the famous old French Salons,
whose ease and sociality did not prevent their possessing
an important influence in their time. They offered in their
social aspects a strange contrast to those stiff and ceremo-
nious entertainments which are alike a burden and a tax
to giver and receiver. The article is founded partly on
two French works, and gives copious anecdotes of some of
the brilliant coteries. We are glad to find the important
question of "Our Commons and Open Spaces" discussed at
some length, for if it is suffered to remain unnoticed much
longer it will settle itself. The writer, however, considers
that any effort made for their preservation should include
the open spaces round all our large towns, not only iu the
vicinity of the metropolis. There is a simple story of
troubled true love, entiiled "Forest Life," as well as the
usual instalment of " The Beaudercs."

COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE.:—The expected or
apprehended return of the cholera seems to have
seized on the contributors to this magazine, for we
have no less than three articles on the health of the
navy and army. But though they do not treat of
that dreaded scourge, which like its unscrupulous
attendant spares neither sex nor circumstance be it lord,
lady, or " lower order," as the Parliamentary discussions
delight in calling those who work for their bread, yet it
dwells in a very sanitary spirit on the general diseases to
which flesh is heir. Certain it is that the remedial mea-
sures introduced of late have manifestly contri-
buted to preserve the health and invigorate the
tone of our gallant defenders both on sea and
land, not only on our home stations but in those far
and diversified climates where sickness seems too much
"at home" with European constitutions. Cleanliness and
sobriety form the very bases of health, and the periodical