The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-31 00:00:00

The Fenian excitement has somewhat subsided.
The Irish celebrated St. Patrick's-day quietly
throughout the Union. No Fenian demonstration
took place in the United States or in Canada.
Washington despatches state that very little appre-
hension exists in official circles 'that the Fenians
will attempt an invasion of Canada. No belligerent
act justifying interference has yet come to the
knowledge of the Government.
Considerable excitement has prevailed at Halifax.
The Militia has been called out, and the forts
manned by artillerymen.
The departure of the West Indian squadron for
Halifax by the order of Sir Frederick Bruce is con-
firmed.

In the House of Representatives, Mr. Dawson
has introduced a resolution declaring that the Go-
vernment cannot guarantee a Mexican Republican
Loan. After'a short discussion the resolution was
laid over.

The House of Representatives has agreed to re-
consider the vote rejecting the Foreign Loan Bill,
and has recommitted it to the Committee of Ways
and Means without instructions.
Mr. M'Culloch has sent a statement to the House
showing that the funds held by the Government
on the 10th inst. were $57,000,000 in coin and
$65,000,000 in currency. The House has received
a report from Mr. Stanton, stating that there were
152,000 men in the Federal military service in Ja-
nuary last.
The House was adjourned until the last Thurs-
day in May.
Advises received here from Vera Cruz to the 6th
inst. state that M. Saillard had left for France.

Brownsville despatches state that a French man-
of-war had captured a vessel from the United States,
with arms for the Liberals, on the coast of Tamau-
lipas, and had taken her to--Bava.

General Getty has released all the Bagdad fili-
busters. According to Matamoras papers Crawford
was permitted to escape because he possessed proofs
of the indirect participation in the Bagdad affair of
officers high in Federal service.
The Germania, City of Washington, and the
Peruvian have arrived out.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Money abundant. Gold, 128&. Exchange on
London, 1391. ; on Paris, 4f. 10c.
Stocks firm, but active. New York Central,
931; Illinois, 1161 ; Erie, 821; Five-twenty Bondi,
1031,
Cotton dull—middling upland, 40c. Flour and
wheat dull. Corn slightly firmer. Provisions steady.
Coffee heavy. Sugar slightly firmer. Molasses
steady. Petroleum dull—crude, 24c. to 25c. ; re-
fined, 38c. to 40c.
Sales of cotton at New York since Friday, 6,000
bales ; receipts since March 1, 37,000 bales.

NEW ORLEANS, March 19.

The cotton-market is depressed—middling, 40c.
to 42c. The day's sales are 3,000 bales. _

MISCELLAJNW US NEWS.

" MESSAGE" OF BRIGHAM YOUNG.

Although Utah is known to the law only as a
Territory, with a Governor appointed by the Pre-
sident, and a territorial delegate (William H.
Hooper) in Congress, Brigham Young persists in
calling it " The State of Deseret," and has just
sent a message to the Mormon Legislature, under
date of " Executive office, State of Deseret, Jan.
22."

In this document, which has the merit of brevity,
Brigham discusses the affairs of Utah from the
extreme Mormon standpoint ; gives thanks for
abundant harvests, praises the uLtiring industry
and enterprise of the pcople, and proceeds as fol-
lows :

Thus has a State been formed and brought into
being, of which the honourable members of the
Legislative Assembly are the true representatives.
'Tis true our state organisation has not yet received
the sanction of Congress and the General Govern-
ment, yet it is considered best for us to maintain it
intact, that whenever the propitious moment shall
arrive our State may be able the more readily to
assume the robes of sovereignty. Notwithstanding
the seeming neglect on the part of Congress in
hearkening to our petition for admittance into the
Union as a State, we are still progressing in the
founding of a commonwealth which must, ere long,
win its way to place and power. Settlements are
continually extending east and west, north and
south, throughout the entire limits of the State, and
an extensive traffic has been opened up with our
neighbours on the north and west.
* * * It is now about four years since the
adoption by the people of our State Constitution
and the formation of our State Government, yet
Congress has not chosen to aet upon our memorial,
praying for admission into the Union; and I regret
to add that indications do not appear favourable
for such action during the present session of Con-
gress. This delay on the part of our Government
appears the more remarkable, as other territories of
less extent and population have gained their status
as States, and no good reason can be assigned why
Deseret should be thus excluded. The question as
to how long it will be proper for us to submit to
have thus our constitutional rights and franchises
withheld from us is an important one; but we
leave its solution to Him who rules all things.
If favours beget obligations, few indeed are the
requirements that can be justly claimed at our
hands. Other Territories—besides being admitted
into the Union with subsidies, grants of lands for
schools, railroads, and other public uses—have had
extended to their citizens pre-emption rights, and
appropriations for various purposes, and otherwise
been the recipients of the patronage, benefits, and
bounties of the parent Government, while Utah
has been held off at arm's length, and has grudgingly
had doled out to her the scantiest pittance ; but,
after all, it is not the empty forms and enactments
of law, muster-rolls, nor worm-eaten parchments
that constitute a State ; it is the living people—an
intelligent, industrious, educated, enterprising
people, which constitute a Government, and are,
moreover, the source of political power in govern-
ments, based, like ours professes to be, upon demo-
cratic principles.