The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-14 00:00:00

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

On Saturday night Miss Amy Sedgwick took her bene-
fit. Not content with impersonating Juliana in the
" Honeymoon," one of the leading characters in her raper.
tory, Miss Sedgwick produced on Saturday a new comedy,
by Mr. Palgrave Simpson, entitled the " World and the
Stage," in which she played so prominent that she made
herself thoroughly responsib]a for the success of the piece.
As might be inferred from the title, the object of this work
. . . _

is to vindicate the heroines of the stage from the aspersions
frequently cast upon them by the "world." The story runs
thus :—Two daughters of a wealthy family are left nearly
destitute. One marries a baronet under the promise of cut-
ting and denying her family ; and the other goes on to the
stage to obtain an independent livelihood. The actress be-
comes rich, and is assailed by troops of lovers, and resists all;
the ladyof title has one lover, and so far falls that shais engaged
in a compromising correspondence. The actress sister
determines to save her, and in so doing places her own
character in jeopardy. The world, supposed to be ever in
opposition to the stage, blames the innocent and sanctions
the guilty. Truth, however, at length so far triumphs,
that the actress redeems her character and comes out not
only as a perfect Lucretia, but as a self-denying sister and
a bountiful dispenser of fortune.
The actress is a part well suited to the fervour of Miss
Sedgwick's style, and has that mixture of sentiment and
hilarity which is her forte ; and there is no doubt it will
become a stock part with her. She made it a triumph
throughout, was rapturously applauded, called for at the
end of every act, and finally receivqd thunders of applause
amidst showers of bouquets.

The comedy, which was liberally and elegantly put upon
the stage, was announced for repetition upon Easter Mon-
day, when Miss Miss Amy Sedgwick will be re re-engaged.

RETURN OF EARL COWLEY.—His Excellency the
Earl Cowley arrived in London late on Saturday night
from his mission to Vienna. The Earl Cowley had a pro-
tracted interview with the Earl of Malmesbury yesterday.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in
Downing-street. the Ministers present were—the Earl of
Derby, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor,
the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, the Right
Hon. Sotheron Estcourt, the Earl of Mahnesbury, the
Right Hon. Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, General Peel, Lord
Stanley, Sir J. Pakington, and Lord J. Manners.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince
Consort, with the youthful members of the royal family,
will leave Buckingham Palace to-morrow morning for Os-
borne. According to present arrangements the Court will
remain absent from town a fortnight. It is understood
that their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Fre-
derick William of Prussia, accompanied by their infant
son, will arrive in this country early in May, on a visit to
her Majesty and the Prince Consort.

His Excellency the Earl Cowley arrived in Lon-
don late on Saturday night, from his mission to Vienna.
The Earl Cowley had a protracted interview with the Earl
of Malmesbury yesterday. •
The Duke of Leeds has left the Clarendon for
Hornby Castle, Yorkshire.
At the Princess's Theatre the " last Shakesperian
Revival" will be produced on lionday, 28th inst, for the
benefit of Mr. and, Mrs. Charles Kean. " Henry the Fifth"
i s
Sadler's Wells season is drawing to a close, owing
to Mr. Phelps having accepted an engagement in Germany
for himself and many of his company. The player and the
than
will be happily muted. Shalcspeare is nowhere
a better Shakspearian company
audience
more truly appreciated than in Germany ; we could not
send the Germans
that of wllia Mr. Phelps is the head.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA
MAILS.
MALTA, MARCH 11.

AMERICA.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

York.
A telegram from New Orleans reports the explo-
sion of a steamer's boilers at Baton Rouge. Up-
wards of 100 persons are reported to have been
killed and wounded.
A despatch from Washington states that the
French Minister, Count de Sartiges, was to be re-
placed by Viscount de Scree. It also states that,
on the 29th ult. both the English and the American
treaties were pending before the Nicaraguan Con-
gress, neither of them having been
_confirmed.
Foreign exchange closed firm, sterling 1091.
The latest quotations at the Stock Exchange were
—Virginia Sixes, 97; Missouri Sixes, 86; New
York Central, 811 ; New York and Erie, 131 ;
Reading Railroad, 501 ; Michigan Central, 52g7
Michigan Southern, 181; Cleveland and Toledo
301 ; Panama Railroad, N7l; Illinois Central,
691 ; Illinois Central Bonds, 581; Chicago and
Rhode Island, 621 ; Milwaukie and Mississippi,
121; Galena and Chicago, 171 ; La Crosse, 1;
Delaware and Hudson, 99; Cumberland, 24;
Penn Coal Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 771.
The Bank statement exhibited the following fea-
tures : Decrease in loans, 1,610;413 dols. ; in-
crease in specie, 125,216 dols. ; decrease in cir-
culation, 29,896 dols. ; decrease in net deposits,
82,050 dols. ; potashes, 5 dols. '75c., pearl, 584
dollars. Cotton, more active ; middling up.
lands, 12c. State and Western and Canada flour
had advanced, on good and extra grades, from 10e.
to 20c. Wheat had slightly advanced, owing to
an active local demand. Scotch pig iron held
•
firmly at 30 dols. for six months ; bars and sheet
quiet. A steady fair demand for molasses ; new
clayed Cuba for refining, 25c.; new Cuba Musco-
vado, 28 to 30, and New Orleans 39 to 40, four
months. Turpentine higher. Old and new mess
pork, 40c. to 50e. per barrel lower. Beef in fair
request at 11 dols. 75c. to 12 dols. 50c. for extra
mess. Sugar steady. The quotations for New
Orleans was 61e. to 81c. TObacco unchanged.
Kentucky, 6/c. to 81c.
Freights to Liverpool firmer for cotton ; for
other ports the rates were depressed.
NEW ORLEANS, MARCH 2, MORNING.

Our cotton market was very active yesterday,
the sales amounting to 21,500 bales, all before the
City of Baltimore's news. Prices advanced 1C..,
middling being quoted at 101 c. to 111. per lb.

The steamer's news had no effect on the market.
The sales of the past three days have been 40,000
bales, and the receipts of the same period are only
24,000 against 46,500 in the corresponding period
last year. •

Late advices from Vera Cruz reiterate the former
statement, as to the hostile attitude of the British

and French fleets towards Juarez.

It is reported

they have intercepted his reinforcements, and other•

wise favoured Miramon. The latter threatens to

sack the city, in consequence of which the citizens
have applied to the British and French commanders

for protection, but have been refused. It is not

supposed, however, that the fleets will openly par

icipate in the attack.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Rhine, from London ; Zephyr, from Naples ; and
Messina and Henry Shelton, from Palermo--at
New York.

The French brig Arvede, frcm Port-au•Prince
for Havre, was totally lost on the reef on the
South Point, February 7.

St. Patrick, Tales, and Chimborazo, Gilchrist,
hence. Addic, Snowhouse, from Havre. Alice
, at Galveston.
Provost,om H
SOUTHAMPTON,
OfruTHAaAvirpe
TON, MONDAY MORNING..
The screw steamer Saxonia, from New York,
passed Hurst at 9.45 a.m.

The following telegrams have been
.received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

It is asserted that the Sardinian Government has
applied to the Emperor of the French for an auxi
liary corps d'arrnee of 75,000 men.

'CONSTANTINOPLE, MARcH 13.
Advices have been received from Teheran, to the
2d of February.

Ferrouk Khan has been appointed Keeper of the
Seal, Chief of the Shah's Household, and Grand
Marshal of the Palace.

Houssan Ali, Aide-de-camp of the Shah, has
been appointed Ambassador to the Courts of Paris
and London.

MARSEILLES, Mancn 12.

According to adviees received here from Naples
to the 9th inst., the King and royal family had
disembarked 'at Castellamare, and were about to
start for Caserta in an invalid carriage.
Extraordinary activity prevailed in the arsenals.

LATEST NEWS.

The Calcutta and China mails leave to-day for
Marseilles and Southampton. The dates are—
Calcutta, February 9 ; Madras, 13; Hong Kong,
January 29; Shanghae, 22.
There is no political news of interest.

The Calcutta import-market closed very quietly;
produce generally lower ; Government securities
depressed—Fives, 10k discount. Exchange 2s. lkd.
for credits.

Hong Kong exchange, 4s. 6d. Shanghae, 6 and
2-10ths.

The Cagliari cable has been disabled since the
6th of March.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING.
The Africa has arrived with the New York
'mails of the 2d inst., and 663,216 dols. on freight
At Washington, on the 27th, Senator D. E
Sickles, of New York, shot Mr. P. B. Key, attor-
ney for the district of Columbia, dead, for having
had a criminal intimacy with Mrs. Sickles.
From Vera Cruz we have advices to the 12th ult.
Miramon was still at Orizaba with 4,000 men,
and was collecting forced loans everywhere ; he
had formed a Cabinet, consisting of Larrainzan,
Minister of Foreign Relations; Zagaceta, Minister
of Finance ; and Castillo, Ministea of War.
There were 4,000 Liberal troops at Zacatecas, and
another body at Morelia.
The Progreso of the 16th states that the French
and English Commanders notified to the Captain of
the American sloop-of-war Saratoga that they should
board the Tennessee to see if any Filibusters were
on board. The Captain of the Saratoga intimated
that they should not do so while his ship was near
enough to prevent it.
The foreign Ministers at the capital had not re-
oognized Miramon as President.
The English and French squadrons were in a
hostile attitude before Vera Cruz, and favouring
Miramon and the church party. They will attack
the city from the sea, while Miramon does the same
from the land side.
The English and French merchants at Vera Cruz
renounced the protection of their own flag, and
placed themselves under the American flag.
The Illinois had arrived at New York with
1,287,937 dollars from California.
The City of Baltimore had arrived out at New

A fresh levy of 18,000 men had been ordered for
the end of May. Altogether, during the year end-
ing at the present time, 36,000 men had been en-
listed.

There have been fresh earthquakes in the
Abruzzi, arid several new craters have recently
opened in Mount Vesuvius.

In a secret sitting of the Chamber at Hanover, a
war loan of one million has been resolved upon.
The Hanoverian Government is urged to demand at
the Diet of Frankfort the calling out of the Federal
reserve.

Letters from Turin state that the garrison
of that city is in march for the Ticino,
whither all the cavalry has preceded it.
General Garibaldi has been appointed a General
of Division, and nominated to the command of the
three new battalions that are being raised at Cuneo.
The patriotism of Sardinia does not diminish. The
Marquis della Gonzoni has just mounted a field-
battery of artillery, in order to make a present of it
to the Government.

The Austrian Government continues to send into
Gallicia and the other Slavonian or German pro-
vinces the Italian regiments on whose fidelity it
cannot rely. It has also made numerous military
promotions, as if on the eve of war. Five Major-
Generals have been created Field-Marshal-Lieu-
tenants, with the command of Divisions. Ten
Colonels are appointed Major or Brigadier-Generals.

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY.

The Corps Legislatif still show symptoms of re-
sistance to the commands of their Imperial master.
The Committee on the Budget have unanimously
demanded the suppression of the Ministry of Algeria
and the Colonies. They demand, further, that the
administration of Algeria be transferred to the
Minister of War, and that of the Colonies to the
Minister of Marine.

M. Emile de .Girardin has resigned his appoint-
ment of member of the Superior Council of
Algeria.

BOURSE, March 12.—The market has been more
steady, the bad reports which had been circulated
for a few days having received no confirmation.
Threes have been done at 68fr. 20c. and 68f. 40c. ;
Mobilier varied from 780 fr. to 790 fr.; Orleans,
1,337 fr. 50c. to 1,340 fr. ; Lyons, 835 fr. to 837 fr.
50c. ; Northern, 927 fr. 50c. to 930 fr. ; Southern,
520 fr. to 522 fr. 50c.; Austrian, 532 fr. 50c. to 535 fr.
The following are the closing quotations :

4i per Cents. 95
Do. end month 95
3 por Cents. 6B 15
De. end month 68 15
Bank Shares 2860
Credit Mobilier 782 50
Do. Account

Cr6dit Foncier 645
Belgian 41 . —
Piedmontese (5) 79 2.5
Roman B6
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern . 930 .. 930
New ditto BOO .. 800
Lyons and Mediterranean B3B 75 .. 837 50
Now ditto -
Geneva 530 ..
Midi
-- • •
-Southern
.. 520
Western 595 ..
Eastern
Grand Central
Sardinian 4OO .. 402 50
Austrian
Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 15c. ; money,
25f. 10c. ; three months, paper, 25f. ; money, 24f. 97c.

682 50