The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-18 00:00:00

ATEST NEWS.

AMERICA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY MORNING.

The United States mail steamship Baltic has

arrived. from New York, with 2dvices to the 17th

nst., and 47,000 doll. in specie on freight.

The aspect of monetary affairs was thought to
be improving, although there was no essential re-
lief, nor had the bank acted upon any general

plan, which compelled merchants having heavy
payments to make to resort to the brokers. The
advance in the rate of Exchange was considered

as the best indication of the improvement, and

bankers' bills on Lyndon, at 60 days' sight, were

quoted at 108 to 109, and in some instances 101915

was demanded. The New York Courier and En•

qu:rer says the chief difficulty in re-othblisking
business and the currency upon a reliable basis
is the deranged state of the domestic exohanes.
The operations of the Stock Board were upon

a larger scale, with considerable buoyancy
among buyers and sellers. Reading Railroad
shares advancing, and nearly all stock on the list
showing better prices. The following were the
closing rates for leading railroad shares :—New
York Central Railroad, '7li ; New York and Erie
Railroad, 14 ; Haarlem Railroad, Gi ; Reailing
Railroad, 341- ; Hudson River Railroad, Igii ;
Michigan Cent. R., 50 ; do. Southern Railroad,
121 ; Panama R., 78 ; Baltimore and Ohio: R.,
42i ; Illinois Central R., 85 ; Cleveland . and
Toledo, 33i ; Chicago and R. June. '7l ; Ma.
waukie and Mississippi, 2i ; Galena and Chicago,
69k.

The New York Courier and Inquirer quotes
exchange on London 60 days' sight, from 108 to
1081. There was, it sap, no essential relief in

,ho money market.

The Shipping and Commercial List says
Money is, perhaps, the shadow of a shade easier.
The most that can be said is, that unexceptionable
names go at LI to 2 per cent. per month, while
the majority of live notes run from 24 to 3E; per
cent."

The business in cotton continues light, at nominal
prices. Flour was rather duller ; the common
grades of wheat had declined ; better kinds firm.
Iron at a standstill. Sugar depressed. Tobacco

dull. Rather more activity in freights.
At Elavanuah, on the 30th, exchange was
arbitrary, according to quality and necessity. The

quotation on London was 9 per cent. prem.

FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.

An Imperial decree nominates M. de Royer,
Procureur-General at the Court of Cassation, to
the post of Minister of Justice.
It is said in semi-official quarters that the pros-
pect of an understanding on the unpleasant ques-
tion of the Principalities is all but certain, and
that the compromise which has more than once
been alluded to is likely to be accepted by all the
Powers, including Turkey. It is affirmed that
Red•ichid Pacha will offer no opposition to the plan
of administrative union. The fact of the minis-
terial journals having been recommended to use
conciliatory rather than irritating !language when
speaking of the Grand Vizier shows that there
is some foundation for the statement.

Despatches have been received from the Admiral
commanding the French fleet on the South Ameri-
cto station, announcing that the state of the
Dominican Republic was such that the Admira:
found it necessary to interfere for the protection of
the French residents.

The following caution to emigrants proceeding
to St. Domingo appears in the Moniteur :
" A certain number of emigrants lately left
France for St. Domingo, and another departure
has 'seen announced. The accounts received as to
the position of the first emigrants not being
favourable, French colonists will act wisely in ad-
journing their intention of establishing themselves
in the Republic of St. Domingo."
A telegraphic despatch received at the Mediter-
ranean Telegraph Company's office to-day announces
that a telegraphic message sent by the Elba to Cag-
liari yesterday (16th inst.), gives the good news of
the wires having arrived at middle passage, and
adds, " all going very well, cable settling down
easily. Wind N. W. Fair weather."
The Moniteur publishes the official customs re-
turns for the month of October :

"The receipts amounted to 14,402,8941., being a de"
crease of 2,121,591 f. on the corresponding month of last
year. The produce of the first ten months of the preseat
year, as compared with the corresponding period of
1856, shows an improvement of 9,280,469 r., the total
receipts being respectively 157,583,4321. and
148,302,9631. The items of revenue which show the
gr,atest increase during 1857 are foreign c
ota olonial sugar,
9,317,0801. ; coffee, 4,858,299 F. ; pble liquors,
4,069,417 f. ; coal, 556,618 f. ; linen thread, 99,232 f. ;
nitrates of potash and soda, 63,635 f. ; mahogany,
62,991 f. ; indigo, 56,3541. ; flax, 45,4441. ; gold and
silver, 43,495 francs ; copper, 32,657 francs; tallow,
29,5181. ; cattle, 12,679 f. ; and sundries, 1 776,821 f.
Those articles which show the greatest falling off
are ; French colonial sugar, 4,071,232 f. ; bar
;
iron, 2,652,3321. raw cotton, 1,499,055 f. ; corn,
1,062,854 f. ; rough iron castings, 855,073 f, ; cocoa,
359,2611. ; raw wool, 312,7461. ; oils, 154,325 f. ; olea-
ginons seeds, 106,2181. ; cochineal, 56.573 ; pepper,
49,227 f. ; pig lead, 42,886 f. ; salt, 15,8221. • raw and
spun silk, 13,7771. ; fresh and salted meat, 10,8121."
The Spectateur has received a " warning" for the
feuilleton by M. A. Achard published in the num-
ber of yesterday.
The departure of the 30,000 soldiers of the class
of 1854 who by order of the Emperor have obtained
furloughs is actively taking place. The furloughs
on the expiration of the six months may be renewed.
BounsE, Nov. 17.—The following; were the last
quotations
Cub. fr. End of Month.
4i per Cents .. 9O 50 —fr. -
3 per Cents GI 65
"973005 7
ICreditoan Fond63i e r5O
Bank Shares
--
Credit Mobilier 5OO
Do. Account 732 50 Austrian
BGi
Belgian 44 Spanish Threes
; (xd)...... 931 83
riodmontese (5) —
Home Debt —
RAILWAYE—FOR CASE.

i t
Orleans -
c.
Northern - Western
New Ditto
Lyons and Med . 797 i— Grand Central
New Ditto... ....... t - Sardinian
Geneva

TURKEY.
We have received Constantinople journals and
letters to the 6th via Triesie. After the religious
ceremony of the previous day, of which we have
already given an account, had terminated, the
ministers assembled in council at the residence of
Mehemet Ali Pacha, Minister of Marine, and re-
mained sitting for a long time. It was generally
suppcsecl that the principal object of discussion
was the question of the principalities, and the choice
of the Ottoman statesman to whom should be con.
fided the difficult mission of pleading the cause of
Turkey at the future conferences. It was not
thought probable at Constantinople that Mehemet
Djemil Bey, ambassador at Paris, would remain
charged with teat missiin, although the powers are
to be on this occasion represented only by their
second plenipotentiaries, and Fuad Pacha was
spoken of as likely to be appointed. Nothing de-
finitive, however, has been decided oJ, and all re-
mained matter of conjecture.