The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-14 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(BY BRITISH AND IRISII MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)

GALWAY, THURSDAY MORNING.

The following has been handed to the British
and Irish Magnetic. Telegraph Company, for
transmission by Mr. Lever of tne Atlantic Steam
Company :
The Circassian arrived this morning from New
York, and St. John's, Newfoundland, with 200
passengers and a large:cargo. She left New York
on the evening of the 31st of March, and St.
John's, Newfoundland, on the 7th of April, at six
p.m. • She encountered a large quantity of ice,
which detained her 24 hours. Special despatches
from Washington, received from Gen. Lamar.
No action in regard to Cass-Yrissare treaty, and
Lamar is of opinion that they do not intend to
ratify it. lle was not aware that the English treaty
negotiated by Sir William Gore Ouseley had
been ratified. The general impression, he writes,
was, at the latest period, that the treaty has not
been ratified. If the Ouseley treaty has been
ratified, the Administration is inclined to believe
that it shows pretty clearly how Ouseley feels, and
how he has acted towards our Government. Lamar
does not speak in very complimentary terms of
Ouseley.-
As to operations in Central America, Keretz, the
Minister from Nicaragua, received nothing of
importance. His private secretary, who came as a
passenger in the steamer, has not yet reached
here. _ _ _ _ _

The expedition against the Inoiabe Indians,
according to last accounts, was succeeding admir-
ably.

Important news from Nicaragua was received by
the Northern Light, which brings four days later
accounts from Aspinall, and 16 days later from
Mandel.

The Nicaragua Government has- been looking
out for filibusters on the Pacific for some time.
Spies are stationed on the coast to report the
arrival of suspicious looking vessels. The 20th of
Februrry was fixed for the arrival of the invaders.
On the night of the 19th three of the largest bridges
in the transit road from the Lake to San Inandel
Sur were .burnt. From 15 to 20 in number were
lately repaired.
Important. from Chili—Attempted revolution.
Valpai seiso—News from this repuliic is highly
important. On the 28th ult. the revolutionists made
an attempt to overthrow the Government, but their
plans were not well matured. The result was that
the Government forces stationed there achieved an
easy victory. A great number were killed and
wounded, and several executions had taken place.
Everything quiet in Peru.
Business completely paralysed in Callao and Lima.
Little PitAptet of improvement in Bolivia. Another
attempt it revolution against the Government of
President Linares, but he has been successful in
putting down all insurrectionary movement against
him. Guayaquil still closely blockaded by
Peruvian squadrons. Cotton sales yesterday
embraced 2,700 bales, including 700 in transit,
sold previous to receipt of the Persia's news,
afterwards leis animation, a pause taking place in
the market, which closed without quotable change
in prices. Flour market opened dull, and easier
for common and medium grains. Good white to
'prime extras firm at the close, with better de-
mand. Corn less active, and prices easier.
Pork dull and easier. Sales of new mess at 18
dollars. At the close, buyers offered 17 dollars 19
cents. ; prime, 12 dollars 75 cents, to 13 dollars.
Sugars firm ; sales, 300 hogsheads, 600 hogsheads
New Orleans, by auction, with an advance about
one-third cent. to a quarter cent. upon previous
sales. Freights without material change ; fair
business to Liverpool for resin and cotton. To other
ports the shipments are lighter.

SOUTHAMPTON,•WED\ESDAY NIGHT.

The North German Lloyd steamer Weser, Capt.
Gatien, has arrived with New York advices of the
2d , s4,eehas no specie. April 6—ln lat. 43 2
N„ long. 51 6 W., spoke an English screw steamer
barque rigged, short bowsprit, red funnel; Bth, in
lat. 46 18 N.; long. 30 45 W., the American ship
john H. Elliott, of New York ; 11th, in lat. 49 9
N., long. 15 37 W., the English barque Meg Meg-
rilees.

Advices from WaShington state that General
Lamar's despatches to the State Department, corro-
borated by those received at the British Legation,
announced rifle ratification of one of the Ouseley
Treaties with Nicaragua, and, at the same time,
,explains the cane of the failure to ratify the Cass
Yrisarri Treaty: The two instruments were origi-
,
nally alike, but Sir W. Gore Ouseley, having discre-
tionary power, consented to a slight modification
in accordance with the suggestion of the Nicaraguan
Government. General Lamar, on the contrary,
was trammelled by definite instructions which he
could not exceed. At last advice the Ouseley
Treaty, providing for the relinquishment of the
Mosquito Protectorate, was under consideration.
Despatches from Captain Jervis, of the frigate
Savannah, had been received by the Navy Depart.
ment at Washington, stating that a battle, had
been fought between Miramon and the Opposition
forces at Monkey Pass, in which the former was.
repulsed and routed with considerable loss. It was
thought that this, defeat would deter him from
advancing n Vera Cruz.
The dispute 'between Paraguay and the United
States seemed to 'be assuming a more formidable
aspect than was. anticipated. Judging from Cora-
missioner towlins' despatches to the State Depart-
ment he states that the sympathies of all the South
American States Were in favour of Paraguay. He
still expresses hope, however, that matters will
be amicably arianged.''' '
The Curacoa, with Lord Lyons; the new British

Minister, had not arrived at New York.
A commission of naval officers had been appointed
by the Secretaiy bf the Navy to visit the various
yards and investigate abuses existing in that branch
of the public service, with the view of applying a
remedy.
The New York Daily Times of the 2d says that
the export of bullion would be increased by the
Arago, which was to leave that day, as the under-
writers were taking the risk a fraction lower after
the Ist of April. The engagements of gold bars, of
which the last California steamer brought about
1,000,000 dols., amounted to about 800,000 dols.,
though this sum included some Mexican silver, re-
ceived early in the week from New Orleans.
Exchange closed 1091 on London ' • of. 121 c on
Paris ; bankers, 1094 to 109 a, and sf. 15c merchant
bills. .
The stock-market evinced more steadiness. The
business in Government and State stocks continued
to be large, and prices were fully maintained.
Freights were unchanged to English ports, while
engagements were moderate. There was more
doing for Antwerp and Rotterdam, while rates to
Havre were unchanged.
PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 1.
Stocks steady. Pennsylvania State Fives, 93; ;
Reading Railroad, 251 ; Morris Canal, 591 ; Long
Island Railroad, 11 ; Pennsylvania Railroad, 44.
Flour dull. Wheat buoyant and advanced ; white,
1 dol. 65e. to 1 dol. 80c. • red, 1 dol. 54c. to 1 dol.
58c. Corn declining. Whisky steady at 28c. to
29c.

MOBILE, MARCH 31.
, Cotton quiet; sales, 3,000 bales; middling, 12c
to 121 c.
SAVANNAH, APRIL 1.
Cotton declined Ic. ; sales to-day, 1,000 bales
the market closing unsettled.
CHARLESTON, APRIL 1.

Cotton market very much depressed, and de-
clined c. to 2c.; sales to-day, 900 hales; the re-
ceipts of the week foot up 12,000 bales, and the
sales, 7,000; stock, 66,500 bales.
B ALTIMORE, APRIL 1.

Flour dull and unchanged. Wheat dull. Corn
unchanged. Provisions dull and unchanged.
Whisky dull.
CINCINNATI, APRIL 1.
Flour nominal; sales, 500 barrels, for delivery in
May, at 5 dols. 50c., and 2,000 barrels offered at
this rate on the spot and refused. Whisky dull at
24c. Provisions nominal ; no sales. Mess pork,
17 dolls.

TILE CUR_RENCY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

am very glad to see by this day's Sun
that Sir Archibald Alison has at last ventured to
oppose our present Currency Laws, which were
passed by, and for the benefit of, monopolists, who
have wallowed in luxury during the present century
at the expense of the million. Peel, like all
his class, was not a practical man of business—a
mere theorist ; and when pressed by interested
parties to return to cash payments, in his bewilder-
ment he was advised to consult the City oracles,
whose interests are diametrically opposed to those
of the people. David Ricardo, who was said to
have made his million by merely watching the
turn of the market, was supposed to be the fittest
person to be examined by the committee of the
House of Commons. This gentleman was asked if
he had paid particular attention to the Currency
question, and to what extent prices would be
affected by a return to cash payments. He said,
after considering the question in all its bearings
on the subject, he found that it would not affect
prices more than 3 or 3A, or 4 per cent. at most ;
that he was most positive of. Well, then, said
Canning, with his usual flippantness, since that is
the case, let us pass the Bill unanimously, and set
the question at rest for ever ! He added, the
Currency is a question I never could understand !
A pretty admission, truly, for a first-rate statesman
—a fair sample of England's rulers since the days
of Pitt, Fox, Liverpool, and Huskisson.
Peel, I believe, was haunted by the mighty
blunder he had been led into by the great capi-
talist in 181:6, in opposition to the advice of his
own father, who had been a man of business all his
life. One of the bank directors was asked by the
committee if the bank could bear to return to cash
payments (his answer was a piercing one), he said,
yes, the bank could bear it if the country could
bear it !
We are much obliged to Monsieur Guizot
for giving us the private opinion of the late Sir
Robert Peel on the subject. " There is, he often
said, too much suffering and too much perplexity in
the condition of the working classes. It is a dis-
grace as well as a danger to our civilisation. It is
absolutely necessary to render their condition less
hard and precarious. We cannot do every thing,
far from it, but we can do something, and it is our
d'ity to do all we can."—Extract from Monsieur
Guizot's " Memoirs of Sir Robert Peel." He well
knew what he suffered from his own class in his
most strenuous attempts to get the corn laws re-
pealed. He was taunted by Disraeli by being
told that it was an " organised hypocrisy." In
one year he repealed the duty on at least 300 ar-
ticles, and no doubt would have gone much further
if the House of Commons would have supported
him.—Your most obedient servant, B. C.
41, Chapel-street, Paddington, April 13.

THE BALLOT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—" Who wants the ballot" ? for the twen-
tieth time asks your anxious contemporary the
Times.
I will supply him with an example of the man
whose acquaintance he appears so .sincerely to
desire to make, and now that he is found, and made
a note of, hope that this anxious inquirer will make
the most of him. _ _ .

I pledge my word as to the strict accuracy of the
foll9wing circumstance. A few years since a
reverend gentleman, a visitor to our, town, entered
my shop, and after a few inquiries on local matters.
requested me to recommend him some tradespeople
with whom lie could safely deal. I did so, con-
scientiously, and without entertaining the remotest
political partiality towards any of the individuals
I nominated, but simply selecting those persons
(irrespective of their politics) who had the reputa-
tion of being the best tradespeople in the place.
My reverend visitor, however, did not appear
entirely satisfied, and hesitatingly requested me to
lend him the poll-book, of the last borough election,
and from that too plain speaking record of political
faith, he ticked of the tradespeople he designed to
patronize with his illiberal favouritism. I men-
tioned this circumstance to my neighbour, a cautious
but conscientious trader, and his remark was
that that circumstance would be enough to
induce him never to record his vote again
under the present system of open voting.
To your abler pen and more talented strictures I
must leave the facts 'of this case for comment. It
has left an impression upon my mind as to the cruel
injustice done to the striving tradesman in many
cases where open voting imperils his very liveli-
hood, that will never abate, and confirms me in the
,opinion that all reforms are " trifles light as air"
compared with that measure of safety which is to
secure to the honest voter the only
present effectual
safeguard in the expression of his real sentiments,
and preserve to him at the same time ~he opportunity
of earning his bread in unquestioned security.
It is hardly to be expected that the man w". 1.10 has
raised this question through the Times' leader w-1..1
venture to take cognisance of the facts I have nar-
rated—facts so completely answering, not his
expectations, but his beseeching cry for this
" coming man e', but,l will venture to assert, that
in the whole round of political profliFacy and in-
-timidatiOniVith which this country will shortly be
plagued, he' will not find a case that shall more
entirely satisfy him, or your readers, that his ques-
tion as to " who wants the ballot ?" is answered,
than in the case of the man whose rather natural
reluctance to vote I have described above.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
W. A. S.

Frances Countess Waldegrave and Mr. Harcourt,
M.P., will leave town on Friday for their villa residence at
Twickenham, for .the Easter holidays.
An instalment of 12 per cent. on the Chilian loan
of £1,554,800, contracted in November last, falls due on
Friday. Only 10 per cent. will then remain to be paid.
A private letter from Concepcion, received at
Valparaiso with the Government despatches, dated the 13th
of February, gives• an- accountof a battle which had taken
place there, and In Which the revolutionists lost between
150 and 200 men, and were driven from the city. They
'located themselves en the Penco road, and were headed by
Juan Alemparte. £125,000, part of the new loan which
arrived from England, was still on board the steamer Lima,
the authorities being afraid to land it lest the revolutionists
should attempt its seizure.
NECESSITY FOR TRAINING IN RIFLE PRACTICE.
n—NsV, inhen the British army invaded France from the Pyre-
eelBl4, under the late Duke of Wellington, the
population of that part of France being attached to the
Bourbon interest, werekiudlydisposed to the British troops,
affording them every assistance ; and as the Frenchmen
Were all trained in military knowledge, their assistance was
of great value. I have seen them with alacrity form loop-
holes in their houses, that our men might fire with greater
security" and-effect- on the enemy.--Correspondent of the
Morning Advertiser. -
Amongst the,'pftgaeng_ers who arrived at South-
all-1p
_tottin the Ind-Lain-ail packet Ripon, on the 4th instaiii;
wasThorEarxiott, whom no one on board seemed to
know He was taken ill at Malta, and died in Southamp-
tonwo days after he landed there. There was no clue as
who he was, and his relatives were advertised for in the
tot
London news,plpers. His nephew saw the adv(risement,
and came to Southampton. The major turned cat to be
one of the judgeb Ivho:presided at the trial of the King of
Delhi, and amongst Iris baggage was property to the amount
of £BO,OOO. He was about 48 years of age, and he has died
worth, 1100,000.

THE PROPOSED CONGRESS.

The following is a copy of a note from Count
Buol-Schauenstein to M. de Balabine, dated Vienna,
the 23d of March, 1859.

" The undersigned, &c., has hastened to submit
to the Emperor his august master the prbposal
(rourerture) which M. d4Balabine, &c., has made
to him in the name of his Court, by communicating
to him a telegram from Prince Gortschakoff, under
date of 21st (9th) d. c. (21st of March), in which it
is said that the Emperor Alexander, desiring by a
supreme effort, to save (sauvegarder) the mainte-
nance of peace, proposes the meeting of a Congress
of the great Powers, which should endeavour to
smooth (aplanir) the Italian complication s, and
that that proposition has been already accepted by
the Governments of France, Great Britain, and
Prussia. _ _ _

_
" In execution of the orders of his Imperial Ma-
jesty, the undersigned has the honour to make known
to M. de Balabine the following reply, which he
requests him to bring to the cognizance of his
Court :
"Appreciating at their just value the sentiments
which have inspired to His Imperial Majesty the
Emperor of All the Russias the overture he has
made him make, and desiring to lend his concur-
rence to a work which must sanction anew the
engagements consigned in treaties, and the totality
of rights deriving therefrom, the Emperor Francis
Joseph accepts on his part the proposition in
question.
"In the opinion of the Imperial Cabinet, the
whole difficulty resides in the political system which
Sardinia follows in her foreign relations. To put
an end to this state of things, which alarms Europe,
and to prevent its return, such appears to be the
task reserved to the Powers called upon in the first
rank to uphold social order.
" If, however, beside this question, which the
undersigned considers as the only one essentially
important for the moral pacification of Italy, it
should enter into the intentions of the Powers to
bring forward others for discussion, it would be
necessary that they should be exactly stated before-
hand, and, insomuch as they should touch upon the
internal regime of other Sovereign States, the
undersigned could not dispense with insisting above
all things that the mode of proceeding in this case
should be conformable to the rules formulated by
the protocol of Aix-la-Chapelle, under date of the
15th of November, 1818.
" In conclusion, the undersigned must lay stress
on a last consideration. To wish to open peaceful
deliberations in presence of the clang of arms and
of the preparations for war would be not only
materially dangerous, but morally impossible. It
is therefore indispenable, according to the opinion
of the Imperial Cabinet, which the undersigned
does not doubt will be shared by all the Powers,
that previously to all conference Sardinia must dis-
arm.
" The undersigned remains, &c."

The following is a copy of a note to Lord A.
Loftus, under date of Vienna, March 31:--
" The undersigned, &c., hastens to acknowledge
the receipt of the note which Lord A. Loftus
has done him the honour to address to him under
date of the 28th inst., and which contains the con-
ditions upon which the Government of her Bri-
tannic Majesty is ready to accept the proposal of a
Congress of the Great Powers which would take
into consideration the complications which have
arisen in Italy.
" The Britannic Government having, moreover,
expressed the desire to see the Imperial Govern-
ment acquiesce in those propositions, the under-
signed has taken on this subject the orders of the
Emperor his august master.
," He finds himself to-day authorized to inform
Lord A. Loftus that the Imperial Government,
appreciating highly the motives which guide the
British Cabinet and the sentiments of frank friend-
ship by which it is animated towards Austria, ac-
cepts in the measure stated in the sheet hereto
annexed the bases of discussion proposed by the
note of his Lordship.
" A fifth point of deliberation which he has
thought fit to add, that of an agreement on a simul-
taneous disarming of the Great Powers, will, he
does not doubt, be accepted by all the Powers as a
new proof of the pacific intentions of Austria.
" It results, again, from the note of Lord A.
Loftus, that if the Imperial Government accepts,
on the conditions mentioned above, the proposal of
a Congress, the British Government will invite that
of France in a pressing manner to insist, in common
with it, that Sardinia shall disarm at once, and to
give it a collective guarantee for the fulfilment of
the engagements taken towards it.
" This step which the British Cabinet proposes
to take in concert with the French Government is
the more conformable to the general interests, as it
would be morally impossible, as the Imperial Go-
vernment has already shown by its note addressed
to M. de Balabine, bearing date the 23d inst., to
carry on pacific deliberations in presence of the
clang of arms. The undersigned must the more
eagerly desire that these united efforts shall have
full and entire effect as Austria could not present
herself at the Congress until Sardinia shall have
completed her disarmament, and shall have pro-
ceeded to the disbandment of the corps francs.
These conditions, fulfilled and executed, the Im-
perial Government declares itself ready to give in
the most formal manner the assurance that Austria
will not attack Sardinia pending the duration of
the Congress, as long as the latter shall respect the
Imperial territory and that of its allies.
" In requesting Lord A. Loftus to bring the con-
tents of this note to the knowledge of his Govern-
ment the undersigned takes advantage of," &c.

" ENGLISH PROPOSITIONS. " OBSERVATIONS OF THE
CABINET OP VIENNA.
" Means of assuring the "The Congress shall ex-
maintenance of peace be- amine the means of bringing
tween Austria and Sardinia. back Sardinia to the fulfil-
ment of her international
duties, and shall consider
the measures to be taken to
avoid the return of the pre-
TT sent complication.

oifntooccouopnalootai
" Evacuation of the Ro- " The question of the eve-
man States by the foreign cuation of the Pontifical
corps
ag
andon ofa totes may be discussed.
Congress will leave the
tho reforms in the Italian details of its execution to the
States, three Powers directly inte-
rested. The question of the
administrative reforms may
be debated. An understand-
ing may be come to on the
advice to be given, but its
definitive adoption remains
•' ' subordinate to the decisions
of the States directly inte-
rested.

111.
"A combination to be "The validity of our
substituted for the special treaties cannot be questioned.
treaties between Austria and —but if all the Powers re-
the Italian States. presented at the Congress
agree among them to pro-
duce their political treaties
with the Italian States, Aus-
tria, on her part, will do the
same. She will come to an
understanding with the Go-
vernments co-interested, to
be able to present their com-
mon treaties to the Congress,
and to examine in what mea-
sure their revision might be,
T"Cr recognised as useful.

g 4 Territorial arrangements " Perfectly agreed that
and the treaties of 1815 shall neither existing territorial
not be touched,
oefngalBglesm,
s,
in execution of those act
• shall be touched.
neolarlthnosoretheoentrZitideeds

ic An understanding for a
simultaneous disarming of
the Great Powers."

THE DISFOLUTION.—It is, we believe, intended
that Parliament shall be prorogued on Tuesday and die-
solved on Thursday next. In this case the writs will be
37, and the Borongh
Wednesday in Easter
pErloeceltaioimnsedzdthteakfeollporinacegonSatuthreda
week, and those for the Counties on the following Monday,
May 2.
THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.—At a meeting of the
Court of Directors of the East India Company, held at the
India House, on the 13th inst., Colonel W. H. Sykes,
m.p., was unanimously elected chairman for the year
ensuing.

The India Council, to prevent the inconvenience
which would have been sustained from some of the intended
arrangements for their forthcoming loan, have changed the
day for receiving tenders from the 19th to the 21st inst.
They have also lowered the first instalment from 50 to 25
per cent. and extended the day for its payment from the 3d
to the 6th of May. The subsequent instalments, instead
of being two of 25 per cent., payable respectively on the 14th
of June and the 19th of July, will now consist of three of
that amount, the last of the number being, deferred to the
16th of August, from which period the bonds will data.
The deposit to accompany the tenders is still only 2 pei--
cent., although 15 days are to elapse before a further Bunt
is to be required, and strong possibilities will exist of heavy
fluctuations from political causes during that interval.
GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—The Government
emigrant ship Lady Mina Bruce, 966 tons, Captain Harri-
son, sailed from Liverpool on the 7th inst. for Sydney, NOW
South Wales, with 317 emigrants, under charge of Surgeon-
Superintendent Willthin Donaldson. Her Majesty's Emi-
gration Com Missioners have given notice of their intention
to receive tenders to-morrow (Thursday) for a ship to Prf'-
ceep to Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, to be ready for the
reception of passengers on such day as the Commissioners
may appoint between the 30th of May and the 6th of June.
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