The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-23 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 1406 25 .. 1407 50
Northern ... 977 50 .. 978 75
New ditto 905 . „
Lyons and blediterranaan 1013 75 .. 1015
Geneva....
Southern ... 627 50 .. 627 50
Western ... 536 25 .. 537 50
Eastern
Sardinian ... 365 .. 365
Austrian ... 495 .. 497 50
Lombard ... ... 526 25 .. 527 50

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING

The Ilambutg and American Company's mail
screw steamship Borussia, Captain Trautman, from
New York on the afternoon of the 10th inst., has
arrived off Cowes on her way to Hamburg, for
which port she has 120 passengers, and 58 for
England.
The Borussia spoke, on the 12th inst., in lat. 41
30 N., long. 64 40 W., the steamer Bavaria, for New
York; at 10 p.m. on the same date, passed a large
steamer, showing three rockets and one blue light,
in lat. 42 0 N., long. 62 OW. On the 22d, off the
Lizard, passed the Hamburg brig Rieirstieo, bound
west; and, off Start Point, passed the Hamburg
barque Elizabeth Ronnebeny.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY

The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia
Steamship Company's vessel the City of Baltimore
arrived this morning with advices from New York
to the 10th.

The Secretary of the Treasury visited New York
on the 9th, and had a conference with the leading
bankers. He explained his financial programme to
them, and elicited their views with regard to the
disposal of the various classes of Treasury notes
which he is authorised to issue by the recent Act of
Congress. The conference broke up without any
formal understanding having been reached. Another
meeting was to take place.
Immense supplies of warlike stores were being
despatched to the camp on the Potomac. In order
to avoid the heat, all movements of troops took
place at night. General M'Clellan was very ener-
getic in organising the army.
The visit of Prince Napoleon to the Confederate
camp had excited some remark. The Washington
correspondent of the New lark. _Herald, writing on
the 9th, says :
"The supposed visit of the Prince Napoleon to Rich-
mond is the subject of much comment in intelligent circles.
Such a visit under ordinary circumstances would be entirely
proper on the part of this distinguished individual, who
may at any moment be called to assume imperial power ;
for, after crossing the ocean, it would certainly be inexcus
able for him to-disregard any opportunity of comparing the
relative moral and physical conditions of the two great divi-
sions of the country. But at this juncture, when the Go-
vernment has scarcely recovered from the blow inflicted at
Bull's Run, when the rebels are putting forth, both at
home and abroad, superhuman energies to secure a footing
among the nations, and when the two great Powers seem to
be watching eagerly to seize on the first pretext to set aside
the blockade, it hardly appears consistent with that friend-
ship which we have a right to expect from our old ally that
the representative of the French dynasty should lend to the
rebellious cabal sitting at Richmond the moral encourage-
ment which his presence will afford. It is strongly hinted
that the recognition by France of the Southern Confederacy
will speedily follow this princely visit, and there are not
wanting well-informed men in Washington who believe
that in such an event the whole power of England would
be thrown into the balance with our Government, in order
that not only anarchy and rebellion on this continent should
be speedily overthrown and the channels of commerce re-
opened, but that the needless, officious, and unfriendly in-
terference of France may be properly rebuked."
The ignorance of the President respecting diplo-
matic etiquette is commented upon by the Wash-
ington correspondent of the New lark, herald as
follows :
"The absence of the Italian Minister, Chevalier Berti-
natti, from the President's dinner party to Prince Napoleon
on Saturday has been the subject of much comment in
diplomatic circles. It was proposed that the dinner should
be en farnille, and it was supposed that for this reason
diplomatic etiquette might be dispensed with ; but the
foreign diplomats could not appreciate it in this way.
Prince Napoleon being the son-in-law of the King of Italy,
a family party to the Prince, to which the French Minister
was invited, required also the invitation of the representa-
tive of Italy, but as Lord Lyons was one of the guests, Court
etiquette required the invitation of the whole diplomatic
corps. It is not presumed that the household of the President
are entirely
aufait in diplomatic etiquette, but the Secretary
of State has not the same excuse, and it was his duty to see
that any blunder in this respect was avoided. He took care
to avoid it himself in reference to his own dinner party to
the Prince the following day, and it is suspected he allowed
the blunder to be made in order to exhibit his own
familiarity with Court etiquette in contrast with the Presi-
dent's want of knowledge of such details. This blunder,
in addition to the appo ntment to the mission to Turin of
Mr. Marsh, whose opposition to the Italian struggle for
freedom in 1349 made him obnoxious to Italy, and com-
mended him to Austria, is regarded as a marked affront to
Victor Emmanuel."

On the night of the 7th General Magruder, with
7,000 or 8,000 Confederate troops including artillery
and cavalry, took possession of Hampton and burnt
it to the ground. General Butler, on hearing of