The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-28 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, March 15.—Cotton is steady. Bread-
stuffs are firm. Sugar is unchanged. Provisions
are heavy.
MOBILE, March 15.—Cotton—Middling Uplands,
14 to 14 cents.

The new Southern Tariff goes into operation on
the Ist May. Compared with the United States
Tariff, the old 30 per cent. duties are reduced to 15
per cent. There is a large 10 per cent. schedule
and a small free list.

The Alabama Convention carried the permanent
Constitution of the Confederacy by a vote of 87
to 5.

LATES r INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, MARCH 16 (Afternoon).—The screw
steamers Bremen and City of Washington have

sailed.

The cotton market is firm ; middling Uplands,
; breadstuffs are slightly higher ; provisions
are quiet. Stocks are dull; Erie, 33; New York
Centrals, 782 ; Illinois Central, 831.
The royal mail steamer Arabia has arrived out.

NEW ORLEANS, MARCH 14.—Cotton, middling
Uplands, 11c. Sales of the week, 46,000 bales,
Receipts of the week, 21,000 bales ; freight,

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY.

The North German Lloyds' steamer Bremen,
Captain Wessels, from New York, on the 16th, has
arrived. She brings 95 passengers, but no specie.
The Etna, from Liverpool, arrived out on the
14th inst.

The Government of the Southern Confederacy
had appointed the Hon. William Yancey, of Ala-
bama, Judge Rost, of Louisiana, Colonel Mann, and
Mr. Butler King, of Georgia, as special commis•
sioners to proceed to England and France for the
purpose of obtaining the recognition of the inde-
pendence of the Confederate States, and make such
commercial arrangements as their joint interests
may require.

It was said that the Baltimore sympathisers with
the secession movement would be the first to offer
resistance to the Federal authority.
Captain Hill, commander of the United States
troops at Fort Brown, Texas, had agreed quietly to
surrender the fort to the secessionists.

A despatch from Montgomery states that a bill
had been introduced to make a Court of Admiralty.

It was announced from Mexico that Mr. Mat-
thews, British Minister at Mexico, had officially
recognized the Juarez Government, and that the
difficulties with the British Government were being
adjusted.
Advices from Havannah were to the 9th inst.
Business was somewhat improving. Money was a
little easier. Exchange on London, 60 days, 9",,1 to
1O premium.
San Francisco advices were to the 2d inst. The
news was unimportant. The state of trade had
undergone no change. Nothing important had
transpired in the Legislature.

TIIE FUTURE OF AFRICA.—We all wish well to
good missionary schemes ; we all desire the civilisation of
Africa ; we all believe in the inexhaustible returns which
Africa will yield to such industry as will supersede the
slave-trade and the wars undertaken for its suppoit. We
all wish well to the aims of the African Civilisation Society;
but we do not believe—and nobody who understands the
American case will believe—that " the best of the coloured
people from the United States" will go to Africa, on any in-
ducement whatever. These people hold annual conven-
tions, in which they solemnly pledge themselves to resist all
attempts to expatriate them. They declare themselves
Americans, and intend to stay where they are, and to stand
by their race till not a slave remains in the country. More-
over, there is no inducement to them to go,—except the few
who devote themselves as missionaries. They aspire to rise
in the social scale, :and abkor the notion of going to a bar-
baric country. They can get wealth at home more cer-
tainly and easily than in Mace, and at home they will
stay.—. Once a Week,