The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-27 00:00:00

FRANCE.

REDUCTION OF THE RATE OF DISCOUNT
PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.
The rates of the -Bank of France, which were
7i per cent. to 8,9,
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future, therefore, they will be 7 per cent. for bills
not having more than 30 days to run, 8 per cent.
Ever since the advance
horn 711 per cent. the applications, it is understood,
have greatly diminis,
fboertwtheoense6uon and
6090 ys and 9 per cent. for those
days.
and the bullion, which
has lately taken a favourable turn, continues to
augment.
This intelligence has created numerous demands
for every sort of security, and at the present
moment prices are very firm.
Dupin, Imperial Procureur-General al
The Moniteur contains the 'following announce-
ment :—" M.
at the Court of Cassation, has taken, at the Palace
of the Tuilerie3, the oath prescribed by the Consti-
tution, in presence of their Excellencies the
Minister of State and the Minister of Justice."
A note has been addressed by the Porte to the
Powers that signed the Treaty of Paris, intimating
that, in consequence of the state of the Danubian
Principalities, it may become necessary to move a.
body of troops to the Danube.
The Plenipotentiaries met to-day in conference
for the ratification of the treaty on the limitation of
the Bessarabian frontier. The ratification, how-
ever, did not take place. The Conference will meet
again for that purpose.
A marked coldness exists at this moment
between the French Government and the Court of
Rome.
MM. Goudchaux and Carnet, for Paris, and M.
Henon, for Lyons, are about to publish a brief ad-
dress to the effect that the state of the law on the
oaths to he taken by deputies will prevent them
from taking their seats in the Legislative Corps,
M. Henon also refused to take the oaths in 1852.
BOURSE, Nov. 26..—The following were the la,s,
quotations
Cash. fr.
4i per Ceuta
3 per Cents - 67 40
Bank Shares 2998 75 Credit Foncier 532 50
Credit Mobilier 760 Boman
Do. Account. Austrian -
Belgian 4i
Fiedmontese (5) BB Home Debt

End of month.
—fr.

RAILWAYS—FOR CASH.
Ir. e. -- -
Orleans 1285 Midi .. . ...............
Northern - Western ............... 640
New Ditto — Strasburg ,... 637 LO
Lyons and Med B3l 25 Grand Central ......
G 03—
Now Ditto... - --
Geneva 602 50 Austrian Com. 6581

_ .IT c.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, Nov. 24.
The recent concentration of Turkish troops on the
right bank of the Danube has given rise to so many
reports that it may be well to give the following
reliable informat on which has been received on
the subject. The Porte, being aware that there
is a violent political ferment in all those pro-
vinces which are inhabited by people of Rournanic
and Eclavonic origin, has considered it necessary
to place troops en echelon, between Silistria
and Widin. The report that the Turkish Govern-
ment has communicated to the great Powers its
resolve to occupy Wallachia and Moldavia if there
should be any disturbances in those provinces is
incorrect, but it is probable that it has inquired
what steps are to be taken if excesses on the
yart of the revolutionary faction should ren-
der intervention necessary. The statement of
the Nord, that there is a secret understand
ing between the Austrian Government and the
Radicals in the Danubian Principalities greatly
amuses the Vienna diplomatists, who well know that
the Imperial Cabinet has never ceased to reproach
the Porte fur having permitted such a host of poli-
tical i efugees to return to Moldavia and Wallachia.
Tire assertion that the Austrian commanders in Tran-
sylvania and in the Serviau Banat have received
orders to cross the frontiers if there should be any
disturbances in the Danubian Principalities is also
pure invention. This Government, which ardently
desires that the conditions of the-Treaty of March
30 should be fulfilled to the letter, is not likely to

forget that its 27th Article runs thus "If the in-
ternal repose of the Principalities should be menaced
or compromised, the Sublime Porte will come to an
agreement with (s'emterdra a rec)the other contracting
Powers respecting the measures to be taken for main-
taining or re-establishing legal order. An armed
intervention cannot take place without a previous
agreement between the Powers." Unfortunately,
some of the Articles•in the Treaty of Paris are
very loosely worded, but it is impossible to mistake
the sense of the foregoing. According to private
a dvices from Belgrade considerable moral pressure
was employed by France and Russia before Prince
Alexander of Servia consented to commute the sen-
tence of death passed upon the conspirators into
imprisonment for life. The French and Russian
Consuls-General at Belgrade assured their superiors
at Coustantinope that the execution of the Sena-
tors would be a violation of the Constitutio pro-
claimed at Belgrade on the 24th of February, 1839,
and therefore the Porte was worried and teazed
until it consented to desire the Hospodar to spare
the lives of the men who had plotted against him
and his Government. Prince Alexander probably
received a hint of what was doing at Constanti-
nople, for he had commuted the sentence of the
conspirators before the instructions of the Porte
reached Belgrade.

Accounts from St. Petersburg represent that a
litrona feeling is springing up among the Russian
landholdersb against the emancipation of the serfs,
and that the Czar, who is understood to be firmly
bent on it, will find difficulties he is at present
little prepared for.

AUSTRALIA.

(From the Sydney Empire of Sept. 10.)

Our gold-fields are progressing steadily, except
in localities where the floods have interfered with
the operations of the digger. No new discoveries
have been made, but the yield has been main-
tained.

A gentleman from Adelong called upon us
yesterday with specimens of the quartz from
that plate. Ha describes the quartz reef
as being more than two miles long, and
richly impregnated with gold throughout. He
says that Belman's party had excavated at
the time he left upwards of 100 tons of quartz of
an average richness with the specimens he pro-
duced, every piece of which was interfused with
the precious metal. The loose washing stuff ob-
tained alongside of the reef yielded about 16 oz. to
the cart-load.

The population at our diggings still remains re-
markably orderly, though a deep conviction is ge-
nerally felt that the mining interest has been little
cared for by the Government.
About the middle of July a mob of some 50 or
60 miners, at tho Buckland diggings, within the
colony of Victoria, but close to our own border,
after meeting to consider the matter, forcibly ex-
pelledthe Chinese, numbering many hundreds, from
the ground: It was estimated that property be-
longing to the Chinese of the value of 8,000/. to
10,0001. was destroyed. The tents wore all burned,
and considerable violence used in the expulsion.
Pursuant to a despatch from the Secretary of
State, the coinage of the Sydney Miut " was pro-
claimed by Sir Henry Barkly a legal tender in Vic-
toria on the 20th July.
Public meetings have been held at Bathurst and
other towns in the Western interior t 3 petition for
a better means of communication across the Blue
Mountains. The road has been nearly destroyed
by the long-continued heavy rains.

AMERICA.

SOUTH A.MPTON, FRIDAY MORNING.

The United States steamer Arago, Capt. Lines,
has arrived off Cowes with New York advices to
the 14th inst. She brings 91 passengers, 17,000
dole. in specie, 50 tierces rice, and 6,400 bushels
of wheat.

The Arabia, from Liverpool, arrived out on the
13th.

A despatch from Washington of the 13th an-
nounces that despatches had that day been received
by the State Department from Chief Justice Echols,
of Utah, dated at " Camp o❑ Sweet Water, 21
miles east of South Pass, Oct. the 13th, 1857."
JUdge Echols says—
" An express has just arrived from Green River, and
reports that on the night of the sth of October a train
of 2t wagons was captured by the Mormons 25 miles
from the Pacific spring. At the same time two other
trains were taken near Green River, in all 78 waggons
and loading. The Mormons said they had 700 men
there,- and 1,500 wore at Salt Lake City. Colonel Alex-
ander is encamped at Hams Fort, 30 miles in advance of
the front train, which is destroyed. He sent Captain
Marcy with 400 men back to Green River, to enable
the teamsters to collect their cattle. The Mormons
killed no one, for the reason that no resistance was
made. Colonel Smith will collect the trains on this side,
and escort them forward. One train is now before us
and two behind. We are in good spirits, and that is a
great help to all. The Mormons will likely attack us in
a day or two, and may rue their impudence. We have
47 men in this command, but Colonel Smith is a host
within himself. We have determined, if attacked, t,

use the rifles in the lines. We shall most likely
take the route on Bear River for Salt Lsk• City.
The want of forage for our mules is the greatest hind-
rance, but we will go on if we have to walk and carry
our provisions."

The above despatch, showing the first overt act
of the Mormon treason, was immediately laid be-
fore the President of the United States, who sum-
moned the members of the Cabinet for consultation
upon its contents. The intelligence was considered
in Cabinet meeting in the afternoon, but no defi-
nite action was determined. The Secretary of War
thinks it would be hopeless to send reinforcements
or supplies so late in the season as this. Despatches
are anxiously looked for from Col. Johnson, who
is in command of the army for Utah. The Govern-
ment officers do not fully credit the report received
from Judge Echols.
Financial matters at New York still showed
symptoms of progressive improvement.
The Herald of the 14th, in its review of the pre-
vious day's money ;market, says :
" The arrival of the steamship A.rabia at this port from
Liverpool, with seven days' later advices, at an early
hour this morning gave quite an impetus to the stock-
market. The movement was unusually active, and in
almost every instances an important improvement was
realized. The bulls appear to be in fine feather just
now, but we fear they will not realise much of the ad-
vance in market value. Small holders of stocks outside
the streets may take advantage of their inflation and
sell their supplies, but the large boldera in the streets
cannot do this. They being the regulators of the market
must hold on and buy more to sustain prices, and in this
-way they are likely to get filled up with stocks at high
prices. At present, however, things look bright for the
bulls, and they operate with a great deal of spirit.
" At the first BJard to-day Missouri Sixes advanced
I per cent. ; California Sevens,. 18754 ; Erie Threepenny
Mortgage Bonds, 4; Haarlem First Mortgage Bonds, 1;
Michigan Southern Sinking Fund, 2 ' • Illinois Central
Railroad, 6 ; Delaware and Hudson, 4 ; CuMberland,
1 ; New York Central Railroad, 2 ; Erie, ; Reading,
14 ; Michigan Central Railroad, 4 ; Crosse and Mil-
waukie, 1 ; Michigan Southern, old, 1 ; ditto, Preferred,
1 ; Panama, 2 ; Illinois Central Railroad, 4 ; Galena,
and Chicago, 2 ; Cleveland and Toledo, 11 ; Chicago
and Rock Island, 1/. Pacific steamship Company de-
clined 4 per cent. In State stocks, Railroad bonds,
Railroad stocks, and Coal stocks there were very heavy
transactions, principally for cash. The movement in
Cumberland coal continues, but the advance in prices
to-day was not fully sustained to the- close. All the
Western Railroad stocks were in demand to-day at the
improvement in market value, and the aggregate opera-
tions were equal to almost any day during the prevalence
of a speculative excitement in the street. The great
difficulty is the absence of outsiders. The bulls' of the
Stick Exchange have the entire load to carry, and prices
,have become so inflated that the burden is already op-
pressive. Notwithstanding the abundance of money, at
the second board a further advance was realised, and the
market closed firm at our quotations. • Missouri Sixes
improved 1 per cent. ; Il inois Central Made, 4 ; Erie
Third Mortgage, 1 ; Delaware and Hudsen, 1 ; Penn-
sylvania Coal, 1 ; Reading, 1 ; New York Central
R railroad, 1; Haarlem, 4; Michigan Southern,. Old, ;
St. Crosse and Milwaukie, 1 ; Panama, 4 ; Cleveland
and Toledo, 11 ; Chicago and. Roek Island, t. There
was considerable- activity this afternoon in railroad
stocks, and the operations on time comprise but a very
few lots. It is a most extraordinary feature of the
market that so large a portion of the transactions is for
cash, This shows great abundance of money, and it
also shows that very few outsiders are among the
operators.
"The notes of the Manufacturers' Bank at Man-
chester, Connecticut, were thrown out to-day by the
Metropolitan Bask,"
The working men's demonstrations at New York
ware dwindling away to nwhing and the majority
of those assembled seemed to attend merely for the
purpose of enjoying the fun created by the eccen•
tricities of Madame Ranke.
Toe Collins steamship Adriatic went to sea on ton
13th on a trial trip. A gentleman who was on
board of her 12 hours reports her performance as
exceedingly satisfactory. She was positively to
le we for Liverpool on the 21st inst.
The s'e imer Isabel had arrived at Charleston
with advices from Havannah to the 10th, out they
contained no news of interest.
Etiaphatic just: notions had been sent south from
Washington, with a view, if possible, to intercept
General Walker and his party. The Navy Depart-
ment expresses a confidence that the Filibusters
will be intercepted.
Accounts from Kansas state that Messrs. Moore,
Calhoun, and others propose to submit to the peo-
ple of the territory a sort of double-headed conAi-
tution, o: -e with and one without slavery.. Other
aczounts state that the Pro-Slavery clause, which
received only four dissentient votes, would alone be

submitted for ratification, so that no chance would
be given to reject the constitution. It was expected
the Convention would adjourn on the 7th inst.
The news received by the Arabia had the effect
of checking sales of cotton ; the light stock, how-
ever, induced holders not to press sales, and is one
case for a respectable time a buyer offered to take
it at a half cent decline, which was refused ; the
moderate receipts and light stock of breadstuffs
also tended to prevent a decline to correspond with
a depression of prices in Liverpool.
Flour, with moderate sales, closed at a decline of
about sc. to 10c. per barrel, and common and
medium grades of wheat also fell off 2c. to 3c. per
bushel, while prime was scarce and sales limited.
Corn was easier, with sales of Western mixed at
76c. to 78c. Pork was quiet, with small sales of
mess at $l9 75c. Sugars were in fair demand.
Coffee was quiet and prizes unchanged; freights
were steady, with moderate engagements at full
prices.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 13.
Stocks firm. Pennsylvania State Fives, 81i ;
Reading Railroad, 19i ; Morris Canal, 38 ; Long
Island Railroad, 9_.; Pennsylvania Railroad, 361.

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 13.
Cotton sales to-day 1,000 bales, mostly in the
forenoon. The Arabia's news was worse than ex-
pected, but factors refused to give way to any ma-
terial extent. Sales of the week, 40,500 bales ;
receipts of the week, 39,500 bales; stock, 318,000
bales. The receipts up to the present time at this
port as compared with those of last year fall short
159,500 bales ; ditto at all southern ports, 286,000.
Sugar buoyant, at 51c. to 54. Molasses, 22c.
Pork dull. Lard, kegs, 13c.
MOBILE, Nov. 13.
Cotton declined ; sales to-day 300 bales ; receipts,
9,000 bales.

CHARLESTON, Nov, 13.
Cotton—Prices have declined, jc. to 4c.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, Nov. 13.
Cotton sales to-day 1,000 bales. Late in the day
prices declined lc., owing to the receipt of the
Arabia's advices.

BUFFALO, Nov. 13.
Flour unchanged. Sales 800 barrels, at $4
81c. for extra Wisconsin, and $5 to $5 25c. for
extra Ohio and Michigan. Wheat lower ' • sales ;'
50,000 bushels at 79c. for Chicago spring, 85c. for
Canada club, 97c. for prime red Indiana. Corn
firm. Sales, 12,000 at 61c. Oats, sales 7,000
bushels at 35e. Whiskey sales, 100 barrels at
19&c. per gallon, Freights, 16c. for wheat to New
York.

OSWEGO, Nowt, Nov. 13.
-Flour steady ; sales, 1,000 barrels at $54 to $75
for common to. extra. State wheat firm ; sa!es,
25,000 bushels, at 66c. Freights unchanged. Lake
imports to-day, 31,000 bushels wheat, 17,000
bushels corn, 3,000 bushels barley, 5,000 bushels-
oats. Canal exports-6,000 barrels flour, 45,000
bushels wheat, 12,000 bushels corn.
CHICAGO, Nov. 13.

Flour active ; wheat declined 2c. • corn firm ;
oats steady. Shipments to Buffalo 400 brls. flour,
34,000 bushels of wheat. Shipments to Oswego—
no flour ; 28,000 bushels of wheat • receipts, 2,600
barrels o flour, 93,000 bushels of wheat, 10,500
bushels of corn.