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

LATEST NEWS.

AMERICA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
The United States mail steamship Baltic has
arrived from New York, with advices to the 7th
inst., and 47,000 dols. 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 London, at 60 days' sight, were
quoted at 108 to 109, and in some instances 1091
was demanded. Tho Nets York Courier and En-
quirer says the chief difficulty in re-establishing
business and the currency upon a reliable basis
is the deranged state of the domestic exchanges.
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, 71f ; New York and Erie
Railroad, 14 ; Haarlem Railroad, 6± ; Reading
Railroad, 344-, ; Hudson River Railroad, 15i ;
Michigan Cent. R., 50 ; do. Southern Railroad,
12± ; Panama R., 78 ; Baltimore and Ohio R.,
421. ; Illinois Central R., 85 ; Cleveland and
Toledo, 33f ; Chicago and R. June. 71 ; Mil-
waukie and Mississippi, 2± ; Galena and Chicago,
69±.

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

the 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 1 to 2 per cent. per month, while
the majority of live notes run from 24 to 36 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 Havannab, 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
Redschid Pacha will offer no opposition to the plan
of administrative union. The fact of the minis-
terial journals having been recommended to use
conciliatory ratter than irritating I,languao.e when
speaking of the Grand Vizier shows that there
is some foundation for the statement.
Despatches have been received from the Admiral
commandin t
g he French fleet on the South Ameri-
can station .announcing that the state of the
Dominican 'Republic was such that the Admiral
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 been announced. The accounts received as to
the position of the first emigrants not being
favourable, French colonists will act wisely in ad-
journing their intenticn of establishing themselves
in the Republic of St. Domingo."
A telegraphic despatch received at the Mediter-
ranean TelegraphCo inpauy'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 daste.'
crease of 2,121,691 f, on the corresponding month of l
year. Tice produce of the first ten months of the present
year, as compared with the corresponding per
he iod of
1856, shows au improvement of 9,280,469 r., t toial
583,4321. and
receipts being respectively 157,
148,302,963 f. The items of revenue which show the
grsatest increase during 1857 are foreign colonial sugar,
9,317,0801. ; coffee, 4,858,299 f. ; potable liquors,
4,069,417 f. ; coal, 556,6181. ; linen thread, 99,2321. ;
nitrates of potash and soda, 63,635 f. ; mahogany,
4441. ; gold and
62,991 f. ; indigo, 56,354 f. ; flax, 45,
franca; tallow,
silver, 43,495 franca ; copper, 32,657
29,518 f. ; cattle, 12,679 f. ; and sundries, 2o
Those articles which show the greatest falling off
are :-- French =Finial sugar, 4,071,2321. ; bar
iron, 2,652,332 f. ; raw cotton, 1,4,99,0,55 f. ; corn,
1,062,8541. ; rough iron castings, 8J5,0131. ; cocoa,ooa
359,261.1. ; raw wool, 312,7461. ;
ginous seeds, 106,218 f. ;
ccochinea. d ; pepper,
49,2271. ; 15,8221. • raw and
pig,
lead, 42,836.. ; salt,, n
spun silk, 13,777 f. ; fresh and salted meat, 10,812 f.
The Spectate has received a " warning" for the
feuilteton 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.
13ouasE, Nov. 17.—The following were the last
quotations
Cash. ft. End of litonth.
4i per Cents -
3 per Cents 66 65 63 50
Bank Shares 2900 Credit Foncier 5OO
A ,V

ortitlit litobilier 735 Roman
Do. Account 732 50 Austrian
Belgian 4. (v 1)...... 951 Spanish Threes —
riedmentese (5) — Home Debt
RAILWAYS—FOB CABS•

tr. C. it C.
Orleans' 1245 Midi
Northern ,—
New Ditto
Lyons and Med 797i— Graud Central ...... 595
New Ditto...
Geneva