The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-14 00:00:00

LATEST N

CALCUTTA AND CHINA
AILS.

AMERICA.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

Freights to Liverpool firmer for cotton ; for
other ports the rates were depressed.
NEW ORLEANS, MARCH 2, MORNING.
Our cotton market was very active yesterday,
the sales amounting to 21,500 bales, all before the

City of Baltimore's news. Prices advanced

middling being quoted at 101 e. to 11,1 e. per lb

The steamer's news had no effect on the market.
The sales of the past three days have been 40,000

bales, and the receipts of the same period are only

24,000 against 46,500 in the corresponding period

East year.

Late adviees from Vera Cruz reiterate the former
statement, as to the hostile attitude of tho British

and French fleets towards Juarez. It is reported

;hey have intercepted his reinforcements, and other

wise favoured Miramon. The latter threatens to

sack the city, in consequence of which the citizens

have applied to the British and French commanders

for protection, but have been refused. It is no

supposed, however, that the fleets will openly par
ticipate in the attack.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
Rhine; from London; Zephyr, from Naples ; and
Messina and Henry Shelton, from Palermo—at
New York.

The French brig Arvede, from Port-au•Prince
for Havre, was totally lost on the reef on the
South Point, February 7.
St. Patrick, Tales, and Chimborazo, Gilchrist,
hence. Addie, Snowhouse, from Havre. Alice
Provost, from Havre, at Galveston.

SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY MORNING.
The screw steamer Saxonia, from New York,
passed Hurst at 9.45 a.m.

The following telegrams have been received al
Mr. Reuter's office

It is asserted that the Sardinian Government has
applied to the Emperor of the French for ari auxi-
liary corps d'arnzee of 75,000 men.

CONSTANTINOPLE, NlAlicir 13.
Advices have been received from Teheran, to the
2d of February.

Ferrouk Khan has been appointed Keeper of the
Seal, Chief of the Shah's Household, and Grand
Marshal of the Palace.

Houssan Ali, Aide-de-camp of the Shah, has
been appointed Ambassador to the Courts of Paris
and London. •

MARSEILLES, MARCH 12.

According to advices received here from Naples
to the 9th inst., the King and royal family had
disembarked at Ca,..tellamare, and were about to
start for Caserta in an invalid carriage.
Extraordinary activity prevailed in the arsenals.

EWS.

MALTA, MAitCll 11.
The Calcutta and China mails leave to-day for
Marseilles and Southampton. The dates are—
Calcutta, February 9; Madras, 13; Hong Kong,
January 29; Shanghae, 22.
There is no political news of interest.

The Calcutta import-market closed very quietly ;
produce generally lower ; Government securities
depressed--Fives;l O discount. Exchange 28. lid.
for .credits.

Hong Kong exchange, 4s. 6d. Shankhae, 6 and
2-10ths.

The Cagliari cable has been disabled since the
6th of March,

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING.
The Africa has arrived with the New York
mails of the 2d inst., and 663,216 dols. on freight
At Washington, •on the 27th, Senator D. E:
Sickles, of New York, shot Mr. P. B. Key, attor-
ney for the district of Columbia, dead, for having
had a criminal intimacy with Mrs. Sickles.
From Vera Cruz we have adviees to the 12th ult.
Miramon was still at Orizaba with 4,000 men,
and was collecting forced loans everywhere ; he
had formed a Cabinet, consisting of Lanainzan,
Minister of Foreign Relations ; Zagaceta, Minister
of Finance ; and Castillo, Ministea of War.
There were 4,000 Liberal troops at Zacatecas, and
another body at Morelia.
The Progreso of the 16th states that the French
and English Commanders notified to the Captain of
the American sloop-of-war Saratoga that they should
board the Tennessee to see if any Filibusters were
on board. The Captain of the Saratoga intimated
that they should not do so while his ship was near
enough to prevent it.
The foreign Ministers at the capital had not re-
cognized Miramon as President.
The English and French • squadrons were in a
hostile attitude before Vera Cruz, and favouring
Miramon and the church party. They will attack
the city from the sea, while Miramon does the sanie
from the land side.
The English and French merchants at Vera Cruz
renounced the proteetion of their own flag, and
placed themselves under the American flag.
The Illinois had arrived at New York with
1,287,937 dollirs from California.
The City of Baltimore had arrived out at New
York.
A telegram from New Orleans reports the explo-
sion of a steamer's boilers at Baton Rouge. Up-
wards of 100 persons are reported to have been
killed and wounded.
A despatch from Washington states that the
French Minister, Count de Sartiges, was to be re-
placed by Viscount de Scree. It also states that,
on the 29th ult. both the English and the American
treaties were pending before the Nicaraguan Con-
gress, neither of them having been confirmed.
Foreign exchange closed firm, sterling 1091.
The latest quotations at the Stock Exchange were
—Virginia Sixes, 97 ; Missouri Sixes, 86 ; New
York Central, 811 ; New York and Erie, 131;
Reading Railroad, 501; Michigan Central, 521;
Michigan Southern, 181 ; • Cleveland and Toledo
309 ; Panama Railroad, 1171; Illinois Central,
691; Illinois Central Bonds, MI ; Chicago and
Rhode Island, 621, ; Milwaukie and Mississippi,
121; Galena and Chicago, 171 ; La Crosse, 1;
Delaware and Hudson, 99; Cumberland, 24;
Penn Coal Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 771
The Bank statement exhibited the following fea-
tures : Decrease in loans, 1,610,413 dols. ; in-
crease in specie, 125,216 dols. ; decrease in cir-
culation, 29,896 dols. ; decrease in net deposits,
82,050 dols.; potashes, 5 dols. 75c., pearl, 587.1
dollars. Cotton, more active ; middling up-
lands, 12c. State and Western and Canada flour
had advanced, on good and extra grades, from 10c.
to 20c. Wheat had slightly advanced, owing to
an active local demand. Scotch pig iron held
firmly at 30 dols. for six months ; bars and sheet
quiet. A steady fair demand for molasses ; new
clayed Cuba for refining, 25c.; new Cuba Musco-
vado, 28 to 30, and New Orleans 39 to 40, four
months. Turpentine higher. Old and new mess
pork, 40c. to 50c. per barrel lower. Beef in fair
request at 11 dols. 75c. to 12 dols. 50c. for extra
mess. Sugar steady. The quotations for New
Orleans was 61c. to 81c. Tobacco unchanged.
Kentucky, 61c. to 84c.