The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-25 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 1857.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY._
EXCURSION to B tTII and BRISTOL—On Saturday„
May 30t1, irom Paddington at 6.30 p m , returning on Tuesday
June 2d. from Pristol at 8.15 a.m., and Bath at 8.45 a.m. Fares :
Bristol, 10s. and Gs. ; Bath, 9s. and ss.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
Excursion to Weymouth. Dorchester, Yeovil, Frome, and
Trowbridge.—On Saturday, May 30tb, a Train will leave Paddington
at 2.30 p.n , , returning on Tuesday, June 2d, from Weymouth at
10.30 a.m., and intermediate stations as per hand bills.
Fares :—Trowbridge, Os and 5s ; Frome and Yeovil, 10s. and 6s. ;
Dorchester and Weymouth, 12s. and ds.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
Excursion to Cirencester, Stroud, Gloucester, Cheltenham,
Ross, and Hereford, on Sunday, May 31, at 7.30 a.m., from Pad-
dington, returning the same night from Hereford at 6 p .m. ; Ross,
6.25 ; Cheltenham 6.30 ,Gloucester. 7 0 ; Stroud, 7.30 ; and Ciren-
cester at 7.40. Fares : —Cirencester and Stroud, Os. and ss. ; Glou-
cester ar.d Cheltenham, 10s. and 65.; 11053, 16s. and Gs. 6d. ; He-
reford, lis and 7s. Passengers with Hereford Tickets may return,
if preferred, on Tuesday, the 2d of June, at 4.45 p.m., thus giving an
opportunity of visiting the Cruinlin Viaduct.

COMMERCIAL RAILWAY OF RUSSIA.
RIGA TO DUNABURG.

NOTICE OF CALL OF £4 PER SHARE.

The Directors beg to announce that a call of 41. per share on the
present shares issued by the company, is hereby mode ; and will be
payable on or before Saturday, the 6th June, at the Banking Houses
of Sir S. Scott, B‘rt. & Co., No. 1, Cavendish-square, and the Lon-
don and County Jcint Stock Bank, Lom,ard-street.
It will be necessary to present the Scrip at the time of payment of
the Call.; and subsequently to present it (together with the Bankers'
Receipt) for indorsement at the offices of the Company.
This Call, together with the 11. already paid, will carry interest
from the date of payment, at the rate of 5 per cent. payable half-
yea'ly in London, Riga, and St. Petersburg.
. .

The present Call has been already paid on the shares taken in
Bugigia.

The subsequent Calls w.ll be extended over three years, thelargest
portion being required In the 2d and 3d years.
By the Statutes of the Company the Directors are empowered to
accept payments from the Shareholders In anticipation of Calls; but
it is necessary that those Shareholders who are desirous of availing
themselves of this privilege, should signify their intention of so doing,
and to what extent, by letter addressed to the Secretary. Interest
at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum will be paid half-yearly on all
such payments.
The present Scrip Certificate of 100/. will be exchanged for the
four Scrip Certificates of 201. each, as soon as possible after the pay-
ment of the Call.

As the is hectors have no means of ascertaining who are the pre-
sent holders of the Scrip, no further notices will be sent to the original
allottees, exeept at their personal request. Every publicity, how-
ever, will be given of all notices, by the usual mode of advertise-
ments.

By order of the Board,
J. W. W ARRE TYNDALE, Secretaryi
17, Graceehurch-street, Monday, May 18th, 1857.

THE OTTOMAN RAILWAY from SMYRNA
to AIDIN.

Capital 1,200,000/,

Divided into 60,000 Shares of 201., or 2,500 piastres each.
A minimum dividend of 61. per cet. per annum guaranteed
by the Sublime Porte.

Deposit il. per share. Calls of not more than 2'. each, at
intervals of not less than three months. No liability what-
ever incurred beyond the amount actually paid on deposit
and on calls as made.
Shares to bearer.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, MAY 24.
By the Royal mail steam-ship Africa, Captain
Shannon, we have advises from New York to the
13th inst. She has brought $1,534,578 specie on
freight. Among the passengers by the Africa are
M. J. G. Hulsmann, Austrian Minister to Wash-
ington, and Mr. John Clair'iorne, who has been
appointed special agent for the American Govern-
ment to collect statistical information in Europe in
relation to the consumption of cotton:
On the 14th inst. the Afrba passed the Royal
mail steamer Asia, hence for New York, and the
screw steam-ship Queen of the South, bound west.
The Washington Union, of the 9th, says :
" We learn that the Cabinet hive acquired consider.
able insight into the motives which prompted Lord Pal-
merston to reject the Dallas-Camelot' Treaty. His
Lordship professes only to desire certain very limited
protection to the Indian: and to resident British sub-
jects, and the modification of tl e treaty to tat extent.
Toile position, which has been sem...off:jelly assigned to
the London Cabinet, is by no means comprehensible by
the President and his Cabinet. Indeed, if we con-ider
the assumed attitude of Lord Clarendon since the rejec-
tion of the treaty it will be impossible to comprehend
what in reality is the object of her Majesty's Govern-
ment in Central America."
A despatch from Washington of the 12th to the
New York Times says
"Nothing lee to be done relativeto the Dallas Claren-
don Treaty. There has been no correspondence between
Mr. Dallas and Lord Clarendon, but merely a conversa-
tion. Lord Napier has stated the grounds of objection,
not only to the Secretary be State, -but to others, and in
terms of the most conciliatory nature. The Senate so
altered the article of the treaty in regard to the Bay
Islands as to require the absolute and unconditional ces•
sion of the islands to Honduras, instead of the qualified
cession which was proposed. Herein rests the whole ob-
jection. Ido not think from what I learn that the Ad-
ministration is disposed to get into a new treaty; there
is no danger of any collision, the whale matter must rest
till the next Congress meets. The Administration will
not instruct Mr. Dallas to offer new propositions. Mr.
Dallas, in a letter to Gen. Cass, expresses the opinion
that if the treaty had reached England prior to the elec-
tion it would undoubtedly have been ratified. The offi-
cial papers just communicated by Lord Napier contain a
formal proposition for a new Central American Treaty,
but the Administration will probably do nothing in the
premises until the meeting of the next Congress, when
the entire subject will be laid before the Senate in de-
ference to their views heretofore expressed."
The Neu, York Times thinks that if the British
Government are right in regarding the Central
American Treaty, as amended by Congress, as a
deliberate and dangerous attempt to keep open a
Southern gateway for the extension of slavery, and
as it is professedly an interference with the rights
of Great Britain to form treat.es with independent
States on the American, continent, the action of
the British Government will be sustained in Eng-
land, as it ought to be, heartily and at all risks,
and to any end. It is flatly impossible for the
United States to prevent Great Britain from filling
the position in Central America to which she is
fairly entitled as the first commercial nation in the
globe.
The .Nete York Courier and Enquirer has the fol-
lowing.from its Washington correspondent.—
"There was abundant proof in the records of the State
Department that England had no jealousy of the United
States in connexion with Central America, and only
desired to adopt in reference to those countries a mea-
sure for the promotion of her commercial interests which
the United States could approve. She would have pr,.
ferred to act independently of this Government but for
the suspicions which the ruling party here had instilled
into the public mind that she entertained projects of
colonization and territorial aggression. The British
Government therefore eagerly accepted Mr. Marcy's pro-
ject, which was sent out very soon after Mr. Pierce lost
the nomination for the Presidency ; but Mr. Buchanan
was not consulted, nor was Mr. Jeaffreson Davis, nor
Mr. Mason, the chairman of the Committee on Foreign
Affairs. From the instant of its promulgation the con-
firmation of the treaty was considered hopeless, all the
influence of the retiring Administration was exercised in
vain, and it was only saved from unconditional rejection
by a postponement until the advent of the new powers.
Then Mr. Buchanan and General Cass held a confer-
ence with General Davis, who had been transferred from
the War Department to the Senate, and it was agreed
between them that the peace of the country required
some attempt at conciliation. General Davis intro-
duced the suggested modifications, and they were adopt-
ed by the Senate by the exact vote necessary to give
them effect, but against the protest of the senators re-
presenting the Filibustering interest."
The Courier and Inquirer, referring to a rumour
that Lord Napier, acting under the instructions of
Lord Palmerston, had proposed to the President to
go into auother negotiation on the Clayton-Bulwer
treaty, but that Mr. Buchanan had promptly de-
clined, expresses disbelief in the alleged refusal.
The Courier regrets the rejection of the treaty, in-
clining to the opinion that the British construction
of the convention of 1850 was the true one.

The Washington, Union of the 9th announces by
authority the following :--
"The Governments of England and France have
notified to the Government of New Granada that they
cannot approve its position towards the United States.
Lord Clarendon has written to the British Envoy here,
apprising him of the attitude of her Maiesty'sgCabioet
upon this question, and we have reason to know that
the contents of Lord Clarendon's despatch have been
communicated to the State Department."
There bad been a desperate, but unsuccessful,
attempt of the convicts to escape from Singsing
Prison ; one of them was shot-. Several unsuccess-
ful attempts had been made in Baltimore to get up
meetings to express sympathy for and furnish aid
to General Walker and the cause of Filibusterism
in Nicaragua.
The Burdell murder case was brought to a close
on the 9th inst., after being six days on trial. The
jury brought in a verdict, having been but 35
minutes out of the court-room, of "Not Guilty."
Mrs. Emma Augusta Cunningham Burdell was dis-
charged from custody ; Mr. Eckel was also dis-
charged on his own recognisances in the sum of
$5,000. The trial had done nothing to clear up the
mystery of this strange case.
Advices from Havannah to the 2d inst. report
cold and wet weather throughout theisland. Sugars
were high.
The New York money-market remained in a com-
fortable position, Which, in connexion with the
bank statement, bad a favourable effect on the
stock-market. Notwithstanding the absence of
speculators current rates were 7
per cent. on call,
and 8 to 10 per cent. for prime commercial paper,
the maturities ranging from 30 days to 6 months.
Exchange for the Africa was active. The quotations
for stocks were—Virginia Sites, 91/- to 91 ; Mis-
souri Sixes, 83g- to 82g ; California Sevens, 49 to
50 ; Tennessee Sixes, at 87 to 871 ; Indiana Fives,
83k ; Kentucky Sixes, 103 to 104; Georgia Sixes,
63 ; Ohio Sixes, 1860, 102 ; Lousiana Sixes, 85 to
87k. Exchange on London, 1081 to 1091. Rail-
way bonds were inactive at steady prices.
The transactions in cotton continued light, home
spinners keeping aloof from the market, while there
was only a very limited export demand, and little,
if any, speculative action. Most of the cotton in
course of shipment to Liverpool, it was understood,
was sent on speculation ; the extreme low freights
offering inducements to ship in the absence of de-
mand. The frost accounts were conflicting, but the
prevailing opinion was that the damage was much
exaggerated.
In flour there was an almost entire absence for
export demand, and a decided abatement in home
inquiries. There had been a reaction in prices,
but the advance since the 7th was about2oc. to 30c.
Wheat had improved, and then declined. The
stock remained light.
Iron was quiet. Tobacco was firm, but quiet.
Freights continued extremely low ; to Liverpool,
equal to a ballast,
all d cargoesyet hadthe been
offeringstake
were
e ar
ext e ratestremely

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 23.

t. W. J. Woodgates, has arrived
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
mails, in charge of
Lieut. Lloyd, R.N., Admiralty agent. She left
sfrhoipmAGilitarmaljaar, CikacP., with the
Gibraltar at 6.30 p.m. on the 16th inst. ; Cadiz,
10.30 a.m. on the 17th ; Lisbon, u. a.m. en the
19th ; Oporto, 9 a.m. on the 26th : and Vigo, 7
p.m. on the 20th. On the voyage home the
Alhambra had light breezes and fine weather as far
as Cadiz ; moderate- northerly breeze and fine to
Lisbon ; light northerly breeze and fine to Oporto
and Vigo ; thence to Uhhant unsettled, and squally
at times, and light north-westerly breezes ; up to
the Needles thick weather, with rain and low
barometer, wind from the northward. She passed
Hurst Castle at a quarter to 10 o'clock last night,
but, in consequence of the weather setting in very
thick, and wind from the south-west, was obliged
to anchor for the night off Hurst, and came up the
river into dock this morning.
This steamer brings 32 first-class passengers, 17
second, and 14 deck ; and on freight 6 packages
of specie (value 2,8571. sterling), 580 chests of
oranges, 91 boxes of onions, 69 boxes of potatoes,
7 casks of wine, 32 cases of eggs, and 23 packages
of sundries.
Dates from Gibraltar are W the 16th inst. The

Duke and Duchess D'Aumale arrived in the thy
on the morning of the 12th in the steamship
Albanian, Capt. Glover, bound for Liverpool ; the
steamer resumed its voyage at 3 o'clock in the
afternoon, after taking in eome fresh proviion,
arc. A fire broke out about midday on the 12th
instant on board the British steamer Powerful,
which had put into the Bay on the previous day to
coal, on her way from London to Malta, Constan-
tinople, and Odessa, laden with a general cargo.
The fire was soon got under.

Exchanges at Gibraltar on the 16th were quoted
as follows :—London, 90 days' datP, 514 ; Paris,
ditto, sf. 39c. ; Marseilles, ditto, sf. 40c. ; Genoa,
ditto, 4f. 42c. ; Madrid, e'ght days' sight, 14 dis. ;
Cadiz, ditto, # dis. ; Malage, ditto, 11 dis. ;
Seville, ditto, dis. ; Alicante, dis. ; Valencia,
dis. ; Barcelona, dis. ; Spanish pillared dollars,
4 per cent. p.m. Demand dull.
The Brazilian corvette Imperial Marinheiro, Capt
Alvin, anchored in the bay on the afternoon of the
11th, from Cadiz, and saluted the garrison with 21
guns, which compliment was duly returned by the
s eluting battery. This vessel is from Brazil, on an
experimental cruise, and has on board a number of
naval cadets, who have been ordered by the Impe-
rial Government to visit some of the principal
dockyards and arsenals of Europe for scientific pur-
poses. The Imperial Marinheiro sailed again on the
14th, bound to Toulon, Naples, and Messina, thence
to Marseilles and Algiers, and afterwards will re-
turn to the Brazils, touching at Gibraltar on her way
home.
The British steamships Sydney, Australian, and
Adelaide passed the Rock to the eastward on the
11th, 13th, and 14th respectively. These vessels
have been chartered by the Government to take
from Malta the Ist Royals (2d batt.) and 47th Re-
giment, which are to relieve the 15th and 96th
Foot, doing garrison duty at Gibraltar.
The British steamer Peninsula, Capt. Watson,
from London and Southampton, with a general
cargo for Gibraltar and Cadiz, arrived at Gibraltar
on the 13th.

On the 16th the Alhambra passed and exchanged
night signals with the screw steamship Jura, pass-
ing through the Straits, from Southampton for
Malta and Alexandria, with the Australian mails.
Several vessels passed through the straits, home-
ward bound, on the 16th, but in Gibraltar Bay
there were very few vessels.
Her Majesty's ship Curlew was at Gibraltar when
the Alhambra left.
At Lisbon, on the 19th, were H.M.S. Princess
Royal and the usual Portuguese squadron.
The Lisbon exchanges for bills at 3 months are
quoted as follows :—London, 53i, at which few bills
were passed, the takers requiring generally 53k, at
which some trifles were negotiated ; Paris, 533 to
535; Amsterdam, 41i ; Hamburg, 471 ; Genoa,
532. Bills were scarce on the continent, and trans-
actions consequently limited. In stocks and shares
little activity had been evinced. Three per Cents.
registered were at 48 to 48i ; Coupons, 47 to
474 ; and Deferred, 28k to 28i ; Bank of Portugal
shares, 8 to 10 per cent. premium ; and Bank of
Oporto shares, 221 to 25 per cent. premium.

THE MEDITERRANEAN.

SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 23.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Indus, Capt. R. W. Evans, arrived here to-
day, with the heavy portion of the East India and
China mails, in charge of Lieut. Oxenbam, and
dates from Alexandria to May 9, Malta 13, and
Gibraltar 18. She had moderate winds and fine
weather throughout the voyage.
The Indus has 173 passengers—viz., 73 first-class,
40 children, and 60 others. On frieght she has 4
packages of specie, value 3,6001. sterling, 1,655
bales of silk, 188 cases of shawls, and 90 packages
of general merchandise.
At Alexandria were iher Majesty's steamers Tar-
tarus and Caradoc.

At Malta were her Majesty's ships Royal Albert
(flag of Admiral Lord Lyons), Hibernia (flag of
Admiral Stopford), Conqueror, Centurion, Bruns-
wick, Ariel, Curacoa, Shearwater, Osprey, Medina,
Vigilant, Vulture, Wanderer, Arrow, and Supply ;
the Peninsular and Oriental steamers Euxine, with
the homeward mail, and Pera, with the outward
mail.

Our Gibraltar correspondent, writing on the 18th,
says :
" The British steamer Calpe arrived from Liver-
pool on Saturday night, in seven days, and started
at one p.m. yesterday for Genoa and Leg'iorn. The
British steamer William France arrived at ten
o'clock yesterday, in eight days, from London, with
bale goods for Malta and Constantinople, and sailed
during the night. The British steamer Minna,
from Malta and Palermo, for Liverpool, arrived at
four p.m. yesterday, and is now coaling preparatory
to leaving. The French steamer Ville de Lisbonne
arrived from Malaga at five p.m., and will leave
this afternoon for Cadiz, Lisbon, and Nantes.
" The Powerful steamer has been taken to the
dockyard for the purpose of being repaired, one of
her boilers having been severely injured, and two
of her furnaces started by the fire which happened
on board. It is expected that by Wednesday next
she will be ready to resume her voyage to Malta,
Constantinople, and Odessa.
" The steamer Dutchman is hourly expected from
Malta with the remainder of the 31st Foot.

" Lieutenant-Colonel Daubeney, C. 8., 55th
Regiment, goes home on leave by the next packet."
The Indus passed on the 17th of May, in lat.
36 23 N., long. 3 30 W., the screw steamship Jura,
with the outward Australian mails, steering to the
eastward ; on the 19th, off Cape St. Vincent, the
screw steamer Danube. steering to the south-east ;
and on the 22d, about GO miles north of Cape Fini-
sterre, the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
screw steamer Sultan, steering to the southward.