The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-15 00:00:00

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY, 10 p.m.
The United States' mail steamship Fulton, Capt.
Wott.on, has arrived off Cowes, with advices from
New York to the 2d inst., being two days later.
She brings 160 passengers (of whom 40 are for
Southampton), $lll,OOO in specie, and 1,983 bags
of wheat. May 13, at 6 p.m., spoke the Bremen
bark Chyledra, and a Hamburg brig displaying a
white signal, with No. 125 in the centre.
The Fulton proceeded onto Havre after disem-
barking mails and passengers for Southampton.
The Royal Mail steamer Africa; from Liverpool,
arrived at New York on the afternoon of the Ist
inst.

The majority of the Select Committee of the
Senate of Pennsylvania on the 'resolutions in the
Dred Scott case had made a lengthy and able
report, accompanied by resolutions declaring that
the opinion of the Supreme Court enounced prin-
ciples in palpable opposition to the judicial and
legislative history of the Union, and in violation of
the plain provisions of the constitution of the
Uni►ed States ; that the opinion, except ou the
question of jurisdiction, being delivered in a case
over which the Court admitted it had no jurisdic-
tion, may be justly regarded as obiter dicta and in-
operative as law ; that the five Judges who concur-
red in the same opinion made a.wanton attack on

the sovereignty of the Free. States and an impotent
attempt to nullify the established laws of the coun-
try, and by extrajudicial action, caused unneces-
sary excitement in the public wind in regard to the
subject of slavery, and had thereby forfeited the
confidence and respect due to their exalted station.
At Kansas a Pro-Slavery Convention to nomi-
nate a can.lidate for delegate to Congress is to be
held on July 2. The Free State men 'resolutely
refused to place their names upon the census lists,
leaving to their opponents the work of preparing
the State Conititution.

The .New York Herald of the 2d says :
" We understand that Charles Carpenter, the prirci-
pal defendant in the case of the alleged frauds on the
Northern Railroad of France, and who, in the course
of the application for his extradition, suddenly pleaded
guilty, leaves N,w York this day in the steamer Ful-
ton, accompanied by Mr. Louis de Angelis, one of
the United States Marshal's deputies. What disposi-
tion the French authorities will make of him after
his submission remains to be seen."

Mr. Reed, the newly-appointed Minister to
China, lett Philadelphia on the let for Washington,
for final instructions preparatory to his departure
in the staani-frigate Minnesota for the Acene of his
future labours.
The New York stock market on the Ist was vary
much unsettled. At the first board the tendency
was downward for some of the leading speculative
railroad stocks. A smaller amount of business than
usual was transacted. Illinois Central Bonds de-
clined 4 per cent. ; Michigan Southern, ; Haar-
lem, •i ; Galeua and Chicago, ; Nicaragua Tran-
sit advanced per cent. ; Chicago and Rock
Island, 1 ; Mil waukle and Mississippi, f. The
market was not at all active. In the absence of the
regular street buyers the market would be dull
enough. At the second board prices generally
were a little better. Erie advanced per cent.,
Chicago and Rock Issland ; there was no change
in Michigan, Southern, Cleveland, and Toledo.
There was a sale of Cleveland and Toledo at 6611
per cent., sellers, 60 days, which was 2} per cent.
under the cash price. There was an active move-
ment in Nicaragua Transit stock. The market
looked as though it would soon settle down into a
very inactive state, and that in the absence of ope-
rations for a rise prices would gradually fall off,
and chronic dullness prevail.
The sales of cotton at New York on the Ist em-
braced about 1,500 bales, chiefly before receipt of
the Africa's news, without change in prices. As
far as the effect of the news was developed it exer-
cised no influence on the market.
Flour was less active, with moderate transactions
at unchanged prices. Wheat was firm for good to
prime qudlities, which were scarce. Sales of choice
southern white were reported at $1 82c., and some
small lots of common red Western at $1 40io. to
$1 45c.
Corn was firmer, with sales of Western mixed at
86c., and southern yellow at 79c. Pork was firner.
Sugars were firm and active ; the sales embrAced
about 1,000 to 1,100 hhds., 1,800 boxes, 16,000
bags of Manilla, 6,000 bags of Siam, and 800 hhds.
of Molado.
Coffee was quiet but firm.
Freights coatinued dull, and engagements mode-
rate.

PHILADELPHIA MAY 1.
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Stocks steady. Pennsylvania Fives, 85 ; Read-
ing Railway, 40/ ; Morris Canal, 15k ; Long
Island Railroad, 12i ; Pennsylvania Railroad, 49.
CHARLESTON, MAY 1.
Cotton firm. Sales to-day, 1,900 bales. Prices
in favour of sellers.

OSWEGO, MAY 1.

The flour and grain receipts at this port since
the opening of the navigation to May 1 are 30,300
barrels of flour, '197,200 bushels of wheat, 10,600
bushels of rye, and 5,000 bushels of barley.
LOUISVILLE, MAY 1.
The stock of pork is 15,000 barrels. At the same
time last year it was 51,000.

LES BOUPFES PAR ISIENS.

PARIS, M itY 12.

As the company of Les Bouffes are about to visit
London, thanks to the enterprise of Mr. Mitchell,
it may not he uninteresting to record the produc-
tion of another of those miniature musical compo-
sitions which are barn in the Passage Choiseul so
frequently that a very large harmonious family
already enliven Paris with their merry, light, and
agreeable melodies. This threatre was originally
intended to encourage unknown singers and 30111-
poiers ; and so successful has the establishment
proved, th it whilst bringing forward unrecognised
talent, it has continued to attract a public which,
loving music, are pleased to see light dramas plen-
tifully interspersed with songs, duets, and trios—
generally, however, wedded to the burlesque. The
new trifle in question is called " L'Opera aux
Fenetres," the words by M. Leon Halevy, and the
music by M. Gastinel. The story is suggested
by a fantaisie of Kotzebue's. The stage discovers
a young lady at a cottage window, Louise
(Madame Delmont), who soon Ms us know
that she is expecting " a party " by a pleasing
song. Of course ucs amoureux is the expected
one in quesion. He arrives a little aft r time,
which, ho Never, is rather a musical necessity than
any want of anx'ety on his part. The author, I
suppose, wanted the lady to have thti first song.
The lover makes his appearance, and, after a dm t,
proposes that the young lady should run away with
him, as the most easy way of getting over difficul-
ties likely to be raised by her guardian. But Miss
Louise has been too well brought up to commit
such a folly, ani she tells the somewnat too hasty
lover as much in that chiave di soprano which
French composers very often turn into a " key of
screams," to suit the thin shrill voices of French
ladies. Toe dialogue of the lovers is overheard by
a lodger, who makes his appearance at another
window. The lover interrogates the young man
who has thus suddenly intruded, and, in plain
English, says, " Who are you ? what are you 1"
"Jo ne sais trop ce que je sais," replies the young
man "t‘ruais je devine ce quo je puis etre."
Quoi done 1"

"Ee protecteur de vos affections.
It ends in the lodger discovering himself as X.
Frantz, a compo,er of music, and, worse still, a
poet. Trios follow as natural as flowers appear in
summer. The guardian of the young lady, of
course a man of certain age, eventually anpuai a at
a third window—ergo a quartet. Then, after a cer-
tain amount of pleasing music has been heard,
friend Franz gets the old guaidian out of the
house, and the lovers have time to say all sorts of
prt.tcy things to each other, which have been said
before, and which we maycalculate will continue to
be expressed with slight obligato variations tormany
a day totcome. Eventually M. Frantz brings the
old guardian back, haying contrived to duck him
first in a pond. The old gentleman is in bad luck
that evening, for the lover doling his absence, as
well as making love to the lady, contrives to get
hold of some papers which prove the guirdian
guilty of misapplying the fort une of his fair charge.
Threatened with exposure, the old man consents to
the marriage, and the curtain falls to the satisfac-
tion of all, including the audience. This latter
musical drama occupies about an hour, and, like
most of the ct cations of *the Bouffes, is a very at-
tractive trifle.

THUNDERSTORM.-.—LIVERPOOL, TRIIRSDAY.—A heavy►
thunderstorm took place this afternoon. About three
o'clock the atmosphere became quite overcast, and is
about half an hour afterwards a loud thunder-clap was
hoard, accompanied by lightning and heavy rain. The
ttoim lasted over two hours, but we have not heard of
any damage done to life or property.