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

LONDON, MONDAY EITENING, MAY. 25, 1857..

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-
EXCURSION to B &TR and BRISTOL.—On Saturday„
May 30n, from Paddington at 6.30 p.m., returning on Tuesday
Jane 2d,'from Bristol at 8.15 a.m., and Bath at 8.45 a.m. Fares :
Bristol, 10s. and 6s. ; Bath, 9s. and ss.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
Excursion to Weymouth, Dorchester, Yeovil, Frome, and
Trowbridge.—On Saturday, May 30th, a Train will leave Paddington
at 2.30 p.m., returning on Tuesday, June 2d,
from Weymouth at
10.30 a.m., and intermediate stations as per hand bills.
Fares :—Trowbridge, 9s and ss. ; Frome and Yeovil, 10s. and 6s. ;
Dorchester and Weymouth, 12s. and Ss.

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 G p .m. ' • Ross,
6.25 ; Cheltenham 6•30 ;Gloucester, 7 0 ; Stroud, 7.30 ; and Ciren-
cester at 7.40. Fares : —Cirencester and Stroud, 9s. and ss. ; Glou-
cester ar.d Cheltenham, 10s, awl 65.; Ross, 10s. and Gs. 6d. ; He-
reford, I Is. 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 Crumlin Viaduct.

COMMERCIAL RAILWAY OF RUSSIA.
RIGA TO D UNABURG.

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 made ; and will be
payable on or before Saturday, the 6th Jane, at the Ranking Rouses
of Sir S. Scott, Bart. Br. Co., No. 1, Cavendish-square, and the Lon-
don and County Jcint Stock Bank, Lombard-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-
yearly in London. Riga, and St. Petersburg.
The present Call has been already paid on the shares taken In
Russia.
The subsequent Calls will 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 ignify 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 paynients. .
The present Scrip Certificate of 1001. will be exchanged for the
four Scrip Certificates of 201. each, as soon as possible after the pay-
ment of the Call.

As the 1 drectors have no means of asce,taining 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. Wt‘RP.E TYNDALE, Secretary;
Gracechurch.street, Monday, May 18th, 1857.

THE OTTOMAN RAILWAY from SMYRNA
to AIDIN.

Capital 1,200,000/.
Divided into 60,000 Shares of 20/. or 2,500 piastres each.
A minimum dividend of 6/. per cent. per annum guaranteed
by the Sublime Porte.
Deposit 1/. 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 ma:l steam-ship Africa; Captain
Shannon, we have advices from New York to the
13th inst. She has brought 51,534,578 specie on
freight. Among the passengers by the Africa are
M. J. G. Huismann, Austrian Minister to Wash-
ington, and Mr. John Clairborne, 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 Africa passed the Royal
mail steamer Asia, 'hence for New York, and the
screw steam-ship Queen of th 9 South, bound west.
The Washington Union, of the 9th, says :
" We learn that the Cabinet have acquired consider-
able insight into the motives whichprompted Lord Pal-
merston to reject the Dallas-Darandon. Treay. His
Lordship professes only to desire certain very limited
protection to the Indians and to resident British sub-
jects, and the modification of tto treaty to that extent.
Tois position, which has been semi-offiAally assigned to
the London Cabinet, is by no means comprehensible by
the President and his Cabinet. Indeed, if we consider
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 is to be done relative to theDtglat Claren-
don Treaty. There has been no correeoendenoe between
Mr. Dallas and LOrd Clarendon, but merely a'conierra-
_
tion

Lord Napier has stated the grepndsof objection,
not only to the Secretary of State, butlto 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 Honduran, 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 whole 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 opinien
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 iu 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 expresied."
The New York Times thinks that if the British
Government are right in regarding the Central
American Treaty, as amended by Congress, as a
deliberate vad 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 o+.
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 is the
globe.
The New 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
celonization 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 cot,-
firmation of the treaty was considered hopeless, all the
influence of the retiring Admihistration 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 aireed
between them that the peace of the country required
some attempt at conciliation. General Davis intro-
duced the suggested modification., and they were adopt-
ed by the Senate by the exact -vote nc,cessary to' give
them effect, but against the protest of the senators re-
preeenting the Filibustering interest." ' ,
The Courier and Inquirer, referring' a rumour
that Lord Napier, acting under the instructions of
Lord Palmerston, had proposed to the Pi esident to
go into another negotiation on the Clayton-Bulever
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 or the attitude of her Majesty'srCabinet
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 had 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 kir 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 hii 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 theislaud. Sugars
were high.
The New York money-market remained in a com-
fortable position, which, in connexion with the
bank statement, had a favourable effect on the
stock-market. Notwithstandingthe absence of
speculators current rates were f
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 Sixes,
91i to 9.14 ; Mis-
souri Sixes, 831 to 828 ; California Sevens, 49 to
50 ; Tennessee Sixes, at 87 to 871 ; Indiana Fives,
831 ; Kfintucky Sixes, 103 to 104; Georgia Sixes,
63 ; Ohio Sixes, 1860, 102 ; Lousiana Sixes, 85 to
87i. Exchange on London, 108 k 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 specuktion ; 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 about 20c. 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,
cargoes had been taken at rates equal to a ballast,
anti yet the offerings were extremely light.

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 23.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Alhambra, Capt. W. J. Woodgates, has arrived
from Gibraltar, &c., with the mails, in charge of
37 agent. She left
16th inst. ; Cadiz,
LGiiebur
at .1
tLa oaytd
6,
3RO. R.N., Aodnm itr
bael t
10.30 a.m. on the 17th; Lisbon, 11 a.m. on the
19th ; Oporto, 9 a.m. on the 20th : 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 tolJzlant unsettled, and squally
at times, and light north-westerly breezes ; up to
thaeroniNeeteedr,lews'itnbd from theth nerOicilc rthward. With rain and low
b
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
weather,
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
boxes of potatoes,
of specie (value 2,8571. sterling), 560 cheats of
o7reazgkess,of9l
Lbnoex:392ofc
aosneiso ns
of 69eggs,
and 23 paokages
tsf sundries. _ _ _

Dates from Gibraltar are to the 16th inst. The

Duke and Duchess D'Aumale arrived in the Bay
on the morning of the 12th in the steam-ship
Albanian, Capt. Glover, bound for Liverpool ; the
steamer resumed its voyage at 3 o'clock in the
afternoon, after taking in some fresh provisions,
itc. 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', date, ul3 ; Paris,
ditto, sf. 39c. ; Marseilles, ditto, sf. 40c. ; Genoa,
ditto, 4f. 42c. ; Madrid, e'ght days' sight, 1i dis. ;
Cadiz, ditto, # dis. ; Malagg' ditto, 1i dis. ;
Seville, ditto, 1.1 dis. ; Alicante, 1.1 dis. ; Valencia,
dis. ; Barcelona, dis. ; Spanish pillared dollars,
4 per cent. p. w. Demand dull.
The Brazilian corvettelmperialMarinheiro, Capt
Alvin' anchored in the bay on the afternoon of the
11th, from Cadiz, and saluted the garrison with 21.
gling, which compliment was duly returned by the
slluting batiery. 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 Marinbeiro 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 10th,' but in Gibraltar Bay
there were very few vessels.
HerMejesty's ship Curlew was at Gibraltar when
the Alhambra left.
At Lisbon, on the 19th, were EM. S. Princess
Royal and the usual Portuguese squadron.,
The Lisbon exchanges fur bills at 3 months are
dust -d as folloWs :—London, 53,2, at which few bills
were passed, the takerS requiring generally 53i, at
which some trifles were negotiated ;.Paris, 533 to
535; Amsterdam, 41i ; Hamburg, 47i ; Genoa,
532. Bills were,scarce ou the continent, abd trans-
actions consequently limited. In stocks and shares
little actlVity had been evinced. Three per Cents.
registered were at 48 to 48i ; Coupons, 47 to
474 ; .and Deferred, 28i to 28i ; :Bank of Portugal
shares, 8 to 10 per cent. premium ; and Bank of
Oporto shares, 22.1 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 mai►s, in charge of Lieut. Oxenham, 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, 18S c tses 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 Euxino, with
the homeward mail, and Pera, with the outward

mail.
Our Gibraltar correspondent, writing on the 18th,
says :--
‘ The British steamer °Alpe arrived from Liver-
pool on Saturday n;glit, .in seven dty.4, and started
at one p. m. yesterday for Genoa and Leg corn. 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 Minn 2,
from Malta and Palermo, for Liverpool, arrived at
four p.m. yesterday, and is now coaling preparatory
to leaving. The French steamer Vile 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 stetted 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 packe.”
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 2241, about 60 miles north of Cape Fink-
stlrre, the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
screw steamer Sultan, steering to
.the southward.

REJECTION OF THE DALLAS-CLAREN-
DON TREATY.

The fact has been widely bruited that the Claren
don-Dallas treaty, supplementary to and explana-
tory of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, after having
been cut and carved out of all similitude to its for-
mer self by the United St4es Senate, has received
the finishing blow from the British Cabinet ; yet
up to this hour we have not happened to meet one
expression of regret for the circumstance. That it
has been received with surprise at Washington we
shall be slow to believe ; for a Government which
so maims and mutilates a treaty, negotiated with a
first-class Power by its representative of the highest
grade, has no right to expect that the disfigured re-
mains will be meekly accepted as if it had under-
gone no change. Our Government had a right,
through the action of the Senate, to make the alte-
rations—Great Britain as good a right to reject
them. Thus the treaty is demolished ; and if there
be any mourners to go about our streets (since Mr.
Dallas still traverses in contented dignity those of
London) they certainly are too few to raise a
dust. The Clayton-Bulwer treaty was, under the
circumstances, an international necessity. The
Panama road was required ; yet capitalists could
not be expected to furnish the money therefor if
their road, when completed, was liable to be closed
any moment by a war in which any two great com-
mercial Powers were engaged. That treaty was in
main a good one, and reflects credit on the con-
tracting parties. That the subsequent conduct of
either has fully sustained that credit, in view of
our naval exploit at Greytown, our Filibusters'
ravages in Nicaragua, and Great Britain's seizure
of Ruatan, is not so clear. We do not see that
entering into new stipulations and complications is
the true way to render operative the just and wise
provisions of that subsisting treaty. Let our Gc-
vernment and people resolve never more to covet
possessions in Central America, and call on Great
Britain to imitate our self-denying meekness and
moderation. There will then be no need of a sup-
plementary treaty. But this country ought never
to become a great naval power, and ought to re-
f the seas. To maintain such a naval
nounoe all ambition to vie with England for the
uld be required to dispute with her the
t.
l ofthe Mexican Gulf alone would send
millions of An:erican labourers' children supperless
to bed • an we do not think the prize worth the
cost. No
;dlet us open lines of communication
mastery"
e ooteirorte as o
across the continent over our own soil—first a wag-
,on-road, swiftly followed by a telegraphic line ;
and then let us put through a first-class railroad, to
be followed in due season by another and another.
Then let the Panama, Nicaragua, Tehauntepec,
and Honduras routes,
lation may devise, be improved and usel by tioss
who have a taste for such enterprises-0= own
with as many more as spleen-
d States
be taken from the treasury of these Unite
to sea through
to buy or conquer routes from sea
have improved at
people or others. We only insist that no dollar shall
foreign countries until we sboll
territory all our
least one of the routes through
-en.—New York Tribune.

UNWEBBITY INTELLIGENOII.--OXFORD; May 23.—h
amo.Aon:oofcaßatiouniohlocldoielnegtiswrciasornapipoogi,ottilr. edex.latnintr. Dale,
in the
School of Natural Science.