The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-11 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid papers of the 6th have arrived in
due course. A deputation of the Congress bad
presented to the Queen the address in answer to
the speech from the throne.
The prorogation of the Cortes would, it was said,
take place between the 20th of this month and the
beginning of July. On the prorogation, Marshal
O'Donnell intendel to vi-it Catalonia, and after-
wards to go abroad till the wint.r.
" The Prince and Princess Galitzin are the ob-
ject of great at'ention in this capital. The Prince
is a real Russian noble spending his revenues most
liberally, and the Princess is full of grace and (Us-
' tin. The Queen, departing from the laws of
Spanish ettiquette, gave a grand dinner in honour
of them; and the Marquis of Turgot, the French
ambassador, treated them, It may be said, in an
imperial manner. In the absence of the Marquise,
who is now in Paris, the honours of the day were
done by Madame de Serrano. On the following
day, Lord Howden, the English ambassador, en-
tertained in his turn, the Prince and Princess.
Of all the diplomatic body, he only invited the
Marquis de Turgot, as though he wished to show
the good telations which exist between him and
the French ambassador.

The latest bulletin of Marshal Rade!zky's state of
health, dated Verona, 6th, anuounces that his
excellency had been restless during the day, and
that the fever had returned in the course of the
evening.

A letter from Vienna, --in the Cologne Gazette
Rays:—" The government has replied very favour-
ably to the petition of the Chamber of Commerce
of Prague, praying for the abolition of the dues on
the Elbe. It has promised that it will employ all
its influence to obtain their suppression."

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING.

The United States mail steamer Arago, Captain
Lines, arrived at Cowes this morning, after a pas=
sage of 11 days and 6 hours from New York.

Her advices are to the 30th ult., tbree days later
than those by the Asia.

The Arago has, besides the usual mails, 300 pas-
sengers, 1,058,000 dols. in specie, and 6,000 bushels
of wheat. She has experienced ordinary weather
for the season ; came south of the B .nks, and saw
no ice.

The mail steamer Arabia, from Liverpool, May
16, arrived at New York on the evening of the
23th, and the Ariel, tr mm Southampton, May 16,
on the afternoon of the 29th. The Arago ex-
changed signals with the English bark Stirlingshire,
June 4th ; bark showing in a white signal. No. 393,
June sth ; bark Elizabeth, June 6th ; a Cunard
steamer, from Havre for Liverpool, Juue 10th, off
the Lizard.

Louis Grellet, one of the parties concerned in the
Great Northern Railway fraudF!, sent back under
the Extradition Treaty, in charge of a United
States' police officer, came by the Arago.
General Walker has surrendered, and Rivas is
in the hands of the Allies, despairing of success.
Walker made terms of capitulation with the Costa
Ricans ou the Ist of May, having then less than 300
men, and but two days' provisions.
General Heuningsen, !Colonel Titus, and some
others of Walker's men, arrived at New York by
the ;Illinois steamer on the 28th ult. Walker
and staff arrived at New Orleans on I be 27th, in the
steamer Empire City. He was received by 10,000
people, who escorted him to the St. Charles Hotel,
where he made a speech thanking them for his
splendid reception, and saying that in the mass be-
fore him he recognized the American love of liberty,
and that victory was still sure. He was obliged to
speak twice before the crowds were sa•isfied. The
greatest excitement prevailed in the city. 101 guns
announced on the 7th May to the people of San
Joie, Costa Rica, the occupation of Rivas by the
allies. General Mora, with his divion of the army,
was expected at San Jose on the 13th, and gre at
preparations were being made to give him an en-
thusiastic reception. _ _

Lieutenant Strain, a leader of the Darien ex-
ploring expedition, died at Aspinwall on the 15th.
The reported division of Nicaragua is contra-
dicted, and a plan was on foot for re-establishing
the old Central American Confederation.
From Panama we have a rumour that the
Islands in the Bay of Panama had been ceded to
England in the settlement of the Macintosh claim,
as also the tonnage duty accruing on the American
vessels in the Isthmus ports, but this wants confir-
mation.

Advices from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec state
that violent gales had been experienced on the
Pacific side, and that the country was much dis-
turbed by revolutionary attempts.
The news of the defeat of the Sonora Filibusters,
under Colonel Crabbe, is confirmed ; 14 only of his
party escaped.
The Californian news, though two weeks later,
is unimportant.
The cotton market at New York on the 29th was
quiet, but firm. Holders received the foreign news
iu a favourable light, while purchasers regarded
it to be less favourable than they had anticipated ;
hence transactions were restricted to a few hundred
bales, without quotable change in prices. The
news checked the upward tendency in flour, e4pe-
cially for the common and lower grades, while
buyers were unwilling to purchase freely without
some concession in prices. Sales were consequently
moderate, without change of moment in prices.
Wheat was in good demand, and prime lots were
firm. Indiana red sold at 1 dol. 67c. ; fair Western
do. at I dol. 62c. ; Canadian Club, at 1 dol. 62c. ;
and medium to choice Southern and Missouri white
ranged from 100 dols. 75c. to 100 dols. 80c. The
upward tendency in corn was checked with sales of
Southern yellow and white at 100 dols. 3c. to 100
dols. 4c., and Western mixed, at 101-tc. to 103 c.
Rye sold at 120 c. Prime northern pork sold at
23 dols. 900., with small lots at 23 dols. 95c.
Sugars were quiet, while holders stood out for pre-
vious current rates, regarding the future move-
ments of the trade with much confidence, while
buyers were unwilling to enter the market freely
without some relaxation in prices hence the
sales were confined to small jobbing lots, without
noticeable change in quotations. Coffee was quiet
but firm. Freights were inactive and rates some-
what irregular to British ports, while engagements
were moderate. The stock market opened with a
strong upward tendency on the 29th, and with con-
siderable activity on all the leading railroad stocks.
New York, Central Erie, Cleveland and Toledo,
Michigan, Southern, and in fact all the Western
railroad stocks were particularly active, and most of
them advanced a fraction or so at the first Board.
Pennsylvania Coal improved j per cent.; New York
Central, 1; Erie 1; Reading, A ; Illinois Central, A ;
Cleveland and Pittsburg, 2 ; Galena and Chicago, 4 ;
Cleveland and Toledo, 2 • Chicago and Rock Is-
land, 1 ; Mill waukie and Mississippi, 1i ; Michigan
Scuthern Guaranteed Preferred 10 per cent. scrip
fell off 4 per cent. ; ditto, full 1. The advices from
London by the Arabia had a favourable effect on
Illinois Central Stock ; sales were made at 140 per

cent., but the stock closed ab 1391 ; Michigan
Southern Old Deferred Stock hung very heavy in
the neighb,nrhood of 60 per cent. ; Cleveland and
Toledo was quite buoyant, and sold freely at the
advance • it opened at 66 and closed at 66i per
cent., with sales of nearly 4,000 shares. At the
second Board the market for some stocks was
pretty well sustained with pretty active sale 3 ;
Cleveland an i Pittsburg advanced 2 per cent., •
closing at 49, seller three dap. Cleveland and
Toledo opened at 66 cash, and closed at 66, buyer
60 days. A sale, seller 60 days, was made at 641
per cent.; after the Board it was offered in stacks
at 65k per cent. cash. Michigan Southern De-
ferred sold at the Board at 60 per cents., but after-
wards sold at 58i cash, and was offered freely at
that price ; the Guaranteed Preferred was heavy at
88 per cent., with small sales ; Erie was tolerably
steady, and closed with an upward tendency ; of
Ohio, life and trust was made at 101 per cent cash.
NEW ORLEANS, MAY 28.
Cotton unchanged. Sales to-day 1,000 bale 3 ; re-
ceipts 900. Corn 1 dol. Flour firm. Pork firm.
Lard, in kegs, 16c. Other articles generally un-
changed.

MAY 29.
Cotton market generally uncnanged. Sales to-
day only 300 bales at 14c. for middling. Sales'
of the week, 11,750 bales ; the receipts of ti.e
week; 4,01)0 bales ; stock, 119,500 bales. The
receipts at this port up to the present time
fall short, as compared with those of last year,
230,000 bales. The receipts at all the southern
ports, less than those of last year, are 524,000
bales. Sugar firm, 111 cents. Flour closed
with an advancing tendency : sales at 7 dols. 621 c.
to 7 dols. 80c. Cord excited, white, 1 del. 10c. ;
yellow, 1 dol. sc. Mess pork, 24 dols. 50c. Western
hay, 32 dols. to 33 dols. Coffee quiet ; sales of the
week, 5,000 bags ; stock, 132,000 bags ; prime,
.I.olc. to 11c. Freights stagnant. Sterling ex-
change, 10 per cent. premium ; and on New York,
to per cent. _ _ _

OSWEGO, MAY 29, 6 P.M.
Flour dull ; sales of Canadian at 7 dols. 25c.
Wheat firm ; sales, 12000 bushels, at 1 dol. 50c.
for. Canadian Club, and 1 dol. 80c. for Canadian
white, afloat. Corn unchanged ; saleS, 6,300
bushels, at 95c. Canal freights to New York—
flour, 35c., and wheat, 10c. Lake imports to-day,
24,000 bushels wheat'; and 13,500 bushels c"rn.
Canal exports 3,500 barrels flour, 10,000 bushels
wheat, 4,000 bushels corn.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING.
The screw steam ship City of Mauchester has
arrived, with advices from New York to the 28th
ult. She has brought 10,000 dols. specie on
freight.

THE DANUBE NAVIGATION.

CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY 31.
At the present moment no object can be of greater
interest to civilised Europe, or deserve more of its
attention, than the settlement of the Danubian
navigation, by rendering one at least of its mouths
an accessible thoroughfare. This project, so con-
spicuously sanctioned at the peace of Paris, has
not been realised as yet. All eyes are directed to
the quarter where the Danube debouches into the
sea, to watch what the commission appointed by
the seven powers of Europe may be doing ; but
unfortunately we can detect very little doing in-
deed, even in the way of preparation. The indo-
lence of this commission has induced me to make
an excursion as far as Galatz, and at every station
on the river I. made it my business to institute
strict inquiries as to the operations, if any, whict
were in progress or proposed, and I now transmit
you the veryunsatisfactory data which I collected.

- The commission of the Seven Powers has divided
itself into two sub-committees, one of which super-
intends the general management, and the other
looks after the technical details of the works. I
observed with regret, that sometimes only two out
of the whole seven, and those the Austrian and
Sardinian commissioners, were present at Galatz.
The English commissioner, I heard, had left Galatz
to inspect the survey of the Danube now going on,
but the other four, to amuse themselves at Vienna
or elsewhere.

I stated in a previous letter, that the want of
hydrographic maps or charts prevented it from be-
ing ascertained, whether the Sulina or the St.
George's Channel should be selected to be made
navigable. Nevertheless, by way of making some
sort of beginning, if only to say they had started, the
commission, ignorant as they were of which branch
was preferable, resolved on making Tultscha the cen-
tral point of their operations, taking it for granted
that the Danube must be put to rights as far up as
Galatz. The construction of the works and maga-
zines, where the materials must first be collected
before the workmen can be actively employed, was
confided by the commissioners to the Turkish colo-
nel, Emin Bey (Malinovsky), who has, or is sup-
posed to have, all the clerks and staffs under his
orders. The work has been in consequence ad-
vanced a step, as the solemnity of laying the first
stone for the building to be occupied by the direc-
tors was gone through on the 10th of May by the
Austrian. commissioner. This was the first step, but
after a few days orders were given to leave every:-
thing alone; about half the workmen and assistants
were dismissed, some hundreds of whom consist of
Tartars from the Dobrudscha, • called from their
homes for the purpose, and though the work has
since recommenced, not more than 50 men are em-
ployed. If the works of the improvement of the
Danube navigation go on at this rate they will last
one generation before the gigantic task is half ac-
complished.
It would seem that the commission intend dimi-
nishing the number of persons employed on the
magaz'nes and the like, and amalgamating several
branches of the administration into one. It is said
that this measure is dictated by economical motives.
It should be observed that the treaty of Paris
created no pecuniary source, I mean, wherefrom to
defray the c )st of such an undertaking. The com-
missioners did not think of this at first, did not see
the necessity of obtaining definite instructions on
this head and guarantees for the money that would
be required. Only Turkey came forward with a
few thousand piastres, a mere drop in the stream,
and which has now fib wed away or been evaporated.
Seeing that the means were wholly inadequate, the
commissioners should now be doing all they can to
mend the matter. As to how far the officials or
clerks, appointed by the present commission at
Galatz, are of any use, I could not discover ; my
humble opinion.is, that their services are not re-
quired for the moment, unless to make a parade of
official titles. To be sure, they are busy enough,
from morn to eve, at Tultscha, where the stores
have been collected and the works have been more
or less comm-nced. In case a diminution of their
numbers should be made, those in non-activity are
to be dismissed first, and the same rule is to be ob-
served at Galatz, if reductions are made there.
As for the engineers, there are scarcely half the
number required for the work of their extraordi-
nary task ; but if there are no funds, there is no-
thing to be said. One thing is quite clear, that the
commissioners are not practical persons, or men of
business competent to their work. I have also to
state that the spirit of party has broken out among
them, and if- one togs one way and another the
other, no progress is conceivable.—Correspondent
of Daily _Yews.

THE ARCHDUKE UAXIMILIAN OF AUSTRIA.—PORTS-
MOUTH, June 10.—A government telegraphic message
has come down this afternoon, intimating that the Grand
Duke Maximilian of Austria may be expected to arrive
every hour, by an Austrian war steamer.
PERSONATION AT THE LEEDS ELECTION.—Two young
men named Joseph Mountain, and William Bennett,
were committed for trial by the Leeds magistrates for
personating voters at the late election for Leeds. The
first prisoner voted for Beecroft, the latter for Mills.
Warrants have been issued against three other persons
for aiding and abetting in the personation.
RECOVERY OF THE BODY OF ENSIGN BOWLES.—
After a submersion of 16 days, the body of this young
officer was discovered floating in the Ribble, near to the
Guides, or King William public house, Freckleton, by
Henry Gornall, the guide, at six o'clock on Monday
evening. It will be 'remembered that on the night of
the 23d ultimo Mr. Bowles left Lytham in a boat, for
Preston, with a man named Cartmel ; both were
drowned, but the latter was found near the spot where
the accident happened, on the day after itr occurrence,
and it was seen that the boat had sunk. It is supposed
that the remains of Mr. Bowles were "sanded u,),"
and that the freshet occasioned by the recent heavy
rains disengaged them from the superincumbent deposit.
The body was very much swollen and disfigured. It
was at once taken to the inn, and the news of the melan-
choly discovery was dispatched by telegraph to the
unfortunate young man's relatives, who reside at Kelve•
don, in B.sex.
MR. SPURGEON DONE BY A PICKLE-SELLING TAIL-
TUFFE.—Most persons have observed in the newspapers,
and on the walls of the metropolis, announcements of a
reward for the.apprehensi an of Mr. John Gregory, an
oil and pickle merchant in the borough, who has not
L persons
to
s
surrendered to his bankruptcy, but has left the country
in company with, it is said, his governess. It
may not be knerwn that, in Mr. Gregory,glist of we p
h
add another to the unhappily long
who have traded on religion, or, rather, a hypocriti-
cal assumption of true religion, for the purposes
of deluding the world in general. Mr. Gregory, who
was accustomed to wear a white neckcloth among his
other personal adornments, was treasurer of the funds
in precles of collection for the new chapel about to he
erected for Mr. Spurgeor, by whose teaching, it would
seem, be has profned but little, and has absconded, it
said, with over 2,0001 of the popular young Baptist's
money. A warrant is issued for his apprehension ; in-
deed, it is rumoured, that he has been captured already,
and, if so, he will find himself in a " pickle " much more
,g pretty " than his own olives, cabbages, and cucum-
bers.

AMIN