The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-24 00:00:00

LATEST NE WB.

THE AMERICAN WAR.

(PER ADRIATIC, VIA ST. JOHN'S AND GALWAY,
NEW YORK, MAY 14.

The blockade of the Virginia Waters is complete.
A precautionary notice has been issued for all
vessels to leave these waters within 15 days.
Charleston, Savannah, and New Orleans will be
blockaded within a week.

The Maryland Legislature has adopted a resolu-
tion condemning the war, and discountenancing the
interference of the Federal troops. Fort M'Henry,
Baltimore, has been reinforced.

General Butler, with 2,000 troops and a section
of artillery, has taken possession of Baltimore with-
out resistance.

Martial law has been proclaimed in the city.
31,000 Federal troops are now at Washington.
Virginia has been admitted by the Confederate
Congress into the Southern Confederacy.
The Union movement is, however, spreading in
Virginia.

The number of Secession troops at Harper Ferry
is only G,OOO.

The Secretary of the Federal Treasury invites
offers at current rates for the Treasury loan of
9,000,000 dole.

The Kangaroo and the Parana have arrived ou
The Nova Scotian has not yet arrived.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, MAY 13, EVENING.

Exchange on London-1061 to 1062. Stocks
steady, except Missouri Bonds, which have fallen
to 351.

Cotton dull. Middling upland 13Ze. to 14e
Breadstuffs heavy.

NEW ORLEANS, MAY 11.
Cotton sales to-day 4,500 bales; middling, llc
to 11,1 c.

(BY TELEGRAPH TO ST. JOHN'S.)

NEW YORK, MAY 16.

Stocks are tending upwards, and more confidence
is shown. Erie, 22A- ; Illinois Bonds, 96 ; New York
Central, 72 ; Federal Securities are steady.

ST. JOHN'S, MAY 18.

Great election riots have taken place here. Three
people have been shot. The telegraph wires were
cut, but have been repaired.

GALWAY, MAY 24.

The Atlantic Royal Mail steamship Adriatic,
which arrived here this morning, left New York
on the 14th inst., and St. John's on the 18th, thus
having made the passage from the latter place to
Galway in five days and 12 hours. She brings 363
passengers and the mails.

BELGRADE, MAT 23.
Omer Pasha arrived here to-day, accompanied
only by his suite.

THE BOMBAY AND MEDITERRANEAN
MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY, MAY 24.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Delta, Captain Field, with the above mails, has

arrived.

She brings 139 passengers, four packages of specie
value not stated, two (?) bales of silk, and a general

cargo.

She passed the ship Saunders south of Finisterro,
and also the steamers Derwent and Ceylon.
Advices from Gibraltar contain nothirg of im-

portance.

Exchange on London, 90 days, was quoted 501
to 500 ; Paris, 529 ; Marseilles and Genoa, 530;
Madrid, Cadiz, and Seville, par ; Malaga, i
dio-
count ; Valencia, d premium ; Barcelona, pre-
mium.

The steamers Stella and Stanley, from London,
and the Hecla and Albanian, from Liverpool, had
arrived at Gibraltar.

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
MARSEILLES, FRIDAY MORNING.
The Vectis, with the above mails, arrived at Mar-
seilles at 9 a.m. this day.
The mails were to leave for London at 10 a.m.
THE OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL.
The Valetta, from Marseilles 20th inst., arrived
at Malta at 7 p.m. on the 22d, and was to leave for
Alexandria at 11 p.m.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY.

A telegraphic despatch from Toulon, received
yesterday, says :—" The experimental squadron has
left for the coast of Syria. It is composed of the
screw liner Bretagne, bearing the flag of Vice-
Admiral Lebarbier de Tinan, the commandant in
chief; the Algesiras, steamer, with the flag of Rear-
Admiral Paris ; the Donawerth, bearing that of
Rear-Admiral Chopart, and the steam liners Eylau,
Saint Louis, Fontenoy, and Redoubtable, and the
steam corvette Caton. The screw transports Aube,
Finistere, and Amazone accompany the squadron.
The steam frigates Vauban and Cacique left, as is
known, on the 16th ; the Moselle on the 18th, with
a cargo of coal on board for the supply of the fleet;
and the Descartes steam frigate and the steam tran-
sport Ariege on the 19th, all for the same destina-
tion, as has been already mentioned. The embar-
kation of the troops and stores will commence on
the 30th, and the vessels with the troops on board
will leave on the 4th for Toulon with the whole of
the expeditionary corps. The squadron, it is known,
will remain on the coast of Syria for the protection
of the Christians."

BOURSE, May 23.—There has b.•en but a very

limited business doing, the attention of moneyed
men being principally directed to the subscription
now open at the Bank of France for Railway
Bonds. Prices, however, have been pretty well
maintained—Threes, for the Account, being now
69f 40c. Railway Shares quiet, but firm.
The following were the last quotations :
ft per per Cents ... 96 25 Credit Fancier
Do end month.... 96 50; Belgian 4} 9Blr
3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 45 Roman
Bank Shares 2890 'Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 706 25 Spanish Threes 5O 75
Do. Account 707 50 ; Home Debt