The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 10, 1861.

THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL FETES
at the NEW GARDEN, SOUTH KENSINGTON, W.
The GRAND FLOWER and FRUIT SHOW, on JUNE 5.
Admission
JUNE 6
The GRAND ROSE SHOW, JULY 10 55. Od.
The GRAND DAHLIA SHOW, SEPTEMBER 11 2s. 6d.
The GRAND FRUIT and CHRYSANTHEMUM
SHOW, NOVEMBER 6
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... 2s. 6d.

NOVEMBER 7 is. Od.
Fellows, Ivory Tickets, and persons registered under the
Debenture Agreement, Free.
Doors open each day at 1 o'clock.
Tickets for the above will be ready for Sale on MONDAY,
the 13th, but can only be had on Orders signed by a Fellow.
All the Shows will be held under Roofed Buildings.
After the opening, on June 5, Bands will play on Wednes-
days and Saturdays, in June and July.
As the Works in the Garden are still in progress, the Coun-
cil have decided that the right of entry to these Promenades
linust, for the present Season, be limited to Fellows, who
(except on Wednesday, July 10, a Fete Day) may personally
introduce two Friends, the holders of Ivory Tickets, who may
introduce two Friends, and to those persons whose names are
registered under the Debenture Agreement ; and on Satur-
days after 1 o'clock, by Tickets, price 2s. 6d., obtainable on
the Order of a Fellow,
*** Ballots for Election of Fellows will take place on the
14th, 24th, and 31st of May.

EyANS'S MUSIC and SUPPER ROOMS.—
Gentlemen meet as usual every evening. Mackney as
ever—Sydney's admirable New Song-1 he Lee Family's
elegant Performances, superior to anything yet sten. Four-
part Songs, Glees, Madrigals, and Classic Vocal Music form
the main element of the entertainment. " Play-goers sup at
Evans's to glees extremely well sung."—Athenmum.

RGYLL ROOMS. - GRAND MUSICAL
ENTERTAINMENT,
with the Celebrated BAND, Forty in number (established
eleven years), chosen from the Philharmonic COncerts, Royal
Italian Operas, and the Household Troops. Conducted by
Mons. Lamotte. Cornet-a-piston, M. Bouloourt—Dancing
at Nine o'clock.-18. admission.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS,
High Holborn.—This popular and magnificently ap-
pointed Ball Room, decidedly the most fashionable and best
conducted entertainment in he world. The very excellent
band, under the able direction of Mr. Packer, is constantly
introducing the choicest and latest music of the day. The
wines supplied are of the very choicest quality. The refresh-
ment rooms are elegant in the extreme, and replete with
every comfort. Admission throughout, ls.

OLDRIDGE'S BALM OF COLUMBIA is the
most certain remedy for restoring and strengthening
the hair. By it whiskers and m.,ustaches are produced and
beautified. Ladies will find it especially valuable, as the
most delicate head-dress or bonnet can be worn without fear
of soiling. Sold in bottles, 3s. 6d., 68., and lls. C. and A.
OLDRIDGE, 22, Wellington-street, Strand.

further up the bay, there can be very little doubt
that the whole arrived at Annapolis, and that the
three regiments are in Washington by this time.
" We learn on the authority of Capt. Sherman, of
the Vermont Arsenal, who came from Washington
in the Keystone State, that the Potomac was open,
no obstructing batteries being planted on its
shores by the ,Secessionists, and the heights of
Georgetown and Arlington being both held by
the Government. And it is to be regretted
that the Government did not send the Pawnee to
the mouth of the river with this intelligence, so that
the vessels from New York might have gone direct
to Washington, and thus saved the troops a tedious
march of 16 miles from Annapolis to the junction,
besides enabling them to reach Washington one day
earlier.
" As to the movements of the rebel troops we have
also some reliable information. One of our special
correspondents at Pensacola:, Florida, was compelled
to leave there very hurriedly by the Secessionists
on the 21st inst. He reached Montgomery on the
26th, and with considerable difficulty got safely as
far north as Cincinnati, from which point he tele-
graphed us yesterday. Ile reports the condition of
things at Fort Pickens to be in statu quo. The
rebels have given up the :dela of attacking it for the
present until they get renforeements and are sup-
plied with columbiads, the small 42-pounders they
have not being suffi.3ierit to do any damage to the
fort. 6,000 rebel volunteers are said to be ready
for service at Richmond, Which number, it is calcu-
lated, will be increased to 25,000 at the close of the
week. There seems to be very little doubt that both
Mr. Davis and Mr. Stephens are there now; Gen.
Beauregard is, in all probability, still in Charles-
ton. A State battery has been erected at Yorktown,
and another at a point three miles above Rich-
mond. At Harper's Ferry 4,000 men were sta-
tioned, but it is supposed that they are under orders
to move at once to a location nearer the federal
capital. 25,000 Secession troops are at Norfolk.
" Such are the movements, up to the last ac-
counts, of tro ,ps of both hostile parties. Other
events, however, appear to be transpiring in Mary-
land which, bear somewlot on the course of events.
It is reported from Harrisburg that a considerable
flight of negroes into Pennsylvania is taking place,
and that •an attack has been made by a body of
Magian d era, etn- --the 'Wage_ _of __Hanover. York
County, -Pennsylvania, in consequence. It is said
that whole families are leaving Maryland and fly-
ing into the counties of Adams, York, and Frank-
lin, Pennsylvania, and that the fear has become
general in the border counties of Maryland that the
departure of the whole slave population is immi-
nent. Over 500 slaves have already run off.
" Rumours reach us from Baltimore that a re
markable change of sentiment in favour of the
some
portions of the press
place there,
ocfes;
b which is indicated inut the reports need
aaUn
measure Union o n
other h a s
umpt
confirmation. Our latest intelligence from that
quarter represents that city as still under the con-
trol of the Secessionist mob, though quiet.
by
acyki circumstances;
" Washington may be considered safe for the
present. It is stated that there is no want of pro-
visions there, and that the Government has made
ample arrangements for all necessary supplies."
The 'limes of the 27th says :
" The advantages in the struggle for position may
now be considered as decidedly in favour of the
Government. The troops now 19 Washington, in-
cluding the 7th of this city, which has positively
arrived there in safety, are amply sufficient to hold
the city against any Secessionist forces likely to be
brought against it for some time to come. But ac-
tivity is not to cease with the present safety of the
capital, and troops will continue to be concentrated
there until they reach a number which shall render
any ultimate attempt against it improbable. The
Secessionist forces now collected in Virginia are
said to number 14,000, but it is not likely, from all
we can learn, that they are more than half-armed.
Meanwhile, from every point in the North and
West the note of preparation continues to be
sounded, and troops are being placed at the dis-
posal of the Government with marvellous rapidity.
" The latest advices which reach us from Balti-
more indicate that the rule of the Secession mob is
becoming distasteful to a large portion of the com-
munity, and especially among those engaged in
trade, whose business has come to a full stand in
consequence of the interruption of the usual chan-
nels of communication, and the condition of terror
into which the inhabitants have been thrown by
the scenes transpiring around them. The Union
men are once more gaining courage to give utter-
ance to their sentiments, and the Stars and Stripes'
again float over the head-quarters of the Minute
men and on Butcher's-hill. Persons are even
found bold enough to proclaim Union sentiments
in the public parlours of the hotels. Other indi-
cations of a reaction in the public mind are not
wanting, but perhaps the most significant one of
all is to be found in a leading article published in
the Baltimore Sun ofyesterday, which emphatically
denies that the Sun is a Secession paper, and warns
the Legislature, an extra session of which has been
called by Governor Hicks, that it has no right to
pass an Ordnance of Secession."

The New York Herald contains the following
news from Washington, Maryland, and Virginia :
" Official advices",llreAceitivitedthilioVigUhi AfrPommi,26.
Wash-
ington, show that 4,000 Northern troops entered
the city before 4 o'clock yesterday. There was an
abundance of provisions following.
" Perfect security is felt relative to defence.
" The Keystone State, escorted by the Pawnee,
passed up the Potomac without molestation, reached
Washington on Wednesday night, landed 250 ma-
rines and sailors, and left same night—destination
unknown. No attempt was made to interrupt her
progress.

- "—One of the arrivals here to-night is that of a
native of Virginia, formerly an officer of the Fede-
ral House of Representatives. He is a democrat of
or
‘l,eTaybee.
the Breckenridge school
H and. brought the title deeds
h
of his estate with,o
()him. He expects
b
e confiscated.hisprope
" He reports that
every
which is wort
oevo
ey dols.,
willan is compelled to serve
Baltimore America of this morning says
that Washington is represented to be all quiet, and
now Ulla reinforcements are freely arriving the
numbers, however, fears of the people of an attack are abating. Great
" The road is lined
" A large number of
descrip-
tions, filled with
towards Baltimorep_ leavingeeaodrpe,ew ,i
twith
vehicles the city
of
aa
lnl d
des
ecomingrip.
the city, so that but
A casual visitor trunks, and
eanucludfuerrneitrumree:
but
they are mostly
" From a ,
oduutl
dy
suppose
pvpaorsi
eo utshraetmnoot
nothing
na rgtsof
onbnt few are seen on the avenue.
un-
usual was transpiring
morning we learnat the Federal capital.
gentleman vho left Annapolis yesterday
and yesterdayer that there had been a great in-
crease in the numb
Academy is literally ofT troops landed on Wednes-
day___he inclosure. of the
.Naval
were not generally allowed
filled with them. The privates
to enter the city, but
the officers were moving about in every direction,
and making purchases to such an extent as to cause
quite a brisk business among the shopkeepers.
They are also purchasin; horses and vehicles, and
paying large pribes for them. Horses not worth
100 dols. had been sold to them as high as 250 dols.
and 300 dols. Our informant said that there was
scarcely a horse left within six miles of the city.
" By information gleaned from those who accom-
panied the train it would appear that reinforcements
are rapidly being throws into Washington. One
train which passed the junction was said to have
contained 981 men. Upto the latest arrivals 3,000
troops
api
tcapital, hadu
going towards the
on the march between
Annapolis and the junction, leaving 1,000 at
eedp6a,sosoeod
more
the
or
e were junction,
Annapolis.
" It is said that the Government has in use on
the road other cars than those seized at Washington
and at Annapolis, and it is supposed the cars have
Philadelphia road by the
the Susquehanna and AnnapoiiB.regularly between
steamerbee,
‘nr threarnems pi
asorrbytuleatdu df
littler,oum the
u ewvipdlesnieneg
of ill-feeling on the
part of the inhabitants along the line of road to-
wards the troops, many incidents are related as
showing their avoidance of everything calculated to
offend or in any way trespassing on private rights.
"Thets,
and
freely of the inhabi-
tants, for poultry and spring
chickens, and paying whatever price was asked. In
one instance a squad of New Yorkers being bounti-
soeldtrieikrsiuwge bargains
buyingaios
bounti-
fully entertained with substantial Maryland fare at
the nominal price of a 'quarter a head, they paid
their host 1 dol. each as a mark of their apprecia-
tion of the quantity and quality of the food.
gi We learn from Alexandria that it is unusually
quiet, and the town is bristling with bayonets and
cannons, and the churches are all occupied by
troops from the surrounding country.
"Preparations were making for the erection of a
battery at the White-house Fishery, near Mount
Vernon. It was rumoured, however, that Governor
Letcher has refused to allow any interruption of the
navigation of the Potomac by the Government.
" The United States' steamer Pawnee was cruis-
ing up and down the river, to watch the moyemento

of Virginia and to convoy any vessels that might
appear with troops on board."

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

On the Stock-Exchange on the 26th there was no decided
excitement either way . The course of prices was again re-
versed, and previous figures reduced on the closing printed
sales about as follows :—Virginias, 411; Missouris,
Tennessees, 42; Central, 721; Erie, 19i ; Hudson, 35/ ;
Harlem Preferred, 294; Reading, 31; Michigan Central,
421 ; Michigan Guaranteed, 27/ ; Panama, 99} ; Illinois
Central, 561; Galena, 56 ; Toledo, 22/ ; Rock Island, 351;
Burlington, 56.
On the Southern Border State stocks there was some dis-
position shown to press sales of Missouris at lower figures.
The impression drawn from recent letters from St. Louis
(say the New York limes) is that, should the State require
half a million dollars from Vie banks for war purposes, they
will not be able to supply in addition the means in New
York necessary to pay the July interest on the public debt.
There may be, and we dare say is, some reason to fear tem-
porary difficulty on this point, bug, as the Ist of July is yet
more than two months off, affording time for a radical
change in, the political situation of the country, the actual
holders of Missouri bonds are not called upon to make im-
mediate sacrifices in the market. There is a serious fall,
also, in Tennessee Sixes on advices from Nashville that the
State is likely to be hurried into an armed league, either
with the Gulf Confederacy or with the other Border
States, which will involve a considerable public expen-
diture, to be borne by the bank of Tennessee, owned by
and acting as the fiscal agent of the State. But, as re-
marked in the case of Missouri, the intervening period of
60 days may altogether change this prospect. Should no
extensive military expenditure be incurred by Tennessee,
our belief is that the Bank of Tennessee will have the abi-
lity to place the July interest, as usual, in the Merchants'
Bank in New York, aided as it will be by the railway com-
panies of the State, to whom the bends were originally
loaned, at the rate of 10,000 dols. per mile mortgage upon
the several dividend lines. There was not much variation
in Virginia stocks to-day, although the suggestion was
made, but not acted upon, at the Board of Brokers, that
the stocks of all the seceding States should be struck from
the official list. In railway monigages, so far as they were
offered, prices were well maintained, and the Federal secu-
rities were also steady; registered 81's at 87, and coupons
851 per cent. Late in the afternoon the market in the
share-list was steady, and disposed to firmness; New York
Central, 721 to 72/ per cent., and other stocks fully up to
the latest printed sales at the Second Board.
The market for money is quiet and easy on call loans on
stock collateral, but unsettled on mercantile paper, which is
subjected to increased scrutiny by reason of a number of
recent failures in the jobbing trade, and rumours of in-
creased embarrassment among houses dependent upon
Southern and North-Western collections. The high ex-
changes and depreciated local currency at St. Louts and
Chicago have greatly aggravated the difficulty of collecting I
rues in Missouri, Illinois, &c. The foreign exchanges are
easy for the steamer to-morrow ; rates about the same as on
Wednesday. London, 1051 to 106 for best class of bankers'
bills, and 104 to 105 for merchant bills.
The cotton-market continues firm, while sales were mode-
rate, having been confined to about 500 to 600 bales, clos-
ing within the range of 13/c. to 14c. for middling uplands;
even lots could not be readily had under the latter figure.
Flour was in better demand, and more active, and closed at
an advance of sc. to 10c. per barrel for common and medium
grades of State and Western brands. Southern flour was
active, and decidedly higher. Wheat was in good request
and prices steady. Corn was firm and in steady demand.
Pork was steady, with sales of mess at 18 dols. 37c. tio 18
dols. 50c., and prime at 13 dols. 50c. Sugars were compa-
ratively quiet; the sales comprised about 300 hhds, confined
to the trade, and 200 hhds. Porto Rico by auction. Coffee
was quiet, awaiting the public sale to come off on the 27th.
Freights were rather firmer, while engagements were quite
limited.