The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-11 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Cotton tending upwards; middling Upland, 27c.
Breadstuffs quiet. Stocks heavy :—New York
Central, 781; Illinois, 61; Erie, 311. Exchange
on London, flat at 109.

At Havannah, according to the last advices,
sugars, Nos. 2 and 3, were dull. No. 12 was quoted
71 to 81. Stock, 30,000 boxes. Freight nominal.

(PER ETNA, via QUEENSTOWN.)

NEW YORK, Nov. 30, AFTERNOON.

The latest advices from Port Royal state that a
detachment of Federal Marines had landed on
Tybee Island, and commenced constructing new
fortifications.

The Confederates had sunk two vessels between
Tybee and Fort Pulaski, in the narrow part of the
Savannah River channel, to prevent the fleet from

coming up.

A small schooner has been sent from Hilton Head
to load cotton at one of the islands above Hilton,
and would sail shortly by order of the Federal
naval authorities.

The leading newspapers of New York contain
little, editorially, on the relations between Eng-
land and America.

The New York Herald says that England takes
advantage of the Mexican expedition to keep her
fleet in the waters of the Gulf without exciting
alarm.

The New Fork Times, in referring to the warlike
preparations in Canada, says there is nothing in the
action or language of the Federal Government cal-
culated to wound the susceptibilities of the English
Government, and that the real mischief has been
done by the newspapers, and principally by the
violent articles of the Herald.
The Etna was detained some hours for Lord
Lyons's despatches.

PARIS, DEC. 11.

The fflonieeur, in its bulletin of to-day, analyses
the different appreciations of the journals and tele-
graphic despatches on the American question, and
adds :

" In thus acting we pretend to no more than to
afford information to the public.
" We have neither to express an opinion on the
American conflict, nor on the speeches of the depu-
ties in the Italian Parliament."

The supplementary election to the Corps Legis-
latif in Aube has resulted in the return of M.
Planey by 16,339 votes, against 11,004 obtained by
his opponent M. Liguier.

ROME, DEC. 9 (Evening).

The brigands taken at Allatri by the French
troops, and delivered over by them to the Pon-
tifical Government, have been sent back again to
the frontier with regular instructions as to the
route they are to take.
Five Spanish officers have been sent to com-
mand th© reactionary bands in the Neapolitan
provinces, and to organise the reactionary move-
ments.

Fresh disembarkations of brigands have taken
place in the province of Pouillo. The reactionists
will endeavour to surround the Italian troops in
the Basilicata.
It is asserted that Francis 11. will assume the
command early in January.

PARIS, DEC. 10.

The Presse of this evening publishes a despatch,
dates Palermo, 6th inst., announcing the discovery
of a Bourbon conspiracy in that city. The prin-
cipal conspirators, among whom were a great
number of priests, had been arrestect.

TURIN, DEC. 10.

In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies,
Signor Dondes Reggio stated his opinion that it
was necessary to maintain the Lieutenancy of
Sicily, and censured the suppression of that of
Naples. He spoke in favour of the privileges of
the Sicilian ecclesiastics, and said that he wished
that the principle of the liberty of the Church
should not endanger those privileges.
The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce de-
fends(' the abolition of the lieutenancies, and said
that dangerous political circles were formed around
the lieutenancies, whose power presented obstacles
to the authority of Parliament and the responsi-
bility of the Ministers. The Minister also alluded
to the brigandage in the Neapolitan provinces, and
to the projected economic reforms, which, he stated,
would entirely destroy it. This statement was re-
ceived
with general applause.

Signori Miceli, Sandonato, and Crispi spoke
against the Ministry.
To-day the Senate approved the bill for the tern-
parary occupation of the religious houses for the
service of the State.

The official Gazette of this evening announces
that 29 brigands, among whom was Jose Borges,
have been shot or killed near Tagliacozzo.
A box was seized containing the correspondence
of an agent of Monsignor° Sentucci with Cardinal
Antonelli and the Bourbon authorities.

PARIS, DEC. 10.

The Ami de la Re?iyion has received a first warn-
ing for having published an article, entitled " Re-
form in Russia," " which," states the warning,
"under the pretext of criticising the reforms of a
foreign Government, contains an attack against the
French constitution."

THE ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUVIUS.
NAPLES, DEC. 9, 6 A.M.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius is increasing in

intensity. The population of Torre del Greco
have fled; nearly all the houses are damaged.
The stream of lava is 28 palms in depth, and
three quarters of a mile broad.
The sensation is immense.

SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 11.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company's steamer Delta, with the heavy portion
of the Bombay and Mediterranean mails, arrived
off the Needles at 8.45 a.m.

THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 11.

The West African Mail steamer Armenian has
arrived here. Her dates are Benin, October 24 ;
Fernando Po, November 2; Cameroons, Novem-
ber 1; Old Calabar, October 30; Brass River, 25 ;
Nun, November 7 ; Bonny, 7th ; Lagos, 10th;
Accra, 12th ; Cape Coast Castle, 14th; Palmas,
16th; Sierra Leone, 21st; Bathurst, 25th; Tene-
rife, 30th; and Madeira, December 3.
She brings £l,lOO sterling, 2,4160 z. of golddust,
17,000 f., 295 guilders, and 1,246 dole.

Mr. Thomas B. Lee, formerly Secretary to the
British Consul at Fernando Po, had been mur-

dered.

Several influential men had taken up the
question of the cultivation of cotton in the Bight
of Benin.

Some difficulties had arisen between the French
and the natives of Gaboon, in consequence of which
the former were about to take energetic measures.
It was reported that Gambia was to be ex-
changed for Gaboon, Grand Bassam, Assinee, &c.
The English residents were desirous of the change,
Gaboon being the head-quarters of the slave trade.