The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-17 00:00:00

way, and his three colleagues, to whom the note wax
also communicated, soon followed his examplo.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA; Aug. 12.—1 n virtue of the Currency
Treaty bet ween Austria and the other German States
the Vienna Bank will have to resume its cash pay-
ments on Jan. 1, 1859, but it is by no means clear
that it will be in a position to do so with safety.
At present the reserve fund of the Bank is but
94,500,0001, with a paper circulation of nearly
394,000,0001 The moneyed world is of opinion
that the Bank would speedily get out of its difficul-
ties if it were to raise a loan on the domains
ceded to it by the State, but it is doubtful
whether Government would authorise it to do
so. The domains in question are valued at
155,000,000f1., and there would hardly be any
great difficulty in obtaining a loan on them if it
were what is here called a " lottery loan." The
loan which was contracted in 1854 bears interest at
4 per cent., and the holders of shares (2501) be-
sides play once a year in a lottery in which there
are 4,000 tickets. In the lottery, in which there are
no blanks, the highest prize is 200,0001, and the
lowest 3001 The 1854 loan was emitted at 95, but
it now stands at 109, although the 5 per cent.
National Loan is down to 84g. The harvest has
been extremely good, but the drought has been so
great in some parts of the empire that there is a sad
want of fodder. In Moravia the landed proprietors
are reducing their flocks and herds, as they foresee
that they shall have gre ,t difficulty in procuring
food for them during the -winter. Same years ago
there was such a terrible dearth of fodder in Mo-
ravia, that many of the sheep were literally starved
to death, but an ingenious nobleman managed to
keep all his sheep alive by mixing with their usual
food leaves which ha had gathered from the trees
in summer, and dried like hay in the sun.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.

This morning the British and North American
royal mail steamship Asia, Cap'aiu Lott, entered
the river from New York, wish dates to the sth
inst., 41 passengers, and 917,000 dollars in specie.
We learn from her that the royal mail steamship
Persia had arrived on the sth. .

The screw steamship Edinburgh had passed in
on tho sth from the Clyde, and the City of Balti-
more, from this port, and the United States steam-
ship Fulton, from Southampton, were passed by
the Asia on the Sth.

The news by the Asia, although four days later
than we previously had, is of very little interest to
the European reader.
The telegraphic accounts from the South report
heavy rains and destructive
~hailstorms, and that
crops bad suffered severely.
The United States steam-frigate Roanoke had
arrived at New York with upwards of 200 of Wal-
ker's filibusters on board.

Havana advices to the 22d ult. report sugars
without change, the stock on hand amounting to
225,000 boxes. The island was heal thy. The labour
market had received a supply, consisting of one
cargo of 400 Bozal negroes, landed near Gardena.,
from the brig W. D. Miller, and two cargoes of
Coolies, arrived from China.
Advices from Texas state that Senator Rusk
committed suicide at his residence on the 29th ult.
by shooting himself through the head with a rifle.
A letter from Boston, dated August 1, says :
" A b.despatch from St. Pierre, Miquelon, dated
July 27, states that the bark Monasco, of Warren,
Me., from Guttenburg for New York, was totally
lost near Burin, Newfoundland, on the 21st insb.,
together with fifty Swedish steerage passengers.
The captain and his wife, and the crew and six
passengers, were saved. The crew and the six
passengeT s were landed at St. Pierre, and were sent
to New York in the brig Lewis Gilles, by the Ame-
rican consul. Tho captain goes home via Sidney."