Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-30 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF OF THE CANADA.

The Royal Mail steam-ship Canada, Captain
Long, which sailed from Boston on the 18th, and
Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 20th, entered the
Mersey last evening shortly after seven o'clock.
She passed Holyhead yesterday at half-past ten
o'clock a.m., but, owing to the density of the fog,
did not reach the river until the time above stated.

The Canada brings 68 passengers, and has specie
on freight as follows :-101,704 dollars, and 15,000
sovereigns.

The screw steam-ship City of Washington arrived
at New York on the sth, and the St. Louis, from
Aspinwall, with the Californian mails, and gold
dust amounting to 1,176,086 dollars, had reached
New York; also the screw steamer Glasgow from
the Clyde, and the Harmonia from Hamburg, were
reported at the same port.
By this arrival we have four days later intelli-
gence from all parts of the United States.
Matters, as far as trade, commerce, and finance
were concerned, continued to improve. The banks
were discounting more liberally, but the rate of
interest was still very high.
From Washington we learn that Sir W. Gore
Ousley was fully commissioned to treat with the
United States Government, in all matters relating
to the Central American question, as well as that
respecting the Indian Protectorate of Mosquito.
General Walker, the renowned filibuster, left
New. Orleans on the 11th inst. in the Mobile
packet. At the Belize, or somewhere in the
neighbourhood, he was transferred to the steamer
Fashion, and his now on his way to the field of his
former exploits. He is accompanied by about
four hundred men, and has provisions for three or
four months and abundance of war material. The
steamer Fashion was formerly a government vessel
and employed as a transport. She was reeently
advertised for sale by the United States Marshal at
New Orleans. A correspondent at San Juan del
Norte, writing under date of the 6th ult., gives
a gloomy description of the condition of
Nicaragua under its present rulers. Freedom
of speech, much less of action, is entirely
unknown. A word, almost a thought, is visited
with imprisonment or exile. Several natives who
favoured the government of General Walker have
been shot, some are in prison, some are working in
the wilds of Madagalpa, and many who were merely
suspected of being friendly to the Americans have
been banished the country. The people, he says,
are groaning under heavy forced contributions to
maintain an insolent soldiery in their peaceful
villages, and everywhere a, sentiment of hostility,
silent but deep, is felt by the people against their
oppressors. Orders were sent from Washington
to New Orleans on the 14th for the immediate
despatch of revenue cutters in pursuit of
General Walker. The authorities confidently
expect to overhaul the enterprising filibuster
before he effects a landing in Central America.
Despatches have been received at Washington
confirmatory of the report of the capture and des-
truction of government provision trains by the
Mormons. This first over tact of treason against the
federal authorities was perpetrated on the sth ult.,
near Pacific Spring. No one was killed in the
affair, as the small escort of the trains offered no
resistance, A Cabinet council was held to
consult upon the intelligence, but probably nothing
will be done until official despatches are received
from Col. Johnston, the commander of the military
expedition. It is stated that the Mormon force at
Pacific Spring numbered seven hundred, and there
was a force of fifteen hundred men at Great Salt
Lake City. The effective strength of the army for
Utah does not exceed one thousand, and a portion
of them, being fresh from the everglades of Florida,
are but ill fitted to contend with the rigorous
slimate of the northwest. As it is not deemed
possible to forward reinforcements and supplies
until spring, the troops are in a desperate strait,
and we soon expect news of a bloody collision
between the opposite parties. It is stated that
Colonel Johnston was determined to winter in the
valley of the Great Salt Lake, and the route of the
expedition had been changed in order to reach
that point by a road less obstructed by snow than
the one originally adopted. The Mormons were
assembling in large forces to oppose the advance of
the troops. There is still, however, some doubt as
to the truth of the reports that have been received
with regard to the action of the Mormons, and
official despatches from Colonel Johnston to the
Commander-in-Chief, now daily expected, are
anxiously looked for.
The Kansas Constitutional Convention concluded
their labours and adjourned on the 7th instant.
A provisional Government has been formed. with
Mr. Calhoun, the United States Surveyor, for
Governor, to go into immediate operation. The
Convention adopted a separate clause sanctioning
slavery, which section will be the only one sub-
mitted to the people. It is stated that there was a
plan on foot to obtain the acceptance by Congress
of the constitution before the meeting of the
Territorial Legislature ; and it is furthermore stated
that Governor Walker has been urged to -call an
extra session of the Legislature, in order to head
off the movement. The Legislature will be com-
posed of 45 representatives and 15 senators.
Our despatches from Washington announce the
reception, by the United States Government, of
Senor Yrisarri, as Minister from Nicaragua, and
the negotiation of a convention which will set at
rest the transit dispute. The transit is to be free
to all nations, and the United States is to keep
the water open by force of arms, if necessary.
Some trifling formalities remain to be observed
before these important matters attain to their full
effect, but in a day or two the Minister will have
entered upon his functions, and the treaty will
have.beon duly signed and despatched to Nicaragua
in charge of a special envoy.
From Cuba we have some interesting intelli-
gence. Preparations were being made for a grand
military encampment, in which it was said the
troops, destined to act against Mexico would be
mauceuvred. The barque Vesta, of Boston, has
been seized as a slaver. It was thought that
General Concha would be retained in office. A
Walker fillibuster movement against Cuba was
dreaded. There were one hundred and ninety-
three thousand boxes of sugar on hand in Havannah
and at Matanzas. Some of the joint stock specu-
tion concerns in Havannah had been wound up under
executive order. Trade has improved, the weather
was fine, and money scarce.
We have nine days later news from California.
The Executive Committee of the San Francisco
Vigilance Committee had issued a pre-
nunciamiento, annulling the existing penalties
against the expatriated individuals who
fell under the ban of the organisation during its
temporary existence. The penalty which has
just been removed was death in case of return.
Business was extremely dull in California, but
nothing like a panic had appeared at the last date
to disturb the financial operations. The storm has
not yot reached the shores of the Pacific. Miners
were represented as being as active as ever in pur-
suit of tha hidden treasure in the valleys and
mountains of the State, and the yield, by the appli-
cation of an additional amount of labour; was still
remunerative. From Carson Valley we learn that
the Mormons had departed in a body for Salt Lake
City. They numbered nearly one thousand souls,
of whom only three hundred and fifty were men.
Their departure left the remaining inhabitants
partly unprotected from the ravages of hostile
Indians, and an application had been made to the
Governor of California for assistance. The emigra-
tion across the Plains was very large, and we have
an account of one party from Missouri and Arkansas,
numbering over one hundred persons, having been
massacred by the Indians.
Our advices from Honolulu are to the 7th of
September. Th© ship Pike, of New Bedford, the
first whaler of the season, arrived at Lahaina from
Kodiaok on the 4th of that month, with nine ,
hundred and thirty barrels of whale and sperm oil.
The weather had been rough at the fishing