Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-24 00:00:00

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AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA.

The Royal Mail steamer Europa, Captain Leitch,
arrived here yesterday morning, with fifty-four
passengers, and $500,000, in specie, for Liverpool,
and $300,000 for Havre.

On the 12th instant she passed the Canada,
between Boston and Halifax, and on the 18th a
large screw steamer, supposed to be the City of
Washington. The Canadian arrived at Quebec on
the 9th instant.

The news to hand is nearly a week later than
our previous advices.
By advises from Washington we learn of the
actual settlement of the questions pending between
New Granada and the United States, General
Herren having officially acknowledged the claim
to indemnity for the outrages committed at
Panama• The same journal which published the
above has a leader on the question, and winds up
in the following words:—
As for the mooted idea of a cession of islands to us for
a naval station in the Bay of Panama, we do not see that
it is likely to come under discussion. The Congress of
New Granada, in authorising President Ospina to settle
the pending question with this country by a treaty, ex-
pressly denied to him any power to alienate or affect the
sovereignty of any portion of the Grenadian territory.
It is not probable either that our government will prips
that point, for however advantageous it might be to the
Panama Railroad Company to sell t 3 a rich government
certain islands which it has taken care to purchase, and to
secure the conveyance over their road of all the supplies
for our navy in the Pacific, the bay of Panama is really
the worst point on the whole Pacific coast for a naval
station. The peculiar geographic '1 formation of the
Isthmus forms a large open bay between Punta Male
and Punta Anemada, some thirty miles wide and thirty
miles deep, which is nosed as being the calmest
spot of sea in all the world. Steamers have no difficulty
of access, bet sailing vessels not untrequently lie thirty or
forty days becalmed there. One of our own sloops-of-war has
been thirty days in getting up from Punta Male to the
anchorage. Unless we change our present navy to one
altogether of steam—which will not be done very soon onl
a coast where the price of coal is twenty five d 'liars a ton
—the bay of Panama is totally unfit for a naval station.
We do not see, therefore, any difficulty in the way of a
complete settlement of the Panama questions, and one of
the promising symptoms that we have noted in the cDurse
of its conduct is that the government has dispensed with
the presence at Washington of the lite clumsy negotiators
at Bogota, Messrs Bowltn and Morse. General Cass will,
no doubt, be able and ■salons to defend our interests in
this matter, and we can rely on him to do so.
It would appear that the administration is some-
what anxious to hear from William Cary Jones
relative to affairs in Central America. He has now
been absent upwards of three months, and not one
line or word has thus far been received from him.
The newspaper reports from there are entirely un-
reliable, and before the Administration take any
definite action they desire to know the exact state
of affairs. If Costa Rica persists in the course she
is represented and reported to have taiten towards
Nicaragua—that is, for a division and absorption
of the State and the seizing of the transit route—
the American Government will use its good offices to
prevent what they conceive to be a most outrageous
proceeding on the part of Cosa Rica under the
circumstances. Venezuelan affairs remain just as
they did when Mr. Eames returned. General Cass
has been too much engaged with other matters to
give it any attention. The report, therefore, that
any arrangement or course of policy had been
adopted, or settlement made, is, to use no harsher
term, premature. The treaty with that govern-
ment, which was ratified at the last session, has
never been sent from the State Department to that
government for an exchange of ratifications, which
is necessary before it can become a law or go into

operation.
Official despatches from Captain Armstrong, in
command of the Chinese squadron, have been
received at the Navy Department, Washington.
Captain Armstrong states that he has succeeded
in preserving the neutrality of the American
government, notwithstanding the force of a sym-
pathetic outside pressure. The English govern-
ment is concentrating a very strong force in the
Chinese waters, and appearances indicate a settled
purpose on the part of the British to bring the
Celestials to such terms as may be deemed satis-
factory. The force now there consists of sixty
vessels, mounting seven hundred and eighty-three
guns Accompanying this force are several sea
going hospitals and transport ships. Sir William
Hoste, commanding the Spartan, had apologised
for the insult offered the United States' government
in pulling down the colors on board the American
barque Henrietta Maria.
The New York Chamber of Commerce met on
the Y:11 instant and had a number of interesting
matters before them. A committee was appointed
to inquire into the warehousing system of the
city. It was denied by the chairman that the
merchants had given up the abolition of seamen's
advanced wages. He thought it would yet be
done, though it would take time. C. H. Marshall
brought up the subject of the abuses praeticed
upon American seamen at Havana in the hospitals,
and stated that not one in a hundred ever came out
of them alive. He wished government to take
spme action. Mr. Marshall also inveighed strongly
against a steamship mail line between New York
and New Orleans, which he charged was in the
receipt from government of 295,000 dollars per
year, for the last ten years, for which they gave no
appreciable equivalent in the way of services.
A correspondent at St Paul, Minnesota, writing
on the 31st ultimo, states that—
The Democratic Constitutional Convention had organizid
at last, and that bath the democrats and republicans were
hard at work perfecting the organic law of the territory.
So far nothing had transpired to indicate the character of
the constitutions about to be put forth. L was generally
believed, however, that there would be no essential diffe-
rence in the two. Th:. question that is to be prominently
put before the people, when the constitutions are submitted
for ratification, is with regard to the regularity of the first
day's proceedings of the members ; and in this respect it
is assumed that the democrats are-sustained both by par-
liamentary law and usage in such cases. The republicans
have pissed resolutions charging their opponents with
designing to prevent the immediate admission of the
Territory into the Union, and calling oa the people to hold
meetings and express their view as to the question of
admission. The contest will undoubtedly be a very spirited
one. and will draw largely on the oratorical capacity of
both parties.
No further Indian outrages have taken place in
Minnesota, but great alarm still prevails among the
settlers, who in great numbers were leaving their
improvements.
Respecting the state of affairs in the Burdell
murder case, a New York paper of the 11th inst.
says :
The physicians appointed to make a p ersonal exami-
nation of Mrs. Cunningham, to ascertain if she had re.
cently given birth to a child, reported that Mrs Canning-
llama, by advice of counsel, declines submitting to such a
teat. At the solicitation of Mrs. Cunningham's counsel,
the taking of testimony before Justice in his behalf, was
postponed until Friday morning. No new developments
cf importance have occurred. Justice Davison attended
on Friday at N 0.31 Bond-street, for the purpose of taking
the statement of Mrs. Cunningham as to the charge of
felony preferred against her. He found her in bed, and
apparently suffering. She declared herself entirely inno-
cent of the charge, but pleaded illness as a reason for
giving no farther explanations, and stated by the advice
of her counsel she would answer no more questions. She I
still remains at her house, her atten_cling. physicobject
fug to her removal at present. In tne case of Mrs.
Cunningham, Justice Davison has rendered a decision
refusing to admit the accused to bail. A writ of certiorari
may be expected to day, when it will be seen whether Mrs.
Cunningham will spend the remainder of this month in
Bond-street or in her old quarters at the Tombs,

Advices from Kansas state that Governor Walker
evacuated Lawrence on the 3rd inst. The vote In
Lawrence in favour of t'uo Topeka constitution was
1152, only two votes were cast against it. The Free
State ticket for minor offices was elected.
Incomplete returns received at Nashville seem
to indicate the election to Congress of seven or
eight democratic members in Tennessee.
Our files from Bermuda are dated on 22nd of
July. Her Majesty's floating battery Terror (a

powerful steam vessel, with a heavy armament), had
arrived from England, and was to be stationed at
the Islands. The Bermudian says that the weather
was exceedingly mild, the perfection of what
summer affords—but gardeners are lamenting the
absence of rain.

Our files from Mexico city, dated on 15th of July,
contain some additional news items. There was
no doubt of General Comonfort's re-election to the
Presidential chair. The voting in the district of
the city of Mexico was largely in his favour over
many candidates. The best spirit prevails with
respect to resisting an invasion on the part of
Spain. The monthly exports of gold and silver
are very large. General Negrete had defeated the
insurgents under Vicairo.
We have news from Tampico to the 19th ult. The
extreme democratic party prevailed in the recent
Gubernational election, and ex-Governor Garza is
again the choice of the people. With the exception
of the excitement incident to the canvass, the State
and city of Tampico were quiet.
The Independiente, a Spanish journal, published
in New urleans, states, in its issue of the 28th
ult., that on the departure of the steamship Texas
from Vera Cruz, rumours were in circulation there
that ex-President Santa Anna had died. No par-
ticulars are given, and the Independiente adds that
these rumours probably sprung from the same
source with similar ones it had received a few
days previously from Havannah.
There is little or no news from Havannah.
The following extract from a private letter respect-
ing the Cuban slave trade, will no doubt be read
with interest :

With respect to the plans submitted to Lord Palmerston
by the Earl of Shaftesbury and other worthy glntlemen of
the British Anti-Slavery Society for the abolition of the
African slave trade, as reported in the London Times of
the 12th ult., to which you call my attention, I would say,
they are well conceived but utterly impracticable at pre-
sent. I have had fifteen years' experience of the Cuban
slave traders aid know them well ; I do not hesitate to
say that if the British government ever were to place a
cordon of vessels of war around Cuba, the only effect it
would have (unless the island authorities were made to
co-operate with the ships) would be to increase the value
of the venture because of the greater risk of the trader,
whose cupidity would thus become stimulated to new, but
nevcrfailing expedients to effect a landing of his miserable
victims. There is but one way to put an end to this
infamous traffic. It is simple, but will be found to answer
the purpose desired. Lit slave trading with Africa be
declared piracy throughout the world ; and in the words
of Eugenio V-s, the most notorious Spanish slave trader
of the present (17, " faw sailors will be found willing to
risk their necks against a bag. of dollars." It is well known
that this horrible traffic is now almostentirely confined to the
Spanish colonies. Spain, although strongly urged, has
never consented to follow the example of the European
and other governments, to declare the inhuman trade
piracy; but the reason for her so refusing must be
obvious to the whole world.

COMM ERCI IL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORE, Aug. 11.

MONETARY AFFAIRS : There is no particular movement in
the Money Market, and the rates on paper, as well as the sup-
ply of means on call, show much the same sate as previously.
Sterling Exchange J.s firmer, the market being pretty much in
the hands of the regular standard bankers, at 1091 per cent.
The circular of Marie and Kanz, issued for the Europa, says :
—"Sinca our last weekly report of the 4th inst., our Stock
Market has shown a fair decree of activity, with a strong u?-
ward movement in speculative stocks up to Saturday. when a
partial reaction took place ; still our quotations show an almost
general advance over last week's prices. There has been a
good demand for State Stocks, principally Missouri's, of
which several large parcels have been taken out of the market.
We also notice a better inquiry for some of the leading Rail-
road Bonds, but without any improvement in prices. The
Money Market is unchanged, and still shows the same ease
which we have noticed for several weeks past. The rates for
discount are, if anything, slightly firmer, but loans on call
remain extremely easy. We quote first-class paper Bto 9 ;
names less known 10 to 12. Exchanges very firm, with an
upward tendency. London, 1091 to 1091; Paris, S 17i to
5 161.

Of which during tae past week, included in the above :

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