The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-24 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, Dec. 23.—The Atlantic has arrived
with advices from New York to the 12th, and
500,000 dols.
The steam-ship St. Louis, from Havre and South-
ampton, arrived at New York on the 6th ; and the
Ariel on the 9th inst.
The America, from Liverpool, arrived at Boston
on the 6th.
The annual Message of the President has not
arrived, Congress not having been able, after 45
ballots, to agree upon the appointment of a Speaker.
Upon the last vote being taken, Mr. Banks, Re-
publican Know-nothing, obtained 106 votes, but
112 being the number necessary to a choice, the
Senate adjourned without having elected its repre-
sentative.
At the conclusion of the 34th vote, a proposal
that the House should proceed immediately to the
election of a Speaker viva voce, and if, after the
roll had been called three times no member should
have received a majority of the whole number of
votes, the roll should again be called, and the can-
didate then receiving the largest number of votes,
provided it be a majority of a quorum, should be
declared elected Speaker, was negatived, after
having caused much excitement.
Advices from Washington state that it has been
ascertained, beyond the possibility of cavil, that a
despatch has been received from Mr. Buchanan,
relative to the Crampton difficulty, the tenour of
which was, that the British Government, in a
courteous but positive manner, declined giving
such explanations as have been demanded by the
United States' Government regarding the alleged
violation of the neutrality laws by British agents.
The Governments of San Salvador, Honduras,
and Costa Rica had strongly protested to the
United States' Government against the recognition
of the present Nicaraguan Government, and de-
clared themselves resolved to exterminate foreign
adventurers who might invade their soil for revo-
lutionary purposes.
The Government having received information
that an expedition against Nicaragua was being
organised in New York had taken steps to pre-
vent it.
Affairs at Kanzas had assumed a serious aspect ;
a demand made by the Governor of the country to
the Federal Government for the assistance of
troops had been refused. Under date of the 6th
inst. it is stated that 400 or 500 men, accompanied
by artillery and 1,000 muskets, had passed through
the town of Independence for the purpose of the
maintenance of order.
By the arrival of the Transit steam-ship Nor-
thern Light, with $362,301 in specie and gold-
dust, advises had been received from San Francisco
to the 20th ult.
Among the passengers was Col. Parker H. French,
accredited Minister from Nicaragua to the United
States, in lieu of Mr. Marcoleta recalled. Colonel
French is said to be vested with extraordinary
powers, to enable him to settle immediately the dif-
ficulties existing between the United States, Eng-
land, and Nicaragua. He brought with him the
ratification of the new treaty made by his Gover-
ment with Colonel Wheeler, United States' Minister
at Grenada.

The accounts from the mines were generally very
flattering.
The new discoveries in Table Mountain were con-
tinuing to create considerable excitement, and the
whole region had already been taken up in claims.
It was reported that several fine diamonds had
been found in the tunnels of the mountain.
The Indians in the north were continuing their
depredations upon the whites, while those in the
south were taking the cue from their more north-
erly brethren, aid were beginning to show signs of
dissatisfaction.

An engagement had taken place in RowN River
Valley between 400 of the United States' troops and
volunteers and 300 Indians, in which the Americans
were compelled to retreat, with the loss of 18 men.
Two citizens of Monterey—the Hon. Isaac B.
Wall, Collector of the Post, and T. S. Williamson,
an officer of the county, had bees assassinated on
the highway in a spirit, it was supposed, of revenge.
The murderer, who was pursued, killed two of the
pursuers.
*The banking-house of Sanders and Brenham
failed on the sth inst. The debts due to their de-
positors the day before the failure were $84,000.
Mo assets were found.

Mr. Sanders had been Collector of the Post, and
Mr. Brenham mayor of the city.
The town called Canon City has been entirely
destroyed by fire. The entire loss was about
$30,000.
The dates from Grenada are to the 24th ult.,
and from San Juan del Monte to the Ist inst.
The order of things inaugurated by the new Go-
vernment had produced the most happy effects, as
evidenced by the revival of trade and agriculture,
and the return of a number of families to their de-
serted homes.

Colonel Parker H. French bad resigned his saat
in the Cabinet, as Minister of Hacienda, and was
duly appointed Minister Plenipotentiary, with ex-
traordinary powers to the United States.
From the New York commercial accounts we
learn that symptoms of a returning stringency in
the mousy-marketTIM apparent, though capital