The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-06 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, Au°. 0.,
111
The United St;..trs mail steamer Pacific, C.ipt"
Nye, has arrived with dates from New York t the
o
25th ult., and 900,000 dollars specie on freight' 4.
The parties taken out of the British brig _
falo, and conveyed to Boston, where they 01:
tried and acquitted of the charge of violating t°
neutrality laws by enlisting men for the Cris
have brought actions against Captain Clark, of tu
revenue cutter James Campbell, for illegal dete 1-
tion and imprisonment. The damages clairtie°
amounted D
40,000 d
w-no ollars.
During ato Knothing meeting at Louisvilkie
attackan b was made upon some houses occupied LI,
Irish families, and during the riot
were wounded by firearms.
At Buffalo the persons charged with enlistill
recruits for the British Foreign Legion had be
committed to prison in default of bait. t
The steam-ship Star of the West had arrived at
New York with 1,000,000 dollars of gold on freigull'i
and California advices to the 30th of June. I, beas
she left San Juan her Majesty's ship Buzzard
in the harbour. some perso
The accounts from the mines continue' to be of th°
most satisfactory nature. Tunnelling and (111.°
crushing were being prosecuted with extraordni!er;
,
activity, and the interior press teemed with fla:10i
ing notices of the discovery of new and rich I° rs.
Iu Calaveras county the most successful 0R:3,i10
tions were going forward in Campo Ceco,
Camp, French Hill, Empire City,
From
and other famous mining places. From ether I?oo.
tions of the State the news is equally cheert%
The miners in some districts had refused to deryr ,
any longer in banking-houses, and preferred hest•
ing their treasures as they exhumed them to
oo•
ing the bankers. Water was about being hierri.
duced into an immense tract of gold-bearing toe
tory from Lake Bigler, in the Sierra Nevada'
enterprise was alreadTon foot and the funds P 370,
contributed. The most intense heat bad bee% of
perienced. A Los Angelos paper of the I,7togi.
June publishes the following account of all 111 ocl
nary naval combat between a French corvette 8
a Russian frigate : taro of
" The frigate chased the corvette, and the eal),--„lutin
the latter, whose name is said to have been t*„.ike
Duchem, seeing no hope of escape, rather than 6iece'-fi,
his flag, after seeing most of hiS crew cut top 01.
jumped down into the magazine and blew his nviDdP,litir
all on board into eternity. She was called theg,-",;t0e0.
mounted 32 guns, and had a complement of -
/1
The Russian frigate came into San
Diego disabled, 0
68 men killed, and 150 wounded. She is a 74, reareepflilr
83 guns, and carried 900 men. Her name is the

menu, Captain Itvn Zapatsky." ed 14
The steam-ship America had been destrof
fire. rt the
Advices from the Sandwich Islands rel)°,,ortlr
sailing of her Majesty's ship Monarch for tlieviPso 0,
ward. Her Majesty's ship Rattlesnake
.1.
Honolulu. CiP
Of commercial affairs the New York ConOf
list says :
" We note some signs of a revival of business, tbby°3llo
most departments of trade are still oharacteri'264 with.
usual degree of apathy incident to midsummer,' rates,
plethora of unemployed capital, and only a m', ue roe);
mand for it, the money market is easy at 6 to i Pod B."'
for high grades of 60 days' commercial paeer,:ibee,o
9 per cent. for fair names, short dates having, odes/
ference. The bank statement for the week ill' eo,. 01,1
not so favourable as could be desired, shesv`l3oollol
does, an expansion of loans and a decrease of Woo
deposits. The following is a comparative o°3
the leading items : pal
Loans. Specie. 610,d
Julyl4, 1855..4 A.Q6
98,415,432 $16,563,756 00/9,'"
July2l, 1855 99,029,147 15,918,999 '`......1,.,,4
_—
Increase 61,3715 t
. •• • 3,sAfeif
Decrease.. 644 757 lis 0
The falling•off in deposits..., it will be observe*,
it illj
large, which is somewhat remarkable, wheal:so.lo;
consideration the increase of loans ; they bluc,-Itird
to reach $100,000,000. If the expansion be t-rietlf"„,i,
arrested it must assuredly lead to increased 5111.,44'
in the money market, and that, too, at an e;01170
Sterling exchange keeps up to the specie polott_40:0
does not seem to be any prospect of an elate:o*Po;
shipments of coin and bullion. The experts he,
"0.4
the let of January reach $18,363,561, againstsll
same time in 1854, and $10,997,818 in 1553.0 ogiii
cific, sailing t.)-day, will take about $1,500,°°,/ 010
is probable that the shipments for the week 1i".3.
equal to the expected accession from Califorel or
stock market drags heavily, and there is littlest'Di
speculative action. There has been soriegmof
so
check to the downward tendency of the prices bot.ili,
stuffs, though it seems quite evident that prices 044
yet touched bottom. New wheat from the 513009
rivirg freely from Georgia, South Carolina? "00$10t
and Virginia. A large portion of the suppliege, it
by the southern steamers came from Tennesl a I°.'to
tion of the country that has heretofore affcrueofe4
small surplus after supplying its own wants.
~ 10
seen samples of this wheat, which is very P1an3514,00
in.,,, about 661 b. to the bushel, comparing favell',,oo'l4
our Tenessee wheat.. The distance of transportii' 7000 p
Tennessee to New York is about 1,300 rci,l_„thre 11„.,
the ocean steamers, and 600 by railroad ll'of rol
ville to Charleston and Savannah. The cost di,
portation is 50 cents, a bushel, Is, for car
steamers, and 3,. by rail, or Is. each over the„e0b0::0
roads, before it reaches the southern point 01 of:"
tion. Only a few ago the Georgia and airoliostrind
were dependent mainly on New York for tb,6o
now we are receiving both flour and wheat Irtbi troy
States. Charleston and Savannah are brlgoo PtO
two days of New York, and wheat shipped :,r„ i 7 iiesiael
vine, Tennessee, at the commencement of ti'''or
landed here before its close. So much for ote
r„
rail."
„,,e, .1 pOi
. There has been a quiet market for co"..'-bil‘`,ol
remained firm. In exchange the busiele
been large. Bills on London were quote 0
I.N. iii-9;l#i
The New York Herald publishes a cfrilfi t- 714
tion from its Washington corresponeeZ le"
July 20, which states that the Presidentel:lo
ceived an autograph letter from the ''-D e'
Russia in reply to one of congratulat,,,' it
accession to the throne. cefr,
The document, which alludes in hig!'''os O'fir
mentary terms to the increasing greatetebe eV
United States, contains a paragraph t° ~tol4.lti
that the dying admonitory advice of the ' to P
present Emperor conveyed an injunoti,°ll 10,
,et
the private papers to be found in t,i'°11010)
escritoire which he (the Emperor Nife IV
received from the eminent men in Toad ' • I
States, among whose names were to be beig
of Jackson, Clay, Webster, and others.," o.l.;`°'
The latter proceeds to acknowledge L",O saiet,o4,
those papers, and expresses his MOjeSti;„4oll 0P
obligation at the strong national interest of tbecoll'
by the American people in the success, P e
upon which his great father had enteroftioo ~
eludes by professing the most lasting oor
between Russia and the United States. rioci,e Ocei
Claims to the extent of $5,000,000 f° st,„o
d val
ficat ion had been made against the IThite-,,ineti`
vernment from the sufferers by the b° ,--10 P
of Greytown, a number of whom hat'
Washington to press their demands. •

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MEXICAN BONDBO LDO
of
The following is from the Committee ,1"
Bondholders : wife 1
The committee of Mexican bondholders -the- 94defr
advices from Mr. Whitehead, dated Mesic°, ',00d..0, 7;
He again speaks very highly of the resaYgef,...,''S
assistance which her Majesty's Minister i° boo
Lettsom, has constantly affordedr
when oti ,et
1p
quired for the protec,,ion of the propertYj JarlPte
the bondholders. No determination ho, 080401110
come to on the subject of the cornmitte„t resi'eroy,
the President of the Ist March last. t1)15,3 ir
ti Colonel Facio for the dividend fund b,211,03.°,004,
are 12,000 dols. from Vera Cruz and a frond do
from Tampico. The committee have also t I' Pfejoj
nication from the Mexican financial ti op se ll
Colonel Facio, stating that his re.4.11°
orpo 080
accepted by his Government, and that SO bid I'd
Gomez Farim, the secretary of the ageo°l' be bnf
pointed his successor. To that gentlealo°.golc.-5V
ferrrd 127,7801. 6s. sd. standing at th°, {off
land to the credit of the dividend funcl'f'tb°
10s. not yet claimed by the holders ° foto
bt e
coupons. Colonel Facio finally gives
vised return of the state of the converoC.
i°
u!t., viz, : 00
SI
A. 3' 400 $9
Recognised amount of 5 8 a 049 595 /
per cent bonds ..
Issue of 3 per tent. bonds 2255,979734 8;1
36

5 per cent, bonds not yet
converted
or together 30,10,v6001 erted. 01
ivOlittori
RESIGNATION OF Mn. M. T. Bk.'s'
fifo'erllC:sl9:ll,eoC!"l4:,r,":s°l
THE POOR-LAW BOARD.—The Leeds
day last contains the fdlov;ing tiddres•ire t°,r, 13155.1 j Ig
the borough of Leeds, signed by 1‘11'.'1". ost `2" titlecoir
ddlleerdati7:l Poor-
" Gentlemen,- -You are on every ac,c/ocito feoott
that I can law Board, ‘Vbiteball, Avgio 00,01
learns directly from myself a step whic0,,......
_,,,ic of
of my health has forced upon Ille, 00! bll its
state t I have thought it right to ta'nbe c°",yrlti
io 0 d lifg df
factory to ray own mind, the laborioogoriot,o9ol
no longer hope to perforol' and p00.,0,.
sponsible duties of President of the r°s nrici ,1.000,
conjunction with those other Dunlevnler SPI tb0.0":
duties which necessarily devolve upon W iideor fe#o.o
representative of a borough like Leeds•we t,b_.9tert,iol::
vietion I have thought it right to_l3_;o gift' orre:
tion of ray office in the hands of the
the-rr' Prefe°,o4,,,t.:
I now retain it only till the.end of ,00 fir 90 t 7,40;
My most grateful thanks are due to Y, to boV,.„ il°_,Y
iflfitle V.' ti'''
indulge:tee ; and I entertain a co 11 office', j 0
may be able, when unconnected '%it_iti, to l:°J
myself with increased zeal and ssido,, 7.10000,
your representative in the liouse °f vc"
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