The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-29 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, Oct. 21.—Senor Madoz, who is the
especial champion of Catalan interests, has had a
conference with the President of the Council of
Ministers on the subject of tariff reform, which the
new Tariff Board has been appointed to report
upon. It is stated that at this conference the Duke
de la Victoria gave assurances to Senor Madoz, that
while it was certainly the intention of the Govern-
ment to bring forward a measure of tariff reform in
a liberal sense, the Catalan interests should be re-
spected. It is, therefore, probable that whatever
reductions may be made on some articles of the
present tariff, there will be little change attempted
as regards such branches of goods as are manu-
factured, or are believed to be manufactured, to
any amount in Catalonia.
The Tariff Board has suspended its meeting,
which was to have taken place yesterday, till the
24th, It has agreed to propose some reduction in
the duties levied on foreign paper ; that woollen
goods shall pay duties by weight, instead of `mea-
sure, and that mixed goods, in which wool, silk, or
linen predominates, shall be taxed according to the
amount of the respective materials that enter into
their composition. It is expected that the duties on
goods and linens will be c'iscu7sed at the next meet-
ing of the board.
It is reported that the Carlist chief Estartus has
entered the Spanish territory from France at the
head of 100 men. A telegraphic despatch from
Saragossa, dated yesterday evening, states that a
despatch had been received at Lerida from Briga-
dier Rios, dated Pons, the 17th, to the effect that
the Carlist party in that province had been com-
pletely disorganised.
The Duke and Duchess of Montpensier are ex-
pected at Seville by the end of this month on their
return from abroad.

There were 109 new cases of cholera yesterday
and 84 deaths, 62 of which were of persons attacked
on that day. The authorities are said to have re-
solved to try the effect of discharges of cannon and
of fires in the streets.
To-day being Sunday the Bolsa was closed, and
there are no transactions out of doors. In fact,
these matters are quite paralysed at present.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.

The United States Mail steamer Pacific, Captain
!. Nye, arrived in the Mersey this morning at
four o'clock, from New York, with the usual
mails, 148 passengers, and a small amount—about
4001.—in specie.
The Pacific left New York on tho 17th, and
brings four days later news than that brought by
the North Star to Cowes on Saturday.
From Washington we learn that Mr. Mason,
Minister to France, will be recalled if he cannot
satisfactorily explain his attendance at the Te Deum
in Notre Dame in honour of the fall of Sebastopol.
Great rejoicings are taking place among the admi-
nistration people on account of the recent election
in Pennsylvania, which has gone largely demo-
cratic.

The statement that Mr. Buchanan has been in-
structed to request the recall of Mr. Crampton is
denied.

Dr. Kane arrived at Washington on the 15th,
and upon special invitation proceeded, in company
with the Secretary of the Navy, to the White
House, where he was introduced to the President
and the members of the Cabinet, who were all pre-
sent. After a brief interchange of complimenls,
the gallant doctor retired, and in the afternoon
took the cars for the north. He has made an im-
portant correction in his official report of the ex-
pedition, which alaould read that a surfaco of 3,000

miles, instead of 300 square miles of open sea, free
from ice, &c., had been discovered.

The trial of Wagner, charged with violating the
neutralii y laws by enlisting a man named Cook for
service in the Crimea, was commenced on the 12th in
the United States District Court, before Judge In-
gerson. This is the first case tried for this offence
in this court, and is looked to with great interest.
There was a great array of counsel engaged for the
defence—Hon. Ogden Hoffman, Attorney-General;
ex-judge Beebe, Mr. Carpenter, and Mr. Fullerton.
,Mr. Charles Edwards was in court watching the
proceedings, as standing counsel of the British con-
sulate in this city. The district attorney, Mr.
M'Keon, appeared for the prosecution. The jury
found the prisoner guilty. The penalty is not
more than $l,OOO fine, and three year.' imprison-
ment. The case will be argued on points of law.
It appears that an absurd report had prevailed
that Santa Anna is in Washington.
The New York Jerald says :
"Our correspondent at Matamoros, Mexico, now In
the camp of the Liberating Army of the North,' situ-
ated forty miles from that city, sends us three most in-
teresting and important letters, dated at the la-teamed
place on Sept. 4, 14, and 24. G.ivernor Vidaurri, com-
mander-in-chief, had decreed the adoption of the Ceballos
tariff 'in a popularly modified shape, and the pots of
Matamoros and Tampico were, in consequence, closed
against foreign commerce until the promulgation of more
defiuite instructions. Vidaurri had also ordered, on the
21st of August, that the name of ever► man belonging
to the army of Santa Anna should be struck from the
military rolls of the country, and that the officers should
be held responsible as 'criminals- and malefactors' for
the deeds done and blood shed in the dictator's name.
The city of Zacatecas had revolted, and General Garza
had entered San Luis Potosi at the head of 3,000
frontier men. Santa Anna's generals, Gutian, Cruz, and
Parrodi thereupon fled to Guadalajara. On 30th Aug.
a squadron of General Won's cavalry came out from
Matamoros, and met a detachment, consisting of 200
seen, of Garza's army, near La Viedra, when a bloody
battle ensued, in which the revolutionary forces
triumphed. On both sides 44 men were killed and over
30 wounded. Of Santa Anna's party three officers were
killed. General 'Poll was summoned to surrender Ma-
tamoros, which he refused to do, but after a very anxious
time, and witnessing the complete demoralisation of the
garrison, he tot ned over the command to Gen. Castro,
and fled from the city, on the night of the 7th ultimo, to
Brownsville, where he sought the protection of Major
Giles Porter, of the United States army, at Fort Brown.
\Volt took with him 70,100 dollars from the military
cheat, imitating Santa Anna to the letter."

We learn from Havannah, under date of the Bth
inst., that despatches had been received from Mad,
rid condemning the action of General Concha in
maintaining the volunteers of the island in arms
d uring a time of peace and quiet.
By way of San Francisco we have important
news from Japan. While the representatives of
France, England, and Russia have been engaged in
negotiating treaties with the Japanese, the Gover-
nor of Simado has issued a proclamation denying
the right of Americans to reside in Japan, except
in cases of shipwreck or distress, thus practically
repudiating the treaty entered into with the United
States, and reducing the rights of its citizens to
the mere privilege of visiting the ports of the king-
dom as harbou-s of refuge.
There had been two arrivals at New York from.
California by the steamers Northern Light and Em-
pire City, with dates to the 20th ult. The news is
somewhat important and startling. Previous ad-
vices left the people of the Pacific State quietly
depositing their ballots for the choice of rulers, and
we are now enabled to give the result of their votes.
It will surprise many, no doubt, to learn that Mr.
J. Neely Johnson, the Know-nothing candidate
for governor, has defeated Governor Bigler by.
about 5,000 majority, and that the whole American
State ticket is elected. The Know-nothings have
also secured a majority in the State Leaislature,
which knocks Gwin's chances for the United States
Senate into the shade, and secures one more
American, at least, to that body. The cholera
broke out among the passengers on board the Nica-
ragua steamer Uncle Sam, on her passage up to.
San Francisco, and before she arrived in port 106
fell victims to the fearful disease.

COMMERCIAL.
NEW YORK, OCT. 16.
The tightness of the money market which was re-
marked a week shine is now considerably relieved. This
change is the result of a cessation for the present, 'of
specie shipments to Europe, and of the customary re-
ceipts (fully 2,000.000 dols. this week) of coin from the
P :cific side. We rind to•day a better facility of obtain-
ing loans on call and discounts on business paper. The
banks to-day have discOunted liberally, and will pro-
bably show a Small increase in the aggregates at the
close of the week.

In freights we hear of to Liverpool, 8000 brig. flour at
44. ; about 30,000 bushels grain at 104 d. to 204 d.; 800
a,..34 cotton at g- d , and rosin at 4s. The steamer has
1000 brls. apples at 5s ; 300 packages india rubber goods
at 00s ; 300 tree lard at 605.; 1000 boxes cheese at 695.
In the cotton market there is very little business
doing.

The market for brea,dstuffs was dell. It is said that
many of the orders .eut by the English and French Go-
vernments still remain unexecuted, as they are limited
to a figure below the present rates.