The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-10 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY, DEC. 9.
The Pacific has arrived with advices from New
York to the 27th of November, and $9,000 in
specie.

The Washington correspondent of the Journal of
Commerce says it is understood "that the repre-
sentations of our Government regarding the alleged
violation of the neutrality laws by Mr. Crampton
have not been met in that straightforward manner
our Government had a right to expect."
Mr. Buchanan says the professions of friendship
by the British Cabinet are more profuse than here-
tofore, and expresses the opinion that procrastina-
tion has been resorted to in the hope that some-.
thing might turn up to relieve the British Govern-
ment from its dilemma.

The Washington Union, by authority of the
State Department, says that Mr. Buchanan, with
regard to the augmentation of the British West
Indian squadron, says that Lord Clarendon stated
that the mission of the squadron originated in no
act unfriendly to the United States ; its object was
to protect British commerce from privateers said to
be fitting out at our ports ; the case of the Maury,
as represented by Mr. Barclay and Mr. Crampton,
was cited in justification.
The New York Journal of Commerce, referring
to the enlistment question and the rumoured re-
call of Mr. Crampton, the British Minister regrets
to learn that it is the determination of the Admi-
nistration to make that gentleman the expiating
victim of the offence alleged to have been per F-
•

The committee appointed by the New York
Chamber of Commerce to ascertain and report the
facts connected with the seizure of the Maury had
made their report, and the Chamber had adopted
it. The report states that the character of the
owners of the vessel had been needlessly assailed,
owing to the want of proper inquiry of the British
diplomatic agents ; it asserts that the United
States' Government has always strictly enforced
the laws of neutrality; the British agents bad not
properly apologised to the owners of the Maury for
the infamous impeachment against them ; one of
the three resolutions adopted by the Chamber on
this subject is as follows :

" That the merchants, as part of the body of
merchants of the United States, will uphold the
Government in the full maintenance of neutrality,
of the laws of the country, and we acknowledge
and adopt, and always have regarded the acts of
the United States for preserving its neutrality as
binding in honour and conscience, as well as in
law, and that we denounce those who violate them
as disturbers of the peace of the world, to be held
in universal abhorrence."
By the arrival of the steam-ship Daniel Webster
at New Orleans advices have been received from
California to the sth ult. The mining news is of
an encouraging nature. The Indians in Oregon
were continuing their depredations on an extensive
scale.

An additional force of 200 men had left San
Francisco to join Colonel Walker, who still retained
quiet possession of Granada and the Transit route.
He was daily receiving accessions. On the 13th Mr.
Wheeler, the United States' Minister at Nicaragua,
formally recognised Walker's Government. Gene-
ral Corral had been found guilty of treason and
shot, and Espinosa had been banished. Colonel
Kinney remained at Greytown, but 50 of his fol-
lowers had joined the Walker party.
Advices from Havannah to the 23d ult. had been
also received at that port by the arrival of the
steam-ship Grenada, but the/ news was unimpor-
tant. Sugars were wholly unchanged.
From Mexico the dates aro to the 18th alt. Ge-
neral Alvarez had entered the capital with 5,000
men, the garrison having evacuated, and a cordial
feeling existed between the General and Vidaurri.
Advices have been received from Venezuela to
the Bth ult. The port was perfectly healthy and
tranquil. In La Guayra and Porto Cabello cholera
was raging to an alarming extent.
At New York there was a more torpid feeling in
financial circles. Capital was abundant, and the
banks were discounted liberally ; first-class paper
was done at 9 to 12 per cent.
Stock was active, but heavy, and prices had a
decided downward tendency, resulting in a decline
in Erie Railroad, 11 ; Haarlem, I ; Reading, ;
Michigan Southern, 2 ; Michigan Central, 21 ;
Galena and Chichago, 12; Chicago and Rock
Island, ; Illinois Central Bonds,
Exchange on England was in good demand, at
108 to 1081 per cent. Bills on France were quoted
at sf. 214 c. to sf. 25c. Cotton was unchanged. In
breadstuffs there was an advance. Freights were
better.

CONTRABAND OF WAR AT HAMBURG.

HAMBURG, Dec. s.—lt is now several weeks
since the British consul-general here, Col. Hodges,
was instructed by Government to present to the
Senate of Hamburg an energetic note, strongly
protesting against the laxity with which the Go-
verment of this city observed their so-called neu-
trality, and the glaring and open manner in which
contraband of war (and more especially the articles
of sulphur and saltpetre) was sent from here by the
Prussian railroad to Russia.
Within the last ten days large quantities of these
articles have been imported here without any notice
being taken of it, or protest raised from any side
whatever, and it is no secret here that the pur-
chasers are the agents of St. Petersburg houses,
and that the goods have been sent on by railroad
to Russia. That your readers may judge for them-
selves of the quantity of sulphur and saltpetre i •
ported into Hamburg within the, last few days, I
beg to subjoin the following particulars, taken from
our official import lists :

"Antagonist (British barque), Blake, master, from
Terranova, 1,120,0001 b. sulphur.
"Labora (Danish schooner), Captain Muhl, from
Marseilles, 150 chests of sulphur.
"Albis (Hamburg brig), Captain Ahrens, from Iquique,
1,759 bags of saltpetre.
"Johann Julius (Holstein barque), Captain Harm),
from Iquique, 3,116 bags of saltpetre.
"Jane Innes (British schooner), Bunt, master, from
Palermo, 1,430 cantars (cwt.) of sulphur.
"Maria (Holstein schooner), Captain Meyer, from
Girwenti, 1,655 cantars of sulphut.
"Hans Friedrich (Danish brig), Captain Brand, from
Iquique, 3,157 hags of saltpetre.
"Alders Minde (Norwegian brig), Captain Bruhn,
from Licata, 2,680 cantars of sulphur.
"Blida (Elamburg brig), Captain Jachtmann, from
New York, 1,563 bags of saltpetre."
Here then we have, in the short space of ten
days, no less than five cargoes of sulphur and four
of saltpetre, with the certain knowledge that they
are sent on to Russia, and converted into gun-
powder to be used against us.
Within the last few days a large demand has
sprung up here for empty sugar chests, particularly
for those from Havannah and the Brazils. These
chests are conveyed to the so-called Theerhof—a
largo isolated stack of warehouses used exclusively
for warehousing tar, turpentine, sulphur, saltpetre,
pitch, and other easily inflammable articles of mer-
chandise—where they are filled with sulphur. As
largo quantities of Brazil and Havannah sugars are
sent every day to Russia by the railroad, it is not
irrational to suspect that this sulphur, packed in
old sugar cases, is also intended for transit to
Russia—probably to be mixed up with other and
similar chests of real sugar, to mask the real nature
of the transaction, and satisfy the easy consciences
of the Prussian officials.