The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-19 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 18, 10.45 P.M.
The Africa has arrived with advices from Boston
to the 7th, and New York, via Halifax, to the Btb,
and $875,075 on freight.
The United States' District Court bad sentenced
Joseph Wagner, convicted of enlisting men for the
British Foreign Legion, to two months' imprison-
ment and a fine of $lOO.
Respecting the difference with England the
Herald has the following from its Washington cor-
respondent, who writes on the sth :
"By the last foreign mail, which arrived here this
morning, highly important despatches were received
from our Minister in England, all of which I understand
will be considered by the Cabinet to-day, and it is be-
lieved have reference to Mr. Crampton's difficulty, the
whole of which will be developed in a day or two."
From the New York Herald of the latest date
we extract a portion of a leading article respectirg
the alleged difference between England and the
United States on the Cuban question :--

" We have received by the Baltic a letter from a re-
liable source in Paris, communicating the important fact
that the• old Cuban embrog,lio has been very recently re-
vived in a rnost belligerent shape between Mr. Buchanan,
our Minister at London, and Lord Palmerston, the
British Premier."

The Herald here quotes from the Hampshire
Telegraph of, the 11th of October, stating that. a
Pnxuber of British- vessels of war had been...d.e-
spatched to Bermuda in coriseqUeice of the-ineult-
ing tone of the United States' Government on the
subject of Cuba. The Herald continues :
" Nearly a fortnight ago we published from the Times
of Oetobt r 12 the list of the aforesaid vessels of war and
their destinations respectively ; but, although the news
at that time attracted our curiosity, it did not excite any
particular attention on this side the Atlantic from the
harmless division of the ships between the Bermuda
Islands and Jamaica. No a?, we are entirely satisfied from
our special letter from Paris, and from the corroborating
extract from the Hampshire 7elegraph, that there is
mischief in this thing. This Hampshire Telegraph, 'is
published very near the country seat of Lord Palmerston,
where, we presume, during the recess of Parliament, his
lordship spends a considerable portion f his leisure time.
This circumstance gives a colouring of sani-official
authority to the specifications of the journal in question.
In fact, assuming that the Hampshire Telegraph is the
home organ of Lord Palmerston, and that he employs it
occasionally as President Pierce uses the Concord Patriot
when it is deemed most expedient to give the democracy
a broad hint in a roundabout way of some important
movement afoot, we may venture to consider the above
extract an official communication. The case then becomes
an affair of the highest moment, for it involves issues
and contingencies which may entangle us and this whole
western hemisphere in a war with the maritime Powers
of Europe. First, it appears that this concentration
within striking distance of the island of Cuba of a British
squadron, numbering, in all probability, not less than 20
vessels of war (to say nothing of the French West India
squadron), in consequence of the American Govern-
ment having replied to some communication mad e
to them by the British Government in a manner in-
sulting to England in the highest degree ; nor are we
left altogether in the dark concerning this communica-
tion from the British Cabinet. It is doubtless a p-
newal in some shape of the tripartite overtures to the
Administration of Mr. Fillmore, which Lord Palmer-
st)n may have concluded would be acceptable
at Washington to that of Mr. Pierce after the appa-
rently indignant rejection by Marcy of the Cuban mani-
festo of his Ministers, resulting from those solemn autho-
rised conferences at Ostend and Aix-la-Chapelle. In the
rumoured reply of the American Government' there is
an air of that genuine grandiloquent patriotism which
has characterised all the diplomatic promises, circulars,
and instructions of our Pierce Administrations, so that,
brief as is the report of the Hampshire Telegraph, of this
answer of our Government, it bears the evidence upon
its face of official authority. The question then aria a,
what is Marcy driving at in thus startling the whole
country with his warlike re-opening of the Cuban trouble
when everybody had imagined it postponed, or that the
Administration, like Micawber, had humbly resigned
itself to waiting for something to turn up Does Marcy
or does Mr. Pierce seek to embarrass England and
France on the Cuban question by way of a diplomatic
diversion to the advantageous settlement of the Danish
Sound difficulty? We think not. Or does our Cabinet
really believe that the golden opportunity has come for
cutting the Gordian knot of the Cuban entanglement
with the sword ? No. The true explanation, we appre-
hend, lies in the necessity to our Cabinet aspirants of a
little active war capital for the next Presidency. The
manifest destiny' of Cuba is, sooner or later, the an-
nexation of the island to the United States. This, at all
events, is the general popular belief in all quarters of the
Union. Thus far our Pierce Administration, in all
fine promises, looking to this great consummation, has
lost ground here, as in everything else ; winneeaan;
time, the Presidential election of 1856 is cominge
ver the lost
as to require some desperate expedient to
confidence of the people. Mr. Piercerautreionqnueemstiinoantaiabnly
would consent to accept another democratic
be,
Marcy him
and utterly hopeless as his case appears
Mr. Buchanan,
self aspires to the succession. again,Then,eei
al hampion of the
our Minister in London, the
dareesP say, notwithstanding
Cuban annexationists, is, wead
to co-operate with the
the Ostend collapse, quite ready
CubanYmovement which may
Cabinet in any bold
ol
ige ryeas
thatsi ng
neither democracy,
the
In
strengthen his claim
would hesitate to get up
this view we are prepared wthbtathoneapbaer Ad
ministration nor Mr.
a war cry against England and France in the matter of
Cuba, and such a war cry as would
overwhelm in the
convention the slavery
, democratic national question and
all other issues, and bring the reunite democracy to the
support of the Administration and its most available
war candidate for the succession. It was upon the war
question of 1812 that Mattison was re-elected ; it was
the Battle of New Orleans that brought General Jackson
into power ; it was the military service of General Har-
rison that made him President ; it was the policy of the
annexation of Texas, peace or war, that elected Mr.
Polk ; it was the Mexican war that carried General Tay-
lor into the White-house, and to that war are we in-
debted for the election of General Pierce, though not
elected upon his military merits. In a word, though the
most pacific people in the world, the people of the United
States are ever ready to unite in support of the honour,
the glory, the interests, and cause of the country in a fo-
reign war, and in support of the Administration which
may involve us in a war, however feeble such an Admin-
istration may be ; and this, we conceive, is the desperate
alternative which Mr. Pierce and Mr. Marcy hs_yuebraen
re-
solved upon in this belligerent reopening of the Cuban
embroglio, it is an experiment to divert the public at-

movements in Nicaragua having reached Washing-
ton, the subject had occupied the attention of the -
Government, and Commodore Paulding would
probably be instructed '--- - 1 t' ,: -sr imme-
diately, with special instro. _ ..,:. ..,6 eiante
in that quarter.
Advices from Matamoras state that from 4,000 tio
5,000 men bad been ordered by the Mexican Go-
vernment to the northern frontiers, to repel the
Texan rangers. Vidauri was appointed comman-
der-in-chief on the Rio Grande, and had ordere I
the commanding-officer at Matamoras to discharge
the National Guards, which the latter refused to
obey. Vidauri has addressed a note to Secretary
Marcy complaining of the violating of Mexican ter-
ritory, and charging the commander at Fort Dim -
can with connivance with the Filibusters.
Advices from Nicaragua report that General
Walker, having been reinforced by a small party of
Californians, on the 12th ult., embarked at Virgin
Bay on board the steamer Virgin, and before day-
light the next morning landed within four miles of
Granada. After a rapid advance the expedition
reached the city, and gained the Molazza without
encountering any serious resistance, but here a sharp
contest ensued, which resulted in a loss to the
enemy of 15 killed and several wounded. General
Walker took possession of the capital of Nicaragua.
Subsequently, the fort was captured by a detach-
ment of Americans. Order having been restored,
the citizens of Granada held a public meeting and
tendered to General Walker the Presidency of the
republic, which honour lie declined in favour of
Gen. Corral. Col. Wheeler, the United States'
Minister to Central America, after much solicitation,
proceeded to Rivas, with propositions of peace.
Arriving at Rivas, and learning that Gen. Corral
was absent, Colonel Wheeler attempted to return,
but was prevented by the Governor, and detained
two days, nor was be released until the town was
threatened with an attack. This breach of faith
on the part of Corral's forces led to a correspon-
dence between the United States' Minister and the
General. On the 22d Corral surrendered, a treaty
of peace was formed, and thus Walker's victory
became complete.
During the progress of these events others of
imiy)rtauce were transpiring. On the 19th Colonel
Fry and Parker H. French, with GO men, embarked
on board the Virgin, which also carried the pas-
sengers and specie from California, with the inten-
tion of capturing San Carlos. The occupants of
the fort fired upon the steamer with cannon, and
the i xpeditiou was abandoned, Colonel Fry being
unwilling to risk the lives of the passengers. On
the 23 1 the steamer conveying the outward-bound
California passengers by the Star of the West was
fired upon from the fort. A 321 b. shot struck the
boat, killing a lady and a child, and seriously in-
juring the machinery. Previous to this an attack
was made upon the returning Californians at
Virgin Bay by the Government forces, when. four
persons were killed and eight others serionsly/
wounded. .
The Now York commercial advices report that
the financial trouble continued in the stock-market-h
and that nearly every description of stock was
being forced upon the market at reduced rates. At
the brokers' the rates for commercial paper stood
at 8 to 9 per cent. for strictly first-class paper, and
at 9 to 12 per cent. for that which was not so well
known.

The mom y-market continued very stringent.
The Bank statement showed a continuance of the
contraction of loans, with no important change. in

the specie reserve, and an increase of deposits.
Exchange was extremely dull, and rates on Lon-
don were quoted 108 to 1081. On Paris 5.171 to
5.20 ; on Amsterdam, 41 to 41Z ; and on Bremen,
78 to 78k. There were few transactions in cot-
ton, and those were effected only at a decline of
ic. to 4c. Flour was selling at an advance of 12ic.
per barrel upon the prices quoted a week previously,
but the market closed heavily. In provisions there
was 110 alteration of moment. Small sales of Scotch
pig iron had taken place at $35 750.
Freights to Europe were inactive.
At New Orleans, on receipt of the European ac-
count:4 prices of cotton declined 4c., and the mar-
ket closed unsettled.
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SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY, 1 A.M.
The American steam-ship Ariel, Capt. Leftvre,
has arrived with 60 passengers, cargo, and sates
from New York to the 4th inst.

The United States' mail steamer Hermann left
New York for Southampton and Bremen on the 3d
instant.

The Baltic arrived out on the morning of the 3d
,nstant.

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The Ariel experienced throughout the voyage
strong easterly winds and heavy weather.

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31 JIILLIEN'S CONCERTS. - ROYAL 1
• ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.—Third Night
of TUB FALL of SEBASTOPOL QUADRILLE.—The Programtne
for T 4IS EVENING (Monday, Nov. 19) will include :—Meyerbeer's
Overture, Struenzee (first time this season); the Californian Qua-
drille (first time); the Andante from Mendelssobn's Italian Sym-
phony ; Ah non Ginnge and The Forest Fairy, sung by Madame
a Pistons,
Gassier ; New Valse, La Belle du Village ; Solo, Cornet
by Herr Koenig; M. Juillen's Nov Grand Descriptive Military Qua-
dr;lle, entitled

THE FALL OF SEB ASTOPOL,
assisted by the military bands ; a Grand Operatic Selection from Les
Huguenots ; the Alegro d Storm from Beethoven's Pastoral Sym-
phony ;Sole, Oboe, by Man Lavigne ; New Galop, the Zouave pas de
Course ; the Sleigh Polka (last time but we), &c.
Prices of admission :—Promenadc, upper boxes, amphitheatre
stalk, and amphitheatre, ls.; dress circle, 23.6 d, ; private boxes, 125.,
I/. ls., and 1/. 115. 6d. Places and private boxes may be had at the
box-officeot the theatre, of Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Hammond, Mr. Hook-
ham, and Messrs. Andrews, Bond street ; and at Messrs. Jullien and
Co '5, Regent-street.
M. Jullien's Grand Annual 13a1 Masque will take place on Mon-
day, Dec. IT, 1855.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY.I.ANE.
Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING.
Will be performed AN IMPUDEN T PUPPY.
After which, TWENTY MINUTES WITH A TIGER
To be followed by NITOCRIS. Characters by Messrs. E. F. Ed-
gar, Stuart, B. Sullivan G. Wild, C. Vincent, Fc.c.; Miss Glyn, Mrs.
Selby, Miss De Vere, Miss Anderton, Miss Cleveland, &C.