The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-23 00:00:00

AMERICAN Nivys.

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LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDA; 2.30 A.M.
commander, we have adviers from NewhiP Arctic, Luc:,
Nth inst. She brings • 176 passengers
_
By the United States !nail stearn-s
and 450,000
dollars in specie on freight.
The steam-ship Illinois had arrived at New York
Downviile were
1,868,161 dollars in gold-dust. From the ,
with adVices from San Francisco to the
mines the
news is cheering. A company at
taking out 1,000 dollars per day. A
piece of gold
weighing 'thirty-six ounces had bee . A
la iGIIIIu at San
Joaquin, and many persons in that vicinity were
taking nine etinBes per ciiiy. Business generally was
good, without any important change. Sterling ex-
change, 47k-. • _
__ 18: boruki tt.: ntnhde

contained. BC-
_
e nf r ot
three ePe ara
shies,
coutitsvicoefsaosfea-tfibgeb6tsupposed to
be French transports, bound to Cayenne.
. • The Xew York stock market was very buoyant,
with large sales.
The money market was depressed, the 'amount of
tbhetuwlte.
floating capital being larger than .at any former pe
riod this year. A good demand for exchange bills on
London, at 1101 to noi ; Paris, 16k to 17i.
The.cotton market was more active, caused by the
receipts of unfavourable, accounts from the south. The
iron market was very firm; 600 tons to 700 tons of
Scotch pig-iron, to arrive, had been sold at 20 dolls.,
six months.

No change in bread-stuffs or provisions.
Freights to London—Flour, ls. 6d. to is. 9d. ;
measurement goods, 20s. to 30s. per ton.
Advices from Mexico to the 19th ult. contained
an official proposition,
signed by President Arista
and his officers, announcing his willingness to pro-
mote the formation of a company to construct a canal,
railroad, or waggonroad, across the Isthmus of
Tehuantepec, subject to the approval of the American
Congress. .
NEW ORLEANS, JUNE 10.
Cotton has ruled higher since the receipt of the
middling, 104 c. to 11c. per lb. -
America's' news.- Salsa
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
Arrivals' at ..New Yo 1,
r---The ratrick Henry, from
London; Liverpool; n Stuart,jclh—
‘-'''.4 Franklin, King, nn.(l,
• S. pitfick, from. Livcrp"o-61
; 131aek Prince, from Sun-
to-day, 4,500 bales; good
derland; 'Havre, from ii,,,,,,,,.. .
Queen, from Falmouth: 0
--:"oneke, from Waterford;
Coxon, from Cork; Cemn,onweauh, from, London; i
Montezuma; Guy Mannering, Rh - hennt, Mary Hone-
ralda, Envoy, Princeton, and g.
' Gaston,' from
William RuSsell, from
Liverpool; Chimborazo and Aberdeen from Havre;
Bremen;
Curonia, from Lisbon; North America Washington,
from Hamburgh; Anna , Matador and Copernicus, from
Bremen; Perseverance; from liambur h;
g Candidates,
from Salcombe; Cowes, from Rotterdam:- • Arrived , at Baltimore—he
Wilmingt
_on—The 1; _
P-4..PRe from Newport.
pool; Orient, from Bremen,
At Newhaven—The Thomas Wood, from Sunderland.
The French brig L'lrma from New Orleans for Sene-
gal has been lost on one of the Florida Keys.
...._ 1
Annapolis, from Liver-
At

the Duke of Cambridge holAion-sp!i---lli
HER MAJESTY'S -THE Ty, ------7--
8 Roya =
Majesty's Theatre withhis presence the performance at her
His Grace 6
Queen's box was occupied by the Yesterday evening. The
Miss
the Countesfi Dowager. of V' Earl and Countess of Vern-
Miss Morris, Major Wayliug, rulatii, Countess of Caledon,
1 Highness
Amongst the noble tind diathagnistlitain Wayling, and party.
ing the theatre with their presen•eed individuals also honour-
marked _the following :
the Marchioness of Salisbury, e the Duke of Wellington,
Wellesley, the Duke and Ducheslailid Lord and Lady Charles
Ducheits.of Cleveland and-Lady of Montrose, the Duke and
cellency the Russian Minister an:llgusta Paulett, his Ex-
the Admiral Count Potemkin and the Baroness Brunnow,
this occasion we re-
American Minister, Mrs. and Miss Abbott his Excellency the
First Secretary of the. Americant
the Sardinian Minister, the Marangation ; his Excellency
quis of Clanricarde, the Marquis Vfl.of Salisbury, the Mar-
Lawrence, and the
ot Bath, the Secretary of ;State f Lansdowne, the Marquis
Countess of Wilton, the Earl and 'tid party ; the Earl and ,
Ward, the Dowager Lady Ward,
Lady Margaret Rutter, the conri?antess of Glengall and
Mdlle. De Flahault, the. Dowager gee De Flahault and
and Lady Blanche L.St. Maur stat.Z:iountess of rlarrington
c'r Foreign Affairs, Lord
"ePe, the Earl Mount.
charles, &c. Sco., _ . -
ROYAL! ITALIAN OPERA.--u. •
the Duke df Cambridge honoured thel
Royal Italian Opera with his pres performances at the
Queen's box was occupied by the Coe last evening. The
Alice Lanibton, Colonel the Hon. 6untess Grey and Lady
Royal ilighnesa
Grey, and party. Among the fashio
we remarked his Excellency the isora,ble compantpresent
the Count* Lavradio- and Mdlle. De"lgnese Minister and
nharles Grey and Mrs.
and Duchess of Beaufort and the
Baron
ess
the Duke
Geraldine Somerset, the Duchess of Ainallies Henrietta and
and Marchioness of Blandford, the mar atrose, the Marquis
of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Northamis and Marchioness
Countess of Glengall and Lady Margar Pton, the Earl and
of Cardigah, the Earl and Countess 01l Butler, the Earl
Earl Cowper, the Countess of Essex and atesborough, the
Count and Coifiiteits do' ..Morells, the Co Miss Johnson, the
Earl-of Witton,-the Earl of Enston,Viseo4„4tess Craven, the
..Viscount and Visconntess Nevrport, v;;,,"tees Castlereagh,
Viscount Exmouth, Viscount Dungasvon'°aat Cranbourne,
'bury, Visbountess Villiers and bits's Doyle'
Viscount Canter-
Viscount and Viscountess Folkestone, Lord
Sydney,
Carington and the':. Hon.. Miss Caringtoa yard
Ernest Bruce and-Miss Wentworth, I.4ady'v'erd and Lady
Hon. Miss Vernon, Lord Colville, Lady m and Lady
ernon, and the
organ
party, &e., C.
Lord Arthur Hay, Lord John Hay, B
"8 Goldsmid and
, and party,
A. CENTENARIAN PREACHER.--.on m
gious service of an interesting character „."day a reli-
,:lieverend Dr. Fletchar's chapel, Pinsbn"as held in the
Mr. Alexander Fletcher ECSUndity-echooi teY.Cirens, when
sional preacher, in his 106th year, delivered tchern , and occa-
venerable preacher had" all the appoasanne-eaddress. The
half his age. °L a man about
CITY SEWERS COMMISSION.-...t'es'ter..,
..,
was held, Mr. Deputy Peacock in the eblrruaY a court
tlernen, connected with the neighbourhood • Several gen-
street, complained of a most intolerable nuisanceof Parringdon-'
the aewete. The matter was. referred eve arising from
deration:Remerabrancer called ntually for eonsi"
the
Coert to the clause to be proposed by Lord
John of the
thOMetropolis Burials Bill. After some discussion
Manners in
agreed that the proposition of the Governmeiscussion it W5B
tertained on the part of the Court of Sewer Government
should be en-
for the cleansing of the streets were then read 46. The tenders
The result-was as follows :—Mr. Gore, for t and received.
; theftSinnot, jun., for the south diste e east district,
Reddin, for est district, 8,7001. The ..et, 2,550/. ; and
journed. s.Court then ad-
TRIAL.
,
OF THE " MARS BULLET" AT NAT 0
The firstiriat of Captain Maber's " Mara Bullet"-OLIVICH.--at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, on Thursday, took place
SpeCtionV Cornet Chalmers, It-A., who a , tinder the in-
great interest- in - the ri•esult. The practice appeared to take
Dragoon Yeomanry carbine, at 200 and 150 yards. with Light
of different descriptions were fired, and fifteen 0 ds. Bullets
four hit the target. Out of the number of the of twenty-
with the " Mars bullet," net one failed • e shots fired
la striking the
target, thus showing the great superiority of
th -
e mode of
construction, particulars of which have been- previously
published in this paper. Further trials are -bottle
1 Place, .±'- - .- - yto tak