The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-12 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

The Japan expedition squadron, consisting of the
Mississippi, Princeton, and Allegheny steam frigates,
under the command of Commodore C. Ringold, was
to sail on the 10th November.
Two fishing schooners had arrived at Gloucester
from the fishing grounds. They reported several ad-
ditional warnings by the British cruizers, but no
further seizures, except the schooner Caroline Knight,
of Newburyport, on the 11 th ult., about ten miles
north of Prince Edward's Island. The owners of the
Caroline Knight had received a letter from the cap-
tain, in which he states that there were other vessels
inside his at the time of the seizure, and that he had
no intention to trespass on forbidden ground. It was
estimated that the returns of mackerel this year would
fall short at least one-half of the usual average, taking
the estimate from the "catch" during the same period
last year.
According to letters received from St. John, New
Brunswick, the contract for the European and North
American Railroad, from Shediac and Nova Scotia,
Ina St. John, to the Maine boundary, had been
closed by the executive and the company' with Mr.
William behalf of himself and.
William Jackson, M.P.,
associates. The price per mile is 6,500/. sterling.
The province takes 1,20.01. in stock, and leaves the
company 1,8001. per mile. The loan bears interest
six per cent., secured by a first mortgage on the whole
road, stock, stations, &c. The road and all equip-
ments to be of the very best description, such as in
the best English roads, and capable of beings
going
gelloend
over at the greatest speed. The survey vva
with vigour.
Mr. Thomas Baring was received by the President
on the 27th ult.
We have brief advices from Buenos Ayres to the
7th of August, at which date hides, both dry and
salted, were scarce and high.
The Boston Advertiser of September 27th gives
the following summary of "'aver Plate intel-
ligence :
" The barque Buck Eye, which arrived here yester-
day from Buenos Ayres, brings advices from that port
to the 7th ult.— a week later than the latest accounts
before received. The Progreso of the Gth says that sa-
tisfactory official communications have been received
from all the provinces, giving their assent to the prin-
ciples which are to serve as the basis of the approaching
national organization. The province of Catamarca had
at last given in its adhesion, and had distinguished itself
for its patriotism and confidence, having ratified the
agreement of San Nicholas in all its parts.
"On the 20th of August the representatives of all
the provinces were to assemble at the capital, Santa
Jecina, to form a General Constituent Congress. The
Progreso says that the Congress is the hope of all; its
deliberations will be the balsam which will heal for ever
the bleeding wounds which tyranny and recent events
had opened in the body politic.
" The Progreso of August 1 contains the official re-
cognition by General Urquiza, as Provisional Dictator,
of the independence of the Republic of Paraguay, and
the conclusion of a treaty of friendship, commerce, and
navigation, by which the free navigation of the rivers
Paraguay and Parana is secured to the Republic of La
Plata and the Empire of Brazil. This treaty is regarded
as an event of great importance. The independence
of Paraguay was acknowledged from the 17th of July.
" Accounts from Montevideo state that the Oriental
Government having sent a Commissioner to the mouth
of the river La Plata, to ascertain the most suitable place
for the establishment of a lighthouse for the benefit of
vessels coming from sea, he had returned, having desig-
nated the island of Lobos as the point best adapted for
the object.
" On the 27th of July M. St. George and Sir C.
Hotham were received by the Oriental Government and
presented their credentials. Sir C. Uotham afterwards
sailed in the Vixen for Buenos Ayres with M. St.
George, and on the 6th they were presented to General
Urquiza.

"Tho Progreso says that it has been reported that the
Brazilian Government had obtained from the Argentine
Government permission for a Brazilian war steamer to
enter the Parana river for the purpose of transporting a
Minister of the Emperor of Paraguay. The report is
contradicted, and it is added that the representatives of
Brazil at Buenos Ayres, with whom the Government en-
tertained the most cordial relations, had no motive for
making such a request.
"The decree lately issued, admitting flour into Buenos
Ayres, has been revoked ."

A party of thirty or forty slaves escaped from
Kentucky about the 28th ult. They were pursued
to Ohio by their owners, who suspecting them to be
in a certain house, applied for a warrant to search it,
which was refused. Three of the runaways were
subsequently captured on the road and taken on their
way back. At last accounts the negroes of the
neighbourhood had assembled in great numbers with
arms, and surrounded the hotel where the parties
were stopping. It was feared that disastrous conse-
quences might ensue, as the slave-owners had ex-
pressed a determination to have their property at all
hazards.

Advices from Tampico to the 12th ult. had been
received at New Orleans. The Mexican war steamer
City of Mexico and the sloop of war Puebla were in
the port. The excitement in regard to the usurpa-
tion by Cardenas of the Governorship of the State of
Tamaulipas still continued to exist. A decree had
been issued conferring upon the Governor whatever
powers might be required to repress the revolutionary
spirit exhibited at Tampico and other parts of the
State. If the Governor considered it necessary to
employ Don Antonio Canales in the matter the ne-
cessary licences would be conferred upon him. A
pronunciamento had been declared as a last resource.
An appeal had been made to the General Congress,
and the election of Cardenas pronounced null and
void.

At St. Jago de Cuba another earthquake occurred
on the 28th of August. The inhabitants, who were
fearfully terrified, had built temporary huts upon the
beach.

Some of the papers mention that two British officers
had been arrested and imprisoned at ilavannah on
suspicion of being " filibusters." The British con-
sul procured their immediate release.

SPANISH BONDHOLDERS.
Subjoined is the Royal decree, as it has been
published in the French papers, regarding the op-
tion to be given to the holders of Spanish bonds to
exchange their present stock for a smaller propor-
tion of a stock bearing an immediate interest of
three per cent. It is very obscure, and the entire
way in which the affair has been managed has been
exceedingly favourable for the purposes of specu-
lation :--

"Art. I. The holders of the New Three per Cent. De-
ferred Stock aro to be allowed to change their bonds at
the price fixed by the Government for a three per cent.
consolidated stock.
" 2. Every six months the Cabinet will determine the
price at which the exchange can be made during that
period, and the amount that may be exchanged, reserv.
ing the power of increasing the amount in proportion to
the demand.
" 3. Every month, at the period fixed by the Junta of
the debt, which will be advertised previously, the propo-
sals of the holders will be made known to the Junta. The
Junta will admit those proposals which, at the price
named, are the most advantageous, and which do not ex-
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of different ' prices, will be converted at the rate of the
highest bidding.
" 5. As soon as the proposals are accepted, the Minis-
try of the Public Debt will cancel the old bonds, and
proceed to the delivery of the 3 per cent. consolidated
bonds with the least possible delay.
"6. All bonds given in for exchange and those de-
livered in exchange will be with interest for the current
half-year.
" 7. The holders of the exterior deferred debt can ex.
change either against 3 per cents. exterior
.or interior
era of the interior deferred
bonds at pleasure, but,the hold
wit 3 per cents.interior can exchange only against consoli-
dated.
"S. The Finance Commissions at London and Paris,
and the Vice-Consul at Amsterdam, will accept pro-
posals by sealed !otters, w will. be sent to
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as possible.
‘. io, The Junta of the Debt will establish
the precise
rules of this conversion."

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THE DREADFUL MURDERS NEAR ABERDEEN.—
The public prosecutor concluded on Wednesday the pre..
cognition of the charge of murder
.preferred against George
Christie, and he is now fully committed to take his trial at
the next assizes.
A general sanitary inspection of the low-lying dis-
tricts of the south side of the metropolis has been completed;
and an inspection of the principal seats of fever in the north
side has been in progress by Dr. Sutherland, the inspector to
the General Board of Health, with assistants.
ANTWERP, OCT. 10.—Sir William Waller and
family arrived yesterday by the General Steam Navigation
ComPallYl team-ShiP Rsvenabotume, front London.