The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-01 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.
The United States mail steam-ship Arctic, Luce com-
mander, with advices from New York to the 20th inst.,
arrived in the Mersey shortly after 6 o'clock this even-
ing. She brings 56 passengers, but no specie. The
Arctic has made the run in 11 days, 1 hour, 25 minutes,
mean time.

The Royal Mail steam-ship Niagara, with the mails of
the 6th inst , from Liverpool, arrived at Boston on the
18th inst,

The steam-ship Hermann, which sailed from New
York for Southampton on the 7th inst , put back on the
17th inst., the centre shaft of the port engine having
broken when four days out,
The steam-ship Washingtoe, from Southampton on
the 3d inst., arrived at New York at 5 P. 31. on the 18th
inst.

The capta;n of the barque Action, from Liverpool to
New Orleans, had been fined 5,000 dolls. for outraging
the persons of two female passengers.
Late advices from Honduras received at Charleston
report a fearful storm in that bay, in which five British
vessels were lost; one is the barque Bathurst, of Lon-
don, with all on boere. The names of the others are not
given,

Advices from Ilavannab, to the 15th inst., are unim-
portant. The damaged cargo and hull of the ship Tele--
mon had been valued et 37,000 dolls.; 14,000 dolls. had
been awarded as salvage.
Late advices from Northern Mexico received at New
Orleans state that Caravajal had been taken prisoner by
General Harney.
Port au-Prince advices to the 7th inst. state that all
was quiet. The coronation of the Emperor is fixed to
take place on the 18th of April.
No change in the New York money• mark& The
stock-market was unsettled. A moderate business in
exchange. Bills on London, 10911 to 110; Paris, 5 184
to 5 20; Amsterdam, 41 to 411.
The sales of cotton since last advices were 10,000
bales, at rather lower prices. The transactions in wheat
and flour very moderate, at a decline in price. Indian
corn in good request for export, with sates of 100,000
bushels it enhanced prices. Iron in good demand; 80
tons Scotch pig sold at 20 dolls. 50c. to 21 dolls. English
bar sold at 46 dolls. 50e. Freights to London—Flour,
2s. to 2s. 3d. per barrel; beef, 25.; measurement goods,
255. per ton. NEW ORLEANS, MARCH 17.
Market dull. Sales to-day, 4,000 bales; strictmiddling,
73. c. per lb.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
from Liverpool; the Washington steamer, from
Arrived at New York—The Sardinia and the Phila-
phia,
Southampton; the Z, from Glasgow; the Christiana,
from London; the Anna, from Palermo; the Emigrant,'
from Newcastle.
Arrived at Philadelphia—The St. Louis, from Liver-
pool.
Arrived at Boston—The Anna Rich, from Liverpool.

ante has been reaping a
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—This
MADAMR CELESTE IN AMERICA. popular
favo • harvest at New Orleans,
1 where she concluded, on the ith March, one of the most un-
precedentedly successful engagements ever performed there
by any artiste. Her own profits amounted to 5,040 dollars.
golden
The next city she was te visit was Mobile, then Louisville,
Charleston, Cincinnati, and so on to New York, where she
opens on the 31st May.
The Royal Hotel at Slough is to be dismantled, a
sale by auction of all the valuable and splendid furniture and
appendages of this fashionable hotel being announced in our
columns by Messrs.
Robins commencing May 3d. Much of
enterprising proprietor, was al-
the furniture
possesses considerable interest, having belonged
to Marie Antoinette, the Em ress Josephine, and Napoleon
Bonaparte, which Dotesio, the
ways proud of pointing not
to his visitors The wines are
very highly spoken of ; a fine o
portanity will be presented
to the connoiseur to enrich his cellar from the stock of this
far-famed hotel.

A schoolmaster at Stockton, named Harker, has
been committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter, in
baying caused thi3 death of one et his scholars by batmg•