The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-06 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

The Common Sergeant was occapied during the morning
in trying Mint cases, none of which presented any feature of
more than ordinary interest.

AMERICAN NEWS.
LIVERPOOL, TIIESDAY MORNING.

The arrival of the British and Royal North American
steam-ship Asia, Captain Judkins, places us in possession of
four days' later intelligence from the United States generally,
and the British possessions in North America, than has been
hitherto receive !. The Asia sailed from New York direct
for this port on the 24th ult., with seventy-two passengers, ,
and 84,000 dolls. in specie. She experienced most severe
weather on her voyage.
The capture of Caravajal by a Mexican General is con-
firmed. _

Kossuth was on his way to New Orleans. No movement
had as yet taken place to give him a public reception.
Business was in a very healthy condition throughout the
States. Money is in moderate demand, but stocks and se-
curities inactive. The prices of the latter, however, were
firm.

In the market for breadstuffs there was not much activity
displayed. Prices had receded slightly. Western Canal
'four, 4 dolls. 621/2c. to 4 dolls. 75c. per barrel, steady ; Ge-
nesee prime wheat, 1 doll. 12c. to 1 doll. 14c. per 60Ibs. ;
India corn, round yellow, 61c. to 66c. per bushel; Indian
meal, 3 dolls. 371,ic. to 3 dolls. 50c. per barrel.
There was little business done in cotton, prices slightly
receding. New Orleans and Mobile, mid. fair to fair, 9%c.-
to 9%c. per lb. ; Uplands and Florida, mid. fair to fair, B%c.
to B%c. per lb.
Freights unchanged in price. Flour to Liverpool, Is. 6c1..,
to ls. 9d. per barrel; grain to Liverpool, sd. to 5%d. per
bushel; cotton to Liverpool, 3-16 d. to Vtd. per lb.
Provisions in fair demand, at advancing prices. Exchange
on London, 1093/4 to 10 ; Paris, 620 ; Bremen, 78% ;
Hamburgh, 3534 36.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

LOSS OF THE TROOP-SHIP BIRKENHEAD.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY MORNING.

The Propontis mail-packet, which left the Cape on the
3d of March has just arrived. On the frontier the Gover-
nor's call for the burgher's levy was a failure; and although
there were some expectations of the receipt of intelligence
at head-quarters, on the Bth of March, of the success of ,
General Somerset's patrol, yet the appointment of a noir
governor was likely to induce Sir Harry Smith to confine
his efforts to the most simple operations.

—Neither the steam-frigate Megmra, with the rifle corps ,
(60th), nor the Hydra, with General Cathcart, had arrived.
The Hydra left Sierra Leone for the Cape on the 2d of
March.

Davison, surgeon of the 43d, has been waylaid and
killed by the Kafirs when ;on escort. Four hundred of
the British troops were in hospital at King William's
Town.

The Propontis brings the distressing intelligence of the loss
of the Birkenhead troop-:hip, on the 26th February, near
Simon's Bay ; 446 persons are missing. Naval officers
drowned : Salmond, commander; Brodie, master; Speer,
second ditto ; Davis, ditto ; Whyham, chief engineer; Hare,
master's assistant; Macclymont and Deely, assistant engi-
neers; the boatswain Harris, and the carpenter Roberta.
Military officers drowned: Second or Queen's Regiment, En-
sign Boyland; 6th Regiment, Ensign Melford ; 73d Regi-
ment, G. W. Robinson, and Lieutenant A. H. Booth; 74th
Highlanders, Major Seton, and Ensign Russell; 12th Lan-
cers, Cornet Bolt.

THE CRYSTAL PALACE.
The following letters have been published
" Immediate.
" Palace of Westminster, April 2.
Gentlemen —We are directed by her Majesty's Commis
sioners for the Exhibition of i 851 to transmit to you the as extract 'rem a letter which the Commissioners
have received from the Office of Works, showing that the
Government disapprove of the Exhibition Building being ap-
propriated to any purposes other than those which are sped-
tied in the. Royal warrant.
" The Commissioners expect that Messrs. Fox and Hen-
derson will strictly conform to the requirements of the Com-
missioners of Works as expressed in this extract.
" We have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
" Your obedient servants,
" J. Scorr RUSSELL,
OWltlliG. D
"EGAR, A.
" P. S. A copy of the Royal warrant is enclosed B.
" Messrs. Fox, Henderson, and Co."
Cy.) •
" Extract from a letter to he op r
Majesty's Commissioners for
the Exhibition of 1851, from the Office of Works,
dated March 26 :
" ' Lord John Manners feels it to be his duty therefore to
take the earliest opportunity of apprising the Commis-
sioners for the Exhibition that he cannot in any way
coun-
tenance the appropriation of the building to any lu.P°3Bs
other than those which are specified in the Royal warrant of
the 26th of September.'"
This communication was not received lay Messrs. Fox
and Henderson till Saturday morning, at an hour when of
course it was quite impossible to stop the arrangements for
the promenade.

THE METROPOLIS.—The -- -----
UNION OF THE RAILWAYS ON THE SOUTH SIDE or
Railwayno n and South-Western,
Companies,t h - W e s
havetern,
entereda n d the
London and South-Eastern
into an arrangement to unite all their several lines on the
to apply in
South-Eastern
ste r n
system,
Croy-
don. It is their intention y the ensuing session of
for an Act of Incorporation, which will have the
south of the Thanaes by ejunctionfrom Wandsworth to
Parliament
jibes
ltheso i
nLondonintended
and South Coast Railways,• 1d• al
inc u isg
Brighton, Dover,
teffect.noefs
toheelriect a large station at Wandsworth, from whence the new
line, to be called "The north and South-Western and Brighton
and Dover Junction," will run into the London and Brighton
line a short distance north of the present Croydon station.
unitingo
n the the S
It was surmised at one time that the proposed union would
have been effected nearer town, but the enhanced value of property required for building purposes, consequent upon the
daily extension of London on the south of the river, ren-
dered that proposal nugatory, unless at a very dear price;
and the example of the enormous cost incurred by the South-
Western Company in forming the extension from Nine Elmo
to Waterloo-bridge was quite sufficient to deter them from a
second experiment. Power will be applied for in the Bill
to enable all the contracting
charter of incorporation, to use each other's lines and sta-
tions in common. Should the Fleet Valley Central Ter-
minus scheme be carried out, then the above companies
Will
cross the river by one common line.
Herr Staudigl, the great basso, has arrived this
morning for the London Season.