The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-17 00:00:00

EVENING,

by Captain Joseph Walker, a man who, without any
injustice to others, may be said to have travelled more
aruoug, and to be batter acquainted with, the Rocky
Mountains than eny other living person. His time,
perhaps, for more than thirty years, has been chiefly
spent in wandering over them, in almost every possible
direction. Ile has made repeated trips between New
Mexico and California; and about a year since he came
from Monterey, or San Diego, to Albuquerque (seventy-
five miles below Santa FC!, N. M.) within twenty-five
days, travelling leisurely with pack animals. The route
he travelled was an entirely new one, hitherto unknown;
and last fall he returned to California by the same way.
The route is directly west from Santa Fe, and he repre-
sents it as being in every way as practicable for wag-
gons and carriages as that between Santa Fe and Mis-
souri. It crosses no mountains, but lies upon broad and
level mesas, or table Lends, where the finest of pasture
abounds, and a sufficiency of water is met at short
intervals. Moreover, the elevated lands adjacent
furnish a variety of the best timber. lam sorry it is
not in my power to indicate this route with particularity,
but the public may rest assured that the fact of the
existence of such a pass to the Pacific is past all doubt.
I believe there is but one man who has obtained from
Captain Walker a plan of the route, with accurate date,
and that gentleman (Mr. Kern) is, I believe, now in
Washington' city. Mr. Kern, who was with Fremont in
one or two of his expeditions, is represented to me as
being a skilful engineer and draughtsman. Captain
Pope, an accomplished and energetic officer of the
United States' Topographical Corps, is at present in
Santa Fe This gentleman, aware of the facts I have
mentioned in regard to this new pass through the
mountains, has made application at Washington to be
allowed to explore the route in a thorough and scientific
manner; and in the event of his request being granted, •
the moderate facilities he will require will be readily
granted him by Colonel Sumner, the military comman-
der of this department. It is not to bo doubted that so
reasonable an application, and ono that bids fair to fur-
nish such valuable and interesting knowledge, will be
granted by an intelligent and patriotic administration
like the present.
"Captain Pope is in daily expectation of receiving
orders to explore this new route, which promises so
favourably to furnish results in interest and importance
far transcending any hitherto brought to the knowledge
of the country. Should it be found practicable for car-
riages and a railroad, two marked advantages over the
pass will at once present themselves. In the first
South
distance to the Pacific is shortened by some
place, the
700 or 800 miles; and secondly, the winters are so mild
in this latitude as to make it certain that from natural
causes no impediment to travel Nsould exist at any season
of the year." _
d'i'e have advices from the city of
Mexico to the
14th ult. Great excitement was manifested in conse-
quence of the daring depredations of the Indians, the
Yucatecas tribe having attacked a town not more than
100 miles from the capital. It is said that several
battles bad been fought between the Mexicans and
Indians,
in which the former were defeated with con-
siderable loss.
Tht President of Costa Rica had issued a manifesto
declaring the assent of his Government to the basis
of the settle between the difficulty
nit Nicaragua. as
agreed upon Great Brita and the United
States.
The New York stock market continued to have an
upward tendency. The money market was rather
easier; there bad been a better inquiry than of late,
but the demand was promptly
met by capitalists.
ge was firmer, with only a moderate
demand,Foreign exp chilalsn
on London, 1105-8 to 1101 ; Paris,
5 161 to 5 15 ; Hamburgh, 361 to 361; Amsterdam,
41 to 41 ; Bremen, 79 791. Cotton had an iup-
ward tendency; strict middling upland was quoted at
101 c, and New Orleans 104 c. per lb. The flour
market was inactive, the demand being almost exclu-
sively forthe home trade. The wheat market was
Indian corn was buoyant, western mixed
depressed.selling at 64c. to 65 per bushel. Iron was quiet;
Scotch pig selling at 20 dolls. 50c. to 21 dolls. Both
pot and pearl ashes were inactive.

THE AMERICAN FISHERIES.
We extract the following from the Ministerial
journal of yesterday evening :
" We believe that we may with perfect confidence as-
sure our readers of the satisfactory termination of the
dispute on the subject of the North American fisheries
—a dispute, we may observe, that has been treated
much more seriously in newspaper controversy and hus-
tings speeches than in the communications of the British
and American Governments. The terms on which the
matter is likely, we may say,
certain, to be adjusted are
extremely simple,
and as it will be teen perfectly equit-
able. They are terms of absolute reciprocity, as far as
the right of fishing is concerned. The Americans are
to be at liberty to fish in all British wa-
ters, the British to fish in all American
waters, subject on both sides to the general
law which prohibits the vessels of foreigners to fish
within less than three miles of the shore of any country
to which they do not belong—the three miles to be
measured from the nearest land, without distinction of
bay or open sea. This general law, as we have before
observed, is absolutely necessary for fiscal and police
purposes; and, therefore, there can be nothing offensive
or invidious in its enforcement, whether by British or
American authorities. We may add that, upon a care-
ful review of all that has occurred, the American Go-
vernment acknowledges that no offence has yet been
offered to it, though it slightly complains that a notice
had not been given by the British Government of its
purpose of protecting the three miles border of the sea
with mere vigilance than before. Such a notice, how-
ever, upon a further consideration, it has been ad-
mitted, would have been equivocal, if not positively
insulting, as implying a suspicion that the Government
of the 'United States had connived at a contraband
fishery.

DEPARTURE OF THE MAILS FOR THE
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, CALCUTTA, 6-c.
PLYMOUTH, SUNDAY.—The Lady Jocelyn screw-
steam-ship, Captain N. Stewart, sailed this afternoon
with the mails for St. Vincent's, Sierra Leone, St. Vin-
cent's, Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, and Calcutta.
This splendid vessel (built by Mr. Mare, our worthy
M.P.), which is a sister ship to the Queen of the South,
resembles her in all internal fitments as well as general
model. She arrived here from the river yesterday
morning, and has since been visited by a number of per-
sons taking an interest in naval architecture, all of
whom speak of her in the highest terms, as one of the
most complete specimens of ship-building afloat. The
visitors are warm also in their acknowledgments of the
kindness and attention shown them by Captain Ford,
the company's superintendent, who accompanied the
vessel to this port, and Mr. Laming, the local agent.
In addition to the mails, which are under the charge
of Commander James Bridges, R.N., the Lady Jocelyn
has 200 tons of general cargo and 50,0001. in specie, and
about 50 passengers. Among the latter are Lieutenant-
Colonel M'Duff and servant, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ar-
dieno, the Misses Derom (2), Ensign Egan and Mrs.
Egan, Deputy Assistant Commissary General Allinson,
Mrs. Allinson, and three children; Deputy Assistant
Commissary General Baker, Mrs. Baker, and four chil-
dren, for the Capo. Mr. W. Johnson, Mr. James Scott,
Mr. J. Lambert, Mr. Ogilvie, Mr. and Mrs. Chapman
and two female servants, Miss Chapman and friend, for
the Mauritius. Captain J. P. Cooda and Mrs. Conde,
Mr. H. Winch, Mr. and Mrs. Ratcliff, Captain and Mrs.
May and child, Lieutenant Wiscott, and Quartermaster
Daises, for Madras. Mr. Charles Wright, for Ceylon;
and Mr. G. I. Wight, for Calcutta.
During her stay at this port the Lady Jocelyn has
been supplied from the dockyard with one of Porter's
anchors, 42 cwt., acid two Brown and Redpath's fire-
hearths, which have been substituted for Grant's cook-
ing apparatus, with which the ship was before supplied.
It is but justice to Mr. Grant to add that in this instance,
as in that of the Queen of the South, his apparatus,
which has been found to fully answer in our ships of war,
has been supplanted simply from want of skill in the
cooks, who appear to be so perplexed with the new ap-
paratus as to utterly despair of mastering a knowledge
of its requirements. It will be recollected the cook of
the Queen of the South attempted to commit suicide in
consequence of vexation at not being able to succeed in
his art with Grant's apparatus.