The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-08 00:00:00

THE SUN,

41; AN NEWS

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, 10, A.M.

We have received four days' later t.(lvices from the
United States, by the Royal rdsil steam-ship Canada,
which sailed from New York direct for this port on
the 25th ult., with 33 passengers, and specie to the
extent of 681,000 dolls. _ _

The Hon. Mr. Webster bad addressed a public
meeting, at Niblo's, New York, with a view to the
presidency. Another address on the same subject
was to follow.

Nothing new in Congress.
It is reported that another revolution had broken
out in Mexico. The accounts are very confused, and
not confirmed.
Business throughout the States was much more
bri:rk than when the Pacific sailed. Stocks were in
fair demand, at slightly higher quotations. The
money market is active, and the commodity easily
obtainable. Exports of specie still continued.
The market for breadstuffs quiet, and prices without
alteration. IA
Testern Canal flour, 4 dolls. 87ic. to 5
dolls. per brl.; G-annessee prime wheat, 1 doll. 22c.
to 1 doll. 24c. per 60 lbs.; Indian Corn, round
yellow, 68 to 70 cents, per bushel, steady; India
meal, 3 dolls. 373-c. to 3 dolls. 50c. per barrel.
In cotton there had been a fair amount of business
doing, and former quotations were fully maintained.
New Orleans and Mobile, mid. fair to fair, 9ic. to
91c. per lb. ; Uplands and Florida, ditto, 91c. to 9-1-e.
per lb. •
Shipowners were asking increased rates of freight.
Flour to Liverpool, le. 9d. to 2s. per barrel; grain
to Liverpool, Sid. to 6d. per bushel. Cotton to
Liverpool, id. to 5. 16 I. per lb. Provisions moderate.
Sales at former rates.

Exchange on London, 110 to nal-. Pari., 5.16.
On Hamburgb, 36 to 36k. Bremen, 78 to 78k.

THE KAFIR WAR

The Windsor, Captain Pryce, from Madras, put in
here this morning from contrary winds. By her we
have intelligence from the Cape of Good Hope to the
9th January, and from King William's Town to the 4th
of the same month, being 10 or 12 days later than that
by the Hellespont, the last homeward mail. By this
arrival we are glad to learn that a strong impression
prevailed that affairs were much in favour of a more
speedy end of the war than was, some time since, anti-
cipated. The increased energy in the movement of the
Government troops, the result of the arrival of rein-
forcements from home, appeared to have infused greater
confidence among all classes; in fact, the best possible
feeling is said to prevail. It was generally rumoured
that Sandilla was about to retire from the hostile posi-
tion he has hitherto held.
The dispatches and mail, said to be largo and im-
portant, were landed from the Windsor on Friday, but
have not yet been delivered here. The dispatches from
the seat of war are to the 2d and 4th January, and may
be said to be comprised in the following gensral
order:—

"King William's Town, Jan. 2, 1852.
" Dispatches have been this evening received by his
Excellency the Commander-in-Chief from Major-Gene-
ral Somerset and Lieutenant-Colonel Eyre. Upwards
of 6,000 head of cattle had been captured by Major-
General Somerset up to the 23d ult., and 7,000 were in
possession of Colonel Eyre up to the 21st ult., exclusive
of vast numbers, estimated at 700, drowned at the con-
flaence of the Lomo and the Kei. Major-General So-
merset and Lieutenant-Colonel Eyre were in direct
communication on the 23d ult., and were about to de-
scend the Lower Bashee, to which large herds of
cattle had been driven; while Faker, it was expected,
would make a forward movement. The Fingoes had
rallied round the British troops.
" The continued rain had been much against the troops.
who were, however, in high spirits and health.
By his Excellency's command.
" JOHN GARVOCK, Lieutenant-Colonel,
Principal Secretary."
Jan. 4.—The mournful intelligence has reeched town
this morning of the death of rlajor-General Wilmot.
Royal Artillery, commander of Fort Pedder. This able
and gallant officer was shot on new year's day while
leading on his men in an attack upon the enemy in the
jungle of the Fish River, where it is said Sandilla has
now taken shelter. The lamented deceased was amongst
the bravest and most active cfficers in the field. On
every occasion where hard and gallant service was de-
manded he distinguished himself. He fell as a soldier,
and his name will stand conspicuous among the defenders
of the country, and be embalmed in the memory of its
inhabitants.
The Friend of the Sovereignty of the 22d of December
says that the Basuto tribes are restless and unsettled,
through attacks made on them by reputed allies of the
Government, the Plattberg Bastards and Barolongs.
Previous to these attacks the people of Moshesh were
disposed to abstain from violence. Since then the
farmers along the boundaries have suffered from the
Basutos, who on the 14th of December attacked three
waggons belonging to some trek-boors,
and captured a
number of cattle and horses. Two companies of the
45th, under Captain Parish, and a detachment of artil-
lery under Lieutenant Singer, have been stationed for
the protection of the chief Maroco and the Barolong
tribe; and Lieutenant Bourke and 25 of the Cape Corps
have marched to Winburg to enable the district farmers
to return to their homes.
The Natal Witness of the 18th of December removes
all doubts as to the reported loss of Mr. Thompson, who
was at the head of the Z roloo contingent in the Sove-
reignty. He has returned with his forces, partly be-
cause they were not imperatively required, and partly
because they had been afflicted with dysentery.
The South African of the 3d of January, says that
her Majesty's steamer, Vulcan, was to leave Table Bay
on that day for England. Captain Monkland, 74th
Highlanders, Dr. Dick, and Lieutenant Palmer, of the
13th Regiment, and Quartermaster Cassidy, take pas-
sage in her. The Rhadamanthus sailed on the 2d of
January from Table Bay for Simon's Bay, where she
would join Commodore Wyvill, in the Castor, and the
Seringapatam hulk. The Styx, 6, arrived at Port Eliza-
beth on the 29th of December, with a mail and 20,000/.
specie.
In Table Bay were the merchant ships Collingwood,
for Bombay; Phoenix, for Algoa Bay; Windsor, and
Lady Montagu, and John Ball, for London; and Acasta,
for Ceylon; the brigs Josephine, for London; Work-
ingtoe, for East London; and Essex, Anne, Curlew,
Wanderer, Sarah Bell, and Jane. The barque Reginald
Lieber, trom Calcutta, for Liverpool, was under repair.
On the 3d of January arrived the barque Athenian, 80
days from England, lull of passengers. Sailed on h©
31st of December, the Calder, for London; and the
Isabella Wood, tor the Mauritius; 2d of January, R''-
dolphe, for Bourbon; Hyderabad, for Trinidad; and
Thorwalsden, for Batavia.

COURT CIRCULAR.
Her Majesty, and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
with their Royal Highneeses the Prince of Wales, the
Priec:so Royal, Prince Alfred, the Princesses Alice,
Helena. and Louisa, and Prince Arthur, attended by the
Marchioness of Ely, the Hon. Caroline Cevendish,
Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, Lieut.-Colonel Biddulph,
Major-General Brickley, and Colonel 13011YeriC, left
Buckingham Palace at twelve minutes past, ten o'clock
on Saturday morning, for her Majesty's marine residence,
Osborne, Isle of Wight:
The Queen and the Prince were conducted to their
carriage by the Duke of Montrose, the Marquis of
Exeter, the Earl of Jersey, Lord Newport, Lord Byron,
Lord George Lennox, and Major. General Berkeley
Drummond.
Her Majesty and the Royal party were escorted by,
a detachment of the Bth Hussars from Buckingham Pa-
lace to the Nine Elms Station of the South-Western
Railway, and left by a special train for Gosport.
OSBORNE, SUNDAY.
Her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and
the Royal Family, attended by the Marchioness of Ely,
the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Major-General Buckley,
and Colonel Beuverie arrived at Osborne at two o'clock
yesterday afternoon, from London.
The Royal party crossed over from Gosport in the
Royal yacht Fairy, commanded by Lord Adolphus Fits-
clarence.
The first Cabinet Council of the new Administration
was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office,
Downing-street. The Ministers present were:—The
Northumberland, Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Loma-
dale, the Marquis of Salisbury, Mr.•Secietary Walpole,
the Earl o
EaTrlhenpf
of Buckingham
hours.
f Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Sir J. S.
Council sat thedrPakington Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Duke of
nd, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, the
wicke, and Lord John Manners. The
ulliteaar
Secretary walpotekingham had an interview with Mr.
The Belgian min% Saturday, at the Home-office.
Right Hon. J. 1w:11i:cull' had an interview with the
Sa-
turday, at the Board of
I,Yr:nd Lord Colchester on
Mr. James Mather, from
on Thursday, with the lorence, had an interview
Earl of Al,
Foreign-office. ahnesbury, at the
The Oxford University Commission
Saturday, at the official residence cfttitad a meeting on
the Treasury in Downing-street; present Firsth Lord of
Norwich, the Deen of Carlisle, the Master o;peßishop of
the Rev. H. G. Liddell, J. L. Dampier, Esq., tTbroke,
a
e Rev.
Professor Powell, the Rev. G. H. S. Johnson, and the
Rev. A. P. Stanley, :secretary.
Mr. Fowles had an interview with the Right Hon. J.
W. Henley on Saturday, at the Board of Trade.
Lieutenant-Coioncl Aldrich, R.E., had an interview
on Saturday with Sir Joan Pakington, at the Colonial-
office.
The French Ambassador visited the Earl of Malmes-
buDryi o Satuday.
pnatchesr were received yesterday at the Colonial-
off from the Geverner of Jamaica.
Dispatches for the Governor of West Australia and
Gibraltar were rent off Saturday,or from the Colonial-
-
office. •

The Duke
, St. Jame;i't,, 'The R9V,
of Wellington attended the (nth, servic+.
ye9teniny, in the Chapel Royal
Dr. Wesley °fll'iated, and achninidtertd the Sacrament.,

DEPARTURIA OF THE FRENCH MBAcSADON.---
Tb'!
Count an Countess Walewski left London on Saturday
evening for Paris. The suddenness of their departure gave
rise to several rumours, some of them of a grave and serious
import, attributing this unexpeet9d departure of the French
Ambassador to causes more pres,ing than mere " private
affairs "—Sunday Paper.

STAMFORD ELECTION.—The Right Hon. J. C.
Rerries, the new President of the Board of Control, was on
Saturday re-elected a member for the borough of Stamford
without opposition.

FIRE AT THE WELLINGTON BARRACKS. -- A fire
broke out in the Wellington Barracks last night, but the
damage done was very trifling.