The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-23 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, WEDISESD
shn 2.30 A.M.
By the United States mail steari-
commander, we have advices frau Nei, York to the
P Arctic, Luce,
and 450,000
dollars in specio on freight.
steam-ship Illinois had salved at New York
with advices from San Franciscoto thew
12:h inst. She brings 176 passengers
18th ult.,
the
and
1,868.161 dollars in gold-dust. From the mines
news is cheering. A company at Downville were
taking out 1,000 dollars per thy. A
piece of gold
weighing thirty-six ounces had been found at San
Joaquin, and many persons in that vicinity were
taking nine ounces per day. Btsiness generally was
good, without any important change. Sterling ex"
change, 47k.
Advices of the 6th ult. fron Para
ac-
counts of a sea fight between three ships,Contained
supposed to
be French transports, bound to Cayenne.
The New York stock market was very
with large sales. _ buoyant,

The money market was depressed, the amount of
floating capital being larger thEn at any
riod this year. A good demand for exchange bills on
London, at 1101 to 1101 ; Pail, 1G to 17i.
The cotton market was more active,former p -
caused by the
receipts of unfavourable accounts from the south. The
iron market was very firm;
to 700 tons of
Scotch pig-iron, to arrive, 6)0 tons
had been sold at 20 dolls.,
six months.

provisions.
Na change in bread-stuffs or
Freights to London—Flourt is. 61 to is. sa.;
measurement goods, 20s. to 303": Per ton.
Advices from Mexico t) the 19th ult. contained
en official proposition,
signed by President Arista
and his officers, announcing his willingness to pro-
mote the formation of a company to construct a canal,
railroad, or waggonroad) across the Isthmus of
Tehuantepec, subject to the
approval of the American
Congress.
NEW ORLEANS, JUNE 10.
Cotton has ruled higher mince the receipt of the
America's news. Sales to-dav, 4,500 bales; good
middling, l Op. to 11c. per R. "
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE'
Arrivals at New York—
Tle Patrick Henry, from
London; Liverpool, John Stu4rt, Franklin, King, and
St. Patrick, from Liverpool,
'Hack Prince, from Sun-
derland; Havre, from Havre; Gaston, from Bremen;
Queen, from Corkmouth: Ortnoko, from
ourntuo4wealth, from London;
Montezuma, Guy Mannering, iih,hehot, Mary Esmo-
ralda, Envoy, Princeton, and William Russell, from
Liverpool; Chimborazo and Aas a Waterford;
--.erueen from Havre;
Curonia, from Lisbon; North ericaand
Copernicus, from
Bremen • Perseverance, from Ila:aburffh; Candidates,
from Salcorube; Cowes, from Rolt“. --d - -
pool; Orient, from Bremen.
Arrived at Baltimore—The
At Wilmington—The Eclipse
rrom Newport.
At Newhaven—The Thomas
V nod from Sunderland.
The French brig L'lrma from
, Neva:Orleans for Sene-
gal has been lost on ~no of the Florida Ke s
y •
Annapolis,
from Liver-

the Duke of C Ambridge honoured the
MAJESTY'S THEATat ---- -
Majesty's Theatre with his prese,- the performance at her
Queen's box was occupied by th-;" Yesterday evening. The
lam, the Countess Dowager of V' Earl and Countess of Veru-
His Royal Highness
Miss Morris, Major Wityling, jrllllln, Countess of Caledon,
Amongst the noble and ilstinguielin Wayling, and party.
in the theatre with their pruien e"individuals also honour-
marked the following :—llis Gra-: an this occasion we re-
the Marchioness of Salisbury, ' tae Duke of Wellington,
Wellesley, the Duke and Duchess of
Duchess of Cleveland and Laa-3, ()llSlontrose, the Duke and
Lord and Lady Charles
cellency the Russian Minister and'lgnsta Paulett, his Ex-
the Admiral Count Potemkin and , the Baroness Brunnow,
bbott Lawrence, and the
American Minister, Mrs. and Miss r:.11•Y ; his Excellency the
quiesgation • his Excellency
First Secretary of the American L
the Sardinian Minister, the Mar
quis of Clanricarde, the Marquis 01 T'ts Sal'isbury,- the Mar-
ot Bath, the Secretary of State f.„-',.l.„hsdowne, the Marquis
Ward, the Dowager Lady Ward, ;„` Foreign Affairs, Lord
Countess of Wilton, the Earl and -6.- Party; the Earl and
Lady • Margaret Rutter, the 000ort'itess of Glengall and
Mdlie.. De Flahault, the Dowager you De Flahault and
and Lady Blanche St. Maur staiai,•latntess of rlarrington
Charles, &c. &c. m°Pt, the Earl Mount.
ROYAL ITALIAN 0PERA.....44.,
the Duke of Cambridge honoured the Royal Highness
Royal. Italian Opera with his presents performances at the
Queen's box was occupied by the c
Alice 'l-_,..iiibtuu, Colunel Thu lion4antess Grey and Lady
Grey, and party. Among the fashea harles Grey and Mrs.
e last evening. The
we remarked his Excellency the p:,,tbie company present
the Countess Lavradio, and Mdlle. L4'''uoßnese Minister and
and Duchess of Beaufort and the 1 nrmento the Duke
Geraldine Somerset, the Duchess of bi,es Henrietta and
and Marchioness of Blandford, the latar,r,nt,rose, the Marquis
of Adet.bury, the Marquis of Northr,lats and Marchioness
Countess of Glengall and Lady Mai
of Cardigan, the Earl and Countess jert Butler, the Earl
Earl Cowper, the Countess of Essex ao,Mnesborough, the
ganiPt", the Earl and
Count and Countess de Morelle, the co' m Johnson, the
Earl of Wilton, the Earl of Euston,Visreu„ntese Craven, the
Viscount and 'Viscountess Newport, Iri;„Titesa Castlereagh,
vLord and Lady
Viscount Exmouth, Viscount Dungarvo
bury, Viscountess Villiers and Miss Doyle, hunt
Canter-
Viscount and Viscountess Folkestone,
rt,--,:r'titCransbyodunr
en::
Carington and the Hon. Miss Caringtont and Lady
tlywiellre,nl.9aLdaydvio,.erahn, and the
EHronne.s
Misst r u cl
re
earnndo
nM,
Lord Arthur Hay, Lord John Hay, Barone 'gan, and party,
party, &c., &c. 88 Goldsmid and
A CENTENARIAN PREACHER..,-0q Da
gious service of an interesting character onday a reli-
gious Colville
Reverend Dr. Fletcher's chapel, FinsbuWas held in the
Mr. Alexander Fletcher, a Sunday-school teacher, and
when
sional preacher, in his 106th year, delivered an and occa-
sional
preacher had all the appearance naddress. The
half his age. °I a man about
CITY SEWERS COMMlSSlON."—yesterday a court
was held, Mr. Deputy Peacock in the chair.
tlemen, connected with the neighbourhood of Severalr gen-
street, complained of a most intolerable nuisance a' arringdon-
the sewers. The matter was referred eventu ..rising from
deration. The Remembrancer called the al for consi-
attenly
Court to the clause to be proposed by Lord John ion of the
the Metropolis Burials Bill After some discus • Manners in
agreed that the proposition of the Government sum it was
ent should be n-
tertained on the part of the Court of Sewers. The e
for the cleansing of the streets were then read tenders
and receivers
The result was as follows :.—Mr. Gore, for the
east isv.
3,50/. ; Sinnott, jun., for the south district, 2,55 (il trict!
Reddin, for the west district, 3,7001. The t then Court ; and
r ad-
journed.
TRIAL OF TUE " MARS BULLET" AT WooL
The first trial of Captain Maher 's
" Mars Bullet" took CIL--
at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, on Thursday, o,lcler the litjeplace
spection of Colonel Chalmers, RA., who
appeared total
great interest in the result. The practice was with Light
Dragoon Yeomanry carbine, at 200 and 150 yards. Bullets
of different descriptions were fired, and fifteen out of
twenty-
four hit the target. Oat of the number of the shots fird
with the " Mars bullet," not one failed in striking the
target, thus shaw ing the great- superiority. of, the nest of
construction, particulars of which have beenpreviously
published in this paper. Further trials are shortly
P 1490, to take