The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-15 00:00:00

AMERICAN NE WS.

ARRIVAL OF THE• FRANKLIN.
SOUrHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 14.
The United States' Mail. steam-ship Franklin, Captain
J. A. Wotton, arrived off. Cowes at eleven A.M. to-day,
after a passage of ten days fifteen hours from New York,
and having landed the • Englidi mails and passengers,
proceeded on her voyage to Havre.
The Franklin has nearly 120 passengers. a few only
of whom were for Southampton. Oa the 9th inst., lat.
49'50, long. 37.27. the Frankiin passed a lerge iceberg,
having seen several one,: on the pre's, ion; day.
July 10th, lat. 60 42, long. `)9 32, passed Britsh ship
Sir Charles Napier, bound nest. July 13, lat. 50 09,
long. 09.24, passed chip New York, from Ilene to New
York.
The cargo consists of 65 tons whalebone, 60 packages
India rubber shoes, so packages sundries, for Havre;
and 000,000 dollars in specie, 250 000 dollars of which
is for England. ,
The news by this arrival is of three days' later date
than received by the last Liverpool stoanser, but con-
tains nothing of great importance.
The American papers are chiefly occupied with ac-
counts of the life of the late Henry Clay, and the prepa-
t arrived at New York
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oa
rltohbesrenqz iiegsh.
on the 2d inst. with 300 passengers; by the Nicaragua
route from California, and specie to the value of 188,817
dolls. on freight.
Advices from Acapulco to the 11th of Jane state that
Mr. Rice, the American Consul, had been arrested and
committed to prison. by the Mexican authorities, on
account of some transactions connected with the sale
of the steamer Commodore Stockton. The following
particulars of the occurrence are given; which it was
feared would lead to trouble between the two Govern-
ments:— •
' " Oechilag has been struck at Acapulco, and the ,nation
insulted, by the arrest and imprisonment of Mr. F.- W.
Rice, the Consul. The propeller Commodore Stockton
was advertised for public sale by the Consul, by order of
the captain, and purchased by the chief engineer on be-
half of himself and some others of the crew. The terms of
the sale required a certain sum to be paid down within a
few hours, and the balance within one day. The purchaser
asked and obtained a delay of making the first payment
twice, and at length the Consul, in accordance with mercan-
tile,usage, advertised for sale again on account of the former
purchaser—he having failed to comply with the terms of the
sale—and posted the notices of the sale in different parts of
the city, all of which were nearly torn down by the chief
engineer, including one posted oa the door of the Consul's
office • and on approaching for the purpose of removing
another's notice of the sale posted on the Consul's house, Mr.
Rice appeared pistol in hand, and obliged him to desist and
leave the premises. For this a complaint was entered, and
the Consul, in his uniform, with his flag in his hand, was con-
signed to prison."
By these advices it also appears that President Arista
seriously meditates a coup d'etat. The following appears
oa this subject in the IVegn York Herald :
" It is more than probable, in the present exhausted con-
dition of the public treasury, and on account of the hope-
less state in which the late Congress has left the country,
that ere this reaches you some stirring scenes will have been
enacted. It is stated that, in view of the pressing internal and
external difficulties by which President Arista is sorrounded
in view of the exigencies of a bankrupt treasury and the im-
minent hazards of a domestic revolution—he has proposed
to our Minister, Mr. Letcher, a basis of settlement at once
broad enough to secure a solid Government for Mexico, and
the satisfaction of all reasonable demands and claims of the
citizens and Government of the United States against it.
the dictatorship;
Arista, in a word, psoposes to imitate the brilliant
of the coup d'etat of Louis Napoleon by assuming
ashnadllofnurcnoinshdihtiiomn
the United States
dolls. forwthciatahtr theh.e Governmentsinews o
fwar of
prise, he will ratify the Garay grant ofry
to the extent of 6.000,000 carrying
eo ut the e enter-
prise, te r
Tehuantepec-
of Guadalupe Hidalgo."
of the
."
route, an relieve our Government from the obligations
11th articd le of the treaty
A grave misunderstanding - is stated to have taken
in consequence of a demand of the latter that
place between the Mexican Government and the French
Minister,
payment to the English bondholders of a portion
the
of the indemnity money should be subjected to the
usual export duty on silver. The French Minister sent
strong diplomatic notes to the Mexican Government, one
of which was returned to his Legation,
The following on this subject is extracted from the
New York Herald : _ . _

"It appears that a grave misunderstanding has taken
place between the French Minister and the Mexican Go-
vernment, growing out of the promise to pay 2,500,000 dolls.
on account of the English debt. The question was, to know
whether or not the duty imposed by the fiscal laws upon
money sent to a foreign country would be paid. M. Falcon-
net, the representative of English creditors, held that the
arrangement would not be in accordance with good faith if
the creditors were to pay 200,000 dolls. duty on the funds.
The Mexican Government approved the reasons of M. Fal-
connet. But the French Minister protested, and demanded
that the law shall be applied to all alike. He sent very
strong diplomatic notes to the Mexican Government, and it
is said that one was returned to the Legation. It is, says
Le Trait d'Union, the cause of the departure of the Se-
cretary of the Legation for France. It is believed that the
English Minister has promised his aid to the Mexican Go-
vernment in the affair. If so, it will become a Franco-Anglo-
Mexican question."
a telegraphic dispatch from Washington,: dated the
2d inst., states that Mr. Webster had expressed himself
strongly opposed to the movement in favour of an inde-
pendent nomination for the Presidency. The Select
Committee of the Senate' had reported that the great
mass of statistics in reference to the census, compiled at
an enormous cost to the country, are, from the negli-
gence or want of capacity with which they had been
procured, completely unreliable.
The British mail steamer Quito, Captain Wells,
arrived at Panama on the 18th June, with dates from
Valparaiso to the 30th May. The accounts of the silver
mines at Copiapo continued favourable. The magnetic
electrie-telegraph between Copiapo and Valparaiso had
been brought out by Mr. Wheelwright, in shares of 500
dolls. each; capital 200,000 dolls.

The following is the latest intelligence received from
Peru and Ecuador by the Quito:—

" PERU.—The result of Flores' expeditions against Guay-
aquil.was anxiously looked for, the more so as the Republic
of New Granada had assumed a decidedly hostile attitude;
to meet which Peru was also making some warlike prepara-
tions. Recent periodicals from Lima advise the proximate
intention of the Government to effect some changes in the
licenses of trade as affecting foreigners (patents), and also
some new arrangements respecting guano; among others,
that of keeping the Chincha Islands under the eye of a Go-
vernment steamer.

" EcuAnoß:::By private advices we learn that Flores was
at Puna on the 4th inst. with 950 men, all in good health.
The brig Tres Hermaaos, under the command of Major Jack-
son, and the Union, with 15 men, both from this port, had
arrived at Puna, and joined the expedition.
" The steam-ship Quickstep had also arrived, and landed
40 passengers at Guayaquil, The latter vessel returned to
Payta for coal, where she was on the 12th inst.
" Much sickness prevailed among the soldiers of the Ecua-
dorian Government at Guayaquil, and 20 to 30 were dying
daily."

"Captain Donin was at Guayquil with the United
oS n States
frigate Portsmouth, and purposed sailing for Panama the
sth inst.
" It was thought that the Flores'
expedition
rather precarious position, unless Peru
rendered
ina
and
open aid.
with a brig of war,
; readyit theto enter
board of the former,
ha`d‘ TblieeenPaterpunnviaan,
wstitehama-oshaiopmißralimaoanc,
into a convention for Flores to lea
who intimated to General Urbina that
en
Government in the whole
Peruvian
magistrate would make no arrangements whatever, deeming
the course pursued by the cbueawd oars
affair as unfriendly and treacherous.
uil without the admiral effecting
p British admiral entered Guayaquil the
day after the Peruvian eft that port, and it is said that the
_
i_tiaon rather unfavourably.
ita on the 12th inst.,_ on a recruit-
ingd it was reported that the Peruvians also
forpie,rnveinewims
atcheweaxapaedt r
expedition,
largean bodies of troops to send to the assistance of
were raising
Flores."
The latest advices from Bogota (New Granada) are
Star of the i r in
The President is contained in inth.e
jfnololeow:_ing extracts from the Panama,
rised to „
_motoiney eg 'ate a voluntary loan, either at home,
~ The forced loan did not pass. .
where
to be had, or abroad, where it will not be
there 2
givea.i"ihe Presid declarelso authorised to raise an army of
and to war against any nation or nations
0.000 men, . .
"aiding Flores in his attempts against Ecuador.
13y a decree dated the 14th of May, Congress has ceded
the island of Mancanilla to the Panama Railroad Company;
also the right of property over such ground as the company
may recover from the sea at the two extremities of the rail-
road, The decree prohibits all persons from travelling over
the railroad otherwise than in the company's cars, and sub-
jects those who infringe this rule to a fine of 200 reals or to
60 days' imprisonment.
" The commercial law has passed. The law will not come
into force before the meeting of the Provincial Chamber.
The judge is to be elected by the merchants, and all, whe-
ther foreign or Granadian, are admitted to vote."
There was very little change in monetary affairs since
the sailing of the last packet, the demand for foreign ex-
change for remittance by the Franklin being only to a
moderate extent. Bills on London were quoted 1104 to
1101; Paris, sf. 171 c. to sf. 15c.; Amsterdam, 401 to
41; Bremen, 78} to 79; Hamburgh, 364 to 36k.

THE
ACCIDENT AT BLACKFRIARS•BRIDGE.--Ye"
terday afternoon an inquest was commenced by Mr. Payne,
the coroner, at the Horselydown, Fair-street, Horselydown,
on the bodies of Thomas Weston, Ann Williams, and Emma
Bates, the three unfortunate persons who perished by being
run down by the Dahlia steam-boat on Sunday evening last.
The bodies of Ann Williams and Thomas Weston were only
-squarenc (one i-r
found yesterday morning, a few hours before the time fixed
for holding the inquest on the body of Emma Bates. James
Bates, of Eastern-place, Spa-fields, farrier, identified the
body of Ellen Bates as that of his sister. He last saw
is Wl
of
he
alive on Sunday. She was 19
Hams, of 73, Margaret-street,
the survivors), identified the body of Ann Williams as that 37 years of age. James
of his sister-in-law. She was year of
g tag!
Weston identified the body of Thomas Weston as that of his
son. He was 21 years of age. The inquest was then ad-
journed to a future day.

FOREIGN WAYCITES, GLOVES, AND EMBROIDERY.-
It is shown by Parliamentary returns that the declared value
of all the foreign watches imported into the United Kingdom
in the five months ending the sth of June, 1852, was 63,3561.,
against 48,0181. worth imported in the corresponding period
of 1851. The quantity ofgloves imported in the first five
months s of
the
present year was 1,354,189 pairs, against
1,645,499 in the corresponding period of last year. In em-
broidery and needlework there seems to have been a falling-
off in the course of the present year as compared with 1850
and 1851. The total
quantity imported in the first five
months of 1852 wss of the value of 40,8701., against 64,100]
in 1851, and 96,2594 in 1850.