The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-12 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

The Japan expedition squadron, consisting of the
Mississippi, Princeton, and Alleghany steam frigates,
under the command of Commodore C. Ringold, was
to sail on the 10th November.
Two fishing schooners had arrived at Gloucester
from the fishing grounds. They reported several ad-
ditional warnings by the British cruizers, but no
further seizures, except the schooner Caroline Knight,
of Newburyport, on the 11th ult., about ten miles
north of Prince Edward's Island. The owners of the
Caroline Knight bad received a letter from the cap-
thin, in which be states that there were other vessels
inside his at the time of the sizure, and that he had
no intention to trespass on forbidden ground. It was
estimated that the returns of mackerel this year would
fall short at least one-half of the usual average, taking
the estimate from the "catch" during the same period
last year.
According to letter.; received from St. John, New
Brunswick, the contract for the European and North
American Railroad, from Shediac and Nova Scotia,
via Sr. John, to the Maine boundary, had been
closed by the executive and the company with Mr.
William Jackson, M.P., in behalf of himself and
associates. The price per mile is 6,500/. sterling.
The province takes 1,2001. in stock, and leaves the
company 1,8001 per mile. The loan bears interest
six per cent., secured by a first mortgage on the whole
road, stock, stations, 8:c. The road and all equip-
ments to be of the very best description, such as in
the best English roads, and capable of beingas
gtorainveglloend
over at the greatest speed. Toe survey was
with vigour.
Mr. Thomas Baring was received by the President
on the 27th ult.

We have brief advices from Buenos Ayres to the
7th of August, at which date hides, both dry and
salted, were scarce and high.
The Boston Advertiser of September 27th gives
the following summary of River Plate intel-
ligence :

The barque Buck Eye, which arrived hero yester-
day from Buenos Ayres, brings advices from that port
to the 7th ult.— a week later than the latest accounts
before received. The Progreso of the 6th says that sa-
tisfactory official communications have been received
from all the provinces, giving their assent to the prin-
ciples which are to serve as the basis of the approaching
national organization. The province of Catamarea had
at last given in its adhesion, and had distinguished itself
for its patriotism and confidence, having ratified the
agreement of Sa❑ Nicholas in all its parts.
" On the 20th of August the representatives of all
the provinces were to assemble at the capital, Santa
Jecine, to form a General Constituent Congress. The
Progreso says that the Congress is the hope of all; its
deliberations will be the balsam which will heal for ever
the bleeding wounds which tyranny and recent events
had opened in the body politic.
" The Progreso of August 1 contains the official re-
cognition by General Urquiza, as Provisional Dictator,
of the independence of the Republic of Paraguay, and
the conclusion of a treaty of friendship, commerce, and
navigation, by which the free navigation of the rivers
Paraguay and Parana is secured to the Republic of La
Plata and the Empire of Brazil. This treaty is regarded
as an event of great importance. The independence
of Paraguay was acknowledged from the 17th of July.
" Accounts from Montevideo state that the Oriental
Government having sent a Commissioner to the mouth
of the river La Plata, to ascertain the most suitable place
for the establishment of a lighthouse for the benefit of
vessels coming from sea, he had returned, having desig-
nated the island of Lobos as the point best adapted for
the object.

"Oa the 27th of July M. St. George and Sir C.
Hotham were received by the Oriental Government and
presented their credentials. Sir C. Hotham afterwards
sailed in the Vixen for Buenos Ayres with M. St.
George, and on the 6th they were presented to General
Urquiza.
" The Progreso says that it has been reported that the
Brazilian Government had obtained from the Argentine
Government permission for a Brazilian war steamer to
enter the Parana river for the purpose of transporting a
Minister of the Emperor of Paraguay. The report is
contradicted, and it is added that.the representatives of
Brazil at Buenos Ayres, with whom the Government en-
tertained the most cordial relations, had no motive for
making such a request.
" The decree lately issued, admitting flour into Buenos
Ayres, has been revoked."

A party of thirty or forty slaves escaped from
Kentucky about the 28th ult. They were pursued
to Ohio by their owners, who suspecting them to be
in a certain house, applied for a warrant to search it,
which was refused. Three of the runaways were
subsequently captured on the road and taken on their
way back. At last accounts the negroes of the
neighbourhood had assembled in great numbers with
arms, and surrounded the hotel where the parties
were stopping. It was feared that disastrous conse-
quences might ensue, as the slave-owners had ex-
pressed a determination to have their property at all
hisz irds.

Advices from Tampico to the 12th ult. had been
received at New Orleans. The Mexican war steamer
City of Mexico and the sloop of war Puebla were in
the port. The excitement in regard to the usurpa-
tion by Cardenas of the Governorship of the State of
'famaulipas still continued to exist. A decree had
been issued conferring upon the Governor whatever
powers might be required to repress the revolutionary
spirit exhibited at Tampico and other parts of the
State. If the Governor considered it necessary to
employ Don Antonio Canales in the matter the ne-
cessary licences would be conferred upon him. A
pronunciamento had been declared as a last resource.
An appeal had been made to the General Congress,
and the election of Cardenas pronounced null and
void.

At S. Jago de Cuba another earthquake occurred
on the 28th of August. The inhabitants, who were
fearfully terrified, hdd built temporary huts upon the
beach.

Some of the papers mention that two British officers
had been arrested and imprisoned at Havannah on
suspicion of being "fi ilibusters." The British con-
sul procured their immediate release.