The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-18 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA.
LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.
By the royal mail steam-ship Niagara, Leitch,
commander, we have advices from New York to
the sth, and Boston to the 6th instant, She has
brought 147 passengers and two small kegs of specie.
The screw-steamer Glasgow arrived at New York
from the Clyde on the 2d instant ; and the royal
mail steamer America arrived at Halifax from this
port on the 6th.

The steamer Texas had arrived at New Orleans
from Vera Cruz, with $90,000 in specie on freight.
The deaths in New York during the week end-
ing the 2d inst., were 405, being 156 less than the
preceding week.
Accounts from Washington state that the steam-
ers Fulton and Princeton, and sloop-of-war Deca-
tour, were fitting out, under orders to proceed to
the fishing grounds.

A dreaafiil fire broke out on the sth in Fitzhugh
and Littlejohn's mills, at Oswego, destroying up-
wards of $lOO,OOO worth of property.
Only 15,000 bales of cotton were sold at New
Orleans during the week ending the Ist., at which
time the stock on hand was 70,000 bales, and the
market firm. The increased receipts at all the
southern ports over those of last year at the same
date amounted to 209,000 bales.

A fearful riot occurred at Annapolis on the 4th
between some of the citizens and the passengers on
board the steamer Powhattan, on an excursion
from that city. The inhabitants fired into the
boat as she was leaving the wharf, badly wounding
several of the passengers—one, it was feared,
fatally. There upwards of 500 men, women, and
children on board.

An alarming riot took place at New York dur-
ing the celebration of the anniversary of the 4th of
July. It originated through a stage-driver, named
Carpenter, passing his stage across the line of the
Hibernian procession. The Irishmen were so en-
raged in consequence, that they seized the unfortu-
nate driver, and kicked and beat him so severely
that he died shortly afterwards. At one time seve-
ral hundred men were engaged in the riot, hurling
stones and other missiles at the police. A number
of the citizens in the immediate vicinity aided thel
police in quelling the riot, ninny of whom,as_wel
as the policemen, received severe cuts on the head
and face. The police ultimately, with the aid of
two fire companies, and other residents, suc-
ceeded in subduing the riot, and the Hibermans
beat a retreat. One or two of their banners were
demolished during
.the disturbance. The police
succeeded in capturing nearly 40 of the rioters, all
of whom bore strong evidence of an impression
made on their heads by contact with the police-
men's clubs.
The New York Herald of the 4th contains the
following startling piece of intelligence, under the
head Havannah, June 29
Count Carlisle has been thrown into prison on a
charge of having been engaged in illegal correspondence
with certain
inhabitants of the island of Jamaica. The
allegation is that the Count, in connexion with others,
had loaded a vessel with arms and ammunition, which
were destined for the use of the Jamaica negroes, who
contemplated a revolt. Owing to a slight mistake on
the part of the captain of the vessel, the secret was ex-
posed, and the munitions of war were seized by the
Spanish authorities. Through the intervention of Lord
Clarendon further proceedings in the Count's case were
suspended until information could be received from
England."

The Herald thus accounts for this story having
found it way into their columns :

"In the absence of all our translators, when the Em-
pire City's mails arrived late at night, a compositor in
our office, a Cuban filibustero, inspired by the senti-
merits congenial to the 4th of July, manufactured the
startling intelligence which appeared in our yesterday's
issue, that Count Carlisle had been arrested on a charge
of conspiracy, the design of which was to overthrow the
present Government of Jamaica by the black popula-
tion, and that a vessel had been seized, loaded with
munitions of war, alleged to have been furnished by the
Count and others. We were not aware we had such a
genius among our compositors, but now that we have
discovered it wo must take care of him."

The attempt to enforce the Maine Liquor Law at
St. John's, N. 8., had proved a failure. Some
persons favourable to the measure having instituted
prosecutions at Richmond, their opponents, by way
of retaliation, procured a quantity of gunpowder
and blew the Temperance-hall to atoms.
We have advices from the city of Mexico to the
18th, and from Vera Cruz to the 22d ult. Santa
Anna's birthday, . the 13th, was celebrated with
great pomp. Senor Aguilar had assumed his duties
as Secretary of State, D 94 Melo4er Ocampo had