The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-25 00:00:00

T LIE AFFAIR OF 67.861-TOWN.

The affair of Greytown continues to excite much
attention in the States. Die New York Herald,
on the authority of its Was,hington correspondent,
says :

"The report that the Nicaraguan Minister had entered
a strong protest against the affair at San Juan is an ex-
aggeration. I understand that Mr. Marcoleta, in com-
mon with, the English and Freneh Ministers, has notified
the Government that he expects the losses of Nicaraguan
citizens resident in San Juan, :and the losses sustained
by merohants of the interior baying property there in
transit or on deposit, will be made good. Nicaragua
has always maintained her right of sovereignty over the
port of San Juan, of which else was unjustly deprived by
the English in 1848, and she has repeatedly asked our
Government if in case she proceeded to occupy the port,
the American Government would hold her safe against
assumed British protectorate. But she has uniformly
been told that the United States must recognise the de
facto Government of San Juan, until a final adjustment
was made of the whole question.
" I learn that the only foundation for the report of a
`strong protest,' übus e alluded to, was a note of the Nica-
raguan Minister, regretting that Cupt. Hollins was not
instructed to seek Out and punish the guilty, instead of
involving the entire property of the innocent and quiet
citizens of friendly nations, in a common destruction.
He also expresses the hope that in doing so Capt. Hollins
exceeded his instructions, and will not receive the ap-
proval of his Government.

"The Nicaraguans may well complain that their pro-
perty is destroyed by their professed friends, who, so far
from relieving them from unjust British pretensions, first
ruin them, and then leave them to the tender mercies of
the British martial law.

" It really seems as if San Juan is now more decidedly
in British grasp than ever before, and that the expiring
protectorate is invested with new vitality. Depend
upon it, the administration will knuckle uuder to
the bluster of England on the subject, and that Nica•
ragua will be carelessly sent to the dogs. Between
American treachery and English unscrupulousness, she
stands a poor chance indeed."

The Washington Star says there is no truth in
the report that the French Minister has made a de-
mand for $600,000 from the United States Govern-
ment, for damages to property of French subjects
at Grey town.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.-Aug. 24.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. —Arri vals—
Aug. 17.. Lalla Rookh (schooner), Viscount Bangor,
from North of Ireland. 23. Dream (yawl), George
Bentinck, Esq., from Portland ; Capricorn (schooner;,
Vice-Commodore C. R. M. Talbot, Esq., from Cherbourg
and Alderney. 23. Zara (schooner), Commodore the
Earl of Wilton, from Cherbourg and Channel Islands ;
Sultana (yawl), Lord Colville, from Channel Islands ;
Laverock (cutter), Captain C. H. Williams, from Wey-
mouth. Sailings—Aug. 19. Zara (schooner), Commo-
dore the Earl of Wilton, for Cherbourg and other ports ;
Capricorn (schooner), Vice-Commodore C. R. M. Talbot,
Esq., for Cherbourg and other ports ; Camilla (schooner),
J. E. W. Rolls, Esq., for Weymouth ; Deatriz (schooner),
' Sir W. P. Carew, Bart., for Cherbourg and Torquay ;
Lancashire Witch (schooner), Lawrence Palk, Esq., for
Cherbourg and Torquay ; Sultana (yawl). Lord Colville,
for Channel Islands ; Caprice (yawl), H. B. Baring,
Esq., for Cherbourg and other ports. 21. Ariel
(schooner), T. Littledale, Esq., for Liverpool ; Spider
(cutter), Thomas Thornhill, Esq., for Cowes Harbour
to lay up ; Osprey (cutter), John Petre, Esq., for Ports-
mouth, to lay up. 22. Laverock (cutter), Captain C.
H. Williams, R.N., for Weymouth. 23. Pandora
(yawl), Captain Smith Barry, for Ireland and West of
Scotland. Yachts at and about the Station—Zara,
Capricorn, Alarm, Irene, Wizard, Dream, Stella, Bril-
liant, Amazon, lone, Julia, Laverock, Susan, Aurora,
Arrow, Camilla, Cygnet, Virginia, Plover, Ripple,
Shark, Titania, Fancy, Frisk, Osprey, Coral Queen, Sur-
prise, Caprice, Lalla Rookh, Sultana, Earche, Ginevra,
Seagull.
Several of our sporting visitors are preparing to leave
in pursuit of the partridges ; while a number of families
are arriving for the bathing season, they belt-4 in pursuit
of health.

The harvest is proceeding most satisfactorily. Finer
crops were never seen, nor better saved. Potatoes are
a heavy crop, and excellent in quality.
NEWPORT.—LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF ST.
THOMAS'S CHURCH BY PRINCE ALBERT. —Th is has been
a gay day for the Isle of Wight. Such an assemblage
bas not been seen there for years. The Bishop of Win-
chester and all the clergy of the island were present.
There was also a large gathering of the craft, there being
full 500 masons. The day was very fine, and the streets
so full as to be almost impassable.