The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-10 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ARABIA.
LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.
By the royal mail steamer Arabia, Judkins com-
mander, we have advices from New York to the
28th, and from Boston to the 29th ultimo. She
has brought $196,048 in specie on freight.
The royal mail steamer Africa arrived at New
York from this port on the 27th ultimo.
President Pierce's opinion on the Nebraska Bill
had partially leaked out. In a conversation with
Mr. Clemens, according to a letter published by
that gentleman, the President said :
" That Douglas's bill was a proposition in favour of
freedom ; and added that if it should pass, although we
might absorb the whole of Mexico, not another slave
State would ever come into the Union. He expressed
great surprise at the opposition it met with from the
north, and equal surprise that the south should be wil-
ing to take it."
A Washington correspondent gives the result of
the visit of a deputation from the London Society
of Friends to the President :
"A deputation of Friends, bearing credentials from
the London yearly meeting of the religious society of
Friends of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
land, have left, after having been for some time
in this city. In pursuance of the object of their
mission here, they sought and obtained audience, not
only with the President, but likewise with the several
heads of departments, pressing upon the attention of
those executive authorities, at their several interviews,
the solicitude entertained by their respectable society
towards the subject of involuntary servitude, as the
same now exists in many of the States of this Union.
They were received with all the consideration due to the
elevated moral character of their society. The deputation
must have departed, if there is power in satisfying reason,
convinced that they had left behind them, in the com-
fortless abode of the Irish labourer and in the workshops
of the English manufacturer, suffering, privation, degra-
dation, and terrible poverty, not to be found among the
well-fed and well-treated coloured population of the
South, and more entitled to their benevolent regard."
The Washington correspondent of the Herald
asserts that Mr. Sanders, late Consul of the United
States in London, had sold 200,000 muskets to
certain revolutionary capitalists in London, in
preparation for the 'explosion of democracy on the
continent as soon as France and England shall
have been actively engaged with Russia.
The same correspondent says :
" I understand, also, that the British Government got
some inkling of George Sanders's movements with the
revolutionists, and contrived through the intrigues of
Crampton and Marcy to aid his defeat as Consul to Lon-
don before the United States Senate."
He also says :
" I have been led to believe that the Russian agents
in London had furnished some of the means for the pur-
chase of these muskets, to pat into the hands of the
revolutionary portions of the continent ; but there can
be no doubt of their possessing plenty of ammunition in
London, and that vast financial transactions have already
taken place for the purchase of ammunition which is also
about to be supplied in a circuitous way, from the same
source in this country."
Another correspondent of the same journal con-
tradicts the above, as follows :
" The statement that George Sanders has effected a
sale of George Law's muskets is not true. A partial
disposition has been effected, but not through the aid of
Mr. Sanders, nor in the direction indicated in the foolish
story which has been telegraphed here."
Some very absurd rumours were current in New
York respecting the Irish. The New York Daily
Times says
"Sundry exciting rumours are current in regard to
movements of the Irish in the United States, with refer-
ence to the war just begun between England and Russia.
It is reported that a very extensive organisation is in
progress here among the Irish—that companies have been
formed, and that military exercises are constantly prac-
tised, with the intention to stir up and aid a rebellion in
Canada, whenever the condition of affairs in the East
shall seem most propitious for such a movement. We
have received detailed information of the extent of the
organisation, the numbers concerned, and even the names
of the active agents in the arrangement; but under pre-
sent circumstances we refrain from making it public. It
is said that a similar scheme is on foot in Ireland, and
that a very large number of men have been enlisted for
the project."
The Nebraska Bill was still under discussion in
the House of Representatives.
The miscellaneous advices report the death of
Major Hobbie, Assistant Postmaster-General. In
Indiana very destru.ctivelfioods had been experienced.
At Birmingham upwards of 200 families had
been rendered houseless by a fire. Thinly attended
" indignation meetings" had been held in New York
at which resolutions against Cuba were passed. A
steam boat named the Jacob D. Early had been
wrecked on the voyage from New Orleans to the
Wabash River and. 40 lives lost. During the three
months ending March, 52 accidents occurred on
railroads in the United States, by which 35 persons
were killed and 141 wounded ; by steam-boat ca-
tastrophes 375 were killed and 67 injured.
Sir Charles Grey, ex-Governor of Jamaica, had
arrived at Charleston.
A letter from Auburn states :

"On the 26th the fugitive slave George Washington
was liberated from prison, and no arrest was attempted.
Some 200 or 300 people were present, and a party of
blacks took possession of the fugitive and marched off
with him, it is supposed, at route for Canada."

The rejection by the Senate of the appointment
of Mr. Sanders as United States' Consul to London,
on account, it is understood, of his democratic
writings in the United States' press, had elicited
an address from M. Kossuth to the German popu-
lation of the States. He looks upon the rejection
of Mr. Sanders as a blow aimed at real republic-
anism, and, therefore, exhorts his countrymen, by
means of public meetings and other modes of ope-
rating on the public sentiment, to compel the Pre-
sident to renominate, and the Senate to confirm,
Sandars in that office, notwithstanding the rejec-
tion of him, as had been stated, by an almost
unanimous vote.

John Mitchell had issued an address to his
countrymen, in which he rehearses the wrongs
which Ireland has suffered from the British Go-
vernment, and reminds his country that " Eug•
land's difficulty has always been Ireland's oppor-
tunity." He tells them that the success of Eng-
land in the present war will tend to rivet still more
firmly the chains upon Ireland, and that every
Irishman who enlists in the British army takes side
with the foes of his country and aids in her en-
slavement.

By telegraph from New Orleans we learn that
Santa Anna left the capital on the 12th ult. to take
the field in person against General Alvarez, who
had proclaimed against the Mexican Government,
and who is said to be surrounded in his moun-
tainous retreat, destitute of money and provisions,
and nearly deserted by his adherents.
Advices from Havannah report that in the case
of the United States steam-ship Black Warrior the
Court agreed to condemn her cargo, and impose a
fine of 50,000 dols. on the vessel, which it was ex-
pected would be sold to pay it ; but before the
Court pronounced the decree the Captain-General
advised with his mercantile friends, and ordered a
commission of five to consider the subject. The
commission, under his instructions, decreed that
the vessel and cargo be returned to her captain on
the payment of 6,000 dols. Captain Bullock re-
ceived her under protest, and ordered a survey.
The sugar market was dull. Freights to Europe
were at ss. to 61. Gs.

The steam-ship Northern Light had arrived at
New York with ad vices from San Francisco to the

Ist ult., and 615,379 dols. 30c. in specie on freight.
The John L. Stephens sailed at the same time with
897,393 dols. 30c. in specie on freight. There was
a severe monetary pressure in San Francisco. The
weather had not at any time since the discovery of
gold been so favourable for mining as during the
month of February, and there probably was never
comparatively so large an amount of gold dug.
Some new discoveries of gold had been made in

Los Angelos.
From the Sandwich Islands we learn that during
1853 there were 175,396 gallons of sperm oil,
3,787,348 gallons of whale oil, and 2,020,264 lbs.
of whalebone, transhipped at the islands.
From Lower California we learn that President
Walker's filibustering arrangements were at an
end. He had spiked and buried his guns, and
started for San Thomas with 140 men and on:field-

piece. Five of his party were severely wounded,
and four sick were left behind, who probably would
have been murdered but that they were taken
aboard the Columbus and brought to San Diego.
It was reported that Melendrez with a force of 300