The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-01 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES

ARRIV.A.L OF THE PACIFIC.
[A summary of the following appeared in The
Sun of yesterday.]

LIVERPOOL, MARCII 31.
By the arrival.of the United States' Mail steamer
Pacific, Nye commander; we have advices from
New York to the 19th hut. She brought 93 pas-
seno-ers but no specie. • - -
The Itoyal Mail steamer Canada, from this port,
arrived at Halifax on the 18th inst.
The steamer Ohio had arrived at New York with
the California mails of the 16th of February, and.
$2,446,875" in gold dust on freight. Her advices
have, however, been anticipated.
The discussion on the Clayton and Rulwer
Treaty had again been resumed in the Senate. A
very extensive debate took place between Messrs.
Douglas, Clayton, Bulwer, and several other mem-1
bers. In the course of the debate Mr. Douglas
made some very derogatory remarks relative to
England, which were replied to by Messrs. Clay-
ton and Butler. Mr. Douglas replied, and further
explained his views. He also said :

"We should never make a treaty unless we can faith-
fully execute it. He did not argue -in favour of violat-
ing any treaty. The senator says we ought to love
England because she is our mother. Now, it is hard to
tell who our mother was. We have a great many
mothers. We hare here English, Irish, Scotch, French,
Norman, Spanish—every kind of descent. All we have
found valuable in England we have adopted, and that
which was injurious we have rejected. I did not speak
in terms of unkindness to England, but, in speaking of
monuments, the point I made was this—that we should
not shut our eyes to the fact that the policy which Eng-
land is pursuing has its origin in hostility towards us,
and is not to enhance our interests. While the Senator
spoke of England pouring in her streams of refreshing
intelligence, I thought that the stream of abolition,
treason, and insurrection which she had poured into
South Carolina and other slaveholding States of this
Union would at least excuse him from endorsing these
streams of literature under tjae name of " Uncle Tom's
Cabin," an- other works---(tieftleiiaiits-vpriiatise in thfs-
gallery, and cries of Good, good,')—works libelling us
and our institutions, and holding us up.,to the hate and
prejudice of the world. While engaged in this he was
the last to compliment her for her refreshing streams of
literature. (Renewed applause.)
" The chair suppressed the disorder, and ordered the
galleries to be cleared.
"M. Adams.—l hope they will be cleared.
"Mr. Douglas.—l hope they will.
" Mr. Butler.—When I spoke of gratitude, I spoke of
those things in which we have a common interest. Ido
not thank the Senator for going out of his way and in-
dicating impure streams. I spoke of the streams which
authors and orators have poured out upon us, which I
hope have been refreshing to him and the intelligence of
the age.. I did not expect a miserable allusion to "Uncle
Tom's Cabin." It was ad captandum, and not manly
made. .
" Mr. Douglas.—l spoke of terms of reverence and
respect of the monuments of statesmen in England, of
patriotism, legal learning, science, and literature—of all
that was great, noble, and admirable. I did not expect
statesmen to go back two or three centuries to justify
the aggressions of the present age. And when I heard
the plaudits relative to the past, I thought I had a right
to allude to the present enormities of England.
" Mr. Butler.—l should like to know how England is
responsible for "Uncle Tom's Cabin 1" If the Senator
takes the sickly sentimentality of the day as an exponent of
the English heart and literature, very well. I alluded
to our commercial relations with England, and our con-
nection as a civilised nation, and would the Senator post-
pone her ?
"Mr. Douglas.—l would postpone her, or give her a
greater preference than other nations, but treat her as
duty requires. •
" Mr. Butler.—We can find sickly sentimentality
everywhere, such as the Maine Liquor Law, and all
that. (Laughter.)
" Mr. Clayton replied to Mr. Douglas, and repeated
the arguments heretofore advanced by him in justifica-
tion of his course in negotiating the Bulwer and Clayton
treaty. He contended he had proved from the testi-
mony of the most distinguished statesmen who ever lived,
that the exclusive privilege of making the ship canal was
not to be desired, and that the true principle is to nego-
tiate for all nations to pass that great highway on the
same terms. The Senator boasts that we are a great, a
giant republic, and the Senator himself is said to be a!
little giant—(laughter)--and everything which he talks'
about is gigantic. (Renewed laughter.) He (Mr.
Clayton) concurred in the remarks of Secretary Everett
relative to Cuba, and in the course of President Fillmore
.respecting that island. He knew how easy it was to
excite prejudice against England, and, as reply to the
Senator's observations on that head, caused to be read a
portion of Washington's Farewell Address, with a view
of refreshing the Senate."
The further discussion of the question was ad-
journed until the 21st inst.

Halifax accounts of the 17th inst. state that the
attempt to obtain a charter from the Provincial
Parliament for an opposition telegraph line from
Halifax to the boundary of New Brunswick met
with a signal failure by a vote of 67 to 16. The
applicants for the charter vainly endeavoured to
excite a prejudice against the present telegraph
company, of which the Hon. S. Cunard is president,
on the ground of its alleged partiality to the New
York Associated Press.
Our accounts from Jamaica are to the 9th inst.
The proceedings in the Jamaica Assembly were of
an uninteresting character. There had been a de-
bate on the subject of retrenchment, but it was ad-
journed to the 23d inst. There was no alteration
to report in the Jamaica markets.
Private letters from Belize, Honduras, to the
19th of February, confirm the accounts received
rid New Orleans of trouble on the Mosquito coast.
The letters do not, however, give the particulars.
In relation to the above, the New York Herald
publishes the following letter, under date Belize,
Honduras, February 24 :

"Her Majesty's war steamer Devastation came down
here, and, after having taken on board the superinten-
dent and his secretary, she proceeded to the town of
Truxillo, where they finally offered to the Government
of that town for the State of Honduras, as an ultimatum,
that they must decide in two hours either to give up the
territory to the parties from whom they had taken it, or
to stand the consequences, which were supposed by the
Honduranoes to be hot shells and cannon balls.

" So they decided to give up to superior force ; at the
same time they solemnly protested against the conduct
of her Majesty's Superintendent, the officers of the De-
vastation, and the Government of England, asserting
their inalienable right to the country, and declaring that
they only gave up to superior force under compulsion ;
that they only promised not to interfere with British
subjects because they were not able to drive them away ;
and, finally, appealed to Almighty God to witness the
outrage and punish the nation which thus, at the mouth
of her cannon, despoiled them of their territory."
Late advices from Bermuda state that Vice-Ad-
miral Sir George F. Seymour was still at that
island, where he would probably remain for a
month or two longer, and then proceed to Halifax.
His flag-ship, the Cumberland, had arrived at Ber-
muda from Havannah. Her Majesty's brig Per-
sian was also there. The ship Edward arrived at
Bermuda from England on the 3d with 244 convicts
on board. - -

From Havannah we have advices to the 13th inst.
The latest accounts from Matanzas state there were
but very faint hopes of the recovery of Vice-
President King. The commissioners—at the head
of whom is Signor Espino—deputed to meet Santa
Anna and invite him to return to Mexico, had ar-
rived at Havannah, on their way to Carthagena.
The Royal Mail steam-ship Dee arrived at Havan-
nah on the 13th from Vera Cruz. Her passengers
reported that the general impression in Mexico
was that Santa Anna would not proceed directly
there, but await in Havannah the formation of an
army, which was being got together to support his
views. Seven States had voted for him for Presi-
dent ; the other States had not been heard from,
with the exception of Puebla, which had declared
against him. A very decided majority of the
people of Mexico were in favour of his return to
power.

Late accounts from San Juan Fernandez bring
news of an intended outbreak among the prisoners
of that island. Their intention was to kill the
Governor and make themselves masters of the

island, to seize one of the vessels in the harbour,
and sail for other parts. The Governor, however,
received timely information. The ringleaders were
arrested and four of them shot on the spot.
From Mexico we have files of the. Vera Cruz Eco
del Comercio to the 4th inst. The Eco publishes
from the Orden, of Mexico, the following :

" Senor Munoz Ledo, one of the present Cabinet, has
certainly determined to be the evil genius of our coun-
try, since his great desire is to place obstacles in the way
of everything. He it was who retarded the revolution
of Jalisco,
__ acting with Don Mariano Arista, and against
General Uraga ; he it was who retarded the regulation
of the Tehuantepec affair in a manner which does him
little honour, and which, had it not been for Senor
Cevallos, would have embroiled us in a war with the
United States. Lastly, he wishes, at the present mo-
ment, to initiate a civil war."
The Universal says that there were rumours of
disagreement between the President and the chiefs
of divisions in the capital ; that Senor Uraga was
opposed to dispatching on Guanajuato the forces
destined to subdue that point ; that resistance came
from the troops themselves, supported on the plan