The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-26 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC.
LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, Six A.M.
Early this morning the United States mail steam
ship Atlantic, Captain West, arrived in the Mersey
with the usual mails from the United States and
British North America. This vessel was telegraphed
otf Holyhead yesterday, and was expected iu the
river about five, but was detained at the bar for
water.

She sailed from New York on the 14th, and has
brought, besides the mails, 196 passengers, and
$900,000 in specie on freight.
The royal mail steam ship Africa, from hence on
the 7th inst., for New York, was passed on the 17th
by the Atlantic.
The loss of the Arctic appears to engross the ut-
most sympathy and attention, exclusive of every-
thing else ; but we have the pleasing duty of in-
forming the public that Captain Luce and others
have arrived safely at Montreal by the Cambria.
One hundred and nine persons are known to be
saved, and hopes are entertained that many more
have escaped in safety.
At the steamer's departure business was dull,
money tighter, arid stocks inactive and lower.
The sales of cotton arc reported small, but firm.
The provision market was dull and heavy.
Freights were slightly rising.
Exchange on London, 1091 to 1091 ; ditto on
Paris, 511} to 5 131.

From the official returns recently published, it appears
that the aggregate receipts of the French railways for the
first nine months of 1854 have amounted to 5,633,0001.,
against 4,866,0001. in the corresponding period of last
year, the difference being 767,0001., er nearly 16 per
cent. The length of road worked in 1854 was 8 per cent.
more than in 1853, and the increase in the mileage re•
venue was 74 per cent.
The rapid advance in the corn-market during the past
fortnight has had some effect in checking the decline in
freights. Several vessels have been chartered at Si. per
ton, to go out in ballast and bring rice from the port o
Akyab, on the east coast of the Bay of Bengal.
The bar silver brought by the last West India packet
was sold yesterday at 611 d. per ounce, being an advance
of id. upon the last price, owing to a demand for the
continent. There is no alteration in the quotation for
Mexican dollars, which are only in limited request.
The annual report of the Commissioner on the Mining
Districts has just been printed. On the present occasion
it is chiefly devoted to suggestions for providing a more
efficient system of early education among the colliery
population as the only means of averting the ruinous
folly of " strikes," as well as of preventing each increase
of wages being met by an increase of idleness. To this
end a provision is recommended that after a certain date
every boy between 10 and 14 working in any mine
or colliery should go to school for not less than 159
hours every six months. Several facts are given to
show that this would involve nothing which could
not be performed with ease, and that among the
well-disposed classes of the workmen, especially in
Northumberland, Durham, and Scotland, the regu-
lation would be welcomed. The necessity for it also
is considered to be augmented by the difficulty of
preventing the employment of children under the
legal age of 10, and who are deprived even of the
moderate amount of iustruction they might get before
that period. With regard to the general growth of the
desire for self-improvement among the colliers and
their families, instances are quoted of the success
of efforts made by several employers upon the prin-
ciple of those instituted by Messrs. Price, at
the works of the Patent Candle Company. The
chief results mentioned have been obtained by
Messrs. Bagnall, at Caponfield, in South Staffordshire ;
Mr. Thomas Kinneraley, at Clough-hall and Kidsgrove ;
and the English Copper Company, at Cwm Avon, near
Neath, Giainorganshire. Occasionally the plans adopted
to promote the establishment of salutary associations,
such as benefit societies, &c., are not quite in accordance
with the sound rules of political economy ; but some
latitude of experiment must be expected and tolerated,
as all these local endeavours to raise the people depend
upon the philanthropic earnestness of individual em-
ployers.
PRBSIENTATION OF THB LORD MAYOR ELIOT TO THN
LORD CHANCELLOR.—The presentation of Francis Gra-
ham Moon, Esq., alderman of the ward of Portsoken,,
the Lord Mayor Elect for the year ensuing, to the Lerd'
Chancellor, will take place at eleven o'clock on Thurs-
day, the 2d day of November next, at the mansion of his
lordship in Upper Brook-street. The Lord Mayor Elect,
who be accompanied by the Sheriffs and several
members of the Court of Aldermen, will be presented by
the Recorder, with the usual formalities and ceremony,
for the approbation of her Majesty.
Tin LORD CHANCELLOR'S LEVER OP TUX JUDGES IT
TER BAR.—OD the first day of the ensuing Michaelmas
Term, which commences en Thursday next, the 2d day
of November, the Right Hon. Lord Cranwerth, the Lord
High Chancellor, will entertain the Master of the Rolls,
the Lords Justices, the several Vice• Chancellors, the
Lord Chief Justice of England, and the judges of the
several Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and
Exchequer, as also the leading Queen's counsel and ser-
geants at-law, to breakfast at his mansion in Upper
Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, previous to his lordship
and the judges proceeding to open their respective
courts at Westminster. His lordship at the same time
will hold his general levee of members of the bar who
have been elevated to the rank of Queen's counsel or ser-
geants-at-law.

MADEMOISELLE CEITTELLI.-It was stated on Saturday
that Mrs. Payne, an English lady, had applied to the
President of the Civil Tribunal for the restoration of
trunks, containing clothes and other things, which had
been comprised in the seizure of the furniture and effecia
of Mademoiselle Cruvelli, to whom she was on a visit at
the moment of her flight. The president postponed his
judgment, and on Saturday it was notified to him that
the trunks had been restored. The Minister of State
has caused a regular action to be commenced against
Mdlle. Cruvelli far the non-execution of her engagement
at the Grand Opera ; he demands 20,000 f. damages for
the injury done the theatre up to the present time, and
Ime,ooof. for every
iday's delay in executing the engage-
nt.—Galignan.

FIRE AT IiANCHERTBR.--A most destructive fire broke
out in Manchester yesterday morning, about two o'clock,
by which property to the value of 20,0001. was de-
stroyed. The premises in which the fire broke out is an
extensive block of warehouses, occupied by Messrs. T.
H. Thode and Co., merchants and shippers, and by Mr.
William Carr, an extensive coach-builder, situate in Gar-
den-lane, Lower Ring-street.
THE 11VDSON'S BAT COMPANY'S SHIP Pallier Or
WALE; Heard, from Hudson's Bay, was hauled yester-
day into the East India Docks, She brought GO pas-
sengers, among whom was Dr. Rae, of the Hudson's
Bay Arctic Expedition (whose despatch on the probable
fate of Sir Jelin Franklin's expedition was published in
The Sun of Monday last). The Prince of Wales, which
left Hudson's Bay en the 20th of September, encoun-
tered heavy gales during her passage across, and on the
28th of October was struck by a tremendous sea, which
swept overboard her life-boat, and occasioned other
damage. She met also with several icebergs in the
course of her passage. She has been taken into the
Import Dock to be discharged.
WEST LOTHIAN AGRICULTURAL REPORT.—We have
had a continuance of flue dry weather unusual for the
season of the year, consequently the potato crop has
been all secured, cad in as fine order as the grain crop,.
Potatoes have turned out as we predicted, a small crop,
but of fine quality. There has been very little wheat
sown as yet, from the rare circumstance, in this county,
of the land being- rather dry. Farmers are thrashing
freely and markets are now well supplied with new grata
of all kinds, notwithstanding which prices are still ad-
vancing. At all the recent markets, cattle, both fat and
lean, have been selling at higher prices than they have
done for many years pant.--Edinburgh Advertiser. -