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

ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, 6 r.x

By the steam-ship Niagara, we have advices
from New York. to the 21st, and Boston to the
22nd ult. She has 45,000 dollars in specie on
freight. The steamer Africa arrived at New York
on the 17th, and the Canada at Halifax on the
24th ult.

• The engines of the caloric ship Ericsson had
been worked in dock, and the trial was in every
way satisfactory.
Nothing of importance had taken place in
House of Representatives or Senate at Washing-
ton.

From Havannah we have advices to the 14th
ult. The news, however, is devoid of interest.
There was a rumour at Havannah that one of the
English steamers had captured a slaver off the
island.
The steamer United States had arrived at New
York with two days' later advices from San Fran-
cisco, and 355,000 dollars in gold dust. More ac-
tivity had been observed in the San Francisco
market than for some days previously. The news
from California was of no importance.
The steamer Lima had arrived at Panama with
advices from Lima to the 26th, and Valparaiso to
the 15th of November, and 200,000 dollars in spe-
cie on frieght.
Reports from Valparaiso seemed to indicate a
dissatisfaction with President Monti's policy and
the rapidly increasing influence of the priests and
Jesuits. The editor of the Mercurio had been ar-
rested for having published some articles considered
offensive to the latter. Business had improved a
little, but there was no particular improvement in
the markets. Bolivia was occupied with a most
important scheme, that of opening its vast re-
sources to the Atlantic by means of some of its
river tributaries to the Amazon.
From Peru we learn that her forces were being
concentrated quietly ;-but no mention was made of
their ultimate destination ; as she had refused to
give any satisfaction to Ecuador relative to the

Flores affair, it is presumed she is preparing to re:
sist any satisfaction Ecuador may attempt to take
for the injury she imagines Peru to ha,ve clone_in
the matter.

From Bogota we learn that the English Gover-
nor had made a formal declaration of blockading
the port, on account of the defeat which the con-
tract made with the English Charge d'Affaires re-
lative to the Mackintosh claim met with in the
Camara during the year. In contradiction of the
above, it is stated that the Granadian Government
having satisfied the demands of the English Cabinet,
orders from the English legation in Bogota had'
countermanded the blockade.
The Hon. W. R. King, President of the Senate
at Washington, was seriously indisposed, and un-
less a change for the better speedily took place, it
was said he could not long survive. He had re-
signed his seat as President of the Senate.
Late accounts from the city of Mexico state that
the Chamber of Deputies has refused to adopt the
report of the joint committee on the Tehuantepec
question, and had sent back the whole matter to
the Government. The intelligence respecting the
revolutionary movement contained little of interest
and nothing decisive. General Uraga had issued a
proclamation
to the people of Jalisco declaring that
he would suppress the revolution. Desertions
from the Federal troops were daily announced, and
town after town declared in favour of the insur-
gents. A body of 400 Revolutionists had been
organised in Aguas Calientes. The Government
continued very short of funds. An effort to raise
200,000 dots. in the city of Mexico had failed.
There was very little doing in the New York stock
market. Prices, however, were generally firm.
The money market was easier, but without alter-
ation in the rates of interest.
Foreign exchange had declined. Bills on Lon-
don, 104 to 110 ; Paris, 5 12i to 5 : Amster-
dam, 411 to 41*.
In domestics there was a fair business.
The cotton market was inactive, and higher prices
were asked.
Provisions without material alteration.
The flour market was heavy, and was without
any decline in prices. Wheat was in fair demand.
Indian corn in good demand at 22 to 28 cents per
bushel.

Pot and pearl ashes unaltered.
The high rates of freight demanded to London
had checked operations.

BLOWING UP A MONSTER CHlMNEY.—Passengers by
the London and North-Western Railway, who have had
occasion to pass Warrington junction, about 20 miles
from Liverpool, have frequently been surprised at the
altitude and dimensions of the chimney connected with
Messrs. Muspratt's chemical works. It was 406 feet
high, 46 feet diameter at the base, 17 feet diameter at
the summit ; contained 3,500,000 bricks, 3,500 tons in
weight ; and cost 7,000/. erecting. There was only one
chimney higher in the United Kingdom. The one
connected with the chemical works of Mr. Tenent
near Glasgow, was 20 feet higher, a much
less it was ;
less noble-looking shaft, inasmuch as it was narrower
at the base, and contained about two-thirds less bricks.
The works have not been in operation for about eight
months, owing to arrangements being made to remove
them to another locality. There being, therefore, no
further use for the chimney, it was yesterday blown up,
under the superintendence of Mr. Stephen Court, engi-
neer and architect of the St. Helen's Canal and Railway
Company. A number of holes were delved round the
base ; and 14 charges of gunpowder were inserted. At
half-past 2 o'clock the train was fired. Nine charges
exploded without any apparent damage being done to
the stability of the shaft ; but the report of the tenth
had no sooner been heard than the chimney was rent
from top to bottom, and the huge fabric fell, crumbling
away gradually from the base upwards. The whole of
the column fell nearly within the circumference of its
own base. A dense cloud of lime dust hid the ruins for
a few seconds; but when it cleared away, the 3,500,000
bricks were perceived in the shape of a huge mound. A
large crowd of spectators had assembled to witness the
downfall. No accident of any kind occurred.
HORRIBLE CRUELTY TO A CHILD.—At the police-court
last week a case of the most refined cruelty was brought
under the notice of the magistrate. It appears that,
some weeks back, a pauper-nurse named Oldham had
taken a poor chili, about bur years of age, put a live
coal from the fire into its hand, closed it, and held it in
that position till the coal was cold, at the same time
holding a cane over the child
.with her other hand to
prevent its screaming. On the schoolmistress coming
into the room, the brute told her what sbe had done,
adding, that it was to prevent the child from playing
with the fire—a lie on the face of it, as he could not get
near, a large screen being in the front. The school-
mistress had a poultice put on the hand, but made no
report to the medical officer, the master, or any of the
authorities. The child was instructed, on its entrance
into the rooms of the visiting committee, to place the
wounded hand behind its back ; and thus things went
on for nearly four weeks before it was discovered, when
the chairman of the board, on a representation from the
master of the house, gave the woman into custody, and
she was taken before the magistrate and remanded for a
week. The matter was brought before the guardians.on
Thursday last, and a discussion ensued on it, Mr. John
Wade very justly moving the suspension of the school-
mistress. No remarks were made on her cruelty and
neglect in not immediately informing the medical man ;
it was called a piece of youthful indiscretion ; and yet
she is allowed almost the sole control over more than
ninety children. The brute who committed the offence
is a pauper nurse, from whom much feeling, probably,
might not be expected ; the schoolmistress is a paid ser-
vant, and winked at the cruelty ; and the poor child,
who was not considered in the matter, we are pretty cer-
tain (notwithstanding all that was said on the subject)
has lost the use of his hand and two fingers for life.
The guardians must reconsider the matter, and, no
doubt, from the manner in which Mr. Wade took up the
subject, he will not allow it to drop.---Kentish, Mercury.
SUSPECTED MURDER IN HERTS.—Much
th excitement
has been occasioned in Hertford by_ announcement
that a young woman, named Sarah Pigeon, had been
missed under circumstances of an extremely suspicious
character. It appears that on Christmas-day the young
woman came to Hertford, and spent the early. part of
the day in festivities. On coming out of a public-house,
where she had been drinking with a female friend, the
woman met with a man named William
Kimpton the
skipper of a barge. Evening found them still together.o
Here, however, we have only the man's statement
enlighten us. t
He tells us that the woman followed him
down to the wharf-yard, that he heard a splash, saw her
struggling in the water, plunged in to save her, but did
not succeed •got out again, and went home without
riverany one. This
alarming
as carefully dragged, and on Thursday the body
Tofhetkeodeceased was found in a hole on the Dicker Mill.
cly of the woman exhibited no marks of violence.
iltnnvesintilletsito:as held on the body ; and, after six hours'
"Found dr , the jury delivered the following verdict :
to show hoowned but there is not sufficient evidence
At the hove the said Sarah Pigeon got into the water.
gar" timewilia we consider that great culpability
attaches to
when deceased was Kim ton, for not giving the alarm
IRON STEA/tom in the water."
g~EXTRAORDINARY S steam-vessel Countzst SPEED.—The iron
of Ellesmere, performed an unpre-
cedented feat on
Runcorn and back iln:daY last, making two trips to
nwe tide. She left George's Pier-
head at 8.30 a.m. (high
tvlter being at 10.45 a.m. and
got back on her second
(gnat 1.30 p.m., thus ing only five hours, inclu stoppages, in running a
occupy-
distance
of about seventy miles
ters of an hour for the various Allowing three-quar-
stoappages at Runcorn
and Liverpool, and, consideagrianigostt
tit, two of the trips
were made with and two
havee tide, her actual
a great re
speed through the water must
:lilt from a vessel
seventeen miles an hour ; been sixteen to
of only eighty horse power, when the
morning is
that blew during the greater part of gale of wind
loaded with pas-
taken into account, and that she was
Isvid built by Mr.
lo
sengers, The Countess of Ellesmere
dewater, for
Laird for the trustees of the Duke of
Live col and
improving the passenger transit between
last proves
Runcorn, and her performance on Saturday
not only that she has accomplished that object, but that
she is the fastest steamer sailing from the Mersey.--_
Liverpool Albion.