The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-02 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE PACIFIC.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIL)
LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, 5 A.M.
By the steamer Pacific we have advices from
New York to the 18th ult. She has brought 80
passengers, but no specie. On the 21st, in lat. 43,
long. 57, she passed a Cunard steamer, bound west.
The steamer Africa, ashore on Jersey flats, had
not been got afloat at last accounts.
There is very little news by this arrival.
The Nebraska question continued the leading
topic of discussion and excitement in the political
circles at Washington and elsewhere.
The New York stock-market exhibited a steady
improvement. Money was becoming somewhat
easier. Exchange on London, 1081, to 109 ;
sf. 171,c. to sf. 20c. ; Amsterdam, 41 to 41-g.
Cotton in moderate demand without alteration
in price.
With lower English advices per Canada and
America, the markets for breadstuffs had been dull
and heavy. Flour had declined 25c. per barrel,
and wheat 3c. to sc. per bushel.
Provisions without alteration.
Scotch pig iron selling at 39 dols. to 40 dols., six
months.
Freights to London.—Flour, 4s. 6d. per barrel ;
turpentine, &c., ss. per 2801 b. ; measurement
goods, 355. to 405., and heavy goods, 455. to 50s.
per ton.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, March 2.—Wind this day at Noon, S. ;
light breeze, and fine, clear, dry weather.
PORTSMOUTH, March I.—Wind, E. to S.E. Acrived—
Admiral Corry's squadron, consisting of H.M.S. Prince
Rupert, St. Jean D'Acre, Imperieuse, Tribune, Arrogant,
Aden, Magicienne, Barracouta, and Amphion, from Lis-
bon. Sailed—Odessa, for Demerara.
FALMOUTH, March I.—Wind, S.E. Arrived—Frances,
from Mauritius ; Gondola, London, for Boston. leaky.
SOUTHAMPTON, March 1.--Sailed—Washington (s), for
New York.

YARMOUTH, March I.—Wind, S. Arrived—Friends,
from London, for Newburgh, with loss of bowsprit, sails,
&c., from contact with a barque off Cromer.
LOWESTOFT, March 2.—(Per Elec. Tel.)—Arrived--The
Wave Seaton Sluece, for London, leaky, and with damage.
LIVERPOOL, March 2.—(Per Elec. Tel.)—Arrived—The
Pacific (s), from New York—left 18th February.
GIBRALTAR, Feb. 21.—The Brilliant, from Alicante,
to London, sprung a leak, and foundered on the 17th inst.,
near Cape St. Vincent ; crew saved.

(BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, d, 10
Wind, S.S.E. ; tide, five hours' flood ;Thurs Tery ayfine. a.m.
Arrived, Ist.—Batavier, steamer, from Rotterdam;
Flecha, steamer, from Ghent ; Royal Victoria, steamer,
from Hamburg.
2d.—Baron Osy, steamer, from Rotterdam ; Antwerpen,
steamer, from Antwerp ; Holland, steamer, from Rotter-
dam ; Moselle, steamer, from Antwerp ; Fame, steamer,
from Calais.
Sailed.— Egmont, for New Zealand ; Kangaroo, steamer,
for Amsterdam.

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Wind, S.S.E. ; light, and fineEAL, Thursday, 9.26 a.m.
Passed—Louisa from London, for Glaegow.

APPOINTMENT.—WHITEHALL, Feb. 8. The Right
Hon. Sir John Jervis, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of
her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at Westmin-
ster, has appointed Frederick Thomas Elgie, of the
city of Worcester, gentleman, to be one of the Perpe-
tual Commissioners for taking. the acknowledgments of
deeds to be executed by married women, under the act
passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and for
the substitution of more simple modes of assurance, in
and for the city of Worcester, also in and for the county
of Worcester.
A MUNIFICENT OFFER TO BUILD A CHURCH.-At
the weekly meeting of the Board of Guardians of the
Holborn Union it was stated that a gentleman, a mer-
chant in the City, had offered to build and endow a
church and schools in the parish of St. Andrew Holborn,
at his own private cost, if a suitable site could be ob-
tained without the requirement of a large outlay for the
purchase of existing rights to the ground, and several
of the guardians are now making active inquiries for the
ground required for this purpose.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, with the
permission of the General Commanding-in-Chief, has ap-
pointed the following officers to his Staff proceeding to
, i.ud tll,;:ce to ;l:c 7;e at F war :----M.jor
James Bosville Macdonald, Captain Clifton, of the 7th
Dragoon Guards ; Lord William Paulet ; and Colonel
TYrwhitt, of the Scots Fusilier Guards: