The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-22 00:00:00

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THE ITNITED STATES.

At six o'clock yesterday morning, the British
and North American Royal Mail steam-ship
Arabia, Judkins, commander, arrived at Liver-
pool, from New York direct, with 250,000 dollars
in specie on freight (the greater part for Havre),
55 passengers, and the usual mails from all parts of
the United States and British America, in the charge
of Lieutenant J. Grant Raymond, Admiralty
agent.
The correspondence respecting the Clayton and
Bulwer Treaty, relative to the Nicaragua, had been
called for in the Senate by Mr. Clayton. The
treaty for an international copyright between Eng-
land and America, was expected to be ccntirmed
by the Senate.
In the course of his speech Mr. Clayton said,
that while the Bulwer Treaty was under consider-
ation, he had held several consultations with Mr.
King, and they both agreed that in the treaty there
was to be no recognition of any right of Great Bri-
tain to the domain in Honduras—they both believ-
ing that Great Britain had no other right there
than the right of occupancy for certain purposes
under the treaty with Spain. He then contended
that this, and nothing else, was recognised by the
treaty. He denied that the explanation of the
treaty by himself and Sir Henry Bulwer was un-
known to Gen. Taylor's Cabinet at the time of their
exchange, as had been insinuated in the debate in
the Senate. He then entered into a historical and
geographical examination of the territorial and poli-
tical boundaries of Central America, and into an
elaborate examination of this point as commented
upon by the Committee on Foreign relations. He
had just concluded on this part of the question,
when the Senate went into an Executive session—
after which they adjourned.
A good deal of dissatisfaction has been expressed
that Howell Cobb was not assigned a place in the
Cabinet, according to an arrangement between the
Whig and Democratic compromisers of Georgia,
which assigned Mr. Toombs the Senatorship, and
Mr. Cobb, a Cabinet appointment.
Uraga had invited Santa Anna to Mexico, and
Tampico had also pronounced for him. The pro-
position made by the Government to restore the
old tariff of duties, is resisted by the citizens, who
threaten to oppose its execution by an armed
force.
The Cabinet of the President, the list of which
was received by the last steamer, had been con-
firmed by the Senate.
A well-informed writer in Washington says

" There has been a good deal of feeling here during
the last few days with reference to the Cabinet ap-
pointments. Jefferson Davis has been conscien-
tiously opposed to the compromised acts of 1850,
and has persisted in his opposition, with an honest
consistency, to the present hour ; some of his more
timid friends feared that the very strong endorse-
ment of the compromise made by the President in
his inaugural was designed to force Mr. Davis to
decline a Cabinet appointment.
A great fire had occurred at New Orleans, in
which more than 18,000 bales of cotton were de-
stroyed, of which the Liverpool, and Royal Liver-
pool Insurance Companies will have to sustain a
loss of 90,000 dollars, as their proportion of the
damage.

J. C. Bates, Boston, has failed, with liabilities
to the extent of 300,000 dolls.
Disturbances of a serious nature were threatened
between the citizens of San Juan or Greytown, and
the Nicaragua Transit Company.
The captain of the ship Inez, arrived at New Or-
leans from Liverpool, reports having fallen in with,
in lat. 20 N. lon. 82 W., a vessel bottom up, of
about 800 tons—appeared to have been ashore.
There was a hole in her bottom, and she was co-
vered with Muntz metal. Sent a boat alongside,
but could find nothing to particularise her, except
that she had painted ports, and her shoe was fast-
ened by cast composition clamps.
By way of New Orleans, Galveston (Texas) dates
to the 25th and Indianola to the 24th February,
have been received. A tremendous gale took place
at Galveston on the 221 inst., commencing about
3 a.m., from the N.W., moderating towards the
evening, and doing immense damage.
When the Arabia sailed, business matters in
general were not quite so favourable as at the last
accounts, and money was decidedly more difficult
to obtain. The stock market was weak, and "fancy"
Stocks had fallen about 5 per cent. in two days.