The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-11 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, SALTARDAY MORNING.
The United States mail steam-ship Washington ar-
rived off Cowes this morning, on her way to Bremen.
She brings dates from New York to the 28th ult. The
steam-ship Atlantic arrived out on tE.e 27th.
This steamer brings little news of importance.
The Gadsden treaty had again been discussed in the
Cabinet, but no decision had yet been arrived at as to
whether it should be submitted to the Senate or not.

The town of Tapula, on the Mississippi, was destroyed
by fire, together with 8,000 bales of cotton, on the 26th
ultimo.

In the New York stock market quotations for the
leading fancy stocks were lower, but tranwctions were
limited. Flour was in good demand at in-egular but
decidedly firmer rates. 15,000 barrels were sold on
the 27th, at prices ranging from $9l to $l,Ol. Rye
flour and corn meal were held at pukes above the
views of buyers. Wheat was somewhat unsettled.
Rye and oats in lively request. Clem ad-
vanced 5 to 7 cents. per bushel, with ,sales of
70,000 bushels. Cotton irregular. Sales on 27t;1i, 2,000
bales. Freights firmer, and with higher rates demanded
to Liverpool. The quotations to Liverpool were--flour,
4s. 6d. to ss. per barrel ; grain, 14d. per bushel'. In
iron, Scotch pig was steady at $4O. Provisions brisk
and dearer. Exchange on London dull.
The New York Herald states that the Congress of New
Grenada has levied a tax of 10 per cent, on the estimated
profits of all vessels arriving at or departing from Aspin-
wall.

The riotous proceedings at Erie still continued.

The correspondence relative to the mission •of the
Pope's Nuncio had been presented to the Senate. and
showed that the visit of this functionary to the United
States was not of a diplomatic character.
A despatch from New Orleans announces the arrival
there on the 25th ult. of the steamship United States,
with the Californian mails and specie of the let January.
Advices from Mexico to the 7th inst. state that there
was much excitement at Chihuahua and Sonora, in con-
sequence of the new treaty with the United States. The
Mexican Ministry was still incomplete.

BAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

RAILWAY AND OTHER BILLS IN PARLIA-

MENT.

Yesterday the following bills were declared by the
examiners to have complied with the standing orders :
Torquay Railway—London, Tilbury, and Southend—
Selkirk and Galashiels Railway—Eastern Counties (sta..
tion enlargement and Wisbech branch)—Potteries, Bid-
dulph, and Congleton Railway—Newcastle•upon-Tyne
and Carlisle Railway—Westminster Terminus Railway
—Midland Great Western of Ireland—Newcastle and
Carlisle Railway.

The bills of the Great Southern and Western Railway
(Ireland) and of the Irish South-Eastern Railway were
declared " not " to have complied.
The following miscellaneous bills were passed :—Ennis
and Shannon Navigation and Reclamation of Land—
Bolton Improvement—Lanark Police and Improvement
—Oxford Poor-rate Amendment—Bideford Roads—
Camden-town Cemetery Appropriation—lpswich Corpo•
ration Waterworks—Stockton and Middlesborough
Water Company Darlingt in Local Board of Health.
Darenth Valley Railway.—There was no appearance
in this case when called on.

WEST-END AND CRYSTAL PALACE
RAILWAY.

This company has entered into an agreement with the
Brighton Company, as stated in their last half-yearly
report, by which the former company are to receive a
rental of 8,000 per annum for the use of the line for
their through traffic only, and therefore exclusive of in-
termediate Crystal Palace and South Eastern traffic.
The cost of constructing the line, as estimated by Messrs
is 400,0001. therefore
equivalentthetoa engineers,guarantee of 2 per cent. per
this Bidders uni and
is Fulton,
annum. Besides this the Brighton Company agree to
work the West-end line at the rate of 421 per cent. upon
the receipt ; the charge made by the Eastern Counties
for
works
workingks arethe Eastern Union being 471 per cent. The
w
to be commenced in the spring, and it is
calculated the line will be open in about eighteen months
and when completed could afford accommodation to
passengers going to the Crystal Palace, Brighton,
Dover, &c., and the Continent, from the Waterloo and
Vauxhall stations, and also the proposed station at
Chelsea New Bridge.

SOUTH EASTERN.
The permission obtained by the directors of this com-
pany for the Customs examination of the Paris mail pas-
sengers' luggage at London-bridge station instead of
Dover has been attended with complete success, and
cannot be too generally known to continental travellers.
Since the Ist of October last, when the new Custom-
house was opened, and the system of direct registration
of luggage was organised, no less than 3,628 pieces of
luggage, belonging to 1,785 passengers, have been con.
veyed, under the company's charge, direct from Paris to
London, relieving the passengers from the necessity of
superintending the embarkation and disembarkation of
their luggage in dark nights, and, what is of greater im-
portance, enabling them to go on at once from Dover to
to London by the mail train, which the examination at
Dover previously rendered frequently impossible. All
is now so well arranged, that the passengers from Paris
by the 7.30 p.m. night mail train have only to obtain
a registered ticket for their luggage in Paris at starting,
and on their arrival at the Loudon-bridge station at 7.45
a.m. they find their luggage in the Custom-house on the
platform, wait;ng to be sunmitted to the Custom-house
officers fir examination. It is to be hoped that this
excellent system will soon be extended to the other
direct trains,