The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-19 00:00:00

AMERICA.

At one o'clock this (Saturday) morning the
United States Mail steam-ship Baltic, Captain
Comstock, arrived in the Mersey from ew York,
after a tedious and stormy voyage, with 70 passen-
gers, 150,000 dollars in specie, on freight, and the
usual mails from all parts of the United States to
the 7th inst. inclusive.

The Baltic was detained in New York two days
beyond her appointed day of sailing, on account of
the adverse weathei which prevailed.
The House of Representatives had under discus-
sion a bill for regulating the silver coinage, by
which it was proposed to depreciate the, silver coin
7 per cent., and also to levy a seignorage of from
to 1 per cent. on all coins in future : but this
proposition of the seignorage was vehemently op-
posed.
By the arrival of the Empire City at New York
from Havannah we have received intelligence from
the latter place to the 31st of January. The sugar
market was firm at previous rates.
A great fire had taken place at Cardenas, Cuba,
on the 29th ult., by which the custom-house, the
theatre, and a number of sugar and molasses ware-
houses were burnt. The loss was estimated at
$500,000.
When the Baltic left New York business was
active ; money raher tighter ; stocks were feverish
and. uneasy, and quotations rather weaker.
The cotton market had a slightly downward
tendency, with an average amount of sales ; the
receipts at the southern ports continued large, and
the quotations at New York, for New Orleans and
Mobile, mid. fair to fair, were 11c. to 12c. per lb.;
and Uplands of the same quality, 11c. to 11c.
The provision market was dull, and pork rather
cheaper, new prime being quoted 16c. to 14c. ;
new mess, 17ic. to 18c. Beef firmer, with little
alteration in previous currency.
The market for breadstuffs was quiet, without
material change. Western Canal flour was quoted
$5 37i to $5 50 per barrel, with a steady demand;
Gennessee prime wheat, $1 28 to $l3O per 601b5.;
Indian corn, round yellow, 68c. to 70c. per bushel,
barely supported ; Southern white ditto, 66c. to
68c. per bushel ; Indian corn meal, $3 50 to $3 62
per barrel.
Freights were reported at nearly the same rates
as prevailed at the last steamer's departure---the
asking prices being, for flour to Liverpool, 3s. 3d. to
3s. 6d. per barrel; grain- to ditto, lop. to lid. per
bushel ; and cotton, id. to 5-16 d. per lb.
Exchange in London was firm, with moderate
sales at 1091 to 110 ; on Paris, in fair request, at
512 ' on Hamburgh,
361 to 361 ; and Bremen,
i •
79i to 79i.

Honumm CASE OF INFANTICIDE AT ISLINGTON.
infanticide,-2
A case of accompanied with circumstances
of
.a most revolting description, has been committed in
Islington by a young woman named Harriet Butler,
servant to a respectable tradesman. It appears that
suspicions had been previously entertained of the de-
ceased's pregnancy ; the appearances, however, she sa-
tisfactorily accounted for. On Monday last, on the
family coming down to breakfast, a most powerful
odour pervaded the lower part of the house, and as it
did not abate, a search was instituted, and the remains
of an infant, partially consumed by fire, were discovered
in the accused's room. A medical man ascertained that
she had quite recently been delivered, and she was re-
moved to the workhouse in charge of the police.