The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-09 00:00:00

r,,ENING, MAY 9, 1854,

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.—The Royal Mail steam-
ship America, Captain W. J. C. Lang, arrived in
the Mersey at ten p.m., from the United States
and British North America. She sailed from Bos-
ton an the 26th ult., but was detained by fog 30
hours off Halifax, and has brought beside the
usual mails, 106 passengers and $106,000 in specie
on freight. The Royal Mail steam-ship Arabia,
from hence on the 15th ult., for Boston, passed on
the 26th, inward bound.
At the departure of the steamer nothing had
been heard of the City of Glasgow, screw steam-
ship, which left Liverpool on the Ist of March.
The Tona cvanda, - from hence, had arrived at
Philadelphia, and reports 50 deaths by cholera.
The April news from Californiareports 1,000,000
dollars in gold, en route.
The new British ship Challenge has been seized
for violation of the revenue laws.

The senate has voted $50,000 to Captains Bell,
of the Autacrtic, and Kilby, for their great assist-
ance in the case of the steamer San Francisco.

Tho Money Market slightly easier. Stock steady,
and prices unchanged. Market depressed. Busi-
ness generally had improved, and was decidedly
brisk.

The market for breaclstuffs was quiet, and main
tained pretty nearly the same character as last re
ported.

The Cotton Market more active, with advanced
prices. The deficiency in receipts, half a million
bales.

Provisions steady.
Freights dull and lower.
Exchange on London, 109 to 109/ ; Ditto, on
Paris, sf. 10c. to sf. 13ic.

THE CAPE.
4.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.

By the arrival of the General Screw Steam Shipping
Company's mail packet Lady Jocelyn, we learn that the
principal topic of interest was the newly-discovered gold
diggings, with respect to which the only question was
as to whether they will prove to be rich enough to repay
the trouble of research. There is one point contained
in the letters published by the Cape Herald that will be
interesting to the public. We refer to the discovery of
copper, which the writer adds is easily procurable from
the surface, and in waggon loads. If we add to these
recommendations of the diggings the number of precious
stones and the platina that are likewise to be obtained
there, that country which has been so lately discarded
as worthless may yet prove to be richer than any other
appendage of her Majesty's possessions.
With respect to the terms on which the Orange Sove-
reignty was given up, the Friend observes=
" We understand the new Government applied to the
Special Commissioner for 20,0001. to enable them to com-
mence business ; and that, though he declined to give them
the full amount, he presented them with 6,0001., 1,0001. of
which is to go towards purchasing the late British Resi-
dent's house, as a residence for their president. He gave
them also 3,000/. on account of the Boem Plants fines, to
be divided among the sufferers in such manner as they may
think proper, and 5001. to bo divided between Stander and
three or four others, who, they allege, were illegally int-
Prisoned some years since, and the widows of Dreyer, who was
shot after Boem Plaats, and Waldman, who was shot in some
skirmish with Major Warden in the Winburg district. The
new Government, after some hesitation, presented Dr.
Tancred with 2001., in addition to the 3/. previously col-
lected, and the rev, gentleman thereafter immediately re-
turned to the district of Clanwilliam. The new Govern-
ment has also purchased gunpowder, shot, &c., from the
British Government to the. amount of 1,0501. They have
agreed to pay 051. for the barracks, and other buildings on
the ordnance ground in Bloemfontein, in the vicinity of
the Queen's Fort. The Special Commissioner has also
presented the new Government with the three large guns
on the Queen's Fort, and sufficient shot, shell, and other
ammunition to work them. He has also given them the
following arrear quitrents, or so much as they may be able
to collect :--For the year 1853, 2,3001. ; for previous years,
2,1501.—0 n condition that they shall pay immediately
1,000/. to the British Government, and 1,000/. more so
soon as they may be able to collect it. The new Govern-
ment has also received all the Government buildings and
office furniture in the different towns of the Sovereignty
from the Special Commissioner gratis."

The following eight gentlemen have been elected
members of the Legislative Council of the Cape of Good
Hope for the western districts, viz. :--Howson Edwards
Rutherfoord, Francis William Reitz, Joseph Barry,
John Hendrik Wicht, John Bardwell Ebden, Dirk
Gysbert van Breda, Jan do Wet, LL.D., Henry Thos.
Vigne ; and the following seven for the eastern districts,
viz.:—Sir Andreas Stockenstrom, Robert Godlonton,
George Wood, Henry Blaine, Willem Simon Gregorins
Metelerkamp, William Fleming, Gideon Daniel Joubert.
The Cape Parliament will meet at Cape Town
between the 23d and 30th of June.
At Simon's Bay, on the 25th of March, were the
Meander, 44, Commodore Talbot ; the brig Penguin, 6,
Commander Etheridge ; the brig Royalist, Commander
Bate ; the Dutch bark Maria Hallegonda, for Aus-
tralia ; and the schooner Caledonia, for Melbourne.
The Lady Jocelyn is 13 days behind her time. Off
the Isle of France, in lat. 17 south, long. 70 east,. she
experienced a very severe hurricane, which threw her
on her beamends, and she lost topmasts and jibboom,
sails, bulwarks, and boats. Owing to the existence of
smallpox at Point de Galle, she was put under quaran-
tine on arrival at the Mauritius, although all on board
were in perfect health. A third detention occurred at
St. Vincent, where coal was not to be obtained until
the Queen of the South and the City of Hobart had been
supplied.

The Lady Jocelyn has met continued north-east gales
since leaving St. Vincent, and adverse winds nearly all
the passage home.

She brings about 140 passengers, among whom are,
from Calcutta—Major Ferguson, Captain H. J. Brown,
Captain Walsh, Lieutenant Arnie!, 80th Regiment,
Lieutenant Christian, Major Thomas, Lieutenants
Warden and Lambert, and the Rev. Mr. Whitney.
From Madras—Colonel Derville, Captain Kearney, 15th
Hussars, Captain J. Hickley, Captain E. Walpole, and
Lieutenants W. Woods and E. Norton. From Point
de Galle—The Rev. E. Sergeant, and Lieutenants
Malden and Wilde. Frum Mauritius—Madame Delme,
Messrs. G. Robinson, J. Robinson, and V. Naz. From
the Cape—Major Tylden, Royal Engineers, and Lieu-
tenant Cockburn, 60th Rifles. Three invalid seamen—
Morrow, Hobbs, and Blackett —from her Majesty's
ship Sybille.

WHAT IS TO BE DONE WITH THE
DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES 1

The Debats says the treaty of alliance concluded
between France and England justly makes the occupa-
tion of the Danubian principalities by Russia the start-
ing of the war. There is, then, reason it adds, to be-
lieve that, if France and England succeed in their en-
terprise, the principalities will have their share in the
treaty which will consecrate the results of the war, as
they have their share in the treaty which opens the
chances of it. No power can think of placing purely
and simply the principalities under the exclusive
protectorate of Russia, or in the sole and absolute
dependence of Turkey. The day on which peace
shall be re-established, two questions will arise re-
specting the future of the East--must the Danubian
principalities be replaced under the double protec-
torate of Turkey and Russia ? or must the common pro-
tectorate of Europe be substituted for the Turco-Russian
one ? The first system, that which would replace the
Danubian principalities in the statu quo ante bellum,
would have the inconvenience of causing everybody to
say that it was hardly worth while going to war. They
will certainly not replace them in the state in which
they were before the war, for this state is evidently pre-
carious, and they will probably place them under the
collective protectorate of Europe, instead of the contra-
dictory protectorate of Russia and Turkey. This mea-
sure will be in conformity with the principle of the East-
ern will. The Debats then asserts that the interest of
Europe requires that the two principalities should be
formed into a neutral state like Holland or Belgium ;
and it proceeds to show as follows that it is necessary
for their safety and independence that the Black Sea
should be opened to the military power of the west.
So long as the Black Sea shall remain closed to the
navies of the west, the Danubian principalities will be
completely given up to the encroachments of Russia.
Does she desire to invade the principalities ? She invades
them when she pleases. To occupy them ? She occupies
them. Can Turkey prevent her? Turkey has become weak.
The Moldo-Wallachian populations ? They may hate and
complain, but cannot resist. We have often heard tra-
vellers blame the timidity of the Hospodars of Moldavia
and Wallachia with respect to Russia. But what could
they do ? Support them, if you wish them to resist.
But Europe can only support them by going near to
them, and she will only go near by causing the Black
Sea to become free. Open the Black Sea to the vessels
of war of Europe ; let there be no longer only two flags
floating in that sea, one strong the other weak ; free at
the same time the passage of the Sulma, at the mouth
of the Danube, from the piles of mud which nature
seems to accord with complaisance to Russian policy ;
have, in short, a river free from obstacles, and a sea
from diplomatic embarrassments, and then you will see
Moldavia and Wallachia, whether they continue to form
two Principalities, or whether they unite to form only
one, adopt the sentiments which would become the inde-
pendence which treaties have created for them.

THE LATE JEWELLERY ROBBERY AT BIRMINGHAM.—
Yesterday Thomas Koope, " the Australian merchant,"
remanded from Wednesday last, was again brought
before the borough magistrates at the public-office,
charged with robbing Messrs. Stockton of jewellery to
the amount of between three and four hundred pounds.
No additional evidence was offered on the part of the
prosecution, but it transpired that the surplus articles of
jewellery found in the prisoner's possession when appre-
hended in Manchester, and not identified by Mr.
Stockton, were the products of similar robberies effected
by the prisoner in Liverpool and London. Messrs.
Foxall, of Thavies'-inu, Holborn, were favoured with his
custom the Thursday previous to his visit to Birming-
ham, and Hansbergs, the extensive jewellers of Church-
street, Liverpool, were honoured in a like manner. In
both instances the prisoner gave extensive orders, and
during his dealings adroitly managed to carry off a
valuable booty. As these last-mentioned robberies were
however, committed beyond the jurisdiction of the Bir-
mingham inagiArates, the evidence was not gone ii.te,
and the prisoner was committed to take his trial for the
robbery committed at the establishment of the Messrs.
Stockton. Mr. Harding, the prisoner's solicitor, re-
served his defence for the trial.