The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-30 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, MAY 28.
By the Royal mail steamship Asia, Lott com-
mander, we have advices from New York to the
18th inst. She has brought $615,450 in specie on.
freight.
The Asia passed the following vessels :—On the
18th, the ship Meta, of Bremen, going into New
York ; on the 20th, the ship Union ; on the 21st,
at 4.45 a.m., the steamer Franklin, from Cowes,
for New York ; on the 24th, at 3.50 p.m., the
screw steamer City of Manchester, from Liverpool,
for Philadelphia ; and, on the 27th, the bark St.
Andrew, steering north-west.
The captain of a schooner, arrived at New York
from Florida, reported that, when about 100 miles
north of Matinilla, Reef, Bahamas, he was spoken
by a British barque, from New Orleans, bound to
Liverpool with cotton, who reported having picked
up on the previous day 25 passengers of an Ame-
rican ship, and wished Captain Nickerson to take
them on board. Owing, however, to the latter's
vessel being of small tonnage, with a very short
supply of water and provisions, and filled with a
large cargo of timber, he could not take them. The
barque also reported that she had previously spoken
a brig, which had declined taking them off.
The owner of the clipper ship Sovereign of the
Seas, having challenged any other vessel to run her
between New York and San Francisco, the captain
and builder of a newly launched vessel, called the
Young American, had offered to back their vessel
for $lO,OOO.

The caloric ship Ericcson was undergoing exten-
sive alterations in her machinery, and would not
be ready to sail for Europe for several months.
A Sardinian frigate had arrived at New York
with contributions for the Crystal Palace Exhibi-
tion.

Accounts from New Brunswick mention that the
Lieutenant-Governor had had three of his ribs
broken by a fall from his horse, which was attacked
by a dog. W. B. Taylor, of Liverpool, Upper
Canada, and formerly a member of the Provincial
Parliament, had committed suicide by shooting
himself with a pistol. The Countess of Elgin had
been safely delivered of a son.
The following communication was received at
New York, a short time previous to the Asia's sail-
ing, by telegraph from Canada :
"Wonderful discovery of gold and other minerals by
Professor Logan. Gold has been found in large quanti-
ties all along the Magog river. Great excitement in
British American Land Shares, which bring enormous
prices. Masses of the people are rushing to Sherbrooke,
the centre of the excitement."
The committee appointed by the House of As-
sembly at Quebec to investigate and report upon
the subject of the fisheries presented their report
on the 11th inst. The document, which is lengthy,
sets forth the disadvantages under which persons
engaged in the fisheries in the Gulf of St. Law-
rence and on the coast of Labrador labour, pre-
scribes the best means of removing them, and ad-
vocates the expediency of legislative encourage-
ment for such fisheries.
We have intelligence from Kingston, Jamaica,
to the 9th inst. On the 4th the Assembly passed
the following resolution :

" That in consequence of the rejection of the Revenue
13i11 by the second branch of the Legislature, and the
reclajssness and utter disregard of the interests of the
colony thereby displayed, this house feels that it cannot,
-with any confidence, continue to originate legislative
measures for the benefit of its constituents ; and, in
self-respect, and in vindication of the rights of the people,
it declines to do further business with the Hon. Board
of Council."

This resolution brought things to a stand, and the
house asked the Governor for a recess, which he
refused, and the house adjourned to the 13th. The
alove resolution called forth the following from the
Council

"That the assertions contained in it (the Assembly's
resolution) are as unfounded in fact as they are a gross
violation of the usages and customs of Parliament, and
a wanton insult to the honour and dignity of the Council
ES an independent branch of the Legislature."
" The Governor," says a correspondent of the
New York herald,

"Then finding this attitude assumed, prorogued
the house until the 17th inst., until which it stands
prorogued. There is every probability that on the
17th the Assembly will pursue the same line of policy,
in which case the only thing left to the Governor
will be a dissolution. But this will not alter.
matters, for I am sure the next house will follow
the footsteps of the present one. In the interim,
of course, there is no revenue bill. The Rum Duty Bill,
levying a duty of about 30,0001. on rum consumed in the
island, has also been thrown out by the Council, because
of an appropriation clause similar to the one in the Im-
port Duty Bill. By this rejection an additional 30,0001.
has been sacrificed since the 30th of April, upon which
day the revenue hills expired. Speculations are of course
going on. One merchant has sent a small vessel to Culart
to load with tobacco, while others, in anticipation of the
crisis, have written for large cargoes to the States. If
they arrive in time great lo.s to the country will ensue."
The Illinois had arrived at New York, from As-
pinwall, with 52,265,248 in gold-dust on freight.
The weather was excessively warm, and the pub-
lic health good.
From Vera Cruz we have advices, vici Havannah.
The Avon arrived at the latter port on the 9th with
ex-President Arista on board, and advices to the
sth, which have been partially anticipated by tele-
graph. Many newspapers had been suppressed, and
the liberty of others restricted. A decree of General
Santa Anna dismissed from the army all those
officers who had voluntarily constituted themselves
prisoners to the North American army which
invaded the Republic in 1847. General Arista was
put on board the Avon at Vera Cruz under an
armed guard, who had instructions, in case the
steamer had left, to hold him as prisoner in the
castle of San Juan de Ulloa, until an opportunity
offered to send him out of the Republic, to which
.he is not to return until permitted to do so by the
Government. Santa Anna had been decorated with
the Grand Cross of Charles 111. of Spain, sent to
him by Queen Isabel through her Ambassador to
Mexico. Rumours of the intended annexation
of Mexico to the Spanish Crown were very prevalent.
The Common Council of Tampico having refused
to acknowledge Santa Anna as President, the
-Whole body were made prisoners by General Woll,
the military Governor of that place, and sent to
Mexico. The smallpox and cholera had made their
appearance at Vera Cruz, and a considerable num-
ber of cases had occurred.

The following is a list of the new Foreign Minis-
ters :—General Almonte, Washington ; J. Ramon
Pacheco, France ; General Urago, Prussia ; Cas-
tillo Y. Lanzas, England ; Manuel Larrainzar,
Rome ; Buenaventura Viro, Madrid.
A good business hnd been transacted in the
New York stock markert, and at improving prices.
Money abundant at per cent. for loans ou call,
and 6 to 61 for four to six months. Exchange
not quite so firm ; bills on London, 1091 to
1094 ; Paris, 5.121 to 5.131 ; Amsterdam, 4q-
to 411- ; Bremen, 79i to 79-i ; Frankfort, 404
to 41. Cotton in good demand at very firm
prices, with sales for the three days of 7,200
bales. Flour had receded about 6.1 cents. per
barrel on the ordinary brands. Wheat in good de-
mand, the market being barely supplied. Indian
corn firm and in good demand for export. For
mess pork a good inquiry existed at improving
prices. Beef dull and !heavy. Cut meats in mode-
rate request. Lard, butter, and cheese unaltered.
Scotch pig iron in limited demand at $32 to $33 per
ton, usual credit. Freights to London.—Tobacco,
30s. per hhd. ; flour, 2s. 3d. to 2s. 6d. per barrel ;
turpentine, 2s. ; measurement goods, 28s. to 30s.
per ton.

WRECK OF THE WILLIAM AND MARY, AND

AWFUL LOSS OF LIFE.
A vessel had arrived at New York with the
captain, first and second mates, and six of the crew
of the barque William and Mary, which foundered
on the 3d inst. at Storrey's Key, Bahamas Islands,
with 170 passengers on. board, nearly all of whom
perished. The William and Mary (a Baltimore
vessel) left Liverpool iii March last for New Or-
leans' with 208 passenger s, principally Irish, Scotch,
and German emigrants;. On the 3d inst. they j
entered the dangerous channels of the Bahamas
with, the most unfavour,able weather ; the sky was
gilded, the wind blowing strong from the south-
emasotria, with.. a heavy sea. About 7 o'clock in the
the
miatahe bark passell " the Hole in the Wall,"
called frotrotnhern point, of the Island of Abaco, so
coast being r.e:fof the m ost prominent rocks on the
visible from a ce°3llltted I.vith a large hole, which is
this in safety capt:?Aeral )1e distance at sea. Passing
wukasSitoin son steeredfor Stirrup Key,
which at 12 re.
miles distant, the weather
becoming more cloud 4
.vand the wind increasing.
without the afternoon the -
without accident of alli
rtel kept on her courgse.
on which She
o'clock she struck on a k "tinkned 2 but at half-past 8
remained for about 15 in Mutei:,r4crk?
she received extensive damage. ur,lrnhg Which time
appears, had at sunset :lost sight of the rain, it
minutes
supposed that it lay to tl ie south,
as he had steered
north-west from 12 o'clock. trd
the accident, however, he changed his course, steer-
ing west by south, and cli d not discover his mistake
until the mment the b argue struck. The scene
presented on board the ,doomed vessel at this mo-
m !the extreme. About 15
went was terrible i
off ; but she had
minutes elapsed before s ie wore
htis rook when she . struck on
scarcely got clear of t .
~
t so rtpidly as
to Cal wan It aer ,
another, and began .
s utterly useless.
to render all labour at the pump
~,
q) rapidly on
At midn;ght the water .had gained .
the old,
the sinking vessel that it was four feet in_
the y
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dawned when it was an nouneed that there w e 1