The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING,';'''MAY 8, 1854.

AMERICA.

The United States' mail steamship Hermann,
Captain E. Higgins, arrived off Southampton last
night, and, after coaling, will proceed to Bremen.
The left New York on the 22d ult., and brings 215
passengers, 138 of whom are for Bremen, and on
freight specie value $700,000, a portion of which is
for the Continent.

At 3 p.m. on the 6th, off the Start, the Hermann
passed the transport barque No. 38 standing to the
south. On the 27th ult., in lat. 40 15, long. 50 15,
spoke the ship Mary Glover, bound west ; and on
the 2d inst., the English ship Faside, of Glasgow,
for Quebec.

The British and North American mail steamer
Asia, from Liverpool, arrived at New York on the
20th ult.

This steamer brings little news of importance.
Ad vices from Mexico, in the New York Herald,
state that Santa Anna and Alvarez had ceased hos-
tilities, the former having made concessions to the
latter. The _Herald says :
" Our despatches from Washington bring us some de-
tails concerning the melancholy dissolution of the Gads-
den treaty. It appears that the most strenuous efforts
were made by the Administration to save this Joint-
stock compact with Santa Anna and his American allies
in the job. It seems that the President, as a last des-
perate expedient to enforce ratification, threatened, if
the treaty were rejected, to occupy the Mesilla Valley
with a military force, and thus get us into a war with
Mexico, as if the war in Europe were not large enough
for our warlike Administration. To be sure, it is a
fearful thing to contemplate the danger of a war with
Santa Anna, especially as he has neither money nor
means to sustain himself at home, unless supplied from
our Treasury. The treaty, however, has gone by the
board, and we shall wait patiently to see whether Gene-
ral Gadsden or General Cushing is sent down to make a
new treaty, or whether General Scott is sent down again
with 10,000 men at his back, for another march to the
Halls of the Montezumas. But we are very much afraid
that in a war with Mexico the Administration will fail
as signally as it has failed in everything else. It is stated
that the probabilities are in favour of the adoption of
the Sloo amendment to the Gadsden treaty by the Senate,
and the confirmation of the treaty itself."

The New York papers contain distressing particu-
lars of the wreck of the ship Powhattan at Barne-
gat, which was attended with the loss of nearly 250
lives, and the total destruction of the ship and cargo.
The circumstances of the wreck were of the most
melancholy and harrowing character. The packet-
ship Underwriter, from Liverpool, had not been got
off, but remained at Squan Beach at the date of the
last accounts. She would come off, it was hoped,
the next fine weather. All her passengers had been
landed in safety. The ship Saxony, from Boston,
bound to Matanzas, went ashore on the Bth of
April on the coast of Florida, to the southward of
Jupiter Inlet, and was left with 12 feet of water in
her hold.

A telegraphic despatch (in the New York Herald)
from Washington, of the 21st ult., contains the fol-
lowing in reference to the difficulties with Cuba :
" Commodore Newton, commanding the home squad-
ron, arrived here to-day, and had an interview with the
President and Secretary of the Navy. We understand
his conduct in refusing to salute the Spanish flag at
Havannah while a misunderstanding existed between his
Government and that of Spain has met with the full ap-
proval of the Pre-ident.

" The joyful feeling among the Cubans at the thought
that there may be a difficulty between the United States
and Spain which will lead to the annihilation of Spanish
power in the island is represented as being universal,
This feeling is attempted to be kept down by the Spa-
niards, who fill every office in Cuba, but it is, neverthe-
less, apparent to the most careless observer.

" Mr. Dean's resolutions to abrogate our neutrality
laws excited the liveliest hope.
The despatch which Lord John Russell said he had
sent here on the subject of the Black Warrior has not
yet been received at the State department. No des-
patches of any importance have yet been received from
Mr. Buchanan.

" Commodore Newton came to Hampton Roads in
his flagship, the Columbia. The Government have
ordered him to remain in readiness till they receive the
reply from Spain relative to the Black Warrior. The
commodore leaves for NewYerk to-morrow morning, on
a visit to his family. Commodore Newton communi-
cated to the Government the important fact, which had
come to his knowledge at Havannah from a source he
deemed perfectly reliable, that the Captain-General has
in his possession a Royal decree, authorizing him at any
moment he may deem proper to emancipate all the slaves
in the island. This is the measure of defence which has
been hinted at by English and French papers, and is in-
tended to carry out the threat that Cuba must be Spanish
or else a second Hayti."

Accounts from. Nova Scotia state that the Pro-
vincial Legislature, previous to its adjournment,
had adopted addresses to the Queen, expressive of
its warm attachment to the 13ritish Crown, and
pledging the militia to guard the province and pro-
tect the public works from public attack. The
Lieutenant-Governor is authorized to call out the
militia in case of necessity.
In the New York markets ashes was in moderate
request. The market for breadstuffs unsettled, the
common sorts having declined in consequence of an
absence of export demand, while the medium and
finer sorts were in good request at rather firmer
rates. Wheat more inquired for. Corn tending
upward. Cotton firm, at cent advance. Freights
without material alteration. Provisions were less
active. The navigation of Lake Erie was reported
to be unobstructed by ice. The New York stock-
market was unchanged. Exchange on London,
109 to 1091.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

( Prom the Report of the Registrar-General. )

This retur❑ comprises the births and deaths registered
by 2,191 registrars in all the districts of England during
the winter quarter ending March 31, 1854 ; and the mar-
riages in 12,039 churches or chapels, about 3,479 registered
places of worship unconnected with the Established Church,
and 625 superintendent registrars' offices, in the quarter
that ended Dec. 31, 1853.
The return of marriages is not complete; but the defects
are inconsiderable, and approximative numbers have been
supplied from the records of previous years.
The general aspect of the returns is favourable. The
marriages in the last quarter of 1853 not only greatly ex-
ceeded the mean proportion, but the maxim of the pre-
vious years. In the quarter that ended on March 31,
1854, the births exceeded the average ; and the public
health of the country was such that the mortality was
considerably below the average of the last ten years. The
improvement is chiefly in the country districts. as in the
towns the deaths rather increased in proportion to the
population, and are still, out of the same population, one-
third part more numerous than the death in the surround-
ing country.

fordshire, was severe at Bilston, and carried off 71 chil-
dren there. The weather, which was cold, and subject
to sudden changes, raised`the mortality in some parts. A
case of cholera occurred at Sedgley. Small-pox was in-
creasing at Droitwich, In Birmingham the deaths rose
by 400.
In the North Midland Division (VII.) 7,227 deaths are
recorded—a number which is rather high. Scarlatina was
frequent in the counties of Lincoln, Nottingham, and
Derby. The city of Lincoln has lost many lives from it,
and in one of its sub-districts more than half of the deaths
were from the fever; Grantham and Horncastle continued
to suffer. Worksop and Nottingham have been unhealthy,
the former had scarlatina, the latter measles. In Bakewell
and Chesterfield, in Derbyshire, fever much prevailed.
The mortality has been considerable in the North-
Western Division (VIII.), where the deaths number
18.506. At Marple, in Cheshire, scarlatina and typhus
were fatal ; there were 14 deaths from small-pox in Con-
gleton. In St. Thomas, Liverpool, 3 deaths from cholera
occurred in January. Low fever was prevalent at Lower
Crumpsall (Manchester), where " the drainage is very
bad." Cholera was fatal in one case at Oldham. Measles
and scarlatina prevailed there, and the latter disease in-
fested Ulverstone, where the foul state of a stream that
intersects the town constitutes a serious grievance. The
deaths are fewer in Preston, in consequence of a decrease
of the population, caused by the closing of mills ; 16 cases
of small-pox were fatal there.
_ _ _

The York Division (IX.) and the Northern (X.) exhibit
an average condition of health. In the former the deaths
were 11,194, in the latter 5,568. Deaths from cholera are
reported as follows :-2 in the quarter at Hunslet, 21 in
Leeds, with diarrhoea prevailing, Cholera and choleraic
diarrhoea with diarrhoea prevailing. Cholera and chole-
raic diarrhoea have been fatal also at Castleford. (Ponte-
fract). Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, York, and Mal-
ton have lost children from scarlatina.

CAPTURE BY THE CITY DETECTIVES,
AND RECOVERY OF 5,500/.

On Saturday another of those dexterous exploits
which have recently obtained the City Detective Police
a wide-spread notoriety, was consummated by the ap-
prehension of two Antwerp merchants, father and son,
and which led to the recovery of no less a sum than
5,5001. It appears that about a month ago a person
of tha name of Morris Hartoh, a merchant at Antwerp,
was entrusted with 57,000 guilders by the banking
establishment of De Cock, for the purpose of taking up
some bills for which that house was liable. Hartoh
absconded without taking up the securities, and soon
after his father-in-law, Joseph Hartoh Macmilsone waited
upon Mr. De Cock in a state of affected distraction, and
stated that his son had absconded, after robbing him of
20,000 guilders, and that if he could find the delinquent
he would bring him to Holland, and deliver him over to
the bankers. M. Macmilsone also stated that his son
had gone to America, but he would hand over all he
possessed to De Cock. The style in which Macmilsone
lived, and his reputation as a merchant, threw Mr. De
Cock off his guard. Intelligence, however, of the fraud
fortunately reached the police of the City of London,
and two of its most able members, Webb and Funnell,
undertOok the difficult task of keeping a " sharp look
out" in this country. After most persevering inquiries
they found a clue at Liverpool, and, following it up from
place to place without interruption, they at length disco-
vered that not only Morris Hartoh, but his desponding
father-in-law were concealed in a Dutch lodging-house at
No. 7, Prescott-street. Whiteebapel. The officers im-
mediately telegraped for Mr. De Cock, and he arrived
in London on Wednesday evening. Mr. Haines, the
Dutch Consul, was applied to, and rendered every as-
sistance, and on Friday Mr. Justice Coleridge, while
discharging his judicial duties at Guildhall, granted a
capias against the accused. Yesterday the officers met
the offenders in Swan-street, Minories, and, after a des-
perate struggle, succeeded in taking them into custody.
They were taken into a public-house in John-street,
Minories, aril upon the son was found a canvas bag,
beneath his shirt, containing 4,5001., and upon the
afflicted father-in-law 1,0001. A mob of nearly 2,000
persons, principally low Jews, collected in the neigh-
bourhood, and the personal safety of Webb and Funnell
was in considerable danger. Tne officers' clothes were
torn, and they sustained other injury. Both Mr. De
Cock and Mr. Haines, the consul, witnessed the capture,
and the former was so pleased with the vigilance and
courage displayed by Webb and Funnell, that he on
Saturday afternoon presented each of them with a bonus
of 100 guineas.
Hartoh and his father-in-law were allowed to make
themselves "scarce," after the recovery of the valuable
booty, as the English law, it was found, would not reach
them.

It will be remembered that Webb and Funnel' are the
same " detectives" who recovered above 2,0001. from
the bankrupt Graves, of Manchester, and succeeded in
apprehending and bringing to justice Heilbron, the
traveller of Al'lntosh and Cob, who escaped to America
with 7001.