The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-20 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
We have received from our Liverpool correspondent
a résumé of our accounts by the Royal Mail steam-
ship Europa, arrived in the Mersey, from Halifax, at
nine o'clock this morning, after a run of 114 dais
from New York.
The America arrived out at Halifax on the 7th.
Our accounts from New York extend to the Bth
instant inclusive.
The Hermann arrived out at New York on the sth.
No events in political affairs had transpired.
There are no later accounts from Mexico or Cali-
fornia.
A report from Mobile of the 2d says, the steamer
Trent, Captain Clark, at the point, in three days
from Havannah, brings but one passenger to Mobile
and 25 for Mexico, and has on freight large quantities
of quicksilver.

MONTREAL, AUGUST 7, P.M.
The Convention at Kingston of the delegates from
the various leagues of the Canadas has met and ad-
journed after issuing an address to the people of the
Canadas.

The city last night agreed to subscribing for
12.5,0001. of the stock of the Cortlandt Railroad,
payable in bonds to fall due after the expiration of
five years.
Judge Bedard is now suffering from a severe attack
of cholera.

The interments for the past 24 hours are 14, four
of which are of cholera.

In the markets there is a moderate business doing.
Potashes are quoted 285., and pearls 275. 6d.
Best brands of flour are selling at 21s. 9d.
Three ships had been engaged for flour to Liver.
pool at 3s. 9d. to 4s. Exchange on Bank was 9/ to
10 per cent. premium.

NEW YORK, AUG. 8.
The intelligence by the Cambria to the 23d ult.
has, except in the article of cotton, produced little
effect.

United States securities rather declined from
the disappointment as to the demand for them i❑
Europe.
Money very abundant.
Exchange on London by this steamer has advanced,
considerable sales having been effected at 109.
The remittance of Pennsylvania dividends, which
we are glad to say, were paid on the Ist instant in
full in current coin, helps to run up the rate of ex-
change.
Flour, &c.—The sales of flour to-day have been to
a fair extent, principally at the prices noted in the
circular above; 1,200 bushels good Ohio wheat sold
at 112ic.; Rye, 58c. to 59c. Oats were heavy at
44c. to 45c. Corn scarce and wanted ; round yellow
in small lots, for the eastern market, brought 64c.
to 65c.; flat ditto, 62c. to 630.; western mixed 60c.
to 62c.

Cotton—The sales, since the departure of the Cale-
donia on the 31st ult., amount to 7,150 bales, at a
further advance of one-quarter to three-eighths. The
fair portion of this business has been for export, but
the larger proportion, as has been the case for weeks
past, has been for home use and local speculation. The
quantity on sale continues moderate, and the stock in
port does not exceed 60,000 to 65,000 bales.

Our rates are three-e.ighths of a penny above the
last Liverpool quotations, and three to five centimes
above those of Havre.

The market closes to-day with a firm tone, and
strong indications of further improvement. Our ad-
vices on the subject of the growing crop generally
are not as favourable as a month since. The follow-
ing remarks of the New Orleans intelligencer of the
28th ult. are in unison with the advices received from
the cotton states generally :
" The accounts that are received from the interior
with regard to the growing crops are quite as un-
favourable as any which we have previously noticed.
The complaints of the country press in relation to the
injury from the recent excessive rains, are louder and
more general than ever, and there appears but little
room tor doubt that there is a real cause for appre-
hension onithe subject."
Freights are dull. To Liverpool cotton is taken at
one-eighth of a penny. Flour, ls. 3d. to ls. 40.;
grain,; 4d. to 41d.; heavy goods, 20s. to Havre
cotton. ic.: rice. &c.. 8 dolls_ to 10 dolls.; to Ant-
werp, cotton, it c. ; ashes, 225. fid.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY )

OLD COURP.

The August session of the Central Criminal Court
commenced this morning in the Old Court, before the
Right honourable the' Lord Mayor, the Recorder,
Alderman Sir J. Pirie, Sir P. Laurie, and the Sheriffs.

The grand jury having been empannelled and sworn,
The Learned RECORDER proceeded to deliver his
charge. The calendar, he said, contained the names of
238 prisoners, but no doubt before the labours of the
grand jury were brought to a close that number would
be greatly increased. After expressing his decided
opinion that the existing grand jury system was
absolutely necessary for the protection of the rights and
liberties of the subject, as well as for the due adminis-
tration of justice, the Learned Recorder went on
to enumerate some of the more serious offences em.
braced by the calendar. There were, he said, two
cases of murder, one of infanticide, a mother having
murdered her child almost in the very act of its being
born, and the other that of a wire stabbing her hus-
band, whereby his death was occasioned. It would be
for the jury, after considering the evidence, to say,
whether it made out a charge of murder. And without
detaining them further, it was only necessary for him to
observe, in dismissing them to their duties, that twelve of
them must be unanimous before they could return a bill.
The grand jury then retired.

MARLBRO'-STREET-7(THIS:DAY.)

John Bussen was placed before Mr. Hardwick, charged
with having stolen three pewter pots, the property of Mr.
Daniel Cowley, licensed victualler, John-street, Berkeley-
square.
Stringer, 193 E., stated that at eight o'clock this
morning ho was in Dover-yard, Piccadilly, when he met
the prisoner, who had a bundle in his hand. Knowing
him to be a suspected character, he went up to him and
asked him what he had got in the bundle. As he re-
fused to answer him he took the bundle from him, and
on opening it he found the three pots produced. Ile then
took him into custody.
_ _

Mr. Cowley having identified the pots as his property,
Mr. HARDWICK committed the prisoner for trial.

How frequently does the human heart struggle
with its better feelings, and laugh in public at that
which has made it bleed in private.—Eliza Cook's
Journal.