The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-05 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

LATEST NEWS.

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.
Though the President still remains out, we have again to
day a later arrival from New York, by the North America,
which vessel, in the hands of her excellent and active com-
mander, Captain Lowber, has made the voyage in the short
space of fifteen days. We are much indebted to Captain
Lowber for his attention and kindness in handing us our files
of papers, and affording every information relative to his voyage.
Ihe Forth America sailed on the 19th, atnight. The M•Leod
affair was still the chief topic in every conversation, and the
difficulty in which it placed the new Cabinet was every day
more severely felt. No doubt was entertained that a demand
had been made by Mr. Fox for his immediate liberation, which
had been, at several meetings of the Ministry, the subject of
most grave consideration. No decision had been made known,
nor even the terms of the demand, which in the several papers
is variously stated and commented upon. It seems hardly
likely it would be uncourteous or accompanied by any demand for
passports by the British Minister. Meantime Major-General
Scott, of the United States army, had proceeded to the fron-
tier to he present on the occasion, and to take all proper mea-
sures to repress or repel any partisan outbreaks that might
arise in the course, or by reason of M'Leod's trial at Lockport
This is a precaution rendered the more necessary by the riot-
ous conduct of the inhabitants of Lockport on the recent libera-
tion of 31‘Leod on hail, which, it will be recollected, set the
local authorities at complete defiance. The United States At
torney-General, Mr. Crittenden, had also passed through New
York, on his way to Lockport, accompanied by the United
States Marshal of the Western State of New York. The
trial had been erroneously reported to be fixed for the 22d, but
was really fixed for the 28th of March, and the early progress
of these legal authorities to the place of trial was very ominously
commented on in some of the papers ; that the trial would be
judicially postroned, or the prisoner summarily taken out of the
hinds of the local authorities, seemed to be a growing opinion.
The Senate adjourned sine die on the 15th, and a Proclama-
tion of the President calling an extra Session was procLimed
for Monday, the 31st of May. A formal reconciliation took
place in the Senate between Mr. Clay and Mr. King, through
the intervention of Mr. Preston, who made an eloquent speech
on the occasion, and, being responded to by Mr. King, Mr.
Clay advanced with his hand extended to Mr. King, and they
shook hands cordially, amid the plaudits of the Assembly.
From Canada the only news relates to the Elections, which
were distinguished by all the party spirit of the worst de-
scription.

Business at New York was very dull, and Socks every day
declining in prices. The Governor had signed the law abo-
lishing the preference to protested notes of the free Banks,
from which much good was expected to arise. United States
Bank Stock was quoted on the 19th at New York 154 for cash.
The rate of Exchange for the sailing of the packet was 7i to 7i
on London for the best paper.
( From the New York Papers. )
IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON-PROCLAMATION OF THE
PRESIDENT-EXTRA SESSION-NEW YORE APPOINTMENTS.
Our news from Washington is extremely interesting. The
Proclamation of the President, convening an Extra session of
Congress on the last Monday of May, will be foitnd below.
The condition of the finances is such as to render a called ses-
sion necessary, and at the earliest practicable moment, too.
Most of the prominent appointments for this city were deter-
mined upon, and were to have been made yesterday.
Unless some change had taken place in the determination
of the appointing power, the President yesterday made the fol-
lowing selections :
Edward Curtis, Collector.
Thomas Lord, Naval Officer.
Robert C. Wetmore, Navy Agent.
Mr. Taggart, Surveyor.

(OFFICIAL.)
A PROCLAMATION,
By the President of the United States of America :
Whereas, sundry important and weighty matters, princi-
pally growing out of the condition of the revenue and finances
of the country, appear to me to call for the consideration of
Congress at an earlier day than its next annual session, and
thus form an extraordinary occasion, such as renders necessary,
in my judgment, the convention of the two Houses as soon a.;
may be practicable ; I do, therefore, by this my proclamation,
convene the two Houses of Congress, to meet in the Capitol at
the city of Washington, on the last Monday, being the thirty-
first day, of May next. And I require the respective Senators
and Representatives then and there to assemble, in order to
receive such information respecting the state of the Union as
may be given to them, and to devise and adopt such measures
as the good of the country may seem to them, in the exercise
of their wisdom and discreticn, to require.
In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United ,
States to be hereunto affixed, and signed the same with my
hand.

Done at the City of Washington, this seventeenth day of
March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
s.] hundred and forty-one, and of the independence of the
United States the sixty-fifth.

W. H. HARRISON.

By the President :
DANIEL WEBSTER,
secretary of State.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LIFE. —Yesterday
morning, at half-past seven o'clock, as a Whitehall-boat, con-
taining eight men, was going from the Battery to the packet-
ship Francois Premier, at anchor in the North River, it
swamped, and two passengers, the second mate of the ship, and
one sailor. were drowned. The names of the passengers we-e
Frederick Hans, of Cincinnati, and Valentine Zegiler of Louis-
ville, Kentucky. The former was sixty-five years old, and
the atter thirty-two. Both left families in Ohio and Ken-
' tucky to mourn their loss.
FATAL DUEL.—A duel was fought at Alton, 111. on the
4th instant, between Judge Smith, of the Illinois Supreme
Court, and Mr. M'Clernand, late Secretary of State of Illi-
nois. They fought with rifles—distance fifty paces. Judge
Smith was the challenger, and was killed on the spot.
WAR IN THE INTERIOR.—We are to have war—that 'is
certain;
It has already been declared by Virginia against New York.
The Bill impo,ing restrictions upon vessels arriving from
or belunging to 1‘1.,,w York, has finally passed the House of
Delegates, by a vote of 75 to 38.
IHE CONTEMPLATED GOVERNMENT STEAMERS.—We
learn that Mr. E. K. Collins, Esq., returned to this city last
night ham Washington, where he has been endeavouring to
induce the General Government to take up his plan of build-
ing four large steam ships to run between this port and
Liverpool. We also are highly gratified to learn that
the Ge..eral Government have decided to ri 'lcier him all
the assistance, in this important arrangement, which he
needs. And it is therefore highly probable that in a very short
time we shall have four splendid new steam-ships running
between New York and England, under the entire direction of
E. K. Collins, Esq., which ships will cross the Atlantic in
ten da)s.

NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, MARCH 18.
Stocks were dull to-day as usual. Most descriptions again
declined. United States Hank per cent; Delaware and
Hudson < ; North American Trust and Banking C nnpany im-
proved per cent. ; Stonington *; Harlem Bill, on Phi-
ladelphia 4i a 44 ; Baltimore 4 a 44 ; New Orleans 7il a 8 ;
Mobile 11 a 12. Sales of New York Five-and-a-Half per
Cents. 87; Indiana Fives 52.
In uncurrent money the same state of things exist. The
brokers are very short of money, and buy very little red back
money at less than 25 per cent. discourt, and a good deal at not
less than 50 per cent. discount. The Albany Journal, the New
York Express, and other unprincipled papers, are lending
themselves to a most disgraceful attempt on the part of the
Red Banks to speculate in their own funds at the expense of
the public. It is very evident that a majority of the Banks
must stop, and that in doing so they will not pay 70 cents on
the dram-. This, under the existing law, will be a loss to the
Banks as well as the public.
The Western Safety Fund Banks are in no better condi-
tion; near twenty of them are on the point of explosion.
Nothing but the nirect interference of the State officers now
sustains them. The Buffalo banks have notoriously received
assistance .rotn Albany ; and a fund has been formed through
the City Bank of Albany, on which the tottering concerns can
draw when they are pinched The "red dogs" are in their
death throe- and will carry down with them all those corrupt
concerns, like the Commercial Bank of Oswego, that have for
years been the tools of speculators. The quicker they are gone
the sooner shall we have a sound currency.
RATE OF SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE
MARCH 18.
$l,OOO New York si's per cent
4,t 00 Indiana Bonds
125 shares United States Bank
73...d0...N0rth American Trust
10...do...Vicksburg .
50...do...Delaware and Hudson ..
10...do...Atlantic Mars. e Ins..
25...do...Farmers' tru5t.......,
20...do...Phcenix Bank .......
20..,d0...1111n0is Bank
30 ...do., Bank of Commerce
25...do—Manhattan Bank
300...do...,Meahanics' Bank,—

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THE DIORAMA.

This exhibition was opened on Saturday for a
Private view, and the public will be admitted to
it this clay. it consists, as usual,. of two
paintings; one representing the shrine of the
Nativity at Bethlehem; and the other, the inte-
rior of the cathedral church of Auch, near
Toulouse. This last picture is now exhibited
for the first time. It is the production of M.
Renoux, who, in the management of his per-
spective, as witnessed in one of the long aisles of
the cathedral, and the disposition of his lights
and shades—the effects of some of which are
quite magical—has evinced consummate adroit-
ness. The still life of the scene is judiciously re-
lieved by the introduction of one or two groupes
of figures, attired in the costume of the country,
some of whom are kneeling in prayer, and wear
such an aspect of real life, that it is with difficulty
one can believe that they are the mere creations
of the artist's pencil. But, perhaps. the most
striking features in the picture are the stained
glass wipdows of the cathedral, through which
the melloWed light streams in, lighting up every
object within its 'range, with surprising effect.
The Shrine of the Nativity is not less skilfully
coloured, but as the public are already familiar
with it, there is no need to enlarge on its peculiar
merits. It is taken from a sketch made on the
spot by Mr. David Roberts, .the most accurate
and spirited painter of oriental scenery that the
present times have produced.

EAST OF THE PASSOVER.—This day com-
mences the grand feast of the Passover among the Jews : dur-
ing the whole of the past week, the Jews all over the woild have
been busily employed in removing from their }ruse, every ves-
tige of leavened bread; and on the day previous to this feast
commencing, the master of the house, with a wax light in his
hand, eaters and examines every room, to see that it is perfectly
free from leavened bread. The feast lasts eight days, during
the whole of which time they neither eat or drink any thing
containing yeast. As eight days' helidays, would fall particu-
larly heavy on the poorer classes, it is only the two first and the
two last clays that are kept strict ; they being allowed to follow
their various callings during the intermediate four. Formerly
the Jews (and a few still keep up the ceremony) would, an the
two first nights, kill a lamb and roast it whwte, and all the
household, even to the servants gf this same faith, assemble to-
gether, and the master of the house explains how they were in
bondage in Egypt, and how the Lord. delivered them by the
slaying of the first-born of the Egyptians..
.This now almost
has at different periods formed the basis on
obsolete custom of slayin.g a lamb, aud sprinkling the blood•en
t be door-post s,
which the enemies of
the Jews have founded their charge of
imputing to themhuman sacrifices. ThouA the Old Testa-
ment expr ssly informs us that the Jews were commanded to
do so by
God, that it should be as a sign to the angel of death
to pass-over those houses ; and in commemoration thereof the
Jews to this day keep the feast of the Passover.