The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-14 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE CALEDONIA.
(ny ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, THIS MORNING.
The Caledonia has arrived—brings thirty-six
passengers and 18,0001. specie.
Political news interesting.
Treaty with Mexico still unratified ; but Congress
has assembled at Queretaro,and were engaged thereon.
More bloodshed in Yucatan.
The Baltimore Convention has nominated General
Cass as President and General Butler as Vice-
President.
Commercial news satisfactory.
Exchange on England 111 to
Cotton a point higher, and bread stuffs declining.
Flour quoted at 5.25 to 6.12 k.
Freights nominal.
(From the New York Courier, May 30.)
We had hoped to be able by this steamer to sin'
nounce the reception in this country of the ratified
treaty of peace with Mexico, but are disappointed;
the decision may yet be delayed some days, or eve°
weeks.
From Yucatan the news is again of massacre and
bloodshdd. The temporary truce knocked up betweel,
the leaders of the Indian hordes and Yucatan chief
lasted but a short time.
The warfare, or rather massacre, on the pa—
rt Of
the Indians, has been renewed with all its horrors:
and our last accounts represent the condition of th
whole peninsula of Yucatan as helpless and deplol;
ble, and only one vessel of war (a Spanish brig)
spoken of as off the coast.
In Hayti murder is let loose, the mulatto rake
being the special objects of the vengeance of
blacks.
The French and English Consuls were exerti
themselves at Port-au-Prince to restore order
security. It is rumoured that a British squadron Ill'
troops was off the island.
An Indian war has broken out in Oregon' !le
Indians having murdered Dr. Whitman, a mission'
his wife, and nine others. The aid of the flod°°ll4
Bay Company has been solicited, and a force rgui"
by the Governor. President Pulk has also rec°lll'
mended Congress to send aid.
O
The Democrats have nominated for Pro-;J
01
General Cass, ex-Minister to France, and alret,
Butler, commanding in Mexico, for Vice Pre°i'ith
The Whigs hold their Conventions on the
proximo (June.)

THE PENINSULAR MAILS'
SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY M0N1431460A.
The Peninsular and Oriental steam-ship On
tt
Captain Bowen, arrived here at two o'clock.
sith;
Her dates are—Gibraltar, June 3 ; -
Lisbon, 9th; Oporto and Vigo, 10th. of
She brings forty-seven passengers, and I e"- of
oranges,
_lemons, dates, and almonds, ten hesring,
cattle, twenty packages specie, value 6,0001. ster
and seventeen packages of sundries.
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The troop ship Resistance was in Gibriu-mmot
preparing to embark her Majesty's :79th Beg
of Highlanders on the 7th, en route to Causids'
United States corvette Marion sailed on the eve-

of the 3d.
to tbe
By the Montrose we have received letters Ftv of
9th instant from our correspondent in the e"'
Lisbon. .deof
The Duke of Palmella had resumed the Fre/11
of the House of Peers. if Not.
The Deputies were debating upon the BO'. ed
and Currency Project, the provisions.of which ciptioe
much discontent in Lisbon. It was feared thi°,-; 0
cial measures would not be properly looked lli;rod
the Deputies and Peers were returning to tbeiis
vinces, and might not enable the Cortes to leg
to the 2d July, us had been decreed. :lie liscl
The Spanish troops that revolted at SO card
cerof
been pardoned.; with the exception of the i°ooo'
Most of them had been sent to St. Mary",4l)",;ose,
who could pay their passage came by the g°ll,-00'
Some arrests had taken place in Lisbon, 131/'
quillity was preserved throughout the countilAt" tes to
A vessel had arrived in the Tagus with
the 18th of April from Pernambuco, bringing ott
gence of an insurrection there of some 61111es tyro
large sugar estate, in which the slaves blun't fltrooPl
occasions completely routed the Govereill°—

sent against them.
f ht
Lisbon Bank Notes were at a discoilmil :
54. Exchange on London, at 30 days' 91113
52 per 1,000 rs. th
All was quiet at Cadiz and Seville when -:00
trose left. At the former port the Dilemetsiiiia,
MONTPENSIER put on board two cases c°ll
go of
presents for her Majesty, in particular 'cluirb ple
Capt. BOWEN, to be forwarded to the Spanis

bassador.
EW
At Gibraltar mercantile affairs were du11._74 1
change on London had risen, and was quote" -9,390'
481 for 90 days date. On Paris, sf. :30e• e•gbl
seines, sf. 30c. to sf. 32c.; Genoa, sf. 320.; -djii,;
days' sight on Madrid, 4 dis. ; Cadiz, I t° i dig'';
Malaga 1.1- dis.; Seville, -I- to dis.; Alicant, th
Valencia, 14 dis.; Barcelona, dis.; t3P9'l3is'