The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-13 00:00:00

MA Y 132 MI.

AMERICAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THt-; AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING.
The British and North American Royal mtkil steam- '
ship America has just entered our river. She brings
seven days later intelligence from the United States
and British North America, having sailed from Boston
on the 30th ult.,. and called at Halifai to land and re-
ceive:retails and passengers on the inst. The number
of passengers brought over is ill. She brings 26,0001
in specie on freight. •
The America spoke the Royal mail steamer Rumps
on the 4th inst.

• The Royal mail steam-ship Niagara, Leitch, arrived
at Halifax at 6 P.M. on the 29th ult., and was after-
wards passed by the America off Boston.
The
.United State; steam-ship Ohio, Shenck, with
Havannah mails of the 'l3th ult., 200 passmgerd, and
140,0001. in wad dust and 20,000 cloth. specie on freight.
arrived at Ne* York on the 24th ult.

The new United States mail steam-ship Humboldt,
Lines commander, sister ship to the Franklin, would
leave o❑ the 3d inst. for Southampton. •
Oar miscellaneous accounts announce that a large
new steam-ship, of 1,200 tons, was being constructed at
New York, for a new steam line,- to run between
Charleston and Liverpool. In Pittsburg Jenny Lind
had been grossly insulted. stones having been thrown
into, her carriage, and afterwards into her dressing
room. She subsequently refused to sing again, and left
instantly for SalThnore. - Great indignities had been-
offered in Soutn Carolina to the officer from Boston who
conveyed the fugitive slave Simms back to that state.
On the 231 ult. a grand entertainment was given at
Astor-house, New York, by the-Si. George's Society,
at which Sir H. Bulwer, who had just recovered from
severe indisposition, was one of the principal guests and
speakers. Dr. Beals presided, and the Swedish Minis-
ter,-Mr. Lytton, son of Sir E. B. Lytton, was also pre-
sent. -Several of the orations, more especially those of
Sir H. Bulwer, were of a remarkable character. Cap-
tain Cooper responded for the British army, Sir H.
Bulwer for the Duke of Wellington, and Mr. Lytton fur
his father, the great novelist.
--A steam-boat had been seized at New York, charged
with having been intended for the Cuban expedition.
Six persons had been arrested and held to bAI. The
President has issued a proclamation against such expe-
ditions. The particulars of the affair are thus re-
lated:—

" The United States Marshal having received intelligence
that a vessel had been chartered by certain persons inte-
rested in the invasion of Cuba, and secretly fitted out with
implements of war, and talon down the bay, where she was
anchored, awaiting the arrival of several hundred men, the
Marshal had the steamer Jacob Bell chartered and kept in
readiness at Pier No. 1, North River. In the mean time he
called, upon the Chief of Police to furnish a force of his men
to aid and assist the United States authorities. All ar-
rangements being consummated, they boarded the steamer
Jacob Bell, which steamed towards Governor's Island, but
turned up the East River and went alongside of a United
States revenue cutter, and was made fast, and sailed down
the bay. in search of the craft suspected. The Marshal and
his forces remained down the bay until Thursday morning,
to watch the vessel and such persons as were expected
to be conveyed to the craft at different hours of ,the night.
The, suspected craft, however, was the steam-boat Cleopatra,
which, during all his search, was lying quietly at the pier,
foot of North Moore-street. She is a large boat, about 14
years old, and was employed as a sound-boat, to which she
proved herself well adapted. She has a large quantity of
coal on board (we understand 250 tons were ordered), occu-
pying the forward cabin and hold, boiler-rooms, and a quan-
tity piled on the forward deck. She has also on board a
great number of large empty casks, which now stand on end,
the whole capable of containing, probably, some 7,000 gal-
lons of water. She looks rough, and not newly painted, nor
has anything been done to her to give her any different ap-
pearance from an ordinary sound or river boat. The water-
casks, &c., we understand, were ordered by Captain !Wilson,
who claims to command her. She was alleged to be bound
to Galveston, Texas. There were some sugar-boxes, &c., on
board, such as fire-arms are usually packed in, but on exa-
mining them, they were found to contain hams and other arti-
cles. Application was made to the Navy-yard during Saturday
for some marines to take charge of the Cleopatra, which was
granted, and they now have her in custody. Mr. C. Rack-
lewitz,a young man, a native of Poland, one of the deputy-
marshals, went to South Amboy on the same day, where it
was said some Germans and others had assembled with a
view to embarking in a Cuban expedition, disguised himself
as art emigrant, and conversing in German win some of the
parties, obtained information which induced him to get five
of the parties to ceme,with him to this city. Affidavits
were prepared charging William T. Rogers,jun. (nephew of
Dr. J. K. Rogers), John L. O'Sullivan (son-in-law of Dr.R.),
Captain Lewis, formerly of the steam-boat Creole, engaged
in the former expedition (charged with being, in fact, Cap-
tain of the Cleopatra), Major Louis Schlesinger, one of the
Hungarian patriots, Pedro Sanches, a Spaniard, residing in
this city, and Dr. Daniell'. Burtnett, an old resident, with
preparing the means for a military expedition against Cuba,
in possession ot the Queen of Spain, contrary to the sixth
section of the Neutrality Act of the 20th of April, 1818.
Tne parties thus charged were arrested and held to bail in
3,000 dollars each to appear for examination."
The Erie Railroad was completed as far as Lake Erie,
Sir Henry Bulwer delivered a long address at the St.
George's Society on 23d April.
From Mexico dates are to the 9th of April. The
financial condition of the Republic was deplorable. A
formal complaint had been made by the Ministry to the
United States Government as to the Indian outrages on
the frontier, which by treaty the United States were
bound to protect. Mexico refuses to ratify the Tehtein-
tepee Treaty as yet. Tne correspondents of the New
York journals say that there will be a deficiency on the
year to meet the exigencies of the Government amount-
ing to 4,0(10,000 dolls. The Minister of Finance was
endeavouring to consolidate the interior debt, and to
raise a revenue. A loan of several millions was con-
templated.
Truzina and Co., Mexico, bad failed for 250,0001.
sterling.
Our latest advices from Hayti furnish a more con-
nected.account of the recent plot to overthrow the Im-
perial Government, and re-establish the Repuolic. The
conspirators, it would seem, were blacks, and not mulat-
toes. The discovery was made in consequence ot the
arrest of a person .who was suspected ot robbery. Fire
of the conspirators had been shot.
New Orleans is again threatened with the ;desolation
of water, owing to the flood in that river and the cre-
vasses in the levees, both above and below the city.
Butterfield's stables with fourteen horses, and several
adjoining buildings, have been destroyed by fire at
Utica, and the alleged incendiaries have been arrested.
Incendiarism is the curse of American cities. At New
Orleans, last week, Charles Roussell and his wife agreed
to commit suicide. He mixed two tumblers of
poison and took one of them, but the lady changed her
mind immediately after her husband had swallowed the
fatal dose. Ho died. She lives, and has been dis-
charged from custody by the magistrate. The cause of
this romantic suicide is said to have been jealousy.
John Clines was hung at Freehold, New Jersey, on
Friday, for the murder of James Shields. The night
before his execution he set fire to the prison, but the
flames were extinguished and his escape was prevented.
la few days since a terrible railroad riot, in which
six hundred Irishmen were engaged, took place at
Hornersville, New York. It arose out of a strike for
wages. Three were killed, and many wounded. The
military were called out, and the ringleaders arrested.
Another railroad riot took place on the Central-road,
near Greensburg, Pennsylvania—one killed, and several
wounded. Hazard's powder mill blew up at Enfield, on
Friday week—one killed and three wounded. A free
negro woman, named Barnes, was murdered at Leonard-
town, a few days ago, and her husband is accused of
• the foul deed. A curious-affair recently took place at
Rushville,lllmois. A blacksmith, who was a notorious
drunkard, with a wife and family he did net support, was
convicted of inveterate intemperance, and sold by auc-
tion, for the term of four months' labour !
During March the New York Post-office received by
the European mail steamers 618,990 letters, and '293,264
newspapers; and forwarded 620,161 letters, and 366,916
newspapers.
Business throughout the States was in an excellent

condition. The export of specie from New Yo►k con-
tinued to be on a considerable scale, and seemed likely
to continue, as quotations for English exchange had not
given way. The money market continued in a satisfac-
tory state. Money was by no means scarce. The de-
mand for stooks wa►s firm, at former rates.

There was little doing in •breadstuffs at receding
prices. Western canal flour, 4 dolls. 37ie.:to 4 dolls. 500.
per barrel; Gennessee prime wheat 1 doll. 12c. to 1 doll.
140. per 601 b.; Indian corn, round yellow, 62c. to 64c.
per bushel, steady; Indian meal, 3 dolls. 12ic. to 3 dolls.
250. per barrel.
The cotton market at New York continued in a de-
pressed condition; sales could not be made except at a
reduction, which holders generally had submitted to.
New Orleans and Mobile, mid. fair to fair, 114 x. to
121c.' per lb.; Uplands and Florida, mid. fair to fair,
1040. to 1110. per lb. The current excess of receipts
was 200,000 bales over that of last year. Price► declined
on the arrival out Of the Asia's news.

Provisions were in good demand, at ern prices.
Freights were inactive, and low in quotation.
Exchange on London 1101 to 110 i (good demand),
Penis 5.10, Hamburgh 36} 361, Bremen 791 791.

BARREL ORGANS AND ADVERTISING VANS.—The
following is a return to an order of the Honourable the House
of Commons, dated April 14, 1851, for copy " of the instruc-
tions given by the Commissioners of the Police to the police
officers relative to the preventing obstructions and other
nuisances, caused by the large travelling barrel organs and
advertising,vans in and about the metropolis":
" (MEMORANDUM.
" March 21, 1851.
" The police would be justified in stopping music playing
in the streets, and, if necessary, removing the parties in
cases where, from the load noise or other circumstances,
danger is caused to passengers in the streets, horses frightened,
or the thoroughfares obstructed. Let instructions be given
accordingly for the guidance of the police.
"RICIIAnD MAYNE.

"Whitehall-place, April 19, 1851.
" To the Superinten tants."
"No instructions have been given to the police respecting
the advertising vans, there not being any law specially appli-
cable
to them. In case of actual obstruction of a thorough-
fare by these vans the police would interfere, as in other
cases of obstructions, and enforce the law - 2d and 3d \Tic.,
chap. 47, section 54 (6). "RICHARD MAINE.
" Whitehall-place, April 19 , 1851."
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out
wholesonie fragrance; reverie is the same flower, when weak
and running to seed. —Eliza Cook's Journal.
CORROSION IN STEAK BoILERS.—The foliowincr
experiment has been tried at Owlett Hall Colliery, Gilder
ston, Yorkshire, by the proprietors, Messrs. Mason and As:
pith. It appears that the two boilers used at this landsale
colliery are built in the oblong form, and are each 32 feet in
length and 5 feet in diameter. From the hard,'
water a corrosion bad taken place. After tr • e
aefthe
3 number
of experiments without success, they put betweenle 71bs. and
81ps. of leather carriers shavings into each bollor, and t
bat entirely prevented all farthez wricvicm. era

LITER t=RE:

-MIRIAM SEDLEY ; or, THE TARES AND
THE WHEAT. A Tale if Real Life. By
Ludy Bawer Lytton. 3 'rots. Slsoberl.
Lady Belwer Lytton, in a lively French dedica-
tion, presents these volumes to the Countess Hen-
riette iu which dedication her Ladyship's
remarks on her own countrywomen are anything but
complimentary, e. g.:—"Et ce n'est point etonnant,
vu que l'idolatrie du veau d'or suit notre culte na-
tional, I quelques belles et bonnes exceptions pros, la
femelle Britannique (animal sans (mar et sans tete,
inaite par_ Buffon) est vraiment une °diens°
et voila pourquoi le commerce social eat une chose
incomprise chez nous ; car tandis que la France a
produit tent de famines ce:ehres et de grandes dames.
l'Angleterre ne fait gue7e que rnettre bas (et k bas)
des females, des femmelettes, et des fine ladies. La
precis4-e ne salt rien, la seconde ne fait rien, et
it troisKene ne dit rien." The plot of "Miriam
Se(iley" is slight-, and possessed of little or no roman-
',
tic interest, it may rather he regarded as the connect-
ing link of a series of lively sketcries and observations,
for the most part brilliant, occasionally truthful and
beautiful, but more often sarcastic and even taut soil
pen spiteful ; as, for example, the above quoted re,
marks from the dedication. Amonfe
ful and sensible advice bestowed the most, truth-
ful Lady Bulvver
upon her fair readers are some excellent recounnen-.
dations to good housekeeping and the care of
invalids. Her remarks on the requisites for
a good attendant in a sick chamber are full
of practical utility, anti her enumeration of
the excellences of good cookery and plain work
versus crochet and Berlin wool, would satisfy M.
Sayer or Mrs. Ellis. "-I've no toleration," says
" for a woman who cannot do every sort of
plain work, both neatly and expeditiously; for there
is something unfeminine in this sort of incapacity,
and an unwomanly woman is always detestable.
Most of U 3 take naturally to Berlin work and em-
broidery ; they are a part of our organization, like
hysterics and fainting-fits; but what can be a greater
incarnation of discomfort and disgust than one of
your dawdling, desultory women, who neither do nor
know how to do anything about a house, but accu-
mulate disorder and privations for themselves and
every one about them." Good practical teach-
ing such as this is seldom put before the
novel reader, and such observations contrast
somewhat strangely with the flippant sarcasm and
not very gentle severity to be met with in other,
chapters of " Miriam Sedley." Although " variety'
is proverbially " charming," it should be, neverthe-
less, characterised by a certain amount of congruity,
a quality in which Lady Bulwer's very " various"
observations are strangely deficient. For example,
we are at one moment charmed with some beautiful
passage like the following :—" But, in either instance,
whether our lot be evasion or execution, it teaches
that one great truth, that on God alone we must de-
pend, and that there is no appeal from man but to
Him ; and then, come what may, we shall still be-
lieve that whatever is, is right, however wrong the
means may appear that are employed to achieve it,
for everything leads one to suppose that that
strange . and complicated tissue, called human
destinies, must be the tapestry of heaven,
which, like every other, is always worked on
the wrong side, showing us nothing but the cross-
grained shreds and nottings here, and which there
alone we shall behold as a beautiful and finished
whole. Laying down my load for the present,"
adds Miriam, " I knelt down and prayed. Oh
blessed boon of God to mortals, prayer is the electric
telegraph of heaven : it asks for mercy and the in-
stantaneous answer from above is peace." And then,
shortly afterwards, we are grieved to find a hand
that can pen graceful compliments as well as Chris-
tian truths condescending to set forth thoughts so un-
courteous and uncharitable as those contained
in a foot-note complimenting Thackeray—" the
only English novelist deserving that name." The
concluding sentences of this note will convey an idea
of the good taste and refinement of the whole passage :
" It is much to he regretted, for his own sake that Mr.
Thackeray should be splashed by the literary mud of
his present entourage; but as he appears to have the
feelings of a gentleman, and neither blows a black-
smith's bellowa of self-praise, charged with hyper-
borean German plagiarisms, or writes vulgar carica-
ture (!) of writers eking up schoolboys' dinners, at
inns, or all sorts of fine sentiments against cruelty and
injustice, the better to toady and herd with all that
is most loathsome in moral depravity, it is to be
hoped he will soon emancipate him-elf." If
we filled twenty columns with a criticism
of " Miriam Sedley " we could hardly give
our readers a more just idea of its peculiaritie,,
both of style and sentiment, than the above brief
specimens; may suffice to convey. Recognizing the
talent maid-sa' in this production, we feel assured
that Lady Bulwer Lytton might bestow upon us far
more interesting and valuable works if she would
conde-cend to give her readers credit for good taste
and kindly feeling, and if she would, mareover, re
inemeer that in order to be " brilliant" and "sar-
castic" it is not absolutely necessary to be un-
charitable or untrue.

THE LIFE OF COLU.IIBUS. By Horace

St. John.

The author of this admirable little work has com-
pressed into a very small compass a vuccinct narrative
of the life and adventures of the great discoverer of
America, and h-is defended, and successfully defended,
the character of his hero against the accusations
which the envy of contemporaries had brought against
him, and which the apathy of posterity had, in too
many instances, left uninvestigated, and, consequently,
unrefuted. We know no work so admirably suited
as a prize-book for schools as the " Life of Colum-
bus" by Horace St. John.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY. Edited and
Published by John Weale.
A compact and comprehensive guided-book to the
metropolis has in this volume been produced at a
reasonable price, and at a time singularly opportune.
Besides containing an admirable map, the work is
embellished with 205 illustrations. It elucidates the
natural as well as the physical characteristics of
London, with an account of its antiquity and its
architecture. The portions of the letter-press relat-
ing to its arts, trades, mataiLc',ures and organizAtinn
will no doubt be peculiarly acceptable to the majority
of foreigners, while the more intelligent among them
will, of course, regard with na small amount of in-
terest the sketch given of its social, literary and
scientific institutions. Sight-seers, again, will turn
with no slight curiosity to the numerous galleries of
fine arts in the capital and its vicinity ; and these in-
quiries will be rewarded, moreover, by a large fund of
valuable and interesting information.

MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED.)

COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE.

The present number of Colburn 4:Pens—viiih the
introductory paper of what promises to be a valuabl e
series" The History of the British Conquests in
India,,, by Horace St. John. The object of the
writer is to prove how utterly unfounded are the
charges of unprincipled aggression which have been
brought against the East India Company. The
paper is well written, and displays great research,
the writer quoting his authority for every statement
made and every assertion advanced, and we must
confess that, as far as be has gone, he has completely
made out his case. Another most valuable article in
this number is the paper of the designs of Austria,
in which the writer proves that the im i
eutes n.
Tuscany and other parts of Italy were the work of
Austrian emissaries, in order to give the graspingred Emperor an excuse for the military occupation of
the Duchy, and that the recent Papal aggression in
our own country was also an Austrian manceuvre, as
a proof of which it may be mentioned that Cardinal
Wiseman dated his letter to Lord John Russell from
Vienna, and that almost the only. persons in this
country who have ventured to eulogise the monster
Ilaynau have been Cardinal Wiseman and Mr. John
O'Connell. The author of " Singleton Fontenoy"
brings to a close his amusing account of " Pipp's
Naval Career," and Captain B3llew continues his
" Narrative of the Campaign in Arracan." The
other articles in this number are all above the usual
average.

THE COMIC HISTORY OF RO.:11E. By
the Author of the Comic History of England.
illustrated by John Leech. Part I.

Right glad ;re we to meet Messrs. A'Beckett and
'Leech once again in the field. A right merrie his-
tory doth this of Rome promise to be, and veracious
and impartial--a matter to which it would have been
better that historians of greater pretensions, the
wordy Alison for example, should have attended. The
li illustrations are glorious. The illustration on the
cover is alone worth all the money charged for the
part.

SCHOOL SERIES. Edited by the Rev. G. A.
Gleig, M.A. Third Book of History.—British
India.

Tuis is an excellent number of the valuable a h
e_ool
s•rtes publishing by Messrs. Longman. We have
here in the small compass of 126 pages a resumc. (4
the history of the provinces constituting
.on Britishof
India from the earliest ages, down to the conclusion
the second Punjaub war under the Governor-General-
ship of the Marquis of Dalhousie.

THE DALTONS. No. By Charles Lever.
Amusingly, as after the wont of Mr. Lever's
fictions, the three roads of life are traversed—the in-
cidents and accidents encountered suggesting, as
hitherto, comical etchings to Iphiz. Without marring
the interest of the story, it may be observed that the
narrative has so far advanced that Frank has at length
visited his uncle, and that Mrs. Rickett's " at home
has at length been disturbed. With the numbvr jubt
issued the second volume has bees COlllglenced.