The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-20 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL, Snpr. 20.
The screw steam-ship City of MAnobester has ail..
rived from Philadelphia, with advioes from t bet
city to the 4th inst.
, The Royal mail steam-sh'o Persin, from Liver-
pool, arrived at New York on the 3d inst.
A despatch from Washin4itel 4,t the 3,1 states
that orders had been determined on by the Cthivet,
which will go out by the n .at ,teawer to the Go.
vernment officers in California, relative to the re-
volutionary affairs in that SsAte, but their charac-
ter had not been revealed.
The Massachusetts Whig State Convention a•-•
sembled at Boston on the 3d inst. The inembe. tt
were addressed by the Hon. R. C. Winthrop. G.
S. Hilliard, and utliers, ii,vouring Mr. Filimor
and among the resolution!. ;ves one :it..<tiityirig rite
preference of the o..nvention for 24r. Fill more ever
the other oandidz.tes thus fat ootnitia.efl:

Philadc-Iplva, on, the 4rh, the. Per:ia',3 ac-
counts, which were wade klif.-)wo at an early hour,
were considered f wourable for brcadstufr ; an 1 bill
,aused more-iiramess in the market.

The receipts and stock's of flout contini ed a nail,
and holders were demanding $6 75c. per barrel for
fresh ground trOm• new wheat, tut asalo of 200
brls. was made for export at. $6 62ic. and 100 brig.,
a better brand, at. go 75,. Small
~a,ts were
making
for home consumption from $6 75e. to $7 75e. for
common, and eitra family brands according to
• • .
The marketwas 1.31r1y bare of wheat, and holdsrs
were demanding biper sates. The only sales re-
ported are 4,000 _bus,tels fair and good S lithfru
red at $1 51e. to $1 55c. per bushel, and white 'at
$1 63e, to $1.65c. '
There, was no alteration of mymnt to note in tl.e
New York markets.

• SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 19, •
By the United Stites' mail steamer Hermann,
Captain Higgins, wh;eh arrived off Cowes this af-
ternoon en route to B.ernen, we .have dates from
New York to the 6 h inst.
The Hermaiin brings about 80 passengers, it
small quantity of specie, and usual carv.
The news from K:tnsas i 5 still interesting. The
pro-slavery forces hld succeeded in turfing the
tables on their Free-State opp moms, and much
blood had been spilt and proper y dest: °fed, if the
reports that have reacbe 1 are rehab e. At Ossawit-
e, on the 30 h ult., the belligei eats, to the
*Humor of 30J on each side, fiught for an hour,
when the Free- Sta ne n ~.ere routed, with alo :5
of 20 killed and sever 1 wounded. Mr. Brown. -the
leader of the defeated party, awl his son, are le-
ported among the killed. On the 2 i lust. the pro-
slavery men attacked the Free-soilers in Lea% ea-
r h,drove t very oneet hernout of the town at the
point of the bayonet, ; nd destroyed or coniseate.d..
their property. is also stated that part es o!
Missourians hay- posse4si,)n of t i Io va road, th us
cutting off the retreat of h Fr e. -State men. Tin
New York journals publish the substance of the
correspondeuce which has pissed between the an.
thorities of Klima and he general Gov. rim.° t
with reference to the trouble' in the territory, o-
gether with ins•rneti o Colonel Gei.ry, the.
newly-appointel Governor, who was at St. Louis
on the 4th inst. on Ins way to the s3etie of the di:v
turbance, to enrol and organise the mlita of the
territory, the force •if repit .r troops being inade-
quate. One division under General Richardson,
was already in the field. Requisitions had also
been made upon the Givernors of Kentucky and
Illinois for 'two regiments of infantry. to be
paced under the orders of Gen. Smit!t; to aid in-
suppressing insurre Itiongry coin' ina ionu .against
the constituted Givtrnm nt o' Kan as. I istruc-
tions had also been issued to asreid s much as pos-
sible any appeal to arms, but, ilould a real neces-
sity for the employment .4 ;orct, arise, to employ it
with all vigour until the insurrection be an ipressed.
Private adOices from Sans is state that on the
.2d inst. every Free Sate man was driven from
Leavenworth at the point of the bayonet and all-
'their property destroyed or confiscated. Mr. Pita-
lips, the correspondent of the New York Tribune,
and his brother were killed. The house of the
former and the store of the latter were burnt. It
'is said that Mr. Pl.illips fired from his house and
.killed two pro-slavery men.
Yellow fever continued. to decline in New York,
and the journals report very favourably of the
condition of the public health.
Intelligence is received from Honduras. The
dates are Oinoa, July 30, and Truxillo, August 12.
The inauguration of Walker's Administration in.
Nicaragua had excited much uneasiness, and flow,
duras was busily engaged in raising troops to join
the league formed by Guatemala, Costa Rioa, and
Sau Salvador against him. All Americans were
suspected, and a deeitte had boon issued ordering
none of them to land in the republic. The, T.TnitPd
states' consul had protested against the execution
of this decree and forwarded copies of the paper
the Cabinet in Washington. New gold placeri
had been opened west of Truxillo, and $2O per day
were earned in them.

An immense Republican meeting had been held
at Rochester, at which about 30,000 perst.ns were
present. A Democratic assembly at Cincinnati
numbered 40,000. A grand Democratic ratifica-
tion meeting at Concord is estimated to have had
about 30,000 people, with a procession two miles
long, eight persons walking abreast.
The steamship Daniel Webster, from New.
Orleans to New York, had encountered a hurl.
cane, which did considerable damage, and carried
away the wheelhouses, compelling her to retain to.
porgy' - - -

- The Supreme Court at Albany had been sud-
denly adjourned. The judge stated that, in conse-
quence of the present constitution of the Court it
seemed to him impossible that strict justice could
be fairly administered. The decision caused great
excitement amongst the lawyers. The Court would
resume in October.

At Cjharleston and Savannah considerable damage
had been done to the r ►ilways by heavy rains.
A North Carolina railroad bridge had given way,
carrying down a locomotive and a portion of
the train attached to it. Five persons, includitig
the engineer and fireman, are reported to have
been killed.

The Emigration commissioners report that,
daring the week, 1,487 emigrants had arrived at
New York, making 89,572 during the year. The
debt of the Commission had decreased $21,795.

In the New York money-market foreign ex-
changes were quiet. The stock-market had ad-
vanced. The sales of cotton on the sth inst.
reached about 1,500 bales, based upon middling
uplands at about 11 bc., and New Orleans ditto
at 11/c., the market closing firm. Tiny receipts
of flour were light, especially of good to extra
brands of new state, and the stock in market
more reduced, while there was a good Els-
tern and local &tumid. Prices advanced 100.
per barrel, and iu some cases 30c. Wheat was
firm for good to choice new, with sales of red at
$1 50c. to $1 53c., and of white at $1 67c. to
$1 ; old was dull. Corn was firm, with sound
mixed at 67c. to 680. Pork was heavy, with sales
of mess, in lots, at $l9 621 to $l9 75. Lard was
firm, with sales ou the dock at 131 e. Sugars sold
to the extant of about 1,200 hhds. Coffee was
firm; the saes embract-d about 3,500 bags of
native Ceylon, and about 2,000 to 2,200 ditto Rio,
and 450 ditto M tracail9o. Freights were less
active, and unchanged.

A SLEEPY WIPE REBUKED.—A. minister of the
"Kirk" of Scotland once discovered his wife a4leep.in
the midst of his tatnily on the Sabbath. So, pausing in
the steady, au" po,.sibly somewhat mount mous flow of
11;s oratory, he broke forth wilt this personal ad r •ss,
thirp and clear, but very deliberate :—" Swan !" Susan
ened her eyes end ears in a twtolcing. as did alt other
dr,arners in the house, whether asleep or awake.
"Stia't ! I didna marry ye for your wealth, since ye
hae'd nane ; and I oi.lna niatry ye for your beauty—
that the ha 1 congregation eau see ;
and if vs have no
grace I have wade but a eair bargain."—Salad for the
Social.

HOSPITALS, more thac any other buildings, demand
the most careful arrangements—not merely for the-am-
ple supply of air, I ut to !n ure that the air so sappned
he pure. So little has tins been a•tended to in days
gone by that therd are many hospitals in this noun.
try where, as soon as the wards get full, fevers and
other disorders appear, and it is difficult to effect a
cure in many cases which, under other circumstances,
would be overcome without difficulty. A leading
E linburgh professor, in some recently-published " Mee
moles," says --" I have often stated and taugLt that,
if our pres,nt medical, sargical, and obstetric I o pitals
were chaos ed, from bawg crowded palaces with a layer
of sick in each flat, into villages or cottages with one, or
at mot two patients in each room, a great saving of
human life would be effected. And if the village were
constructed of iron (as is now sometimes done for tattier
purposes), instead of brick or stone, it could be taken
down and rebuilt every few years ; a matter, apparently,
of much moment in lristiital hygiene. Besides, the
value of the mat, rial would not greatly deteriorate from
use—the principal outlay would be in the first cost of
it. It could be erected in any vacant space or spaces cf
ground, within or around a ci ty,that chance to be unoc
copied ; and, in cases of epidemics, the accommodation
could always be at once and readily increased." There
is value in the hint, but it is only in exceptional oases
that it could be resorted to. Hospitals must still
be erected, and we must take care that every avail-
able means be used to render them healthful and fit
for their purpose. Some of our military hospitals are
disgraceful to the scientific character of the country,
and it never fell to our lot to visit any in which
there were not obvious errors that might have been
avoided. With respect to the vital irn7ortance of fresh
air for the maintenance of lite, it would ready seem as if
the world were not to be convinced on this bead.— The
Builder.