The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-12 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.
By the royal mail steam-ship Niagara, Captain
Leitch, we have advices from New York to the 29th
ult. She has brought 371,332 dollars in specie on
freight.
Among the passengers is Mrs. H. B. Stowe, of
" Uncle Tom's Cabin" notoriety.
The Indian has arrived at Quebec, the Arabia at
Halifax, and the Ericsson at New York.
In the Senate, a bill amending the diplomatic
and consular system had been passed, and a resolu-
tion, calling on the President to, communicate
whatever information he might have respecting
affairs in California with reference to the operations
of the San Francisco Viiitance Cortrinittes, and

whether application had been made by the Gover-
nor of that State for aid in enforcing the laws, was
adopted. A petition from Commodore Vanderbilt,
that a contract he made with him for carrying the
mail between New York and Southampton, had
been presented. A bill was also intro-
duced authorising a contract for monthly
trips between the two ports for ten years,
at 16,680 dollars the round trip, the service
to be increased to semi-monthly trips if considered
necessary,

In the House of Representatives, Mr. Sharman's
amendment to the Army Appropriation Bill was
adopted, and the bill, as amended, passed. The
amendment, it will be recollected, provides for the
practical suspension of the alleged laws of the Kan-
sas Legislative Assembly, until Congress shall de-
clare whether those laws were passed by a Legis-
lature chosen in conformity with the organic law.
It also recommends the disarming of the militia,
and the recall of the United States army, but makes
it, the duty of the President to use military force
to preserve the peace, suppress insurrection, repel
invasion, and protect the persons and property of
the citizens of the territory against unlawful search
and seizure on the highways of Missouri and else
where. Mr. Dunn, of Indiana, moved a substitute
to the bill annulling certain acts of the Kansas
Legislature, &c., which was agreed to. The bill
was passed by a vote of 88 to 74. It re-organises
the territory, provides for the restoration of the
Missouri restriction, prohibits test oaths, and all
cruel and unusual punishments, and provides for
the release of persons confined for political offences,
and for the dismissal of all the prosecutions now
pending.

The Washington correspondent of the New York
Courier and Inquirer alludes to a remarkable charge
made by a Buchananite organ against the British
Chancellor of the Exchequer. He writes :
" The Pennsylvanian, the central Buchanan or-
gan, proclaims the truly humiliating fact, that the
Chancellor of the British Exchequer has subscribed
$lOO,OOO for the use of the Fremont and Dayton
Clubs, as a means of securing the success of the Re-
publicans, and thereby of breaking up the union of
these States. This financial transaction must
be considered important and gratifying for
several reasons. In the first place, every well-
informed politician knows that the lower order
of democratic scribblers and slang-whangers never
begin to shout, 'We are sold to the British !
'Beware of British gold !' and other shrieks of that
character, until they have become entirely despe-
rate, and have lost all rational expectation of suc-
cess. The country always takes heart when demo-
cracy begins to brawl 'Bribery and corruption,'
and to rejoice in the prospect that the whole tribe I
of bloodsuckers are to be driven from the doors of
the public treasury. Again, if the British Govern-
ment has really begun to hip gold to aid in Fre-
mont's election, the tide of exchange will turn ;
and the golden flood will set to and not from Wall,
State, and Chestnut-streets. Money will become
abundant and business brisk ; and all sorts of
stocks will go up except Buchanan stock, already
the poorest stock in the market. It will be remem-
bered by all who participated in the memorable
contest of 1840, that the Van Buren men kept up
pretty well until the British gold began pouring
into the coffers of their opponents, and then they
acknowledged there was no use in struggling
against fate and the British Whigs.' The conse-
quence of their despair was, that ' Van was a used-
up man' before the canvass was half over, and that
he came out at last with 60 votes out of 275. This
shows the irresistible power of British gold. On
that occasion the British gold was bought to buy
Democrats with, who brought good prices at first,
but before the close of the business season became
a mere drug, and could be had for asking. The
same thing will be witnessed again. It is a great
mistake to suppose that only $lOO,OOO has been
subscribed, but this arises from the inexperience
in money matters of the vigilant Democrats, who
have ferreted out this transaction. The truth is
that the whole of the last loan of 5,000,0001. was
authorised as an electioneering fund to aid the Re-
publican candidate. Nor will the bargain be a bad
one for the British. For it is understood that, if
the Colonel shall be elected, he is to abolish slavery
in South Carolina, and send all the emancipated
negroes to the British West India Colonies, as ap-
prenticed and indented labourers, at $5O per head,
thus enriching himself at the same time that
he plays into the hands of the British Abolition.
ists, who are planning the extirpation of slavery
all over the world !' A dissolution of the Union
would follow of course, for how could the Union
exist after the negroes were gone ?"
A commercial treaty had ben agreed to between
the Venezuelan and United States' Governments.
Another of those fearful accidents so frequent in
the United States had occurred to the steam-boat
Empire, while on her voyage from Fall River to
Boston, by which seven persons were killed and a
large number maimed and mutilated. When near
Point Ladish the starboard boiler of the vessel
burst, driving the steam through the furnace, and
through the blower-box, and into the engine-room,
and between the decks, destroying or scalding
severely all whom it encountered. Most of the pas-
sengers had retired to their berths, and when the
explosion occurred men, women, and children,
seizing their life preservers, rushed into the cabin
in their night-dresses in the greatest consternation,
imagining that the vessel was on fire, and giving
vent to their fears in loud shouts and screams. In
-a few seconds the body of steam filled the saloons,
and the frantic passengers rushed wildly to and fro
through the suffocating vapour seeking to reach the
open air, and making confusion worse confounded.
The cries of the wounded were heard above the
' din, and added to the horrors of the situation.
The captain promptly caused the engine to be stop-
ped, and, assisted by those of the passengers who
had escaped injury, endeavoured to alleviate the
sufferings of the injured and dying. With all ten-
derness and despatch the wounded were picked up
and taken to the saloon, and although no medical
man was on board to advise, they did what they
could to ease their sufferings. Oil, flour, and cot-
ton were applied to scalded parts, and other means
lof relief were resorted to. It was feared that a
large proportion of those who are scalded would
die, as many of them had inhaled the burning
steam. The wounded presented a terrible spectacle.
Every spot upon which the steam had struck was
scalded so severely that the skin peeled off at the
touch. An investigation into the cause of the
accident was to be held.
Mr. Herbert had been acquitted of the murder
of Keating, the waiter. The decision had created
much comment and indignation.
The Illinois had arrived at New York with the
Californian mails, and 1,649,896 dols. in specie.
The Committee of Vigilance were always in session.
They continued to expel from the city all the rogues
who had for a long time past infested it. On the
24th of June the excitement in regard to the move-
ments of the committee, which had been lulled
almost into acquiescence, was revived by one of
their number being stabbed in the street by David
S. Terry, one of the judges of the Supreme Court
of California, while the said member of the com-
mittee was attempting to arrest a notorious charac-
ter. Judge Terry was immediately arrested, and
taken to Fort Vigilance, as the rooms of the com-
mittee are called, where, at last accounts, he was
undergoing a 'trial.
The San Francisco correspondent of the New