The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-03 00:00:00

AMERICA

ARRIVAL OF THE FULTON.
SOI7THAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING.

The United States mail steam ship Fulton, Cap-
tain Wotton, has arrived, with dates from New
York to the 20th ult., 71 passengers, and $485,000
in specie on freight.
The Asia arrived out on the 18th ult.
There is no political news by this arrival, either
in reference to the affairs in Kansas or the Presi-
dential election.

The Asia's news had caused the New York cotton
market to assume increased buoyancy, but had a
depressing effect on bread stuffs.
Private advices from Mexico, via Havannah and
Philadelphia, mentioned reports of a serious diffi-
culty between the Mexican Government and the
British Minister, and the latter had demanded his
passports.

Orders, it was said, had been transmitted to
Havannahfor the British squadron there to proceed
to Vera Cruz, to enforce the demands of England.
The Commander of the British steamer, Tartar, at
Havannah, was collecting a naval force, and would
sail immediately.
The New York money market was easy. The
demand for foreign exchange was active ; London
was quoted 1091 to 1091. Speculation in railway
shares very brisk, with large transactions.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.

By the arrival of the steamship Cambria, Capt.
Moodie, we have advices from New York to the
19th ult., and Boston to the 20th.

She has brought $151,218 specie on freight.
The Royal mail steamship Asia, hence, arrived
at New York on the 18th ult.

The Whig National Convention, assembled at
Baltimore, had adopted the following resolutions :

" That the Whigs of the United States are assembled
here by reverence for the constitution and unalterable
attachment to the National Union, and a fixed determi•
nation to do all in their power to preserve it for them•
selves and posterity. They have no new principles to
announce--no new platform to establish ; but are con-
tent broadly to rest where their forefathers have rested
upon—the constitution of the United States—wishing
no safer guide, no higher law.
" That we regard with the deepest anxiety the pre•
sant disordered condition of our national affairs, a por-
tion of the country being ravaged by civil war, and hire
sections of our population embittered by mutual recri•
minations, and we distinctly trace these calamities to
the culpable neglect of duty by the present national
Administration.

" That the Government of these United States wait
formed by the conjunction or political unity of wide-
spread geographical sections, materially differing not
only in climate and products, but in their social domestic
institutions; and that any cause which shall permanently
array these sections in political hostilities and organised
parties, founded only on geographical distinctions, must
inevitably prove fatal to the continuance of the National
Union.

" That the Whigs of the United States have declared,
as the fundamental article of their political faith, the ab•
solute necessity of avoiding geographical parties ; that
the danger so clearly discerned by the ' Father of hid
Country,' founded on ' geographical distinction,' has now'
become fearfully apparent in the agitation convulsing the .
nation, which must be arrested at once if we would pre•
serve our constitutional Union from dismemberment,
and the name of America from being blotted from the
family of civiliced nations.

" That all who revere the Constitution and the 'Union
must look with alarm at the parties in the field at the
present Presidential canvass (one claims only to repro'
sent 16 Northern States, and the other appealing to the
passions and prejudices of the Southern States) ; that
the success of either of the factions must add fuel to the
flame which now threatens to wrap our dearest interest
into one common ruin.

" That the only remedy for an evil so appalling, is to
support the candidate pledged to neither geographical
sections, now arranged in political antagonism, but
holding both in just and equal regard ; that we congra-
tulate the friends of the Union that such a candidate
mists in Millard Fillmore.
" That without adopting or referring to the peculiar
adaptations of the party which have already selected
Millard Fillmore as their candidate, we look to him a
a well-tried and faithful friend of the Constitution and
the Union, eminent alike for his wisdom and firmness,'
for his justice and moderation in foreign relations, for
hie calm and pacific temperament, well becoming a great
and enlightened government, for his devotion to the
Constitution in its true spirit, and his inflexibility I°,
executing the laws, but, beyond all those attributes,
being the representative of neither of the two sectional
parties now struggling for political supremacy.
"That in the present exigency of political affairs 11
are not called upon to discuss subordinate queAtions or
administration in exercising the constitutional power°
of Government. It is enough to know that civil via
is raging and the Union in peril, and proclaim the con-
viction that a restoration of the Fillmore Presidency
will furnish the best if not the only means of restoring

xnat we cordially approve of the nomination ,
Andrew J. Donelson for the Vice-Presidency, regard'
ing him as a national Conservative patriot faithful!,
devoted to the Constitution and the Union.
"That the spontaneous rising of the Whigs through:
out the country, their prompt rally to the support of
the highest national interests, and the spirit here (11°'
played, sufficiently attest the importance of preserving
and reinvigorating their party organisation ; that a lir
tional Whig Committee, one from each of the States, b°
appointed by the President, with authority to call aOl
further convention, and generally promote an effectly°
organisation of the party throughout the States.
" That these resolutions be published, and respectifeli
submitted by this Convention as an address to the people
of the United States."

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A despatch from Kansas, via St. Louis, state°
that Governor Geary's inaugural address at Lie'
compton was brief and pointed. He deprecated
continuance of the strife and disorder in the teal'
tory, caused by the illegal and unjustifiable inter
ference of other States ; promised to do justice
all without party considerations, and expected
obedience to the laws of the territorial Legislature
until they are repealed. A proclamation was issue':
on the same day, ordering that the voluntel
militia be discharged, and commanding that re
armed bodies of men disband or quit at ouch 1')

territory.
Attorney-General Cushing had decided that
foreign Consuls cannot intervene in the settlenieL
of the estates of their Countrymen dying in tu"
United States, except in the way of surveillance 4:1`..
advice ; they cannot exercise jurisdiction.
Several deaths from yellow fever had occurred
at Brooklyn and its neighbourhood.
The Kansas election was to come off on the 14
of October, when a new Territorial Legislature
would be chosen.

Letters from Mexico via Savannah oontain
rumour of differences between that country and
Great Britain. The British Minister is stated to
have demanded his passports and transmitted'
orders for a British squadron to proceed
to Vera Cruz. Her Majesty's steamer Tartar
was engaged collecting a squadron.

Our -commercial ad-vices- state that money ive,
firm and active ; sterling exchange firm at 109 P
stocks dull and heavy. Cotton lc. firmer. Flout
firm at the close. Wheat a shade lower on mediuo
kinds. Pork-market better ; beef steady. Oils 10
better demand. Spirits of turpentine steady.
Freights to Liverpool firm. Cotton, ; floury
2s. ; grain, Sid. to 9d.

NEW ORLEANS, SEPT. 19.
Cotton unchanged._
Sales for the week, 15,500
bales. Lard, 14c, ; other articles unchanged.

THE WEST INDIA, MEXICAN AND
PACIFIC MAILS. -

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY, 11 A.M.
The Royal mail steamer Magdalena, Captain Abbott has arrived, with the mails from the West
Indies, Mexico, and the Pacific.
Her dates are Jamaica, Sept. 10th ; Trinidad,
Bth; Barbadoes, 11th; Demerara, 9th ; St. Thomas,
18th.

The Magdalena brings 9G passengers, and op
freight about $700,000 in specie and the usual
cargo.

The Tay, from the Gulf of Mexico, had not
arrived when the Magdalena left.
The sickness in the West Indies had nearly dis'
appeared.

A revolution had broken out in Peru, but was
speedily suppressed.

WORCESTER AND HEREFORD RAILWAY.—The
mencemeat of the works on this line is to be made is
the course of the present month, and the "first sod,'
will be cut near Worcester.

INVERNESS AND THIN RAILWAY.--A project for con-
structing a railway from Inverness to Tain has been
taken up by the landed proprietors of the district, and is
likely to be successful.
CHELTENITADI AND STOW•ON-THE-WOLD RAILWAY.--Aline of railway is projected between these two places,
giving accommodation to the Cotswold agricultural dis-
trict intervening, and shortening the route from London
to Cheltenham by about 20 miles.
THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE DUNKIRK COLLIERY.
We mentioned a few days ago that a shocking accident
ha,' occurred at a colliery near Gwide Bridge, Ashton-
under-Lyric, through the falling in of a portion of the
roof of the mine in which colliers were at work. It ap-
pears the accident took place about seven o'clock on
Tuesday morning, notwithstanding every care by the
workmen in propping the roof. Six men were buriid
under the falling mass, which was in some places nine
feet thick. By three o'clock in the afternoon the whole
of the six men had bean dug out, and one of them bad
fortunately escaped injury. Another man, Joshua
Buraby, escaped with a fracture of one leg and a dislo-
cation of one hip ; but the other four were dead. The'r
names are George Hadfield, aged 21 ; Robert Clough
30 ; James Collier, 22 ; and Joseph Williamson, 25. An
inquest on the four deceased will be held on Friday.