The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-23 00:00:00

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING.
The United States steam-ship Washington, Cap-
tain Cavendy, arrived off Cowes this morning, en
route to Bremen, bringing 80 passengers, dates from
New York to the 9th instant, and a small quantity
of specie for France.
There is no political news of importance.
The Senate had passed a bill granting 1,509,000
acres of land to Mississippi for railway purposes;
The favourable news from Europe had strength-
ened the New York stock market. Money was in
good demand. Cotton dull, shippers being un-
willing to purchase at present rates. The market
for flour and grain very unsettled, with a tendency
downwards, holders of grain being anxious sellers.

The Espana quotes the following, dated Valladolid,
12th instant :—" A letter from Burgos announces
that the stage coach coming from our city was
stopped, on the 11th instant, by the band of the Bro-
thers Hierros. They seizA on a box of jewellery
and another containing 2,000 ducats, but treated
the strangers with their usual politeness. Unfortunately
for them, they were overtaken by one of the numerous
detachments and lost in the recontre with the nephew
of Villalain, in whose possession was found a sum of
7,800 reale."

A letter from Belgrade in the Augsburg Gazette
says ;—'•We learn from good authority that the di-
rectors of the Austrian Steam Navigation Company
of the Danube have sent a circular to the captains
of all their vessels,. prohibiting them, in the most
rigorous manner, from rendering any assistance of
any nature, or under any circumstance whatever,
to the French steamer the Lyonnais, navigating
the Danube and its tributary streams. Notwith-
standing the authority of the source from which
we derive this information, such a prohibition is so
repugnant to the spirit of the age that we must
still doubt the existence of so strange a document."

RAISING OF TIIE AMERICAN SIIIP

CO NS TIT UTION.

LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY.

It will be remembered that during the past year the
large American ship Constitution, Captain Britton, after
the termination of her voyage from New York and
landing her passengers in the river, was discovered to
be on firs, and all efforts to save her were unavailing.
Sic was eventually scuttled near Rock Ferry, in the
Mersey. Part of her cargo was then recovered, the
hull was sold, and several futile attempts to raise her
were made. Ultimately she was lifted ; but from some
inadvertency, or other cause, she rolled over, and be-
came unmanageable; subsequently, with the high springs,
she floated on to a bank in the middle of the river,
whence she was removed to the beach near Eastham
Ferry, and there lay for months a perfect derelict, none
venturing to undertake her removal, and it was fully
expected she must be broken up. The purchaser, Mr.
W. L. Sutherbury, placed himself in the hands of Mr.
Charles Gray, of the Liverpool Steam Tug Company,
who has raised not less than 20 ships within the last
few yr ars. It is no light matter to conceive the turn-
ing over a vessel nearly 1,700 tons burthen, but this
Mr. Gray accomplished with only two lighters. Hav-
ing ascertained her weight and capacity by measure-
ment, he succeeded in slinging her by holes cut in her
stem and stern posts, at about her water draught. Ey
these, with cha;ns, he attached his lighters, which
were athwartships. On the lifting, the upper portion,
which was virtually the bottom, being the heavier body,
turned on the axis thus simply attained. She was
again replaced on the beach, but on this occasion in ship
fashion. Having been thoroughly cleansed arid ex-
amined, she was towed down the Mersey on Thursday,
and placed in the Sandou Graving Dock. Thousands
of people had congregated on the piers and quays to
witness her arrival, and after a salute and many hearty
cheers she Wa§ safely moored.