The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-19 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LIVERPO3L, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 18.
The United States' steam-ship Baltic has arrived
with advises from New York to the 7th inst. She
has brought 203 passengers, and $1,620,047 specie
on freight.
At noon, on the 15th inst., the Baltic passed the
Atlantic in lat. 49 16, long. 26 31, bound West.
The Niagara, hence, had arrived at Boston, and
the Washington, from Southampton, at New York.
The Democratic National Convention at Cin-
cinnati had terminated its labours by electing
unanimously on the 17th, by ballot, James
Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, President, and John
C. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, Vice-President, on
the second ballot. •
The news of the nomination of Mr. Buchanan
caused considerable commotion among the Demo-
cratic politicians in the city. Guns were fired in
the park in half an hour after the result was known,
and during the day salvoes of artillery. Similar
demonstrations were made all over the country.
The .New York Journal of Commerce, comment-
ing upon Mr. Buchanan's unanimous election by
the Democratic party, says :
"Its prompt selection by a unanimous vote of a can-
didate for the highest dignity in the Republic indicates
an agreement of opinion in the great Democratic party
of the country that would hardly have been thought to
exist by those who listen to the noise of popular tumult,
and look only at the surface to discern the tendencies of
the national mind. The ballotings in the Convention
indicate no divided councils 'nor any conflict of interest
among its members or the constituencies, whom they
represent, and they show no such tenacity of personal
preference in favour of one candidate or the other as will
ne likely to damp the ardour or cool the enthusiasm in
the canvass of those who yielded their predilections in
deference to the majority. The Convention was unani-
mous in the declaration of principles, fez. the mainten-
ance of which they appeal to the voters of the Republic,
and they have selected a man poss ssing views and
qualifications such as to commend him to the confidence
of the peaple, and as, on the whole, the worthiest ex-
ponent and the ablest and most reliable champion of the
great doctrine of constitutional right, republican equa-
lity, and popular sovereignty."
It concludes thus :
"The appointment is well received by the public gene-
rally. Mr. Buchanan's elec.ion will be considered a
guarantee for domestic quiet on the basis of the consti-
tution, for friendly relations with foreign Powers. We
think we can promise him a liberal support from the
commercial community of this city."
Mr. Breckenridge was a member of the last Con-
gress, and is designated as a strong man. He is
said to have been nominated as Minister to Spain,
but declined the honour. He was first elected to
Congress from a Whig district in a contest with
General Leslie Coombs • he is a nephew of the
celebrated Presbyterian clergyman, the Rev. Robt.
J. Breckenridge.
The Washington correspondence of the New York
Herald states that the nomination of Buchanan was
hailed with great enthusiasm by the democracy
there, and that President Pierce bore his defeat
with beoming grace, and that he accepts the votes
he received from the south as a sufficient assurance
of the nationality of his Administration, and eulo-
gises the nomination of Mr. Buchanan as safe for
the democracy, and a deserved compliment to the
nominee. It attributes the unanimous election of
Mr. Buchanan to the withdrawal of his name by
Judge Douglas. The New York Herald ignores
the election of Mr. Buchanan, anticipates one of
the most exciting, tumultuous, and revolutionary
political contests in all the history of the Republic.
It puts in italic the following :
"We have no doubt of the fact that a vast majority of
the American people in the present distracted condition
of the country are opposed to the Democratic party, as
debauched and detheralised under the malign iiifluences
of this Pierce Administration, and to believe that there
would still exist a majority of the American people op-
posed to the ratification of the debaucheries of this cor-
rupted party, even if they should nominate as their re-
presentative an angel from heaven."
The same journal has an article on relations
with England, headed " Peace or War." It says :
" It is a standing disgrace to the civilised world that
England and the United States, the foremost nations in
trade, in all that can secure blessings to the human
should thus higgle and quarrel about matters con-
cerning which the people of the two countries feel no
possible interest. It argues little to the credit of their
negotiators that they have contrived some how to fish up
from the dirty pools of diplomacy matters of continual
dispute. So far, indeed, has this bastard work pro-
greseed, this decoy system of negotiation, that honour-
able and well-disposed men in both countries begin to
feel that it has no higher origin than that of stock jobbing
and fortune-hunting."
It concludes—
" If we consider the utter baseness of the subject-mat-
ter about which we are contending with England, it
would not be too much to expect the protest of other
nations against its further continuance, thus disturbing
the commercial peace of the world by irritating strifes
and jangles about that which in the hands of any two
rational and well-disposed men would settle in an hour."
The New York Journal of Commerce, in its cor-
respondence from Washington, publishes the fol-
lowing :
"Count de Sartiges received through the Post-office a
letter from a Washington correspondent, treating of the
settled antipathy of foreign Governments towards the
United States, as now manifested by the conduct of
foreign representatives in their intercourse with society
and our public men, and which letter was superinduced
by alleged indecent and insulting language against our
Government, and especially against the Secretary of
State, at a dinner recently given by the Count de Sax,
tiees. The envelope enclosing the letter in question
bore the seal of the State Department.
" On Saturday Count de Sartiges called on Mr. Marcy,
indignant!yr complaining of the insult, and demanding
that the suspected author should be punished, intimating
that, in the event of failure to do this, he would de-
mand his passports. Mr. Mercy, of course, disavowed
all knowledge or responsibility concerning the letter,
and exi ressed regret that anything had happened to oc-
casion offence.
" Here was a quandary, but Count de Sartiges was
apparently satisfied, and the Secretary relieved from his
unpleasant position, by the author, who was a Govern-
ment employe, but who did not Pend th,- letter to Count
de Sartiges, promptly resigning his office."
The effigies of President Pierce and Preston S.
Brooks had been hung in front of the State-house,
at Concord, New Hampshire.
Indignation meetings in reference to the Brooks
outrage continue to be field throughout the States. '
Advices from Kansas reported that orders had
reached Fort Leavenworth, placing the command
of all the troops in the territory with General
Harvey.
Lawrence is reported quiet.
The correspondence of the New York Tribune
says that—

" A hun'lred armed men left Westport, Mobile, last Sa-
turday, to scour Southern Kansas and make the country,
as they said, 'too hot for the Free State people.' Guerilla
parties were scouring theterritory, and the collisions were
occasionally occurring ; but the general di,positiop of the
free people is to remain quiet and pursue their farming.
Settlers were coming into the territory in considerable
numbers from Indiana and Illinois. The quarantine re-
gulations at Norfolk have been revoked. Vessels arriving
from any port in the West Indies or in the Gulf of
Mexico, on the coast of Central America, or Brazil,
would be required to anchor at the quarantine ground
and remain until insp-ction."
The steam-ship Black Warrior had arrived with
dates from Havannah to the 30th ult. A. good
deal of excitement had been created by the,report
of the official recognition of the Walker-Rivas Go-
vernment.
There was no news from the Spanish expedition
against Mexico since the day it sailed.
The steamer Pizarro had been detained to act as
a despatch ship between the commanders of the
squadron and General Concha. It is said if Presi-
dent Comonfort should not settle the claims of Spain
immediately a second division of the fleet, consist-
ing of eight war-vessels, with several transports,
conveying troops, will be despatched to operate
against him. A number of new steam-boats are to
be put on the Havannah and Cadiz line, and the
vessels now running are to be turned into vessels
of war. A good deal of activity was observed in
the military departments of the Island. Savannah
was reported healthy.
Exchange had not improved ; at New York, 61
to 71, and offers at 7 discount ; dull ; London, 3}
to 4 premium ; Paris, 81 to 8i discount.
A serious collision bad occurred on the Nicara-
gua Falls section of the Central Railroad.
The dismissal of Mr. Crampton and the three
Consuls had created considerable sensation in
Canada.
In the New York money-market the supply was
abundant, and the demand light, with a small
supply of prime paper, which was wanted at 7 to 8
per cent.
The stock-market showed a general rise. The
rate of exchange was unaltered, at 9 to 91 on Lon-
don ; sf. inc. to sf. 161 c. 60 days, and sf. 12ic„ ;
short sight, Paris. Guarantees are scarJe. The
market closed steady! for pork ; the demand was
moderate ; mess had advanced 37ic. to 50c. ; other
kinds, 121 c. Beef steady, with a fair demand,
and light stocks of mess. Cut meats lower.
Bacon firmer. Lard, lc. lower. Butter and cheese
in moderate request. Turpentine quiet. Common
rosin rather better. Tea dull. Freights firm,
with continued large offers of breadstuffs for Great
Britain.
The cotton-market had gained strength slightly
under the Niagara's advice& The demand for the
low and medium qualities for export was moderate.
The accounts from the growing districts are in the
main satisfactory • the receipts at the Gulf ports
slightly falling off; the increased demand for State
and Western flour had not been maintained. Low
grades were a turn easier.

THE DEMOCRATIC OONVEttrail

CINCINNATI.

The following is the manifesto in which the Con-
vention at Cincinnati re-affirms the Baltimore
Platform of 1852, adding to it the following reso-
lutions :

" And whereas, since the foregoing declaration was
uniformly &looted by our predecessors in national con-
ventions, an adverse political' and religious test has
been secretly organised by a party claiming
to be
exclusively. Americans, and it is proper that the
American democracy should clearly define its relations
thereto, therefore first resolved Abet the foundation of
this union of States having been laid in its prosperity,
expansion, and pre-eminent example in free Govern-
went, built upon entire freedom of matters of religious
concern, and no respect of persons in regard to rank or
place ot birth, no party can justly be deemed national,
constitutional, or in accordance with American principles
which bases its exclusive organisation upon religious
opinion and accidental birtbp ace, Second, that we re-
iterate %sail renewed energy of purpose the well-consi-
dered declarations of former conventions upon the so'
tional issue of domestic slavery, and concerning
the re-
served rights of the States, that we may the more die'
tinctly meet the issue, of which a sectional party subsisting
exclu-ively on slavery agitation, now relies to test the
fidelity of the people, north and south, to the con-
stitution and the Uniou. Third, resolved that, claim-
ing fellowship with, and desiring the co-operation of,
all who regard the preservation of the Union under
the constitution as the paramount issue, and repo'
dialing all sectional parties and platforms concerning
domestic slavery which seek to embroil the States,
and incite to treason and armed resistance to law in
the territories, and whose avowed purpose, if cOO.
summated, must end in civil war and disunion, the
American democracy recognise and adopt the princi•
plea contained in the organic laws establishing the
territories of Kansas and Nebraska as embodying
the only sound and safe solution of the slavery
question upon which the great national idea of the
people of this whole country can repose in its de'
ternained conservatism of the Union—non-interferenca
by Congress with slavery in States and' territories ; that
this was the basis of the compromises of 1850, confirmed
by both the Democratic and Whig parties in national.
eenventions, ratified by the people in the election of
1852, arid rightly spdliel to the organisation of tertitorise
in 1854, that by the uniform application of this demo'
cratic principle to the oraani,stion of territories, and the
acni-sioe of new states with or withuut domestic slaver'',
as they may elect, the equal of all the States will be
preserved intact, he original compacts of the consti-
tution main-ained inviolate, and the perpetuation and exi
patision of this ion insured to its utmost capacity of
embracing in peace and harmonyevery future American
State that may he constituted or annexed with a repub-
lican fotm of government. Fourth, resolved tbat we
recognise the right of the people of all the territories,
including Kansas and Nebraska, acting through the -
fairly-expressed will of the majority of actual residents,
and when, ver the number of their inhabitants justifies
it to form a constitution with or without domestic
slavery, to be admitted into the Union upon terms
of perfect evality with the other States. Fifth, re'
solved that the Democratic party recognises the great
importance in a political and commercial point of
view, of a safe and speedy communication within our
own territory between the Atlantic and Pacific ports of
thi- Union ; and it is the duty of the Federal Govern-
ment to exercise promptly all its proper constitutional
powers for the attainment of that object. Sixth, re-
s )Ived finally, that the condition of popular iestita-
tions in the Old World, and the dangerous tendencies to
sectional agitation, combined with the attempt to enforce
civil and religious disabilities against the rights of ace
quir:ng enjoying citizenship in our own land, a high
and sacred duty has devolved, with increased responsi-
bility, upon the democratic party of this country, a°
the party of the Union, to uphold and maintain the
rights of every State, and thereby the union of the
States, and to sustain tbe advance among us of consti-
tutional liberty, tiy continuing to resist all monopolist
and exclusive legislation for the benefit of the few at the
expense of the many ; and by vigilant and constant ad'
herence to those principles and compromises of the
constitution which are broad and strong enough to em'
brace and uphold tbe Union as it was, and the Union
as it shall be, in the full extension of the energies and
capacities of this progressive people. Seventh, resolved,
that the questions connected with the foreign policy of
the country are inferior to no domestic question what*
ever. The time has come for the people of the United
States to declare themselves in favour ot free sell
and progressive free trade throughout the world, and
by solemn manifestations place their moral influence by
the side of their successful example. Eighth, resolved,
that our geographical and political position in reference
to other States on this continent, no le, s than the inte-
rest of our commerce, and the development ofonrgrowing
power, requires that we hold sacred the principles involved,
in the Monroe doctrine and their binding import, which
admits of no misconstruction, and should be applied with
unbending rigidity. Ninth, resolved, that-that which the
vtreat highway of nature, as well as the States most immedi-
ately int erected in its maintenance, has marked out for free
communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans,
constitutes one of the most important achievements;
realised by the spitit of modern times and the nncons
querable energy of our people. That result should be
secured by timely efficient exertions and control with
the governments of the States within whose dominions
it lies. We can under no circumstances surrender
our preponderance in the adjustment of all questions
arising out of it. Tenth, resolved that in view of
such commanding interest the people of the United
States cannot but sympathise with the efforts which
are being made by the people of Central America
to regenerate that portion of the continent which
covers a pa-sage across the oceanic isthrnts.
Eleventh, resolved that the democratic party will ex-
pect of the next Administration that every effort be
made to insure an ascendancy in the Gulf of Mexico, to
maintain a permanent protection to the great outlets
through which is emptied into its waters the products
raised upon our soil, and the commodities created by
the industry of the people in our western valleys and
die Union at large."

The Knownothing National Council, holding a
session at New York, had decided to abolish sec-
recy iu their meetings.

SATURDAY HALFOHOLIDAY.—Messrs. W. H. Smith
and Son, wholesale newspaper agents and publisheree
have arranged for the relief of half their staff weekly,
on Saturday afternoon. In order to insure efficiency Is
the performance of the work, certain regulations are to
be strictly carried out by the firm and those in their erne
ploy. The work of the day is to be taken alternately by
two divisions. The re-pective divisions each take the,
half-holiday subject to the following conditions :—Ah
persons who are five minutes after their fixed time twice,
cr ten minutes once, in each week, or who take the
same excess over the time allowed for meals, forfeit their
next tur i to the Saturday half-holiday. Two hours are
allowed for breakfast to all who commence at 5 o'clock,
and each person is expected to take it, as soon as the
mornins's work enables him to do so. One hour is
allowed for dinner, viz., from one to two. As the con-
tingencies of the work do not admit of a fixed time being
named fur leaving on the part of those remaining to
execute the work on Saturday afternoons, the whole
must remain until the papers are entirely despatched.
If any one forfeits his half-holiday the corresponding
person in the other division takes it instead, in addition
to his regular day, should he not also have forfeited it.
Those whose turn it is to have the half-holiday, and who
may not have forfeited it, leave at one o'clock for the
remainder of the day.
NEW PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.—The fifth New Phil-
harmonic Concert took place fast night, at the Hanover-
square Rooms. It was upon this occasion that the
promised (appearance of Madame Jenny Lind Gold-
schmidt was redeemed, and the rooms consequently
presented an unusually large assemblage of visitors.
The lady sang three times, but without obliging the
hearers with any novelty. Her first performance was
the "Softly sidle" of Weber, which she gave with bar
usual finely dramatic and picturesque feeling ; her Se'
cond the " Squallida vesta," from the " Turco in Italia"
of Rossini, one of her pet bravura displays ; and the
third the Mazurkas of Chopin, transcribed for the voice
by Mr. Otto Goldechmidt, of which we have already
spoken. It is useless now to dwell upon the vocalism of
this most p ,polar of artistes. The audience of last night,
as upon all other occasions, were ravished with the
booty of her voice and her unrivalled skill, and ex•
pressed themselves with their accustomed energy—their
enthusiasm reaching its highest pitch when they beard
the ventriloquial exploits incident to the mazurkas.
The overtures were '‘Ruy Blas," "Oberon," and " Masa.
nielio." This concert terminated the present series.
They are Renounced to be resumed in April next.
MELANCHOLY DEATH OF DR. T. S. HOLLAND, OF i'U
CRIMEAN ARMY.—Yes erday afternoon Mr. William
Carter, coroner for East Surrey, held a long inquiry
at the Hope Tavern, Bird-street, Walcot-square, rela-
tive to the death of Thomas Seward Holland, Esq.,
M.D., aged 29, who returned only on Saturday last
from Renskioi Hospital, in the Dardanelles, where
the unfortu"ate gentleman was aesistant-physician.
Mrs. Clara Flora Lincoln dep -Fed that she was the
wife of a commercial agent residing at No. 7, waleot-
,quare. Some few days back a lady took two rooms
in her house, stating that she was the sister of Dr.
Ladd, of Walcot-place, and that she should occupy
the apartments with her husband, who, however,
wished to sleep there on the Monday night. On the
Monday night deceased came 'to the house, and im-
mediately retired to bed, requesting to be called up
before eight o'clock the next morning, which was done ;
but, on entering the room, witness found Dr. Holland
lying on the bed face downwards, apparently quite
dead. Mr. Theodore Edward Ladd, M.D., deposed
that the deceased was subject to epileptic fits, and
witness was of opinion that while in such a fit he
had turned on his face and died. The jury, after
some further remarks, returned a verdict in accord.
ante with the medical opinion of Dr. Ladd.
A REACTIONARY ITALIAN PRELATE.—Moe signor
Gressel ini, the right hand o ICerdinat Antonelli in the
reactionary intrigues at Rome, in 1849, is to be elevated
to the cardinalate in the text consistory. Monsignor
Grassellini is by birth a Sicilian, and curiously enough
gave the first ostensible impetus to the lad revolutionary
movement in his native island. When Pio IX. began
his career as a Reformer, Grassellini, who did not believe
himself safe in Rome, retired to Palermo. His country-
men, as soon as they heard of his coming, prepared to
receive him in the way they thought he deserved. The
first time lie appeared in public he was saluted with im-
precations and showers of pebbles from an immense
crowd. Tranquillity thuS disturbed was not restored ;
one disturbance succeeded another, and the revolution
began.