The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-29 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, DEC. 28.
The Arabia, Stone, arrived to-day with advices.
from New York, by telegraph, to the 18th, and
268,939 dollars.
The Niagara, for Boston, was passed on the 25th.
The House of Representatives had passed a reso-
lution condemnatory of a revival of the slave trade.
The Washington correspondent of the Boston
Daily Advertiser states that the opposition to the
free importation of wool is most decided, that the
wool growers are operating silently and with influ-
ence, and that the iron interests are pursuing the
same course.

Advices from Honduras report the continuance
of tranquillity there. The party of American
gold-diggers who had been in Honduras " prospect-
ing" for the precious metals had nearly all left the
country, on account of the sickly climate, which
had proved on the coast very debilitating to
Americans.

Nine more French refugees from Cayenne had
arrived at New York from Demerara.

It appears that the boat of the Lyonnais, con-
taining a chronometer, provisions, liquors, 47c.,
which was picked up by the Neptune on her voyage
to Liverpool, was the one which broke loose from
the steamer and drifted away before the passengers
could get into it.

It was suspected that an expedition to Vene-
zuela under the command of General Paez was
fitting out at New York, and the authorities were
keeping watch to prevent it.
The New York Journal of Commerce states that
in Maine the shipbuilders have wholly discontinued
the construction of clippers, and now go to the
opposite extreme of making their ships full and of
large capacity.
In the Supreme Court, New York, two of the
parties, Felicite Debud and Eugene Grelet, wilo
were supposed to have been concerned in the late
frauds upon the Northern Railway of France, were
discharged by Judge Davies, upon their stipulating
not to commence any action for unlawful imprison-
ment. The other prisoners, Charpentieran d Parrot,
were detained for further proceedings in the case.

The excitement in Tennessee and Kentucky,
arising out of the negro insurrection, is said to
have nearly died out, but in the ether parts of the
South it was as lively as ever. It appears to have
originated in Texas, near the Rio Grande, three
months since, and to have extended to nearly all
the Southern States, advantage having been taken
of the public's all-absorbing attention to the elec-
tion for President. It is stated that in the whole
region from Memphis, through Clarkesville, to
Dover, on the Cumberland river, the greatest
alarm existed in regard to the movements of the
negroes. The gaol in all the counties were crowded
with the arrested blacks. Tue County Courts had
assembled in each county, and vigilance committees
and patrols had been appointed in each neighbour-
hood and township. Eight more negroes had been
hung at Dover, making 19 in all. No overt act
had been committed, but the proof against them of
insurrectionary designs was, it is said, conclusive.
The Tennessee had arrived with important ad-
vices from Nicaragua.
After the battles of Messaya and Granada, in
October, the Costa Rica forces advanced, and took
possession of San Juan del Sur and the transit
route. General liornsey not succeeding in dis-
lodging them with the forces under his command,
was reinforced by Walker in person, who attacked
them at the halfway house and drove them back,
and then out of San Juan del Sur. The route being
open, Walker returned to Granada, and, becoming
alarmed for its safety, which was again threatened
by the allied forces, he sent down a part of his
troops, under Colonel Jacques, to hold it. He
then attacked Messaya, where he partly dislodged
the enemy and destroyed a part of the town. Find-
ing that it was impossible to hold forth the transit
route and Granada, he determined to abandon the
latter and burn it. This act he confided to Hen-
ningsen, while he proceeded to remove his wounded
and sick to the island of Ommettee, in the lake.
The enemy advanced on Granada and succeeded in
taking the small fort on the lake, about half a mile
from the city, and planted two guns in battery, one
on each side, and at the same distance from the
fort, cutting off all communication between the
city and the steamers. Henningsen, with 400 men,
having partly destroyed Granada, was cut off in
his retreat, and took possession of a church half-
way between the city and the lake. He was at the
last accounts besieged there, but is said to be well
supplied with arms and ammunition, having, in
fact, the greater part of Walker's stores and a well
of water.

It would seem from this account that the only
points in the possession of Walker at the latest dates
were San Juan del Sur and Virgen, about 14 miles
apart, at the two ends of the road extending trout
the Pacific to the lake. He had also possession of the
island in the lake before mentioned, and the steamer
or two at his disposal on the lake gave him
a certain facility of locomotion and escape, or of
obtaining reinforcements.

A complete reconciliation is said to have been
effected among all Nicaraguan parties under the
Presidency of Rivas.
Advices from Vera Cruz announce that Puebla
had surrendered to the Government forces. The
news of Vidaurri's treaty is confirmed. Alvarez
bad taken the field in defence of the Government.
The Savannah advices are unimportant.
In the New York money market, owing to the
large amount of specie shipped to New Orleans,
there had been more inquiry for money at the
banks for the two days previously, and the market
closed decidedly stringent. The effect on stocks
was downward.

New York Central and Erie Railway shares were
unusually heavy, at a decline. Exchange was dull
at a decline of it per cent., being 108/ to 109 on
London; sf. 20c. to sf. 22ac. on Paris.
Cotton, with a fair demand, had advanced
closing buoyantly. Southern markets all advanc-
ing, prices being better than at New York. Flour
firm, with an increasing demand at an advance of
5 to 10 cents. Wheat advanced 5 cents. per bushel.
Corn without change. Rye firm. Old mess pork
not so firm. New mess and prime steady. Beet
steady. Lard not so firm. Butter selling freely.
Naval stores inanimate. Crude turpentine quiet.
Prices nominal. Common rosin heavy. Medium
and fine grades quiet, but firm. Freights to Liver-
pool dull at is. 6d. for flour, and Id. for cotton.
To London, flour 2s. 9d.
LATEST vu HALIFAX.
NEW YORK, DEC. 18.
Since the date of the circulars per Arabia cotton
has advanced lc. ; middling Orleans quoted 13c.,
and middling uplands 12ic. Flour unchanged.
Wheat advanced. Corn lower. The feeling in our
money market to-day was light. Sterling exchange
flat. The City of Baltimore had arrived at Phila-
delphia. Nothing of the Hermann or America.

-NEW ORLEANS, DEC. 17.
Sales to day 11,500 bales ; middling quoted We.
to Hie. Market steady.

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 28.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Tagus, Captain Christian, arrived to-day with the
mails from the Peninsular ports, in charge of Lieut.
J. H. Lloyd, R. N., and dates from Gibraltar to
December 19 ; Cadiz, 20 ; Lisbon,
22 ; Oporto and
Vigo 23.
This vessel brings eig'at first. class and two second-
class passengers ; 25 packages of specie,
value
18,0481. ss. 6d. ; 16 packages of gold coin, value
19,774/. ; and a cargo consisting of 160 chests, 291
half-chests, and 146 boxes of oranges, 59 boxes of
tangerines, 170 boxes of eggs, and 102 packages of
general merchandise. _ _

The Tagus, bcZ-outwards and homewards, ex-
perienced a series of furious gales from southward
to northward. On the night of the 24th and all
day of the 25th she met with continuous kailatorrns,
and the weather throughout was of the most unfa.
vourable character.

We have Lisbon letters to the 22,1, at which
date the following vessels of war were anchored in
the Tagus :—Her Majesty's steamships Csar,
Captain Robb ; Centurion, Captain Fanstiawe ;
Sanspareil, Captain Key ; Exmouth, Captain H.
Eyres •' and Colossus, Capt. Thompson ; the French
steamships Austerlitz and Phenix ; and the Dutch
frigate Prins Alexander. Her Majesty's steamer
Industry, with invalids, had steam up to leave ft.r
Portsmouth, but was detained for the Duke of
Wellington, with Admiral Dundas, which was an-
choring as the Tagus left. The Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steam-packet Sultan, for Cadiz
and Gibraltar, and the steamer Rhone, which had
Ina in for coals bound from Palermo to Liverpo..l,
bad left a few hours before the Tagus sailed. The
Royal mail packet Avon, with the outward Brazil
mails, arrived at Lisbon on tile 16th, and left the
following (jay fur Madeira with a tine favourable
breeze.

The Lisbon exchanges for three months are
quoted for this packet—London, 53 ; Paris, 534
AAmsterdam, 411 ; Hamburg, 47 ; and Genoa, 530.; Paper continued scarce, more particularly on Paris,
Hamburg, and Amsterdam. On London short
dates were preferred. Stocks were more animated,
and rates had slightly unproved. Three per Cents.,
registered, 441 to 401 ; Coupons, 44g to 44:1 ; De-
ferred, 241 to 251 ; Bank of Portugal shares, 509
tazu mil reis ; Bank of Oporto shares, 19 to 20
premium.
The weather had been very stormy on the coast
of Portugal and in the Tagus, but no serious
damage to shipping had been reported by the time
the packet left.
Tile report that Mr. Howard, thu British Minis-