The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-29 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, Aug. 29.—Wind this day at noon, W. ;
light breeze and fine.
PORTSMOUTH, A ng. 28.—Wind W.N.W to W.S.W.—
Arrived—Fl.M.S. Vulcan, from Quebec. Sailed—North
Britain, for Quebec; H.M.S. Ilecate, Madeira.
PLYMOUTH, Aug. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Danetta,
from Rio Grande.

BRIDGEWATER, Aug. 28.—Wiud S.W.—Sailed—Pro-
mise, for Quebec.
ABERY ST WITH, Aug. 23. —Wind S. W. —Sailed—Battus,
for Quebec.
FLEETWOOD, Aug. 28.—Wind W.—Sailed—Mar 1311013,
for Quebec.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning.
Arrived—Loire, steamer, from Liverpool.
Sailed—Thomas and Margaret, for Sunderland.
LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning.

Wind N.W.

Arrived—Spartan, from Bonny; E. M. Arndt, Galves-
ton ; Paterson, New Orleans ; Sea Flower and Versailles,
St. John's, N. 8.; Heinrich Von Gayer, New Orleans ;
Cores, Savanilla. •
Gff—Great Western, from Now York.

Sailed—Laura, for Copenhagen; Amelia, Rondt ; Ne-
braska, Rio Janeiro ; Claudia, Rio Grande ; Nelson, Mar.
soiiles ; Courier, Stettin ; Rappahannock, New Orlcana;
Mary Winch, Archangel; Wandralun, Hamburg.
QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 27.
Wind N.W.

Arrived—Alma, from Shediac ; Newnham, Laguna ;
Poliva, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Pactolus, Barbadoes
Sailed—Redbreast, for Lisbon ; Sallandt, Bilboa ; Ann,
Alexandria ; Zoyoubyt, Bordeaux.
DUBLIN, Aug. 28.

Wind W.S.W.
Arrived—Johanna Margretta, from Galatz.
WATERFORD, Aug. 27.

Wind N.W.
Arrived—Supply, from Cadiz; Fanny Von Schack,
Odessa ; Emma, Galatz.
Sailed—Alpha, for St. John's, New Brunswick.

• (BY SUBBIARINN AND BRITISH TZLRGRAPTI.I
GRAVESEND, Fri,lay, 10.19 a.m.

Wind W., tide two hours' flood ; weather cloudy.
Arrived, Aug. 28.- -Susan and Mary, from Caen ; Comet,
Aalborg; Tankeman, Buenos Ayres; Jean d'Acre, Arch-
angel ; Girl I Love, Cadiz.
Sailed.—Queen, for Calcutta; City of Rotterdam,
steamer, Dunkirk; George Marshall, Sydney.
DEAL, Friday Morning, 9.5 a.m.
_ _

Wind W. ; fresh.
Passed.—Fair Kathleen, from Marianople ; Admiral
Moorson, 167 transport, for Balaklava ; Codrington, from
Antigua ; East Anglian, barque, from westward—all for
London; London, screw steamer, from Aberdeen, for
Dover.
Anchored, Aug. 23.—Chapman, from London, for Auck-
land ; Camilia, London, for Al_;oa Bay.

A WATERSPOUT.—We read in the Echo Rochelais :
"In the morning of Sunday a waterspout was seen in
the sea driven towards land by a strong south-west wind.
After a while it reached the Ile de Re, which it crossed,
and then arrived at the high cliff of Paragot, where it
stopped as if hesitating to advance. All at once it rose
to the top of the cliff, and carrying with it a quantity of
dust, vine leaves, &c., proceeded across some vineyards,
in which it cut off branches of grapes and leaves and
uprooted a number of plants. It next proceeded to a
mill, which it causes to turn round, and swept a qusn
tity of tiles from the roof, threw down a wall, and did
other damage. A woman on horseback at some dis-
tance, seeing it approach, alighted, but she was no
sooner on foot than she was thrown down and rolled
some distance on the ground ; her horse being frightened
galloped away and was unhurt. The woman's head-
dress was swept off, and was subsequently found at a
distance of 300 yards. The waterspout, continuing its
course, uprooted several trees, threw down a wall nearly
20 feet long, carried away tiles [from barns and other
buildings, and did other injury. It then proceeded to
distance of about 4 kilometres (nearly 3
,miles), when it
gradually disappeared. The latter part of its course was
sometimes straight and sometimes horizontal. The
waterspout was about 12 feet high,; resembled a long
white spout vomiting water or smoke, and made a noise
similar to that of a rough sea."

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, TnuRsDA.Y MouNING.

By the arrival of the United States mail steam-
ship Atlantic we have advices from New York to
I6th inst.

She has brought $190,000 specie on freight.
The following is a letter of the Times' correspon-
dent, dated New York, Aug. 16 :
" The closing hours of Congress have been occu-
pied with the Appropriation Bills, which, instead
of being united in one long " Civil and Diplomatic
Appropriation Bill," as usual, have been this year,
for the first time, separated. The House, having
under the constitution the exclusive power of origi-
nating bills of this character, has made this separa-
tion, in order, while passing such bills as are abso-
lutely necessary to enable the machinery of Govern-
ment to go on, to hang upon others provisions that
may secure the territory of Kansas from invasion
by ruffians, and enable the Free Stater settlers to
go there without being shot down by Government
connivance. The Senate, being more strongly pro-
slavery than the House, has rejected all such pro-
positions hitherto made; and, as Monday, the 18th,
is the last day of the session, there is a fair pros-
pect that the Army Bill and the Legislative, Judi-
cial, and Executive Appropriation Bills, will fail.
As ten of the Free State men are absent from the
House without pair, this result may be avoided
to-day. There was a disposition on the part of
some members of the Cabinet and many northern
members of the Democratic party to yield to popu-
lar feeling so far as to remove Lecompte, the ob-
jectionable judge in Kansas, under whose directions
the indictments for treason have been found against
the Free State leaders ; but my letters by this
morning's mail inform me that these councils have
been overruled, and that Lecompte is to remain.

" The Senaie have confirmed. -various treaties
recently negotiated with foreign Powers, and,
among others, ono made by Mr. Wheeler with the
Nicaraguan Government which preceded Walker.
It is not certain that Walker will assent to the
whole treaty. There is a clause, providing for the
extradition of fugitives from justice, that might be
inconvenient to him in his present position.
" The propositions from the Congress of Paris
were submitted to this Government in separate
notes from each one of the Powers represented in
the Congress, except Great Britain, and the omis-
sion is thought in Cabinet circles at Washington to
be rather strange. It is thought there that Great
Britain does not mean to assent, so far as the United
States are concerned, to the principal propositions
that free ships make free goods, and that no block-
ades are to be considered binding, except when
actual ; and that the anti-privateering clause was
meant as a stab at the maritime power of the
United States. When similar propositions were
made some two years since by this Government,
some of the foreign Powers inserted in their re-
plies a request for the insertion of an article agaii st
privateering ; but I am informed that, in render-
ing these replies, the Ministers or some of the
Powers privately informed this Government that
their Governments really desired the United States
to hold out against the abolition of privateering,
ani stated that the request had been made in order
to coincide with British views.

" The arrival of the Ariel from the Isthmus puts
us in possession of San Francisco dates to the 21st
of July. The Vigilance Committee were still in
possession of the city, and the Governor seemed to
have given up the contest. Indeed I have heard
from Washington that one reason which had much
weight with the Cabinet in inducing them not to
furnish the authorities of the State with mate
rials for quelling the insurrection was the know-
ledge they had that the Executive was leagued
with the Committee in the commencement of

these high-handed proceedings. If true, what
a sad picture of the working of representa.
tive institutions—the confession of the inability
of Government to check lawfulness and violence,
to restrain peculation, and to preserve purity in
elections without the aid of a mob ! For, however
much the sympathies of men of probity and correct
lives, and industrious habits, and of property may
ruu with the men of San Francisco, who have risen
to protect themselves against their own officers, the
manner in which they have placed themselves in
hostility to constituted law entitles them to be
called by no other name. The case of Judge Terry,
who stabbed Hopkins in the street, is yet un-
finished. Hopkins has been alternately better and
worse ; and, as he has been up or down, the Go-
vernor of the State has shown an indifference to

the fate of the offender, or been in treaty for his
life. At the last account Hopkins was getting
better, and it was supposed that the judge would
receive a sentence of banishment without any pro-
test, or interference from his Excellency. People
here begin to ask how leng this state of things can
continue. The non-interference of the United
States has been justified only on the technical
;round that the application was prematurely made.
If harmony is not speedily restored, and the power
returned to the legitimate hands, it is plain that
the Federal Government will have no alternative
left but interference. The movement now is as-

suming a political form. The Republicans are
organising themselves in California, and mean to
contest the State with the hope of carrying it for

Fremont, on the issue of aPacific railroad to be
constructed by national aid. The same influences
that have led men to rise in opposition to the State
authorities will lead them also into opposition to
the Federal Government, which has appointe.l
many of the objectionable men to office, and among
.vhose supporters many others are to be found.
You can easily see, therefore, that there is a pro-
spect of a collision between the Federal Govern-
ment and the Vigilance Committee unless order is
soon restored.
" The Committee have published, in their own
justification a long report of the official corruption
in San Francisco, a copy of which I enclose. It
exhibits a remarkable state of things, and says little
for the fruits of the ballot in that part of the world.
But I can hardly say I think they make out a case
to justify rebellion and civil war. The substance
of it is that, through the negligence and supineness
of these very men who now compose and support
the committee, the offices about the courts, includ-
ing the bench itself, were filled with gamblers,
rowdies, " shoulderhitters," and political idlers,
who pilfered the country in some pretty large
sums, neglected their duties till things are all at
sixes and sevens, and managed matters so that
when their own friends were tried for any of their
offences the prosecutions either died of inanition,
or were disposed of by packed juries. It is true
that this is not a very pleasant state of things ; but
then, on the other hand, the aggregate of the job-
bing is not very large (they only charge 100,0001.,
and show much less than that), and as for the ne-
glect of duties and creation of sinecures, there are
other places besides San Francisco where such
things are done. Nor is California the first place in
the world, I fancy, where juries have been packed,
or where prosecutions have been managed.
"The contest draws closer between Buchanan
and Fremont as the day of election comes near. As
yet there is little enthusiasm for any one in this
part of the country. With the thermometer at 98
deg. in the shade, the enthu-lasm of even an office-
holder would melt away; but in the autumn I doubt
not we shall all grow WM un as the weather grows
cool. The defection of Mr. Choate to Buchanan is
a serious blow for the New England supporters of
Mr. Fillmore. On the other hand, his New York
forces have received the open addition of what they,
have long had secretly, the adhesion to Know-
Nothingism of the old line Conservative Whigs.
I The result depends, however, not on New Eng-
land or New York (about whose votes in the Elec-
toral College I cannot see much reasonable room
for doubt), but upon New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
California, and Indiana, where the Fillmore vote is
supposed to be strong enough to put Buchanan
ahead of Fremont. Here the energies of each party
will be spent. One thing you may regard as certain
at the present moment (whatever it may be by and
by)—that without a union of the friends of Mr.
Fillmore and those of Col. Fremont, neither Penn-
sylvania nor New Jersey can be carried against
Mr. Buchanan; unless they are the defeat of that
gentleman is impossible ; but with such a union
Mr. Buchanan will find himself in a minority.
That is the state of the canvass to-day. I do not
pretend to say whether it will or will not chancre
between now and November, for in the complicated
machinery of American politics it is impossible to
foresee what combinations may be made, or what
counter movements may be made to check them.
" The news from Central America is once more
belligerent.' Rivas, assisted by 3,000 Guatemalians,
was fortifying Leon,
and Walker had collected a
force of 1,000 men,
with which he was shortly to
march to the attack. Costa Rica also stood ready
to again invade Nicaragua. A large British force
was gathered in the harbour of San Juan.
"The treaty of reciprocity with the Sandwich
Islands, which would be doubtless advantageous to
both countries, will be killed in the Senate by the
opposition o f the State of Louisiana, which objects
to the admission of free sugar.
" The cotton States have been visited by a violent
rain storm? lasting 110 hours, and flooding every.
thing. It is said that the cotton crops are injured,
but we have no definite intelligence.
"Since my last letter two violent showers have
swept over
.New York, sending the rain down in
sheets, and filling the gutters with streams large
enough to turn the wheel of a small cotton-mill.
These have carried away much of the dirt and gar-
bage which were filling the air with malaria under
a burning sun, and have so lowered the tempera-
ture that we hope to have escaped the yellow fever.
What is still more favourable, the disease itself ap-

pears to be on the decline at quarantine, and there
is good reason now to believe that we are to escape.
No thanks, however, to the authorities of this tax-
ridden city. The appropriations for street-cleaning
for the, entire year have been already more than
exhausted, and, with a pestilence at our doors, we
are without a penny to remove the causes of it. I
do not believe that there is on the face of the earth
a place where more money is raised by taxation
with less to show for it. 7,000,000 dols. a-year are
now raised for the expenses of this city govern-
ment, and we have to raise the money by private
subscriptions for so simple a matter as cleaning
our own streets.

" The Chicago and Rock Island station at Chi-
cago, together with several loaded cars, was burnt
the day before yesterday. The supposed loss was
from 150,000 to 200,000 dols.
" The money market, which was contracting
when I last wrote, has been eased by the arrival of
1,500,000 dols. in gold from California, and of
500,000 dols. Government draughts on the Sub-
treasury. This has caused au improvement in the
stock market, and prices have recovered. Exchange
has declined to 109 i to / bankers', and 9 to 0.1 best
commercial bills.