The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-22 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The following telegram has been received a'
Mr. Reuter's office :
QUEENSTOWN, FEB. 22.

The Montreal Ocean Mail steamer North Ame-
rican, Captain Aiton, from Portland, on the 11th
inst., has arrived. She landed the English and
Scotch mails.
The North Briton arrived out on the Bth inst.,
having picked up the crew of the brig Eliza
Grieves, which had been wrecked.
The barque Emily, which was recently brought
) New York as a slaver, escaped and sailed for
ie African coast.
The Chamber of Commerce has memorialised
gress, soliciting mediation between France,
England, and China.
A heavy gale raged yesterday in New York.
Both bridges to Jersey were demolished,, and the
city ferry was unroofed.
The Catholic Orphan Asylum was destroyed.; a
large factory was broken ; and 100 other buildings
in the neighbourhood were damaged. Twenty-
four vessels were more or less damaged. No loss
of life reported.
Advices from Bogota state that the Catholic
clergy had collected many bibles which had been
distributed by the London Bible Society. The bibles
were burnt in the public square.
Fifty houses had been burnt at Valparaiso.
Great indignation was manifested at Buenos
Ayres in consequence of the Briti,h squadron
attacking the steamer on board which General
Lopez embarked for Paraguay. The steamer backed
her engines and got ashore. General Lopez re-
turned to Buenos Ayres.
The Nova Scotian Cabinet had resigned. A new
Ministry had been formed under Mr. Wm. Young.
The following will probably be the new Govern-
ment :—Hon. Wm. Young, Leader of the Govern-
ment (without office) ; Hon. Joseph Howe, Provin-
cial Secretary ; Hon. Adam Archibald, Attorney-
General. Other offices yet unknown.
The house was adjourned for a month.
NEW YORK, FEB. 10.

Stocks rather higher. Exchange and money un-
altered. Cotton a shade better. Sales, 1,600 bales.
Middling Upland, 111 c. Corn quiet. Provisions
unchanged. Sugar firm. Freight unaltered.

NEW ORLEANS, FEB. 7.
Cotton, higher. Sales, 10,000 bales.
NEW ORLEANS, FEB. 8.

Cotton market stiffer, but no quotable change
since yesterday. Sales 20,000 ; freight to Liver-
pool 9-16 d., cash.
(LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.)

NEW YORK, FEB. 11.

Cotton unchanged.

NEW ORLEANS, FEB. 10.

Sales of cotton to-day 10,000 bales, market firm.
Receipts of the week 85,000 bales; receipts ahead
of last year 518,000 bales. Freights unchanged.
Sterling exchange, 71 to 8k premium.

ENGLAND AND FRANCE.—We are requested to
state that the essays intended for the adjudication of Lord
Brougham, the Earl of Clarendon, and the Earl of Shaf-
tesbury, must bo sent in to the Rev. Dr. Emerton, Han-
well College, Middlesex.

His Excellency the Netherlands Minister has
returned to town from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of
Beaufort at Badminton, and to Lord and Lady Llanover at
Llanover, South Wales.

Lady Trevelyan and Miss Trevelyan have left
Farrance's Hotel for Southampton, to embark for India to
join Sir Charles Trevelyan at Madras.
The Right Hon. T. Sotheron-Estcourt was pre-
vented from attending the House of Commons on Monday
night by indisposition.

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ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN.—
Her Majesty, his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, her
Royal Highness the Princess Alice, and her Royal High-
ness the Princess Helena, attended by the Countess of
Desart, Lord De Tabley, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and the
Hon. Dudley de Ros, honoured the performances last even-
ing with their presence. The opera selected was " Dino-
rah," preceded by "Romance," and concluding with the
fairy rifle scene from the pantomime of " Puss in Boots."
ITALIAN OPERA.—The hundred tongues of rumour
are loudly asserting all over the town that Mr. E. T.
Smith has positively taken her Majesty's Theatre
for the approaching season. We have reason to know
that this is not yet the case, although the report
is by no means unfounded, negotiations having
already arrived at a very advanced stage. "It is on—all
but the heel," as Baron Pompolino says of Cinderella's
fairy slipper. In the meantime we are certain that Mr. E.
T. Smith will again take the field with Italian opera.

WHY P—A little girl, showing her little cousin,
about four years old, a star, said, " That star you see up
there is bigger than this world." " No, it aint," said he.
" Yes, it is." "Then, why don't it keep the rain off ?"
We have reason to believe that Lord Palmerston
has submitted the name of the Rev. Dr. Vaughan to the
Queen as the new Bishop of Rochester. Dr. Vaughan was
lately Master of Harrow.
We understand that a requisition is in caurse of
signature to Mr. Cubitt, of Denbies, near Croydon, request-
ing him to stand for West Surrey, in the Conservative
interest.
VOLUNTEER RIFLE CORPS.—The patriotic ex-
ample of Mr. Charles Ratcliff, of Birmingham, who has
raised and e7direly equipped a company of 100 men at his
sole expense, has been followed by Lady Rolle, who has
offered to defray the whole of the cost of a company of 60
men from Budleigh, Salterton, and neighbourhood.
THE " INTERNATIONAL " PRIZE FIGHT.--At the
Isle of Ely sessions, the chief constable, in his report to the
magistrates, observed—" A prize fight for the so-called
championship of England is advertised to take place on the
16th of April, between an Englishman and an American.
These disgraceful exhibitions could hardly take place in this
locality if the directors of the railway were to follow the ex-
ample of the South-Eastern directors and refuse the comba- j
tants and their friends special trains." The chief constable
also, addressing the magistrates, said he should like steps
to be taken to prevent the belligerents visiting the isle.
During the last five years, he added, the local police expenses
incurred solely on account of prize fights had been in 1855,
£3 11s. 11d. ; 1856, £6 ls. 6d. ; 1857, £5 89. 3d. ; 1858,
£3 7s. 4d. ; 1859, £3 ls. sd.—making a total of £2l 10s. sd.
The locality selected for the approaching fight is a's the
junction of three counties, near Littleport, and he suggested
that a letter should be written to the directors of the Eastern
Counties Railway asking them not to grant a special train
for the purpose of conveying the parties down. It was re-
solved that this should be done.
THE AMERICAN WHALE FlSHERY.—Referring
to the American whale fishery for 1859, the Peterhead Sen-
tinel says: —" The result is not so satisfactory as we had
anot ineiuplantbeetr; indeed,of vessels i t
wwaisl lb e
nearly seen
6thcla;t tohne
years,rt eh
ea cos January,
a indicationsnuNa,ry,
1860, it was only 571, showing awdeitc7irteaansea,..ascorwentep
of a gradual decline. Going back seven
aofirfne
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during
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current year.
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light. As regards pric, the average of whale oil was, in
In America
same periods
98'48.55898, Nv'. sr' 3'51 2;
sol;:hadne.s,l.anpderin'3lBs9" 5s Bd. per
and increasing
a
gallon, against
we arc informed, both in America
calculated that the price will go on
increasing. TO sperm
7s. to Bs. in this country. Tis a
is
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adteidm'Eltdirofople
DIENT TO MR GLADSTONE.—
A FRENCH COMM.
Never in the course of Mr. Gladstone's brilliant career was
it
ho so well inspired as on this occasion. Everybody will
be struck at the largeness with which he comprehends and
practically applies the principle of commercial liberty
adopted by England, as one of the foundations of her home
and foreign policy. In presence of a
considerableo
Mr. Gladstone does not hesitate to propose new
of duties for the sake of affording ease and giving activity to
national industry, although in so doing he is obliged to in-
Tthilee
bc roelad snees others
o f ttahxee sfi, ensapnecciiearl Iyi s the
tone
sasffer ina
rgkianbcloe mt
he sa.n
brilliancy of the Parliamentary orator.—Moniteur.