The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-24 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, OCT. 22.

The United States' mail steam-ship Biltic, Com-
stock, commander, has arrived from New York
with dates to the 11th instant. She has brought
493,109 dollars specie on freight.
Dr. Kane, the Arctic discoverer, has arrived in
the Baltic.

In some of the States the municipal elections had
taken place. In Connecticut Fremont had gained
23 towns, and the Democrats 14. Another account
says :—" The returns of the towns' elections iu
Connecticut show that out of 126 towns we have
heard from, 73 have gone to Fremont, 48 for
Buchanan, and five divided." In the Southern
State of Florida the Buchanan party had been
equally beaten. In &trait Rosa county the Ameri-
can party had gained the majority, but the extent
of it was not known.

At B dtimore, Mtryland, during the election for
Mayor, several riots had occurred, and the streets
were covered .with blood. In the evening the op-
position parties had come into collision, and male
use of their firearms, by which four persons were
killed, and upwards of 50 wounded. Several per-
sonal rencontres had also taken place on the 10th
instant, in one of which a man had been shot.

President Pierce had embarked at Portsmouth
for Washington.

The duel which had been arranged between Mr.
Pryor, or the Richmond Inquirer, and the son of
the Hon. Mr. Botts, was prevented by the police
appearing and arresting all parties.

- Anemias from Galveston to the 27th ult, state
that Captain Onkes, with a detachment of the 2d
CAvalry and Ist Artillery, had succeeded in reach-
ing the month of the Rio Pecos, and driving tho
hostile Indians across the river into Mexico. The
Rio Pecos is a point never before reached by any
troops or surveying parties, and has hitherto been
considered inaccessible.

A letter to the Democrat, dated Lawrence, 2d
inst., says that a convention will be held at Tope-
kan on the 13th inst., for th© purpose of forming
a Republican electoral ticket, with a view of ascer-
taining the strength of the parties if Kansas should
be admitted as a State. In December the electoth
thus chosen will ask seats in the Electoral College.
The Pro-slavery party, it is expected, will nomi-
nate a Filhnore and Buchanan electoral ticket.

In the New York money-market an active de-
!nand prevailed, especially fur money on call at 7
per cent., and for first-class 60 and 93 days' mer-
cantile
paper at Bto 8i per cent. In consequence
$6,000,000 in
of the heavy
contracting shipments of specie, upwards of
theirfour
lititelledeo doing,
a discounts.pnees
a l tTe rheed
c. weirne ex-
changeun-otton market continued buoyant, and was
rather strengthened by the favourable news from
Eulrnoptheeanfidousmr small stocks.
asp.:dices continued consider-
ablythere was no accumn-
above those hceorlen,nion
Ind mediumvh grades of
lation of stock.
heaant
improve
-.
Canadian were, a turn 11.
vanced 2c. to 3c., with a ,:ognider
market closed firm, but 'quiet, demand.• The corn
demand,
in
intuit of lc. on Western. Barley
firm • demand. Mess pork" had. 'ayddijerranarde.er
621,c. to 25c. Beef steady, with a fvaaincell 50e. to
$6 to $7 for country prime, and $8 to $9 25c. for
prime mess ; cut meats a shady
dull. Lard lc. lower, and dull ; butter.' Bleci"
in brisk
demand. Scotch pig iron rather infavour3 of
sellers, at $3O 500. to $3l 50c., six month
in better request, best brands of English refined at
$66 25c. to $69 50c., six months. nods very
scarce, and boiler plates, all in One hand, held at
3!c. to / c. ex ship, and store sheet in request.
Turpentine too dear for shippers ; spirits of tur-
pentine firmer. Resin dull.
Freights for grain, in consequence of a break in
the Erie Canal, bad slightly receded. Desirable
vessels were in good demand, at 91d. for corn and
what to Liverpool, and *d. to 5-311. for cotton.

i BLAND.

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY EVENING,
THE CRIMEAN BANQUET.

His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, attended by a
brilliant staff, arrived at a quarter to 1 o'clock, and,
amidst enthusiastic applause, was conducted to his seat
on the dais. The Lord Mayor took the chair, having to
his right the Lord Lieutenant, the Commander of the
Forces, Lord Talbot de Malahide, Lord Dunally, Adrni
ral Chads, and a number of superior officers who had
come in charge of detachments. On the left sat the Lor i
Charcellor, Lord Vaux of Harrowden, Lord Gough, the
R ght Hon. C. Herman, General Sir J. Chatterton,
Col. Gordon Higgins, Mr. D-irga►n, Sir T. O'Brien,
M.P., Col. Larcom, Under-Secret'ary, Alderman George
Roe, LL.D., and a number of officers wearing the Cri•
mea❑ medal.

Ample justice having been done to the profusion of
good tare provided by the committee, and grace having
been said by the Lord Mayor,
Toe LORD MAYOR ruse and said—l beg to propose the
health of her Majesty the Qieen, a toast which, I am
sure no man in this kingdom would refuse to drink, mucl,
less the military, for whom her Majesty has at all times
ovinced such kindness, care, and love. (Loud cheers.)
The toast was responded to with the greatest enthu-
siasm.

The LORD MAYOR again rose. He had next the honour
of proposing " the health of the Lord Lieutenant, and
prosperity to Ireland." There was not a man in this
country to whom the virtues of the nobleman who repre-
senud her Majesty in Ireland were not known, and so
long as he continued to preside over its fortunes it could
not hut prosper. (Loud cheers.)

His Excellency the LORD LIEUTENANT, on rising to
respond to the toast, was received wits such deafening
cheers from all parts of the hall that several minutes
elaps'd before he was enabled to commence his address.
At length, comparative silence having been obtained,
Excellency proceeded with his speech, but was only able
to make himself heard by raising his voice to the highest
possible pitch. He said—Soldiers of the Crimea, my wish
now is not to speak long, but loud. I wish that every
man I see before me could hear me say how proud I feel
to be one of them this day. In the place I fill I have a
right to tell you in the name of the good Queen I serve
that her fine troops are welcome. (Cheers.) I have the
right to tell you in the name of the Irish people, that
they love brave men—that they know that you, one and
all, have fought, and toiled, and bled, and would have
died at your posts ; and so they have wished this day to
fill your cups to the brim, and to give you the fat of the
land. (Cheers.) Not for the worth of the thing, not for
the sake of gorging you with food, not for the stir of one
short hour, but to show you and those who will come
after you, and who some day will march under the same
flags, that your countrymen, and countrywomen too, all
wish to thank you for what you have done, and show
you that they remember you still in peace, when the din
of war is over, and that they will toast you at their
feasts and bless you in their prayers. (Cheers.) We are
thrown upon Irish ground, and Ireland has a right to
give a welcome to heroes, because she has sent forth
many to every grade in your ranks. (Cheers.) But
Irish hospitality is not stinted to her own children, as it
was not asked, when the cheer arose loudest in your
charge, whether it had most of the English, Scotch, or
Irish accent—as it was not asked, when the red blood
flowed in the field or in the trench, whether the warm
tide gushed from English, Scotch, or Irish veins—and
here to-day you are seated side by side at the same board,
and you need no passport but the bright medal which
glows upon your manly breasts, (Loud cheers.) Itis in-
deed a deep cause of thankfulness to see you here thus ;
you, who have breasted the deep slopes of the Alma—
yon, who have dashed along the fatal pass of Balaklava
—you, who have held the blood-red heights of Inkerman
—you, who have survived the midnight trench, the
thundering rampart, and the deadly hospital. (Cheers.)
It is a matter of deep gratitude to see you thus under a
roof of peace, and before a board of plen,y. (Cheers.)
I know well, my friends, that your strength and your
blood would be again given to your country if your
country should require them of you. But I humbly trust
that it will be so ordered that those faces I now see
lighted up with such an honest glow, will never again
be darkened by a frown upon an enemy—(cheers)—but
may ever beam with good will towards your fellow-men,
and gratitude to your God. I have now only to add that
in my belief neither a Lord Lieutenant nor any other
person ever had his health drank by such a body of men;
and I have only now to say, which I do from my very
heart, to ono and all of you, may God bless you. (Loud
and deafening cheers, amidst which his Excellency
resumed his seat.)
Lord GOUGH then rose amidst tremendous cheering,
the entire assembly standing, and said—My Lord Mayor,
your Excellency, my lords and gentlemen, and, I will
add, one form more dear from early associations, brothel
soldiers. (Loud cheers.) I feel the present one of the
happiest moments of a long life of military vicissitudes.
(Cheers ) To be associated with my countrymen in this
public demonstration of a nation's gratitude for military
deeds well deserves a nation's praise and best feelings.
(Cheers.) I see before me a brilliant display of those
brave troops— a deputation, in some measure, from those
quartered in Ireland, who have so nobly fulfilled their
duty to their Sovereign and to their country in the field
of battle, and who, I am well convinced that iu times of
peace, gained by their indomitable gallantry, will equally
act a soldier's part in upholding the laws of their coun-
try. I have now to propose to you the health of our gal
lant allies, who so gloriously participated in all our dis-
tresses and in all our glories. (Cheers.) It is known
to you, brother soldiers, the noble part taken in the late
campaign by that great monarch now happily presiding
over the destinies of France ; how nobly he has supported
the British Government—how nobly his armies acted in
conjunction with British soldiers—(cheers)—how happily
by their united energies they brought a war, fearful
almost to extermination, to a happy peace. (Cheers.)
We feel a debt of gratitude also to that chivalrous mo.
narch who, situated in the midst of governments either
lukewarm or fearful to throw themselves into the strug-
gle, sent his soldiers, few in numbers, but great in disci-
pline and courage, to support us in the fight. The
Turkish troops had nut opportunity of actin.. with our
brave fellows—(hear)--but they did their duty when
they were called upon both nobly and effectually—
(cheers)--and the defence of Silistria, and that of Kars
ca' never be blotted oat. (Great cheering.) Having no w
fulfilled my duty of addressing you, I shll be happy to
fulfil that which I am placed here to perform by propos-
ing the health of the Emperor of the French and our
noble Allies, who so well supported us in the great
cause which we are met this day to commemorate.
The toast was drunk with all the honours. Air—
" Partant pour la Syrie."
The French Consul, M. DE BURORAFF, who was re-
ceived with loud applause, then rose and said-e-The
gallant general has just spoken to you in such terms of
our alliance and of the hearty feeling of the British,
Sardinian, and French army, that I should only have
said a few words to return thanks, if your cheers had
not brought to us the remembrance of your exertions,
of your pains, of your joys, of your victories in the
Crimea. You hea.r.i them, officers and soldiers of the
20th and 33'1 regiments, when mastering yourselves the
Russian batteries. At Alma you saw the Zouaves
crowning the heights on your left side ; your Lig, t
Brigade, you recollect them, when the Cbasseure
cl'Afrique, your admiring brothers in arms, came after
your heroic charge at Balaklava. (Cheers ) Guard,,
these cheers are still in your memory, for they are
coupled with y,nr victory at Inkerman ; and you,
Royal Irish, you will not forget that after you had
housed yourselves in Sebastopol, they hailed your
happy tut unwilling return. (Loud cheers ) Those
events are living in our hearts, but you must not believe
dist ws will forget those labours which did not shine

-0 brilliantly, but which were not less glorious. We
remember well your weary watching nights, your fighti,
steel to steel, hand to hand, when you could not know
friends from foes; your suffering on the sick bed, and
your constancy in enduring the greatest privations.. It
was yous high sense of discipline which made you master
such hardships. Too many are missing to-day, and it
we give our regrets to those who are no more, let me, as
a Frenchman, join my hearty welcome to the welcome of
Ireland to the army of Sebastopol. (Loud cheers.)
S.rjeant BRUCE, of the Royal Artillery, returned
thanks. He was very indistinctly heard. He said his
fellow-soldiers and himself would always be prepared to
defend the weak iagainst the strong, when the cause of
right demanded it. The battles of the Alma, Balaklava,
and Inkerman had testifial as to the manner ire which
the Artillery did their duty ; and the blood-stained walls
of Sebastopol testified as to the manner in which the
soldiers united with their brother blue jackets of the
Naval Brigade. If it should please God to call on them
once more, they should be ready and willing to serve
their Queen and their country. (Cheers.)
Serjeant-Major WOODEN, 17th Lancers, returned
thanks for the cavalry. He said—May it please your
Excellency, my Lord Mayor, and gentlemen, I rise on
behalf of those present here to return thanks to you for
the entertainment which you have so liberally provided
for us this day, and also for the opinion you have els-
pressel upon the army in general, and more especially
upon those who were fortunate enough to form part of
the Crimean army. We little thought at one time ever
to see such a festive scene as this. We have gone through
much clang* r, both from sword and sickness, but we have
been mercifully spared, and no soldier can say that his
countrymen have forgotten the hardships he had to con-
tend with. Is it not shown to us this day how the citizens
of Dublin and people of Ireland remember our services ?
A rid no country could have shown more anxiety for her
soldiers, or done more for them, than the people of Bri-
tain did for the soldiers during the Crimean campaign.
Comrades, there is no occasion for me to say how we all
appreciate this good feeling on the part of the people of
Ireland ; but kt me say this, that should oxr country re-
quire our service aga:a, we will do as we have done be-
Lire, and through hardships and everything else we will
do our duty cheerfully and with ,a good heart. Again I
wish to thank you all for your kindness, ail the good
feeling you have shown towards us.
Quartermaster-Sergeant War. LEFoNa, of the 77th Re.
giment, spoke as follows for the infantry—Sons of Mars,
I solicit your attention. Inhabitants of this beautiful isle
—the Emerald Isle, commonly called " Old Ireland"—
you are worthy of our thanks for the kind manner iu
which you have received-us and attended to us this day.
That attention and that kindness will animate the rising
generation—that is, our children—when we are no more.
When their country requires their services, they will fly
to arms to maintain the name of Old England—and show
that she never shall be conquered, nor these who assist
her. (Cheers.) They will to arms to conquer or die.
JOHN POULTON, boatswain's mate of the La Hogue,
returned thanks on behalf of the navy, ascending for
that purpose, with singular expertness, to the head table,
"and ❑ot satisfied with the ordinary trumpet call by which
the attention of the guests was demanded, enforced si-
lence after his own fashion by, sounding the shrill pipe
I with whici, in virtue of his office, he was invested. This
trnigular and wholly unexpected act, combined with the