The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-17 00:00:00

SAYS.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.
The Liverpool and Philadelphia. Company's
steamship City of Washington, Captain Pettie,
arrived this morning with advices from New York
to the 4th inst.
The Kansas Investigating Committee of the
House of Representatives had adopted a report
expressing the views of the majority, setting forth,
among other things, that, as the authority was
legally conferred upon the delegates to the Lecomp.
ton Constitutional Convention to frame a constitu-
tion, those who had an opportunity to vote upon
the question of the rejection or acceptance of that
instrument, but who declined to exercise that
privilege, were debarred from finding fault with the
action of the Convention. The report urges the
speedy admission of Kansas into the Union, as the
best means of pacifying the country and putting
an end to the agitation.
The Louisiana House of Representatives had
passed a bill authorising a company, already
organised, to import 2,500 free blacks from the
coast of Africa, to be indentured for not less than
15 years.
The steam-frigate Niagara was expected to sail
for England on the 6th. She was about 50 men
short of her full complement, which is 400. On
her last trip she had about 500 men, but so large a
number cannot be properly accommodated, on
account of the space required for the cable. Ex-
cepting the want of these men, the Niagara was
ready for sea. The fixtures for the cable remain as
they were when they left England. The defective
ironwork of the main rigging had been replaced by
larger chains, and she had been supplied with new
fore and main topsail yards and new topgallant
masts, designed to remedy the defects noticed on
her previous trip.
A telegram from New Orleans states that the
steamboat Eliza Battle had been destroyed by fire
at Kemp's Landing, near Demopolis, Alabama.
Thirty-nine lives were lost, and 1,200 bales of
cotton were destroyed. Many of the sufferers were

frozen in the water.
Further, though not later, advices from Mexico
report that the Legitimists of Guanaxuato, Quere-
taro, and Zacatecas were at Celaya at the latest ac-
counts, and a general action with Zuloaga'e forces
was expec ed within a week. General Parodi was
about to enter Allende. Four thousand Constitu-
tional troops, with 18 pieces of artillery, had been
reviewed in Orizava.
Advices from Havannah mention the arrival
there of the British ship Mean), from Macao and
Cape of Good Hope, with 441 coolies ; 12 died on
the passage. A letter from Havannah in the New
York Herald says :
" Tbree charcoal vessels from the ontports recently
took on board, off the coast of this island, the cargo of
a slaver from the coast of Africa, consisting of 460
Bosale., and landed them at Talla Pieda, a portion of
the suburbs lying on the harbour. They were, however,
seized by the Spanish authorities, and are now at the
depot at Jesus del Monte, a suburb of this city."
In the New York market there was a slightly in-
creased demand for money in anticipation of the
payments falling due on the 4th. The foreign ex-
change-market was very dull, and but a small por-
tion of the bills offering were taken. The sales at
the stock-market were more moderate, and the
tendency was downwards. Erie closed at 33A•
Cotton was quiet at unchanged prices. Western
flour was firmer ; corn firm. Molasses and sugar
were active.