The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-05 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

The following is the text of the Decree, renewing
for three months the powers delegated by the King
to the Prince of Prussia :

"According to the advice of my physicians, the
re-establishment of my health still requiring a treat-
ment of several months, and a residence in another
country, I request your Royal Highness will con-
tinue to represent me in the business of the State,
for another term of three months, dating from the
23d of July, as well as in the administration of the
affairs of my household. Your Royal Highness will
therefore take such measures as the charge renders
necessary. FREDERIC WILLTAM.
" Sans Souci, June 25, 1855."
The order is countersigned by all the Ministers.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.

The Royal Mail steam-ship Asia, Captain Lott,
which sailed from New York ou the 23d ultimo,
arrived in the Mersey at 1.45 this morning, bring-
ing 169 passengers and 62,350 dols. in specie.
The Asia experienced considerable fog on the
passage, but, generally speaking, the weather was
favourable for the Atlantic telegraph enterprise.
On the 27th June the Asia came in collision with
a French fishing ha-Leine, and took off her crew.
The Royal mail steamer Persia arrived out at
New York on the 22c1 ultimo ; her advices had
been previously obtained by the news yacht of the
Associated Press, off Newfoundland, and thence
telegraphed to the States.
Thera is no political news of importance by this
arrival.

The Washington correspondent of the IVetv York
Herald says :
" I am positively assured that under the Mexican
Comonfort government, or that preceding it, a sale or
cession was made of 39,000,000 of acres of land in
Sonora (a tract nearly as large as the state of New York)
to a colonising company in the United States, whose
head-quarters are in the city of New York ; that the
bargain was completed ; that the proofs are in one of
your city banks ; and that the administration know all
about it. In regard to the Mormons I learn that they
are not included in the arrangement, as the contract
between Mexico and the contractor was made before the
Mormon rebellion bad assumed any definite shape; but
it is quite possible that there may be some coftection
between the late mission of Colonel Thomas L. Kane
to Salt Lake City and the present movement of the
Mormon community southward into Sonora."

Colonel Kane bad a long interview with the Pre-
sident on the 21st ult., and also with the Secretary
at War. It appears that there are, or were, two
parties—peace and war parties—among the Mor-
mom, and hence has arisen the difficulty to under-
stand their position. The peace party appears to
have triumphed. Brigham Young favoured this
party. Colonel Kane asserted that there was no
want of harmony between Governor Cumming and
General Johnson on any important question. He
thought there would be no war.
The health of the President had improved.
From St. John's, Newfoundland, we learn that
a steamer was to be despatched to pilot the steam-
ship Niagara as near as practicable to the point
where it had been decided to land the Atlantic
telegraph.
New York was visited on the 21st by a fearful
tornado, and, though its duration was but half.an-
hour, its effects were visible in every quarter to an
extent never before known after a storm of such
short duration. At Hunter's Point, in the vicinity
of New York, the American Flint Glass Company's
factory was blown down, 'and two persons were
killed and seven injured. Churches, houses, &c.,
suffered immensely, carts and carriages were blown
over, and trees were uprooted in all directions.
Many vessels were .forced from their moorings, but
generally the shipping did not sustain much dam-
age. Detailed accounts of the destruction caused
by floods and tornados iu the west have been pub-
lished. A correspondent of the New York Herald
writes :-- . _

"Almost the entire west has been visited by incessant
storms, which have not only destroyed the growing
orops, but have rendered the lands unproductive for a
year or two to come. It is estimated that 33,000,000
dole. worth of property has been destroyed."
We have news from Port au Platt to the 2d ult.
Up to that time no decisive action had taken place
between the troops of Santana and those of Baez.
Santana, however, was before St. Domingo city
with 7,000 men, and only awaited the co-operation
of hip fleet to make an assault upon the town. Both
parties had procured and armed some dozen vessels
each, and it was thought probable that the quarrels
of the opposing parties might be finally settled by
a naval battle of the two squadrons.

By the steam-ship Black: Warrior, at New York,
'we have advice from savannah to the 15th ult.
There is a full accauut of the double boarding of
the American barque Maimion by' the British gun-
boat Buzzard, with the statement of the captain of
the Mattnion. There is also a very full abstract of
the testimony cf the officers, crew, and passengers
of the American schooner Curtez, seized by the
British gun-boat Forward, and attempted to be
contiicated as a slaver. The British officers are
c!iarged with committing gross outrages on these
parties, besides robbing th,.!ra of all their valuables.

A letter from Bermuda says :
" The British steamer Sty/ is off and on, and has
r,ceived positive orders to board no more American
vPry much r,ardzs that
visits peiLamed in the polittmt
should cause unpleasant feelings between two powerful
nations, of similar blood, manners, laws, language, and
religion."