The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-04 00:00:00

THE FILIBUSTERLVG 310VEVENT.

A despatch from Washington, dated the 19th,
gives the following particulars of the Filibustering
movement :—" A keen watchfulness upon the
Movements of the Walker emigrants is kept up by
the Government, and their proceedings are pretty
well known. His plan was to take between 250
and 300 men on a sailing vessel from Mobile to
San Juan del Norte, and go at once up the river
as emigrants to Nicaragua. The President's pro-
clamation, and the announcement of Senor Yrisarri,
the Nicaragua Minister, that emigrants to the
republic must have passports from the Legation,
have greatly damped the ardour of the rank and
file of Walker's followers, and of many of his sup-
porters. Colonel Anderson, who was at Savannah
raising emigrants, has left there and gone to the
south-west, because the field of operations did not
yield fruit as was expected. Walker's agent at
Mobile is writing urgent letters to all parts of the
country that every effort must be made to get
recruits and to have them at Mobile by the 20th
inst., so that the expedition can start. The
chief persons engaged in this movement with
Walker are Hon. Pierre Soule, of New Orleans ;
Hon. W. S. Yancy and Major Julius Hesse, of
Alabama ; Captain Fayssoux, who commanded the
schooner Granada, with two guns, and blew up the
Costa Rican brig Once de Abril, with 10 guns ;
Colonel Rudler, one of the original 45 who landed
in Nicaragua; Major Robert Ellis, of Waslington
city, one of the Lopez expedition ; Colonel Ander-
son, who captured Castillo in Walker's second
expedition ; Colonel Henry and Colonel Swingle,
both well known in, the history of Nicaragua
Fihbusterism ; Lieutenant Maury, Lieutenant
Ray, and a few others. The effect of the Pre-
sident's proclamation upon them has been great.
The original intention was to sail on the 10th
inst. First, the departure was delayed, and
Walker came here ; then he announced tiat if
his presence' with a peaceful expedition was to
mar it he would not go with it ; now the bcl et'
is that the expedition will not go during the
present month, and it is doubtful if it gets off
at all. It is whispered here that if Walker can-
not get off his expedition from Mobile he will en-
deavour to obtain through tickets for California by
way of Panama, and trust to luck for getting into
York.
He Senor Jerez has gone to New
He is not a little alarmed at the aspect of affairs, as
he believes that Walker has made extensive pre-
parations and has some chance of getting off. His
new transit route contract has gone to Nicaragua
for ratification ; but, as the Assembly does not
meet there till January, it can hardly be presented
before 10 weeks or two months. By that time it
is supposed that the route will be open and in
operation under the Stebbins contract, and Nica-
ragua will hardly dare then to close it and give the
privilege to Vandyck. The President will take
strong ground in his message on this Nicaraguan
question and the ratification of the Cass-Yrisarri
treaty, and no combinations of European Powers
will be allowed to prejudice the interests of the
nation who must use these Isthmus routes in its
domestic trade a hundred-fold more than all the rest
of the world together."

Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Mure have arrived at Fenton's
Hotel, from Suffolk.

SIR JOHN INGI.IS.—SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Even-
pua trainesbsy vtohtefroe
dmmaat
mayor
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council
t to-day, d
meeting, iately waited
ing.—Major-Qeneral Sir John Inglis arrived here by the 3
referenceant od theo.a sh ilm e
Wednesday.
presentation oflt
has the
been arranged that Sir John and Lady Inglis, Lady Chelms-
ford, Captain and Mrs. Tinling, and Lady Inglis's sister,
will be recoived by the mayor and corporation at the Town-
hall, at 12 o'cicck on Saturday, when the address will be
presented. The address is being engrossed and illuminated
at the Ordnance map-office. Immediately after the inte-
resting ceremony Sir John and his lady embark on board
the Ceylon steamer, in which they proceed to Alexandria
on their way to India.
CAPTAIN COURTNEY OF THE INDIAN EMPIRE.—
We are glad to learn that the underwriters are about t
present Captain Courtney, commander of the
Indian Empire, with a present of a handsome piece of platii,
for his meritorious conduct, skill, and perseverance s
bringing the steamship safely through the late fearful gale
and hurricane which raged in the Atlantic Ocean during
the past three weeks, the vessel having been 30 days on
the passage and 10 days short of fuel.
nie clearing of country cheques through the
London clearing-house may he considered to be working
very successfully, and the number of dissentient banks has
further diminished. The majority of these were identified
with the independent movement for establishing a reparate
institution altogether, and consequently they are net pre-
pared immediately to enter into an arrangement which
would virtually show that they had abandoned their own
project. It is, however, thought that the advantages to be
derived from uniformity of system and careful management
will eventually induce them to concur n adopting the
existing medium,--horning Herald •3I