The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-25 00:00:00

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
By the Vanderbilt steamer Le Fevre we have New
York advices to the 14th.
She brings 235 passengers, $63,326 for England,
and $71,087 for France.
The mail steamer Niagara had arrived out at
Boston and the Arago at New York.
An efficient military staff was being organized for
the Vast-ington and Oregon territories preliminary
to the contemplated uycaaLivna as.;..t ike hoalilo
In (Thins.

A force of 2,500 men will be kept in Utah. The
affairs of the territory are represented to be in a
good condition. The peace Commissioners were
daily expected at Washington.
Later advices from Mexico state that President
Zuloaga had abandoned the city. Gen. Moreno had
abandoned Tampico, upon which the Liberals were
advancing.
Yellow fever continued prevalent in Mexico and
New Orleans. _ _ _ _ .

The excitement caused by the success of the At-
lantic cable was kept up, and great preparations were
omnatkhiengreicneidpifft eorfetnhteplQacueesefno,s message.r suitable demonstrations
The St. Louis steamer had arrived at New York
with a fortnight's later news from California, &c.
San Francisco markets were rather dull, owing to
heavy importations. News unimportant.
The accounts from Frazer River gold mines are
interesting ; the yield and quality of dust are said
to equal the best California placers. A great emigra-
tion was still going on, which the California papers
were endeavouring to check.
General Walker had left New Orleans for Ala-
bama.
President Buchanan left Bebford springs for
Washington the 13th, much improved in health.
Exchange on London was steady, at 1091 to 1,
and on Paris 111 to 121, with transactions at the
higher rate.
Stocks improving and rates rather higher. Closing
prices on the 13th were :—New York Central, 772 ;
Erie, 16/ ; Hudson, 28 ; Reading, 488 ; Michigan
Central, 59h ;Panama, 1151 ;
a l e Southern,
Toledo, 34a • Rock Island,
44;4 ; Millwaukie and Mississippi, 16; Pacific Mail,
831.
The market closed steada, s 3 ; 22; ;
y, without animation.
Trade in flour less vigorous, and prices favoured
buyers. Lively inquiry for wheat, at former rates,
and for corn, which was more freely offered and
cheaper. Cotton in moderate demand, at unifo?m
figures. Rice and sugars more active, the latter
closing a shade higher. Box herrings brisk and firm.
Provisions quiet. Little doing in freights.
LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
The screw steamship Vigo arrived in the Mersey
this morning, with dates from New York to the 12th
inst., and 2,000 sovereigns and 67,433 dollars in
specie on freight. Her dates have been anticipated
by the Indian. On the 15th inst., in lat. 43 N., long.
60 W., exchanged signals with the City of Washing-
ton, bound west. On the 18th inst., lat. 49 N., long.
49 W., passed a large iceberg apparently about 100
feet high and 300 feet in circumference, with several
detached pieces round it ; it appeared to be break-
ing up.

THE THIRD ROYAL SURREY MILITIA.—Yesterday,
in compliance with instructions from Lord Challoner, colonel
of the above regiment of militia, notices were distributed
throughout the county that the regiment will be called out
on the 9th of Sept. for a 21 days' drill. The officers, non-
commissioned officers, and men are to assemble at 9 o'clock
in the forenoon, at Kingston, when all who are absent with-
out a sufficient cause will be treated as deserters.
AN ARAB IN THE WRONG Box.—A letter from
Cairo of the 9th says :—" A curious circumstance occurred
a few days ago in this city. A man wearing the costume of
a cophte (Arab Christian) went to the shop of an Arab
butcher who is noted for his antipathy to the Franks, and
ordered some meat. When it was supplied the cophte ob-
jected that the weight wzs not exact, and the butcher in a
raze began abusing him, after which he heaped curses on
Christians in general. The cophte told him teat he would
complain to the zabet (police magistrate),
and ordered the
butcher to accompany him to the tribunal of that func-
tionary. The butcher, thinking that the zabet would be sure
to be on his side, readily consented, but on arriving at the
tribunal, he found to his vexation that the zabet was no
other than his customer. The butcher immediately received
500 blows on the soles of his feet, and was then 'dismissed
with a recommendation to be more respectful for the future
to Christians."
" AN IDIOT BOY MURDERED BY ISIS MOTHER.—On
Sunday evening, the inhabitants of that part of St. Helens
known as Westfield were thrown into a state of great alarm
on its being discovered that an idiot •boy, named William
Coulters, aged eight years, had been cruelly murdered by
his mother, Ann Coulters. The house was soon surrounded,
and several constables were immediately on the spot. The
poor child was found nicely laid out in bed, quite dead and
cold ; and on examination his throat was found to have
been cut so as to have caused instant death. The mother,
who was taken into custody, admitted having cut the child's
throat with a razor which was found in the room ' • and the
bedclothes were all blocdy. The mother is about 33 years
of age, and has of late been add:cted to drinking. The child
wasillegitimate, and his father is in Australia. At an in-
quest held on the body, yesterday, at the Ring of Bells Inn,
it appeared that the prisoner was living with her two bro-
thers, and an old woman named Paul, and her son. On
Saturday night she came home in drink, and on Sunday
morning, whilst the church bells were ringing, she mur-
dered the child, and afterwards laid out his body. The ino-
tive appears to have been to get rid of him, as else was re-
ceiving the addresses of some old man, and expected shortly
to be married ; and she appears t) have taken the drink with
a view to nerving her to the commission of the horrid deed.
The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder," and she
was committed for trial at the assizes on the coroner's war-
rant.—Nanchoter Guardian.