The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-18 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING.
The Fulton steamer, Captain Wotton, with New
York mails of the sth, has arrived off Cowes.
She has 75,656 dols. for England, and 460,344
dols. for France.

She spoke the' Europa steamer on March 6th,
and on the 13th a large steamer, supposed to be the
Arabia.

The Fulton signalled the Egyptian steam yacht
Faid Gihaad off the Lizard Point at 2 p.m. on the
17th, bound for Falmouth, with an accident to her
engine.
Congress adjourned on the 4th.

The disagreement between the Senate.and the
House relative to the postage question was not
healed, and the Post-office Appropriation and Post-
office Routes Bills failed to become law.

New York cotton market firm, with sales of
3,500 bales. A lively inquiry prevailed for bread-
stuffs, and a fair demand for provisions, sugars, and
molasses. Hides and leather were more sought
after. Freight engagements moderate.

The money market was easy and quiet.
Exchange closed firm for Fulton, at 109,1 to 1091
on London, and sf. 121 c. on Paris.

Stocks were higher and left off steady. New
York CentrLs, 811 ; Rock Island, 62 ; Galena, 711, ;
Michigan Central, 531; Southern Preferred, 49;
Pacific Mail, 77 ; Panama, 1171 ; Illinois Central,
70; Bonds, 89k.

At New Orleans, on the 3d, cotton was firm, and
6,000 bales sold middling, at lie, to 11,-,c,; sugar
steady, fair 61c. to 61-e. ; flour firm.

The cotton market at Savannah closed at ad-
vancing prices, and at Charleston the market closed
at .71c. to ie. better prices on the week.
The ship Vanguard, with 14,000 bales of cotton
for Cronstadt, was burning at Algiers, opposite New
Orleans, and it was feared would be totally de-
stroyed.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.

The screw steamship City of Manchester, Capt.
Kennedy, arrived here this afternoon. She sailed
from New York on the 3d inst., but anchored off
Sandy Hook until the morning of the 4th. She
brought 90 passengers, and 200,000 dols. in specie.
Congress was in a state of confusion, as usual
when within a day or two of the expiration of the
session.

As a last resort for securing adequate provision
for the wants of the Government, the United States
Senate had made an amendment to the General
Appropriation Bill, authorising an issue of treasury
notes to the extent of twenty millions of dollars.
The house would have to concur in this movement.

A fire had occurred at Memphis, Tennessee, de-
stroying property on Main-street to the value of
150,000 dollars. Five newspaper establishments
were burned down.

The following scene had taken place in a Ken-
tucky law court :—An old political feud has existed
for some time between Thomas S. Low, of Hawes-
ville, and Cicero Maxwell, of Hartford, Kentucky,
the prosecuting attorney for that district. Mr. Low
had threatened to cowhide Mr. Maxwell on meeting
him. On the 2d.of March, while Mr. Maxwell was
addressing the court at Hawesville, he was inter-
rupted by Mr. Low denouncing him in grossly
insulting language. Mr. Maxwell and others then
fired several shots at Mr. Low, wounding him in
the thigh and arm, cutting off his thumb, and
riddling his shirt. A general fire with pistols en-
sued, and John Aldridge, a friend of Mr. Low's,
was killed, and a Mr. Miller shot through the
thigh. Mr. Low has been committed to gaol for
protection from the mob.
On the 28th ult. the House of Assembly at
Toronto resolved, by a vote of 43 to 16, that the per
diem of members should be increased from 4 dols.
to 6 dols.

The seat of government question continues to
agitate the Canadians. Ottawais to be the eventual
capital—that point is settled ; but while Ottawa is
getting ready, the Government will • leave Toronto,
and make a temporary settlement in Quebec.
A bill for the protection of squatters has been
read a second time and referred to a select com-
mittee. There are large tracts of land in Lower
Canada owned by non-resident proprietors who
have totally neglected their property. Persons
have settled on these lands without title, and the
object of the bill is to compel the proprietors,
whenever they remove squatters, to pay them for
their improvements. It encounters considerable
opposition, but its passage is conceded.
The New York money market was very easy,
and money was offered in Wall-street at 4 per cent.
Exchange was rather less firm. The bulk of the
business passing in sterling was at 1091. The stock
market was rather lower. The latest sales were :
New York Central shares, 801 ; Illinois Central,
691; ditto Bonds, 893; Panama shares, 1161 ;
United States Fives of 1874, 103 s ; Erie shares, 121.
The cotton market was active, and -}c. higher.
Sales of the day, 5,000 bales. Middling Uplands,
121 c.
Flour in good demand, and dearer for common
and medium. Wheat active and rather higher
Coin steady.
Freights without change.
Liverpool at 5-32 d. and 3-16 d.

Cotton taken for

THE NAVY.

Lieutenant Frederick C. W. Liardet (1855) joined the.
Britannia training ship at Portsmouth on Tuesday as in-
structing lieutenant (additional).
Tke Rodney, 90-gun sailing ship, has been towed up to
Chatham from the Nore by the Adder and African steam-
ships, and is now lying off the dockyard for the purpose of
being taken into No. 2 dock as soon as the Trafalgar, late
120, has been undocked. The Rodney will require consi-
derable alterations to fit her for a screw steamship.
The Hood, 90, screw steamer, is ordered to be launched
on the 4th of May.
It is reported that the Illustrious, 72, old training ship,
is again to be fitted out to take the place of the St. Vincent,
guard ship in ordinary; and that she will take the flag of
Rear-Admiral the Hon. George Grey, admiral-superin-
tendent of the dockyard. The St. Vincent, it is said, will
be commissioned and have a crew of 900 men for reserve.

Tlie Mersey, 40, screw steam-frigate, Captain H. Cald-
well, C. 8., moved out of the steam basin at Portsmouth yes-
terday, and berthed alongside the Bellerophon hulk in the
harbour. The weather prevented her proceedin,g on the
engineer's trial of her machinery as had been intended, it
having blown a hard gale all day from S.W.
The Princess Charlotte, screw steam transport, fram
Hong Kong, with naval and military invalids, is hourly ex-
pected at Spithead. She is now 112 days out.
The Ardent, paddlewheel steam-sloop, Commander John
H. Cave, has arrived at Sheerness, from the West Coast of
Africa (last from Woolwich.)
An additional number of artificers, riggers, &c., are put
on the Hero, at Sheerness, to expedite her equipment for
immediate service.

Mr. John -Wrap was yesterday appointed master to the
Vulture ; and Mr. Robert J. C. Grant master to the In-
trepid.

THE ARMY.

The 3Gth Company of Royal' Engineers is under orders
to proceed from head-qUarters, Chatham, to the camp at
Aldershott, to relieve the 28th company, ordered to return
to Brompton Barracks.
First-Lieutenant W. Taylor has been appointed Acting-
Adjutant of the Chatham division of Royal Marine Light
Infantry, until Lieutenant J. 11. Mackerry, who has been
promoted to be adjutant, joins the head-quarters of the
division from China. • • ••
The 58th Regiment, recently arrived at
.Portsmouth from
New Zealand, are under orders to proceed to Shornelifte
about the 21st inst

THE JAPANESE AMBASSADORS FOR AMERICA.--
The Japanese commissioners appointed to proceed to Wash-
ington to exchange the ratification of the American treaty
are Nagaai Genba no 'Cana, Governor of Accounts and
Minister of the Navy, and Twa. Say Higo no Kami, Im-
perial Inspector. The former is said to be a learned and
intelligent man, instructed by some officers, of the Dutch
navy at Desima, in algebra, mathematics, and navigation.
In 1857 he conducted the steamer Soembing, the first ever
possessed by the Japanese, from Nangasaki to Yeddo, with
Japanese engineers and sailors, and without any European
aiciHe was one of the commissioners engaged in nego-
tiating the late treaties,—China Telegraph.