The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-01 00:00:00

VENING, JANUARY 1, 1859

LATEST NEWS.

AMERICA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY MORNING

The Persia has arrived, with the New York mails
of the 22d December and 675,417 dollars in specie.
The Ariel, from Southampton, had put into
Halifax for coal.

It is stated that Mr. Field had received on the
19th or 20th some very good current through the
Atlantic Cable, including the name "Henley."
Foreign exchange was firm at the high prices
asked, and the leading drawers, best bankers' bills,
109-1 to _109;:

The following were the latest quotations at the
Stock Board :—Missouri Sixes, 891; New York
Central, 831; New. York and Erie, 171- ; Reading
Railroad, 514 ; Michigan Central, 49} ; Michigan
Southern, 20 ; Cleveland and Toledo, 81-Z ; Panama
Railroad, 120 ; Illinois, 671; Illinois Central Bonds,
86 ; Chicago and Rio, 591; Milwaukie and Missis-
sippi, 121; Galena and Chicago, 701.;' La Crosse,
; Del. arid 'Hudson, 961; Pacific Mail Steam-
ship Company, 90:.

State and Western flour heavy, and prices in
favour of buyers.. Middling uplands cotton, 12c.
At Havannah on the 16th exchange on London
was Into 13 premium.

THE WEST INDIA, MEXICO.
AND PACIFIC MAILS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTIIAIVIttON,. SATURDAY MORNING.
The 114a1 Mail steamer Atrato, Captain 'Woolley,
has arrived,' :With the West India, Mexico, and
Pacific mails.. ,She left St. Thomas on the 19th ult.
Her dates nre=Jumaica, Dec. 11 ; Demerara, 19 ;
Trinidad, 10 ; Barbadoes, 12 ; 'Grenada, 10 ; 'Colon,
9 ; Vera Cruz, 5 ; Tampico, 1; Havannah, 10.
• She brings 53 'passengers, 932,135 dols. in specie,
diamonds and jewellery value 16,105 dols., 382
serous cochineal,' 235 cases cigars, 384 bales-tobacco,
and general cargo. . •
.Business at Jamaica very limited. Sugar ranged
fronil9s. to 21S. ; coffee, 38s. to 505., at which over
500 bags changed hands. East India rice 145., and
Patna 17s.
Freights very dull, nothing offering.
... . .. .
Exchange on London, 90 days, -3- per cent, pre-
mium ; 60 days, 1 ditto ; 30 days, -11 ditto.
Crops damaged by heavy rains.
Publicleald. good. • . • •
Legislative Council still in session. , •
A bill to. extend steam communication with the
island was before the House.
Trade was animated at Grenada, and a large
number:of vessels lapding, their cargoes. •
Shipping plentiful at Demerara, and freights low,
averaging ls. for London and Bristol: ".
Very little news from the South Pacific.
Trade at Valparaiso reported unusually dull.
A large part of the city was destroyed by fire on
the 13th November, and some of the firemen lost
their lives.

Ecucador continued blockaded by Peru, , the
mail steamers being the only vessels allowed to
enter or clear from Guayaquil.
The Chilian Congress opened on the 7th of
November.

The British schooner Lord Raglan, from Halifax
for Cuba, with fish, put in at St. Thomas's, dis.
masted, and leaking badly.

CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 29

Numerous 'sittings of the Council of Ministers
.have been held relative to the state of affairs in
Servia, which seriously occupies the attention of
the Porte.

The Presse d' Orient states that instructions have
been forwarded to Cabuli Effendi, at Belgrade, and
that a note has been sent to the different embassies.

The Sheik-ul-Islam is dead.
Two Russian line-of-battle ships have arrived
from Nicolaieff on their way to the Baltic.