The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-01 00:00:00

THE PENINSULAR MAILS

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING.
The Sultan, steamer, Captain Hall, has arrived.
Sit, left Lisbon on the 27th of September, and
Oporto and Vigo 28th.
She brings 23 passengers, £5,531 in specie, 294
boxes of grapes, and a general cargo.
She spoke the Behar steamer, on the 29th, in
lat. 45.17 N., long. 7.54 W.
Sir Henry Huntley, Consul at Loando, is a pas-
senger by the Sultan.
Lisbon exchanges, for three months, on London,
53 ; Paris, 510 ; Hamburg, 46a; Genoa, 534; Am-
iiterdam, 411.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY.
The Arago, steamship Captain D. Lines, arrived
at Cowes this morning, bringing New York mails
of the 17th of September, and proceeded on to
Havre. She had 18 passengers for this port, and
109 for Havre ; on freight. 60,000 dols. for England,

and 559,333 dols. for France.
The screw steamer Bavaria, which arrived last
night from New York on the 15th, brought 743,632
dols. for England ; 5 passengers for this port, 24
for Havre, and 106 foi Bremen.
A despatch of the 16th, from the 'Washington
correspondent of the New York Herald, says :

" Gen. Scott left here this afternoon for New
York, and will sail in the steamer of the 20th for

the Pee*. The present delicate and complicated
state o,' affairs at San Juan, growing out of Gen.
Harney's movements, requires great care and cau-
tion on the part of our Government to prevent a
collision. The President, in conferring with Gen.
Scott in regard to the [natter, suggested the propriety
of sending some one there who was less impetuous
and more prudent then Gen. Harney. Gen. Scott at
once informed the President that he would go, and
that as soon as his instructiens were prepared he

would be ready to start. The instructions were
partially prepared and considered in Cabinet to-day.
They will probably be completed to-morrow, and
forwarded immediately to New York. The Admi-
nistration received some additional advices fro!n

Gen. Harney, brought by the Star of the West.
There had been no material change, and matters
remained in statu quo. The Administration have
intelligence from California from sources entitled
to credit that the democracy will sweep the State.
There is a good deal of talk here now among the
friends of Douglass, that in case he fails to get the

nomination at Charleston he intends to run as an

in dependent can did ate."
The New York _Herald of the 17th has the fol-
lowing on this subject :
"It will be seen from our telegraphic despatch
from Washington that the Government has deter-
mined to send the great Pacificator to the Pacific.
" When England trembled for her Indian empire,
that Government sent for Sir Colin Campbell, and
asked him, ' Will you take command of the army of
India ?" I will.' When will you start ?' asked
the Minister. ' To-morrow morning,' replied the
ready chief. So, too, when the President suggested
to General Scott the propriety of sending to the
north-western extreme of our Republic some one
who was less impetuous and more prudent than
General Harney, the prompt old soldier replied.
'I will go as soon as my instructions are ready.'
In making this selection Mr. Buchanan has shown
his accustomed sagacity. None could be sent on
such a mission of peace with more propriety than
General Scott, for his antecedents assure us that he
will save the effusion of blood and effect an amicable
arrangement of the snarl which the impetuous but
gallant Harney and the hot-headed Douglas have
got into.
" After long military service General Scott began
his career as a pacificator, in which he has been as
successful as he has been as a soldier. Gen. Jack-

son sent him in that capacity to South Carolina in
1852 ; President Van Buren availed himself of his
judgment to settle the Aroostook difficulty in 1837 ;
by President Taylor he was despatched to Buffalo
during the Canadian war in 1841; and President
Polk entrusted him with the pacification of Mexico
in 1847. In each of these arduous and varied mis-
sions he exhibited a rare combination of prudence
and sagacity, qualities which now fit him for the
occupation of the White House, and make him the
most valuable candidate for the Presidency in the
stormy election that is to come off next year. From
the time of the last war with England to the war
with Mexico he has borne the double honours of
the first soldier and the great pacificator of the
Republic.
" The spoilers, politicians, and cunning schemers
of party tactics are fond of asserting that he is too
old for the White House and not energetic enough
for the Presidency. The events of The last few days
give to these assertions an emphatic contradiction.
The 15th of the present month saw him at West
Point preparing for a grand review of the cadets.
That evening a despatch informed him that his
presence was needed. at Washington. At sunrise
the next morning he was on his way ; the 15th
found him at the capital, and on the 16th he was
on his way home to prepare to start on the 20th on
a voyage of six or seven thousand miles to our
farthest frontier. Some of our younger sol-
diers and a great many of our public men. would do
well if they could follow his example."
The Herald, commenting upon the above intelli-
gence, remarks—
" Our special despatch from Wasington announces
that Lieutenant-General Scott has been ordered to
the Pacific. General Scott goes to the Pacific to
manage the difficulty which has recently sprung
up between Great Britain and the United States i e-
specting the boundary of the territories of the two
countries in that region. The latest accounts from
the island of San Juan, the focus of the trouble, are
to the 13th ult. At that date quiet prevailed, and
the British and American forces remained as pre-
viously reported—the British vessels at anchor in
the harbour, and the United States' troops in camp
on shore. But it was also reported that General
Harney had ordeded all the troops at his disposal
to reinforce the command on the island, while
Governor Douglass has directed additional British
vessels of war to rendezvous at that point. Special
messengers from both these commanders recently
reached Washington. Colonel Hawkins, the mes-
senger of Governor Douglass, tarried long enough
to deliver despatches to Lord Lyons, the British
Minister, and then sailed for England to apprise
the British Government of the state of affairs.
Although it is not apprehended that serious con-
sequences will result from the action of General
Harney, yet the President deems the matter to be
of such gravity as to require the supervision of the
skilful and cautious Lieutenant-General of the
army."

The ;following telegraphic despatch, dated the
16th of September, had been received from Wash-
ington :
" The late Convention between Great Britain and
the Republic of Guatemala has not excited a re-
newal of angry controversy between this country
and Great Britain,' as was recently predicted by the
English press. On the contrary, both Govern-
ments are still animated by the hope that their
Central American differences will be happily ad-
justed. The larger part of the Belize had never
been the subject of actual survey, as was officially
declared by Lord Grey in 1836 ; and the above-
mentioned convention, it is said, merely definitely
fixes its territorial limits; which act was intended
by Guatemala as a barrier to British encroachments
on its soil. This arrangement is claimed to be in ac-
cordance with the Dallas-Clarendon treaty, a clause
of which, in effect, substantially consenting to such an
arrangement, having been ratified by the United
States, while the treaty was defeated by that body,
owing to a clause therein of an anti-slavery charac-
ter. The other points proposed to be settled in the
same treaty—namely, with regard to the island of
Ruatan, and the surrender of the Musquito Protec-
torate to Nicaragua, will be placed in charge of Mr.
Wyke, the new British Minister, and it is thought
that these questions will be adjusted by him to the
satisfaction of all parties concerned, Great Britain
having undertaken to remove the obstructions to
the full force of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. If any
dissatisfaction exists, it is because Great Britain
has first settled the point which is of the most im-
portance to her ; but this may be the result of
accident, Sir William Gore Ouseley having pre-
viously sought to surrender the Mosquito Protec-
torate to Nicaragua, but in terms unsatisfactory to
that Republic. What he has failed to do it is confi-
dently expected his successor Mr. Wyke will accom-
plish. Such is believed to be the condition of
affairs, according to information derived from intel-
ligent sources. At all events, if there are any un-
intentional errors in the above brief exposition,
they do not materially affect the facts recited in
connection with this subject."
It is stated in a despatch from Toronto, on the
16th, that all the departments of the Government
were moved to Quebec, the future seat of the Go-
vernment, and that the Governor-General left on
the day previous.
By the arrival of the overland mail we have news
from San Francisco to the 22d of August, two days
later than the advices brought via the Isthmus.
Business continued dull, and the prices of mer-
chandise unaltered. Favourable repo' ts continued
to be received from the mining districts. No arrivals
from Atlantic ports are reported. The Mohave
Indians were still very troublesome, and nothing
but severe chastisement would reduce them to sub-
jection.