The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-15 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.
The Royal Mail steamship Africa, Captain Shan-
non, from New York on the 3d of August, has
arrived, bringing 100 passengers and 450,000 dole.
in specie.
The steamships Teutonia and Ocean Queen, from
Southampton, arrived out at New York on the Ist,
and the steamships Persia and Kangaroo on the 3d,
both from Liverpool.
The news by this arrival is of the slightest im-
portance.
President Buchanan, in a letter declining a re-
nomination for the Presidency, says :—" My deter-
mination not, under any circumstances, to become a
candidate for re-election is final and conclusive.
My best judgment and strong inclination unite in
favour of this course. To cast doubts upon my pre-
determined purpose is calculated to impair my in-
fluence in carrying out important measures, and
affords a pretext for saying that these measures
have been dictated by a desire to be re-nominated."
Partial returns of the state election in Kentucky
indicate the election of the Democrats' candidate
for governor, and a majority of Democratics to
Congress.
Private despatches from Northern Mexico state
that it is expected within the next three months
that 3,000 American troops will be organised on the
Rio Grande properly armed and equipped, for the
purpose of marching upon the city of Mexico.
On the 22d of July General Degoilada was at
Tampico, actively preparing for a new campaign•
General Garcia had issued a proclamation, at Mata-
moros, calling the Liberals to arms. A conducts,
with 600,000 dollars in specie, was on its way to
Matamoros.
The Juarez decree had been most enthusiastically
received.
The five million conducta was on its way to
Brownsville.

It was reported that Santa Anna was at Caque-
tel, but this was not believed.
The New York Herald says published
the news of the cession in sovereignty to Great
Britain, by the so-called republic of Guatemala'
of the establishment and territory hithert°
known as British Honduras or Belize. Ali
no doubt exists of the acceptance of the cession by
Great Britain, we may regard the acquisition as
a fait accompli, and recognise the fact of a new
British colonial establishment on the American
continent, thus completing the chain of Eul
lish possessions from Canada to Demerara. The
fact is a practical commentary on till
value of the Monroe doctrine,' as support'
by the United States, and a scarcely less striking
„g
instance of the value and efficiency of American
diplomacy in Central America. It only now re-
mains for Great Britain to consolidate her preten-
sions on the Mosquito shore in order to ensure her,
control of two-thirds of the Atlantic coast 01
Central America, from Yucatan to Panama. She
already dominates the entire country, from her
stronghold of the Bay Islands, which she has 010-
nised and occupies in contempt alike of the Monroe
doctrine and the Clayton-Bulwer treaty."
We have California advices to the 11th of July,
Business was more active at San Francisco, but
there was no improvement in prices. Great ex-
citement existed in Nevada and El Dorado counties
in consequence of the discovery of new and extell"
sive gold diggings on Walker's River, east of the
Sierra Nevadas. Some destructive fires had oc-
curred in Sierra and Nevada counties.
Havannah advices are to the 25th ult. Sugars
were dull, and unchanged in price. Exchange on
London, 121 to 13 per cent. prem.

COMMERCIAL.
The New York money market exhibited increased stria'
gency, and the rates were about per cent, higher than 1.1.1
the week preceding. Call loans ranged from 6to 7 per Cell
The weekly return of the New York City Banks shows s
decrease in the specie reserve of dols. 432,848, and in we
loans of dol. 586,748.

Sterling exchange flat and unsettled, and business mode-
rate. Quotations on London, 1091 to 1101.
The Stock Market had been firm and generally higher'
but it relapsed to its former position..

SOUTHA,MPTON, Sunday.—The Borussa arrive('
this afternoon with 121,000 dollars in specie for
England, 6,500 for Hamburgh, and 105 passengert
65 of whom were for England. She left New York
on the Ist. The news is, therefore, anticipated by
the Africa.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY:
The screw steamship Imperador, Captain Atkin'
has arrived with advices from the Cape of 00°.;1`
Hope to the 6th of July. The Imperador, it Wit
ho recollected, was one of the vessels which took
out the Red Sea cable.
" CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, Sup( 6. " The Imperador furnishes an opportunityter
0f
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forwarding news from the Cape of 16 days
date than the mail per Athens.
" It is understood that his Excellency Sir George
„
Grey is exceedingly desirous of visiting Englan,
t.
i
having obtained leave of absence from the Colonial
office some time ago ; and it is possible that he Intl
proceed home next month. His Excellency
movements, however are very uncertain.
'• Major-General Wynyard, the lieutenant-g°'
vernor, has returned to head-quarters, at Graham's
Town, after having visited the outposts on the
frontier and in Kaffraria. Everything is quiet and
peaceful in that direction.
The immigrant ship Bride arrived on the 26th' June, after a passage of 70 days from Southamr
la
ton. Only three deaths occurred during the voyage'
and these among children. The majority of the
immigrants have already found good employment'
and those remaining at the depot (some 27 families)
will very soon be engaged.
" The Executive Council of the Trans Vial
public have officially informed Governor Grey that
there is no intention on the part of the inhabitant's
of that State to attack the mission-station of Kuril'
man, occupied by the venerable Moffat.
" Several vessels have put into our ports for re'
pairs during the last week or two. Of these the
Glencoe is in Table Bay, and the Ostrich and Spirit
of the Age in Simon's Bay: In Algoa Bay, athr,,
paper says, the Medium has put in leaky. She
reports having seen several disabled ships on t"„,
"
i
coast. On Monday the ship Covenanter, 112,„:,_
tons, with a valuable cargo of cotton, wool, seeds,
&c., bound from Bombay for Liverpool, put in
leaky, and with loss of sails and other damage;
The Covenanter belongs to Mr. Duncan Gibb,
Liverpool, and was built at Quebec in 1841. °ll
Wednesday the Swedish bark Elizabeth arrived .
port, having put in to land the crew of the Ist?
ship Wolfe, from Kooria Mooria for Liverpo°l'
which was abandoned at sea in lat. 34.57 S., I°ll3A
27.22 E. The Wolfe was a North American b
vessel, of 1,100 tons, and belonged to Batchelor, 01
Cardiff. The repairs of the Stebonheath and AViir-
rior are being proceeded with. The Lismoydell
will have to discharge cargo, which will be sent 011
to its destination, and the ship will, in all proba-
bility, be condemned. The Ulysses is discharging
cargo, prior to a thorough inspection and repaira
It is expected that she will be enabled to proceed
on her voyage, as the damage done is supposed to
be of a trifling nature. The Fort George has coin'
pleted her repairs, and is ready for sea.'
" Respecting commercial affairs, we have little to
report. There is a continued depression in business,
owing to the uncertainties occasioned by the intel-
ligence from Europe. Coals have sold during tue
week at 655., and even 70s. per ton. The price f
brown rice as advanced, and is not attainable
der 225. 6d. per bag. Importations of white rice
have caused as apparent decline from our former
quotations, but they were almost nominal, and map
now be taken as selling at 30s. per bag, with go°,
inquiry. The coffee market has been badly supplied'
owing to the loss of one of the regular Rio traders
on Cape Point. Brazilian, 755. per 100 lb. gross
weight. For sugar higher prices are asked, but
the demand is limited. In teas, no change. ~uf
timber, the only arrival has been from Bremenj
3,500 deals met a sale at sd. per running foot of t'
x 9. In breadstuffs there has been an advance'
owing, in a great measure, to the knowledge tinti
few importations can be expected from the United
States. The demand for consumption in England
is very great, and the price of wheat had advance'
there very greatly. Orders for the eastward of the'
best kinds of Cape flour are in course of execution.
Exchange on England has advanced, owing to the
pressure on the English money-market, and
mini";
tances were rather heavily made by the last
inst. Inal,`;
" Her MajestysSimonsSimons steamer Mohawk left Si
Bay on the 2d for St. Helena, Ascension, en
England, taking a mail for these places.
" Her Majesty's steamer, Perseverance has re-
turned from Natal, where she had been to lay'
troops. She has since gone to Algoa Bay to ern'
bark a detachment of some regiment about to
removed from the frontier.
" The departures from Algoa Bay include the
clipper barque Arid, for London, on the 19th Jun
with a large cargo of wool, &e., viz.-1,055 bales
wool and 326 ox and cow horns, the value of which
is estimated at £20,000. Among the passenger
by the Arid were Lieut. Jackson (52d Regiment)
and Mr. J. Blackburn. The barque Sunshine,
Capt. W. Watson, also cleared on the 14th of Juned
for Amsterdam, with a cargo consisting of 9v„
bales wool, valued at £17,000; the brig Era:
peror, Captain Dennison, on the 20th of Ju.ilc,
with the following cargo of wool, hides, 8.:0- •
769 bales wool, 169 bun Iles hides, 14 bundles sbeq
and goat skins, 2,884 horns, valued at between
£14,000 and £15,000,"

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I Hilt D EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

TATTERSALLS"-(THIS EVENING.)

EBOR HANDICAP.
100 to 30 agst Starke (taken)
7to 1 agst Volatile (taken and offered)
7to 1 agst Peeress (offered)
Bto 1 agst Underhand (taken)
100 to 6 agst Shafto (offered)

ST. LEGER.
20 to 1 Prelude (taken)
DERBY.
10 to 1 agst Wizard (taken).
11 to 1 agst Buccaneer (taken).
12 to 1 agst Nutbourne (taken).
Very little betting.

.110.IVEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The accounts from the manufacturing districts
continue of a satisfactory character. During the
past week a fair amount of business has been done
In woollen cloths at Leeds, for this season of the

Year, particularly in fancy goods, and the opera-
tives generally are fully employed. At Bradford
there has been less activity in the demand for
Yarns ; piece goods, however, have been dealt in
to a fair extent, and at late rates. India goods, at
Manchester, have not been in such good request,
and prices have slightly given way ; the inquiries
for the home trade have been steady, and
the market generally may be considered favour-
able. At Leicester the hosiery trade has been
exceedingly active, and prices have tended upwards.
At Birmingham the various branches of business
connected with the town and neighbourhood have
shown rather less animation ; but the :ron trade of
South Staffordshire generally exhibites symptoms
°f improvement. In Sheffield, Wolverhampton,
and Walsall there has also been a slight ameliora-
tion, orders to some extent for the home trade and
for the United States having been received.
The Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday closed
with a dull appearance, and 7,000 bales were sold
at Previous rates. In the Railway Share Market
the transactions were limited, and prices tended
downwards.
There has been less inquiry for money during
the last few days, and the terms asked for accom-
modation in the discount market have been slightly
relaxed. Early last week first class bills could
scarcely be negotiated at 22- per cent., but instances
are now recorded of 2t- and 2.1 per cent. being
freely accepted. It is thought, however, that the
subscriptions to the Indian and Russian loans will
tend to stimulate the inquiry, and impart increased
firmness to the quotations.
The imports of gold from America continue on a
Moderate scale, and at the present moment, when
there is an active export demand, they are of con-
siderable importance, inasmuch as an efflux of gold
from the Bank of England is prevented. The last
return shows a small diminution, but the total is
maintained in a very satisfactory position. The
receipts from Australia augment the general im-
portation. The Africa, from New York, with
90,000 sterling, and the Southampton, from Port
Philip, with £118,216, have. been announced this
day,

The dividend of the Royston and Hitchin Rail-
waY Company was declared to-day. The amount
for the half-year, after the expense of management,
Was £2 16s. 2d. per £lOO Consolidated Stock.
At the meeting of the Bank of Australasia held
today, a very brief report was presented, stating
that the business of the bank was proceeding satis-
factorily. Owing to the great competition, how-
ever, and the allowance of interest on deposits, the
Profits of the current year had fallen off, and the
directors prepared the shareholders to look forward
to diminished profits. They still felt themselves
Justified, in the absence of the accounts, to con-
tinue in October next the existing scale of dividend
and bonus, at the rate of 20 per eent, per annum.
The report was adopted unanimously.
Very little alteration is apparent in the market
fer public securities or in the foreign stock and
railway share departments, owing to the paucity
of business. Consols have been 95 to 951, and
951 1. The new loans have created rather a heavy
tone. The New 3 per Cents. and the Reduced
are steady at 95f -2- ; Exchequer Bills, 235. to 265.
; India Loan Debentures (1858) have re-
ceded to 941 ; ditto (18,59), are firm at 941.
Foreign stocks are quiet, but the quotatiens re-
main steady, and in some instances there is an im-
proving tendency. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 82
LO 83 ; the New Loan, 72 to 73 ; and the 4 per
C,eets., 1024. Venezuelan, Brazilian, and other
South American stocks are steady. Mexican
Istock is 20 to 20i. The New Russian Loan is
2to prem.
Rather more firmness has prevailed in the Rail-
:way Share Market to-day. The strict business at-
tended to however has been the preparations for the
nquidations of the half monthly account. Edin-
burgh, Perth, and Dundee, London and Blackwall,
and North Eastern (Berwick) advanced ss. ; Mid-
land, 15%, and Eastern Counties 1/. to 1/. ss. ;
South Eastern declined 1/. The other lines dealt
In brought about former rates.
e_T he Foreign and Colonial undertakings have been
40.reedingly inactive, and prices show no material
nvoiation. Lombardo-Venetian shares are at merely
urinal quotations, and Great Luxembourg are
05uade firmer. East Indian declined ss. ; and
a
nd Trunk of Canada, 10s.
littlint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous shares show
° activity, and prices are unaltered.

Back BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
223 21 3/
..)olok Stock
951
a Per Cent. Reduced Annuities
951
3 Per Cent. Consols Annuities Ist ,u, ,
95i I i
i - ,-• Per Cent. Annuities
Ding Annuities, expire sth Jan., 1860....
'itte for 30 Years, expire sth April,
1885 —lB 1-16
India Stock
941
Ditto Debentures, 1858
941
Ditto, 1859
nit to Loan Scrip
95/ }
(5,,,°,1501a for Account (Sept. 7)
26 3
L,xehequer Bills £l,OOO, 11d
ritto £5(03 '
Ditto Small, lkl . 26
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
BuenosDitto 41 per Cent. 1858 941
Ayres, 6 per Cent. 7ll
Ditto Deferred 18
E`ufoor New Consolidated
151
..Ditto Provisional Land Warrant 3l
'lexicon 3 per Cent
pt'' avian
Account . 2oi
93
r uvian 41 per Cent
b, Di Account
. ortu ° -
45/ 1
b_ Plese, 1853, 3 per Cent.
..41.ittri., 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent —
(~ Ditto 41 per Cent.
2,4'dirda; peper Cent B6 5}
I.'anish 3 Cent
Ditto N 6 per Ceew Deferred, 3 per Cent.
A kish
nt B2l / 1 Is
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Accoant . 73.1
Ditto
Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
• enezuelan sper Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London. .
THREE O'CLOCK
Consols, Money • 95 1
Ditto Account
THE s-

isil.iE SHIP SENATOR --TESTIMONIAL.—A massive
t,rr_v_er inkstand, of unique design, has been. finished by
s. Widdowson, of the Strand (where it. is on view),
i",-. Pl'aentation, with an Indian work escritoire, inscribed
, .virat.itude's trifle,” from Captain Lees, of the Senator, and.
.1;18 friends, to F. Solly Flood, Esq., of the Temple and
Wexford, barrister, to acknowledge his energetic, continu
°pills', arid gratuitous exertions, which were crowned with.
e..?. es, in rescuing an innocent man from an unjust plose
6iticul, Unfairly conducted at S. Helen, 1858-9. Jo
hn
odfrey, solicitor Pearce and Nash, agents.
„ ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.—In this year (1859) the
r°llowing Acts were passed : First Session (22 Victoria),
Public
?general Acts 3:loc—a-1 Acts, 3:5; private Act, 1 ;
total, Secod 'Session (22 and 23 Victoria), public
pfloral Acts 66 ; local Acts, 139 ; private Acts, 7 ; total
L 2 ; grand ;otal, 283.
Albanl\rE 'Y'DitR, August 3.—Despatches received from
this morning announce the occurrence of a
dreadful accident on the Northern Railroad last
i_llgh. The accident occurred near Seiagticoke, to
4 train en route for Albany. The train, while pass-
ion.
, 6 over the bridge which spans the Tomhannock,
'vas Precipitated into the creek below, a distance of
20 to 25 feet deefeet. The water was about seven or eight
lost • deep,li and over 13 persons are reported to have
ves. Nine dead bodies had been reco-
vered at 11 o'clock last night, and more were sup-
Posed to be in the water. About 20 persons were
ulore or less wounded. The moment the train
struck the bridge the structure ga.ve. way,. and a
great the
of the train was precipitated into the
these'43 but, strange to say, the locomotive got across
bridge, and became ,the
from the tender.