The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-12 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern 920 .. 920
New ditto BO5 .. 808 75
Lyons and Mediterranean 867 50 .. 867 50
Geneva 520 ..
Southern
Western 575 .. 572 50
Eastern
Sardinian 412 50 .. 410
kust ri an
Lombard .... . 653 75 ..
Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 c. ; money,
25f 10c.; three months, paper, 24f. 971 c.; money, 24f. 95c.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 11.

The Royal Mail Steamship Asia, Captain Lott,
has arrived with advices from New York to the
34st ult and ,02,450 dols. in specie.
The Etna, City of Washington, and Ariel had

arrived out.
The Bavaria, from Southampton, and the Jason
from Galway, passed Cape Racelon the 30th 01

August.
Colonel T. B. Shaffner had sailed from Boston in
the barque Wyman, on a voyage of exploration to
the North Atlantic, in search of a feasible route for
a line of telegraphic communication between this
country and Europe, by way of Greenland, Iceland,
the Faroe Islands and Scotland ; his object being
to examine the seas, the bays, and the lands con-
templated to be traversed.
The papers contain notices of the brilliant ap-
pearance of the aurora borealis.
Disturbances had again broken out in Kansas.
A false report had been current in New York of
the foundering of the United States' frigate Con-
gress, with all hands.
Damage to the extent of between 100,000 dols•
and 200,000 dols. had been occasioned at New Bed-
ford by fire ; two vessels were destroyed.

The Ohio Slate Journal mentions the manumit-
ting of 21 slaves, men and women, the property of
the late Mr. Pleasant Burnet, of Mecklenburg,
county Virginia. Only those of his slaves who had
served faithfully, and who were capable of taking
care of themselves, were manumitted. Some good
land and tools were provided for them.
Mr. Fortune, in a letter to the Washington Con-
stitution, says his success in cultivating the tea plant
in America far exceeds his most sanguine expecta-
tions. He also states that the tea plantations in
Upper India are succeeding admirably.
Vice• President Breckenridge had deprecated the
use of his name as a candidate for the Presidency.
A negro had made a novel attempt at escape from
Sing Sing prison. Being unable to swim he ob-
taiud a board in which he cut an aperture for his
head. Over this hole he placed wires in the form
of a hat. He availed himself of an opportunity to
leave the prison and after covering the wires with
some loose straw he started along the shore in just
sufficient depth of water for him to feel the bottom.
Unfortunately for him, some boys who were sitting
on the bank took a fancy to bring the straw ashore,
and the negro, on hearing their intention, aban-
doned hope and made for land, where be was im-
mediately arrested. He afterwards escaped again
and had not been found.
A destructive fire had occurred in Victoria and
Gould streets, Toronto.
Advices from Venezuela to the 10th ult. state

that General Castro, having been detected in an
attempt to overthrow the organic law, had been
thrown into prison. The Federalists who marched
to his release were defeated by the Constitutionalists,
and fell back upon La Guayra,,where they were
unsuccessfully attacked. The Federal expedition
against Puerto Cabello had been arrested by these
proceedings.
Advices from Havannah to the 24th ult. report
that sterling exchange was 14!, to 15,1 premium.
The transactions in sugar had not been important,
The stock was 235,000 boxes, against 130,000 in
1858, 200,000 in 1857, 215,000 in 1856, and 105,000

in 1855. Stock of molasses light ; clayed, 3 rials ;
Nluscovadoes, 4 rials, nominal.
American advices from Nicaragua assert that the
United States treaty with that Republic had been
rati.led, that the French treaty will have to be
essentially amencled'before it is accepted, and that
Sir W. G. Ouseley's will be totally rejected. The
Republic, it is also stated, decline to give any Power
sps!cial privileges over the Nicaragua route.

In the New York money market there was an
abundant supply at the rates ruling during the
previous fortnight, the standard rates to brokers