The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-11 00:00:00

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ARRIVAL OF THE ARABIA.
LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY MAY 10.
The royal mail steamship Arabia, Capt. Stone,
arrived this afternoon from New York, with advices
from that port to the 29th ult. She brings 170 pas-
sengers, and above 1,000,000 dollars, 300,000 of
which was on French account, and the remainder
for Liverpool and London merchants.
She passed the Africa steamship on the 30th.
Several vessels of war are ordered to the coast of
New Granada in anticipation of the adoption of
measures having for their object the solution of the
questions in dispute between that Republic and the
United States, viz the Independence, Decatur,
John Adams, St. Mary's, Wabash, Saratoga, and
Cayenne. The squadrons combined pre3eut a force
of 204 guns.
Lord Napier had been introduced to the mer-
chants on New York Exchange on the 24th, and
was very favourably received.
The Hon. F. P. Stanton, the newly-appointed
Secretary for Kansas. had delivered an address to
the people. He regretted the determination of the
Free State men of Kansas not to vote in the elec-
tion of delegates to the State Convention, stating
that the constitution to be formed would be
adopted. He stated further that the territorial
laws would be enforced.
Five persons were killed and several wounded by
a steam-boat explosion on the Delaware canal on
the 25th ult.
By the steam-ship Empire City, at New Orleans,
advices from California to April 6 have been re-
ceived. Business was dull. The Pacific Express
Company had failed. The steam-ship Illinois,
from Aspinwall for New York, has nearly a million
and a half of dollars in gold on freight, and about
70 of Colonels Lockridge's force, including Generals
Wheat and Hornsby.
The Empire City brings 100 of the unfortunate
Nice aguans, while others ware left behind at As-
piuwall, whither they were all taken in British
vessels. Col. Lockridge's retreat is confirmed.
The Costa Ricans have taken possession of Punta
Arenas and the steamer Resale, with a great
amount of ammunition, and six pieces of artillery.
We have news from lavana to the 25th ultimo.
Sugar was in active demand, and money continued
to be plenty. The health of Cuba was remarkably
good.

COMMERCIAL INTELIGENCE.
NEW YORK, ArRIL 29.

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The demand for money is more active, and no change
I was reported in quotations, but the tendency was in
fav,„:2r of lenders. Stocks were irregular and unsatis-
fActory. Fxctiange on London closed at 1094 to
The cotton math :t was more active. Flour had again
advanced 10 to 20 cei.:.t3* per barrel, with a fair amount
of
sales. Prime wheat was firm. Pork was more
acltive and higher. Freights
,were more irregular, with
*more offering aglow rates.

THE BISHOPRIC OP NORWICH.—On Saturday a special
meeting of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich was held
at the deanery for the purpose of going tbrougb the form
of electing a bishop in the room of the Rev. Dr. Hinds,
resigned. The conge d'elire, "recommending to the
Dean and Chapter the Hon. and Rev. John Thos. Pel-
ham, M.A., to be by them elected bishop of the see of
Norwich," was read ; and the hon. and rev, gentleman
was formally elected. Mr. Pelham wit! be consecrated
in the parish church of Marylebone.,

MR. MACDOUGALLOF THI ROYAL TAR-
TAN WAREHOUSE.

We have great pleasure in referring our readers
to the repOrt, in another column, of the preienta-
tion of plate and public .dinner given to Mr.
Macdougall, Inverness, by some of the leading mer-
chants. in Glasgow. Busine4s was not always so
prosperous at the Royal Tartan Warehouse as,
we are glad to see, it has been of late ; and in 1837,
from a variety of unfavourable circumstances, Mr.
Macdougall had to place his affairs in the hands of i
his creditors. His liabilities were large but the
composition offered was accep`ed, and Mr. Mac-
.dougall received a full discharge of the balance,
amounting to nearly 6,000/. This sum he has
voluntarily repaid—an act which he mod ,stly
refers to as simply one of duty, but such cases
are unhappily so rare that it has led to the flatter-
ing testimonial, accorded to our townsman by the
merchant princes of Glasgow. Mr. Macdougall
has evidently long premeditated this step. Neatly
a dozen years ago his Inverness creditors received
the sums which they had cancelled, and it is grati-
fying to all his friends that circumstances have
favoured the coit;plete execu•ion of a most honour-
able resolution, conceived, probably, when matters
looked gloomy enough around the Tartan Ware-
hou-e, and adhered to through a most persistent
career of activity, enterprise, and usefulness. Mr.
Macdougall has largely extended the business
connection of Inverness, especially in the depart-
ment which he has made peculiarly his own ;
and we are glad to think that the same exer-
tions which have enab'ed him to perform so
princely ala act towards his former creditors, have
greatly benefitted his native town, and his cOun-
trymen in many a Highland glen. The plate pre-
sented by Sir James Campbell is of the value of
3301. After the purchase of the plate, a surplus of
about 401. of the money subscribed remained, and
this the committee very handsomely appropriated
to the purchase of a gold watch for each of Mr.
Macdougall's two daugters. On the whole there
has rarely been an incident in the commercial
world which, in all-its circumstances and accom-
paniments, has been so honourable to all the par-
ties concerned, and we cordially congratulate Mr.
Macdougall on ,the highly-gratifying result.—ln-
verness Couiier. [And so do we most cordially.—
Sum]

The stay of the Queen at Osborne will be for a longer
period than was at first intended, most probably for about
three weeks.— Court Journal.
Baron Gros, who has just been appointed to proceed
to China, was charged with a mission to La Plata in
1847. In 1850, he filled the functions of commissioner
mediator, to settle the differences which had arisen be-
tween England and Greece ; and, lastly he negotiated
as one of the plenipotentiaries of the Emperor, the
treaty recently concluded between France and Spain,
for settling the important question of the frontiers of the
two countries.
The Princess Amelia of Hohenlohe-Schillingfurst was
married a few days ago at Herbeelenben, in the Duchy
of Gotha, to M. Lauchert, an artist of Sigmaringen. The
Princess being a protestant, the marriage took place ac-
eordirg to the protes ant form, but as M. Lauchert is a
Roman catholic, a catholic marriage was also to be cele -
bratsd. The Princess is the second sister of Prince
Cbled wig of Hohenlohe, and was horn in 1821.
THE LATE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER.—His Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge is acting as chief
executer to the late Duchess of Gloucester, with the
Earl of Verulam, Mr. Vincent (the Queen's remem-
brancer), and Mr. Drummond, the banker, as col-
leagues. Though rather early to speak of snub matters,
it is understood that the bulk of the property goes to
the family of the late Duke of Cambridge, the house in
Park-lane devolving to the present duke. The Princess
Mice, a god-child of the late Duchess, has not been
forgotten, nor the other members of the royal family.
Pensions have been left to two old servants—one of
501. a year, and one of 251. a year, with a gratuity of
a year's wages to the rest of the household. Discussions
having arisen as to the chief mournership, and the claims
of rank, precedence, and family consanguinity having
formed a complete puzzle, the Gordian knot was cut
by the Crown becoming chief mourner, and her Ma-
jesty was therefore represented at the funeral by the
Duchess of Athole, one of her principal ladies in waiting.
Court Journal.
DEATH OF LORD WILLIAM FlTZROY.—lntelligence of
the death of this nobleman bee been received in London
on Friday. Lord William was the third son of the third
Duke of Grafton, by- the daughter of the late Rev. Sir
Richard Wrottesley, Bart. He was born in 1782, and
married in 1816 the second daughter of the late Thos.
Raikes, Esq. His lordship entered the navy in 1794,
commanded the Eolus frigate in Sir Richard Strachan's
action in 1805, at the reduction of Martinique. In 1809
he was appointed to the Macedonia frigate on the Lis
bun station, and in April, 1811, was dismissed the ser-
vice for having put the master of the ship in irons.
This man was subsequently tried for contempt of his
lordship, dismissed the navy, and rendered incapable of
serving again; while in August, 1811, Lord William
-was restored to his rank, and became Admiral of the
Blue in 1853. •
DEATH OF MR. COULTON, EDITOR OF THE " PRESS '"
—English journalism has just lost in the late David
Trevena Coulton one of its brightest ornaments. A more
sagacious politician and forcible writer has rarely been
met with. He was the founder of the Britannia news
paper, and for the last three years has been editor of the
Press. He was a contributor to the Quarterly Review,
and was also known as the author of the novel " For-
tune," a work indicating the possession of no ordinary
imaginative p3wer. Mr. Coulton was indefatigable in
his literary labours, both P. 9 a political essayist and a
critic. Independently of his claim for consideration as
an intellectual contributor to our periodical literature, he
was eminently distinguished for his high sense of honour
and his thorough independence and conscientious impar-
tiality. He was just in the prime of life, in his 46th
year, when he was removed from this world's cares,
after three weeks' illness at Brighton. Bronchitis was
the first attack, but it is feared tbat the shock to the
system from his having to go down to Macclesfield
within the last month, to be present at the deathbed of
his brother, arriving just an hour ton late, mainly con-
tributed to the fatal termination. He has left a widow
and two children and a sister, the last survivor of a
family, the mortality in which has been rapid within a j
few years.
Mrs. Anderson, the Queen's pianist, has announce I
an annual morning concert at her Majesty's Theatre
for the 18th inst. She will be supported as usual
by the full orchestra and chorus of the theatre, and the
catalogue of solo singers comprises all the names which
have become familiar to the frequentersof theoperaduring
the present season. The new prime donne Spezia, Orto-
levi, and the charming Piccolomini, will bethere. Alboni
also will take part in the performance, and Clerallovello
will be added to the operatic company. Of the male
voices Giogiini will perbspe be the greatest attraction ;
but Belletti, Beneventano, Vialetti, and Charles Bralcam
will be very important auxiliaries. M. Remenyi, her
Majesty's violinist, and Pezzi, the first violoncello of
Signor Bonetti's band, are among the solo instrumental-
ists, and Mrs. Anderson herself, Mrs. Jewiom, and Mrs.
Cosine will undertake the pianoforte performances.
The pleasure of hearing and seeing the celebrities of the
stage apart from their accustomed trappings always
give an especial interest to these morning concerts ; and,
to judge by the strong list of names which has been
published, the concert of 1857 may be expected to
equal, if not to surpass, the best of Mrs. Anderson's
well-remembered enter ainments.
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Amongst the distin-
guished visitors honouring the performances of her Ma-
jeety'rs Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening
were the following;—The Duchess of Wellington and
Lady Julia Hay, the Duchess of Montrose, the Duke of
Cleveland and Lady Augusta Paulet, the Duke of Mon-
trose, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marchioness of
Clanricarde, Countess Stanhope, the Countess of Har-
rington the Earl of Glengell, the Countess of Glengall
and the Ladies E. and M. Butler; the Countess Dowager
of Harrington, the Earl and Countess of Macclesfidd, the
Earl of Bradford, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of
Wilton, the Earl of Coventry, the Earl of Mufgrave, the
Countess of Essex, the Baron de Rothschild, Mr. Hel-
bert, his Excellency the Brazilian Minister, the Earl of
Sefton, the Earl of Monntcharles, Count Delacour, Vis-
o unt Elmley, Viscount Powerscourt, Viscount Curzon,
Viscount Canterbury, Vistount Mahon, Viscount Ex-
mouth, Lady Pakington, Lord George Gordon Lennox,
le.rd Wm. Lennox, Lord and Lady Colville, Lord Nor-
bury, the Right Hon. Lord Ravensworth, Lord Sandys,
Lady Pigott, Lady Clara De Burgh,..Lord Denman and
party, Lady Georgina Codrington, Lord Grey do Wil-
ton, Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps, the Hon. Mr. Craven,
the Hon. Mr. Egerton, the Hon. Ot.way Toler. the Hon.
Walter Harbord, the Hon. F. Baring, M.P., Sir Frede-
rick Pottinger, Bart., Sir Henry Meux, Bart., and Lady
Meux, Colonel the Hon. Percy Herbert, Major-General
Van Strauhenzee, C.B , the Hon. Mrs. Pnipps, Gen.
th Hon. H. Cavendish, the Hon. Mrs. Cast, Major-
General Mackintosh, Sir Charles Morgan, Bart., the
Hon. C. Hanbury, Sir George Wombwell, Bart., Lady
Colville and the Hon. Miss Auson, Lady Barnard, the
Solicitor General for Scotland, Sir Prohy Cautley,
K.C.8., Sir John Bayley, Bart., Sir John Thorold,
Bart., and Lady Tborold, Captain Hogge, Captain and
Etzabeth De Roe, Colonel De, Horsey, Mr. Willough-
by, Admiral the Hon. C. Duncombe, Sir John Lowther,
Bart., Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald, Rear Ad-
miral Ryder Burton, K.H., Miss and Mr. Da Horsey,
General Avery, Col. Wildman, Capt. the Hon. C. Eger-
ton, Hon. E. Pepys, the Hon. Manners Sutton, Major
Wombwell and party, Mr. Howard, Capt. Bateson, Mr.
and Mrs. J. P. Heywood, Colonel Torrons, Mr. Harvey
Lewis, Mrs. Willoughby, Mrs. Beauclerk, Captain
. W.
H. Megan, M.P., Mr. Maclean, Mr. W. H. Sands, Mr.
A. J. B. Mope, M.P., Colonel Fitzgerald, Mrs. Ben-
tinek, Captain Bates, Mrs. Stewart, Mrs. Wheeler,
Mrs. Neville, Mr. Bell, Mrs. Andrew Arcedeckne,
Mr. Gordon Ivey, Mr. H. Barrett Lennerd, Major
Deering, Mr.. William Delafield, Colonel White,
Mr. and Mrs. Baillie 'Cochrane, Mr. CLrrie, Mr.
Frank Fuller, Colonel and Mrs. Watson, Capt. and Mrs.
Lucas, Mr. J. Bewley, Capt. Wynne, Capt. Palmer,
Capt. Marshall, Capt. Remnant, C. lonel and Mrs. Ram-
say., Mr. Robert Dick, Major Poole, &c.
F OREFED BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES.—On Saturday
information was received at the various metropolitan
police-stations of the successful passing of several forged
10/. Bank of England-notes by a man about 40 years
of age, 5 feet 10 inches in height, and apparently afflicted
with asthma. His plan of operation appears to be to
visit the different water-places for the assumed purpose
of benefiting his health, and offering as an excuse for
being without luggage that it has been carried by rail to
a wrong place.