The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-18 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ANOTHER REMARKABLE PASSAGE OF
THE PERSIA.
LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY.
The British and North American Royal Mail
steamship Persia, Captain C. H. E. Judkiry, ar
rived in the Mersey this of:e•noon, after another
remarkable passage, having left New York on the
Bth instant—thus completing a second voyage
across the Atlantic under nine days—feats never
heretofore accomplished. The Persia sailed north
about," and made Noel Nant at 2 p.m., but was
detained at the bar of the Mersey, await ng the
flood tide. She brought 224 passengers, and
851,855 dollars in specie.
The advises by the Perna ara eight days later
direct from New York than we had previously ob-

tained.
The Persia passed the Kangaroo off Tory Island.
The Belgian screw steamer Constitution, from
Antwerp, arrived at New York on the 2d inst , the
Columbia hence, and the Lebanon from Havro, on
the sth, and the Arabia hence on the 7th, after a
capital run.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Tribune says that Lord Napier has communicated
to Secretary Cass a disavowal of the cession to Eng-
land of the island in Panama Bay. He also denies
the allegation that the Chincha Islands are con-
veyed to British subjects, or have been placed
under British and French protection. Lord Napier
disclaims generally the policy of territorial acquisi-
tion in or near the American continent, but admits
that her Britannic Majesty's government will op-
pose the monopoly by any power of the rights and
privileaea, commercial or of any other description,
rightfully appertaining to the general use of the
world.

Negotiations are tending to the settlement of
Nicaraguan affairs on the basis of the Webs.er and
Crampton project of 1852, allowing Costa Rica the
free use of the San Juan River to the mouth of the
Serapiqui.
The Hon. W. Marcy, late Secretary of State,
died suddenly, on the 4th July, at Pallston, Sara-
toga county.
The Postmaster-General and the President have
decided upon the route of the overland mail to Ca-
lifornia. It commences at St. Louis and Memphis,
thence to Little 11 ‘ck, thence to Rio Grande,
thence along the projected waggon-road to Fort
Yuma., and so on to• San Francisco.
Throughout the Union the anniversary of Ame-
rican independence was celebrated on the 9th inst.
in the usual manner.
Bloody riots took place at New York on the 4th,
and Sunday, the sth inst , and resulted in the death
of eight persons, and 43 wounded.
Advices from St. John's, Newfoundland, state
that the catch of fish off thatisland had been rather
Letter than the average thus far this season, and
the business is going on prosperouly.
We have later advices from Havana, but they
contain no news of importance.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, JULY 7.

The money market is well supplied—all approaoh to
stringency has disappeared on satr-factory securities.
Stocks improved. Exchange on Lindon 1093 A. -
The sales of cotton wera restricted to a few 'hundred
bales at full prices, and the market continued to rule
quite firm. -
There was a good local and eastern demand for flour,
while common to good grades of State and Western ad
vanced about 5 cents per barrel, while higher grades of
extras were unchanged.
Wheat was firm, and Indian corn was somewhat
easier. Provisions less active. Freights steady, with
more doing.