The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-16 00:00:00

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AMERICA.

(BY BRITISH AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.
The City of Washington, Liverpool,. New York,
and Philadelphia steamship, Commander P. C.
Petrie, arrived in the river eirly this morning,
with alvices to the 3d inst.'
She • has brought 100 passengers, but no specie.
Tho 'United States Mail steamship Adriatic has
been again detained,' and the Atlantic was to take
her place on the 12th of September. The Vander-
bilt arrived out (fioin, Southampton on the 2d) at
New York. The panic at Wall-street had com-
pletely subsided. No now failures reported.
Above 2,000 troops have been sent to keep order
at Kansas election. _ _

The steam-ship Illinois with California advices
arrived on August 5, with 11,593,657 dollars. in
specie. News unimportant ; reports that the
mining districts continue in a favourable state, and
the commercial affairs at San Francisco utchanged.
The accounts from Nicaragua are meagre. Gen.
Canas occupies the country with Costa Rican
forces, and the Presidential election bad taken
Advices from Peru report that the revolu-
tion continued. The fever is making terrible ravages
in Bolivia.

The commercial affairs at New York, Sept. 3,
when the steamer left, had improved.
The cotton market was dull, and pricesunobanged.
Flour lower. There was a moderate demand for
wheat. Indian corn was dull.

Only small sales in pork. Prices unchanged.
Freights quiet.

MR. URQUHART AT PRESTON.

On Sunday evening, Mr. David Urquhart, who is
at present sojourning at Lytham, visited Preston, in com=
piny with a gentleman whose name our correspondent
could not learn, in order to address a meeting of the Fo-
reign Affairs Committee and their friends. There were
about 40 persons present. Mr. Urquhart delivered a
characteristic address, embellished, as usual, with violent
epithets applied to his audience, and Englishmen in
general, such as "you miscreants," "you scoundrels,"
"you idiots," "you fools," "you allowed this," &C.
Being asked if an extension of the franchise would be an
antidote to the evils of which he complained, he entered
into a speech of half an hour's duration, in which he
said that the. man who used the word " reform " was
either a threefold idiot or a threefold knave ; and he
talked about " restoring the ancient constitution of
Eouland." Mr. J. J. Merriman, editor of the Preston
Guardian, who had only Casually come into the room,
then rose, and at some length exposed the sophisms of
Mr Urquhart, who interrupted the speaker, and said
he "did not conic there to be talked to, but to talk."
The audience, however, insisted upon Mr. Urquhart
maintaining order, and Mr. Merriman proceeding with
his address, Mr. Urquhart took up his hat and retired
in a state of indignation.—(A. Voice, "There is one mit-
creaiit going now.") (Laughter.) He was then fol-
lowed•hy his unknown friend.—Mr. Merriman went ou
with his address, and demolished the fallacies of Mr.
Urquhart. He was supported by another speaker, who
asked the committee what was the practical and feasible
antidote to Alio evils of which they, along with Mr.
Urquhars, complained ? He condemned the visionary
scheme of "the Pharisee Urquhart," who certainly was
not "as other men are,'" who was constantly be-slaver-
ing himself with praise, and denouncing as "heathens
ali beside." Ho ridiculed Mr. Urquhart's conduct as
suicidal and highly improper ; he came there to them
for their co-operation, and then very paradoxically
dubbed them •‘ idiots, miscreants, and fools," with the
greatest impartiality. After some further discussion,
during. which Mr. Urquhart was verysroughly handled,
the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to
Mr. Merriman.—Manch,ester Guardian.

HOW TITUS MANLIUS, MACAULBIUS WAS
MADE A PATRIOIAN4
A LAY OF ANCIENT 11011 E.

(Prom, Punch.)
The Consul Palinerstonius
ilath ten down his Dobretb,
And o'er its storied pages
His anxiou,s brow is set.
Those are not age's wrinkles
The Consul's cheek that plough,
It is not time that sprinkles
•
That snow upon his brow.
The wrinkles are such wrinkles
As a Consul should display :
"Up to a wrinkle" meaning
Up to the time of day.
And if the greys hairs mattered,
Their presence %would explain
To call them snow-flakes scattered
To cool that hot young brain.
The Consul closed the volume—
Ho closed it with a bang I
And he seized his slate and pencil
From the wall where they did hang ;
And straight ho set to ciphering,
And out a sum ho brought ;
And his sum was of six figures,
And it ended with a nought.
Then gaily tripped the Consul
To the lErarium straight,
And before Cornelius Levies
He thrust the scribbled slate.
" Chock you, Cornelius Levies,
These figures all and each ;
All figures at thy finger-ends,
Hest thou, save those of speech."
Dry and a-dust, sat Levius,
Scanty of words and slack :
And he proved the Consul's figures,
And the slate ho gave him back.
" Now, read off the sum total,"
And Levies road it through—
From left to right, not right to left—
Nought, two, eight, six, and two I
So the united ages
Of the Patricians stood,
When Consul Palmerstonins
Vowed they must have new blood.
" What though your WWI: homilies
Do not always wax in wit :
Oft Patricius, like Poetic,
Proves nasciur non fit."
"Besides, as after physic
The matron gives her child
A crust of blandest honey,
To make the bitter mild ;
So I, for the Patricians,
A. pleasant peer must find,
To take away the savour
Wen.'dalius left behind.

Patres ma)orum gentiunt,
Patres minorum, too,
Your seats upon those benches
To sources strange aro duo :
The fruit of royal bye-blows,
Ti e growths of courtier-slime,
The brawny sons of re.pine,
Tho heirs of reckless crime.
"Tho sword bath dibbled often
• Holes from patrician seed ; •
And many a lawyer's tongue bath licked
All shoes, and oft unfet'd,
No stooping found too lowly,
No crawling thought too mean,
If but a Conscript Father
lie might at last b 3 seen.

"The Sword, the Tongue, the Purse have therm
Their representing men—
Remains one tool of greatness
Unhonoured there—the Pen.
The consulship of Piancus
An era still wo see :
Why should not Palmerstonius
Be notable as he ?
"I'll raise to the Patricians, • •
Ono who no'er wore steel, nor lied,
Whose weapon was his goose-quill,
Whose pleadings were world-wide;
Whose foes were Falsehood, Prejudice,
Fraud, SophiStry, and Wrong—
With which he held wit-combat,
Wit-combat, brave and long !
"So, when that Palmerstonius
ilath gone whore all must.go—
E'en those whose brains glow fiery
'Neath coronals of snow :
Write by the Appian way-side,
On the tomb where he is laid,
Of Manlius Macauleius
He a Patrician made.'"

Tan CuEsTrquTCrtor.—A fetter from Limoges states
that the chestnut trees in the Limousin are breaking
down under the weight of the fruit. Never in the
memory of man was there seen so large a crop of chest-
nuts as thia year. They will be as remarkable for quality
as fcr size iu consequence of the favourable weather.
CATTLE FROM vuu NORTH OF EUROPIL—The gross
imports of cattle into Lowestoft harbour last week fs orn
[Lawn, Frederickstadt, and Tonning (Duchy of Soblos
wig) amounted to 1,024 beasts and 1,298 'oxen. The
North of Europe steam Navigation Company's steamer,
the City of Norwich, Captain Oliver, and the Tonning,
Captain Russel% arrived on Friday ; and the Cumber-
land, Captain Rivers, followed on Saturday. The Cum-
berland brought 221 beasts and 220 sheep, and the other
vessels having equally large cargoes, the stock was de-
spatched to town in five special trains, as they bad been
consigned, as usual, to metropolitan firma. A telegra-
phic ine6sage, received on Saturday from Lowestoft,
states that a fourth steamer, the Royal Victoria, Cap 4.
Rase, was also expected to arrive in time to enable her
cargo to be despatched to the metropolitan market. It
is probable, therefore, that the total arrivals will be as
heavy as last week. The importation will continuo for
about six weeks, or longer, but they will be suspended
during the winter months.