The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-02 00:00:00

BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS.

Since our last report fair average supplies of potatoes, for
the most part home-grown, have been on sale at these
markets. Good and fine qualities have sold steadily, at
extreme rates ; but for inferior parcels the demand has been
in a sluggish state, at about previous currencies. The
foreign arrivals are chiefly from t• rance.
Scotch Regents
York do. loos. to 130 s. „
Kent and Essex ditto llos to 1355. „
Foreign

ing.

1857. 1 1858. I 1859. 1860. 1861.
Stock this day.... , 26,879 ? 2(1,261 51.186 73.638 45,581
Price of Y.C. 5 sls9d t0.5056d to 565,d to 6083 d to 509 6d to
—s Od 50s Od —s Od —s Od Od
Delivery last week 2,861 2,291 1,725 1,637 2,197
Ditto from June 1 57,785 57,697 41,771 49,i61 76,070
Arrivals last week 1,163 6,445 2,494 5;86 2,036
Ditto from June 1 81.552 75.398 80,876 96,003 11,890
Price of Town .... 53s ed 53s 6d 59s 6d 60s 3d 52s Id

THIRD

SUY OJ.VICE, Seven o'eloei&

THE CAPTURED SOUTHERN

COMMISSIONERS.

OPINIONS OF THE NEW YORK PRESS.
LIVERPOOL, DEc. 2.
The Persia arrived here at 9 o'clock this mmrn•

The American account of the Trent and San
Jacinto affair agrees mainly with that of Captain
Moir. But it is represented that all the docu-
ments of Messrs. Mason and Slidell were
seized. The indications were that Captain

Wilks acted on his own responsibility and on
the ground, that although he may not have
acted within the strict letter of the law, the end
would justify the means in the eyes of his country-

men.

A Cabinet Council was held on the subject at
Washington, but the result has not transpired.
A Washington telegram in the New York lierald
says that when information was first communi-
cated to President Lincoln he declared emphatically
that Messrs. Mason and Slidell should not be sur-
rendered, even if their detention should cause a
war with Great Britain.

From the same source it is stated that the
legal advisers of the Federal Government not only
completely justify the proceeding, but even furnish
authority for the seizure and confiscation of the
Trent.

The New York Herald editorially speculates
on the action of England, and predicts great
agitation. In a characteristic strain it taunts
England with all sorts of perfidy, but thinks
nothing will come of the matter more than
much bustle and ostentatious wrath. It urges
the Government, nevertheless, to make prepa-
rations for all emergencies, and call upon the Pre-
sident to ask Congress for 500,000 more men, and
recommends the immediate carrying out of Mr. Se-
ward's proposition for the defence of the coasts, &c.
Some of the New York journals speak of the pro-
bable necessity for apologies and reparation even to
the sending of the prisoners back, but others argue
in a totally different strain. The New 1' ork Journal
of Commerce says it was purely an act of grace that
the British merchantman was allowed to go free, and
that it is far from likely that England would bother
herself with any complaint from her captain
who escaped with his vessel and cargo from the
fate of which the Queen's proclamation warned
him. Great stress is hid in some of the argu-
ments against that clause in the Queen's procla-
mation which prohibited British vessels from car-
rying officers, despatches, &c., for the service of
either party, and it is asked if British Ministers
in the face of such a proclamation can protect
the Trent in her conveyance of rebel emissaries and
rebel despatches.
The .New York World does not believe that the
British Cabinet will make any complaint, but if
it does the American Government can fully justify
it by the case of the American steamer Caroline,
which was destroyed by British officers in 1837.
The New York Times also believes that England
will not even remonstrate, but, on the contrary,
will applaud the gallant act of Capt. Wilkes as an
exact imitation of the policy she- has always
stoutly defended and pursued. The Tenzes admits,
however, that Capt. Wilkes was wrong in not
taking the Trent into port, and getting her con-
demned for carrying contraband of war.

Any instructions which were sent to Lord Lyons in
the Europa, on Saturday, will reach his lordship
about the 11th inst. A Southampton mail packet
will leave New York three days after that date, and
will reached England about the 26th. A Cunard
mail packet will leave America on the 18th inst.
and will arrive in England about the 30th inst.