The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-29 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.

Ths Royal Mail steamship Persia arrived this
morning, with advices from New York to the 19th
inst., 130 passengers, and $1,750,000 in specie.

The Arabia, hence, arrived at New York on the
19th inst. ; she passed the Jason, screw steamship,
on the 20th, and the American, hence, on the 24th,
both bound west. The news is unimportant.

The steamship Torrance ban arrived at New
York with 26) deserters from Walker's army. It
is stated that Walker was organising a subscription
for another filibustering movement. Mr Cunning-
ham hi.d. been placed in prison at the Tombs amid
great excitement.
The money market has been in a favourable con-
dition. Capital was abundant on first-rate securi-
ties. Stock still tended downwards. Exchange
on London 1091 to Cotton was very firm.
Bread.st tiffs a fair demand. Provisions more active,
and former freights improving.

BRITISH ARCHNOLOGIOAL ASSOCIATION.—On Thurs-
day a large party of the members of this association
started for Great Yarmouth for the purpose of inspecting
the antiquities of that town and the neighbourhood. ,
The visitors were received in the ToWn-hall by the
Mayor, Mr. C. C. Aldred. Mr. C. J. Palmer, de-
puty mayor, officiated as conductor of the party in
the absence of Mr. Aldred, and the visitors first pro-
ceeded to inspect Mr. Palmer's mansion en the south
quay. This house was built in 1516 by Mr. Benja-
min Cowper, and it afterwards passed into the pos-
session of Mr. John Carter, whose son, Benjamin
Carter, married Mary, daughter of General Ireton by
his wife, Bridget, eldest daughter of Oliver Cromwell.
If tradition is to be believed, a final meeting to con-
sult as to what was to be done with Charles 1., pre-
vious to bringing him to trial, was held in one of the
apartments. Mr. Palmer next conducted the party
to the fragmentary remains of Grey Friars Monastery.
Attention was directed to some merchants' marks in
front of a house on the South-quay, and a visit was paid
to a house close by, in which there is a fine moulded
ceiling of the time of James I. Some remains of the
old town wall and a defence raised in 1588 against the
Spanish Armada, which was then supposed to be near
the coast, were also pointed out, with the ruins of
some towers of the date of Henry 111., and one or'two
other objects of interest. Mr. Palmer pointed out some
curious archways, &c., and exhibited a charter of King
J ihre by which Yarmouth was made a free port. The
c enpany then proceeded to the beautiful church of St.
Nicholas, built about the year 1100 by Herbert de
Losinga, Bishop of Norwich. The architectural features
of the church having been explained by Mr. Palmer and
Mr. C. E. Davis, the party proceeded, after a short in-
terval of rest, to Caistor Caster, said to have been built
by Sir John Fastolf about the early part of the 15th
century. The castle is in ruins, and only some portions
of the north and west walls, with the tower, remain.
A paper was read by Mr. T. J. Pettigrew on the history
of the castle and on a Roman station supposed to be
the ancient Garianonum. From Caistor the party pro-
ceeded to Burgh, from which place they returned to the
Town-hall at Yarmouth. There a public dinner took
place, and a meeting at Mr. Palmer's house followed.
Finally the visitors returned to Norwich by a special
train, which left Yarmouth at 10.30. Yesterday an
excursion was made into West Norfolk, East Dereham
Church, Walsingham, and Binham Priories, and East
Barsham-ball being among the objects of interest visited.
THE VALUE OF A KENTISH ESTATE.—Yesterday,
at the Auction Mart, Mr. Norton, of the firm of Nor-
ton, Hoggart, and Trist, offered to public auction the
va;uable estate of Hemsted, situtated near Cranbrook,
in the Weald of Kent, for many years the residence of
the late Mr. Thomas L. Hodges, comprising 4,500 acres
of freehold land, divided into famed, with fine old man•
sion and officers, gardens, and extensive pleasure
grounds, and having great sporting advantages,—the
annual rental, 4,6601. ; also the advowson of the vicar-
age of Benenden, with tithe commuted rent-charge of
5001. per annum,—the incumbent being nearly 80 years
of age. It was sold at 125,0001., to Mr. Hardy, M.P.
MILES DARDEN, THE GREAT AMERICAN GIANT.—
Some weeks ago (says the Jackson, Tenn., Whig), we
gave a few facts in regard to the weight and dimensions
of this mraordinary man, and promised our readers,
through the courtesy of a friend in Henderson county,
further items of interest.. He writes as follows:—" Mr.
Darden was born in North Carolina, in 1798, and de-
parted this life, at hie residence in Henderson county,
Tennessee, on Jan. 23, 1857, in the 59th year of his age.
Re joined the Baptist church in early life, and shortly
after emigrated to Tennessee, where he connected him
self with what is called the Christian church, but had not
been a member of any church for years past, but was
moral and fond of conversing on religious subjects. He
was an obliging and kind neighbour, and fond of com-
pany; and about 15 years ago he joined the order of
I Masons. He was twice married. His children are very
large, but probably none of them will ever be more than
half the weight of their father. He was active and lively,
so
dfllashby thatoured until
was compelled
conaei
ut 4pyeloed toay
years ag:t,when he became
oe at home, or be
hauled ab ut in a two-horse waggon. In 1848 he made a
contract w th a tailor to f _mash him with a suit of clothes
for $5O, the coth was to cost $5 per yard. Upon mea-
-1 surement, i took 12 yards of cloth, su the tailor lost $lO
I and the m king. The tailor states that three men, each
I weighing over 200 lbs., put on the coat, buttoned it
round them, and walked aoro_e the square at Lexington,
I In 1850 it took 13 yards of flax cloth, yard wide, to
make him a coat. It took 16 of cambric for his shroud ;
I 24 yards of Meek velvet to cover the sides and lid of his
coffin •, 125 feet of plank to make his coffin, His coffin
was 8 feet long ; across the breast 32 inches; across the
head 13 inches ; across the foot 14 inches ; its depth 35
inches. He weighed 871 lbs. in 1845; his height was 7
feet 6 inches. His weight, when he died, ae nearly as
could be ascertained, was a fraction over 1,000 lbs.
REPRESENTATION 01' O.I.DIIAH —Several meetings of
electors have already t ken place in reference to the
vacancy caused by the fatal accident to Mr. Platt, and
we understand that there is a strong feeling is favour of
nominating Mr, Cobden.