The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-03 00:00:00

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY EVENING.
The United States mail steam ship Arago, Capt.
E. D. Lines, arrived this evening off Cowes, with
two days' later advices.

By this arrival we receive the following mercan-
tile intelligence :
The Cotton Market was quiet, with sales of about
500 baby, without change in price. The Flour
Market was buoyant and active, at an advanog of
from 10c. to 15c. per barrel. heat active ; corn
firm. Pork quiet. Sugars were unchanged. Freight
engagements were moderate, at unchanged rates.

NEW ORLEANS, SEPT. 17.—Sales of cotton 400
bales, at unchanged prices. Mess pork, 28, doll.
Other-articles unchanged.
At Charleston cotton was quiet. Sales of the
week 200 bales.

There is no political intelligence.
The Arago brings 85 passengers, mails to the
19th, 27,000 dollars in specie, and 4,000 bushels of
wheat, all for Havre. Among her passengers are the
Hon. B. F. Angel, Minister of the United States to
Sweden, and family ; the Hon. S. Bile and family ;
the lion.'T. Bille, late Charge d'Affaires of Denmark
to the United States ; and Mr. Y. G. Durand, bearer
of despatches to Paris.
Sept. 21, at 8 a. m., in lat. 41.35, long. 66.30, saw
a ship-rigged propeller bound W. On the 20th, at
5 p.m., in lat. 42.15, long. 64.35, exchanged signals
with the ship Western Empire, bound W.
A large meeting, priucipallyof Irishmen, was held
at New York on the evening of the 17th to expt
opposition to British enlistments in the United
States f r the War in India and sympathy with the
Sepoy Inutiny.
The secretary of the United States' navy,' on
hearing that the laying of the Atlantic cable had
been postponed till next year, ordered the Niagara
to return to New York and the Sn-quehanna to
join the home squadron. Captain Josiah Tatnall
has been appointed to the command of the Ameri-
can squadron in the Chinese waters.
The Government at Washington having been ap-
prised of further Filibustering demonstrations upon
Nicaragua being in' project, and of a scheme in
Texas for the invasion of the Mexican Provinces
contiguous to the Rip Grande, were about to issue
an edict to stop these intended violations of the
Neutrality Treaty, and to prosecute all engaged in
them. The Kansas Constitutional Convention had
adjourned to the third Monday in October, to await
the result of the election before taking further
action. _ _

Public attention in New York was entirely a'h-
sorbed by the loss of the Central America steamer.

CAN THIS BE TRUE ?

A correspondent sends the Daily News the fol-
lowing extraordinary account of a sale of uniforms
by sepoys in Calcutta, and accredits it by stating
that it comes to him from a thoroughly respectable
source

EXTRACT OP A LETTER PROM CALCUTTA, AUG. 8, 1857-
A abort time no, a gentleman in Calcutta saw from
his window a mob of Sepoys 100 in number,
assembled
near one of the gates of Government House, and visibly
engaged in selling, their uniforms by auction, one of them
mounted on a backery (native cart) acting as auctioneer.
The gentleman drove to the Commissioner of the Police
tolinform him of what was going on ; be at once pro-
eJeded to Majm Bouverie, the Governor-General's aide-
dc-camp, and he reported to Lord Canning. His
lordship remarked, "Oh, another idle tale when
Bouverme saiJ, " My Lord, if you will look out there
you can satisfy yourself.' Lord Canning looked, satis-
fied himself, and instantly gave orders to call a meet-
ing of his council. The bagel; met, deliberated for
several hours ; some voted for 'shooting the Sepoye,
others for letting them go ; and broke up without comieg
to any revolution, by which time indeed it was un-
necessary, as the &pop, bating finished their sale of
government property and pocketed its Proceeds, bad
quietly walked oft..

Thus government, by not seizing and punishing
these men, virtually declared Viet embezzlement and
desertion are no crimes, and the Sepoys, emboldened by
having insulted the Governor-General at his own door
with impunity, are permitted to leave Calcutta, and
will certainly not firget this most criminal leniency
when levying contr.butions from the defenceless
villagers as many olthetn h•tve been doing. Tne native
merchants in _Calcutta were astonished. Tney asked,
"-Is the Lord Sahib (the Gnverner.General), with Po
many Europeans, afraid of seizing a hundred Sepoys 1
If he is afraid to do this' in Galcutts, then the Com-
',
pany'd rule in the 111Jfussil is indeed over.