The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-13 00:00:00

CANADA.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.
The Royal mail screw steam-ship N6rth Ameri-
can, Captain Grange, arrived in the Mersey this
afternoon from Montreal and Quebec, with advices
to the Ist inst. from the latter port, being two days
later than to hand by either the Vanderbilt or
Atlantic.

'ln answer to a communication from Mr. John
Macdonald, lately residing at St. Laurent, the Se-
cretary of State for the Colonies writes that her
Majesty's Government are not prepared at present
to authoris3 grants conveying a permanent interest
in the land in Queen Charlotte's Island, but that
the governor of Vancouver's Island bas permis-
sion to issue licenses for the occupation of limited
portions of the soil.

The supplies have been stopped in Toronto.
The by-law for the 50,0001. loan has been negatived,
and in consequence of this the labourers employed
by the corporation have received notice that their
services would no longer be required, till it can
be seen whether the improvements, necessarily
stopped for the present, can be continued.
New ly 60 of the scattered remnants of Walker's
filibuster army in Nicaragua had been landed in
Boston by the United States ship Cyane. They
are penniless, ragged, homeless, and friendless.

The Hanover Gazette publishes the following tele-
graphic despa+ch :—"Dantzic, Bth, 11 a.m.—ln
an intense heat and with a strong wind from the
S. E. a violent fire is raging in this city from the
Thorn Gate to the Rue de Bromhers. ' All human
succour is unavailing." According to later ac-
counts the fire was got under at a late hour in the
evening. Twenty houses and the school of St.
Peter were totally destroyed.

The half-yearly meeting of the Metropolitan Railway
Company is called for the 26ch instant.
THE EMPEROR AND TER YACHT SQUADRON.—lmme-
diately on the arrival of the Emperor at Osborne hie
Majesty sent for Mr. Hancock, of Bruton-street, and
desired him to make a handsome massive silver cup, to
be run for at the Annual Yacht Squadron Regatta.
His Majesty was at first desirous that, if possible, it
should be run for during the race which took place the
day after his arrival in this country, but in consequence
of the short space which intervened he gave up that
idea, and ordered the cup to be executed in time to be
sailed for early next June. It will bear the following
brief inscription presented by His Imperial Maje ty
the Emperor Napoleon 111. to the Royal Yacht Squadron"
The Earl of Wilton, the Commodore, is to settle the condi-
tions, in order that all the yachts may be able to compete
for it. After being present at Divine service in the Roman
Catholic Chapel at Newport on Sunday,
his Majesty
paid a brief visit to the Yacht Squadron club-house at
Cowes, and expressed the gratification with which he
had witnessed the race of the previous Thursday, and
also his intention of presenting the cup we have men-
tioned. His Majesty has since been elected an honorary
member of the club. 'At the request of the Empress,
who is a professed admirer of cameos and intaglios, Mr.
Hancock brought down for her inspection the celebrated
Devonshire gems, which were mounted so as to form a
complete set for the Countess Granville on the occasion
of the Moscow Coronation. These rare gems, some of
which (more especially those in the coronet) are consi-
dered the rarest in existence, will in a few days be sent
down to Manchester for exhibition at the Art Treasures.