The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-16 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MeßrriNe'
The screw steam-ship Indian, Captain Jol2
has arrived, with advices from ortland to theh
inst. She has lost her foremast from bad weetrar,
to
On the 12th she passed a steamer, suppose('
be the Africa ; yesterday she passed the Europe.
The French steamer Cadiz, from Havre an
Liverpool, had arrived at New York. A a
Ia the Senate on the 3d Mr. Hunter mad?
report from the Conference Committee on the
Tariff Bill, which war finally agreed to. The Par'
titulars are not given.
In the House of Representatives Mr. CautP--,.
of Ohio, from the Committee of Conference on vir't
disagreeing votes of the Tariff Bill, made a repe
He said in the first place, the 100 per cent. schedw
and so much of the old 40 per cent. schedule ae are
not reduced down to the low schedules or Free
are reduced to 30 per cent. ; the 40 per cent. schen°,
including all tha spices and articles not produced In
that country, and which enter into general °°to
sumption, are either upon the Free List or in
of
4 per cent, schedule. Many articles are
brought down from the 30 per cent. schedule t?,
lower schedule. The same is the case with the
, bo
;;
termediate schedules between C. andl. The lig
committee yielded to the amendment efLt" ier
Senate, which proposed a reduction of the big ise
schedules to 30 per cent. ; and in the comprcti,
lof the matter they have procured substantl,7l;
the. Free List, yielding some immaterial P°, 7ot
in that respect. The other schedules are re °ll'3o
about 20 per cent. The remainder of the old t
per cent, schedule is brought down to 24 per coy;
the 25 to 19, the 20 to 15, the 15 to 12, the 10 t(14.0..
land that would be about 4,U00,000. He was net:,
fled that this bill would give relief to the coun.t;;:
and stimulate and strengthen the art of Ameri i
industry. They had treated iron, sugar, be—ill
and lead on the principle of quality, reducing
alike. The report was carried. nof
The State of Maine, referring to the 004°- of
Congress on the tariff, says, "the great measureoe
the past four years is the New Tariff Bill.
re-
details of the perfected bill are not yet fil"J the
ceived. The House bill proposed to enlarge.
oleo'
free list without reducing the duties on other artl- fe.
The Senate bill, with a more limited free list,ier
duced the duty on cotton, flour, sugar and other
$
articles. The Committee, in conference,
compromise ; the duty on iron, sugar, cotton, 0. „.
is reduced from 30 to 20 per cent. ad vatorevi,
The passage of the bill was resisted by PenThsjos
vania and the high protective interest, but "
carried in both houses."
A screw steamer was reported to be fitting (11,1
at New York for the relief of Walker. Sh° vi°lll%
go round the Horn. hea
The Mexican Minister is reported to have ,iOl
an interview with President Pierce, and urged 0
to submit the Mexican treaty to the Senate.
President declined.
Advices from Havannah to the 26th of Febrilari
report that sugars had a downward tendenci•
Stock on hand 85,000 boxes. Exchange on Lona°
54 to 6 prem.

At New York on the 2d the money market
a little easier. The stock market was pretty we'
sustained. Erie hung heavily. Cotton had tisi9f
owing to the Niagara's advices. Flour was in PI
demand, wheat firm, corn in good demand, Pro:
sions steady, lard heavy.
By telegraph to Portland we learn that at Neer
York, on the morning of the 3d, stocks o°r 4
higher and active ; money in good demand
fair supply at 7 per cent. on call. Sterling 70
change continued dull, at 1084- to 1081. In
evening of the 3d stocks were heavy and O,
Erie, 57/ ; Reading, 81k • Michigan Central, Sb
Flour better ; common wheat lower and irregal*
corn better, lard better, iron steady, tobacco 1.133.

The Royal Mail steam-ship Asia, with the.ll4
York mails of the 4th, is off the port, and W 3-11
rive in the afternoon.

CORSICAN B A NDlTkc

One of the last bandits of Corsica, a man named Ca of
bianca, was last week brought to trial bef,re the C°ll.-A;
Assizes of that island for murder and attempted Ear" 0.
In 1834 his brother was killed in a quarrel with two br
thers named Andreani, and in accordance with the custom
0
of the country the prisoner swore that, to avenge Pul„i;
he would kill either one of them, or a member of '-
family. By the intervention of some influential persol:
however, he promised, in the name of himself and all
b
family, not to kill any of the Andreanis, provided thel,
never entered the village in which he and his family to
sided. But after taking this engagement he eeenie";
ivth
regret it, and not only refrained from associating, vf:
the villagers, but went about constantly armed 3'
gut, a pistol, and a stiletto, frequently absented
self from home to wander in the mountains, and ofti,
visited the spot on which his brother was kille?•
At length, on the 18th of April, 1836, in one of bib
excursions in the mountains, he accidentally fell ill Wit,"
Felix Andreani, one of the assassins of his brother, 11°
losing all control over himself, he shot him Akd. after
this crime, to avoid arrest, he fled to the mountain., aiL
adopted the life of a bandit. Ten years after he met u,
chance Dominico Andreani, the other assassin of bid
brother, and ordered him to kneel down and make,_l"°
peace with Heaven, for that his last hour was 000°1
Andreani took to flight, but the bandit fired at him,
and wounded him seriously in the arm. The
wounded man continued to fly, and the bandit, rie,i
loading his gun, went in pursuit of him, and wool
probably have murdered him, if be had not bee"„
prevented by some persons who happened to come
up. He afterwards continued his career of bandit"
and in the course of it committed numerous cricoes;
but as he acted with great kindnc^s to the peasantrif
they supplied him with provisions from time to time,
and contrived to give him warning when, as was frAe'
quantly the case, gendarmes were sent to arrest him. ;
few weeks ago, rom the severity of the weather, he WAd
compelled to.ask for shelter in the hut of a wood.cutter•
This man gave information to the authorities, and one
night a detachment of gendarmes surrounded the hut J°
which he was sleeping. Casablanca proceeded to bag
cade the entrance, and to cut loopholes in the wall wiw"
the intention of making a desperate resistacce ; but the
woodcutter, fearing that the Gendarmes would burn the
hut down, entreated him to surrender quietly, and thl
after somelhesitation, he consented to cll. A parley or,
accordingly come to between him and the geodareie4
but such was the terror his name excited that the
would not promise not to fire on him until be had
thrown from the hut his gun, his pistol, and his stiletto,
and had walked forth with his hands clasped above hi.:
head. The jury declared him guilty of the murder au
"
attempted murder, though with extenuating eireuilli
stances, and the court condemned him to 20 yearehar
labour.

THE LIINDHILL COLLIERY ExpLosioN.._on
the pit yesterday everythingappeared of the most me;
notonous character. Scarcely anything
in the shape "
life was to be seen in the neighbourhood, and the whole
place appeared as if de,erted. The cupola, which 01,
g
Wednesday and Thursday sent out a small
quantity *9'
black smoke which was an indication that the Sre wag
smouldering the pit, now shoes net the slightest smoke
from which it may be inferred that the water bas "
least reached such a height as to overcome the fire'
Thisis further borne out b the fact that the maximum
height of 30 feet was nearly reached on Thursday, the
water at two o'clock on that day being 29 feet 4 inches,
and before night, although not exaininel there is potthe slightest doubt but more than 30 feet
was attain"'
It had been agreed upon by Mr. Wood and the other
engineers, at their meeting on Saturday last, that,
when the water reached the height stated, they abaci('
he telegraphed for ; and if tbst should not occur before
Saturday (this day), they would meet on that day to do'
CUSS the steps to be taken. The water, however, daring
the whole of yesterday (Friday), was sent into the pit'
but owing to the dry weather, the quantity was corn
derably diminished. The offic als at the pit stated, that
although the water had reached such a height yesterdai
(Friday) as to justify them in telegraphing for the en-
gineers, yet nothing could be gained by so doing, as they
would would be there in the morning just as early as If tele-
graphed for. tae i
Such being e state of affairs, it s cop'?
dently expected that operations will b 3 commenced this
day (Saturday) for getting out the water.—Leads Mc 7 ,