The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-02 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, FEB, 1.
The United States mail steamship Ericsson has
arrived with adVices' from New York to the 17th
ult., but has not brought any specie. On the 18th
the Ericsson experienced a most terrific gale front
the north to the north-east, and. the cold was so,
intense as to completely cover the ship with ice,
large quantities of which formed about the deck.
..Th9 'screw steamer Emeu, from Havre, arrived
at New York on,the-15th, and the screw steamship
City of NVSliiiik:tori on the 17th ult.
The proCeedings in COngresS had been of almost
exclusively local, interest. , .In the Senate Mr.
Pugh (Democrat), of Ohio, had given notice of a
resolution requesting the Secretary of the Treastiry
to inform the Senate what would lie the annual
income of the Government;according to such esti-
mates as he might be able to wake, if one-fifth of
the duties on snch important articles authorised
by the Tariff Act of Jn1y,1846, should be remitted ;
what if one-fourth should be remitted ; and what
if one-third should be remitted. The resolution
was adopted.
The Pennsylvanian Legislature had presented a
resolution instructing their Senators to,vote for the
admission of Kansas as a free State.
The river and harbour of New York continued to
be filled with ice, causing consid.erable.damage to
vessels, and rendering the navigation hazardous.
A bark had been cut through by the ice and sunk:
At Albion, New York, a riot was going on in
the Main street between a party of .Americans and
a-party of Irish ; knives and other weapons were
being freely used. The Irish party were labourers
on the canal, and who, having received their wages;
had got drunk. Two of them hail beep killed, apil
tour Americans were 20•111UCh injured, that- they
were not expected to recover.
By the steamship Texas, at 'New Orleans, from
San Juan, Nicaragua, later advices had been re-
ceived at New York, via telegraph, to the follow-
ing effect :
It was reported that the Costa Ricans, protected
by the English fleet, had seized every steamboat
on the San Juan river.

Col. Lockridge, with 250 men, had possession of
Punta Arenas ; but the Costa Rican force, of 1,000
men, held every other point on the river.
It is confirmed that General llenuingsen had
beaten the allies at Granada, and joined Walker at
Rivas.

Walker's army is reported to have been in good
spirits and confident of success, while the allies
were fighting among themselves.
The steamship San Carlos left Virgin Bay with
passengers on the 3d January, but was captured
by the Costa Ricans soon after she got into the
river,

The steamship James Algar, with the passen-
gers which she took from the Tennessee at Norfolk,
arrived at San Juan on the 9th ult., but in conse-
quence of the diffictilties of the Transit route she
sailed next morning for Aspinwall, to forward her
passengers by the Panama route.
The New York money market was a little easier,
and rates had a downward tendency, caused by a
sl;ght " let-up" in the drain of specie to the South,
consequent upon the increased movement of cotton
there, superinduced by a concession iu prices, and
a decreased demand for money at New York
through the temporary inactivity of general
trade. The rates were Bto 9 per cent. for prime
GO days to three months paper, 9 to 10 per cent.
for four to six Months ditto, and 7 per cent. on
call. In exchange but little doing, and prices un-
settled ; quotations nominal at 108 f to 105 a on
London ; 5f 23ic to 5f 21Ic on Paris ; and 364 to
361 on Hamburg:.. In cotton a fair business bad
been done at .a reduction of jc to 16 in consequence
of continued heavy receipts and decline in prices
at the Gulf Ports.'

The markets closed steadilY, flour firm and un-
changed, purchases being only .to the trade. For
export there was some demand, hu,t the ice re-
stricted business. Common superfine State $6 25c
to $6 30c. Canadian superfine and extra, $6 50c
to $7 70c. The stocks of grain being stored in the
docks transactions bad been small, but the market
closed strongly at full prices. Corn advanced lc
to 2c. Oats firm. Pork advanced 12 cents on
mess, and 25 cents on prime, with ligt.t receipts.
Beef firm ; prime mess inactive, nciininally at 20c.
to 25c. Cut meats in brisk den And; at 91c to 101,c
for common to prime hams, and 71. to 8c for shoul-
,ders. Bacon active and the turn higher. Large
sales of turpentinOt at $4. Spirits held firmly at

zottiegiiir."--tOttiai6df-reain a Ifhatte higherr iziron
firm, with an upward tendency, --Scotch pig, $3O
53c ; English refined, $62 50c ; Russian sheet, at
Boston, 13k, six months:- In freights little busi-
ness doing, but the market firm at 3-16 d to id. for
cotton, GO to 7d for grain, and 2s 3d to 2s Gd for
flour to Liverpool. Flour 2s 10Id to 3s, and
pork 4s Gd to London.

WEST INDIA MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 31.

The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Atrato,
Capt. Woolley, arrived here this morning with the
West India, Mexican, and Pacfic mails, in charge
of Lieut. Oxenham, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her
dates are :

Vera Cruz Jan. 5
Havannah
Puerto Cabella 9
Santa Martha — 6

Grenada ... .. Jan. 9
Carriacou — 9
St. Vincent — 10
St. Lucia — 12

Greytown
Carthagena — 10
Colon
Kingston — 11
Jacrnel — 12
San Juan — 15
Berbice - 9
Georgetown - 9
Tobago y :8

Martinique
Guadalon
Domiuique • — 13
Antigua
Montserrat — 12
Nevis
St. Kitt's — 13
Tortola
St. Thomas — 17

Port of Spain 8
Bridgetown — 11

Bermuda — 8
La Guaira

This packet has no mails from Tampico, in conse•
gnome of a northerly gale setting in, and stopping
communication with the shore when the inter-
colonial steamer Trent left there on the 2d. The
Atrato brings 33 passengers, among whom are Don
Pedro Escaudon, late Secretary to the Mexican
Legation in Paris, from Tera Cruz, on his way to
join the Embassy in Paris; Mr. Charles Sevin, of
London, and Mr. Richard lichens, Redruth,
Cornwall, from Vera Cruz, returning from their
explorations of the copper and silver mines in the
northern States of Mexico, Chihuahua, Sonora,
and Cinaloa ; Captain Berryman, from Quayaquil ;
Captain Freeman, from Jamaica, &c. ; also nine
naval invalids from the fleet at Greytown, two
distressed Bri4ish seamen froth Carthagena, and
nine from St. Thomas. On freight this steamer has
the following amount of specie :

Value in doll.
,On merchants' account from. Tampico 37,668
Ditto from Vera Cruz
On account of Mexican dividends 25,000

Total from the Gulf of Mexico 1,940,231
Across the Isthmus from the Pacific ports, of
which 41,414 dollars is in gold and
367,721 in silver...
From California
From Carthagena
From Jamaica

409,135
494,045
' 65,244

-861
5,163
9,136

From Havannah
From other parte of the West Indies

Total value in dollars
Or say about 600,0001. sterling, of which 2,312,785
dollars are ire silver, and 611,030 in gold.
De Cordova's Mercantile Jntelligencer of the 10th
contains its annual review of the state of the
Jamaica market, which says :
" The year which has just been brought to a close has
been principally remarkable for the frequent fluctuations
in the affairs of commerce, and we regret that we cannot
congratulate our merchant upon any improvement in
business during 1856. . . . Taking a retrospective
view 013856 we see little on which to comment, except
circumstances of depression in commercial circles. It
would be hard to point to any one year in which the
efforts of the merchant have been so unsuccessful as in
the year just ended. Never, perhaps, has trade so ter-
ribly suffered, or commerce received so many shocks."
The importation of all descriptions of provisions
during the year is said to have been immense, so
that large supplies were always on hand, and the
price of certain articles fell so low in consequence
that importers had seldom been barely retuune-
rated. Stocks on hand at the end of the yeas con-
tinued large, and low prices must therefore rule
for some time until the stocks gradually decreased.
At Demerara nothing but mails were receival, in
consequence of an outbreak of cholera there, It
was supposed that the disease was imported in the
Venelia, a cattle schooner from the Orinoco.
From Barbadoes we learn that the Howse of
Assembly met on the 30th ult., 20 members being
present, and, after transacting a few items c; busi-
ness, adjourned for a fortnight.
There is no news of importance from Grmada.
Everything was quiet.
Gros Morne, one of the largest and most ipport-
, ant towns in Martinique, was on Christmas eve
visited by
a fire which in a short time laid it in