The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-16 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH))
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 16, F.ivz A.M.
The British and North American Royal mail steam-
ship Niagara has just arrived in the Mersey, bring-
ing the usual fortnightly mail and dispatches from
America and Canada, and twelve days' later news than
any hitherto received.
This fine vessel left Boston on the 3d instant, and
Halifax on the sth. The number of passengers
brought over by her is considerable.
Congress was still engaged discussing the slavery
question.
The United States' senator, John C. Calhoun,
whose recent speech on the admission of California
into the Union created so much sensation in the
Stater, died on the 31st ult., at
Washington; in the
68th year of his age.
Professor Webster's trial for the murder of Dr.
Parkman has just terminated in the conviction of the
Professor, who has been sentenced to death.
There is nothing of importance from Canada.
The state of business generally throughout the
United States is not reported as favourable. A con-
siderable languor rests on trade of every kind.
In breadstuffs but little had been done, and this at
falling prices.—Western Canal flour, 4 87i to 5 0
very firm; Gennessee prime wheat, 1 26 to 1 28 per
601 b.; Southern wheat, 1 10 to 1 12 per 601 b.;
Indian cern, round yellow, 0 54 to 0 56 steady, flat
yellow, 055 per bushel ; Southern white, 0 54 to
0 56 per bushel ; Indian meal, 2 62i to 2 75 per
barrel.
Cotton receded half a cent int the early part of the
fortnight, but recovered on the receipt of the Nia-
gara's news from this country. Upland middling fair
to fair 12ic. to 13c. The total deficiency in receipts
is now 400,000 bales. The sales in New York for
the past fortnight amount to 14,000 bales.
Freights are unaltered in price, being at the follow-
ing rates c—Flour to Liverpool ls. 6d. to ls. 9d. per
brl. Grain to Liverpool 4d. to sd. per bush. Cotton
to Liverpool id. to 3-16 d.
Provisions are inactive.
Exchange on Paris, 5 30, sales few ; Hamburgh,
35 to 35i.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIPS.—The marriage of the
Hon. Louise Madeline Campbell, eldest daughter of the Lord
Chief Justice of England and the Baroness Stratheden, with
the Rev. William Spranger White, of the Brae, Roxburgh-
shire, and incumbent of St. John's, Jedburgh, took place on
Saturday last, at All Saints' Church, Kensington. Among
the relatives and friends present at the interesting ceremony
were Lord Campbell, Lord Stratheden, Hon. Misses Camp-
bell, lion. W. F. Campbell, M,P., Lord and Lady Abinger
and lion. Miss Scarlett, Dowager Lady Abinger, Mr. and
Lady Theresa Lewis, Hon. Misses Pepys, Hon. Mr. and
Mrs. Toler, lion. Colonel and Mrs. Yorke Scarlett, Bishop of
Gloucester and Bristol, Mrs. and Misses Monk, Hon. Lady
Currey and Misses Currey, Mr. and Misses We t, Mr. and
Mrs. Jones (of Pantglos) and Miss Campbell, Mrs. Fraser,
Miss Caroline Campbell, Sir Thomas and Lady Wollaston
White and Misses White, Rev. Francis White, Mr. Prescott
White and Misses White, Rev. Mr. Harness, Misses John-
stone, Ice. After the ceremony the Bareness Stratheden
gave a sumptuous dejeuner at Stratheden-house, the family
mansion ; and between three and four o'clock the happy pair
left for Castor, Northamptonshire, the seat of Mr. Prescott
White, brother of the bridegroom, where they will pass the
honeymoon.

The world is more apt to reward appearances than
deserts. Fliza Cook's Journal.

Mr. George Hudson, M.P., was last week looking
at Emo Park, and it is said that he,expressed his intention
of becoming a bidder for it, when selling under the Incum-
bered Laittee Act.—Leinaer Express.