The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-25 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

THREE DAYS LATER FROM AMERICA.
LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.
The United S ates mail steam,shio Atlantic, Cap-
tain West, arrived in the Mersey, from New 'York,
shortly after eleven o'clock this forenoon, with nearly
100 passengers. She left New York at noon on the
12th instant, thus performing the passage in twelve
day'. _ _

The Europa, Captai❑ Lott, arrived at New York
at nine o'clock on the morning of the 11th inst., after
a passage of twelve and a half days.
The news brought by the Atlantic is unimportant.
The elections were causing a great deal of excitement.
The election of a Whig mayor at Baltimore had led
to desperate rioting in that city, in which two persons
lost their lives. The parties whose lives have been
sacrificed were named Edmond Mitchell and Francis
Lafferty- ; both parties were shot. The arrival of a
number of liberated convicts from Bermuda was
causing much anxiety at Baltimore, where several of
this el:l,s have recently landed, and energetic measures
were about being taken to prevent such persons being
landed there.

Jenny Lind sung at a charity concert at Boston on
the eve❑ing of the 9th of October instant. The re-
ceipts were upwards of 10,000 dolls., and this amount
is to be distributed by the Hon. Edward Everett.
The Nightingale was to leave Boston for New York
on the 19th by specisl train, which WAS placed at her
disposal free of charge.
The Fugitive Slave law was still occupying a promi-
nent place in the public mind, and public meetings
were being held in the north calling for its total and
uncondi.ional repeal.

Mr. Webster, Secretary of State, arrived in New
York on Saturday morning, and would leave for
Marshfield on the 19th instant. Since Congress dis-
solved all the plans, discussions, and party tactics have
been transferred from Washington to New York,
where politicians are straining away at every pos
sible point. The halls of Congress are deserted, and
all the political movements are originated and sus-
tained in the spscious halls of the Astor and the
Irving Houses, where politics and puddings are freely
dissected.

The Whig Convention of the Sixth District of
Massachusetts has taken some steps, by passing reso •
lutions for the proper administration of the laws
with respect to fugitive slaves. In our State, the abo-
litionists are also at work, making all possible politi-
cal capital out of the slavery question, and the laws
recently passed.
News from the south, under date October 11,

brings intelligence that a virulent disease, supposed
to be cholera, had broken out at Kernstown, Virginia.
The steamer Meteor, whilst on her passage from the
Red River to New Orleans, on the 22d inst., caught
fire and was burned to the water's edge.
A valuable vein of copper ore has been discovered
about twenty miles from Philadelphia, on the Schuyl-
kill river.

From Canada we learn there has been a great agri-
cultural fair and cattle show at Niagara, and prizes
have been awarded for the best specimens of horned
cattle, horses, sheep, agricultural implements, do-
mestic manufactures, dairy and agricultural produce,
the fine arts, &c.
The Governor-General has retuseed from New
York, accompanied by his Countess, who has been
spending a frw weeks on the seashore at Long Island,
for the benefit of her health.