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

FRIDA Y EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1850.

AMERICAN NEWS.

THREE DAYS LATER FROM AMERICA.
LIVERPOOL, 'THURSDAY.
The United Sates mail steamship 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
12ch instant, thus performing the passage in twelve
dayß.
The Europa, Captain 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 Edmund 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 class have recently landed, and energetic measures
were about being taken to prevent such persons being
lan4d there.

Jenny Lind sung at a charity concert at Boston on
the evening 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 Yolk
on the I 9th by special 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
unconditional repeal.
Mr. Websttr, Secretary of State, arrived in New
York on Saturday morning, and would leave for
Marshfield on the 191 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 spacious 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. I.n 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 returned from New
York, accompanied by his Countess, who has been
spending a few weeks on the seashore at Long Island,
for the benefit of her health.

COMMERCIAL.
The Europa arrived at New York on the 11th, with
Liverpool dates to the 28th ult. The news being onlyany
three days later than by the Atlantic, was not of im-
portanse.
Stocks were werGeoivnerfnamirendtemitoaonks demand (October 12),0y and prices
su
great ex tent. United States Sixes, 1867 and 1868, are
in fair demand, at 1171 to 1174; and the bonds of 1868
with coupons, at 119 to 1191. Money is exceedingly
abundant, and the rates on desirable securities low.
Exchange stood as follows:—On London, nof to
1164; on Paris, sf. 178 to sf. 16; on Amsterdam, 408 to
41: on Hamburgh, 358 to 36; on Bremen, 794 to 80.
Cotton— Our last review of the market was written
for the Niagara on the Bth inst. The sales of the 9th
were 1,200 bales, at full prices; 10th, 1,500 at extreme
rates for all qualities; and for good ordinary to middling
cent, was paid. The accounts of the growing crop
from all quarters are very unfavourable.
PHILADELPHIA, OCT. 11.—The sales of cotton reach
only about, 300 bales to-day at former prices; the market
closes without much demand, but very firm. Flour is
steady with a limited inquiry for shipment, but about
500 brls, sold at 4 dolls. 8 lie. for standard superfine, and
500 half brie. at 5 dolls. 61. the pair. The home trade
buy sparingly at about former quoted rates. Rye flour
is scarce and wanted, at 3 dolls, per brl. Corn meal,
sales of 500 brie. Penna meal are reported at 3 dolls.,
and 500 brie. Brandywine at 31 dolls. per brl. Wheat in
steady demand, but the arrivals, about 10,000 bushels,
have been pretty much all taken in at 103 c. to 104 c. for
good Penoslyvanian red, and 108 c. to 110 c. for white—
the latter tor prime. Rye is wanted at 68c. with small
receipts, Corn—very little offering, and the demand
fair, with sales of 2,500 bushels. Pennsylvania yellow
at 64'. Oats in demand, with sales of Southern at 37c.
to 37ic., and Penns) lvania at 40c. to 41c.
BALTIMORE, OCT. I I.—The news by the Europa has
had but little effect on the market in this city. 1,100 bbls.
Howard-street flour were sold at 4 dolls. 62c.; red wheat
is worth 102 c. Mess pork sells at 11 dulls. 12ic.
BUFFALO, OCT. 11.—The receipts during the past
twenty-f.ur hours have been as follows:-5,500 bbls.
flour, 3,500 bushels wheat, 2,000 bushels corn. Western
flour is in fair demand, market without material change.
Sales have been 2,000 bbls., at 3 dolls. 87c. to 4 dulls.
There is not much inquiry for wheat: 3,400 bushels sold
at 74c. for Wiscewin, and 82c. fur Ohio. Corn is not
so active, but we notice no change in prices. Freights
unchanged.

• •
ALBANY, OCT. 11.—The receipts since our last have
been:-5,500 bbls. flour, 5,000 bushels bushels wheat,
7,500 bushels corn, 11,000 bushels barley. Flour is
steady, but not very active. Wheat is firm, with a good
middling inquiry. The sales have buen-7,000 bushels
at 113ic. to 114 c. for Genessee, and 100 c. for Ohio. Corn
is held higher, and transactions are limited; 2,500
bushels have changed hands at 631 c. for mixed Western.
Slles have been made of 20,000 bushels of barley, at
76c. to 77c. for ordinary, and at 79,!. to 80c. for 4-
rowed, and 77c. to 78c. for 2-rowed. Oats are steady at
40c. to 40p.

NEW BOOKS FOR WINTER READING.—Several
new books, of singular interest and importance, have just
with his experience at the gold-
appeared, namely :-1. Mr. Ryans' Two Years' Personal
drawings taken on the spot, information relative to that at-
(con-
fessedlyijgi Adventuresng 5
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tractive region, and pronounced by the Quarterly Review to
Years in India," a work which not only enlightens the
2. Captain Hervey's " Ten
be " most lively and amusing."
young officer about to proceed to the east on all points of his
duty. but puts him on his guard against the various snares
laid to entrap him. 3. " Ceylon and the Cingalese,"
treat-
ing of all matters of importance connected with that beautiful
British colony. Mr. Sire's Official 'position as Queen's Advo-
cate for the Southern Circuit of the Island gave him large
opportunities of inquiry and observation, of which he has
carefully availed himself. 4. Colonel Napier's " Southern
Africa," containing a complete history of the Cape Colony,
&c. 5. Captain Reid's " Rifle Rangers," a book of Mexican
wonders. 6. The fourth edition of "Scenes of the Civil
War in Hungary," by an Austrian officer. "The narrative
of his adventures (says the Quarterly)
and touching interest."
• DRUN-
SCoTTISH ASSOCIATION FOR SUPPRESSING
leer
KENNESS.— This association has recently circulated actsb of
among the clergy of Scotland, recapitulating the
8 o work of
its formation, and entreating co-operation in
thosin as
reforming Scotland " from its present degraded combttee
the most drunken country in Europe." The . riety of
suggest to every clergyman in Scotland the p
is of the most natura
lolpast Sun.
preaching a sermon against drunkenness on the,_ be made
day of the present year, at which a collection snail
in aid of their funds, believing that "Scotland has now the
association, of
opportunity presented to her, through
wiping off the national disgrace."
men in every quarter of the country, it is add otouave....°
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already enrolled as office-bearers of the assooa
man. upwatrhdiss_oef,,7??_clerrgeey;

THE LATE ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY IN TEE
STRAND.—The police are still actively engaged in pursuit of
the robbers, but up to the present nothing has transpired
which could enable the detectives, who have the case in
and car-
hand, to fix upon the guilty T ersons without running great
risk. They still suspect the two parties that we alluded to
in our first report of the robbery, and they believe that they
and a large number
will now very shortly have the delinquents at the bar of
justice. The following is a portion of the valuable property
taken, but until the whole of the stock-books of Messrs.
Clapham and Williams are looked over they are ignorant of
the total loss they have sustained by this daring burglary
—250 gold rings, set with diamonds, rubies, emerals, &c. ;
120 gold keeper rings • 130 gold signet rings, onyx,
nelians ; 90 gold and silver watches; 80 gold guards and
chains; 15 single stone diamond rings;
of valuable bracelets and other jewellery Several of the
watches have been discovered under circumstances of a most
extraordinary nature, which at present it wo
Culd be unwise
to make public. Since the robbery the ommissioners of
Police have issued a number of handbills warning house-
keepers against leaving their street doors open, and also to
be on their guard when strangers are waiting in their
passages. Extra iron-bound shutters are being fixed at
many of the silversmiths in the Strand.
MYSTERIOUS ROBBERY OF 350/. IN BANK-NOTES.
—Within the last few days Mrs. Lingham, a married lady
residing with her husband at No. 21, Lacy-terrace, Penton-
place, Walworth, close to the principal entrance to the Sur-
rey Gardens,
of
ovetrhee property seems enveloped in thed that she had been plundered of Bank
of England notes to the amount of 3501., and the robbery
and abstraction isc
d
greatest possible mystery. It appears, from the information
conveyed to the police, that in the month of April, 1849,
Mr. and Mrs. Lingham sold out property in the Funds
amounting to eOO/., and ear, took 4001. Mrs. Lingham
placed her portion in a cash-box, which she kept locked up
in a drawer in her bedroom. From time to time since that
period she added to the stock, so that by the time the rob-
bery was committed, the whole should have amounted to at
least €OOl. When about to make the last deposit, Mrs.
Lingham thought the bulk of notes had diminished, and
this circumstance induced her to count them, when to her
great consternation, she found 3501. missing, There is
another singular cirumstance connected with the robbery,
and that is, that from a hook in which Mrs. Lingham had
the amount and numbers of the notes entered, two leaves
were torn out, and by this means all trace of the missing
notes is destroyed. The officers, however, are doing what
they can to find out the perpetrators of the robbery.
We have reason to believe that before next Hilary
Term, Sir John Romilly will take his seat on the bench s
Master of the Rolls ; but that his able services in the cause
of law reform will be demanded by the present Government,
SO long as they remain an ad.oainiatration.