The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-18 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.—By the royal mail steam-
ship Niagara, Captain Ryrie, we have advices frr,m
New York to the sth, Boston .to the 6th, and Halifax
to the Bth inst.
From Canada the accounts are more satisfactory.
In Quebec the Annexationist candidates had been de-
feated. A dispatch from Earl Grey, under date
Downing-street, January 9, appears in the papers.
He approves the dismissal from service of those who
had.signed the annexation document. The remaimbr
of the dispatch we give at length :—" Her Majesty
confidently relies on the loyalty of the great majority
of her Canadian subjects, and she has therefore
determined to exert ad the authority that belongs
to her for the purpose (f maintaining the connexion
of Canada with this Government, being persuaded
that the permanence of that connexion is highly
advantageous to both. Your Lordship will, there-
fire, understand that you are commanded by her
Majesty to resist, to the utmost of your power, any
attempt which may be made to bring about the
separation of Canada from British dominion, and to
make known in the strongest manner her Majesty's
displeasure with all those who may directly or indi-
rectly encourage such a design ; and if any attempt
of this kind should take such a form that those who

are guilty of it may, according to such advice as you
may receive from your law advisers, be made respon-
sible for their conduct in a court of justice, you will
not fail to take the necessary measures fur bringing
them to account."
The most interesting event in the transactions of

the United States Congress is the introduction of a
series of resolutions into the Senate by Mr. Elby.
These resolutions propose an amicable arrangement
of all the controverted topics between the free and
slave states. The first maintains the admission of
Cwlifornia into the American union, free from
any restriction on the exclusion or introduction
of slavery within its limits. In the second re-
solution it is provided that territorial government
should be established by Congress in the
territories acquired from Mexico, without the
imposition of any condition on the subject
of slavery. The 3d and 4th resolutions contend that
the western boundary of Texas be fixed on the Rio
del Norte, from its mouth to the mouth of the Rabine.
The 6th and 6th assert that slavery ought not to be
abolished in the districts of Columbia during the ex-
istence of the institution in the States of Maryland
without the consent of the people of the district, and
a just compensation to the owners of the slaves, and
that the slave-trade, under certain conditions, should
be abolished within the federal district as repugnant
to the common feelings of mankind. In the two
final resolutions it is urged that provision should be
made by Congress for the more effectual restitution
of slaves in any State escaping into any other State
or territory - and that Congress has no power to pro-
hibit the trade in slaves between the several States;
that being an arrangement to be decided, according
to the principles of the Constitution, by the particular
laws of the States themselves. The resolutions were
sustained by Mr. Clay, in a speech of masterly elo-
quence and ability, which produced a strong sensation
on the Senate ; they were ordered to be made the
subject of special consideration in the Senate on
Tuesday, Feb. 5.

- The Washington correspondent of the Journal of
Commerce says—" I learn from an authentic source
that She Captain-General of Cuba has been instructed
by his Government to liberate the slaves in case of
an invasion or insurrection. The Hudson's Bay
Company, through the British Minister, have re-
newed their proposition, made during the adminis-
tration of President Polk, to the United States Go-
vernment, to dispose of all their possessory rights in
Oregon south of 49 degrees for 1,000,000 dollars.
This proposition was communicated to the senate in
executive session. The price asked is the same as
before."
Last advises from Venezuela mention that affairs
exhibited a high degree of prosperity. General Paez
was still in confinement. The coffee crop was abun.
dant. Another engagement was said to have taken
place between the Haytien and Dominican fleets.
Some of the foreign merchants had refused to comply
with all the requirements of the monopoly law in re-
gard to the sale of foreign produce. The monopoly
on coffee was taken off by a royal decree of the Em-
peror on the 10th of last month.
Between 50 and 60 persons had been killed by the
explosion of a boiler at New York.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, FEB. 5.
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Money Market—The supply of Government and State
stocks on the market has been quite moderate and the
demand active. The prompt payment of the interest on
the Pennsylvanian bonds in gold and silver has had a
good effect upon that stock. Great confidence is now
felt in the stability of all the dividends paying.
State Securities—The annual financial report of the
various States show them to be in a healthy and im-
provine condition. The quotations of the leading stocks
are as follows :—United States Sixes, 1869, 1121 ;
1867, 111 i; 1862, 109} ; Fives, 1853, loci ; Ohio
Six, s, 106 ; Kentucky, 103 ; New Yolk Fires. 103 to
104 ; ladiana, 73 ; Pennsylvania, 90i.
In exchange business has been very large for this
s'eAmer, probably larger than the business of any other
steamer will reach this year. Sterling has again ad-
vancer', and closed at 9to 91 per cent. f leading 54,-
ra'ures. The bulk of the business, however has been
at 834 to 9 per cent. Some southern sterling, first
class, sold at 9 per cent. Francs were 5 dolls. 284 c. to
5 dolls. 27ie. for test names, and 5 dolls. 25c. for short
sight. Some good Southern francs sold at 5 dolls. 351-e.
A portion a the demand for sterling was for remitting
Pennsylvania interest

Cotton—( Wright's Circular)—We extract the state of
the market for Canada on the 23d ult., by last circular,
which was prepared, in which was quoted an advance of
to ic., as having taken place during the preceding
fortnignt, with very large sales. On the day the steamer
sailed there was a desire to sell, and a decline was sub-
mitted to. On the 24th the disposition to realise was
increased, and sales were made at a reduction of A-. per
pound. On Friday, the 28th, the accounts by the
Niagara, with the Liverpool dates to the 12th of Ja-
nuary, were received by telegraph, and on the following
day the letters were to hand showing an alvaLce in
Liverpool of iths, with a good feeling and fair prospect
of the continuance of a large business in the manufac-
turing districts. Their accounts caused a reaction and a
partial recovery of the decline, with a fair amount of
business, continued up to last evening; the market clos-
ing firmly but quiet at a reduction of lc. front quotations
as given by the Canada.
Breadstuffs—ln breadstuffs there has been a fsir busi-
ness doing. The quotations are—Western Canal, from
4 dolls. 87ie. to 5 dolls. 25c. per barrel; southern de-
scriptioss, 5 dolls. 12Ac. to 5 dells. 25c.; corn meal,
2 dolls. 87ic.; Indian corn, 59c. to 623 c. per bushel;
white Genesee, 126 c. to 128 c. [or bushel; Ohio, 105 c. to
110 c. per bushel.
Iron—Scotch pig is held more firmly at 21 dolls. 25c.
to 21 dolls. 50c. cash, per ten. English bars firm at
42 dolls. 80c.

Freights are still, and the busk eis is moderately
active. The business of the last three days is, in the
aggregate, as follows:—To Liverpool, 36,000 bushels of
corn, from 4id. to 5d.; cotton, 5-32 d. to 3 16d.• flour,
Is. 6d., and heavy goods, 20a. to 225. 6d. To I:ondon,
10,000 lb. of whalebone, id.; 2,000 barrels of turpentine,
25.• 60 barrels of ashes, 275. 6d. To Havre, is again
asked for cotton. To S:ettin, a Swedish ship took a
cargo at 2.. 6d., for St. Domingo, of logwood. To Ant.
warp, 400 bales of cotton, 4c. To Rotterdam, a vessel
filled up at lc. A Swedish brig, for klamburgh, was
taken up at 275. 6d. for logwood; at 3c. for liquids; and
an Oldenburgh schooner, for Bremen, at 255. for log-
wood and 3c. for liquids. To Glasgow the rates were
for flour Is. 6d.; rosin, Is. 9d.; beet, 3s. 6d. per tierce;
heavy goods, 20.; cotton, 3-16.
NEW ORLEANS, FEB. 1, 6 P.M.

The cotton market has been eery quiet to-day, and
prices have a downward turn. Sales do not exceed 500
to 600 bales, including middling at 114. to I lie. If
these quotations be correct there has been a decline of
full half a cent. since the 30th.

PROYIDENTIAL ESCAPE OF A FEMALE, AND COW-
ARDLY CONDUCT OF A MAN.—About eight o'clock on
the evening of Monday, the 4th inst the wife of Mr.
William Burford, grccer, &c., who resides within a few
yards of Pontardulais-bridge, beard the cries of a person
in distress. On going towards the spot from whence the
cries proceeded, she found a man standing on the brink
of the river, who was so terrified at the sound of the
water, that he declared he could not move another step.
Mrs. Burford (who hourly expected her accouchement to
take place) took the man by the arm, and directed him
which path he should take. She was in the act of fol-
lowing, when her foot slipped, and she herself fell into
the river, which at that place is very deep. She
sank three times, but eventually caught hold of
the branches of a tree which overhung its banks.
Her sister, who, fortunately. was in the house at
the time, heard the splashing in the water,
and soon proceeded to the spot with a light; her cries
now brought another female to her aasiatanoe; and, by
the united efforts of the two women, they succeeded in
bringing the apparently lifeless body of the unfortunate
woman from the water, and conveying her home. A
crowd of men and women soon collected, who were in-
formed of the circumstances of the case. A party was
sent to endeavour to find the "noble specimen of man-
hood," with strict orders (which, we doubt not, would
have been willing obeyed) to bring hith back, and intro-
duce him int) ac cold berth so lately occupied by his
kind-hearted preserver. Fortunately for the cowardly
fellow, the darkness a the night favoured his escape,
and he eluded the vigilance of his friendly pursu9rs.
Mrs. Burford remaked for several hours in a state of
unconsciousness; but in the morning she was safely de-
lhered of a fine boy. We are happy to add, that both
mother and child are now as well as can be expected.--
Can& ian. _ _

INTEZiTION OF lIER MAJESTY TO VISIT HOLY-
ItuOD PALACE.—We have much pleasure in being able
to ;announce that it is the intention of bar Majesty,
cutter in going to, or returning from Balmoral next
autumn, to visit Holyrood Palace. It is, as yet, un-
known what length of time the visit will extend to, but
from the preparations reported to he under consi-
deration in connexion with the providing of accom-
modation, there is a probability tbat her Majesty and
the Court may spend a few days at the Palace. We
sincerely trust that this expectation Will be realised.—
Scaistisan.