The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-13 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA.
LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY MORNING.
The British and North American steam-ship Ame-
rica has just arrived in our river, having sailed from
New York on the 31st ult. She called at Halifax to
land and receive passengers on the 21 inst. Her news
is four days later than that received per the Atlantic
on Wednesday last.
The America brings the usual mails, and about
80 passengers.
We learn by these advices that Garibaldi, the Ro-
man exile, had arrived in New York, where he has
met a very gratifying reception.
The accounts received from the cotton crops were
much more favourable than they had been hitherto.
Business throughout the United States was in a
languid condition.
In breadstuffs little was doing. Prices had re-
ceded slightly. *Western Canal Flour was quoted
5 dolls. 12ic. to 5 dolls. 25c. per barrel ; Genesee
Prime Wheat, 1 doll. 34c. to 1 doll. 36c. per 601b5.;
Southern Wheat, 1 doll. 16c. to 1 doll. 18c. per 601b5.;
Indian Corn, flat yellow, 63c. per bushel; Southern
White, 60c. to 62c. per bushel ; Indian Meal, 3 dolls.
to 3 dolls. 12fc. per barrel.
The Cotton market at New York was inactive, and
prices were rather feebly maintained as follows :
New Orleans and Mobile, mid. fair to fair, 141 c. per
lb.; Uplands and Florida, 13ie.
Freights rule low, the market being quiet.
Exchange on London, 1101 to 110 i, sales mo-
derate t Paris 5 22, little doing ; Hamburgh, 354 to
36 ; Bremen, 794 to 80.

TWO DAYS LATER.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH VIA HALIFAX.)
. . _ NEW YORK, AUG. 2.

We have also received two days' later intelligence
by telegraph to Halifax, bringing the news down to
the close of business in New York on the above day.
The Compromise or Slavery Bill bad been de-
feated in the Senate. ,The admission of California
into the Union was to be made a separate measure.
The President bad held the usual official attend-
ance, and declared as his policy strict neutrality in
the affairs of all nations.

Stocks were firm. Cotton unchanged. Flour
dull and lower.

SUDDEN DEATH OF THE RECORDER OF THE
CITY or LONDON.—lntelligence was received at the
Mansion-house this forenoon of the melancholy
death of the Right Hon. Charles Ewan Law, Re-
corder of the City of London, which took place
rather suddenly this morning at his town resi-
dence, at Eaton-place. The Hon. Gentleman has.
been ailing some few days, but his illness was not
of that character to create the alarm of his family.
He served the office of Common Sergeant from 830
to 1833, when he was elected to the dignified posi-
tion of Recorder. By his death a vacancy occurs in
the representation of Cambridge University in Par-
liament.

THE LONG VACATION.-11e long vacation has
just commenced, and will continue to the 24th of October, so
far as law proceedings are concerned, in the superior courts.
Persons served with writs of summons must pay within a
few days of the termination of the vacation, or they will
have to pay some additional pounds for a " declaration."
There is no vacation in the County Courts, and on the Ist of
October the new Act will come into operation, when a cre-
ditor will have the "option" of bringing his action for a
small sum to 501., or incur great expense in the superior
courts. Attorneys and banisters will, under the new Act,
be entitled to a higher scale of fees than they at present
enjoy.