The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-07 00:00:00

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING.
The United States mail steamer Washingt .n,
Capt. Cavendy, has just arrived, with dates from
New York to th • 21st ult.
After discharging her mails and passengers for
Southampton she proceeded on to Havre.
She brings two days' later news than previously
to hand via Liverpool.
The New York cotton market was firmer on the
20th, partly in consequence of telegraphic accounts
having been received giving an advance in New
Orleans. The sales embraced about 3,500 bales,
closing at an advance of lc. per lb. We now quote
middling Uplands at 181 c., and New Orleans mid-
dling at 13ic. Flour was in fair demand from the
local trade and for shipment eastward, while prices
were unchanged. Wheat was firm, bu► quiet ; a
small sale of southern red was made at 60c. Corn
was firm and in good demand, with sales of
western mixed, delivered at 74c., and from store
at 72i-c. Pork was firm ; new mess closed at
21 dols. The., and old at 21 dols. 10c. Lard ad-
vanced to 14ic. to 14gc., with some sales of prime
at 14ic., including a quantity to arrive. Sugars were
in moderate request, at unchanged prices. About
160 boxes and 200 hhds. Molado were sold. The
coffee'sales made by auction went off very well, and
established an advance of ic. to ie. on the week's
average sales.
Freights. —Engagements were light, without
charge of moment in rates.

The money market was active, and a general im-
provement in prices was realised.
General Cass had been sel.3cted for the State de-
partment, and Mr. Cobb for the Treasury. The
other departments were not arranged.
Indictments had been found against parties im-
plicated in the Burden murder.
Neither the Ericsson nor the Asia steamers, both
due, had arrived at New York on the 21st.
The United States Senate was principally occu-
pied in a discussion on the private calendar. In
the house the principal feature was the passage of
an original tariff bill, submitted by Mr. Campbell
of Ohio, by a vote of 110 against 84.
Dr. Moore, of New Y rk, had been acquitted of
the charge of conspiring to take the life of Mr.
Alfred S. Livingston, o(Trenton, New York, after
a trial which lasted four clays.
Accounts from Missouri state that great damage
had been done by recent freshets in tba-, State.
The loss to the Iron Mountain Railroad is esti-
mated at 200,000 dols.

Advices from Zanzibar, of November 26, state
ifit the Imaum of Muscat died on the 18th of Oc-

toper, on board her Britannic Majesty's frigate
Victoria, when on his passage from the capital to
Zanzibar. lie was 69 years of age, and leav©s 12
sons.

At Washington, on the 19th, the report 'of the
Committee appointed to investigate the charges of
corruption against members of Congress was pre-
sented to the House. The report recommends the
expulsion of Messrs. Gilbert, Edwards, Welch, and
Matteson, and also the exclusion of Mr. Simonton
from the floor of the house as reporter. After a
protracted discussion, further consideration of the
subject was postponed.
PHILADELPHIA, Pam., 20.
Stocks firm. Pennsylvania Fives, 85 ; Reading
Railroad, 40 ; Long Island Railroad, 18i ; Morris
Canal, 15i ; Pennsylvania Railroad, 48.
NEW ORLEANS, FEB. 18..
The receipts of cotton in the last three days were
28,500 bales; sales in the same time, 27,000 bales ;
receipts to-day, 4,850 bales. Produce market dull.
Eastern hay, $2B. Freights unchanged and dull.

Flo. 19.
Sales of cotton to-day-7,000 bales, at stiff
prices. ReCeipts to-day, 5,000 bales. Lard, 12a
to 12g. Sterling exchange, 7to 7f pm.
CHARLESTON, FEB. 19:
Sales of cotton to-day-700 bales ; sales of the
week, 12,000 bales—the market closing at an ad-
vance of tic. to c. ; good middling, 13ffc.

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FEB. 20.
Cotton unchanged. Sales to-day, 1,000 bales.

ETHNOLOGIA.—There exist in various parts of London
a number of collections, probably the most eomplete
in the world, of materials to assist the researches
of those whose seientific pursuits lead them to think
that "the proper study of mankind is man." It
is fully time that these var.oesitethnological museums
should be concentrated into one collection, instead of
being scattered throughout London, open at different
hours. and arranged without uniformity. The ttlinologi_
csl rooms at the British Museum are full to overflow-
ing. At the Asiatic Society, in the United Service and
Missionary Museums, at the East India Eine, and else:.
where, there are collections of which the scientific value
would be greatly enhanced, and the objects for which
they have been gathered more thoroughly fulfilled, by
their concentration and careful arrangemennt in one
builling. The anatomical and physi3logical Opportuni-
ties afforded by such a museum would be particularly
valuable to members of the profession— The Lancet.
ETON COLLEGE AND CAfBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.--TWO
additional scholarships in Magdalen College have been
gained by Etonian& To the first Mr. Lloyd has been
appointed. This is a scholarship of the value of 401. a year,
being divided between the Eton and the King's College,
London. In the second case Mr. What., on has gained
a scholarship, value 251, a year, on Lady Warwick's
foundation.
APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Names of gentlemen who
passed their examination in the science and practice of
medicine, and received certificates to prat.tise, on Thurs-
day, March 5 :—John Augustine Young, Maidet one ;
Henry William Jackson, Louth, Lincolnshire ; Chas.
Frederick George, Kerten in Lindsey ; Francis John
Griffiths, Bilston, Staffordshire ; Frederick Augustus
Palmer, Landport, Portsmouth ; Edward Ashton, Wain-
fleet, Lincolnshire ; Joseph Read, Southaw, Chelten-
ham ; Richard Birkett Brooks, Bleaford, Lincolnshire.