The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-26 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, 6 A.M.
The steam-ship Canada, Captain Harrison, which
left New York on the 14th instant, and Halifax on
telegraphic accounts, via Halifax,
arrived at halt past five thi,
tthoe
tlh7ethl,6bthrinignisntgant,
morning. She brings 102 passengers and 300,000
dollars in specie. Thesteam-ship Pacific arrived at
New York on the 11th instant, after a passage of
eleven days four hours.
The steam-ship Cambria arrived at Boston on the
morning of the Bth instant.
Sir George Simpson bad returned to Lachine, after
having made a tour through the interior of the Hud-
son's Bay territory, but without hearing anything of
the Franklin expedition.
From details of the intelligence from California we
learn that the aspect of affairs was satisfactory.
Sin Francisco was rapidly recovering from the late
fire ; the buildings erecting were fireproof deal. The
yield of gold was not abundant, the water being ver)
high in many places.
The prorogation of the Canadian Parliament took
place on the 10th. The President is reported to have
received information of the formation of another ex-
pedition to Cuba from Porto Rico.
(TELEGRAPH TO, HALIFAX.)
NEW YORK, AUGUST 16.
The California State Admission Bill having
pa'sed the Senate, the Bill establishing the territorial
Government of New Mexico was yesterday sanc-
tioaed. The House of Representatives has not acted
upon either the civil or
_diplomatic appropriation ; a
Bill, setting apart upwards of 10,000,000 dolls. for
this branch of the public service, occupying its whole
attention.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Government Stocks firm and in rrqueot; Sixes cf
1856 sold to-day at 1071; Sixes of 1858 at 115. Neither
Wednesday's telegraphic announcement nor to-day's
delivery of Niagara mail affected the cotton. left:Arate
business only, with
prices unchanged. Flour is very
dull. Westtru Canal superfine, 41 to 5. Number Two,
3 dolls. 50c. to 4 dolls. Canadian in bo,d, 41 dolls. to
Indian corn, 61 to 63; for mix( d yellow, 64 to 65.
Genessee white wheat at 1 dull. 28c. to 1 doll. 32c. Ca-
nadian in bond, 1 doll. sc. to 1 dull. 10c. There is a
moderate demand for Iron; 300 or 400 tons Scotch pig
have been sold within a day or two at 20 dulls. 25e.; six
Ashes continue steady,
months.
Linseed oil is held more firmly, and no English could
be had at the close below 79c.
dolls. for pearls, and 6 dolls. 12P. for pots.
with sales of 200 barrels, at 6
In freights, the market. is very firm. The rate is
2s. for fiour, one farthing . for cotton, 12i. 61 to 15..
for dead weight. To London,
3,000 bales were taken
at le. 6d.
NEW ORLEANS, AUGUST 10.
Cotton is almost nominal; sales for past two days
1,200 bales. Middling at 121 teats. Per- lb.

PRINCE ALBERT'S BIRTII•DAY.—This being his
Royal Ilighnesi Prince Albert's birth-day, the bells of the
principal metropolitan churches rung merry peals from an
earl hour, and the Tower and Park guns flied a royal salute
at one o'clock.
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The Illustrious Prince attains the age of
thirty-one to-day.
SUNDAY DELIVERY OF LETTERS AND NEWSPAPERS
IN THE COUNTRY.—On Saturday it was stated at the Gene-
ral Post-office that arrangements have been made for a
worship if they think morning delivery of letters and newspapers throughout the
United Kingdom on the Sunday, as it was previous to the
recent Act Dalt;
• -•ngf which delivery will be done before nine,
or at the lateat ten o'clock a If , so as to allow the letter.
carriers to have the remainder.' of the day to attend public
proper.
cilne into operation on Sunday next, the Ist September, ard
This new arrangement will
the
man are to be allowed au extra pay for the performance
of the duty.
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The brerpool Dock Committee-have
Captain Hentichson,.whose wife and children were murdered
IV %OM Wilson, to 3 mutergbip of Quo of the dada.

ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

ADMIRALTY, AUG. 26, 1850.

The Secretary of the Admiralty will feel obliged by
the Editor of The Sun inserting the enclosed in the
piper of this eykning.

EXTRACT OF A DISPATCH FROM SIR GEORGE
SIMPSON, DATED NORWAY HOITSE, JUNE 26,
1850.
I am sorry it is not in my power to give any
information respecting the fate of the expe-
dition under Sir John Franklin, as no advices
have been received here from the Arctic R?gions
since the arrival df the express which conveyed chief
factor Rae's letters up to the 29th November, receipt
of which was acknowledged from London previous to
my departure from Canada. The packets that were
forwarded from Lachine to Mr. Rae and Captain
Pullen, under dates 21:4 of January and 14th of
FebruAry, reached Red River Settlement respectively
on the 30th of March and the 30th of Apri't
but from the circumstance of the bearers
of the first packa having lost their way
between Cumberland and Luc la Rouge, occasi,ning
a loss of nearly a month, they did not reach Isle it la
Crosse till June Ist, one packet arriving there in the
morning, and the other in the evening of that day ; the
former was dispatched within an hour after its re-
ceipt, and the. latter in like manner, the bearers of
the second packet overtaking those who started
in the morning. As the navigation of the
rivers was open, it was expected that
both packets would have reached Great Slave Lake
before the breaking up of the ice in time to enable
Captain Pullen and Mr. Rae to have re-
sumed their search, provided there were sufficient
provisions in the district , for that service ;
but that is exceedingly doubtful, as the demands upon
our resources during the three past years have ex-
hausted our reserves (which under the moat favour-
able circumstances are always low in that
poor and remote part of the country) to such
a degree, that it was found necessary to send many of
the servants during the past winter to neighbouring
lakes, to subsist themselves by fishing. The two boat
loads of provisions, with crews of fifteen men, ordered
by me, under date 21st January, to be forwarded
from Red River, to meet the demands of the expedi-
tion, to be fitted out this summer, were dispatched
by chief factor Billenden, at the opening of the navi-
gation, with a hundred pieces of pemican and
flier, stores of tea, sugar, biscuit, pork, &c., for Cap-
tain Pullen and Mr. Rae, and about fifteen bales of
clothing.
Owing to the late breaking up of Lake Winipeg,
these boats did not reach the grand Rapid until the
12th June, but as the crew consisted of fourteen
picked men of the settlement, and one of the most ex-
perienced and active guides, they will doubtless mske
an expeditious voyage to McKenzie River; I fear,
however, they will arrive too late to be available for
service during the present season of open water,
It is expected the cargoes of these boats will
be delivered entire as arrangements. had been made
to victual the crews for the whole voyage from Red
River to McKenzie River.
The continued absence of chief factor
Rae from the charge of the important
district of M.Kenzie River is attended with
very serious inconvenience to the business; but
we consider ao sacrifice too great in giving effect to
the views and wishes of her Majesty's Government
and the British public in reference to this pain-
fully interesting service.

The Duke of Wellington leaves Apsley House this
day for Walmer Castle, for the autumn. Lady Charles
Wellesley and family, who have during the last week been
sojourning at Folkestone, leave there to-morrow to join the
noble and gallant Luke at Walmer.

His Excellency Chevalier Bunsen is expected to
arrive at the Prussian Legation to-day from a temporary
leave of absence in Germany.
The Marchioness of Douro will relieve Viscountess
Canning IA her duties as La y-in-Waiting to the Queen to-
morrow, when the Marchioness will attend on her
Majesty during her Majesty's progress from London to
Balmoral.

The Duke of Buccleugh is erecting at Granton a
pat..nt slip, for the repair of vessels, on the largest scale yet
attempted, it being intended to be available for vessels even
of 1,200 tons.—Edinburgh Advertiser.

SUICIDE OF A CHARTIST LEADER.—John Warden,
for many years a Chartist leader in Lancashire, and who was
tried at Liverpool a few years ago, with a number of others,
but acquitted, committed suicide on Monday week by cut-
ting his throat. The incision, however, was not so deep but
that he lingered until Monday last, when he died. His life
(4' late bad been one continued scene of misfortune. Father,
mother, brother, wife, and child—all followed each othkr in
rapid succession to the grave; and, at last, the sore survivor
began to wear the espect of a dejected and pining being, un •
til at length, finding he was somewhat deficient in his ac-
counts with his employer, a card-culter for jacquards, whose
books he kept, he put an end to his existence.

T&WYN.—FATAL OCCURREIkCE —Two respectable
farmers, from the parish of Manafon, Montgomeryshire, of
the names of Goodwin and Newell, while bathing at this
place on Monday evening, went toe far into the sea, and, not
being able to swim, lost their footing, and were drowned.
The sea was quite calm at the time, and it was low water,
several other persons were bathing at the same time, and it
being so fine and the sea so smooth, no one for a moment
thought that the unfortunate men were in danger until too
late. Both the deceased have left wives and several children
to lament their untimely loss.—North Wales Gazette.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—Mr. Longbourne, agent
for Lord Milford, in Pembrokeshire, has been accidentally
drowned. Ile went in a phaeton; accompanied by a servant,
to Maenclochog fair; after transacting his business, he set
out homewards in the afternoon. To shorten the distance,
he resolved to pass through the river Cleddy by a ford near
F>remont ; he was warned that heavy rains had made the
tad dangerous, but he persevered. In the stream he dis-
covered the correctness of his warning; the current was so
strong that the horse could not resist it ; the animal plunged
about, and the shafts broke. Mr. Lougbourne leaped from
the vehicle to swim ashore ; the servant clung to the horse,
and gained the land, but Mr. Longbourne perished.—North
Wales Gazette.

SALMON FISIIINGF.—We have just had the Lammas
floods, but they du not bring up salmon, for salmon there are
few or none to bring. The season has beeti a most unpro•
ductive one to our tacksinen. From whatever cause, there
seems to be a general .•ecay of red fish in our western Scot-
tish rivers. The Glasgow courier of Tuesday says: —" A
few weeks will terminate the present salmon fishing season.
On the Clyde—once famous for the extent and richness of
its takes—it has been the most unsuccessful upon record.
Since the month of March, when the fishing begins, we be-
lieve there have not been forty salmon killed betwixt Glas-
gow and the mouth of the river." Such a fact as that is
quite extraordinary.— Dumfries Herald.
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.—Major Jacob, of the
Bombay Artillery, is appointed a Companion of the Military
Order of the Bath. Mr. W. Bage is appointed Colonial En-
gineer at the Gambia. Thomas Martin Matthews is ap-
po►nted a memter of the Executive Council of the Bahama
Islands. Robert Alexander Thomson and Dr. William
Kirkwood are appointed members of the Legislative Coun.il
of the Bahama Islands. Dr. Robert Lawson is appointed a
member of Council in Sierra Leone.

The New York Evening Mirror states that the
daughter of President Fillmore "is an accomplished young
lady, about eighteen years of age, and now engaged, we be-
lieve, in the honourable employment as teacher of a public
school in Buffalo. The latter fact is something for a repub-
lican people to boast of; and something to put the dainty
daughters of the would-be aristocracy to the blush."
HER MAJBSTY'S THEATRE.—Amongst the noble
and distinguished individuals honouring the performances at
Her Majesty's Theatre, on Saturday evening with their
presence were the following :—His Grace the Duke of Wel-
lington, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marquis of Donegal,
the Countess of Glengal and Lady Margaret Butler, Earl of
Mountcharles, the Viscount Clifden, the Count de Rosen, the
Viscount Canterbury, the Count Tour Dupin, Lady C.
Somerset, Lady Catherine Stuart, Lady F. Bentinck, Lord
William I'aulett, Lady Lake, Lady Augusta Wentworth and
Miss Wentworth, the Count de Berke, and the Baron Videl.
Her Majesty's box was occupied by the' Marchioness of
Donegal, Lady Harriet Chichester, Mrs. Verner, the Earl of
Belfast and party. Amongst the company were also the
following :—Lietenant-General Sir Alexander Woodford,
Bart., Lady and Miss Woodford, Sir John Lowther, Bart.,
Sir George Wombwell, Bart., Mr. Storer, Sir Thomas Hare,
Bart., Lady Mackenzie and Miss Mackenzie, the Hon. Capt.
Curry, M.P., the Hon. Cecil Forrester, the Hon. 0. F. Toler,
the Hon. Spencer Cowper, the Hon. Robert Bourke, the
Hon. Mr. Henbury, the Hon. Mrs. St. John, the Hon. Mr.
Dudley de Runs, the Hon. Miss Maude, Mr. Norman Mac-
donald, Major Buckley, Captain Ithibbs, Captain and
Mrs. Carter, Mrs. Walker, bliss Richards, Mr. Leslie,
Miss Bellew, &o.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—Amongst the fashion-
able company honouring the performance at the Royal
Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday evening we
remarked his Serene Highness the Duke of Brunswick and
party, her Grace the Duchess of Inverness and party, the
Marchioness of Westmeath, the Marquis of Douro, M.P.,
the Marchesa Brancaleoni and Madlle..birancaleoni, the Earl
of St. Germans, the Earl and Countess of Beauchamp, Vis-
count Dupplin, Viscount Exm,uth, Viscount 'lempletown,
Viscount Mandeville, Lord and Lady Burghersb, Lord
Francis Gordon, Miss Burdett Cuutts and Miss Grant, Mrs.
William Locke and Miss de Burgh and the Hon. Miss Blake,
Sir George Artnytage, Sir Henry Webb, Lady Monson,
Colonel Brownlow Knox, Colonel Blanc, Mr. Henry
Greville, M. and Madame Ralli, Madame de Boota, Hon.
Mrs. Arthur Upton, Hon. Frederick Leveson Gower, Mr.
and Mrs. Horstman, Miss Gyles, Mrs Hooper and the Misses
Hooper and Miss Laurie, Baron and Baroness Von Stew,
Sir Francis and Lady Vincent, Colonel Blanc, Captain
Steele, Captain Pakenham, Mr. E. Bligh, Mr. John Butted,
Mr. J. Lloyd Clayton, Mr. Martineau, Major M•Leod, Mr.
C. C. .:artyn, Mr Erskine, Lady t 'ouglas, General Lewellyn
and Lady Lewellyn, Mr. Raymond Barker, Mr. Augustus
Stanley, Hon. Theobald Dillon, Mr. and Mrs. Herring, Mr.
Cox, &c.

DEPARTURE OF THE BISHOP OF MONTREAL.—On
Saturday the Right Rev. Dr. Francis Fulford, who wag con-
secrated on the 25th of July last Bishop of the diocese of
Montreal, left the shores of England to enter upon the epis-
copal duties of his distant see. His Lordship was a passenger
in the Hibernia, bound for Boston, in which city. he con-
templatei renaming A (sly days prvel9tts to passing onwards
to 919Utresl, •

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
The Moniteur publishes thc. following telegraphic
dispatch, dated Strasburgh, the 23d of August, at one
iu the afternoon :
" The President cf the public visited the Civil and
Military Hospital, the Foundry, the Arsenal, and the
Cathedral this morning. There was en immense crowd
everywhere, end he mat an es._!ellent reception. He
leaves Strasburgh at this moment, amidst cries of Vive
le President!' He is closely followed by an immense
crowd."

The reception of the PRESIDENT at Strasbourg
was very cold. Nothing could be more unen-
thusiastic than the address of the Mayor, it is as
follows :

" Monsieur le President,—Your solicitude about the
interests and wants of our neighbourhood brings you to
our town. We congratulate you on your good visit.
Be pleased, Monsieur le President, to see in the hospi-
tality we ore happy to offer you a proof of our pro-
found respect for our institutions, and for the First
Magistrate of the Republic."
The following case has just been decided by the
Tribunal of Commerce. M. Escuntert, the publisher
of the Decadence de r Angleterre and the Loi Anglaise,
by M. LEDRU ROLLIN, was sued by M. ANTi,INE On
mime bills cf exchange, of which he was the, holder.
M. ESCUDIEE, in his defence, demanded that M.
LEDRU ROLLIN should be declared responsible, and
aesigned the following grounds for the demand :
When M. LEDRU ROLLIN agreed with M. Etcunirli
to publish these woiles, he would not have him as a
direct debtor, fearing that an opposition would be
placed upon any of the proceeds for debts due by M.
LEDRU ROLLIN. He therefore made M. EtCUDIER
sign bills, which were endorsed to the order of M.
DALICAN, M. LECLANCHE, and M. ANTOINE. In
compl3 lug with the desire of M. LEDRU ROLLIN, M.
ESCUDIER expected that the two works would be com-
pleted by the author, which has not been the case,
and, above all, that there would be a sale for them,
whereas they have remained on the shelves of his
warehouse. Having derived no benefit from the
works, he had therefore a right to refuse payment of
the bills when in the hands of a person who was only
a prete-nom. The Tribunal, after hearing the plead-
ings, complied with the demand of M. ESCUDIER,
and gave judgment, by default against M. LEDRU
ROLLIN.

We read in the Paris comsponder:ce of the Ina-
pendance of Brussels :
"You are aware that a rumour prevails here that a
letter has been written by the .Prince de. Joinitile to a
representative of the moderate party. This letter was
read the day before yesterday at M. Mo]Cs, and the
name of the member, formerly an ambassador, who re-
ceived it, was mentioned. It is said that it is the Re-
publican party which provoked the sending of this fire-
brand, as it is resolved to support the Prince de Joinville
amtinst the pretensions of M. Louis Bonaparte, and tees
in the position of that candidate, as regards his own
family, guarantees against a'iy p ssible return, by that
way, to the monarchy. Althc:ugh I believe the letter to
be authentic, I have to state that a deputy, well known
for his relations with the younger branch, M. R. (du
Nord), who has just returned from London, d(clarts
that he has had a conversation with the Prince de Join-
vine, which was little in accord with the intentions at•
tributed to him by the letter, as spoken of by the Bulletin
de Paris."

There is a well written article in the .Presse on the
probabilities of 1852, from which we extract the fol-
lowing :
" The Republic will not die—such is the first solution,
which appears more and more evident as we go on. The
Bonapartist* already make themselves Republicans
through fear of legitimacy, and we shall soon see the
Legitimists doing the same through fear of the Em-
pire. The Orleanists may also be converted through
fear of something else. In flue, the poor Republic,
so disdained, will be the common. shelter. We an-
nounce that, in 1852, there will be only Repub-
licanr. How could it be otherwise ? Who could, in
1852, combat the Republic? Certainly not the Repub-
licans. The Republic is not such as they imagined it,
but still it is the Republic. In 'what is only a form.
even a degenerate one,- they feel the germ of dem -
cracy, and they trust to time, which ripens all that i.
just arid true. Not the Orlearists. The Count de Pads
will be still a child in 1852. The party which regrets
the revolution-of 1848, after having effected that of
1830, feels more ill humour than antipathy for the Re-
public. It could not cons, nt to again raise a throne on
an ill-extingffshed volcano; it will guard the Republic
which reserves its Lope 3. Not the LE gititniste. A
restoration of La Vence.) is impossible, so is one by a
European coalidon. The Legitimists, no doubt, have
the object of their predilection at Froorf ; but, in tie
fault of their young King, they will guard the Re-
public which :protects and reserves their principle:
Remain the Bonapartists. The dreams which they
had made in the atmosphere cf flatteries and falsehood
concerning an empire had vanished into thin air on the
banks of the Rhone. Scarcely had M. Louis Napoleon Bo-
naparte left the Ely see, when he recovt red something
of that sound sense which we had admired in the works
of the prisoner of Ham. In approaching the people, he
got farther from the phantasmagoria created by his
courtiers, and perceived the sanity of coupe d'etat, which
he has disavowed, as well as the power of the Republic,
which he has recognised and picel.imed. On that side
also there is no- danger. -The idol is waniiug to the
adorers, supposing that there ore any such. The Empire
reminds us of a statue without a pedestal. It is hence-
forward only a pedestal without a statue."

_
141ibIN-ESs LAME IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
149.ND01S STOCK-EXCHAN t E, AUG. 24.
Boulokne and Amiens, 71A —Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 14% East Indian, 7% —Great Indian Penin-
sula, li/s—Paris and Rouen, 23tA ex div.

SPAIN.
Madrid k)urnals of the .t9h have arrived.
Their contents are unimportant.

PORTUGAL.

Accounts hal6 been received from Lisbon to
the 19th.

Commodore MARTIN'S squadron arrived in the
Tagus on the 11th.
The QUEEN and the Court were at Cintra, and
the Count DE THOMAR at Coldos. Several incen-
diary fires had occurred in the provinces.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The Hamburgh Courant publishes a letter from
Altona of the 20th ult. which says,—
" Seventy•six wounded have been brought in here to.
day from Rendsburg; 600 men who were wounded in the
late engagement, and admitted into the hospital of this
place, have already been discharged cured, and have
gone back to the army.
" The commandant of Re ndsburg, Lieut.-Colow-1 Von
Lesser, died suddenly yesterday, and is to be solemnly
interred today.