The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-09 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY EVENING.
Tho Royal Mail steamship Europa brings ad-
vices from New York to the 24th, and Boston to
the 25th wt. ; she has brought no specie. On the
6th inst. she spoke the Alps. The Asia had arrived
at New York, and the Indian at Portland.
A formal application had bean made to Congress
for au appropriation to despatch an envoy to Persia
on the 23d.

The Senate passed the bill to amend the tariff of
1846 on the 24th. The Senate's Committee on
Finan :e agreed to report amendments on the Ta-
riff Bill. Mr. Hunter, chairman of the committee,
had prepared a bill on his own responsibility, and
would endeavour to procure the consideration of
the subject on the 25th. An article in the Wash-
ington:Union on the Central American treaty,
denouncing in very violent language all interfer-
ence by Great Britain in America, had occasioned
a very uneasy feeling. The New York Courier
and Enquirer replies to the article in indignant
terms, and says :

" The article from the Union has excited much atten
tion in political circles, as being perhaps an index of the
policy of the incoming Administration towards Englaid.
If it really is such there is indeed reason for a sensation.
Its spirit is hostile, its charges untrue, its demands un-
just, and its sentiments insulting and unwarrantable."
The House of Representatives had passed the
Senate's joint resolution for ascertaining and fixing
the relative value of the coins of Great Britain in
the United States. The house had passed a bill
for a modification of the tariff. It provides simply
for an addition to the free list on and after the Ist
of next July, without proposing any ocher changes.
It is substantially the same as reported at the close
of the last session of Congress. One of the provi-
sions is that only wool of the value at the port of
importation of 15c. per lb. or leis, or 50c. per lb.
or over, shall be free ; lead, hemp, iron, and sugar
remain as at present.
The accounts from Nicaragua are very conflicting
and unreliable, but 11L-re appears to be little doubt
'hat Walker was in a desperate c .ndition. Having
been repulsed on two occasions, rainy of his men
ha' i deserted by floating down the river ou logs.
Dr. Elisna Kane, the Arctic raveller, is dead, at
the age of 34. A despatch, from New Orleans of
the 23d says :—" The steamship Cahawb 1. has jus
arrived from Havannah, and brings the intellig--nce
of Dr. Kiine's death, which occurred on the 16th
inst. The greatest sympathy was manifested by
the officers of the island, who attended his funeral
in a body."
The New York money market had been more
quiet. Loans were easier both on business paper
and stock. Collaterals with large sales. Reading
had improved lc., closing at 80.1 c. cash. Saes of
Erie were made at 56i. Illinois, 1341. Missouri
Sixes had advanced 1. The Bank statement showed
very little variation in exchange. Business was not
very active. Rates were steady, and the demand
for sterling bills improving—on Lonjlon, 60 days'
sight, 1081 to 1081.
There had been a large business in cotton at an
advance of lc. to ic. per lb.
Flour was lower. Indian corn bad advanced.
Provisions were lively. In naval stores there had
been little business done. Scotch pig-iron was
,teady. Tobacco firm. Freights were rather lower.

THE MEDITERRANEAN.

SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH
8.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Ripon, Captain R. W. Evans, arrived this
afternoon with the heavy portion of the East India
and China mails, in charge of Lieut. Inglis, R.N.,
Admiralty agent. She 1-ft Alexandria Feb. 22,
Malta 27, and Gibraltar March 3.
This steamer brings 40 first-class passengers,
among whom is the Marquis of Hastings, from
Malta'; 34 second-class, and 20 children ; and a
acargo consisting of 75 boxes of oranges, 21 boxes of
jewellery, two casks of wine, 1,200 bales of silk,
and 100 packages of general merchandise. She
experienced fine weather in the Mediterranean ;
easterly winds along the coasts of Spain and Portu-
gal ; south-east winds across the Bay of Biscay,
and north-westerly winds up-Channel ; fine weather
throughout.
The Ripon exchanged colours with the Peninsu-
lar and Oriental Company's steamers Colombo, on
the 28th of February, at 7.30 a.m., steering
E.S.E. ; the Tagus, on the 4th of March, at 5.30
a.m., steering S ; and the Alhambra, on the Bth,
steering down Channel.
At Malta :—The Conqueror, the Centurion, and
the Brunswick screwships of the line ; the Centaur
steam-frigate, the Recruit mad Weser steamsloops,
the Lynx, Fancy, Osprey, and Wanderer gunboats,
the Caradoc, Shearwater, and Medina steamers.
Orders had been issued (says the Malta Times)
for her Majesty's screw-liners Majestic, Captain
James Hope, and Cressy, Captain Richard L.
Warren, then in the Bosphorus, to proceed to the
Piraeus, embark the 91st Regiment, and convey it
to Corfu, after which the ships are to proceed to
England, calling at Malta on their way.
Cadiz papers to the 28th ult. had been received
at Gibraltar. The Spanish line-of-battle ship Reina
Isabel 11., Captain Brigadier Don Antonio de Are-
' valo, arrived at Cadiz on the 27th from Mahon, in
tow of the steamer Colon, of 6 guns, Captain Don
Ignacio de Arias. The Contribuyemte says that
" the expedition which the Spanish Government is
abou; to despatch to Cuba to vindicate its honour
and place in safety the interests comp! omised in
Mexico will be compose I of from 20 to 30 vessels,
storeships and transports included, and from 8,000
to 10,000 picked troops. They are to be com-
manded by a General who has already distinguish-
ed himself by his gallantry abroad."
Advices from Gibraltar extend to the 3d instant.
The recently erected public baths and washhouses
were opened by the Governor, Sir James Fergus-
son, on the 24th ult., in the presence a the civil
and military authorities. A handsome collation
was served to a distinguished party in a marquea
and the band of the 92d Highlanders contributed
to the festivities. Lieutenant Leith, of the 92d
Highlanders, died on the 21st ult., at his quarters,
and was buried in the cemetery at the North Front,
with military honours. Exchanges on the 28th were
quoted as follows :—London, 90 days' da.e, 51 ;
sf. 35c. ; M'rseilles, do., sf. 34c. ;
Paris, do.,
Gtnoa, do., Of. 38c. ; Madrid, eight days' sight, a
d a. ; Cadiz, do., i dis ; Malaga, do., i dis ; Seville,
dis. ; Alicante, do., 2: dis. ; Valencia, do., i dis. ;
Barcelona, do., .1 di?. ; Spanish pillared dollars, 9X
to 10 ptr cent. prem.
1
The European and Australian Mail Company's
st-ariash p E na, with the mails of the 24th latireto
from Southampton, passed to the eastward of the
garrisan at 6 o'clock p.m., on the 28th ult., bound
to Malta and Alexandria.

The Royal Victoria Yacht Club schooner Fairy
Queen arrived at Gibraltar on the 270, in. 13 days

from Portsmouth ; and the Royal Yacht Squadron
schooner Titania on V.e 2d ius'., in four days from
Algiers for England.
H.M. steam frigate Dauntles,, CO. Ryder, with
the steam gunboat Cracker, Lieut. Blackborne c 111-
manding, in tow, arrived at Gibraltar on the 17th
ult., 12 days from Malts, and three from Algiers,
and left at 10 a.m. on the 19th for the westward.
H.M. steam sloop Curlew, Capt. Horton, arrived
at Gibraltar from Malaga on the 19th.
The French schooner Ville de Quimper, from
Cette, bound for Dunkirk, with a cargo of wine and
salt, was totally wrecked .t Torre Carbonera at five
o'clo,:k in the morning of the 22d ult. One of the
crew was unfortunately drowned, and the remai!"
der, six in number, were provideutia'ly saved by
the exertions of the Carbineers on that station.
The vessel went to pieces.
The screw steamer Demetrius, Capt. Young, from
Liverpool for Beyrour, put back to Gibraltar on the
19th ult., having bee') in collision with a bark he'
loeging to Malta. The latter appeared not to have
suffered much, as :he proceeded on hervovage
out stopping to ascertain what injury the steamer
had sustained. The Demetrius lost bulwarks, stall'
chious, cutwater, &c., besides having some of her
bowplat:s carried away. The Superintendent me
her Majesty's dockyard having granted every fact
lity for the purpose, the necessary repairs were
speedily effected, and she resumed her voyage to
the eastward on the night of the 28th.