The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-30 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

We have been favoured with the following intelli-
gence, purporting to have been forwarded by electric
telegraph from New York to Halifax, and received at
the North American and European Telegraph
Agency-office, Liverpool :
" We have just received our extraordinary telegra-
phic dispatch from New York, New Orleans, and
Washington, via electric telegraph to Halifax, bring-
ing news and dates considerably later than those
brought by the regular files and advices per steamer.
By this means of communication our advices extend
to New Orleans, April 18, 5 P.M.; New York, April
19, 5 P.M. ; and from Washington to the evening of
the 18th.

" The letter of our Halifax agent is as follows :
"Commercial Telegraph-office, Halifax, N.S.,
April. 19, 11 o'clock P.M.
" We have received, through the Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick, and Halifax lines, exclusive intelligence from
all parts of the American continent two and a-half days
later than is embraced in the letters or papers that go to
England by this week's steamer, a brief summary of
which is herewith forwarded:—
" POLITICAL.

"In the Senate of the United States, on the I;th,
during a debate on California and slavery, a violent
altercation occurred between Benton and Foote, in the
course of which Foote drew a pistol and aimed at Ben-
ton. Foote was immediately disarmed, and a com-
mittee of investigation appointed."
"On the 18th, a resolution was passed in the Senate
referring the whole question of California and the terri-
tories to a committee of 13, to report a plan for com-
promise.
" The committee is not yet appointed.
"It is settled the Cabinet will not be dissolved.
"COMMERCIAL.

"NEW YORK, APRIL 19, EVENING.

" Cotton—The sales of the two days past amount to
2,800 bales, at very full yrices. The weather has coa-
tiuued cold and frosty, and every account received from
the south is disastrous as regards the prospects of plant-
ing. The incoming crop will not, it is confidently be-
lieved, reach 2,000,000 bales, and the country will hold
over the balance of the present crop.
" A decline of c. is anticipated on receipt of the
steamer's news from Europe of the 6th of April, which
has not yet come to hand.

" The New Orleans market was active last evening
(18th of April). Sales, 8,000 bales, at 1 tic. to I tic. for
middling; and all southern markets are higher for the
shipper than this.

‘; Flour—Our market for flour is very firm at quota-
tions current on Tuesday.
" Corn has advanced to 60c. for yellow.
" Provisions—Mess pork, 10 dolls. 12ie. to 10 dolls.
25c. per cwt. Other articles are without change.
" Sterling exchange,l9ic. to Sic. premium, and the
tendency is upwards.
" Government securities (American) are very firm at
quotations of Tuesday last."

AMERICAN MARKETS.
The stock market for sound dividend-paying stocks
improved after the arrival of the last steamer from
Liverpool, and sales have been made at prices beyond
those obtained for some years. The supply of that
description of stock is not large, and any important
demands produce an advance of one or two per
cent, The New York Five per Cent. State Loan
of 1866, taken a few days since at 1051 per cent.,
has been since sold at 106! per cent., and for
the Sixes of 1867, 120 was bid. The money market is
easy on call, and rates for paper are ameliorating • some
loans on call were made at 5 per cent., and on Govern-
ment bills money can be occasionally borrowed at 4 per
cent. The supply seeking temporary investment is quite
large. The supply of first-class names it not very large.
The exchange market has been active for this steamer,with
moderate supply. At the close, however, there was less
firmness, and some bi lls were left over. The amount of coin
in the Sub-Treasury is 41 millions, and in the Sub-
Treasury of the country about 9 millions. The banks are
amply supplied also. The provision market is firm, but
not very active. Freights continue very dull at low rates;
dead weights can be shipped to Liverpool at 10s. to 125.,
corn 3d., cotton 3s. sterling per bale. The steamer At-
lantic) has 300 tons dead weight on private terms. To
Havre, cent. fur cotton, and dull; Glasgow 56 tierces
provision, at 3s. 6i. Pig iron is dull at 21 dollars cash
for Scotch, English, and Spanish. Lead is selling at 85
cash per 100 lb.

Cotton—The stock in the ports on April 16 was
570,000, and inland 117,800, making a total of 687,800
bales. Midland, upland, and Mobile, 111- cents, Or-
leans 12 cents per lb. Sales since 31st March, 12,000
bales, market active, tendency upwards; sales 16th of
April, 2,000 bales.
Bread Stuffs—Flour market is firm and low; goods
have an upward tendency. Wheat is steady and in good
inquiry.

REiV ORLEANS, APRIL 16.—The Cotton market pre-
sents no important change, and the sales yesterday were
2,500 bales; fair, 12te. The receipts are 247,000 ba'es
behind same period last year.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTION.

We have received files of parrs from Adelni,ie to
the 24th December inclusive. On Friday, the 21st
December, a great public meeting was held in the
Exchange, Adelaide, in accordance with a requisition
of the Sheriff of the Province, C. B. Newenham, Esq.,
to adopt resolutions and appoint a committee to pre,
pare petitions to both Houses of Parliament on the
subject of the proposed new constitution. Many of
the shops were shut, and business was altogether sus-
pended during the progress of the meeting.
The following resolutions were unanimously
adopted :
" Proposed by Mr. J. H. Fisher, afid seconded by
Mr. G. S. Kingston:—
" 1. That the Bill laid before Parliament, entitled,
• A Bill for the better government of her Majesty's
Australian colonies,' so far as it relates to the colony of
South Australia, meets the wishes and wants of the co-
lonists in most of its most essential provisions; and by
recommending the concession of a representative Go-
vernment with such extensive powers, deserves to be re-
garded as a wise, liberal, and comprehensive measure;
and that the thanks of the colonists are due to the Right
Hon. Earl Grey, Secretary for the Colonies, and to Mr.
Hawes, Lord John Russell, and Mr. Labouchere, the
Members of the House of Commons who prepared and
brought in the Bill.

" Proposed by Mr. Samuel Davenport, and seconded
by Mr. George Elder:—
" 2. That the formation of a general assembly of the
Australian colonies, however desirable on the majority of
matters proposed to be left to the decision of such As-
sembly, is in principle, as in form, a federal union; is,
in a British sense, unconstitutional, as morally opposed
to the social institution of the colony, and endangering
our colonial independence.

" Proposed by Mr. G. A. Anstey, and seconded by
Mr. A. H. Davis:—

"3. That the resolutions recently passed by the Le-
gislative Council, recommending a second chamber, do
not represent the opinions nor convey the sentiment of
the colonists, particularly as the proposed Act confers
all needful powers for amending the constitution, and
adapting it to future exigencies; and that any provision
which should enforce upon the colonists a system of life
nominees in such a chamber, this meeting deprecates as
an intolerable evil, which might neutralise all the good
to be anticipated from the proposed measure.
"Proposed by Mr. F. S. Dutton, and seconded by Mr.
G. M. Waterhouse:—

"4. The colonists king prepared as heretofore to
bear the whole expenses of their civil government, con-
sider that they havee% constitutional right to regulate,
by means of their representives in council, the mode of
raising and of appropriating the colonial revenue, free
from all direction and control by her Majesty's Trea-
sury, or by the Commissioners of Customs; and they
further consider that the local Government should have
the power of appointing all officers of Government, and
that the salaries should be fixed by the colonial legis-
lature.

" Proposed by Mr. J. B. Montefiora, and seconded by
Mr. W. Peacock :

"1. That this meeting considers the provisions in the
Sydney Act, fixing the qualifications of members of the
proposed representative council, and of the electors, in-
applicable to the circumstances of the colony; and that
power should be, therefore, given t) the local legislature
to qualify such provisions as they may see fit.
" Proposed by Mr. Win. Blyth, and seconded by Mr.
Samuel Stocks:—

" 6.. That a copy of the resolutions passed at this meta-
ing, and signed by the chairman, be forwarded to E trl
Grey; and that the following gentlemen be appointed a
committee, with power to add to their number, to pre-
pare petitions to both Houses of Parliament embodying
these resolutions, requesting his Excellency the Lieu
tenant. Governor to forward the same with the least pot-
sible delay:--
"J. H. Fisher, E. Stephens, A. H. Davis, John
Brown, G. S. Kingston, S. Davenport, H. D.
Hanson, Geo. Elder, G. A. Anstey, S. Stocks,
jun., John Baker."
A vote of thanks to the chairman was carried by
acclamation.

IRELAND.

BIRTII-PLACE OP " THE DUKE."

DUBLIN, SATURDAY.—Mr. Murray, one cf the
resident masters of Trinity College, Dublin, has pub-
lished a brochure, in which he sets at rest the moot
point of the birth•-place of the Duke of Wellington.
One might think there was little ground for specula-
tion in such a case, seeing that his Grace's mother is
only a few years dead, supposing (which is extremely
unlikely) that his Grace himself should be ignorant
of the fact. Strange enough that the biographers of
the Duke of Wellington differ on the subject. Burke
and Maxwell record the birth of his Grace as having
occurred on the Ist of May, 1769, at Dungan Castle,
in the county of Meath ; and Gurwood and Lodge
assent expressly to the time and tacitly to the place.
Mr. Murray has discovered a piece of evidence which
he deems conclusive of the fact that Dublin may
henceforth claim the honour of being the birth-place
of the conqueror of Napoleon. In a Dublin news-
paper, published on S iturday, the 6th of May, 1769,
entitled the Public Register, or Freeman's Journal,
there is the following brief announcement :
" Merrion-street, the Right Hon. the
.Countess of Mornington of a son."
Mr. Murray maintains that the house in which
this event occurred is that at present occupied by the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and in support of his
assertion refers to the following passage in Lord
Cloncurry's " Recollections" :
" I graduated in the arts in the year 1791; as it hap-
pened, upon the day on which my father entertained the
Lord-Lieutenant (the Earl of Westmoreland) for the
first time, at Mornington House, a residence in Mer-
rion.street, which he had purchased from the late Mar-
quis Wellesley:"
The late Lord Cloncurry paid as purchase•money
for this house the sum of 8,0001.
Next, as to the date of his Grace's birth, Mr. Mur-
ray adduces one fact to prove it occurred on the 29. h
of April, 1769, and another that he was actually
baptised on the following day; therefore the Ist of
May must be erroneous. Exshaw's Gentleman's
Magazine, in the number for May, 1769, has the

" BIRTH.-April 29, the Countess of Morningt3n of a
son."

In the parish registry of St. Peter's Church, on a
page headed "Chritening.4, 1769," is this entry :
" April 30, Arthur, son of the Right Hon: Earl and
Countess of Mornington." It is here to be noted
that the east side of Upper Merrion-street was then,
as it is now, included in the parish of St. Peter.
We can assure the. English reader that he is not
prouder of his Stratford•on-Aron than his Irish
neighbour shall be of the house in Merrion-street, the
birth-place of the duke of Wellington.

R.Y MARKETS.
statement of the quantities of
net of London from the ports in
1850, to the 27th April, 1::450,