The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-05 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 4.

The Royal mail steamship Africa has arrived,
with advices from New York to the 24th Dec. and
50,0001. in specie on freight.
The Canada, hence, arrived at Halifax on the
231 Dec.
On the 25th Dec., at 6 p.m., the Africa passed a
large steamer bound westward, and on the follow-
ing day the screw steamship Edinburgh, from Glas •
gow for New York.
In Congress the discussion on the President's
Message had been continued and adjourned. The
application to the President by the gentlemen con-
nected with the Atlantic telegraph to solicit his
patronage to the scheme had been crowned with
success.

The President had issued an order for the arrest
of Cornelius K. Garrison, Charles l'gpr,n, and
General William Walker, to answer the Accessor3r
Transit Company in a plea of trespass for convert-
ing and. disposing of the goods and chattels of the
company to the value of $1,000,000, and also a
further sum of $1,000,000 damages for interrupting
their business. There had been a large meeting
in New York for the purpose of devising the proper
manner and seeking the means to send material aid
to Walker.
The Herald, remarking on it, says :

" It is a singular evidence of the tone and tendency of
popedarliphilen among the better classes of society here
that several of the most fashionable and leadieg hotels
should have come publicly forward with contributions.
The St. Nicholas Hotel sends 100 barrels of bread, the
Metropolitan Hotel, 5,0001 b. of bacon, and the guests
of several other popular house: send in contributions of
money. There is another contribution that has rather
an ominous look-1,000 rifles."
At the earnest request of Walker's discarded
envoy, Goicouria, Mr. Roberts, of the United
States' Steamship Company, had consented to let
one of his steamers call at Greytown, to relieve
those misguided Fillibusters who were in a starv-
ing condition.
At New York, while lying at the pier, the steam
ship. Knoxville, of the Savannah line, had been
destroyed by fire.
Some fishermen engaged on the western edge of
the Grand Bank, about 50 miles from land, had
hooked some wreck, which is supposed to be the
American mail steamer Arctic, which sank in 1854.
It is stated that it will be several weeks before the
Adriatic is ready for sea.
The NeW York and Liverpool packet ship New
York went ashore on the night of the 19th, two
miles from Basnegat inlet. Next morning the
second mate and six men succeeded in landing with
a rope in one of the ship's boats; the passengers
were afterwards landed in safety. The captain
(M‘Kinnon) was brutally ill-used and seriously in-
jured by seven of his crew, while endeavouring to
suppress insubordination. He snapped a pistol at
one man • it missed fire, and he was knocked down,
and but for the mate, who stood over him, would
have been murdered. The mate also was in great
danger, but one of the mutineers took his part.
Next day the man WS killed by his comrades.
For four days and nights the emigrants, 300 in
number, remained without shelter or food of any
kind on the bleak coast. In the same gale the brig
Tasso, of St. John's, Newfoundland, was wrecked.
Four of her crew and two men who had gone off
from the beach were drowned attempting to get
ashore.

The negro insurrection excitement had net ceased.
A despatch from Louisville of Dec. 20 says :

"The Russellville Herald of Wednesday last says that
the negro insurrection excitement exists in the neigh-
bourhood of Volney and Gordonsville.- A number of
negroes had been arrested ; a negro at one of the iron
works in Tennessee said he knew all about the plot, but
would die before he would tell. He thereupon received
750 lashes, from which he died. At Cadiz, Trig county,
Kentucky, a free negro was hung after being tried by a
Vigilance Committee. There are a number more in
gaol, some of who o will be hung. Judge C.)ok has
called a meeting of the C )urt for Christmas-day. Ex-
citement runs very high."
Havannah advices are to the 15th Dec. The
stock of sugar on hand was 65,000 boxes, and at
Matanzas 3,000 boxes ; molasses contracts made
freely at 74 to 8 rials per keg of 51- gallons for
clayed ; muscbvado molasses, 8 to 94 ditto.
In the New York money market the demand
continued active and the supply adequate at 9 to
10 per cent. for first class 30 to 60 days' paper, 12
to 15 per cent. for second class.
In exchange the demand for remittance, was
very limited, and continental lower. Bills on Lon-
don at 8i to 9 per cent. pm. ; Paris, 5.20 to 5.21 i ;
Hamburg, 36ff to 36g. Stock transactions were
limited and the market steady. Railroad bonds
firm, but inactive. The cotton market was about
one-eighth of a cent, better, owing to the advices
from the south of a probable short crop, and a
very general belief that the yield would not exceed
3,000,000 bales ; the market closed firm. In the
flour market the Canada's advices had added to the
dulness. Canada in moderate supply, at from $6
40c. to $7 70c. for superfine to best extra; southern
in good request for export, and buoyant. Red and
white wheat firmer, on account of scarcity; the home
prices had a restricting tendency. Pork irregular ;
ness a shade better, price lower, stock moderate.
Beef in better demand, partly speculative, and
prices slightly higher ; stock moderate, and holders
indifferent about selling. Lard kc to lc lower.
Cheese firmer. Prime north country crude turpen-
tine held at $3 50c, and Ilmington sold at $3 43/c.
Spirits of turpentine much firmer ; 43c. cash had
been refused, and sales made at a higher rate.
White resin scarce, and wanted at full prices. Salt
in bulk dull. Freights firmer to this port, and the
business moderate, at 50 to 6&d for corn and wheat,
is 9d for flour, and id to 5-32 d for cotton ; to Lon-
don, 2s 2d for flour, and 3s to 4s for pork.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 22.
Good demand for cotton ; maricet firm.
MOBILE, Dec. 19.

Middling, 111 to 11i.
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
The Jeremiah Thompson and the City of New Tork,
hence ; the Macedonia, from Shields; the Plymouth Rock,
from London ; and the Damon, from Cadiz—all at New
York.

THE PACIFIC.

SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 4.

By the steamer Orinoco, arrived to-day from the
West Indies, we have news from Panama to the
9th Dec. H.M.S. Monarch, Admiral Bruce, the
steam corvette Pearl, Captain Sotheby, and the
Esk, Captain Sir James M'Clure, arrived on the
previous night from Punta Arenas. It was not
known at Panama how long the British squadron
would remain, or for what purpose they had come.
The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer
New Granada, Captain Paton, arrived at Panama
on the 6th Dec., with the semi-monthly South
Pacific mail and $271,770 in specie. Her dates were
Valparaiso,' Nov. 16 ; Callao, 27 ; Paita, 30 ;
Guayaquil, Dec. 1.
When the New Granada left Callao the following
English vessels of war were in port :—The President,
the Naiad, and the Cockatrice. The screw frigate
Tribune had sailed from Valparaiso for Panama.
At Chili, Joaquin Carbacho had been sentenced
to death for the murder of his wife in the principal
square of Santiago, iu the middle of the day, and
iu the presence of a number of persons. He im-
mediately gave himself up. Jealousy was the
cause of the fatal act, and public feeling was in
favour of a reprieve. The works of the Santiago
and Valparaiso Railway, and those of the Tacua
and Santiago line, are progressing rapidly. The
new Cabinet was completed.
The Chilian war steamer Esmeralda, 20 guns,
built in England for the Government, had arrived
safely at Valparaiso. Her officers speak highly of
her performance during the voyage.
There is no later news from the Republic of Ecu-
ador, neither is there any of interest from Bolivia.
From Peru we learn that the revolutionary
movement in the south seems to be on the in-
crease, and two of the national vessels, the Loa
and the Apurimac, had gone over to the revolu-
tionary party. The Izuchaca, the Tumbes, and
the IJcayli had been sent after them by the Govern-
ment, and a number of English and American
beach-combers were enlisted to aid in their cap-
ture. The general opinion was that the Govern-
ment ships would most likely get the worst of it,
and either be taken or join the revolutionary
party.
The President Castilla had issued a decree pro-
nouncing the Loa and Apurimac pirates, and that
vessels of any nation were authorised to seize them.
General Lizarzaburu had been named 31inister
of War and Marine.l
Marshal San Ramon, with all the force he. co
th uld
muster, marched from Islay to Tacna tjom e
division of General Freyre, quartered there. The
Contercio states that the revolutionary movement
in Ariquipa was on its last legs when the news of
the Apurimac having pronounced in its favour
1 gave it new life.
The Ariquipa correspondent of the Comercio

says :—" On the pronunciaraento' of the Loa and
Apurimae, SAI Ramon retreated thence to Tambo
with 180 men, and the same day Islay declared in
favour of the revolutionary party. Ou the 19rh
San Ramon reached Tambo, where be was detained
by Gtlonel Brusset, but the same night he made
his escape—it is supposed to Puno."
Private letters from Lima inform us that it was
thought Castilla would be able to put down the re-
volution, as the Convention would vote him extra-
ordinary powers.
Commercial advices from Valparaiso state that
during the fortnight ending Nov. 15, a general
stagnation had been felt in the market. The trans
actions verified offered little interest, sales having
taken place principally for local consumption, and
but very little for abroad. The sales for Bolivia
had been very poor, and those for the Argentine
Republic were hardly perceptible. This slackness
was to be explained by the fact that the purchases
for the spring were already made in August and
September last, and those for the summer season
only begin in December next. In home produce
nothing worthy of note transpired. The high
prices in the leading export articles still continued.
The market was pretty well supplied with all kinds
of merchandise.

We have received, via Panama, papers from
Melbourne to Oct. 13, but the principal mail had
previously put us in possession of news from tkat
colony to the 20th.

WEST INDIA MAILS.

SOU]
The Royal Mail Com
Captain T. W. Sawyer,

mails from the West Ind

cific, in charge of Lieut.

are—

THAMPTON, JAN. 4.
►pang's si;earuer Orinoco,
arrived to-day with the
ies, Mexico, and the Pa-
Inglis, R.E. Her dates

Tampico Dec. 2 Trinidad Dec. 11
Vera Cruz — 5 Barbadoes ..... 12
Havana — 11 Grenada
Puerto Cabello ... Nov. 25 St. Vincent
Santa Martha Dec. 7 St. Lucia
Greytown — 5 Martinique
Carthagena
Colon — 9 Dominique — 14
Jamaica ll Antigua — 15
Jacmel-
Porto Rico
Be rbice
Demerara
Tobago
By this steamer we have dates from Panama to
the 9th of Dec. She also brings home some of the
Wye's missing mails.
The Orinoco brings 35 passengers, two distressed
British ieaman, and one naval invalid, $978,589 in
spscie, and a cargo consisting of 44 serous of cochi-
neal, 26 serons. of jalap, 195 cases of cigars, 104
bales of tobacco, 157 bales of sarsaparilla, 12 casks
of ginger, 388 bags of cocoa, 29 kegs of arrowroot,
1 bale of skins, and 361 packages of sundries. On
her homeward voyage the Orinoco experienced from
the 17th to the 23d ult., inclusive, strong N.E.
winds, with a very heavy head sea ; from the 24th
to the 26th, moderate S.E. breeze ; from the 27th
to the 2d of January fresh breere from the S.W.,
and on entering the Channel a strong gale from
the W.
Our Jamaica letters of the 11th ult. inform us
that since the departure of the last mails the events
which had transpired were scarcely worthy of any
notice. The business of the session was progressing
steadily and in some way as harmoniously as could
be aeticipated under the circumstances. The
motion of Mr. Porteous respecting the importation
of slaves into Cuba had been withdrawn under the
idea that it would be undignified in the island
Legislature to petition Parliament on that subject.
There were rumours, however, that public meetings
would be held for the purpose of memorialising the
Imperial Government. The death of the Hon.
Mr. Shirley, Custos of Trelawny, and senior mem-
ber of Assembly for that parish, had thrown great
gloom over the island. He was a large landed pro-
prietor, and considered one of the wealthiest men
in the colony. The House of Assembly adjourned
business till after the funeral, and attended that
ceremony officially. The Lieutenant-Governor had
given his assent to several important bills. A
donation given by Mr. 8.. Labouchere, her Ma-
jesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies,
had diffused great satisfaction. The island was
rather unhealthy, which is generally the case at
this season of the year • fever was prevalent.
From De Cordova's Mercantile intelligencer we
learn that the sales of sugar averaged 22s to 25s
per 100 lb. In pimento sales had bees effected at
24d to 3d per lb. The stock of corn was large ; a
cargo of 1,500 bags from Savanilla sold at 3s per
bushel. All descriptions of butter were very dull
of sale. Exchanges on London were quoted, for
Jamaica and Colonial banks, 90 days' sight, 4 per
teat. pm. ; 60 days, 1 per cent. pm. ; 30 days, 14
per cent. pm. Private bills at par.
At Demerara a short session of the Colonial Le-
gislature had been held, convened for the special
purpose of considering whether the resolutions of
the Combined Court of 1855 and 1856 might not
be altered so as to require the payment of the
bounty money in cash at the time of the inden-
ture of the Coolie, and also whether the colonSe
would be prepared to provide for the payment
of the expenses to be incurred in India for
continued immigration after the season 1856
and 1857. A string of resolutions submitted
by the Attorney General to carry out these
views were agreed to. A proposition having been
made by some Liverpool capitalists to establish
monthly steam communication between the colony
of Demerara and Great Britain by way of Madeira
the Legislature, at its special session, passed the
following resolution : _

"That this Court will favourably consider any scheme
for establishing st,am icommunication, with vessels of
not less than 1,000 tons, between this colony and any
part of Great Britain, via Madeira, the Western Islands,
and Bar badoes, with the view of promoting immigration
to this colony from those places; and that his Excellency
he requested to make known the same by advertisement
in some of the leading newspapers in Great Britain."
The Row/ Gazette (Georgetown, Demerara), of
the 9th tilt., says
"The weather during the past fortnight has been very
wet, but on the whole favourable for the growing canes,
though it has seriously impeded the manufacturing ope-
rations, as it was impossible to dry the megass. The
exports during the fortnight amounted to—sugar, 3,855
hhds., 785 tierces, 687 tierces, 1,287 brls., 425 bags ;
rum, 151 puncheons, 335 hhds., 165 brie. ; molasses,
711 puncheons, 162 hhds., 62 brls. ; rice, 4,092 bags ;
beef, 130 barrels, 50 half-barrels ; cocoa-nuts, 1,310 ;
cod fish, 70 casks ; and lard, 5 cases. Trade among the
merchants is brick, and freights are looking up."
The Barhadoes House of .Assembly continued en-
gaged at 'west dates with the bill for the incorpora-
' tion of the city of Bridgetown ; upwards of thirty
clauses were got through in committee at the last
meeting, but it was considered doubtful whether
the bill would pass. His Excellency Sir J. Cloete,
commander of the forces, and staff, returned from
Demerara on the 6th. A change of weather bad
taken place. It rained steadily the greater part of
Sunday, the 7th, and there had been several showers
almost daily afterwards up till the packet's depar-
ture. The canes had very much improved, but the
crop was expected to be a short one.
Files of the St. Lucia Palladium, to the 6th of
December have been received, but they contain
nothing of interest. The planters were preparing
for commencing crop, while the many 'fine showers
which had lately fallen had served to bring forward
the newly-planted canes, and to encourage agricul-
turists in augmenting the cultivation for 1858• a war
From St. Kitt's there is no news, besides m
Bisho
encounter between the two local papers. p
Davis was on a tour through. his diocese.
At St. Vincent's the House of Assembly con-
tinued at war with the Lieutenant-Governor upon
the subject of the circumstances connected with
the conduct of Mr. Crosby, the recently suspended
Islandsgenerally were much
police magistrate.
wit the exception of lunsadusiaal;hg
till suffering from the effect of
healthier than tehsatn
Mar-
tinique, which w
better
yellow fever, although- than by last mail.

NAVAL AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
Her Majesty's sloop Brilliant, 20 guns, Captain J. A.
Pa"ter, arrived at St. Thomas on the ltt December,
•
from A.ntigua, and on coming into harbour exchanged
salutes with Fort Christian. The Brilliant left on the
4th for Porto Rico.
Movements of her Majesty's Ships :-17th December,
at 'cit. Thomas's, the Basilisk, waiting for the outward
steamer ; the Arachne sailed at 7 a.m., for Bermuda.
At Bermuda, Dec. 9—tha Boscawen (Admiral Fan.,bawt),
and the Nile. At Greytown—the Imperieuse, Cossack,
Archer, Victor, and Pioneer. At Panama— the Mo-
narch (Admiral Bruce), Rik, and Pearl. At Colon—the
Orion and Intrepid ; the Arrogant sailed on December
6 for Jainaci and England. At Jamaica—the Imauw,
Amphion, Euryalus, Termagant, Tartar, Falcon, and
Mai hitt-. At Trinidad—the Eurydice. At Porto Rico
—Brilliant ; off Cuba, the Atalanta.
At Colon, the United States' corvette Cyane ; at St.
Thomas's the Danish corvette Naiade.
Movements of the Royal Mail Company's steeam-ships:
—The Conway, Capt. Lewis ; the Derwent, Captain
Reeks ; the Solent, Capt. Bayntum ; and the Trent,