The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-27 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY„ JUNE 27, 18-4!,.

AiN ER ICAN NEWTS.

We have intelligence from Quebec to the 3d inst., six days
after the great fire, with some additional particulars. The
Committee of Relief had notified that each of the sufferers
would receive two dollars, on application. " One assertion,'
says a Quebec journal, "we may safely make, that the amount
of property lost is not so fur magnified, and the sacrifice of
human life is underrated. The total logs has been computed
with the utmost nicety possible, and found to be between
one million and one million and a half of pounds H—or, in
dollars, from $-1,000,000 to $6,000,000 ! The loss of life
cannot be estimated,

The House of Lords met at Fire.
Lord GARDNER explained the reason of his non
attendance on the Glasgow-bridge Committee.
The report of the Committee on Railway Bills was
brought up. It recommended that those Bills which
could not be completed this session should be marked by
the Chairman of each Committee, and be proceeded with
next session from the point where investigation ter-
minated this session.

Lord WHARNCLIFFE brought in a Bill to amend the
game-laws.

The Committee on the Landlords and Tenants Com
pensation (Ireland) Bill wry; appointed.
Lord POSTMAN moved the second reading of the
Landlords and Tenants Bill.

Lori BEAUMONT moved that it be read a second time
;bat day six months.

After a short discussion their Lordships divided, when
there appeared—Fur the amendment, Contents 11, Non-
COnteliiS 7—majority fur the amendment, 4.
Their Lordships then adjourned.
The House of Commons met at Four o'clock.
After the transaction of the private lyisiness,
The order of the day for the consideration of the re-
port of the Committee on pjinted papers was read, and
ke SOLICITOR-GENERAL moved that a writ of error be
brought against the judgment of the Court of gn,en's
Bench in the can of "Howard v, Gossett."

Mr. HustE proposed the following amendment —" That
it is inexpedient to entrust the pi ivileges of this House
to any other tribunal than the House itself."

On a division, there appeared—for the motion, 82;
against it, 48—majority, 34.
The debate on the original motion was then resumed.
A long discussion followed, and evcntaally it was
determined that the case should he tried in a Court of
Error.

The Levant mail brings intelligence from Constantinople
to the 7th inst , Smyrna the 9th, Beyrout the 3d, and Athens
the 10th. Preparations were in progress at Constantinople
for celebrating the marriage of the Sultana ADILE, eldest
sister of the E3IPEROR, with Au PAcira, Grand Ad-
miral of the fleet. A number of tents had been
pitched in the plain uf llaydar, where the mar •
riage was to take plaee, and entertainments were to be
given to the Poreitgn Ambassadors, the Ulemae, and the
principal autleoritiets. The account% from Beyrout are more
favourable. An armistice had been concluded on the let
iast. bet wean the Marmites (Christians) and Druses, and the
contending parties were to remain in their respective positions
until tie decision of the Divan as to the terms ofreconciliation
should be proclaimed. It is said that in the course
of the late contests a hundred villages and seventeen con-
vents had been reduced to ashes. About two-thirds of the
villages were occupied by Christians. Letters faoin Damns-
cos state that a woman who had abjured Islamism, being
threatened by the people, sought refuge in the !muse
of the French Consul. Crowds collected aroitud the house,
which they were preparing to enter by force, when the autho-
rities interfered and restored tranquillity. Greece is still in a
very disturbed state. Banditti traversed some of the provinces
with impunity, and had committed great ravages. General
GRIVAS had attempted another outrage by challenging Ge-
neral CALERGI to tight a duel in a room, without seconds,
which, of course, was refused. COLETTI and METAXA had
formed a coalition, but it was not supposed that they could
remain long on good terms.

Accounts from Madrid, of the 19th, announce that Man-
TINICZ DE LA Rasa had left for Barceluua on that day, to
join the royal party. Rumours prevailed in the capital that
Carlist risings had taken place in several of the northern pro-
vinces, but they are not entitled to any credit.
The Three per Cents. closed at 31y for cash, and 321/6,
at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 21 fur cash, and 21 13-16
at 60 days ; and the Debt without Interest at 7 at 60 days.

The intelligence brought by the Paris papers is not im-
portant. The Chamber of Deputies had, after some discus-
sion, agreed on the Bills to be postponed till next session;
and among these are the Trans-Atlantic Steamers Bill, the
Canal Bill, and that to prevent the adulteration of wine.
They afterwards proceeded to discuss the e6timates for the
department of Public Instruction, when M. J)1 LA MEURTHJ
moved an additional sum of 100,000,000 f. for primary
schools, but the amendment was rejected. The Chamber
of Peers had passed by a great majority the Great
Northern Railway Bill. Only five Members voted against
it. The carpenters' strike still continued, and it appears the
infection had spread into the provinces. On some of the
new lines of railway the carpenters and other labourers itad

ARRIVAL at the GREAT WESTERN
(EXPRES FROM LIVERPOOL.)

LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MORNING, FOUR O'CLOCK.
The steam-ship Great Western entered the river this
morning at three o'clock, bringing ninety passengers, and
New York papers to the 12th instant, being ton days later
than by the last arrival. These papers are much occupied
with the affairs of Mexico and Texas. The Commercial
Advertiser, of the Iltk instant, says, •` We were furnished,
just after the paper went to press yesterday, with the sub-
joined extract from a letter to an eminent mercantile firm
in this city, dated

" MEXICO, MAY 20.
" This Government baying been empowered by Congress to
enter into a treaty with the Texan commissioners, all fear of a rup_
ture between this country and the United States, on that score, is
at an end."
" The writer obviously draws his Inference from the belief that
Texas will accede to the arrangement."
Tins news is esetremely probable, as we find the same facts
stated in a letter from Vera Cruz, of a previous date, with se
veral paraiculars. The writer says :
" It appears that Captain Elliott, the British Minister at Texas,
accompanied by an agent from that Government, charged with
proposals for peace, arrived here on the 11th April, in the British
raan of war Eurydice, and departed directly in a very private
manner for the city of Mexico. M. Cuevas, the Minister
of State, made a report to the Mexican Congress on
Texan affairs, and, with the unanimous consent of the
Cat,inet, proposed a decree authorising him to receive proposi-
tions made by Texas to arrange and conclude a treaty of peace
honourable to Mexico, to be submitted for the approval of Con-
gress. 1 his decree passed the House on the 3d of May by a rote
of 41 to 15, and subsequently was approved by the Senate unmet
mously. A Bill for a loan of 3,000,000 dolls. has also become
a law.

" Since then letters from the city of Mexico, which I am told
may be relied upon, have been received here, stating that the nego
tiation between Mexico and Texas has been completed so far as the
executive of the two countries are concerned. The terms are said
to be that :Mexico acknowledges the independence of the latter,
guaranteed by France and England, provided Texas rdects annex-
ation with the United States or any other ()outlay."
The elorne,tic intelligence in the American papers is not
iinportain. No decision appears to have been cerne to re-
specting the Oregon affair; end we find no later intelligence
respecting the great lire at Quebec. The following are ex-
tracts :

FROU HAYTI. —Capt. Robinson, of the schooner Samuel Roberts,
thirteen days from Cape Hayti-en, retotts nothing new. All was
quiet. President Pierault aret►ed at Cape Hayden four days be-
fore Captain Robinson sailed.

MORMON TRIALS.—The St. Louis Republican of Monday, the
2d inst., speaking of the trials going on at Carthage, Illinois, says :
—" We are informed that the jury in the ease of the indictments
•for the murder of J. Smith, the Mormon prophet, after as absence
of about thirty minutes, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The in-
dictments for the murder of Hiram Smith will be tried at a spatial
term, which will be held after the circuit is gone through with."
The editor of the Saratoga Sentinel has been sued for a libel by
Joseph M. Wheeler, of that place. The following is the paragraph
on which the action is brought :—" Queer ?—llid gentlemanly Joe
Wheeler ever see anything of a pair of boots tent from West Troy
by the cars, marked for H. Wilbur, Saratoga Springs P' We
merely ask for information, as they ■ever reached their destination."
QURRRC, Jung S.—The bulk of the Spring fleet has arrived.
The number now amounts to 400, with a tonnage of /67,207.
Lod year, at the corresponding period, the amount of vessels arrived
was 239. and the tonnage 98,082.

COMMERCIAL AND MONEY MATTERS.
NEW YORK, Jr.va 11.—The Stock market is very inactive, but
without particular change in prices to note. Norwich and Wor-
cester raid Pa. 3's have an upward tendency.
The demand for exchange has not been large, but the market is
eery steady. Sterling, 9% ; Francs, 3201 A a 5 25. The Conti-
nental Exchanges are rather heavy.
Cotten.—There is no change to note. The sales to-day are about
1,500 bales at full rates, nearly all fOr shipment. Freights are
without alteration,

At New Orleans sales, 2d, 1,800 bales at steady prices. 1,800
bales also shipped on factors' account. Fair La. and Miss. 7to 71.
At Mobile sales of the neck 7,000 bales ; market closing rather in
favour of the buyer. Fair 71. Receipts of the season 616,082
bales. Stock 24,071. At Savannah sales of the week 4,046
bales No change. Fair 6i. Stock 30,632 bales against 10,752
left season.