The Sun. — 1853-03-26 (London, England)

NEW ORLEANS, MARCH 9. "The schooner Charles Pearson arrived this morning from Honduras. She reports that great excitement prevailed on the island in consequence of her British Majesty's war steamer Devastation having anchored off Toupin() and demanded the surrender of the place in the name of the Mosquito King. The inhabitants were given two hours' time to decide before the commencement of a bombardment. The inhabitants yielded to superior forces, but solemnly protested against the outrage. The Mosquito flag was hoisted and. the Honduras flag pulled down. The British war steamer then proceeded to Limas, and cannonading was afterwards heard in that quarter. It was presumed that a contest was going on between the steamer and the Honduras troops. A severe shock of an earthquake was felt at Belize on the 10th of February." Upon this news the Herald remarks :7 " Should our dispatch prove correct—and it comes from a most reliable authority—President Pierce may be called upon to take cognisance of the progress .f affairs in that quarter much sooner than was anticipated. This movement, if correctly stated, shows how much reliance is to be placed in the assertions of British diplomatists that their Government is desirous of abandoning the Mosquito Protectorate." There is little extra news from Mexico. An arrival at New Orleans reported that Caravajal had abandoned his plans and disbanded his followers. A telegraphic dispatch from Louisville, dated March the 11th, thus gives the news of a discovery of gold in the Cherokee nation : " Advices from Taliquah, Cherokee nation, to the 23d ult., state that great excitement existed in the nation, owing to the reported discovery of gold in large quantities on Horseshoe Creek, in the northern part of the nation. The yield was said to be $lO to $l2 a-day per man. Large numbers are leaving Maysville for the locality."  The steam-ship Isabel, with dates from Havannah to the Bth of March, had arrived at Charleston. The health of Vice-President Icing had improved. At Matanzas the crop of sugar was good. Private letters dated Havannah, March 7, say that up to the present it is not known what will be the fate of the political prisoners, as the Government is either undecided, or desirous to keep its intentions a,profound secret up to the last. Much anxiety is felt by the Cubans, and the worst is feared. The slave schooner Rachel Brown, captured on the coast of Africa by the United States' sloop of war Germantown, arrived at Norfolk on the 9th instant.  The American clipper ship Atalanta, 84 days from Canton (the quickest voyage ever made), went on shore on the 10th inst. on the Roamer Shoal, and was expected to become a perfect wreck. Her cargo of silks, teas, &c., was worth $200,000. A brutal murder of two young married females had taken place in Philadelphia, which caused much excitement. They were sisters. One of them had just been confined of twins. The following version of the bloody deed bas been published in the _Philadelphia Bulletin  _ .... "One of the most fearful tragedies that bas ever been enacted in Philadelphia was brought to light in Southwark. At half-past seven o'clock this morning, two sisters, named Hannah Shaw and Ellen Lynch, at 260, Federal-street, between Seventh and Eighth-streets, were found brutally murdered.  "As soon as we heard of the circumstance, we hastened to the spot, in company with Coroner Goldsmith, and found a dense crowd gathered about a threestorey brick building on the south side of Federal-street. Upon entering the house the most horrible sight presented itself which it has ever been our lot to witness. In the front room, on the first floor, the bodies of two females, apparently not more than 25 or 30 years of age, lay weltering in blood. Both lay across the room, about four or five feet apart.  " The one which lay in the front part of the room was