The Sun. — 1847-08-14 (London, England)

AMERICA.  ARRIVAL OF THE BRITANNIA.  EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL.  (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)  LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY MOUSING. The arrival of the royal mail steamer Britannia, Captain Harrison, at this port, after a voyage of twelve days and a half, from Boston, including her calling and stay at Halifax, has put us in possession of our files of papers to the Ist inst., her day of departure from her first port. The Britannia has 107 passengers. She met the outward bound steamer, Hibernia, between Halifax and Boston, which latter port she might be expected to reach on the 2d inst. The United States steamer 'Washington bad arrived out at New York on the 30th of July. The commercial news is important ; the rate of exchange had declined to 5i per cent., and between that rate and 61 there was an active business done, with plenty of bills offering. The following are the quotations :  Whipple has been lassoed near Vera Cruz. Captain William Duff died on the 16.,h. and Lieutenant Parkyr, of the nav,, lied on the 12 h, on board of the Mississippi. The Sun of Analiuuc of the 13. h gays, that by private expres, from l'uowa, hat been received that Cadwallader af.d Pillow, with the trains, had arrival at Perote, and had been a.tacked at Luhora by a large Mexican force, and completely routed the enemy, with but kip low,.  " This expresl left Puebla on the 3i, and the news was ri olive' there the day previous. that three commis sioners had been appointed to meet Mr. Trist at !-an Martin on the Bth. and learn through him the terms offered by the Pr. sidene A letter from Mexico, dated the 2d, sass there is no doubt but that the treaty m will he ecied, d immediately b) the commissioners, the peace party is so strong, and that Santa Anna will probably pronounce for peace. The names of the commissioners given are °artistic Baranda, and Tornel. News from G. neral Pillow had arrived at Pueb:a by an express rider, and an express from General Scott from Puebla to Vera Cruz was murdered, after desperate re,i,t emee " Turning from the warlike tenor of the advices, we proceed to that portion of it which treats of peace: The papers before us announce that Mexico had at last accepted the offer to negotiate, and that three commissioners were appointed to meet Mr. Trist, the American Minister. The result will soon be known. It is said that Santa Anna was disposed in favour of peace. " General l'aylor's position remained unchanged, and no clue to his future intentions had been promulgated. Recruits are slowly gathering to his forces. " The advices just received contain accounts from California. The two regiments of volunteers from New York had arrived in the territory, to occupy and colonise the coast around Monterey and the Bay of San Francisco. A newspaper has been established at each of these points, and another in Oregon. American enterprise is thus spreading the English language along that wide extended coast, and diffusing the arts of civilisation and peace among the untutored savages of the wilderness. A new city has been laid out in the Bay of San Francisco.  " Accounts from Oregon state that the American settlements there were attaining vigorous growth under a Government of their own orgs,niz ition. On the receipt of news of the adjustment of the Oregon boundary, they had a grand celebration, and fired a national salute. A large and prosperous trade is growing up with the Sandwich Islands and the Russian settlements."  (Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce.)