The Sun. — 1850-04-16 (London, England)

AMERICAN NEWS.  ARRIVAL HE NIAGARA. (BY ELECTRIC TBLEGRAPH.) LIVEROPOFOLI: APILIL 16, Five A.M. The British and North American Royal m • ail steamship Niagara has just arrived in the Mersey, bringing the usual fortnightly mail and dispatches from America and Canada, and twelve days' later news than any hitherto received. This fine vessel left Boston on the 3d instant, and Halifax on the sth. The number of passengers brought over by her is considerable. Congress was still engaged discussing the slavery question. The United States' senator, John C. Calhoun, whose recent speech on the admission of California into the Union created so much sensation in the Stater, died on the alst ult., at Washington, in the 68th year of his age. Professor Webster's trial for the murder of Dr. Parkman has just terminated in the conviction of the Professor, who has been sentenced to death. There is nothing of importance from Canada. The state of business generally throughout the United States is not reported as favourable. A considerable languor rests on trade of every kind. In breadstuffs but little had been done, and this at falling prices.—Western Canal flour, 4 87f to 5 0 very firm; Gennessee prime wheat, 1 26 to 1 28 per 601 b.; Southern wheat, 1 10 to 1 12 per 601 b. ; Indian corn, round yellow, 0 54 to 0 56 steady, fiat yellow, 0 55 per bushel ; Southern white, 0 54 to 056 per bushel ; Indian meal, 2 62k to 2 75 per barrel. Cotton receded half a cent in! the early part of the fortnight, but recovered on the receipt of the Niagara's news from this country. Upland middling fair to fair 12in. to 13c. The total deficiency in receipts is now 400,000 bales. The sales in New York for the past fortnight amount to 14,000 bales. Freights are unaltered in price, being at the following rates .—Flour to Liverpool ls. 6d. to ls. 9d. per brl.. Grain to Liverpool 4id. to sd. per bush. Cotton to Liverpool id. to 3-16 d. Provisions are inactive. Exchange on Paris, 5 30, sales few ; Hamburgh, 35 to 35k.  MARRIAGE IN HIGII Luz—The marriage of the Hon. Louise Madeline Campbell, eldest daughter of the Lord Chief Justice of England and the Baroness Stratheden, with the Rev. William Sprenger White, of the Brae, Roxburghshire, and incumbent of St. John's, Jedburgh, took place on Saturday last, at All Saints' Church, Kensington. Among the relatives and friends present at the interesting ceremony were Lord Campbell, Lord Stratheden, Hon. Misses Campbell; Hon. W. F. Campbell, M,P., Lord and Lady Abinger and Hon. Miss Scarlett, Dowager Lady Abinger, Mr. and Lady Theresa Lewis, Hon. Misses Pepys, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Toler, Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Yorke Scarlett, Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, Mrs. and Misses Monk, lion. Lady Currey and blisses Currey, Mr. and Misses We,t, Mr. and Mrs. Jones (of Pantglos) and Miss Campbell, Mrs. Fraser, Miss Caroline Campbell, Sir Thomas and Lady Wollaston White and Misses White, Rev. Francis White, Mr. Prescott White and Misses White, Rev. Mr. Harness, Misses Johnstone, Lc. After the ceremony the Bareness Stratheden gave a sumptuous dejeuner at Stratheden-house, the family mansion; and between three and four o'clock the happy pair left for Castor, Northamptonshire, the seat of Mr. Prescott White, brother of the bridegroom, where they will pass the honeymoon.  The world is more apt to reward appearances than deserts.— Eliza Cook's Journal.  111 r. .George Hudson, M.P., was last week loAing at Emo Park, and it is said that he expressed his intention of becoming a bidder for it, erhen selling under the Incumbored Estates etet.—Leinster Express.  MONEY and