The Sun. — 1852-01-26 (London, England)

AMERICAN NEWS.  ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY MORNING.  The British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship Africa, Captain Harrison, hts,, just arrived from New York direct, with dates from that city to the 1,1(h instant. She brings above 600,000 dolls. specie on freight, and 51 pasengers. Shortly after leaving New Turk the Africa passed a steam-ship, supposed to be the Humboldt, last from Southampton. _ _ _  The screw steam-ship City of Pittsburg, from Liverpool, before reported as having arrived at Philalort her propeller on the third day out, which accounts for her prolonged run. Kossuth had left Washington on a tour through the Western States.  The Austrian Minister at Washington, M. Hulsemann, had written a letter to the President of the United States, remonstrating ag.;iinst the speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster, at the Congressional banquet to Kossuth. Webster was preparing an answer. it was expected that Hulsemann would receive his passports.  The report that Lord Palmerston had forwarded a communication to the American Government in the Prometheus affair proves to have been unfounded.  A letter received by the Hon. Mr. Webster from the American Minister at this Court notifies the change in the Foreign Secretaryship, and that Earl Granville ba►d personally- assured the Hon. A. Lawrence of his desire to be on the most friendly footing with the United States Government.  A false alarm of fire at an emigrant boarding house in New York had been attended with fatal results to six persons ; severnl were injured. Thirteen persons had been killed, and numbers wounded, by the explosion of the steamer Magnolia, near the Isthmus of Darien.  At Philadelphia a girl of only thirteen years of age had been convicted of the murder of an infant by cawing it to swallow pins and needles. A 13111 for establishing a line of steamers to Galway has been laid before Congress. Terrific storms had swept over Louisiana, inflicting great damage. There had been unusually heavy snow storms at New Orleans and Buffalo. The accounts from all parts of the Union represent the weather as intensely cold, and the rivers as being blocked up with ice. Dates from California are to December 15. 500,000 dolls, in gold had been received during the week. The mining accounts were good. The Indian difficulties had been settled.  Jamaica advices are to the 2d of January. The cholera was making fearful ravages. From Nicaragua we learn that Munoz was still at liberty. The latest intelligence from Mexico reports Caravan' as repulsed but not defeated. The commercial advices from the United States generally do not differ in character from those latterly received. Money is somewhat more plentiful, and accessible on more easy terms. Stocks and public securities are dull, at former prices. Inactivity is the leading feature of the breao.stuffs market. Prices unaltered. Western Canal flour, 4 dolls. 50c. to 4 dolls. 624 c. per brl.; Genessee prime wheat, 1 doll. Bc. to 1 doll. 10c. per 601bs. ; Indian corn, round yellow, 66 to 68 cents per bushel ; Indian meal, 3 dolls. 25c. to 3 dolls. 37ic. per brl. In cotton there has been a tair amount of business doing at New York, and former quotations were steadily maintained. New Orleans and Mobile mid. fair to fair, 9ie. to Sic. per lb.; Upland and Florida mid. fair to Lair, 81:: to 81c. per lb. P.•ovisions firm in prig,, with moderate sales. Freights continue to be quoted very kw. There is little doing in thew. Exchange on London, 110 to 110 i, in moderate demand: Pdria, 5 14; ihiriburgb, 364- to 361; Bremen, Mk to 78k.