The Sun. — 1869-08-02 (London, England)

AMERICAN NEWS.  The latest arrival of American papers furnishes the following items of intelligence : President Juarez, of Mexico, the members of his Cabinet, Senor Eomero, late Minister to the United States, and a number of others, had a narrow escape from a terrible death recently. They were sailing on Lake Tezcoco in a pleasure steamer, when the boiler burst and the boat was disabled. Senor Romero was thrown into the water, but saved himself by swimming. An Havana dispatch announces the return, by order of the Government, of General Alvcar from active operations. Alvcar's regiment has been decimated by disease and battle lcsses, and needed a complete reorganisation. The Captain-General has issued a decree annulling the article of his last proclamation relative to the right of Spanish cruisers to search neutral vessels in the waters about Cuba, for the reason that the United States has been prompt in arresting the filibusters. Late on Monday night a detachment of marines made an attack on a camp of filibusters about four miles back of Hoboken, and succeeded in arresting fifty men, who were removed on a tugboat to Fort Lafayette. The raid was planned by Marshal Barlow.  The Powell Expedition is heard from. A St. Louis despatch states that letters, dated July 4, have been received at Green River, announcing that all the party were well, and that the Rapids had been passed through with the loss of but one boat.  A Mrs. Houghton, wife of a farmerliving near Brooklyn, Mich., attempted to murder her two children and commit suicide recently by the use of laudanum. The discovery was made in time to save the lives of one of the children and the mother. The latter was arrested, but gave no reason for her act, only " that she wanted to die, and to have her children die with her."  An attempt is making in Bourbon County, Kentucky, to raise a fund for the purchase of a home for Jefferson Davis in that, his native, State. A gentleman of Louisville has offered, if .550,000 or more shall be subscribed to the fund, to give a splendid building site for a house, with ten acres attached, within four miles of Louisville.  Mr. Gladstone returned to town on Friday afternoon, and although weak and looking very unwell, is in a fair way to recovery of his health.  Favourable intelligence has been received of the rising of the Nile. The inundation this year is expected to be most abundant, and all the necessary precautions have been already taken in Upper Egypt.  The Chester Guardian states that as the Holyhead midnight train was leaving Chester on Thursday night, a passenger unknown fired two shots at two poiutsmen in different boxes ; the shots missed their mark, but were found.  The meeting of the British Medical Association in Leeds came to a close en Friday. In the section devoted to surgery, Mr. T. Nunnely delivered nn interesting address on that subject, and in the State medicine section there was nn animated discussion on hospitals, in which the question whether largo hospitals were beneficial or not was discussed, Sir James Simpson, Dr. T. K. Chambers, Prefersor Gairdner, the chairman, Dr. Farr, and others being opposed to such institutions.  A