New YoRK, Aug. %, l846

To The Editor Of The Union:
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The mail for the Caledonia will close in this city
on Monday next. In the mean time, two steamers
are on their way from Europe-the Cunard steam
err which left Liverpool the 18th instant and the
Great Britain, which left the same point for this city
on the 26th. Their news will be decisive Of the
extent of the English grain crops, as well as of the
probable fate Of the potato crop-a subject of 80
much solicitude in Ireland. The state of the mar
kets particularly in reference to the value Of cotton
will be looked for with much interest. Many per
think that decided advance is not improbable
caused by increased activity in the manufacturing
districts, on account of the passage Of the United
States revenue bill The shortness of the late crop,
with the unfavorabe accounts respecting the pros
poets of the growing crop, will likely have tenden-
cy to impart greater hrmness if not materially ad-
vance prices. Exchange continues to advance
which Is also favorable to the holders of cotton
On London it is now quoted at 8 81, and would be
quite active, had not temporary depression result
ed from the receipt, yesterday, of about f63 900
from the Illinois canal commissioners, to be sold
in this market on London houses, it being the mon.
ey advanced by foreign stockholders for the COM
pleIion of the Illinois and Michigan canal, which is
drawn for in payment Of labor the work pro-
gresses.


The earthquake announced at Boston was not
felt in this city, an tar as can learn.
understand that the confederation Of the six
States forming the republic Of Guatemala ceased to
exist some years ago. since when each State has
continued to act on its own hook. In speaking Of
Honduras, a state of Guatemala your readers must
not confound it with Balize Honduras where the
British have small settlement and limited territory
conveyed 10 her by Spain before the revolution Ii
is much farther west and north than the State of
Honduras from which so large a slice (25O miles OF
coss,) is claimed by the Mosquito king, and over
which the English protectorate authority has been