The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-03 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

REPORTED LOSS OF A NEW ORLEANS
STEAMER AND 200 LIVES.

By Electric Telegraph.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.

The steam-ship Cambria arrived here this morning,
at seven o'clock, with the mails and passengers from
the United States and Canada. She left Boston on the
21st ult., and reports the arrival at New York of the
America, and at Halifax of the Caledonia, on her way
to Boston. Her mails cannot reach town till to-
morrow morning.
The most interesting intelligence received by this
arrival is the reported destruction of a New Orleans
steamer, by explosion, and the loss of 200 lives.
We are gratified to state that the Cambria brings
better accounts of the cotton crops.
The general state of business throughout the
American continent was satisfactory.
The market for breadatuffs has been quiet, and
prices are without change, viz.: Western Canal Flo r
4 dole. 75c. to 4 dole. 871 c. per barrel, steady ; Gen-
nesse° prime wheat, 1 dol. lgc. to 1 dol. 20c. per
60Ibs. ; Indian corn, round yellow, 64c. to 66c. per
bushel, barely supported ; flat yellow,'63c. per bushel.
Indian meal, 3 idols. to 3 dole. 121 c. per barrel.
The cotton market at New York continues in a de-
pressed state; sales cannot be made except at a reduc-
tion submitted to by holds re. New Orleans and Mo-
bile, mid. fair to fair, 111 c. to 111 c., showing a fall of
c. Uplands and Florida, mid. fair to fair, 101 c. to
11c. ; a fall of Ic.
Freights continue very low, and little is doing :
Grain to Liverpool, 3/d. to 4d. per bushel ; cotton to
Liverpool, 3-16 d. to Id. per lb.— to Havre, 1 to a
cents, per lb..
Exchange on London 109 to 1091, barely sustained ;
on Paris, 5.25, demand fair; on Hamburg, 351 to
351 ; on Bremen, 77t to 78.

COLONIAL.—NEw SOUTH WALEs.-111e have re-
ceived files of the Maitland Mercury and Hunter
River Advertiser to Aug. 15 inclusive. Their con-
tents are merely of local interest ; but we may men-
tion that the statement of quarterly exports of wool,
tallow, &c., showed a considerable increase.

EPISTOLARY INSULTS TO THE QUEEN.—Some let-
ters of an intemperate character have recently been ad-
dressed to the Sovereign by a lunatic pauper, in the district
of Whitechapel, who fancies himself aggrieved by the local
administrators of the poor law, and threatens his revenge on
her Majesty. The services of two magistrates, connected
with west and east-end police offices, were brought into re-
quisition by the Sseretary of State, with the view of pre
venting a repetition of this indecent annoyance of royalty,
and effective steps have brew taken to carry out the Home
minister's determuswion.— Weekly Chronicle.
A GOVERNMENT CONTRIBUTION TO SCIENCE.—
A letter has been addressed to the council by Lord John
Russell, offering to place at the dittprnal of the Royal Society,
to*, ientitic purposes, this year, 1,0001 , and probably the same
amount in successive years. It is quite unnecessary for us to
say. that the offer has been accepted. Government subsidies
of Science and her sisters are not sufficiently numerous to
make an announcement like this uninteresting to our read-
ers. The money given is not the sole good : the measure
marks progress, while it aids it.—Atheructun.
FIRE AND loss OF Lirn.—On Saturday evening
Mr. H H. Wakley held an inquest at the Brown Bear,
Broad-street, Bloomsbury, on William Martin, aged 60, who
had been a respectable tradesman and an overseer, but, in
consequence of altered circumstances, was lately compelled to
take shelter in the crowded lodging house, 26, Great Wild-
et reed, Drury-lane, which was burnt down a few dalliance,
and in which fire deceased perished. Joseph Gerard, fire-
man of the London fire brigade, stated that the fire, the
origin of which was unknown, broke out at five on Wednre-
day evening, and was extinguished at nine o'clock, when he
, found deceased Ising dead on the floor of the second door
l front room. Ellen Smith, servant of Mr. Sullivan, the pro-
prietor of the house, said that there were 36 beds in the
house, and that between 40 and 60 al ept there. When the
fire broke out demand was confined, to bed by rheumatio
fever. The fire destroyed deceased's room. Other witnesses
proved that the fire originated in the rear of the house, and
that several of the poor lodgers sustained great loss by the
fire. One of them, named O'Mara, saved his life byjump-
ing out of the window. Verdict—" Deceased's death was
caused by the fire, but there was no evidence to prove how
the tire originated."