The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-16 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, FEB. 15.
By the Royal Mail steam-ship America wo have tele-
graphic :advices from New York to the 4th inst. She
has 150,000 dolls. in specie on freight.
The Humboldt put into Halifax on the Ist, with rud-
der damaged.
Nearly 2,000,000 of golddust had been received by
the Prometheus and Cherokee, and the Oregon had
sailed from San Francisco with 1,345,000 dolls. on
freight.
K ossuth was at Cleveland.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Herald asserts that the statement relative to Colonel
Bateman's negotiated sale of the Fremont Mariposa grant
in California to an English company for 1,000,000 dolls.
is incorrect. Colonel Fremont had refused to sell till
the Land Commissioners had reported on his title.
The whale ship Saratoga had arrived at the Sand-
wich Islands. She had penetrated to latitude 71. deg.
40 min. north, longitude 159 deg. 40 min. west, and saw
whales in large numbers working north.
Congress bad voted 6,000 dolls • for the relief and the
return of the American prisoners in Spain.
frigate.
Joanus, one of the Comoro Islands, west coast of
Africa, had been bombarded by an American
Prices for Government securities were firmly
g-
main-
tained. Foreign exchanges were firmer. On
land 110 to 1101.
The rates for money had not undergone any material
alteration since the sailing of the Asia.
The prices for cotton had advanced, but little busi-
ness was transacted, awaiting arrival of the Niu
ur
The cotton statement made up un the 4th inst.c saows.
, decrease in stock
an increase in te receip3ts 9 8,950 bales in exports
,
to Great Britaih 7n of ,078 of bales
66,276 bales.
The Humboldt's advices had given
an impulse to the
flour market, and likewise occasioned a rise in freights.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
Arrived at New York—The Golden Era and Madon
frep
na, a
from
Bristol; Lo ndon Cardiff ; Henry Nesmith and tDorcas Prince,
Newport; Minerva, J. Z, from London, and Isca, from
, John ,
mannering and Connecticut, from Stewart
Liverpool. Argo, Guy
Arrived at New Orleans—The Alice Wilson, Justin,
Endocia, and Africa, from Liverpool; and Kate Howe,
from Newport.
Arrived at Philadelphia—The Hero, from Liverpool.
Arrived at Savannah—The Salisbury and Intrinsic,
from Cardiff.
Arrived at Mobilo—The Arraminta, from Liverpool.
Arrived at Boston—The Daniel Webster, Arcadian,
and T. B. Wales, from Liverpool.
Arrived at Charlestown—The Arab, Susan G. Owens,
Belfast;
Astoria, Amelia, from Liverpool; Milliade, from
Astoria, from Glasgow; and Vurrell, from Latnracamshire.
The British barque Jane Strong, of Shields, from
leak.
and
Iqui-
quo Peru, with a cargo of saltpetre,
of Biobio
was run on the rock of Gualpen,
to
olBto dolls.
(crew saved). The wreck sold for
for Falmouth, was
sprang tin na
north
h
ein2gd_ oegnsa.
47
min.
north, The barque Bertha, from Panama, a
lost on the 28th of December,nd
league south of Gorgon inblyatriutundn
took to the boats, and after
and crow, 13 in number,
north, and which is not'llaisdladown in the charts; captain
being exposed for Is days succeeded
The carpenter died fromcceeded in reaching Melo,
about 100 miles from Panama.
exposure.
OREGON' DEc. 20.—The British ship or barquo George
Anna has been wrecked at Queen Charlotte's Island.
Crew and 24 - American passengers have been captured
by the Indians.

BIDEFORD, NoRTII DEVON) FEB. 10,— .About
seven o'clock this morning a fisherman on the beach adjoin-
ing the property of Sir J.
H. Williams, of Clovelly-court,
picked up the body of a gentleman, supposed to be one of
the passengers by the ill-fated Amazon, and to have lain in
the water about a month. Ihe wife of the man who picked
up the body has just been here, and says that the body is
that of a parson six feet high, stout made,
coat lined with silk, a great coat, and a fancy striped shirt ;
he had in his wearing a frock
Pocket a steel pen and bolder, with some
t9bacco.