The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-21 00:00:00

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m Thv the Royal Mail steam-
LIVERPOOL, ..,ONDAY.--., , •_ _, from
steam-
ship Asia, Commander Lott, we have awace
New York to the Bth inst.
The Asia was telegraphed off Holyhead at half-
past eight o'clock this morning, and at the 931:110 time
a communication was received from her to delay the
sailing of the Havre steamer, which usually sails lon
Monday morning, as a large amount of the specie on
board the Asia was destined for that port.
The Asia sailed from New York at noon on the
Bth instant, and has experienced bead winds during
the whole passage,
wardbound steam-shi She
nouant-d
ps :—At 7 A M., on the 9tb, the
Europa, for New York - at 7 50 A.M., on the 15tb,
the Africa, for New
.York ; at .3 47 rat., on the 19th,
.t.b.kfilikpada, for Halifax an 13nstozi ;__and at 5 o'clock
thiglsiorbing, the Sarah Sands, for
Pa passed the following
udeoel
lnes.tiosnwhi
p speciepe d
Australia. The Asia brought
on freight.
The United States Mail steam-ship Arctic, from
this port, arrived at New York on the sth.
The steam-ship Panama was to leave San Francisco
on the 15th for New York, with a large amount of
specie on board, one house alone having
875,592 dolls.

The bids for the five million loan of the State of
Pennsylvania had been opened at Harrisburg ; the
State authorities did not appear satisfied with the
offers made. "In the first place," says the New York
Herald, referring to the loan—

" It does not appear by the dispatch that bids were
made for the whole amount. Only 3,330,000 dolls. were
bid for. All the 5. per cent. bids were at a premium
ranging from 1 dull. 53c. to 3 dolls. per cent., except
10,000, which was at par. The best bid was for 10,000
dolls., of Four per Cents., at par. The Governor will
only accept an amount sufficient to pay off the matured
Six per Cents., and probably issue a call for new propo-
sals for the balance. It would have been a wiser policy
I to have issued proposals for a loan in smaller sums, in-
stead of putting the whole amount in a lump upon the
market, particularly when the whole was not imme-
diately required. It is our impression that the Governor
of Pennsylvania will find that the terms offered by the
bidders for a portion of the 5,000,000 dolls. loan are as
favourable as he will receive at any future time. The
Five per Cents. of that state, now in the market, are
selling below par."
A telegraphic communication from Burlington,
Vermont, states that 33 towns had elected 21 Whigs
and 12 Democrats. Last year there were 20 Whigs
and 12 Democrats elected in the same towns.

The boiler of the steam-ship Reindeer, a Hudson
River boat, exploded on the sth, by which 30 people
ware killed and a number scalded. _ _

Madame Sontag had been very enthusiastically re-
ceived at New York.

By the steam-ship Northern Light, which arrived
at New York on the 7th, with 312,000 dollars in
specie on freight, we have advices from California to
the 14th ult. The Royal Mail steam-ship Great
Western was at San Juan on the 30th; the port was
very healthy, and the weather fine. At San Fran-
cisco a duel had occurred, and the parties not having
sufficiently injured each other, were to meet again.
The proceedings were witnessed by a large concourse
of people. The editor of the Alta California had
been killed in a duel with a Member of the
Senate. Affairs of honour, attended in some cases
with fatal consequence!, had also occurred in the
mountains. Throughout the diggings Chinese vil-
lages were springing up. Pekin, Canton, and Hong
Kong were among the names given to these Celestial
settlements, some of which contained upwards of
1,500 souls. The immigration of Chinese into C,,li-
fornia was enormous. Since the month of May the
arrivals equalled that from all other quarters of the
world, and were nearly three times that of the previ-
ous quarter. Tha immigrants were principally from
Canton River and its vicinity. It was estimated that
in the month of August the number of Chinese resi-
dent in California was 27,0,58, and it was expected,
before the expiration, to increase to 47,058.
" But very few Cuolios," says a California paper, "so
to speak, have been known to return to China. Those
who go back and spread the fever are principally small
traders, who were in the h:ibit of fitting out junks to go
on abort coasting expealion.. This class of Chinese
coming to California with their little ' ventures' dispose
of them here, making what would in China be a fortune.
Perhaps they di. a little in the mines; and, returning to
their homes and acquaintances, puffed in monetary im-
portance, and swaggering about some Celestial Montgo-
mery-street in breezy breeches, and with gold enough
to buy a small cartload of strings of China coin, have
been the principal means of freighting our shores with
the inoffensive moon-eyed children of the sun.
A great deal of excitement bad been caused among
the Chinese population by a manifesto from the great
" Atti :"
" Who claims to hold the power supreme over all the
Chinese in the land of gold. The document which
has caused this great commotion is of tho nature of a
reward for one Le-Achan, well known as an interpreter
and sort of general agent for his brethren in their tran-
sactions with the outside barbarians, or white folks.
Atti accuses Achan of all sorts of devilish devices to
defraud and degrade his nation ;tax, ag
that he encourages
the payment of licences, poll- and other imposi-
tions, to such a degree that not a real escapes his rapa-
city. All men of the three great liongs (provinces) are
called upon to know that 300 dollars will be given for
the suppression of Le-Achan. Among other high-
handed measures of the magnificent Atti he has sent a
committee to the residence of a number of women from
the dowry land, to inform them that, unless they for-
sook their evil ways, and clung only to their own people,
they should forfeit their lives. He warns them of the
dreadful tortures in store for the disobedient, who are
taken to the igreat house, ‘.C-yapin-coon,' where they
will be stripped and bastinadoed on the bare back, and
compelled to suffer other miseries too horrible to men-
tion, The poor creatures were allowed two days to de-
cide what to do, and dreadful consternation was created
among them. The edict of the Royal "Atti' is written
on crimson paper."
The clipper ship Staffordshire, erroneously re.
ported to have been wrecked, had arrived at San
Francisco. The mortality on board vessels arriving
at the Californian ports was truly frightful. The
journals do not contain any mining intelligence.
There were some rumours of an intended movement
to make Lower California an independent state.
Advices from Oregon mention that a pitched battle
had taken place near Table Rock, between a large_
party of whites and Indians, at the conclusion of
which a treaty of peace was:maude..
The miners
the Klamath, Salmon, and_e
Rogue doing
well, and several rich discoveriesg hade rivers w
been made.ere
One
a
man is said to have washed out of sack of dirt UP-
wards of 1,017 dolls. 50c. another took out of Rogue
river a piece of gold worth 500 dolls.
The San Fran-
cisco market was in a flourishing condition, there
being a heavy and constant demand
for goods.
Accounts from Havannah to the 3d inst
per shad
of the
that the publisher revolutionary Pa
anttate
escaped from prison. Americans had been prohibited
from landing on the island.
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nr
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From New Orleans we learn that
go de
earthquake took buildings were totally
20th ult. A large number o
place at Sfantia
demolished, and the streets were blocked up with the
ruins. the newspapers, Yucatan was about
According teu
United States Government for pro-
to apply to) th
exatilon.
tectio
' and annexation.
gence from the Sandwich Islands to
We have
the 10th of July. The Grenadian barque Sarmiento
had arrived at Honolulu from Panama. During the
Passage a great number of the passengers died from
proper allowance of water, and from fever.
want of a prop
On the 21st of May a most fearful tragedy occurred
on board. A young man shot a German through the
heart. The murderer was seized. 114 of the pas-
sengers voted that he should be hung and thirty-two
were opposed to it. During th© interval between the
sentence and the execution the dead body was brought
on deck, exhibiting its ghastly wounds. The pre-
parations were made., and after allowing the con-
demned man a quarter of: an hour over his time, he
was run up to the yardarm. When life became ex-
tinct be was cut adrift, fell upon his face into the sea,
and continued floating till left out of sight by the
ship. The commander of the Swedish frigate Eugenieand
had exchanged courtesies with the King
intro-
duced Mr. Hatchfield as resident Consul for Sweden
and Norway.
The activity in the New York Stock Market re-
ported last steamer still continued,
and there were no
sound dividend-paying stocks pressing on the market.
Government and State securities, together with the
various railroad bonds, were in good
active, demand. The
.
demand for money continued very but, the
supply being very abundant, no alteration in rates
!took place.