The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-10 00:00:00

MAY 10, 1852.

A_AIERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.
The British and North American Royal Mail
steamer America, Captain Shannon, arrived here this
;morning at three o'clock, bringing the usual mails
and 51 passengers, but no specie. The America left
Boston on the 28th nit., and Halifax on the :-,oth.
During two or three days of her voyage she attained
a very high rate of speed, and the whole voyage has
been accomplished in about ten days ten hours, in-
cluding calling and stay at Halifax. The news by
this arrival is three days later from New York than
that brought by the Hermann, bat does not possess
much interest. The proceedings in Congress were
unimportant. There had been no' later arrival from
California, and the quartz mining schemes had been
somewhat checked. A New York paper says :
" We have seen a private letter from a respectable
gentleman who has been for the past two years in Cali-
fornia, engaged in testing quartz veins. He says that
not one in ten o!. these veins contains any gold whatever;
that of those that do contain gold, not one in ten con-
tains an average of one quarter of a cent to a pound of
rock, and not one in fifty an average of a cent to the
pound;C and short of this few veins will, ho says, pay
more than the expense of working."
It has been ascertained that the damage done to
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal will amount to about
80,000 dolls., and that it will take three months to
repair the injury.
Komath was in the state of Massachusetts, and had
addressed large audiences at Springfield and also at
Northampton he is far from being so popular as on
his first arrival. At Northampton he addressed a
large audience in the old Northampton Church, but
his speech was a very poor one, much of it being the
same as the one delivered at Springfield. A portion
of it was also in bad taste, and gave offence to many
citizens. He said that the American people possessed
all the elements of greatness, but that they did not
act as A great nation. He came out virtually against
the Maine liquor law. The people were disappointed
with his eloquence. The admission was by Hun-
garian bonds, for which purpose 500 dollars' worth
were sold. Many perions, however, were admitted
free. Jenny Lind (Mrs. Goldschmidt) and her hus-
band were present. She attracted nearly as much
attention as Kossuth.
The death of John Young, late Assistant United.
States Treasurer of the 'port of New York, and
formerly governor of the state of New York, is an-
nounced.

BOSTON, APRIL 24.—0 n Wednesday last a piece of
board was picked up at Scaconnet, Nantucket, from
which it is supposed that the British barque Jane
Duffus, Thomson, from Ardrossan, March 9, for Boston,
with 400 tons of pig iron and 35 tons of coal, has been
wrecked near Nantucket during the late gale, and proba-
bly all the crew lost.
IMMENSE ARRIVAL OF IMMIGRANTS AT

WEST INDIA AND MEXICAN 3L4 ILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, 6ATtiRDAY.—LThe Royal ME.ii Com-
pany's steam•ship commandtld by Lieutemmt
P. liast, R.N., with the West India and 141.xican mails,
strived this morning.
The Medway experienced fine weather during - the
Tame home, and has made a very good passage.
We regret to announce that Ltcutelizint South, the
Admiralv agent in charge of the unile, died on the 6:h
instant.

The latest dates brought by the Medway Are as fol-
lowsr-e-Vera Cruz, Aprit 7; Tampico, April 6; Chagres,
April 9; Certhagena, April 11; Jamaica April 14; De-
merara, April 14; Trinidad, April 15; liarbadoce, April
16; Grenada, April 15; Porto Rico, April 17; St.
Thomas, April 20; Fayal, fay 1; Antigua, April 18;
Santa Martha, March 30; Grey Town, April 4.
The freight brought by the :Medway was 1,464;235
dollars on me:chant.' account, 40;742 dollars for the
Mexicau dividends, 535 scrolls of cochineal, 34 serene
Jalapa, S 2 serons of indigo, 21 bales of sarsaparilla, and
a large numbsr of packages of suedric ineludieg vanilla,
Indiarubber, girger, sticeedes, &c.
She brought 158 passengers. amcnerst them being the
Hon. Edward Thompson and Wiliam Girod, Eiq., two
of the delegeees appointed to the British people on be-
half of Jamaica.
The Royal Mail Company's steamer Dee, with the
English mails of the 17th of March, arrived at Jamaica
on the 13th of April.
By this arrival we have our usual files of Jamaica
papers to the 14th of April, but they are principally
filled with the accounts of public meetings relative to
the distressed state of the island. IRS Excellency the
Governor. Sir Charles Grey, is seriously indisposed at
the Pinnacle, in St. Catherine's mountains, his Excel-
lency's country residence, and Drs. Turner, Bowerbank,
and Brooks have been called in to attend his Excel-
lency. The nature of his illness has not transpired.
The Bishop of Jamaica, accompanied by the Rev.
Duncan Campbell, his Lordship's secretary, left Port
Royal on the 13th ult., in her Majesty'e steamer, Rosa-
mond, for Honduras and Nassau, N.P.
THE Smeteapox.—There is no abatement whateVer of
the disease in the island, but the deaths are few in pro-
portion to the number of sufferers, and have not ex-
ceeded eight or ten per week. Our accounts from St.
James's, Hanover, and Westmoreland are favourable,
and we trust that all other parishes in the island may be
spared the calainity of a visitation similar to that which
was experienced from cholera.
• THE CARNIVAL IN HAVANNAH.—The carnival passed
off quietly, and without incident. There was the usual
number of public and private bal masques, but less mas-
querading in the streets than in former years. The time
is gone by when the better part of the population here
took part in the three days festival, and consequently
their observance is on the wane. The carnival in Ha-
vannah now has little amusing or interesting to even a
stranger:
MEstroo.—The state of Mexico was said to be far
from satisfactory. The.. government of General Arista
was extremely unpopular, and another revolution was
much feared. The Government was without money, and
the Congress would not supply any. The amount for
the January dividend had been scraped together with
much difficulty.. It was said that a rupture with the
United States was more than probable, in consequence
of the refusal of the Government to carry out the Te-
huantepec Railway treaty. On the whole, the accounts
are very unfavourable, and must affect the value of
Mexican stock.
nATTI.—A serious disturbance has occurred here, and
a great number of arrests had taken place; and during
last, week fourteen of the ringleaders were shot. A
Consul-General appointed by the French Government
having arrived at St. Thomas's in one of the British mail
steamers, a French steamer was dispatched from Mar-
tinique to convey him to Port-au-Prince, and his Excel-
lency having arrived at that port placed himself in im-
mediate communication with the Government, and we
aro glad to state that, through his intercession, the lives
of many persons who had been condemned' to death
were ultimately spared. Intercession for the 'pardon of
these prisoners had been heretofore made by the British
and Spanish Consuls, but without effect. Emperor
Soulouque is to be crowned on Sunday, the 18th inst.,
which ceremony is to take place with great pomp. . '

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From De Cordova's Mercantile Intelligencer.)
KINGSTON, JAMAICA, APRIL 13.
The business tratasseted in this market since our issue
of the 27th ult. has been of the ordinary character.
With 'little inducements offering for speculative pur-
chases, either as regards reduction of prices, or antici-
pations of a permament revival of trade, dealers have
simply confined their operations to the supply of their
immediate wants. Stocks generally have been RA-
eiently ample to meet the ordinary demand, and prices
have .scarcely fluctuated from our last quotations.
We notice an increased dullness in the articles of
sugar and rum, supplies of which are increasing in
Kingston, whilst the inducements to speculate become
daily less apparent. Of pimento there is very little at
market. Coffee is being brought in rather freely by the
small settlers.
We found it necessary some numbers back to allude
to the circumstances of large deficiencies having been
discovered in the weights of several parcels of pork im-
ported into this market. More recently those deficien-
cies were found to extend to other articles, and the con-
signees of several parcels of herrings and mackerel were
obliged to make allowances off the prices at which the
articles were originally sold, proportionate to the extent
of deficiency.
It has again been brought under our notice that a re-
cent receipt of mackerel has been found to contain some
201 b. less in each barrel than the correct weight. We
believe we may state with confidence that an effort is
about being made by the dealers at Kingston to arrest
the nefarious and deliberately dishonest system dis-
closed in the foregoing remarks, by obtaining some
legislative enactment which will authorise the seizure
and confiscation of all descriptions of goods which shall
have been put up, like the articles above alluded to, with
the view to defraud the honest trader.
The duties on tobacco were reduced on the 31st nit.
as follows, in accordance with the provisions of the first
Import Duty Bill of the last session. The tariff, with
this exception, remains unaltered.
Tobacco, manufactured, per 1001. value
and further per lb. weight
Tobacco, Cavendish, and unmenufactnred, per
100 lb. value
and further per lb. weight
Cigars, per 1001. value 5O 0 0
and further per lb. weight
Tobacco is in very limited inquiry. The stock of Ca-
vendish is exceedingly heavy, and beyond the ordinary
demand.
Freights—Tonnage is abundant, but employment offers
very slowly. •
Exchanges.--On London—Colonial Bank-90 days,
I- per cent.
pram, ; 60 days, 1 la' cent. ; 30 days,
per cent. Jamaica Bank-90 days, par ;60 days, per
cent. prem. ; 30 days, 1 per coat.