The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, WOVEMBER 7, 1839.

always required individuals whose notes were discounted
for post-notes, to make those individual notes payable
here.
The refusal of the Bank of the United States of this
city of the notes of the Philadelphia Bank, is consi-
dered as the forerunner to a suspension in that city. If
this should happen, the natural and necessary effect will
be that of relief to all other places, and especially to
New York, from whence Philadelphia has taken large
sums for export and otherwise by the sale of post-notes,
which must now cease.

STOCKS THIS DAY, OCT. 19, 12 O'CLOCK.

United States Bank
North American Trust Company 49-1
Harlem Railroad
Stonington Railroad l9
Vietonburg Bank

American Exchange Bank
Utica Railroad
Del. and Hudson

(From the New York Sunday Morning News, 0ct.6.)
EXTENSIVE FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE,
IN PHILADELPHIA.
The rumour spread by the passengers from Philadel-
phia yesterday proves to be mournfully true. We con-
dense the following account from the papers of that
city, omitting the details respecting the houses only in-
jured, which are numerous. More than forty have been
totally consumed. The loss is estimated by different
papers at from 400,000 to 600,000 dollars. .Several
individuals were undoubtedly killed by various mis-
chances, and several wounded. The Gazette says—
About eleven o'clock last night, a fire was discovered
in W. J. Stroup's provision store, No. 14, South
Wharfs, between Chesnut and Market-streets. In a

The effect has been to compel the banks of New
York to contract their engagements, and place them-
selves in a position of positive safety ; and their depo-
sits, and circulation are so reduced, that with about
four million dollars in specie they are beyond the reach
of any contingency.
The export demand for specie has been more for the
wants of the Bank than for the regular trade, and as
our crops are near at hand, and the amount due abroad
small, we look for a gradual amelioration in the money
market, and a feeling of increasedtconfidence and security.

(From the Commercial Advertiser.)
The Bank of the United States in this city has this
day refused to redeem the notes of the Bank of the
United States of Pennsylvania, even in cases in which
they were by their tenor made payable here. This has
occasioned no small excitement. In this state of things
it is satisfactory to be able to say, on good authority,
that the Banks of this city, which have been for a long
time strengthening themselves, are in a position to main-
tain specie payments under any circumstances.
The drain of money by the negociation of the post-
notes of the Bank of the United States will now cease,
and the money market, we may safely conclude, will, in
a fcws days, be more easy than it has been for months
past.
In the meantime it seems to us worse than useless to
run upon the banks for specie, or do anything that can
impede their efforts to sustain themselves. The effect
can only be hurtful to the oommunity, as well as give
the banks unnecessary trouble, and excite alarm for
which there is no adequate cause.

few minutes the flames reached the adjoining provision
store. In the same range the store of George Merrill
took fire immediately afterwards. The grocery stores
of C. Cheosborough and of George A. Wood, South
Wharfs, the oil store of Newlin and Allibone. the com-
mission store of J. Emlen, the iron warehouse of An

drew M. Jones and Brothers, the office of the Mer-

chants' Transportation Line, and the general commis-
sion warehouse of C. King and Co., were successively

enveloped in the flames.
The tavern kept by George Nealls was next attacked,
and thence the fire communicated to the large oil ware-
houses of Shober, Bunting and Co. The ship chandlery
of A. H. Hinkle, South Wharfs, and the commission

warehouses of Newbold and Haverstick, and of Smith
and Johnson, were consumed.
Here the fire reached the corner of Chesnut-street.
Returning to Water-street, adjacent to Mr. Prescott's
store, the fire is traced to J. Harding, jun.'s, extensive
grocery establishment, thence to the grocery of White,
Stevens, and Co., and storehouse of same firm, thence
to H. Sloan's warehouse, thence to the large storehouse
occupied by W. R. Thompson and Co. Next the
Fulton House, with all the houses above-mentioned,
were utterly destroyed. The buildings on the opposite
or west side of the street then took fire. In this range
were William R. Thompson and Co.'s storehouse, the

(From the Journal of Commerce, Oct. 12.)
The Commercial and Pennsylvania Banks of Phila-
delphia have suspended. So there are now no specie-
paying banks in Philadelphia.
BANKS IN BALTIMORE.—The Baltimore Patriot of
Thursday morning, second edition. says, " In conse-
quence of the intelligence received last night from Phi-
delphia, the Boards of Directors of all the Baltimore
banks assembled this morning at eight o'clock, and it is
presumed they will come to a resolution to suspend spe-
cie payments on the opening of their doors this morn-
ing at nine o'clock."
The following circular has been received by our
banks. It was issued, as the date shows, before the
suspension in Philadelphia :
(Circular.)
" Extract from the minutes of the proceedings of the
incorporated banks of the city of Baltimore.
" At a meeting of the banks of the city of Baltimore,
held this day, each bank being represented, the follow-
ing resolutions were adopted :

Hibernian Tavern, and between the latter and Chesnut-
street three houses occupied as taverns end clothing
stores. At the north-west corner of Water and Ches-
nut-streets, the clothing store of Gaskill and Barnes
was next consumed.

From the rear of the latter row of buildings the fire
communicated with those facing on the east side of
Front-street. There William Steel's starch factory was
partially injured ; Davis's suspender manufactory, and
S. and E. Davidson's sacking bottom factory were also
injured ; James L. Mifflin's and George Hall's commis-
sion houses, totally burnt ; Francis G. Smith's commis-
sion store for the sale of Dupont's gunpowder ; John
Mee, spice-factor's store ; William R. Thompson's large
warehouse and counting-house ; Patrick Donnelly's
tavern ; Dennis Lahey's tavern ; John Lloyd's tobac-
conist's store ; and John Longhead's cooper's shop,
were entirely destroyed.
The house at the north-east corner of Front and
Chestnut streets, occupied by Thomas Diehl, S. C.
Bunting, Thomas M. Clark, and Pa)nter and Slack,
commission merchants, was much damaged. Meanwhile
the flames had extended to the steam-boat hotel, on the
south side of Chestnut-street. Next door, a cooper's
shop, was destroyed, and the office and baggage depot
of the Camden and Amboy line. At the south-west
corner of Water and Chestnut-streets, the fire reached
the clothing store of Enoch Allen, next the barber's
shop of William Gorgas, next to Martin's tavern, in
Front-street. These houses were wholly consumed.
The Philadelphia Gazelle mentions that the fire,
which had seemed to be quelled at 12 M., had again
broken out, but expressed the conviction that it would
soon be quelled ; 250,000 dollars of the loss is covered
by insurance in Philadelphia and elsewhere.
(From the same, Oct. 6.)
FIRE IN NEW YORK.

Resolved—That inasmuch as the collections made
by the banks of this city, are received to a great ex-
tent in bank notes not immediately convertible into
coin, it is expedient that the following rules and regula-
tions be adopted by them in relation to such collections.
" No eastern or northern bank shall be permitted to
check on any collection for it, under the space of 30
days from the date when payment shall have been
made ; and all checks shall be drawn at one day's sight,
without grace.

" Resolved—That the time after which the foregoing
provisions shall apply, shall be as follows :
To Philadelphia and New York from and after the
14th inst.
"To Boston and Providence, from and after the

6th inst.
" All other banks, from and after the 20th inst.
" NICHOLAS PRICE, Chairman,
SAMUEL JONES, Jun., Sec.
" Baltimore, Oct. 8, 1839."

(From the Boston Daily Advertiser.)
The New York papers announce with confidence that
the banks of that city will not follow this example— ,
that they are amply prepared to resist it, and that, in
fact, they will be relieved rather than burdened by the
failure of the Philadelphia banks, and particularly by
that of the Bank of the United States, which, by means
of her post-notes, has been drawing from their resources.
We trust that such will be the resolution of the banks,
not only of New York, but of this city, and of all New
England, and that it will be manfully adhered to. Sound
policy, justice, and duty to the public demand such a
course. It is to be hoped that the ruinous expedient
of a suspension of specie payments will not again be
tried. It cannot in fact be tried but by the general
consent of the public, and the public, there is reason
to believe, will not again tolerate it. All that is ne-
cessary to remove the apprehension of such a calamity
is, that a due confidence should be placed in the dis-
cretion, firmness, and sense of duty of those to whom
the administration of our banks is entrusted.

At half-past twelve this morning a fire broke out

[ntheearpenter's shop of Sutton and Carpenter, 23

Eldridge-street, between Delaney and Rivington, which
consumed two houses on either side, with a great num-
ber of small tenements in the rear, principally occu-
pied by Negroes. A man was carried out, supposed to
be mortally injured. It is supposed to have been the
work of an incendiary, as there had been no fire in the
workshop of Messrs. Sutton and Carpenter for two
days previous. The exertions of the firemen were un-
paralleled.
TERRIBLE CONFLAGRATION!

ANOTHER!—WhiIe the above fire was in proo.ress,
the bells and illumination announced a second in Water-
street, between Fulton-street and Burling-slip. It
caught in 189, a five story brick store, occupied by
S. A. Halsey, as a fur and skin store. At two o'cloCk,
this present writing, it is spreadinc, with great rapidity.
All the engines are at the other fire, and we fear an ex-
tensive conflagration. The adjoining stores, on either
side, occupied severally by Gilbert and Jesup as a point
store, and A. H. Center and Son, seem to be fully in
flames. The dome of the United States Hotel (late
Holt's) is on fire, but it will probably be extinguished.
Ten minutes after Two.—The adjoining buildings
mentioned are a heap of ruins. The fire has crossed
the street, and has consumed the upper story of the
store occupied by Stephen King and James A. Kisarn
as a tin-shop. It must go to Burling-slip. The hotel
is more seriously threatened than ever.
Terrible ! Three. a.m.—Almost the whole square,
between Fulton, Water, and Pearl-streets,:anclißurling-
slip is in flames !—ln addition to the stores already
given, on Water-street, S. Dunn and Co.. A. H. Levy,
Dewey and Leverett, and a hat and cap store; on Burl-
ing slip, every store of the square, viz. :—John Hunt
and Co., No. 19, Hick Tibout, William Callender,
David Keys and Co. ; on Front-street, Michell and
Co., 170, R. M. Demile, P. C. Allen, Charles C. Fow-
ler; Jewett, Son, and Co., Hicks and Co., W. E. and
J. F. Crafis, are wholly consumed.
Across Water-street, S. Pearce, James A. Kisam,
Storms, large navigation store, and one or two
others, are also totally consumed. The whole vicinity
is threatened ; the cinders fall in thick showers—the
firemen: are; but as a drop in the bucket, notwith-
standing their tremendous efforts. The sight is awfully

(From the Albany Evening Journal.)
The New York banks have justified our confidence
in them. They stand up firmly, unaffected by the crash
of the Philadelphia United States Bank. We have
seen letters from some of the most intelligent bankers
and merchants, who are strong and confident in the
assurance that all will go well with the banks of our
metropolis. At a meeting of the officers of the city
banks, on Wednesday evening, it was ascertained that
they have 4,000,000 dollars of specie, in addition to the
500,000 dollars held by the New York United States
Bank. The New York institutions owe nothing to
foreign banks. Their deposits and circulations are re-
duced to a minimum. Exchange on Philadelphia has
fallen to seven per cent. discount. The post-notes of
the United States Bank are offered at three per cent, a
month discount. All this is turning the tables in favour
of New York. Our great commercial metropolis will
now become also the great money mart. New York
will now be the financial, as she has long been the corn.
mercial, centre of the Union.

(Journal of Commerce, Oct. 14.)
The banks in Delaware and the district of Columbia,
except the Patriotic Bank at Washington, have followed
the shameful example of the banks in Philadelphia and
Baltimore.

Harrisburgh, Oct. 10, 1839,

The Banks have suspended to-day, but it does not go
down well ; it don't suit at this time. The attorney-
general has to-day issued a circular to his deputies, in-
structing them to commence suits in all cases where
individuals or corporations issue notes or checks of less
denomination than 3 dollars, It will at once bring our
banks to the mark. There can be no evasion—nothing
but the specie will answer. The auditor-general has
made a requisition upon the United States Bank for a
return of its condition up to the first discount day in
October. The return will probably be received in a
week or two. Our legislature will have a majority of at
least one, probably two V.B. in the senate, and 68 to 32
in the House of Representatives.
The following notice has been issued from the Ameri-
can Exchange Bank :

grand. -
Ten minutes after Three.—lt has crossed Front-
street towards the water. Four stores are rapidly con-
suming on that block. The hotel is protected by wet
blankets. The shipping are hauling out. We must
reluctantly go to press ; what the full result may be,
we shudder to conjecture !
AWFUL CONFLAGRATION AT MOBILE.
Letters of the Bth instant from Mobile, received
yesterday, bring intelligence of a most destructive fire
which occurred in that city on the night previous. The
number of buildings burned is estimated to be between
five and six hundred, comprising from a quarter to a
third of the city. Most of them, we understand, were
of wood, and unoccupied at the time, the inhabitants
being out out of town in consequence of the sickness.
We have seen no estimate of the amount of property
destroyed. It must be very large, though, perhaps,
not so great as might be inferred from thg number of
buildings burned. The business part of the city es-
caped unharmed. But little insurance had been
effected in this city. Only three deaths by yellow fever
' in the last two days.
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New York, Oct. 120839

" Payment of notes and acceptances, lodged for col-
lection in this Bank, payable out of this city, will be re-
quired in specie, unless the depositors shall elect to re-
ceive payment in notes current where said paper is
payable ; and in case of payment, this Bank will give to
the said depositor, if required, a check for the same,
payable at the place of collection, in notes there current,
or in specie as the same may have been paid.
" Notice is also given to those who have had paper
discounted payable out of the city, that payment of the
same will be de►nanded in speck, unless the discounter
select to have the same received in notes current
where the same is payable, and allow to this institution
the difference of exchange.
" JOHN J. FISK, Cashier."

" Mobile, Oct.B, 1839.
" Last night, about eight o'clock, the alarm of fire
was sounded. It took on the S.E. corner of Concep-
tion 'nd Dauphin-streets. The wind blowing strong
from the S.E., it crossed the street, and continued up
as far as Franklin, and was stopped by blowing up
Duke Goodman's house. Twelve blocks were burnt.
All the houses on the north side of Conti-street, from
Conception-street, including the Catholic church, and all
on the south side of St. Francis, up to and including
J. S. Gleadon's old shop, and then over to St. Michael
and down to Jackson-street. There was but one house
saved on St. Francis-street, south-side, which was Grant
and Collins's. It is impossible for me to give you any
estimate of the loss. Had it not been for the wind
subsiding, the fire must have extended to Mam Char-
ley's. Our city has the appearance of an old building,
as nothing is standing but chimneys."
Another account states that the Episcopal Church,
as well as the Catholic, was burnt. The fire is said to
have been the work of incendiaries.
A gentleman well acquainted with Mobile,has furnished
us with a diagram of the burnt district, extending from
Conception-street on the east, to Franklin on the west,
and from Conti on the south, to St. Michael on the
north, and comprising from ten to twelve whole squares
in the heart of the city. " Luckily for the insurance
offices," he remarks, " it was in a quarter of the city
where little or no insurance was effected, the buildings
being chiefly of wood." About 1,000 families, it is esti-
mated, have been deprived of their homes by this
calamity.

SUSPENSION OF THE WASHINGTON AND
GEORGETOWN BANKS.
(From the Washington Globe.)
At a meeting of Delegates from the Banks in Wash-
ington and Georgetown, October, 11, 1839, the follow-
ing resolution was adopted, viz.
Whereas information is received that the Banks
in Baltimore and Philadelphia have suspended specie
payments for the present, and it being the opinion of
the Delegates of the several Banks in the City of Wash-
ington and Georgetown here represented that the safety
of the Banks and the interest of the community will
not be promoted by an attempt to sustain specie pay-
ments while a supension of the Northern Banks shall
continue ; and whereas, although the Banks here re-
presented have abundant means to meet all their liabi-
lities, yet as a considerable part of their means have
become unavailable for the present as specie funds, by
the suspension of the banks in Philadelphia and Balti-
more, be it therefore resolved, that it be, and is herby
recommended to the several Banks here represented to
suspend specie payments for the present, with a pledge
on the part of the said Bank to resume such payments
as soon as the Banks in Philadelphia and Baltimore
shall do so."—New York Paper.
THE QUIETUS.—The banks have several of them an-
nounced their readiness to draw bills on England at
sixty days, at 9:1- prem., to any extent which may be
required.

They have most of them open credits always at
their disposal, with various London bankers, and the
agent of the Borings is ready to enlarge the credits on
them to an extent much beyond what can possibly be
necessary. It has been known for some days that this
course would be adopted if thought expedient, and we
should think its announcement must put a quietus to
all expectation or apprehension in any mind that the
" New York banks would break."
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600 houses in Mobile, on the night of the 7th instant.
They are mostly small, and the damage is estimated, in
the Mobile Papers, at 120,000 dollars. In prosperous
times, we are told, the destruction of these houses would
hardly have been deemed a calamity to the city ; but
at present the case is otherwise.
Letters of the 9th inst. announce the occurrence of
yet another fire in that unfortunate city. which, al-
though
it destroyed comparatively few buildings, caused
a much greater loss of property than the other, the
buildings burnt being among the best in the city. A
gentleman well acquainted in Mobile, estimates the loss
by this fire at 750,000 dollars. The Bank building
alone cost about 200,000 dollars. The two hotels were
also expensive and valuable buildings.
(Correspondent of the Journal of Commerce.)
MOBILE, OCT. 9.—We have had another fire. The
Mansion House, a large unfinished hotel south of it,
and the Planter's and Merchants' Bank are burnt, be-
sides a number of valuable houses, the two former, and
several houses on the north side of Government-street,
and a portion of the Market. No doubt the work of
incendiaries. _ _ _

The Planters and Merchants' Bank would have been
saved but for the cupola, &c. The books and bills re-
ceivable, and, I believe. all the valuables of the bank,
are saved. I was nearly four hours in the bank assist-

ing in endeavours to save it.
There have been in this country, since the beginning
of this month, no leis than 24 fires that we have ac-
counts of, and the following is a list of them :
FIRES IN THE UNITED STATES SINCE

Ist. INSTANT.

Fires. Buildgs. destroyed. Loss.
Dollars.
50 1,200,000
450 1,600,000
53 1,000,000
12 20,000
9 25,000
6 20,000
2 10,000
10 100,000
5 5,000
1 10,000
2 50,000

n New York 7
Mobile
Philadelphia 2
Alton 111.
Newark, N. J 2
New Orleans 1
Norfolk 1
Aiken, S. C 1
York, Pa....
Louisville, Ky 1
West Boylston

Aggregates... 24 600 4,040,000
(From the Nets York Times, Oct. 19.)
SICKNESS AT THE SOUTH.-Our latest date from
New Orleans is of the 9th inst. The deaths by yellow
fever on the preceding day, in the Charity Hospital,
were four out of seven admitted.

A letter from Natchez, dated Oct. 4, states that the
fever had been very severe since the 14th of September.
The number of deaths during the first three days of the
present month was 11, out of a population of 1,200.
Among the victims we observe the names of Nathan
A. Green, of the house of Dahlgreen and Co., and
Captain C. S. Curtis, of the house of Curtis and Holmes,
owners of the Natchez and Boston line of packets.
Natchez was almost deserted ; out of 58 stores on
Maine-street but five were open. The physicians en-
deavoured first to salivate the patients ; when this was
effected not one out of fifty died.

LATEST NEWS BY THE MAILS.
FIRE IN NEW ORLEANS.—On the Gth inst. a fire
broke out in a block of buildings on the corner of
Commerce and St. Peter-streets, which burned it down.
The houses numbered were six. Loss estimated to be
20,000 dollars. F. Perrett, V. David, Mr. Barry, and
Ann Cammell were the sufferers. _

ANOTHER LARGE FIRE IN NEWARK, N. J.—Six
buildings were destroyed in Newark on Thursday
morning last. It commenced in the store of Messrs.
Halsey and Tuckey, leather dealers, on Market-street,
and burnt them out. It then extended to the buildings
occupied by Charles T. Shipman, Jacobus at Utter,
Pierson and Berry, and Mr. Hollingsworth, leather
dealers, and Mr. Manahan, tobacconist. Loss 200,000
dollars. Fully insured. _ _

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FIRE IN NORFOLK, VA.—Two brick warehouses on
Campbell's wharf, occupied by Messrs. Anderson and
Goodrich, were destroyed by fire on the morning of the
16th inst. Loss 12,000 dollars.
ANOTHER FIRE.—The mills of the West Boylston
Manufacturing Company, in West Boylston, Mass.,
were destroyed by fire on the 15th inst. Loss 50,000
dollars.
BRITISH NOBILITY.—Lord Charles Wellesley, son
of the Duke of Wellington ; Lieutenant-Colonel
White, Lieutenant-Colonel Greenwood, Captain Fox,
Lieutenant Grosset, and Lieutenant James Colborne,
son of the ex-Governor of Canada, all attached to the
British army in the Canadas, arc now in Baltimore, on
a tour through the country.

HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM PHILADELPHIA.
(From the Philadelphia Gazette.)
IMPORTANT MOVEMENT.—We learn that a confe-
rence of delegates of the different banks and of the
Board of Trade of this city was held last evening, at
Which it was determined, as a matter vitally concerning
the safety and prosperity of the community, forthwith
to suspend specie payments. This resolution, with one
or two exceptions, of which we hear rumours not fully
authentie,was carried into unanimous execution to-day.
It is unnecessary, as it is impracticable, to go sud-
denly into an ample elucidation of this great measure.
It is sufficient to know that it is not one of quick and
desperate immaturity ; it is one of cool reflection, of
well-weighed facts, and well-descried results, which, in
any event, can scarcely fail of affording relief where
before there were perplexities, distress, and struggling
confidence. Of the main momentum to this point, ope-
rative in both hemispheres, we propose to speak briefly.
The affair is not one of choice by the banks, but of
necessity—a necessity not arising out of a lack of power
to continue specie payments, but of self-preservation,
under the form of keeping the specie from being drained
out of the country.
This necessity has its chief cause in the revulsion of
the opium trade with the Chinese—a trade of, say
50,000,000 ! The instrument of this trade is known
to be opium. The drug can no longer be employed as
an article of exchange with that people. Specie, there-
fore, must take the place of it. The Bank of England
fairly reeled under these tidings from China, and was
forced to make a loan of the Bank of France, and into
the issue of two-pound notes. The balance of trade
being against us, demands came over here for specie ;
and every packet ship went out carrying away from
500,000 to 1,000,000 dollars. This was the great cause
of the late stricture in our banks' discounts—the banks
could not discount paper, because their issues came
back upon them directly for specie.
The merchants were bleeding at every pore. Trade
and commerce were literally stopped. To aid as far as
possible, the banks (or some of them)gave their credit
to the merchants under the form of post-notes, payable
four or six, or eight months a-head, hoping by the
time they arrived at maturity that the pressure might
become relaxed. But this did not afford the relief.
The merchants, manufacturers, and mechanics were yet
suffering. This suffering was not confined to the city.
New York felt it under all its forms of severity, as in-
deed did all our cities, and the whole of the country.
What, under such circumstances, was to be done ?
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under a season of suspension, than under its opposite,
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There is great relief at the bottom of this suspension.
Let the people regard it in its true light, and it will be
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and all this will be to set thousands of mechanics and
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It seems that the suspension of specie payments in
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Mobile is truly an afflicted city :—first, commercial (New York Weekly Morning Herald, Oct. 19.)
disaster, then pestilence, and before either is fully past, Faust MONTE VIDEO.—The Extio arrived yesterday
a terrible fire ! We trust the public sympathy will he from Monte Video, whence she sailed on the 19th of
awakened in her behalf, and that subscriptions will be August. An American ship had been seized by the
made in behalf of the sufferers. French, for an alleged violation of the blockade. The
It is worthy of remark that the great fire in Phila.- 'country continued in a feverish state, and Don Fruc-
delphia which destroyed property to the amount of tuoso Rivera, standing on his head and feet alternately.
400,000 dollars, that in this oity which destroyed pro- Oribe may get back the reins of power and may not—
perty to the amount of 1,000,000 dollars, and that in it was uncertain.
Mobile which destroyed 500 or 600 houses, as stated FROM MEXICO,—We have received a little interest.
above, all occurred within. the space of three days. That ing intelligence from Vera Cruz to the 4th ult.—not
in Philadelphia commenced about 11 o'clock in the Iso late as has been received. On the 22d August, the
evening of the 4th inst., and burned till day-light on the Minister of War and Marine issued a proclamation,
sth ; that in New York commenced about half-past one stating that the severest penalties would be inflicted
o'clock in the morning of the 6th, and hurned till sun- on every commandant of a port found exacting of ves-
rise ; that in Mobile commenced early in the evening sels more than legal dues. A French gentleman, by
of the 7th, and burned for several hours. Probably the name of John, Gomez, while on his way to Nautta,
the loss of property by these three fires is at least whither he was travelling on business, was waylaid by
000,000 dollars. pair of assassins,
and most cruelly murdered by a
YET ANOTHER DESTRUCTIVE FIRE fit,stroke of a hatchet on the head,
MOBILE. LATEST FROM CENTRAL AMERICA.—b 7 the lc-
We recorded yesterday the destruction of 500 or ' torie, Capt. May, we have received a Belize (Honduras)

paper of the 7th ult., containing advice from Central I
America to the 24th of August.
The confederacy is essentially dissolved. Most of
the States claim to be independent of each other, in
the highest sense of the word. They make treaties
with each other as with foreign powers. A treaty of
peace and perpetual friendship was concluded between
" the Sovereign States of Salvador and Guatemala"
on the 4th of July. A treaty has also been concluded
between the States of Salvador and Los Altos. It
contains, among o..,bers, the following articles, which will
not be very palatable to Great Britain. They were oc-
casioned by the claim set up by the latter to the island
of Ruatan ; in accordance with which claim, a British
naval force lately took possession of the said island.
It is situated on the Atlantic coast, not very far from
Belize :

" ART. B.—The representatives in the convention of
both contracting States shall be sufficiently authorised
to treat on the most favourable measures, conducive to
the recovery of the island of Ruatan.
" ART. 9.—The two contracting parties also agree-
-Ist, that no production of the agricultural industry or
manufacture of an English possession sh,ll be admitted
in this country, although it may come under the flag of
any other nation whatsoever ; 2dly, that no goons from
any nation, although it may be a friendly one, shall be
admitted in our territory, if they come in an English vet-
sel ; and idly, these prohibitions shall continue so long li
as England refuses to put Central America again in
possession of the island of Ruatan. The 10th article
adds—the former article (Bth) shall not be obligatory,
or be carried into effect, until it be agreed on and ac-
cepted by the other States of the Union."
It appears that the department of San Miguel, and
other villages of San Salvador, had risen, and troops
from the State of Honduras covered the country as far
as the river Lempa.
Carrera has issued a proclamation to all the military
of Guametala, directing them to prepare to repel the
attacks of President Morava' against Honduras and
Nicaragua, for which purpose it was said that the latter
had been collecting troops.