The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-05 00:00:00

LIST OF PASSENGERS.

Messrs. F. L. Talcott, D. W. Talcott, J. P. Beck_
man, Sturbide ; Captain Brockman; Messrs. M. H.
Power, Kuntzoro, Inda, Leslie, Santa Maria, Andrea
Santa Maria, Rolph, Parkinson ; Lieutenant Papillon ;
Messrs. Ach:llis, Alizo Port, G. D. Penny, Lambert,
Rush, Robins, Mrs. Robins; Mr. J. R. Jaffray ; Capt. F.
Hayes; Mr. M-Irtin ; Mrs. Elizabeth Boon ; Lieutenant
Gordon; Mr. Nl.Leod ; Captain Fowell ; Messrs. S. S.
Ward, R. C. Hooper, Douglas Baird, Guise, J. C.
Newall; Misses Webb, Hutchings; Messrs. J. X. Meyer,
Bourry, Christransen, E. L. Royal ; Dr. Newton ; Messrs.
Richardson, E. J. Thomas, St. Vincent Paget.

LATEST FROM AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN.

The Great Western, Lieutenant James Hosken,
R.N., arrived at Bristol yesterday, in twelve days and
thirteen hours from New York, bringing, with files of
United States papers of the 21st ult., forty-three pas-
sengers and 117,0511. in specie for the agent in London
of the United States Bank. The British Queen ar-
rived at New York on the evening of the 20th, having
made the outward passage in exactly seventeen days—
an exceedingly favourable one, considering the stormy
state of the weather and the season of the year. Were
it not for the unfavourable news taken out by her of
the state of the Money Market in London, which rather
alarmed the mercantile body in New York, the re-
mittances in gold by the Great Western would have
amounted to a million sterling. The Great Western
sailed too soon after the arrival of the British Queen
to witness the effect of the intelligence brought by her,
farther than the verbal expression of uneasiness. In
most of the New York banks the policy of curtailment
was adhered to with undeviating strictness. No
efforts were in fact wanting on their part to
provide against the possibility of a second suspension.
Their extreme caution was of course a source of great
annoyance to the mercantile community, as it created a
great difficulty in effecting discounts, and consequently
made the scarcity of money be doubly felt. But the
banks could not, with a due regard to their own safety,
act otherwise. With the Government opposed to
them, and the existence of something like a suspicion
of their solvency in Europe, it would be madness on
their part to squander away their funds in the accept-
ance of mere paper securities.
The crops in every part of the United States are
happily very abundant this season. Grain was very
plentiful, but the British Queen having brought out
intelligence that the corn crops here would be of average
goodness, fears were entertained that there would be
little profitable demand for it in Europe. The cotton
crop was also large, being expected to reach 1,600,000
bales. The tobacco crop of Virginia, Kentucky,
Maryland, and Ohio, amounts this year to 115,000
hogsheads, being very nearly double that of the last
season.

There is very little political news in the United
States'papers. All continued tolerably tranquil on the
frontier—for occasional outrages, in which no lives are
lost, may be expected to occur till a better system of
police can be established by the British and American
Governments.

We have here to acknowledge, with the expression of
our thanks for his attention, the receipt of the following
note from the Chief Superintendent at the Paddington
station of the Great Western Railway, which, however,
escaped our notice till too late for our Morning Edi-
tion :

" Paddington, Three &Clock, Oct. 5

" An express bps this moment been received from Bris-
tol by the Great Western Railway, to state that the Great
Western steam-ship has arrived from New York in twelve
days and thirteen hours, bringing forty-three passengers
and 117,0511. in specie.
" This express reached the Paddington station in forty-
eight minutes from Twyford. _ _

--"
The Great Western left New York on the 22d of
September, when the British Queen had arrived."

(Extracts from the New York Papers.)

CONTINUED SICKNESS IN TIIE SOUTHERN CITIES.-The
yellow fever was increasing in New Orleans on the Bth
instant. The reports of deaths at the Charity Hospital,
and at other public places, is not a sufficient index to the
total number that daily die in that city. The disease is
more prevalent among the lower classes. By the report
of the Charity Hospital it appears s hat during the week
ending on the Bth instant, 140 new cases of yellow fever
were admitted. Of these sixty were cured, 55 died, and
29 remained. For the week pree2ding, the admissions
were 110, the recoveries 84 ; the deaths 33. The number
of new cases has been greater, the recoveries in less pro-
portion, and the deaths more numerous then since the an-
nouncement of the disease. For the week ending on the
Bth, the report of the interments in Potter's Field, gives
the number as 236. Of these 172 were victims of the
fever. In the week preceding, the number of interments
did not exceed 142 ; and but 95 were of yellow fever. It
is therefore perceived that the aggregate number of bu-
rials has increased about 33 per cent., while that of inter-
ments of cases of yellow f,ver has increased full 80 per
cent. within a single week. To sum up—the deaths
during the past week amount to 252, of which number
189 cases were of yellow fever. This computation is ex-
clusive of the interments in the Lafayette burying ground.

AUGUSTA. GA., SEPT. 14 —Dr. Robertson, Dr. An-
thony, and Dr. Elver, are t down, All our old phy-
sicians are sick or dead, hut one. The Sheriff and Mar-
shal died yesterday. C. Latimer and Henry Cummings
were taken last night. The deaths are eight to twelve
per day. Ido net believe there are 1,500 persons, white
and black, who sleep within the city.
DESTRUCTIVE CONFLAGRATION AT NATCIIES, MISS.—
On the sth inst., a disastrous fire broke out in Cotton
Alley, Natchez. The fallowing warehouses were des-
troyed :—Jaceb Soria and Co., loss of property 25,000
dols., no insurance ; A. L. Gaines and Co., loss 15,000
dots. ; Canon and Ayres, 2,500 dols ; James Wet-utile,
5,000 dols. ; Canidine and Newman, 800 dols. ; J. D.
Diekerman, 5,000 dols. On Cotton Alley, the fire con-
sumed Stanton, Buckner and Co's. commis ion ~tore, loss
15,000 dols ; on Commerce-street, Dr A. A .I,,nes' drug
store was destroyed, and John R. Stockman's residence,
less 15,000 dols. Mrs. C ,rnell's large boarding-house, at
the corner of Commerce and Franklin streets was burnt.
Sevcral other buildings fell a prey to the flames. This
is the second destructive fire in Natchez within a few weeks.
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE WRECK OF THE SHIP
QUEEN ADELAIDE.—On the 18th of August, at about
4 A.M , the ship struck upon Abaco near Green Turtle
Key, /.here she was wrecked and filled with water. About
two thirds of the cargo was saved, mostly in a damaged
condition and carried to Nassau, where it is held subject
to the orders of the owners and u..derwriters.

We have learned that upwards of 60,000 dollars were
insured by the offices of Philadelphia on the cargo ; which,
considering its damaged condition and the fact that 45
per cent. salvage has been awarded to the salvors, will
render it very near a total loss. The ship is a total loss,
but was not insured here.
The captain's process accounts for the loss, happening
as it did on a clear starlight rnornine., without' any gale
of wind, by his chronometer's deceiving him in his longi-
tude near ten degrees,—Plvladelphia Gazette.