The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-11 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ARCTIC.
LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.
By the steamer Arctic'we have advices from New
York to the 30th ult. She has made an excellent
run of 10 days and four hours. She has brought
207 passengers, and 312,071 dollars in specie.
The Arctic passed the steamer Atlantic, hence
for New York, at 3 p.m. on the 7th inst.
The steamer Arabia, from Liverpool, arrived at
Boston on the 26th, and the steamer Nashville,
from Havre and Southampton, arrived at New
York on the 28th ult.

There were no accounts of the missing steamer
City of Glasgow. She was 61 days out at latest
dates, and but little hopes were entertained of her
being afloat.

The ship Hibernia, arrived at New York, re-
ported the following :—" March 30, in lat. 40 46,
long. 44 22, passed several broken masts painted
white, and quantities of doors painted oak and
grained."
The total number of people on board the wrecked
packet ship Powhattan was 340. One man had
been washed ashore at Little Egg harbour alive,
but continued in a delirious state at latest accounts.

It is thought that another large packet-ship had
gone to pieces, as large numbers of emigrants in
their night-clothes were washing ashore on Abseorn-

beach.

The packet-ship Underwriter, which was ashore
on Seuam-beach, had been got off and taken into
dock, having sustained but very little damage.
The steam-ship Falcon, which left New York on
the 18th of April for California with a portion of
the troops saved from the wreck of the steamer San
Francisco, had put into Norfolk, Virginia, dis-
abled.

Telegraphic accounts from New Orleans, of the
25th ult., state that the clipper barque Grapeshot
was lying below that city at that date. This is the
vessel that was reported to have captured a French
merchant ship in the British Channel.
A most distressing and extensive fire had taken
place at New York on the 26th ; 14 firemen killed
and 13 wounded, occasioned by the falling of the
walls.

The Senate, at Washington, had passed the
Gadsden treaty, allowing $10,000,000 to Mexico
for the new boundary line.

New York was visited on the 27th with a severe
tornado. Several li Jes were lost by the falling of
houses and the upsetting of boats.
On the return of the caloric ship Ericsson, from
her trial trip on the Hudson river, she was capsized
in a squall ; all on board were saved.
At the departure of the steamer business was
unchanged, money easier, and stocks flat. Ex-
change declined one-eighth per cent.
The cotton market was active, but still a defici-
ency in the receipts.
Flour firm, at full rates.
The provision market active, with a much better
demand.

Freights were much the same. Exchange on
London, 109-1 ; ditto on Paris, 5 12-i.

THE FRENCH AT CARTHAGENA.—A French squadron
of six sail, consisting of three steam-sloops, one frigate,
and two 20-gun brigs, was at Carthagena on the 12th
ult., for the purpose of enforcing a claim of $60,000
made by a French subject for flour destroyed by order of
President Herrera at Cumana a few years ago.
THE NEW DIITIES.—The new sugar duties proposed
by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his Budget of
Monday night comes into operation immediately. The
additional duty is 15 per cent. upon the produce and
amount of the duties now due and payable.

AUSTRIAN LOAN.—Letters from Amsterdam mention
the introduction of a small Austrian loan to the extent
of 2,500,0001. in that city, and 1,000,0001. at Frankfort.
The interest (in silver) is to be 5 per cent., and the price
at Amsterdam is fixed at 714, and at Frankfort at 754,
the difference being dependent on calculations of ex-
change. The subscriptions are opened by Messrs.
Becker and Fuld, of Amsterdam, and Messrs. Roths-
child, at Frankfurt, and will close to-morrow, the amount
being receivable in ten instalments. extending to the lst
of February, 1855. From the insufficiency of this loan
to rectify in any way the general embarrassment of
Austrian finances, as well as from its having been an-
nounced at the present moment, the inference is sug-
gested that it is made with a view to immediate exigen-
cies, and that there is probability in the statement that
a declaration against Russia is imminent.
FOUR MORE LIVES SAVED BY THE ROYAL SOCIETY'S
ESCAPE.—Yesterday morning, at a few minutes before
two o'clock, a police-officer of the S division, in patrol-
ling his beat, discovered smoke in dense volumes issuing
from the premises of Mr. G. E. Mogg, a surgeon and
chemist, carrying on business at No. 7, King-street,
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exertion they succeeded in extinguishing the flames, but
not until considerable damage was done to the valuable
stock in trade and also to the premises. The origin of
the disaster is enveloped in obscurity, but it is under-
stood that the sufferer was insured. Had it not been
for the prompt arrival of the escape-conductor, and his
great exertions, there is no doubt entertained but a
fearful loss of life would have taken place, as Mr. Mogg
certifies himself that the lives of his wife, two children,
iand his servant were saved by the man in charge of the
fire.escape. The police were likewise very active in
keeping the crowd out of dagger.