The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-12 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

AMERICAN NEWS.

The following interesting extracts are from the I
New York Weekly Herald, of May 30, brought by
the American steamship Canada, which arrived at
Liverpool this morning:—
The steam-ship Southerner, Capt. Berry, arrived yes-
terday morning from Charleston, whence she sailed on
Saturday last.
Among her passengers is Lieut. Edw. F. Beale, of the
United States Navy. He left San Francisco on the 14th
April, in the steamer Oregon, and arrived at San Bias on
the 22c1, where he remained five days, coaling. He left
San Bias on the 27th, and arrived at Panama on the 6th
M ty, at 9 P sr., after touching at Acapulco for water.
On the 7th he arrived at and left Chagres in the barque
Florida, and arrived at New Orleans on the 21st.
Thence he took the mail route to Charleston, and
thence came to this city in the Southerner, thus per-
farming the passage from San Francisco to New York
in a r y-tone dap, the quickest trip on record. He
crossed the Isthmus in seventeen days.
T: is passage 44t Lieutenant Beale is extraordinary in
another view. It will be recollected that he was the
bearer of di-patch-s to the Pacific squadron, and went
overland, leaving Washington city last fall, and going
by the way of Independence, Mo., and Sante Fe. He
preceded Colonel Fremont a few weeks, and both him-
self and party suffered considerably by the severity of
the winter in the mountains. If we are not mistaken,
be reached California ahead of every one, delivered his
dispatches, was entrusad with fresh ones for the Go-
vernment in Wa,bington, started for the United States,
and will be in the White House to-night, thus bringing
the answer to the dispatches he carried out, and an-
nouncing his own movements from the beginning to the
end of his trip:
The arrival of Lieutenant Beale, in the Southerner,
with this late news from California, with a lump of gold
weighing eight pounds, threw Wall-street into a state
of the greatest excitement and delight. Mr. Aspinwall,
of the house of Howland and Aspinwall, was surrounded
with cro sds of eager brokers and merchants, all curious
to catch a glimpse of the eight pound lump There was
no mistalze about it. There was the pure gold fresh
from Ei Dorado. No gold ever attracted more attention,
or was mre coveted, than 'het lump. We shall see
whet effect it will have on stocks.
On the 6th of May the steam-ship California arrived
at Panama from San Francisco. When Lieut. B. left
San Francisco, she was to sail in two or three days; she,
therefore; brings two or three days' later intelligence,
which wiil reach us by the next arrival, with the Ore•
gun's mails.
The mails brought by the Oregon and California were
at the Isthmus, waiting the arrival of a steamer at
Chagres.
The Oregon was to leave Panama about the 16th of
May, on her return to San Francisco, and the Calfornia
on the 26th, for the same destination. There were
several sailing vessels also there, fitting up for pas-

senors.
We learn that Lieut. Beale has in his possession
watch, encased in a big lump of pure California gold,
234 carats tine, with a brass cable chain, with large
lumps of gold attached to every other link, hammered
in in the roughest and richest protusion. Big lumps of
gold were hammered together around the watch, till the
whole, excepiing the face, was encased i❑ the precious
metal. The key was a "chunk" of gold, with the pipe
inserted in it for use. Altogether, it was one of the
ugliest looking, and richest, and most valuable watches
in existence.
The Oregon, it will be remembered, left Panama en
the 14th of MArch; she reached San Francisco on the
Ist of April.
We learn that labour was very high at San Francisco,
and the quantity of shipping there very large. Many
vessels were laid up.
The price of goods had declined considerably, in con-
sequence of the stocks on hand, and still larger ones ex-
pee ed; .the fall had been very material. There was no
end to the gold. Is richness and abundance more than
confirmed all previous accounts. Although he himself
brought a piece weighing eight pounds, Lieutenant Beale
a,sur,s us that he has seen a lump actually weighing
25 poun,l3. He says that everybody is getting rich in
California—that common labourers can almost make a
fortune.

Lieutenant Beale speaks in very high terms of the
steamers California and Oregon.
Among the crowd of ein:gr:lnts pouring into Cali-
fornia was Colcn-1 Fremont.
We regret that Lieutenant B. is not acquainted with
the quantity of gold dust shipped in the Oregon. Most
of the article in the market is probably on board the

Bale was pestered to death, with the crowds
anxious to hear from California, and to see his lump of
gold, &c., &c. Ho was glad to get out of the ciry, and
left in the train at half past four o'clock, yesterday
afternoon, for Washington.
ADDITIONAL ACCOUNTS.
Tho steam ship Severn arrivt.d at Mobile on the 21st,
from Vera Cruz, and by her we received the following
letter from our special correspondent :
MEXICO, 111ay 12,1849.
INTER-A:STING CALIFORNIA. ACC :LINTS F1i03.1 OUR SPECIAL
3IES,E2WER, en route TO TUE SCENE OF OPEESATI,,N.

Si co the so .stylcd California fever commenced I have
residk,d in different parts of the United States ; and not-
withstanding my most anxious endeavours, I found it im-
poisiblaz to gather any authentic account of this modern El
Dorado. AdvAnc«l ii.l within daily communication with
the I'..c;Ec ports, the accounts continue still so vague and
contradict,,ry t :at it is almost impossible to form any
decdel ,:p:ni,lll. I Have convi.r:,ed with persons returned
from Ff:,ncisco, with Our Consul at Mnithin, who
ii at press nt in ibis city, and who hss advic,,s to the 9th

of Api i; I have perused the San Francisco papers up
to the 4th of April, thoso of Te.pec to the sth inst., and
as some of the conclusions I derived might be of interest
to your friends, I talc: the liberty to communicate them
to von.

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Those persons who returned to Mexico from San
Francisco undoubtedly brought large sums of gold; but,
at the beat, their character is so doubtful that common
rumour here says this gold was the prpduce of gambling
speculationi- but still those very persons are buying
largely- here the m ineactur, s of the state of Guada-
loupe. Guanaxsto, Szc , and return immediately to
California. The Malek Adel, and other vessels,
have cirri d large amounts of gold to Mazatlan for
coinage, on whn:n the collector of said port levied an
import duty. Some days since, the secretary of the
Treasury here published a decree, ordering the return
of the duties levied, stating that he was not aware of any
Jaw authorising the levying of import duties on precious
metals, but directed the collectors to enforce the payment
of export duties. •

According to all accounts, an immense immigration
bas-alreaAy arrived in California, principally from South
America, the western states of the republic, the Austra-
lian archipelago, and Chili, so that at present the
number of fer,igners to Ainericans is as One.to seven—
tha- i 4, seven foreigners to ono American.

The. newspapers of Sara Francisco make very little or
no mention of gold; still, their advertising; columns prove
a prosperous trade. The newle-tpers of the Mexican
PaAde ports, on the contrary, have the most glowing
descriptions of the immense quantity of gold in the
whole eotiro of th,. placers. I have before me Le Avocad
de tepic of the sth inst., stating that in the immense
ext,nt of the placers there was probably not a foot of
ground of which a shovelful of soil did not contain at
lea,t one poured of gold.

Some of the Mtxican papers speak in rather excited
terms about p,e intention of our Government to prohibit
foreigners from the exploration of the placers.
Tie mail for tine pa,:ket of the ]Sch is at the point of
closing. I depart to•morrow for Acapulco, and expect
to arrive at San Francisco in the beginning of next
:north. and I shall k.ep you, by every-means, advised
of 11
1 I that may be of interest to your readers.

ESTAFETTE.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT Triay.—TßOY, MAY 29.—A.
fire broke ~ur, this morning; at Marshall's bleach works,

Ida llill, Troy, which de,troyed nearly the whole works,
besides a considerable amount of property, among
which w: re all the sheetings and other goods of the
steamer Empire, which were taken from the wreck. Loss

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not yet. ,iscertain d—pArtially insured in the Troy Mutual
Company.

CRUNCH FIRED BY LIGHTNING —PITTSBURGH, MAT
28.—The cupola of the Third kr.rsbyterian Church of
this at-,, was struck by lightning to-day, and set on
fire. Fortunately,
however, the falling rain extin-
guished. the LI ,rnes ; and the damage done to the church
is blight.

THE LONDON GAZETTE
(THIS EVENING.)

FOREIGN OFFICE, JUNE 11, 1849.
FIFICATION.

L is hereby no►ified, that Viscount Palmerston, her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs. h:a received a despatch from her Majesty's
Musser at Napl-s, containing a copy of a letter from
the :Napoli Commode,re to the French Naval Cora-
mtniter at Palermo, and which wa communicated by
the French Consul to her Majesty's Consul at that
place, announcing that the Blockade of Palermo and the
adjacent coast hart been raised.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
Edwin Twizell Gough, boardinghouse-keeper, Ed-
monton.