The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-13 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.
The following interesting extracts are from the 1
New 'York. Weekly Herald, of May 30, brought by
the American steam ship Canada, which arrived at
Liverpool yesterday 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 22d, where he remained five days, coaling. He left
San Blas on the 27th, and arrived at Panama on the 6th
M at 9 P x., atter touching at Acapulco for water.
On the 7th he arrived at and left Chagres in the barque
Florid', 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-
forming the passage from San Francisco to New York
in forty-four days, the quickest trip on record. He
crossed the Isthmus in seventeen days.
Teis passage of Lieutenant Beate is extraordinary in
another view. It will be recollected that he was the
bearer of dispatches 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 suff,red considerably by the severity of
th- winter in the mountains. If we are not mistaken,
he reached California ahead of every one, delivered his
dispatches, was entrusted with fresh ones for the Go-
vernment in Washington, started fur the United States,
and will be in the Wnite 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 bis 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 ds of eager brokers and merchants, all curious
to catch a glimpse of the eight pound lump There was
no mistake about it. There was the pure gold fresh
from Ei Dorado. No gold ever attracted more attention,
or was mTo coveted, than that lump, We shall see
what 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,
w;-,ich will reach us by the next arrival, with the Ore-
gon's
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 Caltornia
on the 26th, for the same destination. There were
several sailing vessels also there, fitting up for pas-
sengers. _ _ _ _ _ _ _

lesrn thst Lieut. Beale has in his possession a
watch, encased in a big lump of pure Calitornia gold,
2341 carats tine, with a brass cable chain, with large
lumps of gold attached to every other link, hammered
i❑ in the roughest and richest profusion. Big lumps of
gold were hammered together around the watch, till the
whole, excepting the face, was encased in the precious
knetal. The kcy 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 exi,,tenco.

The Oregon, it will be remembered, left Panama on
the 14th el March; she reached San Francisco on the
Ist of April.
We learn tho labour was very high at San Francisco,
and the quantity of shipping there very large. Many
vessels were laud up.
The price of go..ds had declined considerably, in con-
sequence of the Mocks on hand, and still larger ones ex-
pec7ed ; the fall had been very material. There was no
end to the gold. Ps richness and abundance more than
confirmed tat previous accounts. Although he himself
brought a piece- weighing eight pounds, Lieutenant Beale
wisur,s as that he has seen a lump actually weighing
25 p9unli. He says that everybody is getting rich in
California—that common labourers can almost make a
fortune.
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Lieutenant 13,a1e speaks in very high terms of the
steamers Californi t and Oregon.
Among the crowd of enalgrAnts pouring into Csli-
fornia was Colon •I Fremont.

We regret that Lieutenant B is not acquainted with
the quantity of gold dust shipped in the Oregon. Most
of the article is the market is probably on board the
Californi I.

Po w 13,a1e was pestered to death, with the crowds
anxious to hear from California, and to see his lump of
gold, &c., &c. He was glad to get out of the ci,y, and
left in the train at half past four o'clock, yesterday
afternoon, for Washington.
ADDITIONAL. ACCOUNTS.

The steam ship Severn arrived at Mobile on the 21st,
from Vera Cruz, and by her we received the following
letter from our special correspondent

MEXICO, MAY 12, 1849.
INTERESTING CALIFORNIA. ACC )LINTS FRO3I OCR SPECIAL

MESSENGER. en route TO THE SCENE OF OPERATION.

Si ,ce tha so styled California fever c,+mcnenced I have
resided in different parts or the United States ; and not-
withstandin+7, my most anxious endeavours. I found it im-
rissible to gather any authentic account of this modern El
Dorado. Advanced tid within daily communication with
the Pacific p wts, th,., accounts continue still so vague and
contradictory tqat it is almost impossible to form any
decide i opini,,n. I hive conv,r,ed with persons returned
from San Frlncisco, with our Corsul at Maz :thin, who
is arpresPas in this city, and who his adrics to the 9th
of Aril; I h.tv'3 perused the Sin Francisco papers up
to the 4th of April. those of Tepee to the sth inst , and
as some of th+. couclasions I derived might be of iiverest
to your friends, I tak the liberty to communicate them
to von.

Those pars-ins who returned to Mexico from San
Francisco undoubtedly brought large sums of gold; but,
at the best, their character is so doubtful that common
rumour here say; this gold was the produce of gambling
speculations; but still those vary persons are buying
largely here the cameactur s of the state of Guade-
loupe, Guanexato, &c , and return immediately to
California. The Malek Adel, and other vessels,
have carried large amounts of gold to Nita Alin for
coinage, on which- the collector of slid 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
law authorising the levying of import duties on precious
metals, but directed the collectors to enforce thepsyment
of export duties.

According to all accounts, an immense immigration
has airealy 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 foreigners to Americans is as one to seven—
that is, seven foreigners to one American.
The newspapers of San Francisco make very little or
no mention of gild; still, their advertising columns prove
a prosperous trade. The newep ipers of the Mexican
Pa;•itie pins, on the contrary, have the most glJwing
descriptions of the immense cia entity of gold in the
whole entire of the placers. I have b;ifore_me Le Avocad
de Tepic of the sth inst., stating that in the immense
extent of the plicers there was probably not a foot of
ground of which a shovelful of soil did not contain at
lei•t one pound of gold.
Some of' the Mexican papers speak in rather excited
terms ah)ut t►:e intention of our Government to prohibit
foreignerafrona the exploration or the placers.

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The mail for the packet of the 18th is at the point of
closing. I depart to-morrow for Acapulco, and expect
to arrive at San Francisco in the beginning of next
month, and I shall koep you, by every means, advised
of all that may be or interest to your readers.

ESTAFETTE.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT TROT.—TROY, MAY 29.—A
fire broke out, this morning, at. Marsh.ili's bleach works,
I la 1.1111, Troy, which destroyed nearly the whole work,
besides a considerable amount of property, among
which were all the sheetings and other goods of the
ste tater Empire, which were taken from the wreck. Loss
not yet ascertain_ d—partially insured in the Troy Mutual
Company.

Cauftcg FIRED IT LIGEITNING.—PITTSBURGH, MIT
28.—The cup's of the Third Presbyterian Church of
this city was struck by lightning to-day, and net on
fire. Fortunately, however, the falling rain extin-
guished the ailLeS ; and the damage done to the church
is slight.

FROM THE LON DON tiAZETTE OF

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TUESDAY. _ _ _
FOREIGN OFFICE, JUNE 11, 1849.
NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified, that Viscount Palmerston, her
M.jesty's Principal Secretary of State fOr Foreign
Affairs, has received a dispatch from ber Majesty's
Minister at Naples, containing a copy of a letter from
the Neapolitan Commodore to the French Naval Com-
mander at Palermo, and which was communicated by
the French Consul to her Majesty's Consul at that
place, announcing that the Blockade of Palermo and the
adjacent c,ntst bad been raised.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
Ed win Twizell Gough, boardinghouse- keeper, Ed.
mouton.

BANKRUPTS.

Lewis Pesman, Capna, fruit merchant, Duke's-place,
Aldgate, to surrender June 20, at one, and June 25, at
ball-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell,
official assignee ; Marten, Thomas, and Hollan2s, Min-
cing-lane, City.
Gaven Mort -41, draper, New-read, Whitechapel-road,
June 19, at twelve, and July 24, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basing-
hall street; Eade, Staple Inn.
William Orchard, marquee manufacturer, West Smith-
field. June 18, at half-past one, and July 23, at eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, offi :jai assignee,
Guildhall-chambers; Lawrence and Flews, Old Jewry-
chambers.
John Wright, corn merchant, Northampton. June 21,
at half-past one, and July 23, a: half-past eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, offical assignee, Cole-
man-street, City; Pittendrei,h and Stevenson, Gray's
Inn.
Thomas Inglis, baker, New-street, St. Martin's in-the-
Fields, June 22, at twelve, and July 25, at half-past
• twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official
assignee, Guildhall Chambers, Basinahall-street; Til-
leard, Son, and Freeman, Old Jewry; Freeman and Co.,
Itrighton.
George Henry Bore, surgeon, Stsnway, Essex,,June 20.
at half-past twelve, and July 12, at -one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-atreet-
t% itiougsp Bull, Ely-place; Abell, Colchester.
---/—Thttinae Sloper, auctioneer, Lirnehouse, June 19, at
or4;4ti Jttly 24, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
assignee, Old Jewry; Buchanan, Ba- '
siwthali.isreet.
Thom3sAllen, Birmingham and Sheffield wsrehouse•