The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-14 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES
AND IN 1 EXIG,

ARRIVAL OF THE CAMBRIA.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.
The Royal mail steamer Cambria, Captain C. 11.
E. Judkins, arrived in the Mersey at noon to•day,
with the mails from the United States, Canada, Nora
Scotia, &c., and abut ninety passengers, bringing
fifteen days later news. She left Boston early on the
morning of the 2d instant, having been prevented by
tog from sailing at her usual time, and has therefore
made the voyage in a little over eleven days, including
her calling and stay at Halifax.
Very little progress has been made in Mexican
affairs. The New York Sun says--
"The most discouraging results have followed the
late efforts of the American Pleninotentiary, Mr.
gist, to negotiate peace. Neither Santa Anna nor
the Congress would take thw responsibility of au-
thorising the negotiation. Nor would Congress
grant the Dictator the instructions necessary to an
intelligent reply to the overtures of peace presented
by Mr. Trist. On receiving this intelligence Gene-
ral Scott abandoned his procrastinating policy, and
ordered an immediate march from Puebla towards
the capital."
The accounts from General Scott's army at Puebla,
which however are not official, are dated 6th August.

" On the next day General Scott's advance under
General Twiggs was positively to take up its line of
march for the capital. All the reinforcements under
Cadwalladar, Pillow, and Pearce had joined General
Scott, and would swell his numbers to something like
14 to 15,000 men ; but one-third must be deducted
for necessary garrisons, and for sick and disabled, so
that the marching column will not exceed, if it num-
ber 10,000 men. But it will be a formidable army,
though not numerically large, well equipped, well
provided, and well led. Its success we look upon as
beyond peradventure. We ought to have later intel-
ligence from the seat of hostilities, but the communi-
cations are infrequent and insecure by reason of
guerillas spread along the route from the interior.
" General Taylor makes no movement in the direc-
tion of Potosi, and possibly may not make any. We
have no later or interesting tidings from California or
the Pacific. General Kearney has returned to the
United States."'
A considerable sensation had been excited by the
ne.vs that General Paredes had returned to Mexico
under an assumed name. He arrived at Vera Cruz
on the 14th of August, in the British steamer Teviot,
from Southampton. Landing in a small boat, with
the aid of frie ids on board the steamer and in the
city, he was soon beyond the read; of the American
authorities. His love of monarchical government,
and the enmity existing between him and Santa
Anna, lead to the belief that his arrival will be the
signal for another revolution at the capital, should he
arrive there before General Scott.

The French steamer Missouri, which left Cher-
bourg on the 20th July, reached New York on the
21st August. The Guadalquiver, Captain Hosken,
from Liverpool, August 14, arrived at six o'clock
A.M., 29th instant. The royal mail steamer Cale-
donia, which left here August 19, arrived at Halifax
on the 31st, and was entering Boston as the Cambria
left, early on the morning of the 23 instant.
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.—Captain Drake, of
the British ship Modeste, has arrived at St. Louis,
having left Oregon on the 6th of May. He reports
that when he left, peace and quietness reigned through-
out the the land, and that the prospects of the season
were very favourable.
'i'he British Pacific squadron had not been heard
from for eight months.
The Oregon emigrants were progressing rapidly.
The Mormons had eighteen months' provisions. The
Californians were opposed to their settling in that
country, and it was contemplated that they would re-
sort to force to prevent it.
Captain Drake was not the bearer of despatches.
The new iron steamer Guadalquiver, Captain Hos-
kin, arrived at New York on the 29th ult., after a
run of a little under fifteen days from Liverpool. On
the day of her arrival at New York a serious fire was
discovered on board, the flames of which were not
subdued till the cabin was nearly destroyed. It was
supposed that the steamer had been wilfully set fire
to, and a negro was arrested on suspicion of having
some agency in the disaster.
LOSS OF THE MAMLOUK AND FORTY-
TWO LIVES.
We regret to learn the loss of the ship Mamloulc,
belonging to F. A. Delano, Esq., of New York, and
the lives of forty-two of the steerage passengers and
crew.

The Mamlouk sailed from New York a short

time since bound for Liverpool, and on Sunday,
August 15, in about latitude 38, longitude 67, while
lying to in a violent hurricane, under the main-
spencer and fore topmast-staysail, at ten minutes
bafore twelve, the ship was struck by a tremendous
squall, which careened her so far that the cargo
shifted, and brought her in an instant on her beam
ends, and so far over that the weather rail on the
quarter deck was within a few feet of the water. The
main and wizen masts were immediately cut away,
and the ship righted, but the shifting of the cargo
having burst open the hatches, it was floating about,
and the vessel full of water—the starboard rail being
under water. At daylight on Monday morning,
twenty-two out of sixty four souls were found alive.
Throughout the day and Tuesday the storm still
raged and the sea broke violently over the wreck. Saw
a vessel on Tuesday, but the weather was too rough
for her to approach, but by day light next morning
she was seen bearing down for the wreck ; she proved
to be the brig Belize, Captain Dawes, nineteen days
from Boston, bound to Port-au-Prince. Captain
Dawes kindly took the :survivors off the wreck and
treated them with the greatest kindness, attending to
their every want, and altered the course of his vessel
to the port of New York, where they arrived in safety.
Thirty-five of the steerage passengers and seven of
the crew were washed overboard and lost. The Mani-

louk cleared from New York, and was bound to Li-
verpool. The following are the names of the seamen
lost :—William Howard, Jacob Deyer, .John Allen,
Harvey Dunham, Robert , William Miller,
coloured cook. The only steerage passenger saved is
David Ilales, an Englishman.
The following is a list of the steerage pas4engers
lost :—John Morris, Green, Edward
Green, wife and three children, Taylor and wife,
Edward Bi'hop, Thomas S. Davis—all English
Elyzabetl, Hopkirk, Matthias, Hugh Hammel,
John Duncan—all Scotch. Patrick Douglas, wife
.ind child, Ann Sell, William Connell, Hugh Hum-
phrey, Well, Elizabeth Waterman, Miss Mair
head, Robert O'Brien, Thomas Davies, T. H. Gerry,
wife and child, and John Gorman—all Irish. Thomas
Davis had with him 24,000 dollars in specie.
The cabin passengers saved are Mr. J. G. Butler,
of Brooklyn, Mrs. Christianson (captain's wife),
Miss Floride Patten, and Mr. Henry Plant, of De-
merara.
The following has been published at the request of
the survivors :
" The undersigned, on behalf of the passengers and
crew of the packet-ship Mamlouk, wrecked at sea on
the night of the 15th of August, desire to express
publicly their deep sense of gratitude to Capt. James
H. Dawes, of the brig Belize, of Kingston, Massa-
chusetts, for his noble exertions in rescuing them from
their perilous position, and most generously providing
for
all their wants, and in bringing them safely to
this port. •-" J. G. BUTLER,
cargo of
w the o
" C. H. CHRISTIANSON, Capt."
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moukscoo,
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lolfs flour,
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0a grain,
and provisions,
dulls.,
on which there was insurance, as we under-
stand, in Wall-street to the amount of 40,000 dolls
t) lfse
50,000 dolls. We understand the vessel and h.
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were also insured in this city and at the eastward to
the amount of
.55,000_ dolls.

From Canada we have late but uninteresting ad-
vices. There is no political news. The Montreal
Transcript says—
" The subject of emigration, and the sickness which
the great influx of destitute and diseased emigrants
from the mother country has caused, is almost the
only one of general intere,t, and we are sorry to say
chat although the disease which has caused so much
alarm throughout the whole country is confined in a
great degree to erntsasndretrgious and medicalo those having cow-
flexion with them either
igran
as
ittendants, or nurskee of gain admitted them to their
s, or to those who have incau-
tiously or for the sa
ilwi'eilnliuntgio.
s—nstill with these it has suffered but little
in
mother country appears to have a.rea
" The alteration in the commercial policy
hpaodlictyheoefffteheet
of making the people of Canada look aroundthenmat,uarnadl
endeavour to devise means to work out the
resources of the country. The construction of roa.ds
.
throughout the province, a thing very much needed
,o some parts, is already occupying Inure general
attention, and it is to be hoped will be carried out.
When the country is opened by these means, it will
induce people to settle along the various routes, and
devote their thoughts to agriculture--incalculable
nenefits must follow. We hope the question will be
arged upon the district councils, to be prosecuted
xith vigour, and at once. Canada is blest with a
tine climate, a fertile soil, and great natural resources.
ft enjoys, besides, all the advantages of the British
•onstitution ; and only fails in rapidly increasing in
prosperity by the want of energy and enterprise. We
Rio not.use the tneans in our power—we allow the