The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-20 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, TEN A.M.
The British and North American royal mai
steamer Europa has arrived.

She left New York on the Bth inst., and brings
62 passengers, but no specie. The Hibernia arrived
at Boston on the 3d, and the Washington at New
York on the sth.

The election throughout the United States for
President took place on the 7th. The weather was
fine, and good order prevailed everywhere.
The result, so far as ascertained by telegraph,
at the moment of the departure of the Europa,
eighteen hours after the closing of the poll, was
the election of General Taylor, whose popularity
exceeded the degree claimed for him by his friends.
Van Buren will not obtain the vote of a single state.
The entire number of electoral votes is 290. The
absolute majority necessary for the choice of Presi-
dent is 146. General Taylor is known to have received
131 votes. General Cass is only known to have re-
ceived twenty electoral votes.

The New York Money Market was quiet. United
States Treasury Notes, 103; United States Sixes,
1054-; Sterling Exchange, 108:41 to 109, firm.
The Cotton-market was rather dull. Flour•market
remains rather inactive for foreign accounts, but with
a fair home demand, and moderate receipts. Prices
had revived, without much variation. Provisions firm,
with moderate demand.

:Cris IRrsu MAILS.—The London morning mail,
via Liverpool, due at Kingstown on Saturday morn-
ing, did not arrive till 8. 10. P.M., thirty four hours
from London. The packet had been detained five
hours for water to cross the ber at Liverpool, and
subsequently by bad weather. The night mail, via
Ilolj head, reached Kingston at 1 P nr., sixteen hours
from London, and seven hours before the 7norning
mail, thus proving the great supariority of the short
sea passage.

EXTENSIVE FIRE AT A BEER-SHOP.—This morn-
ing, about half past one o'clock, a fire, attended with
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arrested in its progress, but not until the greater portion
of the stock had been consumed, and the building greatly
damaged. The cause of the fire is unknown, but the
proprietor is insured in the County Fire Office. Fortu-
nately the family escaped without injury.
THE Observer of Nov. 19 contained : India Mail :
Preparations for annexing the Punjaub, &c.—Prussia :
Martial Law, Constitution violated, and Disarming the
Burgher Guard—Austria: Execution and Biography of
Blum—Vernon Gallery: Remarks and Notice, No. I
British Museum: Suppressed Evidence, No. 4—Artists'
Annuity Fund—St. Pancras District, Article on—St.
Pancras Meeting : Duke of Bedford, the Vestry, and
the Catholic Schools—Marylebone Vestry : Discussion
on County Rate, New County Prison, and the Silent
System—Revived Opera: " Lady of the Lake," at Co-
vent Garden.—A Monday afternoon edition of the Ob-
server, containing the markets and the latest intelligence
is published at four o'clock.
OPENING OF THE RAILWAY TUNNEL AT BRAY.—
We have much pleasure in announcing that the tunnel on
the line of the Waterford,Wexford,Wicklow, and Dublin
Railway, through Kilkenny Point, was completed last
week, as far as gaining a passage through the bill. In
making this announcement, we cannot allow the oppor-
tunity to pass without stating that this is the first tun-
uel opened in Ireland, and we believe the first in the
United Kingdom, where the whole excavation extended
through granite rock, which was here of the most solid
description. Indeed, from the sharpness of the curve,
and the difficulty of working the material, the contractor,
Mr. Burke, deserves the greatest credit for the accuracy
with which the proper direction of the excavation was
maintained, and the energetic manner in which the work
has been conducted.—Dablin Advocate.

Ihe Earl of Ripon is about to erect six almhouses
for poor persons in order to commemorate the circum-
stance of hii eldest son obtaining his majority.
THE MURDER AND BURGLARY AT ST. LEONARD'S.'
ON-SEA.-- An inquest has been held at St. Leonard's, on
the body of Mary Ann Newman, the unfortunate female
who was murdered at Catarina Villa yesterday stein-
night. Evidence having been given as to the finding of
the body, the circumstances of which have beed already
stated in this paper, Mr. Cumming, surgeon, said that
he was sent for on Sunday last to attend the deceased.
He found a wound on the left aide of the head and six
wounds on the right side near the temple, with a number
of scratches on the right shoulder. The ear was severed
on the right side; the temporal and part of the frontal
bones were cut through, which must have been done
with great violence. He had examined the spade found
near the deceased, and had no doubt that such an in-
strument would produce the wounds, some of which
penetrated the brain. He attended her till Tuesday
morning, when !she died. The jury, having been ad-
dressed by the Coroner, returned a verdict of " Wilful
Murder against some person or persons unknown." The
whole of the stolen property has been found within about
two miles of the spot where the murder was committed,
and under circumstances which leave very little doubt
that Pierson, the man in custody, is implicated in the
transaction. On Friday morning footsteps were dis-
covered near a small copse, two miles from St. Leonard's,
which were compared with the boots of Pierson, and
found to correspond; and shortly afterwards a labouring
man, named James Ashdown, observed a singular mark
in a small ash, which had evidently been recently made.
This induced him to commence a rigid search, which
ended in the discovery of the whole of the stolen pro-
perty, wrapped up in a handkerchief, and covered over
with leaves.

A few days ago the Marquis of Westmeath was a
passenger on board of the Chester and Holyhead Rail-
way Company's packets. While on her voyage from
Kingstown to Holyhead, and when approaching her des-
tination, his Lordship called the attention of the crew to
an object at some distance in the water, which he thought
resembled a human form. The captain at once ordered
the coxswain to steer in the direction indicated, when it
was discovered that a sailor, nearly exhausted with cold
and fatigue, was still clinging to a spar. A boat was
lowered trem the steamer, and the man was saved. The
poor fellow had been washed overboard from an outward
bound brig, the master of which must have supposed him
irretrievably lost. A tolerable round sum of money was
subscribed for the sailor so fortunately saved from a
watery grave.—Carnarvon Herald.
DEATH OF MR. GEORGE LANE Fox —This gen-
tleman, whose serious indisposition we announced a few
days since, expired on Wednesday last, at his mansion
at Branham, in the county of York.
WEST RIDING REYRESENTATION.—NORMANTON,
FRIDAY.—The delegate meeting has decided against the
only two gentlemen whose names were proposed to it as
candidates for the West Riding. The executive com-
mittee is re-appointed.--Leeds Mercury.