The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-17 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

ARRIVAL OF THE ACADIA.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.

The Acadia, the royal mail steam-ship, which left
Boston on the Ist, and Halifax on the 3d inst., arrived
here this forenoon with the usual mail, and 53 passen-
gers. We have received by her papers to the date of her
sailing.
The intelligence since the departure of the Great
Western is of considerable importance, although the in-
terval is only five days, one of which was the Thanks-
giving, and another, Sunday.
The city of Tampico was captured without bloodshed,
by the fleet under Commodore Perry.
In accordance with the plan of the campaign which
Santa Anna appears to have adopted, the Mexican forces
retired from Tampico on the approach of the American
fleet, aad that city and garrison surrendered to the
United States forces on the 14th of November.

Later advices state the United States steamer Missis-
sippi, Commodore Perry, left New Orleans on the 21st,
with a detachment of 50 men and the guns and muni-
tions of war belonging to the State of Lousiana, tendered
for the use of the United States by Governor Johnson.
General Brooke is prepared to take the responsibility of
despatching to Tampico any amount of troops that may
be deemed necessary to its defence, and General Jessup
is furthering this important object with alacrity, in his
department. About 600 men will soon have been sent
from New Orleans to guard the captured city.
Advices from Havanah to the 13th instant, received
at New Orleans, state that nothing has yet been done
under the letters of marque ar_d naturalization which
Mexico has sent there for sale.

The New Orleans Picayune of the 28th instant gives
extracts from Vera Cruz papers to the Bth November.
Santa Anna is implored to take the presidency himself,
which he declines. Eighty Mexicans were killed by the
bombardment of Tobasco. Members of the new con-
gress were elected on the 15th of November. Old
Herrera was unanimously chosen in Jalapa. Another
proposition 'from the United States Government was
received at Vera Cruz on the sth of November, which
the papers ridicule, declaring that no one thinks ovpeace,
all call for vengeance. Americans have been ordered
out of the state of San Luis Potosi. The Indians are
committing outrages in Durango and menacing Zacatecas.
An insurrection against the Americans at Los Angelos,
California, in September, terminated in the death of the
Mexican leader and a few subordinates. M. Gasquet,
French consul at Monterey, is in custody of the Ame-
rican squadron for protesting against the seizure of
California. The United States sloop Cyane was re-
pulse(' at Guayamae, with twenty men wounded.
Arrangements were making to seize Mazatlan.
The Washington Union contains dispatches from Com-
modore Conner, asking for troops to garrison Tampico.
Santa Anna's position at San Luis Potosi calls for large
reinforcements for our posts. Preparations are making
for a decisive battle.
The Mexican Commander-ire Chief is concentrating
an immense army at San Luis Potosi, between :Monterey
and Tampico. The importance of this positioni‘exio.
will
readily be appreciated b) a glance at the map of
General Taylor cannot receive reinforcements at Mon-
terey before the Ist of January, nor can he unite his
forces with thole at Tampico without passing near San
Luis Potosi. There Santa Anna had collected up to last
advices, nearly thirty thousand mer. General Taylor
cannot have more than nine thousand available for a
march upon San Luis, nor can the United States
land more than seven thousand at Tampico.
Hence the strength of Santa Anna's position
at San Luis, on the only road by which the
United States forces can be united. If the dissensions
in Santa Anna's camp do not divide his forces, we may
look for another battle in January or February, the
greatest and most destructive, probably, of any ever
fought on the American continent.
Important intelligence from Mexico was received
at Washington on the 28th of November, from the vici-
nity of San Luis Potosi. The Mexican Cabinet is said
to have been dissolved 1 and the Hon. Mr. Bankhead,
her Britannic 'Majesty's Plenipotentiary, having ordered
the restoration of the two millions of specie which Santa
Anna had seized, the property of British subjects, Gene-
ral Almonte was appointed Minister to England, doubt•
less to solicit the aid of the British Government.
SHIPWRECK OF THE STEAMER ATLANTIC.
One of the most beautiful steamers in the United
States has been cast away in the Sound, about one hun-
dred and fifty talks from New York. It is supposed
that between thirty and forty lives have been lost by this
disaster. Thirty-one bodies were recovered. The names
of forty-seven persons saved have been published,
among whom is Henry Van Wart, Esq., of Birming-
ham, England. Amon., those lost, were John Walton
and his wife, and their children, John, James, and Eleanor
Jane, and an infant, an English family. Only one of
this family escaped, Jacob Walton, a boy twelve years
of age.
The steamer Atlantic was a regular packet on the
Boston and New York line. She left New London on
Thursday, 26th November, at ten o'clock, A.M.,
having on board the passengers for New York from the
Boston railroad train of the previous evening. As she
/IL eligtile3. Aincirurs werU
then got out, but she still drifted, and at half-past four
o'clock next morning, (Nov. 27) she struck the rocks on
Fisher's Island, twenty or thirty miles south east of the
point at which the first accident occurred. She went to
pieces within five minutes after striking.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
(From the Herald for Europe.)
It is with feelings of the most painful nature' that we
find ourselves constrained to publish the particulars of
the loss of the once magnificent steamer Atlantic, and
about forty lives. She had comparatively a small num-
ber of passengers. If she had been as crowded as she
usually has been, the disaster would of course have been
more dreadful and terrible in its results. The passengers
for this ill-fated steamer left Boston at half past five
o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. They proceeded over
the Worcester and Norwich-road, and reached' Allyn's
Point at half-past eleven on that night. There they
went on board the Atlantic. She left for New York
between twelve and one on Thursday morning. There
were between seventy and eight persons on board, in all,
including passengers, officers, crew, and servants. The
Atlantic !got well under way, and was running along
finely, when the steam-chest exploded; and nearly at the
same moment the wind shifted from the north-east to the
north-west, and blew almost a hurricane. The steamer
was thrown into the midst of darkness and confusion, and
the air resounded with the cries of the scalded. It was
a frightful scene to behold. Captain Dustan instantly
called all hands to the fore-deck, and ordered them to
heave over the anchors, but it was found almost impos-
sible for a man to stand on deck, in consequence of the
violence of the gale, the sea continually making a
breach over her bows. °eing to this, it took nearly an
hour to get out the three anchors. The steamer worked
heavily, plunging her bows under at every lurch, and
dragging her anchors. Between the time of anchoring
and daylight, it is thought that she dragged over the
distance of about eleven miles. This was a terrible time
to all on board.
The fires were all put out by daylight on Thursday,
and from that time to the period of going ashore, the
passengers and crew suffered from the intense cold. The
only means of keeping warm was to wrap themselves in '
blankets, and walk briskly around the steamer. All, at
this time, began to look to their own personal safety.
All put on the life-preservers that the boat was so plen-
tifully supplied with, and prepared themselves for any
emergency. Some put on one, some two, and some four
life nreservers. The doors, shutters, settees, &c., &c.,
were detached and cut away for rafts to drift ashore
upon whenever the steamer should strike. The gale
increasing in violence, Ca pt. Dustan, who preserved his
self-possession throughout the perilous time, ordered
about 40 tons of coals to be thrown overboard, in or-
der to lighten the vessel. About noon, on Thursday,
the smoke pipes, which were very large and heavy, were
ordered to be thrown overboard. This was done, the
captain assisting, and the steamer was eased for a short
time. After this less resistance was offered to the
wind. The steamer continued to drift, however, and
everything looked terribly hopeless. The danger in-
creased so rapidly, that between two and three o'clock
Captain Dustan ordered the decks to be cleared of all
merchandise, of everything that was in the way. Cases
of boots, shoes, barrels of flour, stoves, &c., &c., includ-
ing one package said to contain 7,000 dolls.
worth of
plate, were thrown overboard. There were six to eight
thousand dollars worth of lace on board, belonging to
one of the passengers, who had previously said that
he would give the whole to any one who would put
him safely ashore. This lace was afterwards seen
strewn along the beach. All these efforts, how-
ever, to save the steamer were unavailing. No
person worked harder than Captain Dustan, and his
passengers and crew. It was for life or death. After
these repeated and united efforts had failed, all hopes of
safety were over, and all felt desirous and anxious that
the steamer should strike the beach. It was a frightful
sight; but the feelings of those on board had been
wrought up to such a pitch, that a re-action came over
them, and they were resigned to their fate. About
midnight she parted one of her cables, there being four
out, one attached to thirty hundred-weight of furnace
bars, and the others to anchors. After this the gale
continued to increase, and now blew a perfect hurricane.
She was driven still nearer the shore, but passed a point
that all expected she would strike upon. She then
drifted about eleven miles more, making in all twenty-
two miles, which occupied about forty-eight hours of
terrible uncertainty and suffering. She then struck,
stern first, on a ledge of rocks on Fisher's Island, when
a tremendous sea seemed to lift her up on to the very top
of the ledge; so far up, indeed, as almost to throw her
over on to the other side. This was the crisis in the
aste
diesr; it was terrible, and heartrending in the ex-
trme. In five minutes after she struck she was in
pieces. In these five minutes at least one-half of those
nonit3b..oarclthe Atlanticw were taken from time into eter-
drowned, some crushed, and some
frozen domedeath.er?l' e screams, the crash, the roar of
the sea, were dreadful.
From further accounts we learn that the number of
persons saved is 37; of the crew 24. three female passengers There were but
L on board—
ndon Kerns of Satiard a l lost. The new
2y7.giv ales the number of bodies
recovered theta far to be
CLOSE OF THE AMERICAN CANALS.
throughout
revived the the State
Canal navigation was suspended
of New York on the 27th November, which
drooping spirits of the dealers in bread
stuffs, and caused
a slight advance in prices.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the New York Courier and Enquirer.)
NEW YORE, MONDAY, Nov. 30.—There seems reason
to anticipate that, in order to more revenue, the Presi-
dent's message will recommend that duties be imposed
on some articles now free, and especially on tea and
coffee, and that said duties be laid avowedly as war
duties, and to cease with the occasion that calls for
them.
More money must be had—and, when the whole case
is known to the country, can be had—for there is no
want of confidence in the security, but only an unwilling-
ness among capitalists to go blindfolded into loans,
without knowing what the extent.of them will be.
The condition of the country at large is exceedingly
prosperous. The great demand for, and sales at high
prices of, so much of its agricultural surplus adds greatly
to the means of the people, and with ordinary skill in
the management of the treasury, these means can be
made available to the public service.
The cold weather of the last week has partially closed
the canals, but not yet the river, so that all the stock
accumulated at Albany will reach the seaboard speedily,
and that not yet sent forward will be hastened along from
the western part of the state by the railroad that tra-
verses it, and find its way to ships by the river, while
that remains open, and then by the Western Railroad to
Boston.
Our latest dates from England are those by the
Acadia, of the 11th instant, and, as stated in our re-
marks in the paper of the 26th by the Great Western,
which took her departure on that day, the effect of the
advices then received was to depress all prices. They
arc still drooping.
Cotton has declined since the 15th instant 1. per lb.
—freight meanwhile to Liverpool has advanced id., and
exchange has declined 1 per cent. ; orders, therefore,
cannot be executed on better terms. The market closes
without animation—the daily sales averaging about
1,000 bales chiefly for England, the Mediterranean, and
the North of Europe. For the week ending Friday,
27th instant, the transactions amounted to 8,000 bales,
and on Saturday, 1,100 bales were sold at the annexed
quotations :

Ordinary. Middlirg. Fair. Good fair.
New Orleans and
Mobile .... 81 to 1...9 to 91...10 to 2. .11 to 111
Florida & Uplands 81 9 92 to 10...111
The quality of the new crop received from Savannah
and Charleston averages " middling fair," and the staple
is very superior; from Mobile and New Orleans we have
not received sufficient to give a decided opinion ; but the
first receipts (if a fair criterion) indicate a falling off as
compared with last season, being generally leafy and
tender in staple.
Crop—On this subject no new facts have been pre•
sented to authorise any change in previous estimates ;
opinions still vary, from 1,800,000 to 2,000,000 bales,
the majority inclining to the latter quantity. It would
require but few figures to prove that a crop of even
2,100,000 bales would cause, within twelve months, a
further reduction in the stock held abroad, provided
that the consumption progrcseod in the ratio of the past
season ; but the high Woe of bread stuffs is at present
adverse to such a result, and the event of this season's
operations, therefore, depends rather upon the price of
provisions in Great Britain and France (as affecting the
home trade) during the coming winter, than upon a nu-
merical difference of 100,000 to 200,000 bales in the
extent of the cotton crop.
Until, therefore, later and more reliable advices are
received upon this subject, buyers will act with great
caution, however well satisfied they may be of the cor-
rectness of their estimate".
From the New York Price Current of the 28th inst.
we learn that the total receipts since the Ist of Septem-
ber amount to 268,950 bales, against 363,962 last year.
Deficiency, 95,012 bales. _ _

Deficiency.
Exported to Great Britain 42,261 vs. 130,564 88,303
„ France 32,320 „ 39,221 6,901
Stock in all ports 210,519 , 212,756 2,237
The stock of American cotton in Liverpool (at the last
date 389,000) will not vary materially from 260,000
bales on the Ist of January next, allowing that the total
export from the United States, to date, as annexed,
42,261 bales, should all be received by that period, and
the outgoings for consumption, meantime, be diminished
20 per cent.
The price of flour and grain, which were a shade higher
during the cold weather of last week, are flat again to-
day, under the intelligence just received by telegraph
from Albany, that the boats on the canal were again in
motion. Best brands of Genesee flour may be qoteil at
Coils. to 53 dolls.; Indian corn, 60c. to 65c.; wheat,
106 to 11.3.

Exchange on Europe is about at the quotations per
last steamer-6 is the top price for sterling bills, and
more are sold under than at that price.
NEW YORK MARKETS.
MONDAY, 1 P.M.

The sales at the Stock Exchange this morning wen-
limited—the market was rather heavy. Foreign ex•
change was in moderate demand at Saturday's rates.
Cotton—The sales reach 800 bales at our last quota•
Lions. _ _ _

Flour—All descriptions are dull; Genesee is held at
5$ 37-Ic., whilst the highest offers are 5$ 25c. Mi-
chigan, &c., may be quoted at 5$ 12ic. to 5$ 25e.,
from the wharf. Southern flour is held at 5$ 25c. to
5$ 3i }c.