The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-07 00:00:00

MONDAY

EVENING, APRIL 7, 1851.

ENDING APRIL 5, 1851.

,h of April, 1850, and sth of April, 1851, showing

Quarters ended April 5.

1850

5,560,241
1,269,625

524,531
98,881
330,626
296,337

8,080,241
2,716,644

10,796,885

5,526,135
1,274,435

644,701
99,020
326,495
429,684

8,300,473
2,779,619

11,080,092

1,012,814
2,779,619

3,792,433

4,774,302

981,869

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.

By the royal mail steam-ship Asia, Captain Judkins,
we have advices from New York direct to the 2Gth
ult. She brings a large number of passengers, and
152,0001. in specie on freight. The Asia was tele-
graphed off Holyhead at one o'clock today, having
made the quickest passage on record.
The United States mail steam-ship Franklin ar-
rived at New York on the 22d ult., and the United
States mail steamer Arctic on the 23d ult.
By the steam-ships Crescent City, Ohio, and Pro-
metheus, we have advices from San Francisco to the
15th of February. Collectively these vessels had on
freight specie to the amount of 1,325,0001. in gold
dust. The British mail steamer Conway arrived at
Kingston from St. Thomas's on the 14th ult, and
sailed the same day for Vera Cruz. The mail
steam-ship Clyde wns at Chagres on the II th ult.
From the Alta California we extract a summary of
events :

_ .
" Since the departure of the last steamer fur Panama
the Indian difficulties have been on the increase rather
than otherwise, and murders, robberies, and reports of
hostilities, collisions, and battles, hare been rite. Ef-
forts have been made in the Legislature to raie,e funds
and State troops for carrying on the war. One of the
Governor's aids, Mr. J. Neely Johnson, has been dis-
patched by his Excellency to the scene of disturbances,
to not on the part of the State with the United States
Indian Commissioners. Authority has been given to
raise a force of volunteers to be used in case of necessity.
The commissioners have also left Stockton with an es-
cort of some hundred United States' troops, and it is
confidently believed that, if no obstacles are thrown in
their way by revengeful or interested men, they will be
able to form treaties with the mountain tribes, and thus
give quiet to the country. They are men of the right
stamp, acquainted with the Indian character, and dis-
posed to deal justly with them, we believe. The wea-
ther has continued dry, and, for winter, wonderfully
warm, sometimes as high as 75 degrees, and seldom as
low as 50 degrees; last evening it was at 47 degrees.
We have not had five inches of rain since last March.
The fear now is, that wo shall have no more rain, the
consequences of which will be severe disappointment to
those engaged in the dry diggings, and, perhaps, fatal to
the stock and agricultural interests. Our Legislature
has been battling for many things, but has won few vic-
tories. Don Quixote conflicts with windmills, amend-
ing Acts by making them worse, and passing a very
few which may be beneficial, logrolling' ifor the office
of United States Senator, for establishing the seat of
Government, for ousting each other out of their legiti-
mate legislative saddles, eec., have been the chief public
occupations of our legislators. They have fixed upon
next Monday as the day to elect a Senator to the seat
of Mr. Fremont, after the 4th of March, and various
are the speculations concerning the result. Some be-
lieve Mr. King will be elected—some Mr. Heydenfeldt,
while others have growing faith in Mr. Fremont, in
whose favour there has been an undoubted reaction on
the part of many. This was a perfectly natural result.
Whenever opposition is carried to persecution it defeats
its end, and assists the wrong party. Such has been the
case with Mr. Fremont. The health of the State is of
the most glorious description; there are scarcely any
deaths or sickness in any part of the State, so far as we
have heard. There is no healthier country on earth.
The excitement about the Gold Bluffs has not died out,
but much subsided. It yet remains for the companies
engaged there to prove whether the amount of gold can
be made profitable to them. Individuals can scarcely
expect to make piles by isolated labour in that place.
The Klamath, Scott's River, and other localities in the
extreme north of the State, seem to bear the palm in the
faith of our people in their richness. It is to be
hoped that it is something more than distance which
lends enchantment to the view in this matter. The
expeditions sent to the Colorado River are progress-
ing in their purposes. Lieutenant Derby has passed up
the gulf and some distance up the river; and Major
Heintzelman's command is also at the river. The squat-
ter question has subsided somewhat of late; the judicious
decision of our Recorder and some other officers' opinion
have contributed, in connexion with the opinions of the
press, to check the great tendency to forcible entries and
occupation of other people's land, which for a while
seemed a mania here. Our State laws having been found
inadequate to the wants of some localities, the people
have been dispensing justice under the code of Judge
Lynch. The Legislature has passed the Loan Bill for
raising a loan not to exceed 500,000 dolls. It is not very
probable that anything can be negotiated under that or
any other Act, unless some measures are found to raise
the present credit of the State. Business, which has
been exceedingly dull, seems at last reviving. We had
a conversation with a gentleman yesterday, upon whose
word we can place the utmost reliance, who informed us
that an immense discovery of gold has lately been made
upon a hill in the vicinity of the Mokelumne river, which
had never previously been wrought. A party of four
struck upon the very summit, some three weeks since,
and, by digging down fifteen feet, have thus extracted
over 4,000 dolls. The gold, although much coarser, is
similar in colour to that found in the vicinity of Nevada,
black and rusty. The gentlemen who have been work-
ing this have bad much difficulty in washing, being
obliged to convey their dirt a great distance to water .
The continued discoveries which are being made upon
the hill tops are opening new resources in the mineral
wealth of California. The idea that the gold of Califor-
nia has been exhausted is ridiculous in the extreme."
The Pacific News contains the following :
" The Chesapeake returned from Gold Bluff on Satur-
day, and, from the number of passengers who returned
in her, the public will get the impression that the for-
tune of all' which was supposed to be in that particular
locality for the mere picking up, is not of as golden a
nature as was anticipated. From one of the passengers
of the Chesapeake we learn that the bank in the vicinity
of the Bluff, and for several miles north and south of it,
contains large quantities of black sand, in all of which
may be found what is termed scale gold,' but in particles
so fine as to prevent its being separated from the sand by
the ordinary process of washing, and that mining can
only be made profitable by the labour of well-organized
companies, aided by such machinery or apparatus as will
enable them to assay, or precipitate by acids. Our in-
formant also extended his examination to the Bluff, but
his impressions were anything but satisfactory. He ex-
presses the opinion, however, that the same obstacle to
success presents itself there as in the case of the sand
found upon the beach, and that the whole undertaking
will ere long be abandoned, because of the expense and
labour attending the separation of the gold from the
foreign substances with which it is found to be so
thoroughly mixed."
Relative to the quicksilver mines in California, the
Placer Times says :
" It is very generally known that quicksilver mines
have been worked to some extent for many years in Ca-
lifornia, but until the discovery of gold little attention
has been bestowed upon them. For some months past
quicksilver has been offered in our market, known as
coming from the New Almaden mines. The principal
mines in California are the Guadalupe and New Alma-
den, and aro situated in the same neighbourhood, some
four miles distant from each other. Those mines are
about eight miles from San Jose, and can be reached by
a good road at all seasons of the year. We are told
that the mines are now worked extensively, the produce
amounting to several millions of dollars in the present
season, and that the yield from the ore is almost past
belief; 85 per cent. of pure mercury is not an uncom-
mon yield."
It was reported at San Francisco that a difficulty
had arisen between the commander of the French
gate Serieuse and the Government of the Sandwich
Islands. The commander demanded the payment of
25,1)00 dolls. as a commutation for customs alleged to
have been collected contrary to treaty obligations.
The King refused to accede to this claim, and threw
himself on the protection of Great Britain and the
United States. Upon this the French commander
landed his men at Honolulu, and prevented several
Hawaiian vessels from proceeding to sea.
number
A shocking murder has been committed on the
Chagres river. The victims were eleven in nu
—eight men, two women, and one child. Two men,
named Fidele Pepin, a native of France, and Leonore
Landry, goldbeater, of Paris, were among the number.
Our advices from Mexico extend to the 22d of Feb-
ruary. The administration of Arista did not appear
to give satisfaction. Senor Facio, the Minister to
England, was to retain his appointment ; a charter
had been issued for the construction of a railroad
of
the waggons of
reports that the ,Mexican
fromtfreighthe Vera
lineC r Cruz zb toad Bib
eeedni I 1 in ;
attackedone
near the city of
ty of goods carried off.
evqeultaanti
The Mexico,
New
andoarielaarfn
Senate, in secret session, declared Jose de Garay's
grant of the right of way across the Isthmus of Te-
huantepec null and void, he having forfeited the same
twice.
From San Juan de Nicaragua
we have intelligence
to the 14th ult. The •
steamer Director was running
regularly on the lake. The news of the battle be-
tween the armies of the Republics
of San Salvador
and Guatemala is fully confirmed ; the former lost
528 men, 200 prisoners, and a large number of guns.
The King of Mosquito was staying on board her Ma-
jesty's schooner Bermuda. The English Consul, Mr.
Chatfield, had published a letter claiming, under the
Mosquito King, the territory close up to Truxillo.
The British fleet had sailed towards Guatemala.

We have accounts from Kingston, Jamaica, to the
14th ult., being a fortnight later than our previous
advices. The cholera was fast disappearing from the
island. The north side papers had not recorded a
single case as occurring in that part of the country,
although the disease had appeared in the mountains of
Westmoreland. Sugar, 20s. per 100 lb.
From llavannah we have advices to the 19th ult.,
but the intelligence contained therein is uninteresting.
The ice on the St. Lawrence having broken up, the
navigation was completely open.

COMMERCIA L INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, MAncn 25.—The stock market to-day
fluctuated slightly. Erie Sevens of '59 and Norwich and
Worcester declined k; Stonington Railroad, Morris
Canal Company, and Portsmouth Dry Dock, declined,
/. Harlem advanced, and Canton Company, . 3
-4 Erie
shares and Hudson River Railroad Sevens closed at yes-
terday's prices. Government stocks are in request, with
an inadequate supply. Aloney is in good request, with
full supply. The rates aro slightly higher, but easy.
In exchange there is some alteration. Foreign is some-
what higher, the principal business for to-morrow's
steamer having been at 110 i to 1101 for best bills on
Loudon and IA
__versa Francs are firm at 5.07 i to

5.10; Bremen, 79; Liamburgh, 36i to 37k; and Ant-•;: -
sterdam, 411 to 42. -/
. - V:-/ '4,44
The day's business at the Sub-Treasury is as folloi rsee,
Receipts, 160,049 dolls. 21c; payments, 62,360 dollia:\ \\;, " 4
49c.; balance, 3,657,544 dolls. 30c. cr-,•0 '
The steamer to-morrow takes out 500,000 dolls. :in ,
specie, for the French market. The following tabl
NV*-414
shows the export of specie from this port for the wee 'A eta
ending March 22, and for the year:—Ship Havre, Havre,
Mexican dollars, 53,000 dolls.; ditto, American half-
dollars, 100,000 dolls.; ditto, American gold coin.
54,315 dolls.;;ditto, gold dust, 3,200 dolls.; ditto, thalers,
525 dolls.; steamer Pacific, Liverpool, American gold,
300,000 dolls.; ditto, gold dust, 1,102 dolls.; ditto,
sovereigns, 15,750 dolls.; British silver, 1,090 dolls.;
schooner H. Mailler, Para, Mexican dollars, 20,000 dolls.;
brig G. W. Lawrence, Neuvitas, Spanish doubloons,
3,670 dolls.; total, March 15 to March 22, 552,652
dolls.; previously reported, 3,100,024 dolls.: total for
1851, 3,632,676.
There is very little doing in freights, and the rates
are hardly so firm. Engagement for corn at 4 to 4d.;
heavy goods at 17s. 6d to 205. To California there
is more offering, and the rates are nominal.
The dry goods trade is still under a Octl. Buyers do
not come forward numerously, and the few that do, buy
sparingly, while the aution sales, which have been large
during the week, have supplied the best part of the de-
mand. The country trade later than usual, and stooks,
which are only moderate in reference to the usual de-
mand (and which we believe to be only retarded), are
yet felt heavy while that demand is suspended. Prices
consequently have no firmness, and both cotton and
woollen goods tend strongly to a decline. The market
thus favours the buyers, to continue which is an induce-
ment to buyers to delay as much as they can, for their
own interests, the bulk of their purchases.
Ashes—The market is very quiet; small sales of pots
at 5 dolls. 25c. and 5 dolls. 75c. pearls.
Colton—ls less firm, and a decline of lc. has been
submitted to, at which 1,000 bales have been sold.
The demand is very light. The sales on Saturday
were to a fair extent, at prices generally above our quo-
tations, but the market for the last two days has bees
dull, with prices rather in favour of the buyer. We
again leave them unaltered. Sales for three days 6,000
bales.

Other
Atlantic Ports. Florida. Gulf Ports.
Inferior nom. 110 M. nom.
Ord. low to good 10 to 10.-3 ... 10 to 101- ••• 10 to 11
Mid. low to good 11 to 11 ... 11 to 1 114 to 12}
Mid. fair to fair 11 to 12i 12 12 to in
Full do to good do 1211 to .„ 14 to --
Good to fine none none none
Flour and Meal.—There is increased heaviness in the
market for western and state flour, and the latter is
easier. There is less doing for the East and local trade,
and the disposition to realize is more apparent. New
Orleans is heavy and dull. Sales at 4 62} to 4 75, with
little if any afloat. Canadian is heavy. sialirs of too hl3&
good brands at 4 62i; it is offered more freely to arrive.
The sales of domestic reach '2,500 bbls. at 4 25 for N 0.2
superfine, 4 37i to 4 50 for common to straight State,
4 561 to 4 75 for Michigan and Indiana, 4 81i to 4 87k
for pure Genesiee 5 dolls. to 5 25 for fancy Ohio and
Genessee, 5 25 to 5 50 for extra Ohio, and 5 54 to
6 50 for extra Genesee. Southern is very uniform in
price, with a fair demand for the trade and the West
Indies. Sales of 1,800 bbls. at 4 62i to 475 for com-
mon to good Strait brands, and 5 dolls to 5 50 for fancy.
Rye flour is in limited demand, and not plenty; sales
of 100 bbls. at 3 37k. Corn meal is very quiet 306
for Jersey, and 3 184 for Brandywine.
Grain—There is less inquiry for wheat, and the mar-
ket is heavy; prices are nominal at 1 doll. 10c. to 1 doll.
14c. for Genessee; 96c. to 1 doll. for Ohio; and 1 doll.
20. to 1 doll. 6c. for Michigan. Canadian is inactive;
sundry lots are being shipped from first hands for the
Liverpool market; prices are nominal at 99c. to 100 c. in
bond. Oats are quiet but steady, at 45c. to 47c. for
Jersey, and 48c. to 50c. for northern. Corn is rather
less active; the demand is confined to the wants of the
home trade; about 3,000 bushels round and flat yellow
changed hands at 64kc. to 65c. White is scarce and
wanted at 65kc. to 66 ice Barley is quiet at 1 doll. 12ic.
to 1 doll. 25c.

Provisions—The upward tendency in pork continues,
and prices are again better, with a good demand for the
trade. Sales of 900 bbls. at 18 dolls. for old mess, 13
dolls. 59c. for new ditto, 10 dolls. for old prime, 11 dolls.
50c. for new ditto. Prime mess is quiet, and prices
nominal at 13 dolls, to 13 dolls. 25c. New rumps are
saleable at 11 dolls. City mess and prime are inactive,
and prices nominal. Beef is steady, with a fair retail
demand. Sales of 100 bbls. at 9 dolls. to 11 dolls. for
mess, and 5 dolls. to 6 dolls. for prime beef. Hams are
steady; sales of 76 brls. at 15 dolls. 50c. per 220 lbs.
Pickled meats are dull and heavy. Sales of 58 Ude.
hams and shoulders, to arrive, at 9,1 c. and 51c. respec-
tively. Lard is more freely offered, and prices favour
the buyer. Sales of 180 brls. in lots, at Sic. to Ste.
Butter is unchanged; prime in fair demand and buoy-
ant. Cheese is steady, with a fair business doing at 51e.
to 71c.
Groceries are moving moderately. There have been
large arrivals of molasses and sugars from the Havannah
ports. We notice sales of 250 barrels New Orleans 38c.
to 31c. ; 300 hhds. Cuba at 20c. to 220. The demand
is improving. In sugars the transactions are 300 hhds.
Cuba Muscovadoes at 51c. to Sic., and 250 New Orleans
at 50. to 6ic. Box sugars are steady with an improved
inquiry from refiners. 500 boxes brown Ilavannahs sold
at 7c. Coffee is steady but quiet. 500 Java sold st
101 c. to llic. 100 Rio at 12ic. to 13c. Some parcels
of St. Domingo changed hands at 10e. to 10ic.
Whisky—The market is easier for prison, with sales
of 300 brls. at 23c. to 23ic., closing at the inside price.
Drudge is dull and market nominal.

_
Hay—The supply is larger and the market is easier
and dull; sales of 600 bales River at 56e. to 63c.

Seeds—Our market for clover is steady, with a fair
demand, in part for export; sales of CO brls. at Bic. to
for gcod to prime Ohio. Timothy is hardly so
firm; sales of 100 brls. good Ohio at 17 50 per tierce.
Flax seed is nominal at 1 doll. 70c. to 1 doll. 75c.

Hides are in good demand, and supplies of the better
qualities are sought with avidity. 21,000 Buenos Ayres,
which arrived by the Lessing, were sold previous to
arrival something under 14ic.; 6,000 ditto by the Aymar
sold at 14i-c. We hear of no sales so high as 140.,
which price has been reported by other papers, English
slaughtered are in brisk demand, and 1,000 have been
sold, to arrive, at 7c. The stock is light and the market
firm.

Leather—ls in good demand, but the receipts have
much improved, affording a better assortment and allow-
ing of some accumulation of stock. Prices are unchanged
and firm.

Hemp is very firm, but without large transactions.
Rice is very steady, though the demand is scarcely
equal to the supply. The sales are 400 tcs., at 312 and
3 56 for the three days.
Oils—The market is easier for linseed. From ship
5,000 gallons English sold at the wharf at 76c. cash.
There is a good country demand, which is supplied from
store at 79c. and 80c. in casks and barrels. Lard oil is
doing better; 10,000 gallons sold at 70c. and 730. Bed
oil is easier, with more offering; 6,000 gallons sold at
364 c. cash.

CAPTAIN COLLINSON'S EXPEDITION
TO BEHRING STRAITS.
We copy the following from an .American paper. The
intelligence has been known to the home authorities for
some time. The Investigator. Commander M'Clure, the
consort of the Enterprise, had entered the ice and had
Enterprise,
of Sir John Franklin,
got frozen in :
which left
the ilislearndßariitnanjnuicneMlassjtesintys'searshcihp
had returned from the Polar regions to Hanalei, Kauai.
on the loth of December, and having refreshed there
was on the 29th only waitin g a fair wind to proceed to
Hong-Song, thence to return to the Attic Seas in
A report in the Honolulu Times says :
"<' The Enterprise reached as far
north as 74 deg. 10
,
min., and west as far as 152 deg. i 5 min., or 80 miles
east of Point Borrow, when she encountered heavy
gales of wind from the N.B. The ice, as far as the eye
could reach, was at this
time (August 21) quite solid.
Captain Collinson put back to Norton Sound, where h
ascertained five
lwhite men had
been seen four months previous a
obbin, situated some 150 miles S.E. ofp Point Borrow.
Lieutenant Barnard and Assistant-Surgeon E. Adams,
with one seaman, were dispatched from Norton Sound
with orders to proceed to De Bobbin in •
quest of them.
They left on the 10th of December.' "

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
EAST ANGLIAN RAILWAY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Six,—ln the City article in the Times of the 18th
ult. they name this railway, in conjunction With the
Caledonian, as having risen from 70 to 80 per cent.
without any apparent cause to justify it.
They do not say a word that our shared are still at
4)0 per cent. discount; nor can I see any Just compari-
son of the two lines. The Caledonian is weighed down
by guarantees; we have given none, but just received one.
We have hitherto had to depend upon residential
traffic, without any outlet from our line. The Great
Northern has afforded us one to the south and west; it has
emancipated us from the Eastern Counties, and further-
more will enable us to receive the great droves of cattle
from their Algarkirk station to the pastures of Nor-
folk, &c., which have now to be driven from twenty to
thirty miles. The iGreat Northern will also enable us
to supply the district with coal at reduced prices, and
double our income; and some portion of our preference
to
fromsF 7 to 5 per cent. These advan-
tages,ck lis
nt to justify the small advance
on our shares, and indeed a much larger; nor can I see i
any parallel n the present dealing and 1845. Then
sthink, reduced a r esufficient
millions of money were expended and squandered on
bubble projects; now there is something to fall back
upon, the works are pretty well completed, and the
shares paid up with increasing traffic.
lam an original holder of many shares in this line,
and if I were obliged to sell, as many are, the article ill
the Times would lose me a large sum.
I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
EAST ANGLIA
N.

Tit AMERICA.--The British steam.
ship America, Captain Lang, left the Mersey at noen, on
Saturday, for Halifax and Boston, with upwards of 100 par
sengus, and an unusually heavy nail for the United States
and the British Anierican provinces. The America had OW
on beard a very full cargo of general goods.
REPRESENTATION OF OIFORDSRIRE.—At a meet-
ing of the Oxfordshire Protection Society, held at the Star
Inn, Oxford, on Saturday, it was resolved to oppose the re-
turn of Mr. llarcourt and Lord Norreys at the next general
election. The names of the Marquis of Blandford, M.P..
Sir Henry Willoughby, Bart., M.P. for Evesham, and Mr.
Stone, of Streatly, a barrister, and a large landed proprietor
of the county, were mentioned and approved by the meeting.
Mr, Harcourt has signified his intention to his agent at Ox-
ford to offer himself again, for the county, and there is but
little doubt that Lord INO170;e Will 640 Ile A cancliMite.