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

MONDAY

EVENING, APRIL 7, lB5l.

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.
By the royal mail steam-sh'p Asia, Captain Judkins,
we have advices from New York direct to the 26th
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 to-day, 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 1,325,000/. 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 was at Chagres on the 11 th uli.
From the Alta California we extract a summary of
events :
" Since the departure of the last steamer for 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 raise funds
end State troops far carrying on the war. One of the
Governor') aids, Mr. J. Neely Johnson, has been dis-
patched by his Excellency to the scene of disturbances,
to act on the part of the State with the United States
Indian Commissioners. Authority has been given to
raise a force of volunteers to bo 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 we 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, &c., 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 saost 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 boar 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
expelitions 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 somo 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 had 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 Satin -
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 are 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,n00 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.
A shocking murder has been committed on the
Chagres river. The victims were eleven in number
—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
from Vera Cruz to Medillin ; one of the waggons of
the freight line had been attacked near the city of
Mexico, and a large quantity of goods carried off.
The New Orleans Delta reports that the Mexican
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 bad 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 Havannah 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, MAnCH 25.—The stock market to-day
fluctuated slightly. Erie Sevens of '59 and Norwich and
Worcester declined *; stoniogton Railroad, Morris
Canal Company, and Portsmouth Dry Dock, declined,
1. Harlem advanced*, and Canton Company, 4, Erie
shares and Hudson River Railroad Sevens closed at yes-
terday's prices. Government stocks are in request, with
an inadequate supply. Money is in good request, with
full supply. The rates are 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 1101 to 110} for best bills on
London and Liverpool. Francs aro firm at 5.071 to

5.10; Bremen, 79; liamburgh, 36-1- to 37j;
sterdam, 41 to 42.
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The day's business at the Sub-TreastujrisPriinliiik
Receipts, 160,049 dolls. 21c; payments, 64A60.-4411a., :;
49c.; balance, 3657,544 dolls. 30c.
The steamer to-morrow takes out 50440 .
specie, for the French market. 'rho folk-3414[4W -
shows the export of specie from this portlortke week - -
ending March 22, and for the year:--Ship 11442(e, Hans,
Mexican dollars, 53,000 dolls.; ditto, Ardeiiesin half-
dollars, 100,000 dolls.; ditto, American gold' eoili
54,315 dolls.;•ditto, gold dust, 3,200 dolls.; ditto, thalers,
525 dolls.; steamer Pacific, Liverpool, American gold,
300,000 dolls.; ditto, geld 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, 3,652,676.

,
There is very little doing in freights, and the rates
are hardly so firm. Engagement for corn at 4 to 40.;
heavy goods at 17s. 61 to 20s. To California there
is more offering, and the rates me nominal.
The dry goods trade is still under a cloud. 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 is later than usual, and stocks,
which arc 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 au induce.
ment to buyers to delay as much as they can, for their
own interests, the hulk of their purchases.
Ashes—The market is very quiet; small sales of pots
at 5 dolls. 9.5 c. and .5 dolls. 75c. pearls.
Cotton—ls less firm, and a decline of ie. 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 been
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 Portal.
Inferior nom. nom. nom.
Ord. low to good 10 to 103 ... 10 to 10i ... 10 to 11
Mid. low to good 11 to 11i 11 to 114- ... 11/ to 12f
f 1
Mid, fair to fair 11i to 12i 12 „. 12 to 13
Fall do to good do 12 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 4 621 to 4 75, with
little if any afloat. Canadian is heavy; sales of 400 bbls.
good brands at 4 621; it is offered more freely to arrive.
The sales of domestic reach 2,500 bbls. at 4 25 for N 0.2
superfine, 4 371 to 4 50 for common to straight State,
4 561 to 4 75 for Michigan and Indiana, 4 81/ to 4 87k
for pure Genessee 5 dolls, to 5 25 for fancy Ohio and
Genessee, 5 25 to 5 50 for extra Ohio, and 5 50 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 4 621 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 3 371. Corn meal is very quiet 306
for Jersey, and 3 181 for Brandywine.
Grain—There is less inquiry for wheat, and the mar-
ket is heavy; prices are nominal at 1 doll. 10e. to 1 doll.
14c. for Genessee; 96c. to 1 doll. for Ohio; and 1 doll.
2c. to 1 doll. 6c. for Michigan. Canadian is inactive;
sundry lots are being shipped from first hands for tie
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 50e. for aorthern. 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 644 c. to 65c. White is scarce and
wanted at 65jc. to 661 c. Barley is quiet at 1 doll. 124 c.
to 1 doll. 25c.

Provisions—Tho upward tendency in pork continues,
and prices are again better, with a good demand for the
trade. Sales of 900 bbls. at 13 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. par 220 lb&
Pickled meats are dull and heavy. Sales of 58 hhda.
hams and shoulders, to arrive, at 9,1 c. and Sic. respec-
tively. Lard is more freely offered, and prices favour
the buyer. Sales of 180 brls. in lots, at Sic. to 81.
Butter is unchanged; prime in fair demand and buoy-
ant. Cheese is steady, with a fair business doing at site.
to Tic.
Groceries aro moving moderately. There have been
large arrivals of molasses and sugars from the Havannah
ports. We notice sales of 250 barrels New Orleans 30c.
to 31c. ; 300 hhds. Cuba at 20c. to 22c. The demand
is improving. In sugars the transactions are 300 hhds.
Cuba Muscovadoes at 5 e. to Bc., and 250 New Orleans
at sc. to 6,1 c. Box sugars are steady with an improved
inquiry from refiners. 500 boxes brown Havannahe sold
at 7c. Coffee is steady but quiet. 500 Java sold at
10.',0. to llic. 100 Rio at 121 c. to 13c. Some parcels
of St. Domingo changed hands at 10c. to 101 c.
Whisky—The market is easier for prison, with sales
of 300 brls. at 23c. to 23ie., 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 56c. to 63c.

Seeds—Our market for clover is steady, with a fair
demand, in part for Export; sales of 60 brls. at Sic. to
tic. for gcod to prime Ohio. Timothy is hardly so
firm; sales of 100 brls. good Ohio at 17 50 per tierce.
Flex seed is nominal at 1 doll. 70c. to 1 doll. 75e.
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 14ic. We hear of no sales so high as 14ioo
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 stook. Prices are unchanged
and firm.

Hemp is very firm, but without large transactions.
Rico 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 suppliod from
store at 79c. and 80c. in casks and barrels. Lard oil Is
doing better; 10,000 gallons sold at 700. and 73c. Red
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
authoritiesca forn paper. The
intelligence has been known to the home
theice and had
Enterprise, which left
some time. The Investigator. Commander M 'Clure, the
consort of the Enterprise, bad enteredi
got frozen in :
of Sir John Franklin,
had returned from the Polar regions to Hanalei,
the" iHsleanr
dßsriintanjnuieneAllassjtesitnys'searsheihp
Kauai,
on the 10th of December, and having refreshed there
was on the 29th only waiting a fair wind to proceed to
Hong-Kong, thence to return to the Artic Seas in April.
A report in the HonoluluTinies says :
~ , The Enterprise reached as far north as 74 deg. 10
min., and west as far as 152 deg. 75 min., or SO miles
east of Point Borrow, when she encountered heavy
gales of wind from the N.E. 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 he
ascertained from some Russians that five white men had
been seen four months previous at a place called De
Robbin, situated some 150 miles S.E. of Point Borrow.
Lieutenant Barnard and Assistant-Surgeon E. Adams,
with one seaman, were dispatched from Norton Sound
with orders to proceed to De Robbin in quest of them
They left on the 10th of December.' "

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
EAST ANGLIAN RAILWAY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—In 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 so Per cent.
without any apparent cause to justify it.
They do not say a word that our shares are still at
400 per cant. 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 /Great Northern will also enable us
to supply the district with coal at reduced prices, and
from
to 5 per cent. These advan-
nd7some portion of our preference
/ think, are sufficient to justify the small advance
stockdoubl e
is our
reduced income;fr
tages,
on our shares, and indeed a much larger; nor can I see
any parallel in the present dealing and 1845. Then
were expended and squandered on
bmuiblibi°lensproofjemcotsny
projects; now there is something to tall back
upon, the works are pretty well completed, and the
shares paid up with increasing traffic.
I am an original holder of many shares in this line,
the Times wroeu
ld obliged
lose
_mt oe
and if I we
sell,a
large as
su manym are, the article in
.

I am, Sir, yours, Scc.,
EAST ANGLIAN.

T AMERICA.--The British steam-
ship America, Captain Lang, left the Mersey at noon, on
Saturday, for Halifax and Boston, with upwards of 100 pas.
sengeas, and an unusually heavy snail for the United States
and the British American provinces. The America had also
on beard a very full cargo of general goods.
REPRESENTATION OF OXFORDSHIRE.—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. Harcourt and Lord Norreys at the next general
election. The names of the Marquis of Blandford,
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
io bat
little doubt that Lord Norre,” will Wag be wdidate.

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