The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-02 00:00:00

LON DON, THU RS!!.A.Y EVEN G, JANUARY 2, ibbl.

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 1.

By the American mail steamer Arctic, Captain
Luce, we have advices from New York to the 21st
ult. The Arctic was telegraphed off the Ormesheacl
at two o'clock, but owing to the lowness of the tide
and a heavy gale, did not arrive until evening. She
brings 100,000 dolls. in specie on freight.
According to the advices by the Cherokee steamer,
arrived at New York, with over 2,000,000 of gold-
dust, and a fortnight's later intelligence from Califor-
nia, the cholera was raging with great violence. The
deaths at Sacramento city averaged about 80 a day.
The disease also prevails at San Francisco, causing
great stagnation to business.
The steamer Tennessee, which left San Francisco
on the 15th of November, had arrived at Panama,
with 1,500,000 dolls.; and the Antelope with
150,000 dells. in gold-dust, and a large amount in the
hands of passengers, was at the port.
The Herald's accounts state that business in San
Francisco was at a stand• still, and that the prices of
provisions were very high. Miners, it is said, had
done very little, all the dams having been carried
away. Improvements were proceeding rapidly. The
California papers mention the fact that egricultmists
were flourishing, and that many persons had begun to
cultivate in consequence. The rainy season bad not
commenced.

In the United States Congress we notice that a
motion had been infOe rehtive to the expediency of
requesting the President to give notice to Great Bri-
tain as to the discontinuance of the United States
squadron on the African co-= t.
Her Majesty's ship Herald was at Honolulu on the
19th of October.
We have advices from Kingston, Jamaica, to the
12th ult.
The cholera had quite subsided at Port Royal and
St. Catherine's. In Kingston the cases were few, and
the hospitals contained few patients. In the country
districts, however, it was raging violently, and num-
bers were being carried off.
The details are very distressing. Great efforts
were being made to relieve the sufferers from cholera
at Kingston.
The Royal Mail steam-ship Conway had not arrived.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
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Money Market—No material change has taken place
in the Stock Market since the Asia's departure. Penn-
sylvania Fives have improved. The demand for foreign
exchar,ge has not been active, but rates improved—on
London, 1101 ; Paris, 5 10 ; Amsterdam, 41. The
money market has bsen favourably affected by the receipt
of gold from California. The courier end Enquirer
notices with regret the rapid advance of silver coin,
caused by the steady demand from Eur,ps. The incon-
venience, it states, is beginning to be felt by all trades,
and that not one of the orders for export can be excuted.
Owing to the high rates fur exchange, the next Cunard
strainer will take a considerable amount of specie.
Cotton—Talbot', Circular says " that since our last.
per Asia, on the 17th ult., the market has assumed a
decidedly firmer tone, end resales have been made of
parcels bought during the panic at ie. to ic. advance.
On the 18th 1,400 bales were sold at the advance of ie.
noticed in our circular of the 17th; on the 19th 800
bales, at a further improvement of to ic.; and to-day
600. The quantity on tale is very light, and sellers are
firm; holde:s in general prefer to wait the Africl's ad•

vic4:'

Tobacco—A9 usual at this season cf the year the
market was rather quiet, but firm. Some 50 hhds. cf
Kentucky leaf were sold at 9J. to 13. c., and 40 hhds. of
common at 'lie.
Iron-110 tons of Gartsherrie Scotch pig sold at 19
dolls. 621 e., and 500 tons ditto at 19 dolls. 75c. cash.
Flour—The market for some days past has been buoy-
ant, and prices tend upwards. Tho kupplies by the
canal and river have ceased for the season.
Grain—Holders of wheat arc firm. Bred Genessce
sells at 112ic.
Freights to Liverpool arc firm. Cotton, 3-16; flour,
Is. 6d.; grain, 4 to 41; heavy goods, 203.
2To Lond2s2on
—tobacco per barrel, Is. 70.; turpentine, ; oil,
gallons, 205.; measurement goods per ton, 275. 6d. to
305.; heavy goods. 20,. to 30s. To Havre—cotton spare
bales per pound, lc.
, Shipping—The Lord Sandon and the Abbeylands,
froriaiverpool, and the Koophandt, fr.,om .Antyi:erp, at
New York:
De:" Corada.s —2liercavtile inteltignico;
.s.
Kingston, December 12, sap— . .
• " Our market wears a slightly improving eppcarange,
consequent on the almost total cessation
,of the cholera
in the city.: The dealers seem to dome .fora and rather
more freely than has been the case for the last six_ or
eight-. Weeks. Business is, howeVer, ecinfined"fer •the
mosepart to I(ingsfon, there being'. little trade with the
eutports; in consequence of the prevalence of the cholera
in the rural districts. All the accounts from the interior
represent the disease a spreading with a degree of vio-
lence equally fatal to human life and the preetpect of the
estates, people not being induced to work, panic-
stricken as they are by the prevalence of the epidemic."

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, JAN. 1.
The Queen's New Year's gifts to the age:l,
and deserving poor of Windsor, Eton, and Clever,
were distributed this morning about ten o'clock, in
the Riding School, in the presence of her Majesty
the Queen, and his Royal highness the Prince Albert.
Her Majesty and the Prince were accompanied by
their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and
the Princess Helena, anti also by his Excellency the
Chevalier and Madame Bunsen, the Marquis of
Douro, and Sir Francis and Lady Arabella Baring.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were attended
by the Lady in Waiting (the Marchioness of Douro),
the Maids of Honour in Waiting (the Hon. Caroline
Cavendish and the Hon. Caroline Dawson), the Lord
and the Groom in Waiting, Colonel Bouverie, Colonel
Francis Hugh Seymour, and Mr. Birch.
The selection of the very numerous objects of the
Queen's bounty bad been made under the superin-
tendence of the Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley, her
Majesty's domestic chaplain, and the clergy of the
vicinity. The Hon. and Rev. G. Wellesley and the
clergy of Windsor, Eton, and Clever, were present
on the occasion.
Directly atter the entrance of her Majesty and the
Royal party the distribution commenced—blankets,
calico, and flannel were distributed ; and also the fol•
lowing provisions—meat, bread, potatoes, and pud-
ding. Coals were also dispensed.
Her Majesty and the Prince, with the Royal Chil-
dren and their distinguished visitors, then took their
departure, and the recipients also quitted the Riding
School.
A Serenade in honour of the new year was per-
formed at seven o'clock this morning beneath the
windows of the Royal apartments by the band of the
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, under the direction
of Mr. Tutton. The following pieces were per-
formed :
The Heavens are telling. Haydn.

March from " La Juivi"
Galatea, dry thy Tears

God save the Queen
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shoot•
ing this morning, accompanied by the Marquis of
Douro, and attended by Lord Camoys, Colonel Hen.
C. B. Phipps, and Colonel F. H. Seymour.
The Royal dinner circle this evening included
his Excellency the Chevalier and Madame Bunsen,
the Merquis of Douro, and the Right Hon. Sir
Francis and Lady Arabella Baring.
After dinner a performance of music took place
in the Castle in the Waterloo Chamber. The Queen's
private band was in attendance, and was strengthened
by a number of additional performers of eminence.
About half-past nine o'clock the Queen and Prince
Albert, accompanied by their visitors staying at the
Castle, and also by a select party honoured with in-
vitations for the evening, entered the Waterloo
Chamber.
The musical performances comprised the following
pieces :
Overture—" Struensee"
Adagio (Sinfonia A)
Mendelssohn.
Presto Salterello
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Turkish March—" Ruins of Athens" Beethmen.
Fugue in C . Mozirt.

at.
Waltz, "Rose de Mai"
Prince Arthues March E. Loder.

After the above pieces had been played, the band
of the Coldstream Guards and the band of the Royal
Horse Guards attended, and jointly with her Ma-
jesty's private band, performed Beethoven's "Battle
Sinfonia.
The entire performance was under the direction of
Mr. Anderson, the Master of the Queen's private
band.
The following had the honour of receiving invita-
tions :—The Countess of Mansfield and the Ladies
Murray, General and Lady Isabella Wemyss, Lady
Emily Seymour, the Provost of Eton and Hon. Mrs.
Hodgson, Col. Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps and Miss
Bathurst, Colonel Hon. Charles and Miss Grey, Sir
George and Lady Couper and Miss Couper, Rev. Dr.
Hawtrey, Col. and Mrs. Bouveria, the Commanding
Officer of the Coldstream Guards (Colonel Paget),
Mr. Birch, and Mr. Glover.
The band of the Coldstream Guards was in at-
tendance at the Castle yesterday (Tuesday ), and per-
formed the following pieces during dinner :
Overture and selection from "Robert le
Diable" . Meyerbeer.
Quadrille, "Great Exhibition" Jullien.
Duetto, " Thou art the support of thy
Father " Joseph ....

Mr. Humphrey Brown, M.P., attended at the
Home-office yesterday to deliN(r to the Secretary of
State for the Home Department for presentation to
her Majesty, the memorial from the clergy anl laity
of Tewketbury against Popish usurption and
doctrines.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Lord High Commissioner of the
lonian Islands and the Governor of Malta.