The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-09 00:00:00

EVENING,

THE UNITED STATES.

ARRIVAL OP THE CAMBRIA.

[A summary of the subjoined intelligence appeared
in The Sun of yesterday.]
LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.
The British Mail steam-ship Cambria, Captain
Leitch, entered the Mersey this morning, shortly
before nine o'clock, with the mails, and 25 passengers,
from the United States and Canada.
The Cambria left Boston at one o'clock at noon on
the 25th ult., and Halifax at three r.'. on the 28th.
The Cambria, after leaving Halifax, experienced
throughout her entire homeward voyage very severe
gales from the north-east, with heavy seas. The
Cambria brings 607,800 dollars in specie.
By this arrival we have three days' later intelli-
gence from the United States and Canada than that
brought by the Baltic.

The Royal mail steam-ship Asia arrived at Halifax
on the morning of the 24th, and at Boston on the
afternoon of the 25th, after a run hence of 10 days
8 hours and 20 minutes mean time.
At three r.ar., on the 30th ult., the Cambria passed
a steamer, supposed to be the United States mail
steam-ship Humboldt; and on the 2d inst., at one
P.M., exchanged signals with a large steam-ship, sup-
posed to be the United States mail steamer Pacific.
The steam-ship Empire City, from Havannah, &c.,
arrived at New Orleans on the 20th ult., with
800,000 dollars in specie in the hands of passengers,
and 441,000 dollars on freight.
The United States mail steam-ship Atlantic
arrived at New York on Sunday morning, the
23d ult.
The steam-ship Glasgow, from Glasgow, arrived
on the same day.
The cause of the detention of a part of the New
York mail was, no doubt, a severe snow storm with
very tempestuous weather which prevailed on the
night of the 25th, during which we regret to record
that a boat belonging to the Royal mail steamer Asia,
which had arrived that afternoon, was capsized on her
return from a visit to the Cambria, and four of her
hands—two of them married men belonging to Liver-
pool—were unfortunately drowned.
The intelligence brought by the Cambria is meagre
and not of much importance.
The inquest on the bodies of the children killed by
the sad catastrophe in Greenwich-avenue was pro-
ceeding, and great interest felt as to the probable ver-
dict of the jury.
The following are extracts from the New York
papers :
Scarcely was the ink dry which recorded the late
fearful tragedy in Greenwich-avenue, where nearly
50 innooent children lost their lives, and 50 more were
laid upon beds of suffering and anguish, when our
ears were assailed with the sickening intelligence of
another catastrophe, which, though not so grandly
horrible in its results, is, nevertheless, mournfully sad.
The facts of this new case of death and destruction
are as follow :—At a few minutes past twelve o'clock
yesterday, just as the men employed in the printing-
press factory of Messrs. Hoe, at the corner of Broome
and Sheriff-streets, had stopped work to eat their
dinners, a tremendous crash was heard, and at the
next moment it was discovered that the top part of
the side wall or gable end of the building which stood
next to the blacksmith shop, had fallen. The black-
smith shop was a one story building, and the wall, a
part of which fell, was four stories high, being part of
a building used by Messrs. Harmon and Co., brewers,
of No. 12, Sheriff-street, as a malt-house. The upper
loft was used as a store-room for grain, and there were
9,000 or 10,000 bushels of barley in it at the time.
There are usually from 18,000 to 20,000 bushels
of grain in this same loft, and Mr. Harmon
was about to have several thousand bushels
stored there to-morrow. The wall was evidently
weak, and was not securely anchored to the
timbers near the roof. At the time the wall fell there
were but few men in the blacksmith shop, as most of
them had gone to dinner. Had the accident hap-
pened half an hour later the loss of life must have
been fearfully great. The distance of the top of the
wall above the shop was so great that the falling mass
gathered great impetus before it reached it; and when
at length it did strike the roof, it hardly met with a
perceptible resistance. A great quantity of grain
followed the bricks and mortar, and all lay together a
shapeless mass of ruins. The men of the establish-
ment went to work clearing away the rubbish, and
soon came to one of their companions, Robert Sears,
who was severely hurt, but not mortally. It was
said at one time that his sight was destroyed ; but this
it is hoped will prove not to be the case. Going on
with their labour, the workmen came to and released
the body of another of their companions, named Wm.
Conquest, who was alive, but who was also badly in-
jured. They worked on, and soon found the lifeless
body of Enoch S. Brown, a blacksmith ; and after re-
moving still more of the timber and grain, they disco-
vered the body of Walter Mathews, who was also
dead. This completed the list of the missing. Several
of the workmen had narrow escapes, and one of
then was actually hit by one of the timbers, while
another stood in the midst of rubbish which had fallen
all round him—yet, wonderful to say, he was un-
touched, or at least entirely unhurt. Mr. Conquest is
the foreman of one department of Messrs. Hoe's es-
tablishment, and had just returned from Philadelphia.
He entered the shop for the purpose of shaking hands
with some of his fellows, when he was assailed by the
falling mass. He was removed to his residence in
Delaney-street, in a state of mental derangement, but
is not so seriously injured as Mr. Sears. The latter
was taken to his house in Williamsburgh, where
were also taken the remains of the deceased Mr.
Brown, he having been, when alive, a resident of that
city. Mr. Matthews belonged to East Brooklyn.
He was a native of England, 30 years of age, and has
left a wife to mourn his loss. Mr. Brown was also a
native of England, 43 years of age, and has left a wife
and five children. His brother was buried in the
ruins at the Hague-street explosion, but released
himself and went to the aid of his companions, where
a piece of wall fell and buried him for the second
time ; but be was after all saved. He was at the scene
of this disaster, and took charge of the remains of his
brother.

The news brought from Europe by the steamer At-
lantic caused the price of cotton to run up one-fourth
of a cent. at New Orleans on the 24th.
Four persons were arrested on the 22d at Syracuse,
charged with being concerned in the recent riots and
slave rescue.

A dispatch was received from
Ontario on the 22d, whtihcaht stated
region, a ttkhe perfectsatlainresof
Lake
hur-
ricane was blowing
in ,
deeply laden with grain,
had been ashore at Oswego,
mitous season to boats nav
and fears were appre-
hended that sad accounts would w with a heavy fall
of snow. The brig Empireswtahnideihng the
commenced
numerous other vessels.
gating the lakes.
Notwithstanding Tofiu. soon be received from
Is has been a most cala-
during the greater part ofi
maritimet disasters.
great
the
foseverity ofd a
yt
,11 ewne obr
at hv e-
east storm,
heard of but few serious on the 20th and lasted
The police of New York, fur
Maximilian Benedict, alias
stands charged with the seductionmki some
of
tthi me ew
ipast,fe
of
m haver.
been on the alert for a reported Hungarian, named
G. H. Taylor, a wealthy
erchant residing in Lon-
don, who charges this
elope with him to this cooufntrli
Hungarian refugee, not only
with the seduction of hisbut inducing her to
1,200 dollars' worth wife,taking with them over
consisting of watches, jewellery and
property,
tl
e°4's sr
ap-
pears, from the affidavit made by Mr.
and money. It
Justice M'Grath, one of our.efficientby Mr. Taylor before
visitor, and also represented as
aofnenofatshea
that, about six months th police justices,
in London
accused was intro-
duced into his family
friend en
unfortunated
his acquaintance
Hungarian refugees. Soon
Twaityhlotrh,e
afamyoilayohge caoomdmtbenoucegdbt male love to Mrs.
his persuasive arts, concluded to elope with him
who, on
; and
in so doing, aided by the seducer,
robbed her hus-
band of the above named amount of property and
decamped. As soon as the husband
ascertained she
had eloped, supposing they had gone
to France, he
went in pursuit. First he went to Pa •
rls, and not find-
ing them there he continued his
pursuit to Prussia,
Austria, and other countries, of which he
learned the character of Benedictin all
to be
swindler, and had frequently been arrested. Eachknownas aof
these places proving unsuccessful, Mr. Taylor r. con-
cluded to come to New York, and took passage in
the steam-ship City of Glasgow, which arrived at
this port on Saturday night last. On • inquiryafter
his erring wife he ascertained that the swindlel had
latter palmed himself off on Mr. Genin, theas one
of the Hungarian refugees and followers ofG Governor
Kossuth, and was then residing in the house of Mr.
Genin, who had taken him and his reputed wife under
his roof as one of the Hungarian patriots, Mr. Genin
having been led to believe that his
to him
representations
were true, from similar statements made
other parties, relative to the identity of Mr.
Benedict. by
On these charges preferred by Mr. Taylor, officer
Jones took both the parties into custody, and con-
veyed them before Justice MGrath, and on searching
his person there were found a gold watch and chain,
valued at 250 dollars, together with an elegant snuff-
box, worth 50 dollars, and a gold finger ring. All
this property was identified by Mr. Taylor as belong-
ing to him, and of his own property, having been
stolen by this Benedict, who, it seems, was not satis-
fied with stealing his gold, hut robbed him of his wife
besides. The magistrate committed the accused to
prison to await a further hearing. The wife was taken
charge of by her husband, who, it seems, is willing
to overlook the past if she will never do so any more.
The New York papers publish a letter from Mr. J.
S. Trasher, the Havannah editor, dated in prison at
Havannah, Nov. 14, in which he denies explicitly
that there have been found among his papers any
documents
which compromise any one in any manner
whatever. Mr. Trasher had not been tried on the
14th instant, and the story brought by the Georgia,