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

APRIL 7, 1851.

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVE RPOOL, SATURDAY.
By the royal mail steam-sh'p Asia, Captain Judkine,
we have advices from New York direct to the 26th
ult. She brings a large number of passengers, and
152,0001. ia specie on freight. The Asia was tele-
graphed off Holyhead nt one o'clock to day, having
made the quickest passage on record.
The United States mail steamship Franklin ar-
rived at New York on the 22cl ult., and the United
States mail steamer Arctic on the 231 tilt.
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,V5,0001. in geld
dust. The B:itish mail steamer Conway arrived at
Kingston from St. Thomas's on the 14th tilt, and
sailed the same day for Vera Cruz. The mail
steam-ship Clyde was et Chagres on the 11th ult.
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, coldisions, and battles, have been rife. Eh.
forts have been made in the Legislature to raise funds
and. State troops for carrying on the war. One of the
Governor's aids, Mr. J. Neely Johnson, has been dis-
patchod 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 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 obstacle, aro 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 aro 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
conscuences of which will be severe disappointment to
those engaged in the dry diggings, and, perhaps, fatal to
the stock and agricultural interests. Our Lsgislature
has been battling for many things, but has won few vic-
tories. Don Quixote conflicts with windmills, amend-
iag Acts by making them worse, and passing a very
few which may be beneficial, `logrolling' for the office
of United States Senator, for establishing the seas of
Government, for ousting each other out of their legiti-
mate legislative saddles, &e., 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
aro the speculations concerning the result. Some be-
lieve Mr. King will be elected—some Mr. lloydeefeldt,
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 bean the
case with Mr. Fremout. The health of the State is of
the 11308 t 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 remnies for the companies
engaged there to prove whether the amount of god can
be made profitable to them. Individuals can scarcely
expect to make piles by isolated labour in that place.
The Klamath, Scott's River, end other localities in the
extreme north of the State, seem to Lear the palm in the
faith of our people in their richness. It is to be
he pad that it is something more than distance which
lends enchantment to the view in this matter. The
expeditiens tent to the Colorado River are progress-
ing in their purposes. Lieutenant. Derby has parsed up
the gulf and some distance up the river; and Major
Ileintzeimaids 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 cheek the great tendency to forcible entries and
occupation of other people's land, which for a while
seemed a mania hero. 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 arc 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-organiz
companies, aided by such machinery or cpparatus 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
succeas presents itself there as in the case of the sand
found upon the beach, and that the whole undertaking
will ere long he 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 mires',
have been worked to some extent for many years in Ca-
lifornia, hut 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 ere
about eight miles from San Jose, and can be reached by
a good road st 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
,seasust, arid that the yield from the ore is almost past
heliefe 85', per cent. of pure mercury is not au uecom-
MOTr yield.
elt was reported at San Francisco that a diMculty
had arisen between the commander of the French
gate Serieuse and the Government of the Sande icli
Islands. The commander demanded the payment of
25,1,00 dolls. as a commutation fur customs alleged to
o
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 h
United States. Upon this the French commander
landed his men at Honolulu, and prevented several
Hawaiian vessels from proceeding to sea.
A shocking murder bas 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 Leoncre
Landry, goldbeater, of Paris, were among the number.
Our advices from Mexico extend to the 92d 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
Alexico, 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-
twec,n the armies of the Republics of San Salvador
and Guatemala is fully confirmed ; the former lost
528 men, '2OO prisoners, and a large number of guns.
The King of Mosquito was staying on board her Ma-
jesty's schooner Bermuda. The English Consul, kir.
Chatfield, had published a letter claiming, under the
Mosquito King, the territory close up to Trusillo.
The British fleet bad sailed towards Guatemala.

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

COD!' MERCIA T., INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, MAECLI 25. The Stock it arket to-de
fluctuated slightly. y
Worcester declined
EilC Sevens of •. a 9 and Norwich and
4; L „.Itunington Railroad, Norris
Canal Company.
and Portsmouth Dry Dock, declined,
1-.
Canton Company, ;34-• Erie 11nriew advanced ,sad
shares and /Judson River Rsilroad Sevens clesocr at yes-
Government atecks are in request, with
terday's Prices'
an in.Adequate,,supp). Aunty is in good requW, with
full supply. ilio ryes aro slishtly higher, hut cagy.
In exchange there is sor,le :alteration. Foreign is some-
what higher, the principal business for to-morrow's
steamer having been at 1104 to 110 for best bills on
London and Liverpool. Francs are firm at 5.07 i to

5.10; Bremen, 79; Hamburgb, 36i to 37k; and Ans..
sterdam, 411 to 42.
The day's business at the Sub-Treasury is as follows
Receipts, 160,049 dolls. 210; payments, 62,J50 dolls.
49e.; balanep, 3.657,544 dolls. 30c.
Tee steamer to-morrow takes out 500,600 dolls. in
specie, for the French marize:. The following table
shows the el.-port of specie from this port for the week
ending 141;:rch 22, and for the year:—Sh.ip Havre, Havre.
11.1(•xican dollars, 53,000.d0115.; ditto, American half-
dollars, 100,000 dolls.; ditto, American gold coin,
54,315 dohs.; ditty, gold dust, 3,200 dolls.;. ditto, thalers,
525 dulls.; st(amer Pacific, Liverpool, American gold.
300,000 dolls.; ditto, gold dust, 1,102 dolls.; ditto.
sovereigns. 15,750 dolls.; British silver, 2,090 dolls.;
schooner if. Para,.Mexicau dollars, 20,000
brig G. W. Lawrence, Neuvitu!, Spanish doubloons.
3,670 d.,115,; total, March 15 to Attach 22, 552,652
(folk; previou:ly reported, 3;100,024 dolls.: total fat
1851, 3,652,676.

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 20s. To California there
is morn offering, and the rates are 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 station 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 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.
Aches—The market is very quiet; smell sales of pots
at 5 dolls. 25e. and 5 dolls. 75c. pearls.
Cotton—is less firm, and a decline of has been
submitted to, at which 1,000 bales have been sold.
light. The sales on Saturday
we
exis ryteynet,at prices generally above our quo-
s The
to demand
a
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 Ports.
Inferior nom. 110111. nom.
' Ord. low to good 10 to 103 ... 10 to 10i ... 10 to 11
Mid, /097 to good 11 to 11 ... 11 to 114 ... 11. to 124
Mid. faie to fair 1 ITT to 12 12 ... 121 to 13f
Fall do to good do 121) to ... 14 to
Good to fine none none nuns
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 62i to 4 75, with
little if any afloat. Caradian is heavy; sates of 400 bble.
good brands at 4 624; it is offered more freely to arrive.
The sales of domestic reach 2,500 bbls. at 4 25 for No. 2
superfine, 4 37:1; to 4 50 for common to straight State,
4 564. to 4 75 for Michigan and Indiana, 4 811 to 4 87*
for pure Geneasco 5 ells. to 5 25 for fancy Ohio and
Geuessee, 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 62} to 475 for com-
mon to good Strait brands, and 5 doll's 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, End 3 18" for Brandywine.
Grain—There is lees inquiry for wheat, and theme.
het is heavy; prices are nominal at 1 doll. 10c. to 1 doll.
I4c. for Genessee; 96c. to 1 doll. for Ohio; and 1 doll.
22. to I doll. Go. 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; abort .1,000 bushels round and flat yellow
changed hands at 64ic. to 65c. White is scarce and
wonted nt (i 5 c. to 66 2c. Barley is quiet at 1 doll. 1240.
to 1 611. 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 13 dads. for old mess, 13
dolls. n3c. for new ditto, 10 dolls. for old prime, 11 dolls.
50e. 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 brie. at 15 dolls. 50e. per 220 lbs.
Pickled meats are dull and heavy. Sales of 58 hbds.
hums and shoulders, to arrive, as 91‘c. and gc. respec-
tively. Lard is more freely offered, and prices favour
the buyer. Sales of 189 brls. in lots, at Sic. to 81-c.
Butter is unchanged; prime in fair demand and buoy-
ant. Cheese is steady, with a fair business doing at Sic.
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 30c.
to 31c. ; 300 hhds. Cuba at 20e. to 220, The demand
is improving. In sugars the transactions are 300 hhds.
Cuba Aluscovadoes at 51c. to BAc., and 250 New Orleans
at 50. to 64c. Box sugars are steady with an improved
inquiry from refiners. 500 boxes brown Havannahs sold
at 7c. C,ffee is steady but quiet. 500 Java sold at
lqc. to 1110. 100 Rio at 121 c. to 13c. Some parcels
of St. Domingo changed hands at 100. to lOic.
Whisky—The market is easier for prison, with sales
of 300 brls. at 23c. to 23jc., 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 6.7 c.

Seeds—Our market for clover is steady, with a fair
demand, in part for export; sales of CO brls. at to
82c. for good to primp Ohio. Timothy is hardly re
firm; sales of 100 brie. good Ohio at 17 50 ter tierce.
Flax seed is nominal at 1 doll. 70c. to 1 doll. 75c.
Hides are in good demand, and supplies of the better
qualities ore sought with avidity. 21,000 Buenas Ayres,
which arrived by the Leasing, were sold previous to
arrival something under 14ic.; 6,000 ditto by the Aylmer
sold at 141 c. We hear of no sales so high as 1410.,
which price has bean 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 to., at 3 12i 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 760. cash.
There is a good country demand, which is supplied from
store at 79e. and 89c. in C.181i3 and barrels. J.ard oil is
doing better; 10,000 gallons sold at 70c. and 78e. Red
oil is easier, with mere offering; 6,000 gallons sold at
cash.

CA PT DITION
:cSTREAXEIP'SE.
AL C
TV
ODOEL IRiIThSvOGIV
We copy the following from an American paper. The
intelligence bits been known to the home authorities for
some time. The Investigator. Commander M'Clure, the
consort of the Enterprise, had entered the ica and had
got frczen in
lier Britannic Majesty's ship Enterprise, which left
June last in search of Sir John Franklin,
had
irsciatunrans neidfro m the Polar regions to Ilanalak, Kauai,
on the 10111 of December, end htivint; refreshed there
was on tho 29th oily waiting a lair wind to proceed to
Hong-Kong, thence to return to the Artic Seas in April.
,A, report in tho Honolulu Times says
The Enterprise reached as far north as 74 deg. 10
min., and west as far as 152 deg. 75 min., or 80 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 ha
ascertained from some Russians that five white men had
been seen four months previous at a pith:* 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.] ,
1 EAST ANGLIAN RAL"WAY•
TO THE EDITOR OF Till SUN.
SIR,—In the City article in the HE 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 cent. discount; nor can I see any just compari-
we have given none, but just received one.
son of the two lines. The Caledonian is weighed down
by lz uaran tco s ;
any outlet from onr line. The Great
We have hitherto had to depend upon residential
traffic, v.ithout
Northern has afforded us one to the south and west; it has
emancipated us from the Eastern Counties, and further-
mom
will „able us to receive the great droves of cattle
r., station to the pastures of Nor-
Alarki I,
which have now to be driven from twenty to
fromfo Ik,
stpee.,ir g
thirty wiles. The iGreat Northern will also enable us
to supply the district with coal at reduced prices, and
double cur income; and some portion of our preference
stock is Waxed from 7 to 5 per cent. These advan-
tages, I think, are sufficient to justify the small advance
on our shares, and indeed a much larger; nor can I see
coy parallel in the present dealing and 1845. Then
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.
I am en original holder of many shares in this line,
and if I were obliged to sell, as many Are, the article in
the ?lines would lose me a large sum;
I am, Sir, Yours' 84. c"
, EAST ANGLIAN.

THE STEAM. SHIP AMERICA.—The British steam-
ship America, Captain Lang, left the Mersey et noon, on
Saturday, for Halifax and Boston, with upwards of 100 pas..
senr,e2s, and an unusually heavy mail for the United States
anftne British American provinces. The America had SISt)
on Isard a very full cargo of general goods.
REPRESENTATION 01' OXIVORD:•IIIPF.—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 Dir. Harcourt and Lord Norreys at the next getiered
election. The names of the Marquis of Blandford, up',
Willoughby, Bart., M. P. for livt,shatn, and Mr.
SSitro'nlie,eonfr)S-tr2atly, a barrifter, and a large landed proprietor
of the county, were trentioned and approved by the meeting
ritiihmassesltigartiiendi.hozistihnetencotiuonnt3t,o,
ahni agtehnetreatiaOtx_iii .
Mr,
elltdoacourficbeturtbat Lordlorrqii gill also e (gitidW b •
ate.

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