The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-22 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS•

ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 21.
By the Royal mail steam-ship Canada, Captain Har-
rison, we have advices from New York to the Bth,
Boston to the 9th, and Halifax to the 10th inst. She
brings 130 passengers.
Our accounts from New York by the Canada,
which extended to the Bth instant (the usual tele-
graphic dispatch via Halifax not having been re-
ceived), are of unusual interest, bringing a large
variety of intelligence from the West Indies, South
America, &C.
Letters from New York report, with respect to the
domestic affairs of the United States, that political
matters remain quite.
No further disturbances had occurred at Boston
touching the fugitive slave arrested there on the
eve of the Franklin's departure. Large meetings of
the populace were being held, and the Rev. Theodore
Parker and other speakers urge violent resistance
to the laws, but the prisoners were safely guarded
by the military, &c., and no rising occurred on the
7th. Judge Shaw refused a writ of habeas corpus
applied for on the petition of Thomas Simms, the
fugitive slave.

Fugitive slaves were discovered by the commis-
sioners living upon the flesh of their dead companions.
Letters from Washington, in the New York Journal
of Commerce, express a probability that a Deficit
Bill for 12,000,000 dolls. will be presented on the re-
assembling of Congress. C. M. Ingersoll, Demo-
crat and Unionist, had been elected to Congress. for
Connecticut. It is announced, also, that the
Mexican
en
Boundary Commission had arranged the d
with the Mexican Commission, and that an initial
point was fixed on the Rio Grande.
Our New York files announce
the
the sth, intended
he launch of the
steam-ship Pioneer, of 2,700 tons,
°
to carry passengers to Europe to the Exposition.
Several new and somewhat threatening crevasses
had occurred on the MississiPltßrian colonists
Hun
From Texas we learn that tb
had met a most favourablefrreocme don. g
PN Yor
Our mercantile letters
gold fromew Californik a, Sistatec.,that the
owing to the influx of
threatened decline in sterling exchange had not been
realized.
Our letters from San Francisco extend to the sth
f
being 16 days later than our last accounts.
° March,
Great excitement has been caused by the threatened
lynching in San Francisco of two men suspected of
almost murdering a merchant named Jansen, in
his store, and robbing him of 2,000 dollars. Ulti-
mately the jury disagreed, and the people, after
tremendous excitement, quietly dispersed. Political
affairs were also in an excited condition, arising
from the struggle to elect a senator to the United
States. From the mines we learn that dry weather
continued to be experienced, and from the lack of
rain apprehensions were entertained in many new
quarters ; locations had, however, been explored which
promised to yield largely, and from the general
tenor of the accounts it was expected that unusually
large receipts of dust would be received during the
spring, the miners having adopted plans :to meet
the difficulty. Gold dust was already arriving
somewhat more freely at San Francisco, and the
assayers were fully employed. Quartz rock mining
and crushing by machinery was being prosecuted
with great activity. On the 2dof March two steamers
were destroyed by fire at San Francisco. Our
accounts state, in regard to mercantile affairs, that
since the departure of the previous mail business
operations had been light. Goods had been offered
freely for sale at auction, and lower prices accepted.
Drafts on England at sight, 48d. to 50d. one dollar ;
ditto, 60 days, 491 to 501 do. France, sight, 51. to
par. Hamburgb, sight, 43 to 44 for one dollar ;
ditto, 60 days, 44 to 41i ditto ; Valparaiso, 30 days,
6 per cent. premium. Mexico, 30 days, par to 1 per
cent. premium. Gold dust, 16 dolls. 50c. ; quick-
silver, 15 dolls. 50c. ; doubloons, 16 dolls. ; sove-
reigns, 4 dolls. 85c.; 10 guilder pieces, 4 dolls.; 20f.
pieces at Custom-house, 3 dolls. 85c. Money was
rather more easy, and first-class paper was going at
6 to 8 per cent. per month.
The Pacific Mail Company had raised their rate of
freight on dust to 11 per cent. from San Francisco to
Panama.

Letters from the Gulf of Mexico received in New
York announced, in relation to the Tehuantepec
Railroad Company's operations on the Isthmus, that
the engineers had discovered two deep, well sheltered,
and spacious harbours on the Pacific shores, a few
miles south-east of the town of Tehuantepec.
From Chagres we have accounts to the 29th, and
from Panama to the 26th ult. On the 25th a de-
nructive fire took place on the island of Tobago, at
Panama, from which the storehouses and property of
the Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company were barely
saved. Some 30 houses were destroyed. On the
28th the men who murdered eight persons on the
Chagres river were to be shot.
Letters from Havannah of the 3d inst. received at
New York stato tbuf, political attairs had been quiet,
although vague rumours of a revolutionary attempt
had prevailed at New Orleans.
Oa mercantile affairs we learn that freights, owing
to numerous arrivals, had receded :—Cowes, and a
market, 21.103. to 21. 15s. ; Baltic, 21. 12s. 6d. to 2/. 7s.
6d. ; Mediterranean, 2/. 12s. 6d. to 3/. Exchange on
London, 7 per cent., and in some cases a trifle more.
Sugar exportations had been light during the week,
but buyers were numerous ; white regular, 8 to Bi.
Coffee, dull at 71 to Bf. Other letters state that on
the 26th ult. a serious fire occurred at San Diegos
de Los Banosi; six houses were consumed. Henry
Clay still remained in the city.

Valparaiso accounts of February 2.5 state that the
Copiapo railroad was making satisfactory progress,
and the survey of the route to Santiago had been
carried fifty miles with favourable results.
Her Majesty's ship Daedalus had been ordered to
take on board 20 months' provisions in order to carry
succour to the Plover and other ships searching for
Sir J. Franklin.

Her Majesty's ship Portland arrived out on the Bth.
Political affairs were tranquil, and little doubt
existed, that in March Moritt would be elected Pre-

sident.

Mercantile affairs had improved, large sales had
been made, and the houses appeared satisfied.
The British steamer Vulcan has h
to run to the southern ports. liVe learnetnhartrheasehßred
Bri-
tish brig Brutus hail been lost in the bay of St. Quen-
tin°, with all on board but two.
From Oregon we have accounts to Feb. 22, but
they are unimportant.
From the Sandwich Islands, under date Jan. 28th,
we learn that a terrible gale had been experienced;
several vessels were much damaged. The difficulties
with
the French were expected to be amicably set-
tled. Business was dull. Letters from Hong-Kong
had been received only seventeen days after their de-
parture from China.
Letters from Peru state that the result of the Pre-
sidential election, had excited no disturbances. Troops
had been
Truxillo.sthi
ispatched to quell a rising of slaves in
Letters from Canada state that Mr. Thom-
pson was
of resumption lecturinginh there on slavery. Some signs
The postal te annexation movement are noted.
establishment had been handed over to the
ProvincialCanadaGovernment on the stb, and the rates
throughoutjohti were 5 cents.
From St. John's New Brunswick, we learn, un-
der date of April
His, that the Legislature opened
on the 25th ult.
hExcellency,w in his address,
referred to the disputeich existed between his pre-
decessors and the Assembly,and announced that he
was prepared to introdoaaci,,!irfsponsible Government
into the colony in a thfi
and also to am,
-jesty's Crown revenues
render the disposal of her ALform ;
theag to certain reed when the Legislature shall have
con-
ditions required on the part of
From Jamaica we have files of journals
to the 31st
ult. (being 14 days later), announcing that
Mail steam-ship Trent, Ciarke e
there on the 25th, with eight passengers, and left on
the 26th for Vera Cruz,
Her Majesty's ship Alarm, 26, and Persian, 16,
left Port Royal on the 27th for Havannah and 13r
muds ; and her Majesty's steamer Alban on the 3els;
for Grey Town and Bermuda.
Our files rert a variety of cases of cholera as
havingi re-appeared in the Lenidas Bale district.
IN c'tous deaths are reported.
His Excellency the Governor bad transmitted to
the Rouse of Assembly a long :dispatch from Earl
Grey on th
much labour supply question, on which sub-
jectdiscussion was expected.

COMIIERCIAL
The exchangeto INTELLIGENCE.
Sterling is 10 market is not active, but is very firm.
rate above the loer'', with but little disposition to ope-
to 5 dolls. 3,1 c.• lower Francs are dull, at 5 dolls. 10c.
791; Hamburgh, 361 , 41i to 412; Bremen, 79 to
to 43n73
' The money•markst is with
money is plenty, at 6 to 7 cut change to note. °deall
which arc not plenty, go
at p7ertcent. First-class bills,
dates. The export of specie still °c
8 per cent. for short
packet hag 50,000 dolls. already engaged. The French
of specie since the Ist of JanuaryaVd• The export
5,511 965 dolls. The stock market has amounts to
the last steamer, and generally the (0.0:7 active since
advance, esT.ecirdly the new dividend paling
show an
Cotton--Messrs. Talcott, Brothers, in tgesitocks.
say—" Our last acenunts were made up
for
trhcirculars
on the Ist instant. On the 2d, 1,000 hales were e Arctic
on
fine rates on the basis of 111 e. for middling uplands. ,
the 3d, a feeling of anxiety prevailed with regard :4; theOn
advices per Baltic thou looked for, and sales were forced
at /c. to ac. reduction. On the morning of the 4th her
accounts were published, and being much more favour-
able than were anticipated, were followed by active de-
mand for export, resulting in sales of 8,000 bales at fully
ic. improvement. On Saturday, the sth instant, the
demand continued active at gradually hardening prices,
the sales reaching 6,000 bates. To-day the transactions
reported on 'Change amounted to 4,000 bales, at fully
lc. advance on strict middling and good middling de-
scriptions, the market closing with au upward tendency

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