The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-24 00:00:00

AMERICA.

GALWAY, TUESDAY.,
The Pacific (s.s.) arrived at 10 a.m. She left St.
John's on the 14th. . She encountered strong gales
from the east, together with a head sea, almost the

entire way.
The Pacific has brought 178 passengers, inclu-
ding Lola Montes, and some valuable cargo.
The Galway steamer Circassian arrived at New
York at midnight on the 13th.
A New York telegram, received at St. John's,
Newfoundland, and dated the 13th, states that the
overland mail brought Californian advices to Oct.
15. The news was unimportant. Business was dull.
Advices from Frazer River to Oct. 4 stated that
the river had fallen, and some gold had been taken
out, but not in sufficiently remunerative quantities,
and that many miners had returned to California.
The ketch Brother had been brought into Charles-
ton fromthe coast of Africa as a slaver. There was
a killing frost. Walker and Henningsen were.re-
coneiled.
The Star of the West'arrivecl -at New York on
the 13th, bringing Californian mails to Oct. 20th,
and 1,670,000 dollars in specie The news was un
important. The Indian war in Oregon had ended.
The ship John E. Thayes had been burned in the
Gulf of Califoruia, and the General Kushion had
been burned in the harbour of San Francisco.
In
New Mexico, Nivago and the Indians had been
again defeated. The Mohawk Indians had again
attacked the emigrants, killing nine and wounding
16. At Greeasburg, Kentucky, the mob had broken
into a gaol, and hanged two murderers. At Wash-
ington it was stateil that the Secretary of
,the
Treasury will recommend a tax on tea and coffee.
Samuel Meding, of Ohio, had been tendered the
governorship of Kansas. Collector Schell, of New
York, was to be removed. The ship Petrel, from
Quebec for Ardrossan, is reported as water-legged•
The ship Parker, of Demerara, for Liverpool, had
put into Bermuda, Oct. the 31st, very leaky and in
' want of spars.

COMMERCIAL.

NEW YORK, Nov. 13.

•__ _ _ ,
Coffee, yto lower on,
the week. Savannah and
Mobile markets unchanged. New Orleans sales,
6,000, at 141 tow for middling. Sugar advanced
to 10 cents yesterday ; to-day dull and unchanged.
Wheat quiet but firm. Corn dull and heavy. Beef
25 to 50 cents lower. Pork firm. Freights : Cot-
ton, to Liverpool, t. Coffee closed qniet. Sales
trifling to-day. Sales since Tuesday, 45,000 bales.
Middling upland,

RAISING OF THE RRIG• LIGHTNING
BY ONE OF THE _FLOATING
RICKS..

This vessel, which was stink' in the Thames; off
Erith, about-four months since, thrOugh collision
with the screw-steamer. William France, was
yesterday finally, raised by the small floating 'der-
rick, belonging to the Patent Derrick Company,
and placed close in shore for examination and
repairs. The brig's registered tonnage is 176, and,
when' sunk, she had nearly 300 tons of granite in
her hold, while this small derrick has only a hoist-
ing power of 100 tons—it having been constructed
chiefly for lifting and transporting steam engines,.
boilers, &c., about the Thames beloW bridge. The
dead weight against the derrick was therefore con-
siderable.;- but no ways daunted by the odds Capt.
Coppin and Mr. Barter (one of the directors of the
company), by whom the final operations were
planned and conducted, devised a means of making
up for.the derrick's deficiency of power by impart-
ing additional buoyancy to the brig. This was
effected by forming a platform and bulkheads, fore
and aft, within the wreck, thereby obtaining con-
sierable additional displacement, with the combined
aid of. a pair of powerful pumps, invented by Capt.
Coppin for wrecking purposes, and capable of eject-
ing four tons of water per minute.
Operations were- commenced at half flood, by
setting these pumps to work, and coupling the
lifting chains, "bent on" to the brig, to others rove
through the purchase blocki of the derrick's lifting
boom.' The hoisting gear of the derrick, which is
worked by steam, was then . put in motion, when,
gradually, the unfairly taxed powers of the little
derrick, .aided by the rise of the tide, succeeded in
" weighing the brig," and placing her close in shore
within four hours of starting.. The result must be
most satisfactory both to the Thames Conservancy
and to the masters of sailing craft passing up and
down the river, as the wreck lay just off the point of
Erith Reach, and was greatly in the way of tacking
vessels. Had not the derrick succeeded in raising.
the Lightning, the removal of this serious obstruc-
tion to the river's navigation could only have been
effected by breaking the vessel up. That these
Greatly-aid the Thames
floating derricks will
Con-
servancy in keeping the river free from similar con-
stantly recurring obstructions is evident; in fact
the frequent collisions near the mouth of the
Thames proirrise continual employment for the in-
vention.. At the present time there are several
wrecks near Gravesend which. expose vessels to the
delay and loss that would be consequent upon the
fouling of anchors,