The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-15 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE ACADIA.
LIVFRPOOL, THURSDAY.
The British and North American royal mail steam-
ship Acadia, Captain Harrison, arrived in the Mersey
shortly after six o'clock this morning. She left
Boston on the usual day, the Ist instant, spoke the
Hibernia in the Bay of Fundy on the 2d, and, from
some cause which we have not yet heard, sailed from
Halifax, without the mails, on the 3d. The run from
Boston, including the detention at Halifax, accupied
about twelve days and a half.
Our advices by this arrival are—New York, 31st
ult. ; Washington, 29th ; Montreal, 28th ; Toronto,
25th ; and Boston and Halifax, Ist and 3d inst.
The elections in Canada were going on in
favour of the Government. The New York Herald
says :—" It appears that the Conservative influ-
ence—the policy of Sir Charles Metcalfe—pre-
dominates over Radicalism, and powerfully enough
for the present. If the Radicals in the Lower Pro-
vince keep themselves in order, the Union will move
beautifully and evenly; but if they kick too much,
the majority will only have to whip them into decency.
Either way, therefore, the Canadas are safe for a
little while."
The following is a list of the Members returned :
D. Destructive—C. Conservative.
LOWER CANADA.

Montreal (City)—The Hon.G.
Moffatt (c.) ; the Hon. S.
de Bleury (c.)
Ottawa.—The lion, D. B. Pa-
pineau, Commissioner of
Crown Lands (c.)
Two Mountaina.—Mr. Scott
(c.)
Threeßivers.—Mr. Grieve (c.)
St. Maurice.—Mr. Desaaul-
niers (c.)
Champlain.—Mr. Guillet (c.)
Sherbrooke.—Mr. Hale (c.)
Chambly. Mr. Lacoste
(doubtful.)
Rouville. Mr. Franchere
(doubtful.)
Terrebonne.—Mr. Lafontaine
(D.)
Richelieu.—Dr. Nelson D.
UPPER
Toronto.—Mr. Sherwood(e.);
Mr. Boulton (c.)
Hamilton.—Sir A. Macnab(c.)
Hastings.—Mr. Munney (c.)
Bytown.—Mr. Stuart (c.)
Brockville.—Mr. G. Sherwood)
(c.)
Russell.—Mr. Petrie (c.)
Kingston.—Mr. Macdonald
(c.)
Prescott.—Mr. Stewart (c.)

Huntingdon.—Mr. Lemaide
(D.)
Vercheres.—Mr. Leslie (D.)
Yamaska.—Dr. Rosseau (D.)
Leinster.—Mr. Dewitt (D.)
Quebec.—Messrs. Aylwm and
Chabot (a)
Quebec (County).—Mr. Cha-
veau (D.)
Gaspe.—Mr. Christie (c.)
Lotbiniere.—Mr. Laurin (D.)
L'lslet.—Dr. Tach• (D.)
Kamouraska.—Mr. Berthelet
(D.)
Nicolet.—Mr. Methot (D.)
Megantic.—Hon. D. Daly ( c. )
Vaudreuil.—Mr. Lantin (D.)
Saguenay.—Mr. Morin (D.
Dorchester.—Mr. Tachereau
(a )
CANADA.
Cornwall.—Mr. R. M'Donnell
(C-)
Stormont.—Mr. M'Donald
(D.)
Leeds.—Mr. Gowan (C.)
Middlesex.—Mr. Ermstinger
(c.)
Northumberland. Mr. Hall
(c.)
Haldimand.—Mr. Thompson
(D.)

The Rev. Egerton Ryerton, D.D., had received

the appointment to the superintendency of the Board
of Education for Canada West. He came to Liver-
pool in the Acadia.
There are rumours of further serious disturbances
on the Beauharnois Canal.
Accounts from Mexico mention that a French
sailor had been arrested by the Alcade of the town,
and taken to prison. It is not stated why or for
what he was arrested; but when in prison he was
asked if he was a Frenchman, and answered in the
affirmative; he was immediately ordered to receive
two hundred lashes, attended by music ; after which
he was ordered to kiss the drummer's feet, and, on his
refusal to do so, he was sentenced to receive fifty
lashes more, and other indignities were committed
upon his body too horrible to mention ; after which
he was released, having become a maniac through his
dreadful sufferings. In consequence of this outrage,
the French Consul had refused all intercourse with
the authorities, and had forwarded dispatches to his
Government respecting the treatment French citizens
are subjected to in that department of Mexico.
The Great Western, which sailed hence on the
12th ult., arrived out at New York on the 28th,
making the run in 14 days 131 hours. She would
leave again on the 9th inst., and will be due here
about the 23d. The passengers, on the trip out, on
reaching port, presented Captain Mathews with a
handsome complimentary letter, expressing satisfac-

tion with the voyage, aml with the excellent accom-
modation of the ship.
In the southern papers we find the particulars of
another most horrible steam-boat explosion, its ter-
rible consequences being in strict keeping with the
usual American results. It seems that—

" The steam-boat Lucy Walker left Louisville, for
New Orleans, full of passengers. When about four
miles below New Albany her machinery got out of order,
and the engine was stopped to make repairs. While the
repairs were making the water in the boilers got low,
and within three minutes after the engine ceased work-
ing her three boilers exploded with tremendous violence,
and all the upper part of the boat blown into a thousand
pieces. The air was filled with human beings and frag-
ments of human beings. One man was blown up fifty
yards, and fell with such force as to go entirely through
the deck of the boat. Another was cut entirely in two
by a piece of the boiler. The steam-boat Gopher,
Captain Dunham, was near by, who saved the lives of
many in the water. He saw many go down whom he
could not save. Immediately after the explosion the
ladies' cabin took fire, and before it had been consumed
she sunk in twelve or fifteen feet water. The screams
and exclamations of the females, and those who were
not killed, is represented to have been distressing and
awful. From sixty to eighty persons were killed and
wounded. The wounded were left at New Albany, where
every attention was paid to them."
There is no doubt but that this dreadful business
has been the result of the most wanton carelessness.
The latest Louisville papers contain the following
additional particulars
" The city was filled with all kinds of rumours yester•
day connected with the explosion •and burning of the
Lucy Walker. Last evening fifteen dead bodies had
been recovered. We heard that none of them could be
recognised, and then again that all were recognised but
one. The bodies of General Pegram, Nicholas Ford, S.
M. Brown, P. Wallis, Z. Hughes, Moses Kirby, James
Vanderberg, the second clerk, the second mate, and the
bar keeper, have not been recovered.
" The body of Mr. Cooper, engineer, was brought to
this city, and interred yesterday. The Rev. Mr. Todd,
of the Third Presbyterian Church in this city, was blown
overboard, but saved himself by swimming. At New
Albany, yesterday, there were fifteen or twenty of the
wounded. The spectacle presented in New Albany by
the dead bodies and dying beggars description. The
citizens of that town have shown the most commendable
hospitality, and the interest which they have manifested
in behalf of the sufferers is above all praise. Their
places of business yesterday were closed, their numerous
flags were lowered, and mourning and gloom filled the
town.

" We hear related numerous incidents connected with
the accident which are interesting, but we have not room
for many of them to-day. Mr. Wren, of Zazoo, Missis-
sippi, was thrown from the boiler-deck, and fell near the
bow of the boat in a state of insensibility. When he
recovered his senses, be saw his little son, six or seven
years old, in the rear of the boat, the flames raging
around the boy. The father, unable to rise, watched
the movement of the son with the greatest anxiety.
Soon he saw the boy leap overboard. The river was
full of mattresses, and he floated on one of them until
saved by a rope from the Gopher. The father saw his
rescue with feelings we need not attempt to describe.
" A man, his wife, and four daughters were saved
without injury, though in different ways and places.
Their meeting must have been most joyous. A little
girl was found clinging to the wreck, when the flames
were so near that she had to dash water against one side
of her face to protect it from the intense heat. A man
was on the hurricane deck, with his wife and a little
daughter, at the time of the explosion ; he dropped the
former aft into the yawl, and she was saved, but with a
sprained ankle ; he threw the latter into the stream, and
then plunged in and saved it by swimming.
" Pieces of the boilers were thrown upon the Kentucky
shore, and it is said that some portions are not thicker
than a half-dollar. When, and where, and by whom
could they have been inspected ? We heard a gentle-
man state last evening that he had had two sets of
boilers inspected here, when steam was up. What safety
can there be on our waters if such criminal carelessness
and recklessness are tolerated ?"

There is no alteration in the cotton market, but the
reduced stock on hand enables holders to obtain firmer
prices, and desirable lots of the article were scarce.
The rate of Exchange on London was at 110 to
110/, and on Paris sf. 20c.

FRENCH LoANS.---The following is a statement of
loans contracted in France for the last thirty years:—
Years. Amount. Rate per Cent. Newiliated at. Produce.
1815 3,500,000 5 6l f. 23c. 35,863,200 f.
1816 6,000,000 do. 37 26 69,763,800
1817 669,755 do. 5* 16 7,924,035
1817 30,000,000 do. 57 51 345,065,000
1818 14,925,500 do. 66 50 197,909,400
1818 12,313,433 do. 67 165,000,090
1821 401,942 do. 87 7 7,000,000
1821 12,514,220 do. 85 55 214,118,304
1823 23,114,516 do. 89 55 413,980,981
1830 3,134,950 4 102 7 40,000,005
1831 7,142,858 5 84 120,000,014
1832 7,614,213 do. 98 50 15001100,000
1841 ---.. 3 78 52i 150,000,000

Total

—Galignani.
A NEW CAGE.—The question of whether the
Crown can grant a commutation of capital punishment
in opposition to the wish of the culprit has been raised
at the Hague, and resolved in the following manner:—
Two men named Fox and Van Link, who were con-
demned to death, refused to solicit their pardon. The
King, however, commuted their punishment to that of
being flogged, and having their neck marked with a rope,
which sentence was executed on the 26th ult.—Con-
stitutionnel.