The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-04 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVELIPOOL, Nov. 3

By the royal mail steam-ship Earop,i, Captain
Lott, which arrived in the Mersey at nine o'clock
A.m., we have advices from New York to the 231 ult.
The Europa brings a large number of pas Angers, and
100,0001. in specie on freight.
The Asia, Captain Judkins, hence, reached New
York at eleven o'clock A.M. on the 23d ult.
There had been numerous arrivals at New York,
by which we have advices from C.,:lifornia to thci 15,11
of September. The Crescent City arrived at New
wYeorrek,
aonndthe 18th
1,222, nit, with a
1,222,500
odollar
dollars in
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the steamer
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Tennessee was at Panama, with 1,000,000 dollars in
golddust ; the steam-ship Philadelphia arrived at New
York on the 19th ult., with about 1,000,000 dollars
in golddust on freight and in the hands of passengers ;
and on the 22d the Ohio arrived at the same port,
bringing a large amount of specie belonging to pas-
sengers ; on the 22d the Pacific reached New Orleans,
with 800,000 dollars in goillust.
From our Californian advices we learn that a
financial crisis had been experienced in consequence
of the failure of one of the most extensive banking
and trading houses, which was followed by a suspen-
sion on the part of two other houses and one private
banker. This created a run upon all the other bank-
ing-houses, but which, excepting in one instance, was
successfully met, tending greatly to a renewal of con-
fidence. An expedition up the Klamath and Umpqua
rivers had resulted in the discovery of rich gold
mines. From the mines our accounts are conflicting,
although of an encouraging character. In San Fran-
cisco improvements are very rapidly made; handsome
four-story brick houses having in many instances
sprung up in the district recently destroyed by fire,
and the streets were under process of draining., &c.
Price of
_golddust 16 dolls. to 16 dolls. 2.5 c. Ex-
change on London, 30 days, 4 dolls. 88c. per pound.
The fugitive slave excitement continued in the
States. The Pennyslvania Abolition Convention had
held a meeting, at which Frederick Douglass and
other coloured persons were expected to speak, but,
hearing that persons claiming them as fugitive slaves
were in pursuit, they had to decamp. The papers are
filled with details of suits at law for the recovery of
fugitive slaves. Dispatches had been received at
Washington from the Commander of the American
Arctic Expedition; the dispatches are dated off Port
Leopold, August 22. On the 19th they fell in with
the vessels under the charge of Captain Penny, and
of the 21st with the Felix, Sir J. Ross.
—From Kingston, Jamaica, we have ad vices tothe 13th
alt. Six deaths from cholera had occurred at Port
•
jjoval
and one at Kingston. In reference to Mexican
{ affairs, the Tribune says, that before the close of the
extra session of Congress a great reduction would be
made in the tariff, and that prohibitions on various
articles would be abolished. By the advices from
Port-au-Prince we learn that there was every proba-
bility of a war of extermination between the flay-
tians and Dominicans.

It was reported at Panama that a revolution, headed
by General Flores, was about to bn attempted against
the republic of Grenada.
We learn from Cincinnati that on the 21st ult. an
officer from Glasgow, Scotland, arrested a person who
some short time since absconded from one of the Glas-
gow banks ; 1,400 dollars were recovered, and he was
discharged from custody.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK., OcT. 23.

Money-market.—The exchange-market ch,sed heavily
at 101, 10, and 10i for first-class bills. Some leading
drawers ask 104 per cent., but good bills (siu be had at
101. ' Some second-class bills were sold at 91 to 94.
Francs are 5-17,5 to 5-15 for 60 days. There was c, con-
siderable supply of bills over.
Cotton—The market has been dull for tho past three
days; it is well supplied with Uplands, which are
rather easier to buy, but cf Gulf cotton the stock is
very small, and prices aro fully maintained. The re-
ceipts to latest dates at all the. shipping ports
aro 115,667 bales, against 113,627 to same

date leaf. year ; an increase this season of
2,040 bales. The total foreign export this year is
64,049 bales more than last; say 61,542 bales increase
to Great Britain, 189 increase to France, 2,870 increase
to the north of Europe, and 552 decrease to other fo-
reign ports. The shipments from southern to northern
ports are 18,889 bales less this season than last; and
there is a decrease in stock of 36,521 bales. The sales
since our last are 2,400 bales. We quote inferior At-
lantic ports, none; Gulf ports, none; low to good ordi-
nary, Atlantic ports, 13e. to 13:1e.; Gulf ports 13c. to
13ie; low to good middling 13"4c.; Atlantic ports, 14c.
to 14-ae.; Golf ports, middling fair to fair Atlantic ports,
14ic. to 144 e.; Gulf ports, 141 c. to 151 e,; fully fair to
good fair, Atlantic ports, 15c.; Gulf ports, 15ie.; good
and fine, Atlantic ports, none; Gulf ports, none. Total
imports since the Ist instant, 14,653 bales. Export
from the Ist of October to the 221, 1850, cotton, 8,952;
1849, 9,188 bales. Expert from United States since the
Ist of September, 1850, 118,269 bales; same time 1849,
54,220 bales.

Flour—With moderate receipts, prices have ranged
for the last two weeks at 3 dolls. 75c. to 4 dolls. 25c., fir
No. 2; and for common and straigt State, 4 dolls. 621 c.
to 4 dolls. 75c.; but closing at 4 dolls. 56c. and 4 dolls.
75c. Pure Genesse, 5 dolls to 5 dolls. 1241. Sour is
scarce, and held at 3 dolls. 87io. to 4 dolls. Canadian
is heavy, the old, from store. selling at 4 dolls. 62c.; and
the new, held at 4 dolls. 69c to 4 dolls. 750. in bond.
Southern brands are quiet at 4 dolls. 87c. to .5 dolls.
for Baltimore, Geor2ctown, Alexandria, PeLersburgh,
&c. Rye hour sells at 3 dolls. 12ic to 3 dolls, 184 c.
(lore-meal. 3 dolls. 121 c to 3 dolls. 25c., for Jersey and
Brandywine,
Grain—The increased receipt of wheat has occasioned
a small decline, and sales have been made to some extent
during the last week, principally for export, at 99 dulls.
to 101 dolls. for red and mixed; 106 dolls. to 109 dolls.
For white Canadian in bond; 100 dolls, to 102 dolls. for
red and mixed Ohio; 106 dolls. to 110 dolls. for white
Michigan; 113 dolls. to 115 doll?. for white Genessee.
Rye—Sales for distilling at 10e. Barley of good,quality
is scarce, and held at 70c. to 84e. Oats are in fair de-
mand at 40c. to 42i,!. for northern. Indian corn is quiet,
but firm, at 65c. 0 66c. for western mixed; and 66c. for
northern round yellow.
Tobacco—.l;.entucky, &c., continues buoy ant and ad-
vancing, the further reports of early frost inducing the
withdrawal of many holders from the market.
Manufacture continues in active demand, though the
operations are restricted by the exiguity of the stock.
The finer qualities have further advanced, and the range
is now from 24c. to 30c. for fives and eights; and of
common aualities there is none to be had below 20e.
Iron—The market remains as before noted, firm, at
steady prices; 100 tons English bars brought 36 dolls.
six months from ships, and a small invoice of Swedish
steel iron, 81 dulls., six months.
Freights—ln freights there is rather more doing, but
ashes, 5 dolls. to
hlleaamvybuwrogohd, 3aoto:
22bl6eds.of cotton were
Rotterdam,!. p2eodo,
the rates are easy. Engagements, 10,000 barrels of flour,
at ls.; 1,000 boxes of cheese, 7s. 6;i.
shipped at 30. to 4d. Cotton is Vic.;Grain can be
tierce of rice, at 255.
andfo r
f6adloel.l

NEW ORLEANS, OCT. 22.
Cotton is firm; the sales yesterday were 5,000 bales,
at 13} to 133- for middling, and 14-1 for fair.

ORGAN PERFORMANCE.

A performance of organ music was given on Friday
evening last, at the establishment cf Meisrs. Gray
and Davison, in the New-road, by Mr. W. 'l'. Best,
the organist to the Liverpool Philharmonic Society,
which was attended by a numerous and fashionable
assembly. Mr. Best, though still young in years, is
a musical professor of extensive celebrity in Lanca-
shire and the north of England, where his :.:chieve-
ments as an organist have not only excited the admi-
ration of the multitude of musical amateurs who abound
is that part of the kingdom, but extended his fame '
throughout the entire length and breadth of the land.
The instrument upon which he played on Friday is
one of the first of its class, and has be<u built by
Messrs. Gray and Davison, for the Centenary Chapel
of Boston, in Lincolnshire. It embraces three manuals,
from CC 3 feet to F in alt—the pedal organ, two oc-
taves and a fourth, in compass from CCC 16 feet to
F ; the whole of the stops in this, as well as in the
manuals, except the keraulophon and clarionet flute,
go throughout. The swell is to tenor C. There are
two bellows, one for the mends, the other for the
pedal organ ; and four composition pedals for changing
the stops ; also the new and effective pedal.
The sides, as well as the front of the case, contain
speaking-pipes ; and the dimensions of the instrument
are, twenty-six feet high, twenty-three feet wide, and
eighteen feet deep. There are forty-nine stops,
and two thousand four hundred and ninety pipes.
Upon this gigantic musical machine Mr. Best,
single-handed and unaided by any assistant, perfermed
,oine of the most difficult productions of Bach,
,
Hoepner, Krebs, Hesse, Albeircohetpsnbeerr, the co
ger, litninco
k,
Julius Andre Handel, Mendelsohn, and Eberlin,
di
introducing in the "Adagio," by i
nassetto stop ; in the " Tema," by Hesse, the keraulo-
phon ; in Mendelssohn's Sonata, the contra la-
"
gotto ; in the "Allegretto Pastorale," the contra
fagotto and flageolet; and posaune and grand
pettai posaune, in fies*,e's Variations on God save
the Queen." The entire performance was a diffi-
cult one. from beginning to end, yet it was accom-
pnshed in a most masterly style; and while it proved
Mr. Best to ce a perfect master of his divine art, it
afforded no iess delight and enjoyment to his enrol)-
know turei listeners, whose continued bursts of applause
! seemed to l no bounds.
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FIRE AT BERMONDSEY.—Last night (Sunday) A
b rearFkhae ge flames
f abottle fire broke out hi the premises belonging to Mr. Cecil Beck, a
surgeon, carrying on business at No. 12 m , Cothorp-terrace,
Bermondsey New-road.es origi
filled witheted inspirits
th the laack
of wine. Thev, °I ' ngflam to the
es were eventually extinguished, but not
before the whole of Mr. Beck's valuable stock in trade was
destroyed, and the premises seriously burned. Fortunately
no one was in the upper part of the building when the fire
commenced;if there had been, owing to the density of the
smoke, great difficulty would have been experienced in
making an escape. Mr. Beck was insured in the rbeenix
Ere-office.