The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-16 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS•

ARRIVAL OF THE ACADIA•
LIVFRPOOL, Tinlima's.

The British and North American royal mail steam-
ship Acadia, Captain Harrison, arrived in the Mersey
shortly after six o'clock this morning. Sh• 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, acouSlid
about twelve days and a half.
Our advices by this.arrival are—New York, Slit
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 jaw
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 reo .
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
little while."

The following is a list of the Members returned
D. Destructive—C. Conservative.
LOWER CANADA.
Montreal (City)—The Hon.G. Huntingdon.—Mr. Lenlai(l6
Moffatt (c.) ; the Hon. S. (D.)
de Bleury (c.) I Vercheres.—Mr. Leslie -00,
Ottawa.—fhe on, D. B. Pa-IYarnaska.—Dr. Rosseau (v.)
pineau, Commissioner of Leinster.—Mr. Dewitt (m) A
Crown Lands (c.) Quebec.—Messrs. Aylwut an
Two Mountains.—Mr. Scott Chabot (D.)
(o.) Quebec (County).—.3lr. Ch
Threeßirers.—Mr. Grieve (c.) veau .(p.)
St. Maurice.—Mr. Dessaul- Gaspe.--31r. Christie (c.)
niers (o.) Lotbiniere.,--Mr. 'Laurin (LW .
Champlain.—Mr. Guillet (c.) L'lslet.—Dr. Tache (D.)
Sherbrooke.—Mr. Hale (c.) Kamouraska.—Mr. Bertbelet
Chambly. Mr. Lacoste (D.)
(doubtful.) Nicolet.—Mr. Methot
Rouville. Mr. Franchere Megantic.—Hon. D. Daly (e,')
(doubtful.) Vaudreuil.—Mr. Lantin (114/ .
Terrebonne.—Mr. Lafontaine Saguenay.—Mr. Morin (P.
(n.) Dorchester.—Mr. Tachereal
Richelieu.—Dr. Nelson (D.) (P.)
UPPER CANADA.
Toronto.—Mr. Sherwood (c.) ;'Cornwall.—Mr. R. 311)01104
Mr. Boulton (c.) (c.)
Hamilton.—Sir A Macnab(c.) Stormont.—Mr. M‘Donald•
Hastings.—Mr. Munney (c.) (D.)
Bytown.—Mr. Stuart (c.) Leeds.—Mr. Gowan (C.).
Brockville.—Mr. G. Sherwood Middlesex.—Mr. Ermstanger
c.) c
Ru( sell.—Mr. Petrie (c.) Northumberland. —Mr. Ban
Kingston.—Mr. Macdonald (c.)
(c.) Haldimand.—Mr. ThoraPO
Prescott. —Mr. Stewart (c.) (n.)
The Rev. Egerton Ryerton, D.D., had received
the appointment to the superintendency of the Board
of Education for Canada West. He came to LiYer•
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 towns
and taken to prison. It is not stated why or Or
what he was arrested ; but when in prison he 'iv°
asked if he was a Frenchman, and answered in the
affirmative ; he was immediately ordered to receivo
two hundred lashes, attended by music ; after svhic:/1
he was ordered to kiss the drummer's feet, and, en"
refusal to do so, he was sentenced to receive fifth
lashes more, and other indignities were committed
;
upon his body too horrible to mention ; after which
he was released, having become a maniac through 1 ~."
dreadful sufferings. In consequence of this outiege'
the French Consul had refused all intercourse with
the authorities, and had forwarded dispatches to P.
Government respecting the treatment French citifx°
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 204
making the run in 14 days 13} hours. Shewwold
leave again on the 9th inst., and will be due here
about the 23d. The passengers, on the trip out, ne
reaching port, presented Captain Mathews with
handsome complimentary letter, expressing natisfec.
tion with the voyage, and with the excellent accom-
modation of the ship.
In the southern papers we find the particulars el
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, ibr,.
New Orleans, full of passengers. When about fee'
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 log'
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 thousaV
pieces. The air was tilled with human beings and frseg,
merits of human beings. One man was blown up filt4
yards, and fell with such force as to go entirely throng°
the deck of the boat. Another was cut entirely in
by a piece of the boiler. The steam-boat GOP"-
Captain Dunham, was near by, who saved the livesbe
many in the water. He saw many go down whore ,
could not save. Immediately after the explosion tad
ladies' cabin took fire, and before it had been consul °,
she sunk in twelve or fifteen feet water. The scresture
and exclamations of the females, and those who we d
not killed, is represented to have been distressing 1/11(1
awful. From sixty to eighty persons were killed see
wounded. The wounded were left at New Albany, whet
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 Yeest,ebr;
day connected with the explosion and burning °I 41
Lucy Walker. Last evening fifteen dead bodies had
been recovered. We heard that none of them could but
recognised, and then again that all were recognisedi 5,
one. The bodies of General Pegram, Nicholas For' es
M. Brown, P. Wallis, Z. Hughes, Moses Kirby, Jsl,be
Vanderberg, the second clerk, the second mate, an
bar keeper, have not been recovered. ,t to
" The body of Mr. Cooper, engineer, was broug,"
this city, and interred yesterday. The Rev. Mr. Ow,
of the Third Presbyterian Church in this city, was bi°/ess,
the Albany, but saved himself by swimming. At the
Albany, yesterday, there were fifteen or twenty of by
wounded. The spectacle presented in New AllianYve
the dead bodies ani dying beggars description. A hie
citizens of that town have shown the most comtnent'capil
hospitality, and the interest which they have ment„,leh-e'r
in behalf of the sufferers is above all praise. "--„,tis
places of business yesterday were closed, their euraeribe
flags were lowered, and mourning and gloom filled
town.
" We hear related numerous incidents connected vil
the accident which are interesting, but we have net fnsoo.
for many of them to-day. Mr. Wren, of Zazoo, 3,bsthe
sippi, was thrown from the boiler-deck, and fell nest he
bow of the boat in a state of insensibility. Whe„,l3ren
recovered his senses, be saw his little son, ,ix or in%
years old, in the rear of the boat, the flames /gild
around the boy. The father, unable to rise, vill";ty.
the movement of the son with the greatest sulicto
Soon he saw the boy leap overboard. The river„rita
full of mattresses, and he floated on one of thewbig
saved by a rope from the Gopher. The father saw
rescue with feelings we need not attempt to deseribe•oed
" A man, his wife, and four daughters were leces•
without injury, though in different ways and P little
Their meeting must have been most joyous. 11-„oes
girl was found clinging to the wreck, when the 1' side
were so near that she had to dash water against O,EOO
of her face to protect it from the intense beat.
ttl
was on the hurricane deck, with his wife and 1 b
daughter, at the time of the explosion ; he dropP.lh
former aft into the yawl, and she was saved, but '
Iv'.
sprained ankle ; he threw the latter into the strewn,
then plunged in and saved it by swimming. ntilettY
" Pieces of the boilers were thrown upon the ,ieber
shore, and it is said that some portions are not Wiyhein
than a half-dollar. When, and where, and hi entle-
could they have been inspected ? We heard s g.et, of
man state last evening that he had had Mu befetf
boilers inspected here, when steam was up. Whs" 0060
can there be on our waters if such criminal care
and recklessness are tolerated ?" but the
There is no alteration in the cotton market, ilner
reduced stock on hand enables holders to obtain _"e.
prices, and desirable lots of the article were slico
to
The rate of Exchange on London was at
1104, and on Paris sf. 20e.

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PRES CII L OAN3 —The foll • ' owing is a s rs.
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tePprearnCe
1815
' 3,5 ,000 5 51f. 2ft. 35,8 'OO
60,76,,4
1816 6,000,000 ' do. eentf.orNtugheolistadast Vrty Yrryeaa6d3„2coo. t.,
i 7 26 24,00,
1817 669,755 do. 50 16 7,5,
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1817 30,000 3
,000 do. 57 51 45,„0400
1818 14,925,500 do. 66 50 107,""' 90
165,09°'°
1818 12,313,433 do. 67 --7,000,000-
1821 401,942 do. 87 7 Is 504
1821 12,514,220 do. 85 55 214,1 ,__.
89 55 413,980624
1823 23,114,516 d0.40,000,0u'
1830 3,134,950 4 102 7 noo 014
I 20,,-- - ,
1831 7,142,858 5 84 pOO,OO
1532 7,614,213 do. 98 50 1 s°' o 000
150,00 ,
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1841
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Total ......... 1

A NEW CASE.—The question
-Galignani. the
,ais wen,
Crown
. can grant a commutation of capital pu-- 11,,,isea
in opposition to the wish of the culprit has been 7,r.---
nuitin-c •
_,,,,,
at the Hague, and resolved in the following
Two men named Fox and Van Link, who vvcre All'e
demned to death, refused to solicit their paron..
_t a
.King, however, commuted their punishment t 070139,
being flogged, and having their neck marked with tl coo-
which sentence was executed on the 2601 ulfr—
stitutionnel. Of whether