The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-01-20 00:00:00

mender, which sailed from the Mersey on the 10th ult.,
arrived at Philadelphia on the Ist instant.
The U. S. screw steam-ship S. S. Lewis, Cole, com-
mander, arrived at Boston on the 3rd instant, after having
put into Halifax, on the Ist instant, for a supply of coals.
The steam-ship Cambria, Leitch, commander, with the
mails of the 27th ult., for Halifax and Boston, arrived at
Halifax at 6, p.m., on the 6th instant.
The steam-ship Cherokee, Windle, commander, arrived
at New York on the 2nd instant, from.Chagres, with the
Californian mails of the sth ult., and £1,706,894 in gold
dust on freight, and £360,000 in the hands of passengers.
This steamer made the passage from San Francisco to
New York in 26 days 11 hours.
The U. S. screw steam-ship City of Pittsburgh, Stotes-
bury, commander, which sailed from Liverpool on the
30th of November, had not arrived at Philadelphia on the
6th instant. She was 38 days at sea at that date.
The United States steam-ship St. George had been
bought at New York, to run between Liverpool, Cork,
and St. John's, N. 8., and was being thoroughly over-
hauled, and fitted with new boilers.
There is not much news of interest by this arrival. A
memorial had been presented to the Senate of the U. S.
Congress, praying that all relations between the United
States and France should be suspended. After an ani-
mated discussion, the petition was ordered to lie on the
table. The house had been chiefly occupied with a de-
bate on the reception of Kossuth. A resolution to ap-
point a committee to receive him passed by a vote of 123
to 54. Kossuth, in an interview with the Secretary of
the Interior, declared that the opposition which he met
at the hands of Congress and the Executive convinced
him that his mission to the United States bad completely
failed. He felt deeply disappointed at the reception he
had met with at Washington. He inquired whether, if a
body of Hungarians desired to settle in the United States,
they could get a tract of land, for which they would pay.
The miscellaneous news contains the report of the
commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of the
Mormons residing in 'Utah. This report should be care-
fully perused by persons intending to join this sect, as
the details are disgusting in the highest degree. Miss
Catherine Hayes was singing at Philadelphia. Relative
to Lola Montes, the New York Herald says—" A regular
flare-up took place a few days ago between Lola Montes
and Willis (the brother of N. P. Willis), who has been
one of her agents for a few months past. It seems his
aecounts were not satisfactory to the noble countess, and
she, with the assistance of a generous fire-eater from the
South, dismissed him at ' one fell swoop.' It is expected
that the flare-up will yet come before the police. In the
meantime, the countess has appointed as her agent in
money affairs the Rev. J. S. Scoville, formerly the private
secretary of the late J. C. Calhoun, now editor of the
New York Picayune." The Forrest case was still pro-
ceeding. The Tribune says—" Captain Massingberg, of
the Royal Horse Guards, and Colonel Henninger, the two
English officers who have resigned their commissions for
the purpose of connecting themselves with Governor
Kossuth, left the Union-place Hotel, on Monday, for
Washington." The Hungarians who had been the guests
of the city at Irving House had received the very unwel-
come notice, that the city would no longer be responsible
for their board. Kossuth had been summoned as a wit-
ness in a libel case.
Our advices from California are to the sth ultimo, from
which we learn that the shipments of gold, during the
month of November, and from the Ist to the sth of De-
cember. was 4,471,764 dollars. The total immigration
from November 15 to December 3 was 2,183 males, 243
females, and 119 children. The departures for the same
period were 987 males, 34 females, and 9 children.. Several
murders had been committed at the northern and southern
mines. Vigilance committees had been organised in those
districts. A nen route had been discovered across the
Sierra Nevada, which is said to be superior to any other.
It is much less mountainous, and nearer by fifty miles.
Several projects of railways were discussed. The extraor-
dinary discoveries of gold in Mariposa are confirmed. The
San Franeiseo Picayune says that the aggregate product
of the miles for the four previous weeks may be assumed,
in the absence of reliable data, at 20 per cent, less than
during the month of October, owing to the approach of
the winter season and to the annual rise of the mountain
streams. The river beds, which had yielded largely, were
by no means exhausted. The agency of improved ma-
chinery would cause an immense increase in the yield.
Even the bars, which have been the theatre of the most

extensive operations, continue as rich apparently as at first:
From all parts of the country the intelligence of the con-
tinued productions of the ordinary shallow places was
most encouraging. The whole amount of earth ready for
washing, and which would be washed before spring, says
the Picayune, is 300,000 tons, equal to 22,500,000 dollars.
Cayote mining would be suspended during the winter
months. The Klamath mines were more productive than

at any previous period.. EXperiments in quartz mining
were being carried out on an extensive scale. The Picay-

une predicts that 60,000,000 of dollars will be shipped
during the first six months of 1852. With the exception
of a few deadly street encounters. San Francisco was

unusually quiet. The Indians were exceedingly trouble-
some. Mr. Starkie, formerly of this town, had been
shipwrecked. Amongst the deaths we notice that of W.
H. Lithgow, of Liverpool,. aged thirty.
Later accounts from Valparaiso mention that political
matters were still unsettled in that quarter.
From Mexico, we learn that the insurgents under
Caravajak, after besieging the Mexicans at Ceralvo for

two days, hearing that large reinforcements were coming,
under General Uragua, relinquished the siege and

retreated across the Rio Grande into the American ter.
ritory.

A violent popular outbreak in the city of Mexico took
place on the 16th December, arising out of the passing of
a law for the reduction of the tariff. The excitement was
directed against foreigners,, many of whose stores were
destroyed, and several lives lost. Advices from Vera

Cruz announce the adjournment of the Mexican Con—

gress, after passing the tariff amendments, and autho-

rising a loan of twomillions-of dollars

The accounts from Canada possess no feature of impor-