The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-06-29 00:00:00

ARRIVAL. OF THE ASIA

By the arrival in the river, at an early hour on Sunday
morning, of the Royal Mail steam-ship Asia, Judkins,
commander, we have received letters from New York to
the 16th instant.

.
The Asia sailed from New York at noon on the 16th,
and experienced moderate and favourable winds during the
first few days of her passage, but after that time she had
a constant succession of head winds. She passed the
Royal Mail steam-ship Europa, with the mails of the sth
instant, from this port, and the screw steam-ship Glasgow,
from Glasgow, going into New York as she was coming
out. At 3.40 p.m., on the 25th, she passed the screw
steam-ship City of Manchester, hence for Philadelphia.
The Asia came " north about," and arrived in the Mersey
at 3.40 a.m., on Sunday, having made the run, under very
adverse circumstances, in 10 days 10 hours and 55 minutes,
mean time.

The Asia brought 168 passengers, and 4'924,000 in
specie on freight. Among the passengers we observe the
names of Miss Cushman, Miss Hayes, George Vanden-
Koff, and Mrs. Sinclair (Forrest.)
The United States Mail steam-ship Baltic, Comstock,
commander, which sailed from the Mersey at 10.40 a.m.,
on the 2nd, arrived at New York at 1 p.m., on the 13th,
having made the run in 11 days 7 hours and 5 minutes,
mean time.

By the Asia we have the details of the California news
brought to New York by the steam-ship Illinois. The
Pacific Mail Steam. ship Company's vessel Oregon left San
Francisco for Panama on the 16th May, with -81,603,803 62
in gold dust on freight. The advices from all parts of the
mining districts are highly favourable. The miners were,
very generally, receiving fair remuneration for their
labour; and, while there were fewer instances of extra-
ordinary individual fortune, the average yield per man was
evidently increasing by the application of science, and
well-constructed machinery. At French Gulch, lumps of
gold valued at from £5,000 to £7,000, had recently been
found. The feeling of excitement relative to the Chinese
population had to some extent subsided. The number of
Chinese in California was estimated at 12,000. Business
transactions at San Francisco had been to a moderate ex-
tent. Sterling exchange was 474. sixty days. Seamen were
getting wages at the rate of .B'3o to 470 per month ;
labourers 434 to 85 per day ; carpenters -87 to S'B, and
workers in machinery .B'B to 4'lo. It was confidently
asserted by the chief-engineer of the Panama Railway,
that, on the Ist of March, 1853, the line will be opened to
the Pacific.

The nomination of General Pierce as the Democratic
candidate for the presidency was very well received by
that party throughout the Union. The Whig candidate
had not been fixed upon when the Asia sailed, but the
decision would take place, it was fully expected, the next
day, Fillmore or Webster would be chosen, it was
generally thought; but a correspondent of the Tribune,
writing from Washington, and professing to know the
secrets of the party, confidently predicts that the selection
will be in favour of General Winfield Scott.

A project had been mooted for the construction of a
ship canal across the Peninsula of Florida. A long debate
had taken place in the House of Representatives on a
proposal to raise a seignerage on gold coined at tl'e Cali-
fornian Branch Mint, which it was contended would drive
the bulk of the supply to England for coinage. A steam-
boat explosion had occurred on Lake Erie on the 15th
instant, by which three persons lost their lives. In a
railway accident, caused by a tree having been blown
down over the rails of the line between New York and
Pittsburg, the carriages were injured, and the engineer
much hurt by the iron pin of the tender being forced
some inches into his thigh. He is expected to recover.
Extensive conflagrations had taken place at Savannah
on the 14th, and at Watumpka, in the state of Alabama ;
in the latter place the loss was between 300,000 and 400,000
dollars.

The building known in New York as Washington's
Head Quarters was burnt down on the 15th. It was
occupied as an hotel, and was the place in which
Washington bade farewell to the officers of the army at
the close of the revolutionary war. Fears were enter-
tained that several persons are buried under the ruins, as
several are missing.
The weather had become very impressive, the tempera-
ture being up to 90 degrees in the shade in New York,
and ranging from 84 to 88 in other cities.
_ . . . .

The ,§t. John's, N. 8., papers of the 12th contain the
particulars of a melancholy disaster which happened in
the Bay of Fundy. As the Rev. D. Very, pastor of the
Baptist Church, in the parish of Portland, Prof. Chipman,
and four students, named Rand, Phalen, Grant, and
King, belonging to Acadia College, were proceeding in a
boat to Cape Blomidon, near Windsor, Nova Scotia, a
gale upset the boat, and all were drowned. One of the
two boatmen also perished.
_ . _

A Charleston letter, of the 13th, says, " A duel was
fought on the 2d inst., at Fort Wells, Florida, between
Colonel Grouard and Major Jones, of Hopkins. They
fought with bowie-knives. Major Jones was killed.
Subsequently, Colonel Grouard went to St. Augustine,
and surrendered himself to the officers of justice.
Kossuth had removed from the Irving House to private
lodgings, where he will be joined by his mother and sisters,
and proceed thence to Europe. Mrs. Sinclair (late Mrs.
Forrest), does not intend appearing on the British stage
during her stay here, her visit being to seo her mother
and family.
Our Canadian letters of the 9th instant mention the
existence of some sensation at Toronto, owing to a rumour
that the law officers of the crown in England had pro-
nounced the creation of rectories in Canada illegal.
We have advices from the city of Mexico to the 19th
ultimo, and from Kingston, Jamaica, to the 6th instant.
The news is without interest.

We have Sandwich Island advices to the 24th April.
On the 22nd, the treaty with Great Britain of July 10th,
1851, was ratified by the contracting parties. On the
14th, a severe earthquake was experienced.
Among the miracles of navigation in these days deserves
to be mentioned that a schooner of 150 tons is to leave
Port Stanley, on Lake Erie, for Australia direct, in August.
She is to be fitted up in yacht style, and it is deemed that
she is quite adequate to the voyage she is to undertake.
She will pass through our whole line of canals, and find
ample room and verge enough in the capacious locks,
which seem to deserve a more extensive use than they
obtain.

COMMERCIAL.
NEW YORK, JUNE 16

The market continues to be more liberally supplied with
money, and, from present indications, the low range of
interest now current must prevail for some time to come.
In fact, we learn it is impossible to find satisfactory
security to absorb any considerable amount of the floating
capital offering ; such is the scarcity of mercantile paper
in the discount houses, and the limited requirements of
bank dealers.
Government Stocks and other leading securities con-
mand at gradually improving rates. ,

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~as peen a fair demand for exchange with only
a moderate supply of bills, consequently rates are firm.
London, 110 to 110,1, ; Paris, 5 16.-}to 515 ; Amsterdam,
to 41 ; Hamburgh, 36 to 36; Bremen, 79 to 79k;
`fort, 401 to 404.
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