The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-24 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE PACIFIC.

By the United States mail steam-ship Pacific, Captain
Nye, which arrived on Wednesday, we have intelligence
from New York to the 7th instant. A letter from Wash-
inton, dated the sth, says
"News has just arrived of the wreck of the new steamer
San Francisco, which recently left New York for California
with the 3d Regiment of United States Artillery on board.
She was seen in Lat. 38 20, with her decks swept, boats
lost, and wholly disabled.
" Senator Gwin at once applied to the Secretary of the
Navy for aid; but there is not a Government vessel in
any port fit for immediate service. The Secretary of War
on being applied to by the senator from California, ordered
a merchant steamer to be chartered at once to go in search
of the wreck. The Secretary of the Treasury will order
several revenue cutters on the same errand.

" The steamer had from 700 to 800 men on board, with
three months' provisions for the crew, and twelve months'
provisions for the troops."
The marine disasters, on the shores of the Eastern States
and the British possessions have been terrible. An ac-
count of the wreck, off Welifleet, of the schooner Moselle,
from Boston, is given by an eye-witness. She was dis-
covered, about daybreak, waterlogged and at the mercy of
the sea, which was making a clear breach over her. The
crew, four in number, were in the rigging. They were
soon driven to seek another chance, the schooner being
flung on her beam-ends. For some time, by bracing
against the quarter-deck, they retained their position.
One of them tried for the shore, and caught at a pole ex-
tended towards him, but he was washed back again, until
finally seized by cramp, probably, he threw up his hands
and went down within thirty feet of the shore. Two were
together on the spars, when one losing his hold, caught
the other, and they both went down. The fourth had a
fearful struggle with death. He was on the spars, and
was repeatedly washed off, but managed to get on again,
bruised and crushed, as the fragments were washed
against him, and he could be heard to groan as he received
blow after blow, but no aid could be extended to him ;
finally his strength failed, and he shared the fate of his
companions.
The Central American question was before the Senate,
and letters from Lord Clarendon and Mr. Harding, Q.C.,
were read, and the consideration of the subject was post-
poned to the 9th instant.
Mexico.—Papers from the city of Mexico to the 17th,
and from Vera Cruz to the 22d ult., state that on the 18th
of December Santa Anna issued a decree as follows :
"Art. 1. It is declared by the will of the nation, that the
actual President shall continue to enjoy the powers with
which he is now invested, so long as he shall judge neces-
sary for the establishment of public order, the integrity of
the national territory, and the complete regulation of the
several branches of the public administration.—Art. 2.
That in case of the death or physical or moral disqualifi-
cation of the said President, he shall have power to select
his successor, naming him in a sealed paper, with the re-
strictions which he shall deem fit ; which document, under
proper precautions and formalities, shall be lodged in the
Ministry of State.—Art. 3. The title of Most Serene High-
ness shall, for the future, be attached to the office of Pre-
sident of the Republic." An Imperial manifesto was pub-
lished on the day following, in which Santa Anna puts
aside the rank of Captain-General, and accepts the pay of
$60,000 dollars per annum which were offered him by the
declaration of Guadalajera. Don Sebastian Molas, late
chief of the revolutionists, was shot at Merida.