The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-06-19 00:00:00

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]'LECTIONS FROM THE AMERICAN PAPERS.

Mr. Crittenden, son of Governor Crittenden, of Ken-
tucky, is appointed the American Consul at Liverpool.
This is one of the best berths in the gift of the President.
LORD ELGIN. The Governor-General of Canada
thought it prudent to prorogue Parliament in person, nei-
ther was he present at the funeral of Sir Benjamin D'Ur-
ban, who was interred with unusual honours.
CALIFORNIAN MINERALS.—Capt. Parrott who reached

specimen of excellent bituminous coal which is found in
great abundance. He also brought a genuine ruby,
picked up in the diggings. It is the first one found, of a

. Parrott intends to have it cut and set in a
ring of California gold. Ho also brought with him speci-
mens of cinnabar, the ore of quicksilver, containing 50
per cent. of the metal, and some very fine samples of silver
ore from the mines of Guana-juato, containing from 30 to
- Some of these were imbedded in prismatic

LATER FROM AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CALEDONIA STEAM-SHIP.

The British and North American Royal Mail Steam-
ship, Caledonia, arrived here yesterday at noon, after a
very excellent passage. She left Boston on the 6th, and
Halifax on the Bth, and has brought 41 passengers.
The Niagara steam-ship reached New York on the 2d
inst., and the Europa was met between Boston and Hali-
fax by the Caledonia. The Herman had not reached
New York.

There was a fair enquiry for sterling exchange for re-
mittance by the steamer, and drawers were firm at previous
rates. The best bills were quoted at 1084 to 109. The
Niagara's outward advices had a most favourable effect on
all state stocks, though, both politically and commercially,
they were looked upon as unfavourable to peace and advan-
tageous to business. The money market was abundantly
supplied. All was prosperous and promising, and the
season, though backward, had been propitious to the
cereal crops, which promised great abundance..

The water at New. Orleans was stationary, and the river
falling. There was a fair prospect of stopping the great
crevasse in a few days.

At Mobile, on the 27th ultimo, four stores were des-
troyed by fire. The loss was 60,000 dollars
A lengthy account from Corpus Christi,
ment of Indian depredations between

gives a state-
es and the Rio

ide. They hid entered the town of
the 18th ultimo, and stolen a number of
quantities of goods. Colonel Kinney, wi
and a number of Mexicans, were killec
then crossed the river in the town of Camargo, and killed

San Patr
horses and large
[th another man,
I. The Indians

several persons. They also drove off the horses and
cattle. Captain Adams, of the U. S. navy, had arrived
at Galveston, and left for the Sabina Post.
A letter from Galveston, of the 24th ultimo, states that
the cholera in Victoria bad carried off 34 members of the
New York Fremont's California Association. A few cases
lint] nlen nrozirrati t Wo.-Aincrtnn rntintv_ lArst7ng 1.1 ivpr.

:ermina

The ship Princeton, Rusell, arrived at New York on
the 2nd instant, from Liverpool, with nearly four hundred
passengers on board. John Hall, steward, John Hen-
derson, seaman, and nineteen steerage passengers, died o❑
the passage, nearly all of the cholera. All well on board
when she arrived.

The advices from Newfoundland, dated the 22nd ult.,
state that the whole island is surrounded by ice, rendering
it unapproachable for vessels. The steamer, with the
bishop on board, could not reach it. The passengers
were obliged to disembark, and walk fifty miles on the ice
before they could reach the land. A large number of the
inhabitants have petitioned to government, soliciting the
necessary means to emigrate, on account of the poverty
now existing on the island.
CAPTURE OF A SLAVER.—Captain Taylor, of the bark
Mary Irwine, arrived at Philadelphia from Sierra Leone,
and reported that Her Majesty's steamer Teazer had sent
a brig, with five hundred slaves on board, into port, on
the last day of April.
The accounts from California continue favourable,' and
the return of the first two Pacific steamers to Panama,
from San Francisco, gives promises that regular inter-
course may now be counted upon. An officer of the navy
sent with despatches from the commander of the fleet in
the bay of San Francisco, reached Washington in 44 days.
In Canada the legislature has been adjourned—in the
absence of the Governor from Montreal—br the com-
mander of the forces, Gen Rowan, who succeeds to the
post on the death of Gen. Sir Edward d'Urban. The
fermentation of opinion seems to continue in that. colony.
The cholera, which has been lurking around New York
and following the course of the Mississippi for some time
past, has declared itself at length, though in a_ mitigated

irorm" in that city. The cases w- ere c-omparativelifew,
though the mortality was large in proportion to the cases.
There was no perceptible interruption in the business of

the city

The New York Tribune says that great animation pre-
vails in the ship building yards there, and gives a long list
of first-class ships and steam vessels of large tonnag
now on the stocks, as " useful while the
radical change in the navigation laws of I

;land is agi-

tating the British community."
LIST OF PASSENGERS.—Mr.Coppim:er,

ady, and maid

Pitman; lady, am
Hulseman, Rev. H
Messrs. J. C. Holman, A

child ;
B. Tri

rvant; Mr. Capery and lacy;
Rev. Dr. M. Dill, Chevali
tram, Capt. G. Briggs

Costa, A. Sign'owreb, E. Signowreb, Chris. Sampson,
John Espana, Frhze, Pinas, Counter, Ihsann, Adams,
E. Ward, W. P. Radcliffe, A. Low, R. Davies, W. D.
Child, Dewe, James Mason, D. H. Holmes, J. Wood,
Alleyne, 011 is, Ward, John Cooke, R. Baird, Chrisman,
Hoffman, Hill, Lamont, Frank, Schmidt, and Shane.