The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-13 00:00:00

Kaffir Land, wh
felt, on account of the movements of Anta, a minor chief,
who has intruded on the lands allotted the Tambookies,
but no official statement on the subject has been published.
Sir Getirge Clerk is proceeding with the affairs of the
sovereignty. The general feeling against the abandonment
of that territory has been expressed throughout the colony,
and very warmly, and in some of the frontier districts it
has been determined by the sovereignty to send home two
delegates to represent their cause ; and Dr. Fraser and
the Rev. Mr. Murray, jun., have been selected for that
purpose.

it is reported, that a

ae uneasiness is

It .has been ascertained that very rich depoisits of copper
exist on the western coasts, and a large quantity is reported
as ready for shipment.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE ARABIA

By the British and North American Royal Mail steam-
ip Arabia, Commodore Judkins, which arrived on Sun-
day, we have intelligence from New York to the 30th ult.
The Arabia brought 122 passengers, and $665,796 in
specie. She sailed from New York at 9 d 3, a.m., on the
30th. On the Bth instant, at 9, a.m., in lat.-51, lon. 24 6,
she passed the ship Ashburton, hence for New York ; and
at 1, a.m. on Sunday, passed the steamer America, hence
for Halifax and Boston. She made Cape Clear at 8, a.m.,
on Saturday, and arrived in the river at eight o.clock on
Sunday morning.
The United States mail steam-ship Atlantic, Capt. West,
which sailed from the Mersey on the 16th ,alt., arrived at
New York on the 29th ult.
The screw-steamer City of Glasgow arrived at Philadel-
phia, from Liverpool, on the 26th ult.
The Bavaria had arrived at New York with advices
from Melbourne to the 26th August, and Sydney to the
20th, and six thousand ounces of gold on freight.
A Washington correspondent of the New York Herald
says that President Pierce, in his message, will show him-
self favourable to the Pacific railway scheme, if carried out
by private enterprise.
It appears that the British Minister has given great of-
fence to our over-susceptible Brother Jonathan, by not
standing up at a concert, when " Hail Columbia" was
played.
The George Halbert had arrived at New York, from
Havre, with the loss of 75 passengers out of 615. The
packet-ship New World, from Liverpool, lost 75 out of
754 passengers, from cholera. The Cornelia, also from
Liverpool, lost 13 passengers out of 466. The Marathon,
from Liverpool, lost 64 out of 522. The Silas Greenman,
from Liverpool, lost 27, and the first mate, out of 351
passengers. The Rochambeau, from Liverpool, reported
11 deaths. The Powhattan bad arrived from Antwerp,
with the loss of 13 passengers. The greatest mortality
had prevailed among women and infants, and the next
largest proportion of deaths had been amongst young
men. The New York Herald has some remarks on the
mortality on board emigrant ships. It says that the
disease among the passengers is much more violent on
the European side of the Atlantic, the cases becoming
milder as the ship approaches the American coast. Many
of the shipowners had transmitted orders to their cap-
tains to take no more steerage passengers until there is
some alteration in the disease. It is said, writes the
Herald, that the British law, which compels vessels to
carry food for their passengers, and to deal it out to them,
has had a bad effect. The strong overcome the weak, and
obtain an undue allowance of food, while the latter are
either deprived of their full share or cut off, in some in-
stances, altogether. Amidst such a number it is found
impossible to cook for them, especially in stormy weather.
From the same cause it is found impossible to bestow the
necessary medical attention and nursing on the sick.
They often appear indisposed to care for themselves, and
still less inclined to lend a helping hand to their suffer-
ing companions. They crowd on shipboard unprovided
with food and destitute of clothing, hence, in bad weather,
they suffer from wet, cold, and the want of timely and
properly cooked food, and other comforts necessary to
preserve health. Four persons had been killed by a
steam-boat explosion near Detroit. A telegraph from
Bangor announces that vessels had been blocked up in the
ice. Communications from Albany, Buffalo, and Syracuse
report the weather fine and open.
The legislature of South Carolina assembled at Columbia
on the 28th, and the governor delivered his message on
the following day. He states that the funded debt on the
Ist of October was $1,870,986, and the assets 45,175,542;
recommends a subscription of $750,000 to the Blue Ridge
Railroad ; the establishment of a Board of Education, and
the appointment of Commissioners of Public Instruction.
He says the cases of Manuel Pereira and Reuben Roberts,
coloured seamen, are settled, and adds that the conduct of
the British Government in the latter stage of the proceed-
ings was so entirely proper and respectful as to claim a
conciliatory spirit in the legislature on the subject.
The Illinois had arrived at New York with advices from
San Francisco of the Ist November, $879,955 52c. on
freight, and $200,000 in the hands of passengers. The
steam-ships Cortes and California had sailed from San
Francisco with $2,775,064. Bigler and Purdy had been
elected, the former as governor, and the latter as lieut.-
governor of the state. Among the items of news from
the interior is the usual number of casualties, murders,
and other outrages. A man had been hung by Lynch
law in El Dorado county. A shooting affair took place
between a woman and a man in the same county, in which
both were wounded, the former receiving three balls, and
the latter, as is supposed, a fatal wound. In San Louis
Obispo the gaol was entered by an infuriated mob, and
another hardened criminal hung by them to the joist of the
prison. A riot occurred in El Dorado county, in which
some thirty-five or forty men were engaged; pistols, knives,
clubs, rocks, and other missiles were freely used, and one of
the parties was dangerously wounded. In Sacramento a
prostitute was murdered through jealousy by another,
named Ida Brewer. In Toulumne county a desperate
fight took place between some Mexicans and Chilenois,
at a fandango house, in which several were wounded,
and one Chileno killed. In Calaveras county a fight oc-
curred between a Chilena and an Italian, in which the
former was killed. In Maysville a Mexican woman was
killed by a Chilean woman. A man was hung in effigy in
Sacramento for attempting a rape upon a little girl. In a
fracas between Boker and Delaney, in Auburn, one was
shot through the arm and the other stabbed several
times. The mining intelligence from all sections of the
State is very encouraging. Mining water companies
had rapidly increased in all quarters ; millions of dollars
had been invested in these works, and the water con-
veyed through the mines in every direction. Instances
of individual success were as numerous as at any other
period. On one part of the San Joaquin claims were
paying $5 to $l7O per day. Wages were good, and
labourers in demand at $75 per month, and found.
At Park's Bar, on the Yuba, claims were paying as much
and in some instances more than formerly. One quartz
mining company, in Grass Valley, took out in ten
hours, from seventeen tons of rock, $1,599. In one day
the sum of $lO,OOO was taken from the Union claim, on
Feather River, near Bidwell's Bar. New and productive
diggings had been discovered near Sears' Diggings, by a
green hand from San Francisco. A company of five men
had taken out between $15,000 and 20,000 on the South
Fork of Scott River, in the extreme northern part of the
State "

At Lake Valley, near the Eastern line of the State

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new diggings had been discovered. Two steam-boats were

blown 4 on the river between San Francisco and Stock-
ton, on the same night, accompanied with the loss of se-

venal lives—the Aine.riian Eagle and the Stockton. The
accidents are attributed to imperfections in the boilers.
The St. Francis Hotel had been destroyed by fire, and a
man lost his life. The magnetic telegraph was completed
and in constant operation between San Francisco and
Marysville, through San Jose, Stockton, and Sacramento.

Other lines were also in course of construction. The lumber

production of Oregon_ and California was increasing at an

enormous rate,

Building in San Francisco was carried on

without abatement. The rmprovement of Sacramento inthis
respect had also been wonderful. The streets of San Fran-

cisco were undergoing thorough repair, and the Sacremento
level had been placed in such a condition that a future in-
undation was impossible. The barque Caroline had sailed
from San Francisco, carrying a detachment of the forces

intended for the invasion of'Sonera. She cleared regu-
larly for Guaymas, and took on board the men and muni-

tions from a steamer as she was leaving the heads. It was
alWeported that 150 of the same party left in the Goliah
for Diego or San Pedro, from which place they were
to have taken a sailing vessel for the purpose of joining
their confederates. The immigration into the State and

Oregon still continued. There had been some sufferin
g
from scarcity of provisions. The immigrants found the

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Indians very troublesome and dangerous. Crime in San
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Francisco was rather on the decrease. The police depart-
ment had been thoroughly reorganised. The question of
a railroad from Sacramento to various points of the mines
had excited a good deal of discussion in the papers of the
interior. The Indian war in the north, although termi-
nated, was still the subject of comment, several outrages
by the whites having been committed in violation of the

treaty. The United States troops remained in the neigh-
bourhood. There had been a partial failure in the potato

From the Sandwich Islands advices are to the Bth Oct.
A calm seemed to have followed the ministerial storm.
The new government was moving on quietly. Prince Lot
Kamehameha had resigned the premiership, and Mr. John
Young had been appointed in his stead. The question of
annexation to the United States still engaged general
attention. The small-pox had not ceased its ravages.
We have later news from Tahiti. The natives in the
neighbourhood of Reiatea were engaged in civil war under
two hostile chiefs, King Tamari and an opposing chief of
the oldest family, named Tamatoa. The vox populi was
decidedly with the latter, who did not seek to usurp the
throne, but to redress grievances. The island was divided
into two factions, and they were living in entrenchments,
provoking each other to an attack.
We have advices from Havana to the 22nd ult. The
Queen's birthday had been duly observed. The first stone
of her statue was laid, and the first telegraph in Cuba in-
augurated, messages being sent to Battalana, a distance of
44) miles on the south coast. The British war steamer
Buzzard had arrived at Havana. The market for sugars
at Havana was dull, in consequence of the European news,
but the stock was small.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YoRK, Nov. 30.

STOCKS AND MONEY.—The money market is steadily
tightening again, in anticipation of large exports of pre-
cious metals, and the probability is that the banks will

evuu rvuuce um amount oI Call loans materially. A fair
business has been done in Exchange, and prices are firm.
Bankers' rates on London are 91 to 10 per cent.
COTTON.—(From W. P. Wright's Circular of Nov.
30.)—We have had a good demand for Cotton, particularly
from home consnmers ; holders have been firm, and prices
show an advance of an lc. to since this day week ; the
bulk of the transactions, however, have been in cotton on
the way hither from Charleston and Savannah, the steamers
affording opportunities of exhibiting samples here, in many
cases, before it is on shipboard in those ports. Such sales
have been effected at lc. per lb. below the quotations, and
have prevented the advance which the demand operating
on our very light stock of cotton in store would otherwise
have necessarily caused. The total sales since 21st Novem-
ber to last evening have been 11,063 bales, of which 4,120
were taken for export, 3,793 to home consumers, 1,785 to
speculators, and 1,365 bales in transitu. The export
during the same time has been, to Liverpool, 2,800 bales;
Glasgow, 170 ; Antwerp, 278 bales ; total, 3248 bales.
The receipts show a heavy decrease again, as compared
with last year, and it is quite possible this decrease may
be augmented weekly for some time ; it may, however, be