The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-08-14 00:00:00

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SECOND EDITION.

Standard Office, Twelve o'clock, noon.

LATER FROM AMERICA.
Arrival of the Steam-Ship Caledonia.

The Royal Mail steam-ship Caledonia, Capt. Leitch, ar-
rived in the Mersey this morning at half-past eleven,
bringing advices from New York to the Ist inst. She
has brought 35 passengers.
The business in foreign exchange for the steamer was
dull. For sterling bills the rates ranged from Bto 81.
The steam-ship Europa reached New York on the 27th
ult., and the America was entering Boston as the Caledo-
nia:was leaving.
On the Royal Mail steamer Caledonia's arrival at Ha-
lifax, she found the Mail screw steamer Kestrel, trading
to St. John's, Newfoundland, had been due 4 days. The day
after the Caledonia left Halifax, spoke the brig Argo ;
she reported the loss of the Kestrel.
The cholera was still spreading all over the country.
On the western rivers it is much abated. In New York
for the fortnight the deaths from cholera were about 100
per day.
The Europa's advices had not had much effect on the
New York markets, which were dull ; neither had the
arrivals of gold from California stimulated them. In
cotton alone does there appear any temptation to adven-
ture, and the price of this staple advances quite as rapidly
in the States as the most flattering accounts from this
aide will justify.
In Venezuela new troubles are brewing, General Paez
having returned thither, and been received in a manner
to render probable the overthrow of Monagas, the actual
and lawful President of the Republic, so far as the term
" lawful" can be applied to anything connected with these
ephemeral republics.
A destructive fire had broken out in Albany, chiefly
amongst the lumber stores, and was still raging on the
30th ult. The loss is exp'ected to be heavy.
At the meeting of the British League at Kingston, Ca-
nada West, on the 27th ultimo, only twenty delegates
attended, but afterwards the numbers swelled, and a deci-
sion against the recommendation of an elective legislative
council was come to by a majority of 85 to 9.
On the 29th a great tire occurred at St. Louis, by which
property valued at ,e 148,000, consisting chiefly of boats
and cargoes, was destroyed. Much excitement and riot-
ing occurred. The latest accounts from Fort Kearney
state that the emigrants were getting on very well, but
that the roads were strewn with the newly-made graves of
those who had died on the way to seek for gold. The
cholera had broken out amonc, the Indiana, alarming them
to such a degree that they had fled from the trail of the
emigrants. _ _

CALIFORNIA.-By the arrival of the Crescent City at
New York from Chagres we have one month's later news
brought to Panama per steam ship Panama from San
Francisco. The Panama left that port on the 20th June,
and brought 500,000 dollars in gold dust and specie. The
number of persons at the mines is estimated at between
20,000 and 30,000, one half foreigners. The gold con-
tinued abundant; but it was found that only very strong
and hardy people could stand the fatigue of digging.
Business at San Francisco was very dull, dry goods and
provisions selling at very much below the original
cost, and lumoer being the only remunerating article.
Almost every article of export from the Atlantic ports
will lose money ; so that, what with the amount of coin
carried to California from the Atlantic side, and what with
the losses that will be sustained on the late shipments
from New York, the balance will still be against Califor-
nia, after a large allowance for all the gold brought to the
States from that country. Preparations were making for
opening a State Government, and a large and enthusiastic
meeting upon the subject had been held at San Francisco.
Up to the latest news from the diggings, all was tranquil.
The total number of ships known to have sailed direct to
California from the United States, up to the 4th July,
was 371, including six steamers. These are supposed to
have since been increased to 400, with merchandise,
&c., involving a capital sunk of from 15 to 20 millions of
dollars.

LIST OF PASSENGERS.—From Boston :—Mrs. Fallon,
Miss Cabot, Mrs. Riddle, Mrs. Grigg, Mr. Richardson
and lady, and Messrs. C. B. Raymond, S. Gonzaleg, F.
W. Shenger, Jonn Men, Higgins, Fallon, F. R. Starr,
C. S. Alleyene. Conradi, Aleo, Vidal, Hancock, Weil,
Hypolite, Crockford, J. Connelly, S. Peck, H. Scott, W.
Laughlin-, M. Laccazette, D. S. Lewis, A. 'Walker, F.
Rose, P. Meyerhoff, and P. Ganne. From Halifax:—
Right Rev. Bishop Fleming, and Messrs. Billing, Smith,
and Hazard.