The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-11-04 00:00:00

OVERLAND MAIL

Despatches have arrived in London in anticipation of
the Overland Mail from India The dates are Bombay,
Oct. 3 ; Calcutta, Sept. 30. The English Mail of the 20th
August, rid Bombay, reached Madras on the Bth, Meerut
or. the 18th, Agra and Delhi on the 9th, Calcutta on the
10th, and Lahore on the 11th Sept. The principal item
of news from Bombay for the past fortnight is the report
and determination of the Governor-General to seize on a
Portion of the territory of the Amer, Dost Mahomed. of
Cabul, it being well situated for establishing a post to
watch and overhaul the Atecadew Wuzeres, &c. around
Peshawar. Commercial affairs, both at Calcutta and Bom-
bay, were exceedingly tranquil. The Exchange at Cal-
cutta was 2s. 11d. to 23. Id. At Bombay gold was plen-
tiful. Five per Cent. Loan, 105 to 105 k ; Funds, 92k.
Exchange on London, at six months, 2s. Id. per rupee.
The import and export trades were dull. Freights—To
London, £2 10s. ; to Liverpool, £2 ss.

MORE LYNCHING IN CALIFORNIA.—From San Fran-
cisco another awful instance of " Lynch law" is reported,
illustrative of Californian justice. The jail was forcibly
entered by a division of the Vigilance Committee, consist-
ing of thirty-six members, and two prisoners, " notorious
scoundrels," Whittaker and M'Kenzie, were carried off to
the room of the committee, in Battery-street, where they
were hung :—" The bodies, after hanging forty minutes,
were taken down ; and it being found that life still
remained in the body of Whittaker, it was again suspended
from the beam. Twenty minutes thereafter it was again
cut down ; and then, we understand, the coroner was
admitted to hold his inquest. But two or three witnesses
were examined at the inquest. The physicians present
decided that the necks were not broken ; and the jury
returned a verdict stating that Samuel Whittaker and
Robert M'Kenzie ' came to their deaths by being hanged
by the neck, thereby producing strangulation, by the act
of a body of citizens styling themselves the Vigilance
Committee of San Francisco, on the afternoon of Sunday,
August 24, at about three o'clock, in front of the Vigilance
Committee-room, on Battery-street, near California-street,
from the second story thereof.' "—ln the city of Sacra-
mento three highway robbers had been condemned to
death, but Governor M'Dougal had respited one of the
convicts. The " people" were deeply offended at the act
of mercy ; they burned the governor in effigy, and at the
last moment when the two prisoners left for execution had
been hanged, an extemporised committee took the other
prisoner by force from the city-guard, carried him to the
place of execution, and hanged him themselves. The
Sacramento Union of the 23rd August describes the ex-
ecution of the two prisoners doomed to death by the
governor, Gibson, of Belfast, Ireland, and M'Dermott, of
Manchester, England, and then describes thus the hanging
of Robinson, of New York, the criminal whom the governor
had respited :—" At the moment the cord was cut a cry
was heard, Now for Robinson.' The shout went up
from the dense throng, ' Hang the scoundrel !" Bring
him here !" Let him hang too !' The scene which fol-
lowed was the most terrific we ever witnessed. The
thronging crowds rushed from the station-house in the
greatest excitement, and on all sides was heard the same
thrilling cry, Hang the rascal !' A gentleman came for-
ward upon the platform, and announced that Robinson
was on the ground, and as soon as the bodies of Gibson
and Thompson were cut down would be brought forward
to meet his doom. Colonel Grant also addressed the
crowd, and stated that the prisoner richly deserved to die,
and that he was happy to see the public coincide with him.
The muffled drums of the guards announced that the cul-
prit Robinson was approaching. The crowd gave way, the
committee, with their prisoner, slowly and solemnly
ascended the scaffold, and the guards formed a hollow
square round it below, Robinson confessed his guilt;
received religious dfices ; with the utmost self-possession
and firmness bared his neck, and adjusted the rope ; and
then, by the act of the president of the extemporised co.m•
plittee, wwi hanged till he was dead."

The Royal Mail Steam-ship Asia, Captain Judkins,
arrived in the Mersey at an early hour on Sunday morn-
ing, with letters and papers from New York to the 22nd
ult., sizt.y.siz passengers, and 4330,000 in specie on
freight, having made the run in 10 days 6 hours and 20
minutes, mean steaming time.

The intelligence brought by the Asia is not of any great
importance, commercially or politically. The elections
for governor in the states of Ohio and Pennsylvania had
each terminated in the signal defeat of the Whig candi-
date, the democratic governor being elected in each state
by a large majority.
The examination of the persons concerned in the fugi-
tive slave rescue riot at Syracuse, in New York State, had
been concluded ; and eight persons committed for trial
for misdemeanor, not treason.

Extensive preparations have been made for the reception
of Kossuth, not only in New York, but in many other
cities. He will be welcomed with civil and military
pageants and popular enthusiasm unexampled. An
address from Kossuth to the people of the United States
has been published.
A Miss C. C. Cushman, of New York, had undertaken,
at St. Louis, to walk 500 miles in 500 hours. The lady,
says a newspaper, is a graceful as well as a rapid walker.
While on duty, she is dressed in full Bloomer costume,
consisting of pink silk dress, pink trousers, and bonnet
trimmed with cherry-coloured ribbon. Large crowds
were drawn to witness this novel spectacle.
. . .

The German revolutionist, Dr. Kinkel, who is in
America, to raise funds for political agitation in Germany,
is succeeding to a cansiderable extent, principally amang
the German citizens and residents. He has held meetings
in several cities, and has already raised 20,000 dollars.
The elections to the Southern Congress had taken place
in South Carolina, and have resulted in the utter defeat
of the Secessionists. About two-thirds of the state have
been heard from, and only two disunion candidates have
been chosen.

During the week, ending the 14th ult., 23 vessels had
arrived at New York with emigrants, amounting altogether
to 5,555 steerage passsngers alone. From Liverpool there
were 2,904 of this number.

The death of Mr. Buchanan, who has for so many years
been the British consul at New York, is announced in the
New York papers. He died on the 11th ult., at Elms-
wood, near Montreal, aged 80.

Father Mathew has administered the pledge to 500,000
persons in the United States, and to 10,000 during his
present brief stay in New York.
A New York paper says :—" At Washington, a few
days since, 164 five-bushel bags of dead letters were
burned, having previously been deprived of valuable
contents."
The news from the whaling fleet in the Northern Pa-
cific, received by way of the Sandwich Islands, is most
distressing. The fleet has suffered terribly, and its ope-
rations for the season have proved a failure. It had
wintered in the Gnlf of Anadir, in the northern part of
the sea of Kamschatka, in Russia in Asia, and on the
coming on of spring had to set sail for Behring's Stratts ;
but in attempting to pass through into the Arctic Ocean,
the fleet was environed by ice, and nine vessels were totally
wrecked. The crews of the destroyed vessels are reported
to have reached the main land in safety ; but it is said
that in same disturbances afterwards with the natives,
eleven of the whalemen lost their lives. The following
ships are reported as totally lost :—Ajax and Cosmopolite,
of France; A romantha and Henry Thompson, of New Lon-
don ; Arabella, New Bedford, and America, of New Bed-
ford ; and Mary Mitchell, of San Francisco. Other vessels
have been seriously injured, and those which have escaped
have taken no oil. In consequence of this intelligence the
holders of oil and bone in New York on Saturday refused
to name any price for those articles.
From Texas we hear that the cotton crop is likely to
turn out better than was anticipated. There is a rumour
of another Cuban expedition preparing in that state, under
General Felix Houstoun, but we doubt its truth.
The Canadian Cabinet is at last arranged as follows :
President of Council, Malcolm Cameron; Commissioner
of Crown Lands, Dr. Rolph; Inspector-General, Hon. F.
Hincks; Postmaster-General,Hon. W. Morris; Provincial
Secretary, Mr. Morin; Attorney-General for Canada East,
Mr. L. Drummond ; for Canada West, W. B. Richards ;
Solicitor-General for Canada East, Mr. Cartier ; for
Canadaffest, Hon. John Ross ; Receiver-General, Mr.
Tache. The Tory press are in a rage at the appointment
of a rebel like Dr. Rolph to a place in the Government;
on the other hand, the ultra-Radicals regard his alliance
with Mr. Hincks as an act of treason to progressive
principles.
We have received full accounts of the intelligence
brought from San Francisco to Sept. 15, by the steamer
Illinois, which brings nearly 2,000,000 dollars in gold dust.
Lynch law seems to have given place to the code of honour,
for nobody has been hung by the vigilance committee,
while some half-dozen duels have taken place. The elec-
tion returns for governor are still uncertain, though the
probability is in favour of the Whig candidate. The ac-
counts from the mining districts continue to be of the
most encouraging character. Measures are on foot for
the construction of a railroad between San Francisco and
San Jose, with a capital of 1,500,000 dollars, of which the
amount of 150,000 dollars has been subscribed. The people
of the southern counties have got up a movement for the
division of the state and the establishment of their part as
a territory without restriction as to slavery. The reason
they give is the great cost of the state government.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN MARYSVILLB.—A most de-
structive fire visited Marysville on the night of the 20th of
August, by which three entire squares, including uowarde
of eighty houses, and property valued at 500,000 dollars
were consumed. On the 10th of September the same
place was again visited by a disastrous fire, which de-
stroyed twenty-five buildings and a large amount of valu-
able merchandise. Both fires are supposed to have been
the work of incendiaries.
DESTRUCTIVEFIRE AT SPANISUTOWN.—A very serious
fire occurred in Spanishtown or Ysella, on the Calaveras
Itiver, during the night of the 6th ult., by which about
150 houses and tents were destroyed, with a greater
portion of their contents. The loss is estimated at 250,000
dols., which in a town of the character of Ysella is very
serious.

NEW YORK, TUESDAY NIGHT.
(From the New York Courier.)

The easy condition of the money market continues to
exert a very favourable influence upon stock and securities
of every description. The decline in the rates for money
has also had a corresponding effect upon the operations
in foreign exchange, enabling parties to remit much more
freely than when the market was so stringent a few weeks
ago.

FOREIGN EXCHANGE.—London, 1091 to 1101 ' • Paris,
5.15 to 5.10 ; Amsterdam, 401 to 41; Hamburgh, 35-g- to
36k ; Bremen, 770 to 78.
FREIGHTS.—TO Liverpool—Flour, Bd. to 10d. ; grain,
4d. ; cotton, id, To London—Flour, Is. 9d. ; cheese,
20s, ; turpentine, 2s. per 2801 b. ; oil, 20s. per 252 gals. ;
measurement goods, 255. to 30a. per ton ; heavy goods.
20s. to 30s. ; beef and pork, 3s. 6d. to 4s. per tce.