The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-08 00:00:00

CALIFORNIA

Advices had been received from California, by the North
Star, to the Ist. She left Aspinwall cn the 15th ult.,
with 273 passengers and 200,000 dollars in gold dust.
Considerable local excitement had been created by the
democratic elections for delegates to the State Convention
for the nominittion of Congress men. In San Francisco
some fighting took place at the polls, in the course of
which one man was shot. The Broderick party succeeded
in electing their delegates. The news from the mines is
of a most satisfactory description. Rich diggings had
been discovered in various localities, and the miners
generally were meeting with excellent success. Murders
and attempts to murder appeared to be on the increase.
Joseph Mansfield, editor of the San Joaquin Republican,
at Stockton, was shot by Mr. John Tabor, editor of the
Journal, on the 27th ult. Tabor was in prison awaiting
his trial. A difficulty occurred between Mr. Bateman,
father of the Bateman children, and Mr. Soule, editor of

the San Francisco Chronicle, in consequence- of some

strictures on a prize drama, in which areirolver was used,

as scrimis, however, resulted. William Shelipard
was convicted of the murder of H. C. Day, and had been
sentenced to be hung on the 28th ins.tr
Foley , .fo'r the murder of J. H. Dr

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Gazette, had been committed to the state prisoi

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favourable.

barley was

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already in the market, and was selling at
half cents per lb.
A German, named Adam Spohn, residing in Sacramento
City, murdered his wife on the 20th, in a fit of jealousy,
cutting her throat from ear to ear. He escaped on the
river steamer, and afterwards committed suicide by

drowning.
The San Francisco Herald, of June 28, says, "After a
stay of a fortnight, the Russian frigate Diana, Captain
Lessoffsky, sixty guns, sailed from Honolulu on the 20th
of May, bound to the northward. On the following day
the British sloop-of-war Trincomalee, which bad also been
in port several weeks, sailed on the same course as the
Diana, evidently watching her."

BOMBARDMENT OF NICARAGUA,

Important news had been received from Nicaragua.
The Prometheus arrived outward on the morning of the
15th ult., at eight o'clock, having touched at Kingston
for coals. She found in the harbour the United States
sloop-of-war Cyane, commanded by Captain Hollins, which
had arrived at San Juan del Norte on the 11th ult., in
twenty-one days from New York, commissioned to settle
certain difficulties between the American citizens and
the local authorities ; • also to demand a full and satisfac-
tory apology for an insult said to have been given to the
Hon. Solon Borland, U.S. Minister to Central America.
The authorities and the inhabitants of the town refused to
make the slightest apology. After giving ample time, and
no apology having been received, Captain. Hollins, on the
12th, issued a proclamation to the authorities and resi-
dents, that unless an apology was made by nine, a.m., on
the 13th, he should proceed to bombard the town. On
the morning of the 13th the inhabitants of the town
left and took to the woods, leaving all their property
behind them. Captain Hollins, in the meantime, took
possession of one of the Transit Company's steamers, and
sent them to the town, offering protection to all persons
who chose to accept it, and within one minute •of the
time designated by Captain Hollins (twenty-four hours)
the cannonading commenced, and continued without
interruption till three o'clock, p.m. During the inter-
val no disposition was manifested on the part of the
inhabitants to come to terms for the saving of the
property. At four, p.m., a party landed, commanded by
a lieutenant, who burnt the town. San Juan, or Grey-
town, on the 13th, was entirely destroyed, one or two
small buildings only in the suburbs remaining to mark
the spot. No lives were lost. Mr. Scott, agent of the
Accessory Transit Company, tendered a free passage by
the Prometheus to all ,who wished to leave. A few
accepted the offer. Before the bombardment commenced
the master of an English schooner entered a protest
against the proceedings. Captain Hollins informed him
that he was sorry he must disregard the protest, but he
intended to carry out his instructions, and obey orders at
all hazards, and that if the demands were not paid within
twenty-four hourA he would commence operations.