The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-08-19 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

NEW YORK, AUG. 7.  " In cotton no alteration, with more disposition to buy. Flour and grain dull, at Tuesday's quotations. Fire at San Francisco ; three millions worth of property destroyed. Money quieter; stocks a little better; two millions gold dust arrived since last advices ; accounts from the mines as good as ever."  CALIFORNIA  The steam-ship Empire City, with 1.700,000 dollars from San Francisco, and with accounts from Chagres of the 25th ult., reached New York on the 6th instant. She brought advices from San Francisco to the Ist July. On Sunday, the 22d June, the unfortunate capital city of the Gold Regions, was again the scene of a vast conflagration, supposed to be of incendiary origin, destructive of property valued at £600,000 sterling. From the Alta-Californian we learn that the fire included thirteen squares, with five other squares situated between Powell and Sansome and Broadway and Clay. Of the origin of the conflagration, beyond the suspicion referred to, no conjecture is hazarded. Several parties had, however, been arrested, and preparations were being made to rebuild the burnt districts. Life and property were in a very unsafe state, and both in San Francisco and Sacramento " committees of vigilance" had been formed. Numerous lives had also been sacrificed by the Indians near the Mines. The AltaCattfornian says :—" Accounts from the mines and placers are very encouraging, especially in the rotten quartz diggings. The prospect through the country for good crops is excellent, and a vast amount of vegetables will undoubtedly be produced. Our city is being built up again very fast, some two hundred buildings having been erected and many of them finished during the past week. A horrible murder was perpetrated at Senora, last Friday, by persons who took offence at an article published in the Senora Herald. They repaired to the editor, Dr. Gunn's room, dragged him from his bed, shot him through the head, killed two other persons connected with the office, and wounded or killed three or four other persons who went to their assistance. There has been a Quartz Mining Convention held in Mariposa county, at which some very important resolutions were adopted." A San Francisco journal says, " George Hubbard, a native of Scotland, about forty years of age, who had been confined to his bed in a house in Jackson-street for eight days past, expired while being removed to the Plaza." One of the telegraphic despatches from New Orleans, on the arrival of the Alabama, supplies the following mercantile report : " Since the fire tbere has been more inquiry for some description of goods, but)the large and continually increasing stock checks any material advance. Flour, quiet and steady; coffee, very dull; cement and bricks, in fair request ; sugars, slightly lower ; provisions only in moderate demand. There had been a number of additional cases of Lynsh law, and the crime still prevailed to a fearful extent. From the Mines the reports were conflicting, but generally favourabla. The Quartz diggings continued to yield well."  We learn, by the Tobago papers, the sudden death of his Excellency D. R. Ross, Esq., Lieutenant• Governor of that colony, occasioned by his being precipitated, with his horse and gig, from the side of the road into a ravine about thirty feet deep, whilst returning from a public ball. Strange to say, horse, gig, and servant, escaped uninjured.