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SATURDAY NIGHT.
The Great Western arrived at Bristol yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, having accomplished her homeward voyage in twelve days and .a
half. The British Queen arrived at New York on the 20th of Sep- tember, sixteen days from Portsmouth.
The Great Western brings 3q barrels and 14 boxes of specie, amount- ing to " 116,0511. crsrency," and a considerable amount of United States Bank shares, for the United States Bank's agent in London. 'The number of presengers was foriy-three.
The accoun's of trr de and of the money-market by this arrival are not favourable. The intelligenes wont England by the British Queen had damped the American spirits. As soon as her arrival off New York was known, all business in that city was suspended, and crowds assembled at the different "bulletin-offices" to learn the news. After- wards there were "sellers of stocks at any price." Bills on England were drawn at 1091 to 1101 by houses in Food credit ; but the United states Bank, which for many years supplied bills on England, offered none. There was considerable business in cotton at fair prices during the week ending the 21st of September. The Silvie de Grasse soiled from New York for Havre on the 19th. She took 200,000 dollars in specie. The British Queen, on the other hand, carried 50,000 dollars to New York from England.
The yellow fever was committing dreadful ravages in the Southern cities of the Union. At Mobile, 149 persons died in nine days. A -fire at Natchez, on the 5th of September, destroyed many warehouses, and a very large quantity of cotton and other merchandise.
Accounts from Texas represent that country as increasing in pros- perity with astonishing rapidity. The crops were most abundant.
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