By the arrival, on Monday last, of the clipper ship Fair Wind, Capt. Crowell, in 8 days 17 hours from San Francisco, we have received that city’s journal to the 12th inst., containing telegraphed news from the East, to December 23 from St. Louis, and December 16 from Queenstown, Ireland, and Australian papers to October 12th.

The passage of the Fair Winds the quickest ever put on record between this place and San Francisco. By it we are in receipt of European news only 30 days old, and 24 days from the Eastern States.