The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-31 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA.

BY the British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship
America, Capt. Lang, which arrived on Sunday, at eight p.m.,
we have intelligence from Boston to the 18th, and from New
York by telegraph to the 17th instant. The America brought
188 passengers, and $795,236 in specie.
The U. S. mail steamer Pacific from Liverpool arrived at
New York on the 11th instant, and the Arago from Havre on
the 16th.
The Southampton and Havre steamer Herrman did not
leave New York until the 16th, owing to disarrangement of
her machinery.
About one-half of the Manchester Corporation mill in New
Hampshire had been destroyed by fire. A portion of the in-
surance was with the Royal, of Liverpool. The loss was esti-
mated at between $50,000 and $lOO,OOO.
There is no political news beyond the usual number of
meetings of Know-Nothings and Know-Somethings, but which
presented no features of special interest.
Long interviews bad taken place at the State Department
between the British Minister and the Secretary of State, rela-
tive to the course pursued by the Fishery Commissioners
under the Reciprocity Treaty. These interviews had been
attended by Mr. Cushman, the American commissioner, and
Perley, the British commissioner. It had been agreed
that the commissioners should forthwith proceed to the fishing
grounds within the Gulf of St. Lawrence, embarking at Hali-
fax in a British cutter, each being attended by a secretary,
surveyor, and marine hydrographer, to record the proceedings
and make the requisite charts.
The Liquor Law question has been settled by a decision of
the Court of Special Session, New York, given on the 17th
instant. The New York Evening Express, in a second
edition, says •--" The court-room was crowded to excess, all
waiting in almost breathless anxiety for the result of Recorder
Smith's decision. The substance of the decision was, that 'all
persons have a right to sell liquor provided it is imported,'
which throws upon the complainant the duty of proving that
liquor sold was not imported. This is in substance the drift
of the whole of it. The consequence of this decision will be
that all parties now under arrest will be brought before him,
or the city judge, upon writsof habeas corpus, and discharged.
Then will come the question whether a man cannot recover
damages for imprisonment," Sce.
In the Cincinnati United States Commissioners Court, the
British Consul had been held to bail in the sum of $2,000, on
a charge of enlisting troops for the British service in the'
Crimea. Messrs. Turnbull and. Hamilton were also held in!
81,000 each, and Captain Pashner in his own recognizance, to
appear before the United States Court to answer a similar
charge. Captain M`Kay, the agent of the British Govern-
ment, was absent on account of. sickness, and his friends,
there.ore, entered into the requisite security for his future
appearance.

• The crops are even more abundant than was anticipated.
The Herald says :—" Considerable quantities of the new
wheat has arrived in the Baltimore market, and on Saturday
there was a decline of 3 or 4 cents per bushel, selling at
$2:.23t0- $2.35, and closing with a drooping tendeney, under
the expectation of larger receipts this week:"
Letters from Washington state that the duties paid under
protest while the reciprocity treaty between Canada and the
United States was being ratified by the Colonial Legislature
were to berefUnded, as rapidly as circmstances-wouldpermit.
Nearly half a million dollars had already been•paid back by
the Secretary of the Treasury.
Advieesof the 11th, from Havana, state that the'disarming
of the negrnmilitia was progressing, their sew-lees being no
longer required. The sugar mills had ceased grinding, and
many thousand boxes were left standing in the- fields, that
could not be conveyed to the sugar houses on moonlit of the
rains. The market continued active at the advanced•prices of
last advises for staple products, and the stock diminishing.
At Port-au.Piince the yellow fever was cotnnaitting,ravages.
The latest :dykes from the Rio Grande state that the revo-
lutionists werebesieging Camargo. and were expected'soon to,
attack Matamoras; which General Wood was fortifying..
Saltillo had surrendered to, the revolutionists without a
struggle.

Colonel Kinney and,a small. party of Fillibusters InCbeen
wrecked near St. Domingo, while' on the passag3 to Nicara-
gua. No lives were lost.
Fifty artillerymen serving in Nova Scotia and ITeiv Bruns-
wick, having been called upon, volunteered for service hi -the
Crimea.