The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-18 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA,

The British grid North American Royal Mail
steam-ship ,America, .Captain Wickman, which
sailed from Boston on the 6th and Halifax on the
.Btll, arrived in the river last night, bringing 143
passengers, her usual United States and Canadian
mails, also specie on freight amounting to 515,520
dollars:

By this arrival we have later intelligence, the
chief items of which are herewith subjoined.
From Washington we have intelligence stating
that the American Administration had received
advices of the rejection, by the British Govern.
ment, of the Dallas-Clarendon Treaty, as amended
by rhe,Senate. Upon-what grounds thissejection.
is based:or to what point's in the modifications
'made exception .is taken, we are not informed.
"We Aspeut," say.the New 17 oikDctily Times," that
the refusal of our government to assent to the
stipulation concerning the exclusion of Slavery
from Honduras, as contained in the treaty between
that State and Great Britain, is the.cause of the
difficulty. Private 'advices from England lead
us to exPect that Lord Pairnerkon would adhere
to that clause at all 'hazards, and that he,
would be sustained in so dQiiips. by public
sentirrient. But we do not sce how thisis a Matter
with which our Govermnent has any direct or im
mediate: conq..-:•-rti. it is certainly to be regretted
that the whole Central-American negotiation, with
its mO,nifold' embarrassments, should have to be
re-opened, and still more deplorable that our
Government should stand'-, before the, world as in-
sisting-. upon the extension of s.davery into the
territory of an independent nation against the will
of its Government and people."
A ypte had been taken. in Massachusetts on the
proposed amendments of the Constitution, pro-
viding that voters must know how to read and
write, and re-districting the State for senators and
representatives. The vote was very small, but in
favour of the adoption of the amendments.
The Director of the Mint, with the approval of
'the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States,
has arranged with the Adam's Express Company
for the transportation of the new cent coin, at_the
cost of the mint, to all points of the Atlantic States
accessible by railroad and steamboat, and all other
plageTs which Can be reached by moans of convey-
ancq,not incurring unreasonable expense.
A very sanguinary riot had' taken place on the
13altimore and Ohio railroad, where a collision
occurred between the conductors and the military,
sent out for the protection of the trains, in. which
onecof the former was killed and others were
wounded. 'Yesterday a train was thrown from the
tract by the rioters, by which two soldiers were
injured. An additional military, force was detailed
for the protection of the freight trains, and at the
ti
ati; Of our last advises peace was being restored.
Great excitement had been caused in Newburg
by the discovery of the body of a young and beauti•
female floating in the river, the ease rendered more
inexplicable and remarkable by the fact that a
Miss Sarah Bloom, the supposed victim, to whose
:identity with the corpse her own sister and a
slumber who knew her intimately have sworn in
the most positive manner, has been discovered to
be alive. Mr. Jenkins, who was detained as a
witness, has been liberated, and the coroner's jury
have adjourned until further testimony can be
collected. Another clue has been obtained to the
identity of the body.
The newly appointed minister to China, Mr.
Reed, had arrived at Washington for final instrue-
tions, preparatory to his departure in the steam-
Fricate Minnesota for the scene of his future
labours.

The trial of the parties accused of murdering
1)1'. Burden had commented at New York, in the
_urt, of Oyer and Terminer, before Judge- Davies.
Irdse whole of the first day, up to half-past eight
of lack At night' was consumed in the empannelling
jury. Some 120 jurors answered to their
names; of these six were challenged peremptorily,
arid no less than 102 set aside for having formed
.opinions, or entertaining bias or prejidice. Mrs.
Cunningham is on her trial alone, she and Eckel
having been charged on separate indictments.
The opee,ing of the Memphis and Charlestown
Railroad was celebrated at the former city on the
2nd instant. Memphis was crowded with straa::7,iss,
n.'d less than 15,000 being present to wil-,,ees the
display, which was very fine. Instv7.ctions have
been issued by the Navy Department to our
East India squadron to Ir-oceed to Formosa
and investigate the '.,'lrc-umstances attending
the wreck of the Al7oerican ship Highflyer, and
the supposed murder of her crew. Advices from
Fort Des skTroines, lowa, to the 27th ult., received
at. St, Louis, state that a band of five or six
11P;bdred Indians had crossed the Des Moines
river, near Fort George. As it was feared their
intention was to attack the fort, much anxiety was
felt as to the result, as the fort was known to be
weakly garrisoned.
Judge Davies, of tha Supreme Court of New
York, has decided that the Corporation is not liable
for counsel fees incurred by the committee in the
Matseil investigation, on the ground that the
attorney an the Corporation alone had charge of
all the'law businesaof the Corporation and depart-
ments. The fees claimed amounted to $6Bl.
The new emigrant law went into operation on the
3.st inst. To prevent frauds on passengers, as far
as possible, a determination has been come to by
the Commissioners to allow no tickets to be sold
:except at the regular offices.: •
The news froth Kansas states that a pro-slavery
convention to nominate a candidate for delegate
to. Congress is to be held on the 2nd July. The
free State men resolutely refused to place their
name upon the census lists, leaving to their oppo-
nents the work of preparing the State constitution.
When the question •of ratifying the constitution
comes up, the free State men confidently expect to
defeat it, but by what process is not so clear. The
address allitded to is mainly made up of recapitu-
lation of the most telling incidents of border
ruffian outrages. Meanwhile, a large emigration
of Southern, men with their slaves is going on.
Later intelligence from Mexico informs us that
the Archbishop of Mexico, and. several priests,
charged with being implicated in a late attempt
at insurrection, had been arrested, and the Arch-
bishop sentenced to banishment The threatened
filibuster demonstration upon Sonoro from Cali-
fornia had caused much anxiety, as had also the
arrival of two British vessels at Sacrificio.
From Hayti, we learn that at the instance ot the
French and English diplomatic agents, the Emperor
has agreed to a truce with the Dominicans for a
period of two years, commencing on the 14'h of
February last. Orders had been despatched for
~the cessation of hostilities. The Dominicans are
ee. permitted to trade and travel freely in all parts of
the empire. At Port au Prince. Jactnel, Aux Cayes,
and Gonaives, a general advance in the prices ot
most articles of commerce was observable, while at
Cape Haytien business was dull and money scarce.
Accounts from Bermuda mention that the House
of Assembly had passed a resolution, authorising
the exemption of foreign steam-packets from larger
light dues than British steam-packets was road a
first time. H. B. M. ship Indus, bearing the flag
of Admiral Sir Houston Stewart, sailed for Cartha-
ge", N. G., on the 11th ult.
A Ministerial crisis in Canada has resulted in
the resignation of Mr. Cauchon, Commissioner of
Crown Lands. Differences between that gentle-
man and his colleagues, in reference to the North
• Shore Railway, is assigned as the cause. A personal
altercation in Parliament between Mr. Cauchon
and Attorney General Macdonald followed the
resignation, and caused a great excitement;

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEw YORK, May 5, 1857.
Money has been in more active demand, and the in-
creased shipments of specie to Europe has given a fresh
turn to the market in favour of the lender. The disciunt
~brokers are doing a fair business at 8 to 9 per cent. on
prune paper, and the leading Stdck brokers are, with few
exceptionii, readily supplied with money at call, at 7 per
cent. Some of the Foreign Banking houses, as usual be-
fore steamer day, were not lenders. The terWs for ster-
ling bills for the Biston steamer may be quote an eighth
easier on the large transactions, though the whole range