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A MERICA.

LIVERPOOL, MARCH 4.
The United States' steamer Atlantic bas arrived
with advices from New York to the 21st ult., and
$1,448,000 specie on freight.
The Baltic arrived at New York on the 21st
The Senate has- passed a bil, for a railroad from
the Mississippi to the Pacific by a vote of 24 to 21.
Mr. Cass delivered a long address on the subject
of a recent speech by the Earl of Clarendon in the
House of Lords in reference to the foreign policy
of England.
Mr. Mason, the chairman of the Committee on
Foreign Relations of the Senate, in reply, said he
was in posssesion of information that Lord Cla-
rendon, in an unofficial conversation with the
American Minister in London, had said that he
was surprised to find that Mr. Cass had put
upon his language such an interpretation, and
that. his only meaning was that France and
England were united in effecting commercial
treaties with conntries bordering on the River
Plate. While conceding to Lord Clarendon the
right to interpret his own language, Mr. Mason
said he choose to take a series of expressive acts,
and he reviewed the course which had recently
been pursued at San Juan, the more distant inci-
dents which led to the annunciation of the Monroe
doctrine in the interference in the dominions of
the King of the Sandwich Islands, and in addition
to those acts which had been observed in Southern
and Central America. Ho then depicted the con-
dition of the islands in the Gulf of Mexico and the
Carribeau Sea, and their importance in reference
to American cemmeree, and particularly spoke of
a neighbouring island (St. Domingo), which is
divided into two governments. On these people
influences had been used to procure results favour.
able to European Governments and injurious to
the United States.
After a brief conversation the subject dropped.
The President had vetoed the French Spoliation
Bill.

The Navy Department had issued orders to New
York, New Orlians, and Boston, to keep in a state
of readiness certain steam-vessels chartered by
Government for demand ; it was understood they
were to be against a Filibustering expedition to
Cuba.

Touching that expedition, the
respondent of the New York Hera
Alvera,do Hunteris soon expecte(

Kinney expedition, which has not been knocked on the
head by Marcy's manifesto, as many supposed it to be.
The Kinney volunteers are willing to risk the outside
chances, suspecting, as they do, that after passing by the
western end of Cuba, in the Caribbean Sea, they twill
tack about, turn their backs upon the Mosquito Coact,
and make all sail for the eastern end of Cuba, 600 miles
from Havannah and the body of the Spanish troops.
By this movement they count upon a successful landing
and such a revolutionary rising as will enable them to
march triumphantly from the eastern to the western ex-
tremity of the island, gathering strength as they go, like
a rolling snowball. The Quitman organisation and the
Fillibustering Juntas in New York and New Orleans
are said to be branches of the Kinney expedition, which
is to pioneer the way. The treasury of the Fillibusters
at New Orleans, we learn, is able to command. at any
time a million and a half of money, and that all con•
cerned are preparing for a terrible surprise to General
Concha. You will have perceived that he is alarmed,
and is enrolling the Mulattoes, and making all the usual
preparations for repelling an impending invasion. Eng-
lish and French vessels of war are also mysteriously in-
crea,ing at Havannah and that neighbourhood."
The steam-ship Black Warrior arrived at New
Orleans with Havannah dates to the 15th lust.
Great excitement prevailed, and new militia com-
panies were being formed.
The whole island had been declared in a state of
siege, and a proclamation had been issued ordering
the enlistment of all volunteers between the ages
of 18 and 50 who were capable of bearing arms.
A military commission had been created for the
eastern part of the island.
It was reported that General Concha had sent to
Porto Rico for more troops.
The British ship of the line Boscawen had left
Havannah, and she and the steamer Medea were
engaged in conveying troops.
The British Rear-Admiral reviewed the troops
with General Concha on the 12th inst.

A decree was being enforced prohibiting the sale
of firearms and ammhnition.

Her Majesty's ships Espiegle and'Vestal were in
port. The Colossus had left. The British Admi-
ral was received with gzeat honour.
Numerous arrests have been made. Among the
arrested were, it is said, the Governors of Matanzas,
Puerto Principe, and Trinidad, the private secre-
tary of General Concha, and the managing director
of the Cardenas Railroad. General Concha had
issued a warning proclamation against insurrec-
tionary movements.
In the New York stock-market an unfavourable
reaction had taken place, chiefly in consequence of
a speculative movement and a large amout of all
descriptions of scurities pressing upon the market,
particularly State and railroad bonds.
Money remained at easy rates—namely, 60 to 90
days' paper, at 6 to 9 per cent. ; and second-class,
ditto, at 10 to 12 per cent. per annum ; exchange
advanced. to 9, at which a considerable business
had been effected in bills on London Bills on Paris
quoted at sf. 111 c. to sf. 13e., 60 days.
There was an increasing demand. for cotton, and
prices were firmly maintained. Flour bad ad-
vanced 1.21 e. per barrel, and wheat 100. per bushel,
chiefly Canadian and Genessee. Provisions had
improved. Contracts for prime mess pork had
been settled at 16 dols. Scotch pig iron continued
to sell in small lots at 30 dols. 50 cents to 31 dole.
Freights had advanced. To London, flour, 2s. 3d.;
grain, 7d. To Liverpool, cotton, tc. • flour, is.
6d. grain, 50. to 6d. To Havre, cotton, c.

THE NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTIES BILL.

The bill introduced into Parliament was ob-
jected to on the following grounds by a meeting of
newspaper proprietors, held at Anderton's Hotel,
Fleet-street, last week
" 1. That there is no general or extensive dissatisfac-
tion with the present law, and that its operation has
been to produce a newspaper press of higher character
than is found in any other country.
" 2. That the penny stamp is fully compensated by
the unlimited transmission of newspapers through the
post, and, although the post is not used for all news-
papers, the service rendered is in the aggregate a fair
equivalent for the stamp, and tends to equalise the
diffusion of information through the whole community.
" 3. That the bill proposes to remove all securities
against libel, or offences against public order and mo-
rality.
" 4. That the effect of the measure would be to lower
the character of the newspaper press in this country by
the competition for cheapness, and by the increase in
the number of publications diminishing the means of
incurring the large outlay made for every respectable
journal ; thus tending in reality not to cheapen but to
enhance the cost of valuable information.

" 5. That it would give such scope for piracy upon
the labours and expenses of the better class of news-
papers as could be met by no possible enforcement of a
law of copyright, except such as would inflict far more
restraint upon the diffusion of information than is new
exercised by the stamp.
" 6. That its tendency would therefore be to disable
every newspaper from incurring those expenses in pro-
curing reports and intelligence which have raised the
press to its present standard.
" 7. That it would tend to produce a set of publica-
tions addressed only to the lower classes, and appealing
in many cases to their worst passions and prejudices.;
and in the counsry districts would limit to small locah-
tiies the information now diffused through the county,
and from county to county, by the provincial press.
" 8. That by these combined effects there is too mach
reason to apprehend that the character of the newspaper
press would be so lowered as eventually to bring it into
collision with the public authorities, and to necessitate a
recourse to those arbitrary powers for its restraint which
have been recently adopted in foreign countries, and, in
times past, in our own,"

ROYAL ASYLUM OF ST. ANN'S SOCIETY.—The Wor-
shipful Company of Goldsmiths have presented a dona-
tion of 1001. to this excellent charity—a well-bestowed
and much-needed gift,
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QUEEN ANNE'S BOUNTY.—The annual account pub-
lished on Saturday shows that the receipts of the Gover-
nors of Queen Anne's Bounty for the year 1853,
amounted to 212,3411., and the disbursementsto 213,3981.
Of the receipts, 13,656/. accrued from first fruits and
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d, 41m0rtgage,i10v24iin,.525'0174;r2233m25l allflsale of
71,529/. was paid to the clergy, 14,446/, paid for purchase
of houses and lands, 24,4171. paid for the erection of re•
sidence houses, 44,666/. advanced as loans to build, &c j,
glebe-houses, and 51,1681. paid for the purchase of stock
for general purr o ;ea.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ON TEE SOUTH Coe.;%. RAIL.
WAY.—THIS DAY.—This morning, at an early hour, an
accident occurred on the South Coast Railway which
resulted in the death of a fine young man, named Thomas
and before he could
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dragging a heavy chain, passed him,
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get out of the way the chain up f
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ortimately caught him
across the body, and threw
him to the ground. The
deceased struggled to extricate himself, but without
Effect, and a!though almost immediate aid was at hand
the pressure of the chain across his body had been so
great that death must have been almost instantaneous.
Mr. Slow, the summoning officer for Bermondsey, has
forwarded information of the occurrence to W. Carter,
Esq., coroner for East Surrey, who will hold an inquest
on the body.

Arno nisi the recently projeoted joint Etock banks the
"Bank of London" appears to be the only project which
has been successful, a very large application for shares
having taken
place ; and the promoters are, therefor*,
now in a position to petition for a royal charter, which
must, under the existing law, be obtained beim) buil•
nepi ih commenced.

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