The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-09 00:00:00

AMERICAN NE WS.

ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA.
LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVENING.
By the arrival in the slersey of the Royal Mail steam-
ship Asia, Judkins commander, we have received ad-
vices from New York to the 28. th uli. She has forty-
one passengers, and 102,3301. in specie on freight.
The Asia sailed from New York at noon on the 28th
ult., the huibour at the time being full of ice.
P M., on the 6th inst., she made Cape Clear; at 12..45
12t 7:4553
P.M to-lay, passed Holyhead, and saluted the Rock
Lighthouse at ten o'clock this evening, having made
hoenstthhe,
the run in ten days two hours and fifteen minutes mean
steaming time. She expariencc,d stormy north-wst,
west, and south-west winds during In:r run, and on four
occasions steamed upwards of 300 miles in the twenty-
four3du
fll
to. ,
u 308 rs— hours—namely,
miles;elyo,
notnh
e the4th, 313s1t6unal t.i.l
miles; and
ni 'Hiles;
the
308 calks. Taking into consideration the season of the
yea
evr,ix m
the present
erenatmosus the Atlantic.stbo
accounted one of the finest
runs

The Royat Mail steam-ship America, Shannon com-
mander, with the mails from Liverpool of the 10th ult.,
arrived at Halifax on the 24th ult., and at Boston on
the 26th.

Kossuth was at Pittsburg on the 27 tb.
Dr. Doane, the efficient medical inspector of emigrants,
had died from fever, caught on board the packet ship
Great Western, while inspecting the condition of the
passengers.
The New York Herald has the following extraordinary
statement:—

" We have just received from Charleston, South Caro-

liea, a variety of papers and document., containing copies
of a very curious diplomatic correspondence which has
taken place beetwoen Mr. Mathews, the British Consul
in Charleston, and the State authorities of South Caro-

line. We have heretofore alluded to this, but now notice
it to call the attention of the general Government to its
character, its intentions, and the meaning which may be
put upon it in Europe. Mr. Mathews, in this corre-
spondence, assumes diplomatic functions independently
of the British Minister at Washington, and without re-
cognizing the general Government of the Union. It is,
in fact, a British recognition of the independence of
South Carolina, and is practical secession of the
highest order. South Carolina, from this date, may be
considered as having taken the first step out-
side the Union—it has even got ahead of the Mormons;
they only drove back their judges, without saying they
would refuse another batch with more morality and less
law—but. South Carolina has opened diplomatic commu-
nications with British functionaries, and set aside en-
tirely the authority of the general Government. We
call the attention of our amiable but imbecile President,
and our magnificent but torpid Secretary of State, to
the position of South Carolina in this Union, and the
assumption of Mr. Consul Mathews under the authority of
Lord Palmerston. If there is a spark of national feel-
ing in the Cabinet or in the White-house, a messenger
should be sent to South Carolina, recalling the Consul a
exequatur, and demanding an explanation from this new
British Minister."
The boiler of the steam-ship De Witt Clinton ex-
ploded while on her passage from New Orleans to
Pittsburg, by which upwards of 25 people were killed.
A slight shock of earthquake was experienced at
Louisville on the 26th ult.
A telegraphic communication from Washington to
the New York Herald, dated Jan. 27, says:—
" It is understood that the Mediterranean and East
India squadrons will be strengthened. Commodore
Perry will probably be detached, with a strong fleet,
including several steamers, to Japan, to punish certain
outrages, if necessary, and to teach the Japanese to re-
spect, the American flag." 40
After a thirtyiptliree days trial the Forrest ease has
She is to he
resulted in a verdict for Mr s
,000 dollars per annum.
. Forrest.
allowed alimony at the rate of 3
The receipt of the following telegraphic cemmuoirst.
lion created much indignation in New York:
arrived at SavatAnah on S-;tu
" Charleston, Jan. 26.
"The schooner Midas,
report s :—Deeember 21, lat
dr,37 from Rio,
boarded b 840 r-
• • south
long. 34.50 west, was y the Br Lan e •
tenser
Sindera, and had her papers oxtrhault,d. At parting
the cruiser fired a shot across the Mehoonees
-tern."
Advices had been received at Halifax
to the ( ffect that no pecuniary aid would be elven by
the Government towards constructing the Halifax aed
Portland Rail as a distinct undertaking from the
ilea: and Quebec road.