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

AMERICAN NEWS.

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ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA.
LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVENING.
By the arrival in the Mersey of the Ro3 al Mail steam-
ship Asia, Judkins commander, we have received ad-
vices from New York to the 28th 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 harbour at the time being full of ice. At 7.53
P.M., on the 6di inst.. she made Cape Clear; at 12.45
P.M. to-day, passed Holyhead, and saluted the Rock
Lighthouse at ten o'clock this evening, having made
the run in ten days two hours and fifteen minutes mean
steaming time., She experienced stormy north-west,
west, and south-west winds during her ruu, and on four
occasions steamed upwards of 300 miles in the twenty-
four hours—namely, on the 31st ult., 318 miles; on the
3d inst., 308 miles; on the 4th, 316 miles; and on the sth,
308 miles. Taking into consideration the season of the
year, the present must be accounted one of the finest
runs evrr made across the Atlantic.

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

Kossuth was at Pittsburg on the 27th.
Dr. Thane, 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-
lina, a variety of papers and documents, containing copies
of a very curious diplomatic correspondence which has
taken place beetween Mr. Mathews, the British Consul
in Charleston, and the State authorities of South Caro-
lina. 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 Wa'hington, 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 stop 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 Oerlke.alniesd.to
Pittsburg, by which upwards of 25 people were
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 ho 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. ,
After a thirty-three days trial the Forrest case has
resulted in a verdict for Mrs. Forrest. She is to be
allowed alimony at the rate of 3,000 dollars per annum.
Toe receipt of the following telegraphic communica-
tion created much indignation in New York:_
" Charleston, Jan. 26.
"The schooner Midas, arrived at Savannah on Satur-
day from Rio, reports:—De ;oath,
long. 21, lat. 840 th
long. 34.50 west, was boarded by the. Benz lan cruiser
Sindera, and had her papers ox,.rliculud. At
the crnicwr
fired a shot heros the sehooner's stern"
Advices had been received at Her t •
ax rrom England
to the ffect that no p-eumary aid would b' by
the Government towards constructin civet,
g the Halifax asel
Portland Railway SS a diu;__.
"t 1 undertaking fora the
usual& and Quebec road.