The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-27 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAIri MORNING.

r The Royal mail steam ship America, oAptain J.
G. Wickman, arrived at midnight from Boston
and Halifax, with alvices from New York to the
11th inst. inclusive "52 passengers, and 325,650
dols. in specie. 4e passed the Canard screw
steamer Emu' hence, to Boston, on March 20, and
the Asia, for New York, March 23, 156 miles west
of Cape Clear.
The Cunard steam-ships Africa and Arabia had
arrived out, the former at New York on the Bth,
and the latter on the 12th inst. The America re-
ports nothing of the missing steamer Pacific.
There is very little news by this arrival.

In the United States Senate on the 18th instant,
on the consideration of the bill appropriating
53,000,000 for increasing the armaments of the
United States, Mr. Cass made another violent on-
slaught upon England: He said England had suf-
fered so much in the war with Russia that it was
not at all unlikely she might try to retrieve her
reputation by a war on the Western Hemisphere.
Mr. Cass said he did not see how the Central
American controversy could be referred to arbitra-
tion. It was not a question of boundary or indem-
nity, but a mere question about the meaning of a
word. No arbitrator, whether understanding the
English language or not, could tell what the mean-
ing of the word " occupy " was better than they
knew already.
Mr. Iveson defended the bill, and thought there
was imminent danger of a war with England. Ho
did not believe the Administration of the American
people were in favour of arbitration on the Central
American question.
On the following day the Senate renewed the
consideration of the bill. Mr. Brown supported
the views of the Government relative to the Clay-
ton-Bulwer Treaty ; he did not desire to assist in
creating a war spirit ; the treaty was susceptible
but of one interpretation. England's construc-
tion of it was a specific violation of common sense,
and if such conduct was responded to by a pri-
vate individual in his dealings with his neigh-
bours, it would be very apt to communicate the
impression to all impartial witnesses that the fraud
was intended. He condemned the conduct of
Great Britain in the enlistment case, He was op-
posed to submitting their difficulties with England
to arbitration, for the reason that a great republic
like theirs could scarcely expect justice with a
crowned head as umpire.
The Senate then adburned.
According to documents submitted to the Senate
on the 10th inst., the instructions to Commodore
M'Caulay, commander of the United States' home
squadron, issued in April last, after the Spanish
frigate Ferrolana had fired into the United States'
steamer Eldorado, were to the effect that, in case
of a similar outrage committed on a vessel rightly
bearing the United States' flag, he must promptly
interpose and resist the exorcise of the assumed
right of visitation, and repel the interference by
force, the Executive taking the ground that the
conduct of the authorities of Cuba, in hailing and
searching American vessels, cannot rest on the plea
of territorial jurisdiction over the high seas in the
vicinity of the island of Cuba, the United States'
Government denying the existence of any state of
facts to warrant the exercise of belligerent rights.
The Legislative Council of Canada has passed to
a second reading a bill to permit money to be loaned
by all parties except banks, at any rate of interest
which may be agreed upon, the said interest to be
recoverable in the courts of law.