The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-05 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, SurkDAY.
The Royal Mail steam-ship Asia, Captain Lott,
which sailed from New York on the 23d ultimo,
arrived in the Mersey at 1.45 this morning, bring-
ing 169 passengers and 62,350 dole. in specie.
The Asia experieuc,,Al comiderable fog on the
passage, but, genendly speaking, the weather was
favoutable for the Atlantic telegraph enterprise.
On th 3 27th June the Asia came in collision with
a F 1 ench fishing barque, and took off her crow.
The Royal mail steamer Persia arrived out at
New Ycrk on the 22d ultimo ; her advices had
been previously obained by the news yacht of the
Associated Press, off Newfoundland, and thence
teli-graphed to.the States.
There is no political news of importance by this
arrival.
The Washington correspondent of the New York,
Herahl says :
".I am positively assured that under the Mexican
Comonfort government, or that preceding it, a sale or
cession was made of 39,000,000 of acres of land in
Sonora (a tract nearly as large se the state of New York)
to a colonising company in the United States, whose
head-quarters are in the city of New York ; that the
bargain was completed ; that the proofs are in one of
your city banks ; and that the administration know all
about it. In itg:-A.l to the Mormons 1 learn that they
arc not included in the arrangement, as the contract
between Mexico and the contractor was made before the
Mormon rebellion bad assumed any definite shape; buS
it is quite poible. that there may be some connection
between the late mission of Colonel Thomas L. Kane
to Salt Lake City and the present movement of the
Mormon community southward into Sonora."

Colonel Kane had a long interview with the Pre-
sident on the 21St ult., and also with the Secretary
at War. It appears that thole are, or were, two
parties—peace and war parties—among the Mor-
mon, and hence has arisen the difficulty to- under-
stand dieir position. The peace party appears to
have triumphed Brigham Young favoured this
party. Colonel Kane asserted that there was no
want of harmony between Governor Cumming and
General Johnson on any important question. lie
thought there would be no wsr.
The health of the President had improved.
Fro:n. St. John's, Newfoundland,. we learn that
a steamer was to be despatched to pilot the steam-
ship Niagara as near as practicable to the point
where it had been decided to laud the Atlantic
telegraph.
New York was visited on the 21st by a fearful
tornado, and, though its duration was but half an-
hour, its .effects were visible in every quarter to an
extent never before known after a storm of such
short duration. At Hunter's Point, in the vicinity
of New York, the American Flint Glass Company's
factory was blown down, and two persons were
killed and seven injured. Churches, houses, &c.,
suffered immensely, carts and carriages were blown
over, and trees were uprooted in all directions.
Many vessels were forced from their moorings, but
generally tke shipping did not sustain much dam-
age. Detailed accounts of the destruction caused
by floods and tornados in the west have been pub-
lished. A correspondent of the New York Herald
writes

" Almost the ent:re west has been visited by incessant
storms, which have not only destroyed the growing
crops, but have rendered " the lands unproductive for a
year or two to come. It is estimated that 33,000,000
dols. worth of property Ils.B been destroyed."
Wo have news from Port, au Platt to the 2d ult.
Up to that time no decisive action had taken place
between the troops of Santana and those of Baez.
Santana, however, was before St. Domingo city
with 7,000 men, and only awaited the co-operation
of his fleet to make au assault upon the town. Both
parties had procured and armed some dozen vessels
each, and it was thought probable that the quarrels
of the opposing parties might be finally settled by
a naval battle of the two squadrons.

By the steam-ship Black Warrior, at New York,
we have advices fr..)m Havannah to the 15th ult.
Thera is a full account of the double boarding of
the American barque Marmion by the British gun-
boat Buzzard, with the statement of the captain of
.the Marmion. There is also a very full abstract of
th,) testimony of the officers, crew, and panengers
of the American schooner Cortez, seized by the
British gun-boat Forward, and attempted to be
confiscated as a slaver. The British ofkers are
charged with committing gross outrages on these
parties, besides robbing them of all their valuables.
A letter from Bermuda says :

"The British steamer Styx Is off and on, and has
received positive orders to board no more American
vessels, and Admiral Stewart very much regr3ts that
visits p:3l,rined in the politest and friendliest manner
should cause Unpleasant feelings between two powerful
nations, of similar blood, manners, laws, language, and
religion,"