The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-02-10 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1852.

AMERICA.

The American mail steamer Atlantic arrived in the
Mersey on Wednesday. at eleven a.m., having twenty-
seven passengers and 5260,000 in specie. She sailed
from New York on the 24th uh.
The difficulties reported as existing between the United
States government and the Russian ambassador remained
unsettled.
President Fillmore had been waited upon by a body of
Irishmen, as a deputation, to request his interference
with the English government to procure the liberation of
Smith O'Brien and the other Irish political exiles. The
President, however, declined to interfere, although he
expressed his sympathy with the views of the deputation.
Letters from Quebec of the lith ult. report that the
first sod of the Quebec and Richmond Railway was
turned on the 10th, in the presence of the cabinet
ministers.

Advices from Rio Grande to the 6th ult. state that
Caravajal had received reinforcements, and contemplated
another attack on Matatnoras. General Avolvas had an
army of 2,600 men in the field ready to oppose him.
Port-au-Prince advices to the 23d of December
announce that Count Medem, the Russian Minister
Plenipotentiary, who arrived the previous month from
Brazil, had been received in state by the Emperor
Soutoque. The minister afterwards repaired to Jacmel,
where he was to embark for Mexico.
Vera Cruz advices to the 4th ult. report that the dis-
turbances which had occurred in the cities of Mexico and
Puebla, and other places, had been easily suppressed,
and the country was in a comparatively quiet state.
ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA.
After a very rapid passage of ten days two hours, mean
steaming time, the Royal Mail steamer Asia, Captain
Judkins, entered the Mersey at ten o'clock on Saturday
night, having on board 41 passengers, the usual Ameri-
can mails, and specie in freight amounting to £102.330.
She sailed from New York at noon on the 28th ultimo,
made the Irish coast at 3 30 p.m. on the 6th instant,
passed Holyhead at 12 45 p rn. on Saturday, and hove to
off the Bar at 6 p.m., where she had to remain three
hours for water. The Asia reports the arrival of the
America at Boston on the 26th ultimo. after a protracted
and tempestuous passage. The news by this arrival is
exceedingly barren of interest.
In Congress little business has been transacted. An
effort had been made to alter the present tariff, with the
view of affording protection to American native industry.
The subject of the Mexican claims had again been-before
the House of Representatives, and resolutions passed
calling on the government to furnish the number, nature,
and amount of the claims paid since the present adminis-
tration had come into office. h was rumoured at Wash-
ington that some members of the cabinet were compro-
mised in the Gardiner affair. Reports also prevailed that
feelings of an unpleasant nature had sprung up between
President Fillmore and Mr. Webster, which, it was said,
would lead to the early retirement of the latter gentleman.
Kossuth had arrived at Pittsburg, where he met with
an enthusiastic reception, and was occupied in delivering
speeches and receiving delegations. He had been invited
to visit St. Louis, and the legislature of Massachussetts
had invited him to be the guest of that state.
Movements in connexion with the Presidential cam-
paign are going forward in various parts of the Union.
General Scott had been nominated for the office by the
Whig members of the Maine legislature.
The people of South Carolina seem determined upon
secession. The authorities of the state have opened diplo-
matic communications with the British consul at Charles-
ton, who, according to the New York Herald. has
assumed diplomatic functions independently of the Bri-
tish minister at Washington, and without recognizing the
general government of the union. The course pursued
by Mr. Matthews, the British consul, has given touch
dissatisfaction, and some of the New York papers are cla-
mouring for the recall of his exequatur, and a satisfactory
explanation from the new foreign secretary.
The Forrest divorce case had been brought to a close.
Mrs. Forrest having come off victorious, her husband
convicted of adultery, and ordered to pay to her a yearly
almonry of 3,000 dollars. An attempt was being made to
put aside the verdict and obtain a new trial. Both par-
ties had numbers of partizans, and the termination of the
case had created very great excitement, particularly wher-
ever either Mr. or Mrs. Forrest appeared in public.
We learn by the papers that the United States squa-
drons in the East Indies and Mediterranean were about
to be strengthened. A strong fleet composed of several
steam vessels was ordered to sail for Japan, with the
intention of punishing certain outrages committed on
American vessels

The Hon. Lewis Cass was about to be recalled from the
office of Charge-de-Affaires at Rome. His successor, ex-
Senator Merick, from Maryland, is a Roman Catholic, and
will, no doubt, be more acceptable to the Papal Court
than Mr. Cass has been. The latter gentleman has been
very energetic in endeavouring to secure to American Pro-
testants residing at Rome the privilege of celebrating
divine service according to the dictates of their conscience.
Dr. Doane, health-officer of New York, had died from
fever, contracted by boarding the Great Western, emi-
grant vessel. Two Richmond editors had gone out to
fight a duel, the result of which was not known. So bum]
as the state of the river would perm;t, it, was intended to
Ana one of Om culling' steam-ships (the Baltic) up the
Potomac to Washington for exhibition.
Our accounts from Washington state that it was gene-
rally expected that there would be a change of Ministry.
The Radical journals were vilifying the present Govern-
ment in no measured terms.

Advices had been received at Halifax from England to
the effect that no pecuniary aid would be given by the Go-
vernment towards constructing the Halifax and Portland
Railway, as a distinct undertaking from the Halifax and
Quebec road.

There had been another steamboat explosion below
Memphis on the Mississippi. The De Wit Clinton had
been snagged, P ncl sunk within two minutes in two and
a half fathoms of water. From 25 to 30 lives were lost.