The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-11 00:00:00

RUSSIA

Letters from Posen and Warsaw state that the move.
merit of troops towards the western frontier of Russian
Poland is going on very slowly, and on some points have
been suspended. The provisioning of the magazines,
however, proceeds with undiminished vigour.
The Emperor of Russia has given orders that in future
strictly scientific works shall come under the standing
prohibition, which has hitherto forbidden newspapers to
make any application of legislative, financial, or com-
mercial principles to the actual state of things in the
imperial dominions.

AMERICA

ARRIVAL OF THE ARCTIC

By the United States mail steam-ship Arctic, Captain
Luce, which arrived in the Mersey on Wednesday, we
had intelligence from New York to the 25th ult.
In the Senate a resolution was submitted by Mr.
Mason, calling for copies of the official notes from the
Governments of England and France, inviting the United
States to join them in a tripartite convention that neither
power would permit the Island of Cuba to be taken from
Spain. General Cass, who made a long speech on the
occasion, holds to the Monroe doctrine, that no European
nation should be permitted to acquire territory on this
continent hereafter.

With reference to the fishery question, the New York
Herald says, " The negotiations for a treaty with Great
Britain, relative to the fisheries, reciprocity in trade, &c.,
are nearly concluded between Minister Crampton and
Secretary Everett, and that the former is now awaiting
instructions from London."

ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA.
By the Royal Mail steamship Africa. Capt. Harrison,
which arrived in the Mersey at 9 p.m. on Sunday, we
have advices from New York to the 29th ult. The Africa
brought 51 passengers, and 104 do1la:•s in specie.
The Royal Mail steamship Canada, Lang, commander,
arrived at Boston on the 25th ult.

The steam-ship City of Manchester arrived at Philadel-
phia on the 27th ult.
The steam-ship Uncle Sam arrived at New York on the
28th ult., with dates from San Francisco to the Ist Dec.,
and -8`511,880 in specie on freight.

The Senate pas'sed a resolution conferring the rank of
Lieut.-General on General Scott.

The following law, authorising the Secretary of the
Treasury to issue registers to vessels in certain cases, had
been passed by Congress :—" That the Secretary of the
Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorised to issue a
register or enrolment for any vessel built in a foreign
country, whenever such vessel may have been, or shall
hereafter be, wrecked in the United States, and have
been, or shall hereafter be, purchased and repaired by a
citizen or citizens thereof, provided that it shall be proved
to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that
the repairs put upon such vessel shall be equal to three-
fourths of the cost of said vessel when so repaired."
Mr. King's health was improving, but be was quite
feeble.

says, " Commander Ringgold, of the Exploring
A telegraphic despatch from Washington, of DEexcp.e2dBi.,
tion to the Chinese Seas and Behring's Straits, is detained
for want of men, and will not be able to get away
in less
than a month."
Telegraphic advices from Norfolk, to the 28th ult., had
been received in New York, announcing the total loss of
the British steamer Mountaineer, hence for St. John's, on
Christmas-day, eight miles south of the Currituck Inlet.
The crew were saved, but no further particulars of the
catastrophe are given.
The U.S. clipperr-ship Swordfish arrived in New York
on the 25th ult., after a run of only 89 days from Wham-
pea, and 68 days from Anjer.
A submarine telegraph has been put down from Cape
Tormenta
:le, in New Brunswick, across Northumberland
Strait, a distance of fourteen miles, to Cape Traverse, in
Edward's Island, intended to form part of a line to
for
Prince
coAnnveecstselNewfoundland vimi tyh
Yarmouth,
continent.ou th , N .s . ,
as passengers. Australia,
with several entire families _
the2,7),555 Panama, with the mails and
Francisco on the Ist ult., for _
to
CALIFORNIA.—Tbe U.S. steamer Panama left San
had sailed
Our dates from
U.S.•-i mail steamer Georgia.
previous advices.
, which would be forwarded New York
Sanby
Francisco are fifteen days later than
The prospects for an abundant harvest were never more
propitious than they were in the " winter digging" during
the rainy season. The quartermaster's and commissary's
stores and contents at Camp Yuma, on the Colorado, were
destroyed by fire on the 26th of October. New supplies
were immediately despatched thither from San Diego.
The dates from the Sandwich Islands are to the 6th
number. About a hundred Whale ;hips were in the