The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-16 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

The General Screw Steam -Shipping Company's ship
Lady Jocelyn, which had been ten days overdue, arrived
at Plymouth on Monday, the Bth inst., from India. The
cause of her detention was a severe hurricane experienced
off the Isle of France, which threw her on her beam ends ;
she lost topmasts, jibboom, sails, bulwarks, and boats.
She had been in quarantine at Mauritius, owing to the
smallpox existing at Point de Galle on her departure,
although all on board were in perfect health.
The sugar harvest at the Mauritius was expected to be
very abundant.
Very contradictory accounts are given regarding the
gold in the Cape colonies. It is said the quantity found
is not sufficient to remunerate the diggers. The Natal
steamer arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on the 19th of
March.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA.

BY the British and North American Royal Mail steam-
ship Asia, Captain Lott, which arrived on Sunday, we
have intelligence from New York to the 3rd instant.
The Asia left New York at noon on the 3rd instant, and
signalized the American ship Fidelia on the 6th; expe-
rienced fine weather during the whole of the passage; and
arrived in the river at 9 20, a.m., on Sunday. She also
passed the Ben Nevis and the screw-steamer City of Man-
chester, hence, on the 12th instant.
The Asia brought 182 passengers, and $562,773 in
specie.
The American mail steamer Pacific, from Liverpool,
arrived out at New York on the 2nd instant.

No news had been received at any of the American ports
of the missing steamer City of Glasgow. In the House of
Representatives, the following resolution had been pro-
posed, but it was not adopted :
Resolved,—That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he
is hereby, authorised to send out immediately one or more

steam or-sailing vessels, with three months' provisions on
board of each, together with blankets and warm clothing
for four;hundred persons, to search for the missing steam-
ship City of Glasgow, which is supposed to have met with
-some accident either in machinery or spars, and is now
among the ice which has lately been seen in large quanti-
-ties-in the North Atlantic Ocean. If the Secretary of the
Navy has no government vessels at his disposal, he is here-
by authorised to freight or charter suitable vessels for the
I purpose, to be paid for out of any money not otherwise
.appropriated.
Immense damage had been caused in New York and its
neighbourhood by floods. A melancholy accident had
occurred at Brooklyn. The rain carried a mass of earth
and rock against • a frame building situaipd on and over-
hanging the brink of the Heights, demolishing the lower
*story, and, strange to say, leaving the upper part of the
house almost unharmed. Two persons lost their lives,
and five others were more or less injured by this casualty.
In Congress the most notable feature was the introduc-
tion of a restriction into the Senate directing the com-
mittee on foreign relations to inquire into the expediency
of authorising the President, during the recess of Congress,
to prevent expeditions leaving the United States to act
against foreign states. The resolution was unanimously
adopted.

The latest accounts from the scene of the shipwreck of
the Powhattan state that 62 bodies had been cast on shore
by the waves at Brigantine beach ; six bodies had also
been found upon Absecom beach, apparently Germans, and
no doubt a portion of those on board the Powhattan.
The truth of the reported victory by Santa Anna over
Alvirez was much doubted. A New York paper says,
" On the 18th April, on the strength of this victory, the
lists were opened to competitors for the payment of
$15,000,000 to be derived from the Mesilla treaty, pro-
vided always that the successful candidate should pay
down on the same day $300,000 on account. The contest
was limited to' the Clipper Company of Davidson and the
Screw Company of Jecker, the latter being the favoured
one. There are rumours that one of his conditions is, that
an extra 2 per cent. circulation duty is to be laid on to
insure a good sale of his bills, against which measure some
merchants begin to kick in anticipation."
Judge Mondelet, who presides in the Supreme Court of
Montreal, declined to adjourn his court on the humiliation
day. He said he would never consent to adjourn for any
such occasion. If a set of murderers chose to cut each
others throats, he saw nothing to call for prayer for it. The
belligerent,armies were murderers, and the war a disgrace
to the nineteenth century. Why could they not settle
their quarrels in some other way, without cutting each
others throats 2 His Honour repeated these sentiments
with great emphasis.
Attempts were being made to raise the Ericsson, but,
up to the last date, without success.
- Advices received from Port au Prince of the 14th ult.,
report that the Emperor (Soulouque) was enlisting men
for the army, and making great preparations with his
fleet and army for the invasion of Dominica, both by sea
and land. Operations would commence immediately after
the holidays were over, which would be about the Ist of