The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-01 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA.

By the royal mail steam-ship America, Capt. Leitch,
which arrived on Sunday at noon, we have further ad-
vices from New York to the 18th, and Boston to the 19th
of January. She has brought 68 passengers, but no specie.
The Royal Mail steam-ship Arabia, Judkins,
_com-
mander, arrived at New York on the 16th January, hav-
ing experienced very tempestuous weather on the passage.
We append an abstract of her log.
The passengers by the steam-ship Baltic, on her last
passage to New York, presented the lady of Captain Corn-
stock with a painting of the vessel.
President Fillmore and Mr. Everett, the Secretary of
State, had each written a private letter to the Duke of
Tuscany, appealing for the liberation of the Madiai fa-
mily, and permission for them to emigrate to the United
States.

The Vice-President (elect) had left for Havana. His
recovery is not beyond probability.
It is stated that the United States Postmaster-General
was about to submit the subject of the high rates of post-
age charged on American letters and papers passing
through Great Britain in closed mails to the Secretary of
State, for the urgency of an:immediate reduction.
The perspective of the " New York, Atlantic, and
Pacific Railway Company" had been issued, and a bill
was before the States Legislature for its incorporation.
The company proposes to construct a railroad from the
Mississippi Valley, or from the Gulf of Mexico to San
Francisco, or some other available point on the Pacific
Ocean, reserving, also, to the company the right of a
branch to Oregon. After making the necessary provi-
sions for the survey of the route, the bill provides that
the company shall finish a single tract to the Pacific in
five years, and for a line, also, of magnetic telegraph.
The capital stock is fixed at a hundred millions, in shares
of a thousand dollars each. The maximum charge for
passengers is limited at four cents. per mile, and at four
cents. for two thousand pounds, or one ton, per mile for
freight, other than metals, or live stock, or animals.
These, omitting the details of organization, are the pro-
minent features of the bill.

The Secretary of State had addressed a circular to the
ministers and charges d'affairs of the United States in
Europe, respecting the New York Crystal Palace. In it
the following passage occurs :—" The Exhibition, in its
leading character, though not undertaken by the Govern-
ment of the United States, will resemble that which was
the subject of admiration throughout the civilized world
during the summer of 1551. If it should yield, in some
respects, of necessity, to that great display of the products
of the world's industry, it is believed that, in some other
respects, the Exhibition at New York will equal, and, in
others. even surpass its prototype. * * You
may safely interest yourself, as far as it can with pro-
priety be done, in the success of the Exhibition. To the
inquiries which will be often addressed to you as to the
character of the undertaking, you can answer that, though
not a Government enterprise. it is viewed with great
favour by the President of the United States, and that the
Exhibition building will, by direction of the Secretary of
the Treasury, be made a Government warehouse, in order
to admit the importation in bond of articles sent from
abroad, subject to duty only in the event of their being
sold in this country. You can add, that it will be a source
of gratification to the Government and people of this
country to witness the co-operation, in the projected
Exhibition, of the friendly powers of Europe, and of their
citizens and subjects."
LIST OF PASSENGERS.—From Boston : Mr. D. Moss,
lady, three children, and nurse, Dr. Wright, lady, and
child, Mr. G. Nicholas, her Majesty's consul, Vigo, Mr.
J. Barnett and lady, Messrs. R. Roy, J. Binmord, C. W.
Seymour, E. Hudson, J. A. Morrison, J. Inches, A.
Jodoin, 8.D., L. J. Lyons, G. Dawson, J. Le Clair, M.
F. Klauke, A. Buntin, F. Molson, J. Johnson, J. Kid-
ston, Boisvert, Home, Welch, W. R. Forsyth, E. Schu-
bert, F. Weippert, R. A. Hill, G. D. Watson, R. N. Car-
son, Kennard, Lassale, P. Joynson, Fly Smith, C. L.
Eaton, Lakemann, Taylor, Clay, J. Hastings, C. A.
Bowman, J. G. Hall, J. Fraser, J. Brown, N. Harris,
Kain, William Donald, J. Wilkinson, and Bernardis.
From Halifax : Miss Cunard, Messrs. Vassie, Robertson,
Le Boutillier, Miller, Des Busay, Frize, Crerar, Dunbar,
Kiddy, Cleverdon, Thomas, Warwick, and Wetmore.