The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-08 00:00:00

Is. to Antwerp

Ex(
Channel

eather eontinued

unusually large. Supplies of the old crop were rapidly
diminishing, and stocks light. Little cotton was arriving
and stocks were bought up on the spot for re-sale. Ship
ping in little request, and freights dull, at 355. to 40s.
Channel and Continent; and 355. to Londo"
pool the price was nominally 355. for sug
id. per lb. for cotton. Exchange closed fiat
expected to recover. Yellow fever prevailed
shipping, although rapidly dee-^^-

To Liver-
eases, and

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AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA

Lmon g t

By the British and North American royal mail steam-
ship Asia, Capt. Lott, we have intelligence from New York
to the 26th ult. She brought 888,300 dollars

passenger.

The Asia sailed at 2 30 p.m., on the 26th nit., and at
11 45 p.m., exchanged signals with the steam-ship Africa ;
on the folowing day, at 1 a.m., passed a screw steamer
steering westward, at 9 a.m., passed the packet-ship
Fidelia, and at 10 a.m., the schooner Shannon ; on the 28th
passed the American barque Lilias, and a large vessel with
a cross in the foretopsail ; on the 30th, at 7 a.m., she passed
the Cantvda ; and on the sth instant signalised the ship
Colonist, the steamer City of Manchester, and the Brothers
of Wexford, and arrived in the river at 9 a.m. on Sunday,
after a ran of a little over ten days and a half.

The United States mail steam-ship Pacific, Capt. Nye,
arrived at New York on the 24th ult.

The steamer Franklin still held together, though a strong
tide beat against her, and.sanguine hopes were expressed
in favour of her being got off: The agents had deter-
mined to cut away her paddle-wheels, and, if possible, get

iterest was the rati-

ont her engines
In the Senate the chief matter of
fication, on the 25th, of a treaty with E

assia, securing the

of the United States in the European war,

acknowledging the principle that the neutral flag protects
vessel and cargo.

In the House of Representatives, on the 24th, the bill
making appropriations for fortifications was passed. Three
hundred and seventy thousand dollars were appropriated
for the expenses of the Japan expedition.
The New York Herald, of the 26th July, says :—" We
have the best reasons for knowing that despatches from
the Russian government arrived here yesterday in the
Pacific, offering to sell to the United States the whole of
the Russian territory in North America, comprising the
western littoral of the continent from the Arctic Ocean to
Observatory Inlet in lat. 55, and extending inland as far
as lon. 63 degrees."

The cholei; had broken out with great virulence among
some Irish labourers working at the suspension bridge,
Niagara Falls, causimr, within a day or two, upwards of
fifty deaths. The labourers in the vicinity, panic stricken,
were leaving the place. Two bodies, left in a shinty near
the bridge, were in a terrible state of decomposition, and
an offer of 50 dollars had failed to induce any one to get
them out. The place was then set fire to, and the bodies
and all the contents were consumed. It is supposed there
were about ten deaths per day.
The Indians had made frequent and audacious depreda-
tions in Western Texas. The settlers at Rio Grande had
suffered severely.

A Washington despatch states that a treaty has been
concluded between the United States and Borneo, esta-
blishing the usual intercommunications of such agree-
ments. The citizens of the United States had thereby
the right to trade with and acquire property in Borneo,
protected by the Sultan. Vessels wrecked to receive the
aid of his highness. Americans accused of committing
crimes in Borneo to be "exclusively tried and adjudged
by the American consul or other officer duly appointed for
that purpose."