The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-22 00:00:00

When Mr. Borland, the Ui
town, made his demonstration
a force of returning California

RS cons

a San Juan, he c

ganised

the property of the Transit Company. Mr Fabens, thi
commercial agent, borrowed money of the people of Sar
Juan to pay these men. Of Mr. Wood,_ one of the Ame
hose prope
1 81,000

ricans v

estroyed 1

le Cyane, h

draft on

wernment

Washington. for- the amount,
on the 7th, at the United Sta

This draft was presented

he government refusing
_to pay

Li said, had made

claim of $600,000 on

At Greytown the erection of timber houses had been
commenced, to supply the place of those destroyed by the
United states frigate Cyane. On the 18th of July, the
day after Capt. Hollins, of the United States ship Cyane,
took his departure from San Juan, Commander Jolly, of
her Majesty's brig Bermuda, issued proclamations, declar-

ing the-citi and territory of GreytOwn, as described by
its constitution, under " martial law," on account of the
non-existence of all civil law; and declaring that any
person brought before him with sufficient proof of having
committed thefts or depredations shall be severely flogged
on board Her Britannic Majesty's ship Bermuda. On the

19th he visited Puenta Arenas, and stated that he would
send after the cannon taken from San Juan, and placed
there by Captain Hollins, of the Crane ; and, accdrdingly,

cannon, which he claimed as belonging to Great Britain
and was left for the protection of San Juan, and took

under protest of the Unit

,ed States commercia

proclaimed martial law, and blockaded the port, and told
the pilot, an American, that he was risking his life by
g out for any vessel without his permission, and was
fur harificr anna nit fn hrincr ;r1

about t

I 20th inst.

arrival of Her

Majesty's ship I

►mmander G. Hancock, at Greytown, he addressed a
gent of the Accessory Transit Compare in

letter to the a

1 he approves oi

3aman

leir aid i

The Washington correspondent of the Neu

ler Jolly.
to York

ee opening

laims to be made upon the
ash, French,Grena•

Tribune calculates that the c
United States Government by the I

lyed in carrying ont
:mperor Napoleon I.
—To the officers and

dian, Spanish, and American
amount to upwards of $1,500,(
_Speaking of Ole bombardme:

dents of San Juan will

of Greytown by Captain

lba, or to their

Hollins, of the U.S. ship Cy

the New York Courier

wounded at Ligny
a and soldiers who
y and independence

and Inquirer says, " The infusion of some of the spirit of
Young America into either of the contending parties,
England and France v. Russia, would tend greatly to the
much-needed acceleration of the movements of both. It
is not impossible that this may occur. The destruction of
Greytown is an affair which the Czar will regard with
some complacency, because England and France will surely
look upon it as an outrage upon that national comity in

e town of Brienne,
D0,000f.; to the pro-

T the two invasions.

the Emperor, or to
4.000..000f. ; total.

defence of which they profess to be in arms against Russia.
Indeed, the present condition of things promises a speedy
entanglement of this country with England, upon the
score of that splendid achievement of the presidential arms.
We repudiate the idea that it was effected by the national
10th to St. Peters- i arms

'eel on Monday by

oak up their respective
the Avenue de Neuilly,

numbers amounting to
Eery.

d 1.000 art:

)n which alc

The Star of the West had arrived at New York, with
advices from San Francisco to the 15th July, and $663,875
on freight. On the 11th a fire broke out in San Francisco,
and, before it was subdued, destroyed upwards of $200,000
worth of property. Sacramento had also suffered by fire
to the extent of $400,000; Columbia, $500,000; and Min-
nesota, $52,000, A fire had occurred at Sonora. In San
Bernardino and Suisun and VacaValleyslBooacres of wheat
were destroyed by fire. M`Growan, the carpenter of the ship
Lady Dufferin, bad been declared not guilty of the murder
of Captain Matthews, the deceased having first struck
Several murders had occurred ; among them,
a young man, who was shot by his brother
intelligence is favourable

e hear, was

The mining

Letters from Oregon state that the diggings at Port
Orford had been abandoned, in consequence of some rich
mines having been discovered about tic

.five miles in