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

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA

nd North American
we have intel
brought 888,

ship Asia., Capt. Lott
to the 20th ult. She

from New York
reight,

100 dollars o:

ult

and 12u passengers
The Asia sailed at 2 30 p.m., on the A,
11 45 p.m., exchanged signals with the steam-ship Africa
on the following day, at 1 a.m., passed a screw steame
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 the 30th, at 7 a.m., she passed
the Canada; 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 run of a little over ten days and a half.

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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
out her engines.
In the Senate the chief matter of interest was the rati-
fication, on the 25th, of a treaty with Russia, securing the
neutrality of the United States in the European war, and
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 cholera had broken out with great virulence among
some Irish labourers working at the suspension bridge,
Niagara Falls, causing, 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 shanty 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."