The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-15 00:00:00

PORTUGAL

By the Royal Mail Steamer Thames, which arrived
at Southampton, on Saturday, we have received Lis-
bon papers and letters to the Bth instant. The South
American Company s steamer Brasileira reached Lis-
bon in 93 hours from Liverpool, received 36 additional
passengers, and left for Madeira and Brazil on the 6th.
The new Brazilian war steamer Viamao arrived the same
day in 76 hours from Plymouth ; and, on the Btb, the
merchant steamer Douro, from Liverpool, in five days.
There was no political news of importance at Lisbon since
the closing of the Cores. The affairs of Spain continued
to make little impression in Portugal. The refugees who
had crossed the frontier did not appear to be either
numerous or important. They had found an asylum with
the inhabitants, and thus evaded the necessity of the
Portuguese Government taking cognizance of them.
INDIA AND CHINA.

The Indian mail has arrived, with advices from Calcutta,
June 29 ; Madras, July 6 ; Bhamghse, June 1; lio'Ng

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA

By the royal mail steam-ship Niagara, Captain Leitch,
which arrived in the Mersey on Sunday, we have intelli-
gence from New York to the Ist, and from Boston to the

The Niagara brings $253,693 in specie, and 134 passen-
Tets, among whom were Elihu Burritt and his niece.
The Niagara has experienced moderate weather with
`herly winds during the entire run. She left the wharf
nd, at 12.30, and arrived at Halifax on
2.20 a.m., whence she sailed again at 4.18 a.m.;
-ed colours with the Stamboul for Quebec,

at Boston on the 2

next d:
and, at

exchanc

t 5.45 p.m., spoke the Arabia. Passed Torylsland:
at 7.15 on Saturday evening; at 2.30 on Sunday morning,
spoke the Europa, and arrived in the river at 2.55 the

same afternoon

The royal mail steam-ship Canada arrived hence at Bos-
ton on the 2nd instant, at 8.30 a.m.

The screw steam-ship Glasgow,
arrived at New York on the 27th ult

Craig, commande:

The screw steamer

Alps arrived at Boston, from this

orally on the 4th. A proposition had been
place $10,000,000 in the hands of the Pr

.sident, nominall,

to maintain the honour and interests of the nation in the
Spanish trouble, but, as was said, in reality to forward the
scheme for the acquisition of Cuba. In the House of Re-

presentatives, the subject of the allowance of $858,000 to
the Collins company, for the transportation of the mails
from New York to Liverpool, having been read, a discus-
sion arose on the merits of these steamers. An amend-
ment, fixing the 31st of December next as the time for the
Secretary of the Navy to give notice of the termination of
the arrangement for the additional allowance to the Collins
Line, was adopted by a vote of 82 to 61. The house re-
ported a bill regulating the trade between the United
States and Peru. The committee's report recommends the
President to enter into negotiations with Peru for a more
liberal trade in guano. Failing this, the bill they have
matured to go into effect. It provides that guano be ad-
mitted free at forty dollars a ton, four per cent. when the
price is below forty-seven dollars, ten per cent. whenbelow
fifty dollars, and sixty per cent. when above fifty dollars a
ton. A communication was received from the War De-
partment, covering a letter from Governor Stevens, of
Washington Territory, stating that, from Fort Simpson,
he learned that the Indians had made an attack on the
border settlement of the territory, killing several persons,
and he feared that Chief Justice Landen was among them.
The Secretary says he is unable to increase the force there,
and asks action by congress in this pressing emergency.
The President had sent a message, with accompanying
documents, in relation to the Greytown affair. Among
those documents was a letter from Secretary Marcy, dated
June 9, 1854, addressed to Mr. Fabeus, United States
Commercial Agent to San Juan del Norte, in which the
following passages occur:—" You were instructed in my
former letter to notify the people of San Juan to repair
y they have caused to the- Accessory Transit Com-
withholding from it the property which had been

stolen and taken to San Juan, and by protecting the per-
sons who were guilty of the felony. It is hoped that
the town will have adjusted that matter to the entire
satisfaction of the company. And in that way that Com-
mander Hollins will be relieved from the disagreeable
necessity of taking any action in regard to that subject.
Mr. Borland, our Minister to Central America, has repre-
sented to this government that, while recently at San
Juan, he was insulted by the authorities or people of that

an indignity offered to the nation as well as to him
individually, which cannot be permitted to pass unnoticed.
If done by order of the authorities of the place they must
for it in their assumed political character. Nothing
of an apology will save the place from the infliction
that such an act justly merits." Extracts from Secretary
Dobbin's letter to Commander Hollins :—" Navy Depart-
ment, June 10, 1851. Sir,—The Government has recently

received intelligence the interests of our countrymen
require the presence of a national vessel at San Juan or
Greytown, and from your experience in that region, and
confidence in your prudence and energy, and in pursuance
of the wishes of the President, the Department has con-
cluded to direct that you proceed with the Cyane to that
port as soon as she can be fully ready for the cruise. The
property of the American citizens interested in the Acces-
sory Transit Company, it is said, has been unlawfully
detained by persons residing in Greytown. Apprehension
is felt that further outrages will be committed. Our
minister, Mr. Borland, has been treated with rudeness and
disrespect. *
Now, it is very desirable that the people should be taught
that the United States will not tolerate these outrages.
It is, however, very much to be hoped that you can effect
the purposes of your visit without a resort to violence and
destruction of property and loss of life. The presence of
your vessel will, no doubt, do much good. The Depart-
ment reposes much in your presence and good sense. *
J. C. DOBBIN. Commander Geo. N. Hollins, U.S. ship
Cyaue, New York." Among the documents is the corres-
pondence between W. D. Jolly, commander of H.B.M.
schooner Bermuda, and Captain Hollins. The former,
under date Greytowu, July 12, enters his most solemn
protest against the course which Hollins had intimated
to him he intended to pursue towards Greytown. The
inhabitants of the city, as well as the houses and property,
are, he says, "entirely defenceless and quite at your
mercy. I do, therefore, notify you, that such an act will
be without precedent among civilised nations, and I beg
to call your attention to the fact that a large amount of
property of British subjects, as well as others, which it is
my duty to protect, will be destroyed, but, as the force
under my command is totally inadequate for this protec-
tion against the Cyan?, I can only enter this my protest.
Captains Hollins replies (July 12), expressing his sincere
regret that Captain Jolly feels himself under the necessity
to protest against the action he was about to take in rela-
tion to the city of San Juan del Norte. The people had
seen fit to commit outrages on the property and persons of
citizens of the United States, after a manner only to be
regarded as piratical. " I am," he says, in conclusion,
" directed to enforce that reparation demanded by my
government. Be assured, I sympathise with you in the
rescue of English subjects and property, under the circum-
stances, and regret exceedingly that the force under your
command is not doubly equal to that of the Cyane."
Much discussion has been excited in political circles by
the destruction o! the town of San Juan; and it is
rumoured that the Secretary of State repudiates responsi-
bility as to the act of the commander of the Cyane. The
Herald says :—" By piecemeal the facts connected with
the alleged insult, to our late ambulatory minister to
Central America are coming to light. It is said that
while at San Juan Mr. Borland organised a sort of fili-
bustering military party, for the protection of the honour
of the United States as personified by the Hon. Solon
Borland, of Arkansas, and that he actually drew on the
Government for about $12,000, wherewith to maintain
this body-guard of the minister. Here is a new feature
in our diplomacy." The official journal at Washington
was silent on the subject. A meeting of the sufferers by