The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser. — 1854-09-19 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

YTELLIGENCI  AMERICA.  ARRIVAL OP THE  ASIA,  By the British and North American royal mail steamship Asia, Captain Lott, which arrived on Sunday, we ence .4 New York to the 6th instant. She brought eignty le passengers, and $1,086,000 in specie on freight  have intelligence from .  The Asia left at 2 40, p.m., on the oth, passed a large screw-steamer, supposed to be the Glasgow, at 7 15, a.m., on the Bth, and was abreast of Cape Race at 8 16, a.m., on the 10th; exchanged signals with the ship Sea Witch on the 15th, and passed the America at ten o'clock on Saturday night. She arrived in the river at 620 a.m., after a passage of a little less than ten days and a half. The Collins' steam-ship Pacific, Captain Nye, arrived at New York on the 3rd instant.  A report was current that General Alvarez was at New York, incog., fitting out an armed expedition against the present Mexican government. He is said to have chartered the steamship Benjamin Franklin, and a ship and a brig, with which he intended to await and capture a small steam frigate called the Santa Anna, which was completing at New York'for the Mexican Government. The celebration by the American Protestant Association of the first sitting of Congress led to a riot at Newark. A procession, composed df about 3,000 persons, marched through the city, and at noon partook of a dinner. Nothing occurred to mar the scene until the afternoon, when, as the procession passed through one of the streets, it encountered a crowd of opponents, who saluted it with derisive shouts, and finally a stone was thrown, which struck one of the Protestants. Just at this moment, as it is related, several shots were fired from a Romish Church in the immediate vicinity. The procession broke for the church instantly, and in a short time completely sacked its interior, despoiling the altar, and rendering it a complete ruin  _. A building from whence the first attack was Made as also assaulted. A number of persons on both sides Ladly hurt, but not one was killed. An intense excitement prevailed in Newark in consequence of this deplorable riot. The Protestant American Association is a new organization, got up, it is said, for benevolent purposes.  During the celebration of the grand Turnerbund Festival by the Germans of Philadelphia a fight ensued. The police interfered, and were bearing off one of the belligerents, when the Germans attempted a rescue, and the melee became general. During the row oae of the officers was stabbed, and another severely injured. Fifteen or sixteen as had been killed by the explosion of a steamboat at a City. Commodore Hollins had been removed  Jeffers from t  e command of the Cyane. In the official communiation the Secretary of the Navy assures the commander hat he retains unimpaired the confidence of the depart of the new  The Vermont election had resulted in the success arty called " Fusionists." The New Orleans papers mention that the cholera was increasing, and the mortality great. The immigrants were the chief sufferers; the weather was very unfavourable. At Savannah the Courier newspaper had suspended publication in consequence of the amount of sickness and the difficulty of obtaining hands. Captain Charles A. Marshall, of the New York packet-ship Yorkshire, who had been held to bail on -ge of murdering one of his crew by ill treatment, a discharged.  tern from Havana state that the appointment of Gen. Concha as Captain-General had created much gratification. General Pezuela intended to leave the island on the 2d, and his successor .was expected in about a week. Addi+ional troops had arrived for the defence of the island. md rice were firm, at previous rates. A slaver, 11 hundred Africans on board, is reported to  with sec  have been lost by getting on a reef near the Isle of Pines, during a squall : she broke up immediately. The captain, one of the crew, and seven negroes only were saved. The captain-general had issued an edict calling upon certain individuals with grand titles to come forward and clear themselves from the charge of being concerned in the slave trade.  01111ERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,  NEw YORK, 6TH Smi