The Express. — 1853-10-24 (London, England)

AMERICA.  LIVERPOOL, SI:NDAT. The British and North American Royal Moil steamer Americo, Captain Shannon, arrived here last night, with the usual mails from the United States and Canada, Si passengers, nod .191,91 S dole. specie.  She left Boston on the 12th and Halifax at 11.27 p.m. on the 13th. The Canada, hence on the Ist inst., arrived at Halifax on the 13th, and proceeded to Boston. The America experienced moderate weather during the voyage. The political news by this arrival is not important. There had been two arrivals from California, with dates to the 17th Sept., viz., the Star of the West and the 111inoise, by which about three millions of dollars worth of gold has been imported. The Apaches had been very troublesome at Sonora. The Alta Cali_brain heads an article with "Eighty murders in one week !"  The news is not important, except so far as we are enabled to gather from it the result of the state election, which seems to have occupied the public mind to the entire exclusion of every other subject. The returns, although incomplete, seemed to indicate the success of the democratic candidates, and the consequent re-election of John Bigler to the office of governor, and the probable success of the entire state ticket. The legislature will also be almost unanimously democratic. One million five hundred thousand 'dollars, it is stated, were expended for eketioneering purposes. Several serious and some fatal rencontres occurred on the day of election in different parts of the state. Extraordinary excitement existed in the Sandwich Islands, at the date of our last advises, in consequence of the awful ravages of the smallpox, and the utter neglect of the proper authorities to take any steps to check the pernicious scourge. The natives were being swept away like leaves is the autumn; in some districts over one-third of the population had died, and in the city of Honolulu there were six hundred and sixty-three interments between the 26th of June and 22nd of July. So great was the indignation of the citizens against the -Nlinisters of Finance and Public Instruction, who refused to provide means for the purpose of vaccinating all who required it, that large meetings had been held, at which resolutions were adopted requesting their dismissal from office. A petition for the same object had received some thirteen thousand signatures, and been presented to King Kamahamahe, but what action his Majesty would take in the matter had not transpired. The;whest crop of the islands had been harvested and found to realize the most sanguine expectations of the husbandmen. Many mills and machine works were being constructed, and great efforts were mak'ng among all classes to increase both the mechanical sad agricultural productions of the islands. The Illinoise brought two days later news from Jamaica than has come direct. No change had taken place in the state of political affairs on the island of Jamaica since the date of our last advices. The opponents of the existing administration were anxiously awaiting the arrival of the new Governor, who was coming in the steamer Brisk, and has probably reached Kingston by this time. Fears were entertained for the safety of the Danish brig Enchantress, which had been out some two months. The Hon. John Y. Mason is reported, at Washingtoo, to be the Minister to France.  A despatch from St. Joh;,ii.B., announces the wreck of the steamer Fairy Queen. and the loss of three of the female passengers. The officers and crew, with two of the passengers, escaped in the boats, and eight passengers afterwards floated ashore on the wreck.  A most destructive fire had been raging in Providence. During the work of devastation by the flames several fights took place between the firemen, in one of which a man named Doughty was brutally beaten to death.