The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1854-05-16 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

AMERICA.  ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA.  BY the British and North American Royal Mail steamship Asia, Captain Lott, which arrived on Sunday, we have intelligence from New York to the 3rd instant. The Asia left New York at noon on the 3rd instant, and signalized the American ship Fidelia on the 6th; experienced fine weather during the whole of the passage; and arrived in the river at 9 20, a.m., on Sunday. She also passed the Ben Nevis and the screw-steamer City of Manchester, hence, on the 12th instant. The Asia brought 182 passengers, and $562,773 in specie. The American mail steamer Pacific, from Liverpool, arrived out at New York on the 2nd instant.  No news had been received at any of the American ports of the missing steamer City of Glasgow. In the House of Representatives, the following resolution had been proposed, but it was not adopted : Resolved,—That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorised to send out immediately one or more  steam or-sailing vessels, with three months' provisions on board of each, together with blankets and warm clothing for four;hundred persons, to search for the missing steamship City of Glasgow, which is supposed to have met with -some accident either in machinery or spars, and is now among the ice which has lately been seen in large quanti-ties-in the North Atlantic Ocean. If the Secretary of the Navy has no government vessels at his disposal, he is hereby authorised to freight or charter suitable vessels for the I purpose, to be paid for out of any money not otherwise .appropriated. Immense damage had been caused in New York and its neighbourhood by floods. A melancholy accident had occurred at Brooklyn. The rain carried a mass of earth and rock against • a frame building situaipd on and overhanging the brink of the Heights, demolishing the lower *story, and, strange to say, leaving the upper part of the house almost unharmed. Two persons lost their lives, and five others were more or less injured by this casualty. In Congress the most notable feature was the introduction of a restriction into the Senate directing the committee on foreign relations to inquire into the expediency of authorising the President, during the recess of Congress, to prevent expeditions leaving the United States to act against foreign states. The resolution was unanimously adopted.  The latest accounts from the scene of the shipwreck of the Powhattan state that 62 bodies had been cast on shore by the waves at Brigantine beach ; six bodies had also been found upon Absecom beach, apparently Germans, and no doubt a portion of those on board the Powhattan. The truth of the reported victory by Santa Anna over Alvirez was much doubted. A New York paper says, " On the 18th April, on the strength of this victory, the lists were opened to competitors for the payment of $15,000,000 to be derived from the Mesilla treaty, provided always that the successful candidate should pay down on the same day $300,000 on account. The contest was limited to' the Clipper Company of Davidson and the Screw Company of Jecker, the latter being the favoured one. There are rumours that one of his conditions is, that an extra 2 per cent. circulation duty is to be laid on to insure a good sale of his bills, against which measure some merchants begin to kick in anticipation." Judge Mondelet, who presides in the Supreme Court of Montreal, declined to adjourn his court on the humiliation day. He said he would never consent to adjourn for any such occasion. If a set of murderers chose to cut each others throats, he saw nothing to call for prayer for it. The belligerent,armies were murderers, and the war a disgrace to the nineteenth century. Why could they not settle their quarrels in some other way, without cutting each others throats 2 His Honour repeated these sentiments with great emphasis. Attempts were being made to raise the Ericsson, but, up to the last date, without success. - Advices received from Port au Prince of the 14th ult., report that the Emperor (Soulouque) was enlisting men for the army, and making great preparations with his fleet and army for the invasion of Dominica, both by sea and land. Operations would commence immediately after the holidays were over, which would be about the Ist of