The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1855-07-03 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

AMERICA.  ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA.  BY the British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship Africa, Captain Little, which arrived soon after midnight on Saturday, we have intelligence from4New York to the 19th, • Boston the 20th, and Halifax the 22nd ult. She brought 223 passengers, and $811,142, and £6OO in specie. The Hon. John Ross, Speaker of the Legislative Council of Canada, was a passenger by the Africa. The steam-ship Asia arrived at Halifax on the 20th ult. The ship William Rathbone, hence, at New York, had nine deaths amongst her passengers. The United States new steam-frigate Mirrimac had been launched from the Charleston navy yard. The United States revenue-cutter Washington had intercepted a vessel leaving the harbour of New York, with nearly 60 persons on board, enlisted, as it is alleged, for the Crimea. At a fire which broke out in the toy and fireworks establishment of Dunkin and Robbins, No. 10, Maiden-lane, a terrific explosion of combustibles had occurred, and a young man, named Philip H. Jeanneret, had perished in the flames. A gold snuff-box, ornamented with brilliants, said to have been sent as a present by the Emperor of France to a gentleman in New York, and which had been levied on for debt, was sold by auction by the sheriff, in the City-hall, for $BOO, The Germans of Williamsburg were making preparations to forcibly resist the enforcement of the prohibitory liquor law. Meetings had been held, and resolutions recommending violent measures, adopted. At New York, a great meeting of the Know-Nothing party had been held in the Park, and the Philadelphia platform adopted. The Massachusetts section had decided to call an extra session of the State Council on the 28th ult., when the seceding delegates to the Philadelphia Convention would make their report. A despatch from New Orleans stated that cholera had appeared among the United States troops at Baton Rouge, in an epidemic form, and that several deaths had occurred. The barque Magnolia, which had been seized by the Government and taken into Mobile, as belonging to the Kinney expedition, had on board 3000 rifles,lBoo Colt's revolvers, 6000 lbs. of powder made up into 300,000 rounds fixed ammunition, 1000 tents, a battery of brass field pieces, all complete, with haness, equipment, cartridges, and shot to match, lots of pikes and sabres, a quantity of clothing, and 500 cots. In Mississippi State. showers of veritable brimstone had fallen. In some districts. of the State frost had been experienced on the 11th ult. Mr. G. IL Griffith, the inventor of the India-rubber cotton floats, was. at Tuscaloosa preparing, to raft down to Mobile 100 bales of cotton. The Lochmaben Castle, hence, with 557 passengers, and a cargo of salt and rice, had been wrecked on the Bird Rocks, It was expected that the whole of the passengers would be saved.  In Upper Canada there is said; to be difficulties with the; Saugeen Indians, who complain of having been overreached by the Government in a treaty respecting their lands, which they agreed, on certain conditions, tcYcede to the Crown. The provincial newspapers say a rebellion is threatened, which may cost both blood and treasure. kconspiracy of prisoners in the Canadian penitentiary to murder the keepers and escape'has been discovered. One hundred, of them were found armed.  itthices- from Cuba state that, owing-lb-a sort of undefined alarm of personal danger which had seized: on the mind of General Concha, many of the offices of the public functionaries had been converted into temporary barracks: From Mexico, we learn that the Government troops had vanquished the Revolutionists in several encounters, and the progress- of the conquerors was signalised by the blood-thirsty ferocity which is the characteristic of Mexican warfare. The outbreak in the northern provinces seems to- have been a spontaneous- affair,- no political plan whatever having been promulgated by its promoters. Vigorous meastires had been taken to quell the insurrection. The insurgents are said to have taken possession of Guanaguto and to hive been joined by Victoria and Saltillo. The outbreak at Rio-Grande had resulted in the capture. of Monterey, by the Revolutionists, on the 27th ult.  Correspondence from Central America states-, that Greytown had been entirely rebuilt, and a new government formed, by formally adopting a constitution and• electing municipal officers,