AMERICA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 283, 18 July 1855, Page 6

AMERICA.

The Atlantic had'arrived in Liverpool from New York with news to the 21st February. The American Senate had sanctioned the projected formation of a railway from the Mississippi to the Pacific. Orders had been given to several war steamers to proceed to sea, for the purpose of acting against an expected filibustering expedition intended for the island of Cuba. The/ steamer Black Warrior had arrived at New Or 4 leans, having left Havanna on the 15th February. Great uneasiness prevailed there, and several arrests had taken place. Amongst the parties so arrested are stated to be the Governors of Mutanzas, 'Puerto Principe, and Trinidad, the Secretary of General Concha, and the Director of the Cardenas Railway. General Concha had issued a proclamation warning the population againstinsurrectionary movements, and the whole island has been placed in a state of sie^e. Companies of volunteers were forming. A request had been sent to Porto Rico for reinforcements of troops, and. a military commission had been appointed for the eastern part of the island. The Admiral of the English fleet had re. viewed the troops in company with the Governor. It is stated that the heads of the expedition command a capital of upwards of two millions of dollars, and it is rumoured that an insurrection would assist their operations. It was rumoured that the expedition intended to reach the coast of Honduras, and make thence for the east coast of the Spanish colony, 600 miles distant from Havanua, where the troops are concentrated. In his place in the Senate, Mr. .Mason, the Secretary of the Committee of Foreign Affairs, in reply to some observations of Mr. Cass, with reference to a speech of Lord Clarendon, on the foreign policy of England, stated that an official interview had taken place between the Unitel States ambassador and the English minister, who had complained aboutxhe meaning attributed to his words. Mr. Mason, however, cited instances in which influences prejudicial to American interests and favourable to European governments, had been received in different parts of central America and St. Domingo.